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09/17/2013 by	Corinne Saunders
MANTEO — Friday, Sept. 27, brings a celebration by the water, for the water and for the people who love the water.
"We just thought, as an organization that works to protect water quality, we can't do it without the help of the community," said Ladd Bayliss, a coastal advocate with the N.C. Coastal Federation. "We are able to do it because of people who live and work on the water."
Bayliss spearheaded organizing the second annual Fish Fry and Shrimp Boil, which will take place outside the N.C. Coastal Federation's Manteo office on Sept. 27, from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Whether you swim, surf, boat, fish or only look at local waters, the event is packed with local seafood and family friendly fun. It brings together people from all walks of life who appreciate the importance of water quality to both the economy of our barrier islands and to personal health, Bayliss said.
The fish fry is about "getting community together to celebrate what we have as far as the water quality goes," she said.
Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for children under age 12. The ticket price includes local flounder and shrimp, side dishes donated by area restaurants, desserts and a choice of drink, including beer or wine. Parking will be free.
Advance tickets are strongly recommended. They are available at the Lone Cedar Café in Nags Head, Café Lachine in Nags Head, Front Porch Café in Manteo or the federation office, 128 Grenville St. in Manteo.
Federation staff hope attendees will enjoy themselves and "recognize how big of a job it is to keep it clean and also to recognize that together, problems that affect water quality are not as big when we work on fixing them as a community," Bayliss said.
Between 200 and 250 people attended last year's event, and the federation printed 300 tickets this year.
The proceeds benefit the nonprofit's operating costs, so they can continue working in the community, Bayliss said.
Land fishing with N.C. Aquarium staff and cornhole will be ongoing during the fish fry.
Fishprinting will take place from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Captain Marty will tell a fishing tale at 6 p.m., and the puppet show "Captain Jack" will take place at 6:30 p.m.
Coastal Kayak of Corolla is donating a trip around Shallowbag Bay for a limited number of people, on a first-come, first-serve basis, Bayliss said. The 20-minute kayak trip begins at 5:30 p.m.
A raffle will be held, with the drawing at 6:45 p.m. Participants must be present to win prizes that include local seafood.
Troy Outland, a Manns Harbor-based commercial fisherman, is donating all the fish for the event.
"I really got to know Ladd over the past year," Outland said. "She has been really helpful for our commission."
The Manns Harbor Commission has been working with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to complete work on the Manns Harbor Boating Access Area by the Manns Harbor bridge.
"We've been working with Dare County commissioners on this also," Outland said. "They've been really helpful in trying to get this facility built for us."
The commission includes commercial fishermen, recreational fishermen who work for charter boats, a boatbuilder and a member of the Manns Harbor Civic Association, he noted, to purposefully "not have just one point of view but different points of view."
Work on the first phase of the project was completed in December, and it was built as a multi-purpose access site for the Croatan Sound for commercial and recreational fishermen, as well as for the general public.
The final phase of the project includes additional commercial fishing facilities and a kayak and canoe launching area.
"Some docking is in pretty bad shape," Outland explained. "The land is very low to the water on our side, so any time we have any minor storm, we have flooding on our side of the marina."
Outland started fishing part-time in 1967 at age 15, he said, and has been fishing full-time for about 35 years.
A Currituck native and now Manteo resident, Outland said the fish fry is for a good cause.
"I hope a lot of people will show up and have a good time; that's what it's all about," he said.
While it is difficult to compete with foreign markets, he said local seafood's taste is discernible.
He is donating currently in-season, local southern flounder to the fish fry.
"Once they are able to taste fresh, local seafood, hopefully they are willing to pay a little more price for it," he added. "I encourage everyone to eat fresh, local seafood over imported seafood."
For more information, call the federation at 252-473-1607.
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Q: Why is fscanf failing while reading characters? I have the following sample data file titled "data.txt":
a<tab>b<tab>c<newline>
a<tab>b<tab>c<newline>

and the following code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  char a,b,c;
  FILE* fin = fopen("data.txt","r");

  fscanf(fin,"%c %c %c",&a,&b,&c);
  cout<<a<<" "<<b<<" "<<c<<endl;

  fscanf(fin,"%c %c %c",&a,&b,&c);
  cout<<a<<" "<<b<<" "<<c<<endl;

  fclose(fin);

  return 0;
}

When compiled and run, its output is as follows:
a b c
     a b

I expected to see:
a b c
a b c

What's going wrong?

A: You're not skipping whitespace between the third and fourth character read - you need another space in one of the format strings.
(Why fscanf in C++ though?)

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Q: Group Policy Email Signature Script I have a VBS script that builds an Outlook Email signature and saves it to the user's machine. I want this to be called each time the user logs in, using group policy, but so far I've had no luck.
The script is as follows:
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )

strUserName = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERNAME%")
strTargetPath = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%")

myURL = "http://example.com/tools/signature/build.php?user=" & strUserName
myPath = strTargetPath & "\Microsoft\Signatures\Default.htm"

Dim i, objFile, objFSO, objHTTP, strFile, strMsg
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8

If objFSO.FolderExists( myPath ) Then
    strFile = objFSO.BuildPath( myPath, Mid( myURL, InStrRev( myURL, "/" ) + 1 ) )
ElseIf objFSO.FolderExists( Left( myPath, InStrRev( myPath, "\" ) - 1 ) ) Then
    strFile = myPath
Else

End If
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile( strFile, ForWriting, True )
Set objHTTP = CreateObject( "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1" )

objHTTP.Open "GET", myURL, False
objHTTP.Send
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Next
objFile.Close( )

The Group Policy was setup against the 'User Configuration' in
Policies -> Windows Settings -> Scripts -> Logon

And this points to the script on the server.
When I run the script locally, it works without any visible errors and the signature is created correctly.
Can anyone see why this wouldn't run correctly, and where (if any) logs or errors would be written to on the server?


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Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999.[1] The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004. The series received considerable international acclaim and most of the novels reached The New York Times Best Seller list.[1] These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon.[2][3][4][5]
Aubrey-Maturin series
Literary fiction, Nautical fiction, Historical Fiction
The 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World took material from books in this series, notably Master and Commander, HMS Surprise, The Letter of Marque, The Fortune of War, and particularly The Far Side of the World. Russell Crowe played the role of Jack Aubrey, and Paul Bettany that of Stephen Maturin.
Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men, loosely based on real seamen, who participate in George Anson's voyage around the world. In these two novels, O'Brian began to develop the models for the characters of Aubrey and Maturin as well as the storytelling techniques used in the series.[6]
Novels in order of first publication
(American titles as noted)
Master and Commander (1969)
Post Captain (1972)
HMS Surprise (1973)
The Mauritius Command (1977)
Desolation Island (1978)
The Fortune of War (1979)
The Surgeon's Mate (1980)
The Ionian Mission (1981)
Treason's Harbour (1983)
The Far Side of the World (1984)
The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
The Letter of Marque (1988)
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
Clarissa Oakes (1992) – (The Truelove in the US)
The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
The Commodore (1995)
The Yellow Admiral (1996)
The Hundred Days (1998)
Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) – (21 in the US)
Internal chronology
O'Brian's books were written and published in the same chronological sequence as the events they describe, beginning with Master and Commander, set in 1800, and carrying through to the final novel, set in late 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo.
However, they do not strictly follow history. The first six books quickly move through twelve years of the Napoleonic Wars, as established by frequent reference to historical events, with The Fortune of War ending on 1 June 1813 with the battle between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake. Yet the series then enters a kind of fantasy-time in which it takes another dozen novels to progress to November 1813. Much of this period is spent at sea, with little or no connection to real-world years, and the events of the novels take up substantially more time than the few months 'available'. External historical reference returns with The Yellow Admiral, the 18th book in the series. Towards the beginning of this novel, it is stated that the British army under the Duke of Wellington has entered France from Spain, which occurred in November 1813. Time is then paused again for a few chapters, as a narrative apparently lasting several months ensues before a specific arrival at Christmas 1813. Thereafter, the book and the next in the series (The Hundred Days) move swiftly through the historical events of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia and his defeat in the War of the Sixth Coalition, his exile and escape from Elba, and his final campaign and defeat in June 1815. The last completed book in the series, Blue at the Mizzen, is the only volume which is set entirely after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars.
In his introduction to The Far Side of the World, the 10th book in the series, O'Brian wrote that if the author "had known how many books were to follow the first, he would certainly have started the sequence much earlier" in real historical time. He goes on to explain that "if his readers will bear with him", books of the series will be set in "hypothetical years, rather like those hypothetical moons used in the calculation of Easter: an 1812a as it were or even an 1812b".[7] In effect, the period from June to December 1813 is stretched out to accommodate events that ought to occupy five or six years.
Main articles: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, and Recurring characters in the Aubrey–Maturin series
The series focuses on two main characters, naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin, and the ongoing plot is structured around Aubrey's ascent from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Jack Aubrey is a large man (both literally and figuratively) with an energetic, gregarious, cheerful, and relatively simple personality and a deep respect for naval tradition. Remarkable early success earned him the nickname "Lucky Jack Aubrey" and a reputation as a "fighting captain", a reputation which he sought to retain throughout his career. But while frequently "brilliant" and much respected at sea, he is less competent on land, as indiscreet liaisons, impertinent remarks, and poor financial decisions often bring him trouble. Aubrey's professional life of daring exploits and reverses was inspired by the chequered careers of Thomas Cochrane and other notable captains of the Royal Navy from the period.[8]
Irish-Catalan Dr. Stephen Maturin ostensibly serves as an adept ship's surgeon on Aubrey's various commands. However, unknown to many of his associates, he also serves as a particularly skilled volunteer intelligence agent for the British Admiralty. Maturin is described as a small, quiet, "ugly" man who is known to cast a "dangerous, pale, reptilian eye" towards his enemies. Unlike his action-oriented friend, Maturin is very well educated with several intellectual pursuits. He is passionately fascinated by the natural world, and takes every opportunity to explore the native wildlife of his ships' ports of call around the world. He is also deeply introspective, and frequently muses on philosophical concepts of identity and self-understanding in his ciphered personal journal.[9] Another aspect of this complex character is portrayed by his long-lasting and frequently frustrating romantic pursuit of the beautiful but unreliable Diana Villiers. He uses several addictive substances, including laudanum and coca leaves, arising from scientific curiosity, control of his reactions to physical problems, and substance dependence. He has the values of a gentleman of the era, including a strong sense of honour and involvement in duels. The latter led him to develop a strong skill with pistols and duelling by swords.
Maturin's various professional roles and personal interests allow the series to leave the sea and explore different aspects of the political and social order during the Napoleonic Era.[8] Eventually, Maturin upstages Aubrey in character development within the series due to the diverse situations in which O'Brian can place him.[8]
On the surface, the two main characters have little in common. As O'Brian wrote in The Ionian Mission, "Although (they) were almost as unlike as men could be, unlike in nationality, religion, education, size, shape, profession, habit of mind, they were united in a deep love for music, and many and many an evening had they played together, violin answering cello or both singing together far into the night." This musical connection began in the first paragraph of the first book in the series, when the two characters meet at a concert. They also share a delight in puns and dry witticisms, and particularly memorable wordplay is sometimes repeated in subsequent novels in the series, years later in book-time. One character in the novel, Sir Joseph Blaine, saw the two friends as romantics, in his remarks on Maturin in HMS Surprise Chapter 4: "As I was saying, strong; but not without his weaknesses. He was blaming his particular friend for romantic notions the other day - the friend who is to marry the daughter of that woman we saw just now - and if I had not been so shocked by his condition, I should have been tempted to laugh. He is himself a perfect Quixote: an enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution until '93; a United Irishman until the rising, Lord Edward's adviser.... And now Catalan independence. Or perhaps I should say, Catalan independence from the beginning, simultaneously with the others. But always heart and soul, blood and purse in some cause from which he can derive no conceivable personal benefit."
Despite their many differences, the pair are invaluable and indispensable companions throughout many years of adventure and danger. Reviewers have compared Aubrey and Maturin to other seemingly mismatched yet inseparable fictional duos such as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in "Don Quixote", Holmes and Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and Kirk and Spock in the original Star Trek TV series.[10][11][12]
The stories are primarily told in third person from the points of view of the two main characters, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The author sometimes employs a form of first person voice when his characters write in private journals or letters about events that are not otherwise described. The narrative point of view strays from the two main characters only briefly and seldom over the course of the series. One example is the opening scene of The Hundred Days, in which a gossipy conversation between anonymous sailors imparts important news and information about the main characters.
Period language and naval jargon
Patrick O'Brian once wrote "Obviously, I have lived very much out of the world: I know little of present-day Dublin or London or Paris, even less of post-modernity, post-structuralism, hard rock or rap, and I cannot write with much conviction about the contemporary scene."[13] This becomes obvious for readers of the Aubrey-Maturin Series, as he adopts a narrative voice contemporary with their setting.[10] Richard Ollard, in examining the general reception to O'Brian's books, suggests that O'Brian's naval officers would be able to talk with and recognise Jane Austen's characters.[8]
In addition to the period language, O'Brian is adept at using naval jargon with little or no translation for the "lubberly" reader. The combination of the historical-voice narration and naval terms may seem daunting at first to some readers; but most note that after a short while a "total immersion" effect results.[14] Occasionally, O'Brian explains obscure nautical terms by placing Stephen Maturin into the tutelage of seamen, allowing the author to vicariously teach the reader about various parts and functions of a period sailing vessel without breaking from the narrative. This was especially common early in the series, when Maturin was still new to the Royal Navy.[8]
In the first of the series, during a tour of the rigging, Maturin asked his tourguide if he "could not explain this maze of ropes and wood and canvas without using sea-terms" and the reply came "No, for it is by those names alone that they are known, in nearly every case" [15]
Also, O'Brian often addresses the historical events and themes within his books indirectly, allowing a fuller immersion for his readers without flaunting his historical understanding unlike other similar nautical authors.[8]
O'Brian's bone-dry and cutting wit is present throughout all his novels.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Its delivery, whether in the form of narration or dialogue, is often so forthright that the reader may not perceive it at first. At times, however, O'Brian will spend a considerable portion of a volume setting up comical sequences - for example, Jack's use of rum in the "debauchery" of Maturin's pet sloth in HMS Surprise or Jack's assertion to William Babbington, while discussing nautical terminology, that "Sheep ain't poetical", supporting his statement by saying: "Remember that fellow in the play who calls out: 'My Kingdom for a horse'? Would not have been poetry at all, had he said sheep." (See The Ionian Mission.) Drunk animals are a common motif through the series; for instance the following conversation between Jack and Stephen in Post Captain: "'The carrier has brought you an ape.' 'What sort of an ape?' asked Stephen. 'A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape. It had a can of ale at every pot-house on the road, and is reeling drunk. It has been offering itself to Babbington.'"[24]
Puns—often "bad" on the part of Jack—are also common throughout the novels, much to the chagrin of Stephen Maturin. Jack takes a special, perhaps overzealous, interest in nautical puns. For example, Jack often repeats one of Stephen's spur-of-the-moment puns regarding dog-watches. At a dinner, replying to a lubber's question on the term 'dog-watch' (Post Captain, Chapter 12), Stephen suggests it is "because they are curtailed, of course" ("Cur Tailed", "cur" meaning "dog"), and like other puns, Aubrey repeats the witticism as often as occasion allows. The use of humor contrasts the two central characters. Aubrey is direct and forthright while Stephen is subtle and cunning, mirroring the overall personality of each man, especially regarding warfare tactics (ships, cannons and swords compared to intelligence gathering).
O'Brian has Aubrey speaking many proverbs,[25] but usually in mangled form, such as "There's a great deal to be said for making hay while the iron is hot" (from Treason's Harbour and similarly in Desolation Island). In HMS Surprise (Chapter 6), Aubrey says that "A bird in the hand is worth any amount of beating about the bush". Sometimes Aubrey gets in a muddle and Maturin affectionately mocks him by playing on the mixed metaphor: '... they have chosen their cake, and must lie in it.'; Maturin replies, 'You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it?' (also from HMS Surprise, Chapter 7). Related to proverbs, Aubrey tells Maturin a clever Wellerism, "'It's not a fit night out for man or beast,' as the centaur observed, ha, ha, ha!" (Yellow Admiral).
Master and Commander was first published in 1969, in the US by Lippincott, and in Great Britain and Ireland by Collins in 1970. The series continued to be a modest success in both countries, though publication was only by Collins in the UK after the fourth novel. Publication in the US ceased with Desolation Island in 1978.[26][27] However, in 1989 Starling Lawrence of W.W. Norton discovered the novels on a plane flight between London and New York.[28] W. W. Norton began printing the books, and they were taken more seriously by critics and became a publishing success. O'Brian's series of novels sold over 400,000 copies in the next two years and continued to be a success, selling over 2 million copies by 2000.[1] In its review of the last unfinished novel in 2004, Publishers Weekly reported that the series had sold over 6 million copies.[29] W. W. Norton released the novels in e-book format on 5 December 2011.[30] The full series has been published in German, French and Italian translations, the twenty finished books also in Spanish, and part of the series in Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Russian translation.[31]
Literary significance and criticism
These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon.[2][3][4][5] Though sometimes compared to Trollope, Melville, Conrad and even Proust, the Aubrey–Maturin series has most often been compared to the works of Jane Austen, one of O'Brian's greatest inspirations in English literature.[1] In a cover-story in The New York Times Book Review published on 6 January 1991, Richard Snow characterised Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin naval adventure novels as "the best historical novels ever written. On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives."[32] And in a Washington Post article, Ken Ringle wrote, "... the Aubrey-Maturin series is better thought of as a single multi-volume novel, that, far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart."[33]
Frank McNally, writing in honour of the 100th anniversary of the author's birthday, reflects on the breadth of the appeal of the series of novels, for the quality of the writing and the relationships between the characters, which put them beyond the typical naval adventure, and gain interest from readers who "wouldn't touch Horatio Hornblower with a bargepole."[34] Lucy Eyre wrote to point out the appeal of the series to women readers, mentioning the nautical detail, and how it might be viewed the same as precise medical language on the television program ER. She notes that "O'Brian is never heavy-handed with his research: it's simply that the books are set in a perfectly realised world, which happens to be a ship at war."[35]
Even critics uninterested in the Aubrey–Maturin series have praised the intricacy and character development of the books. When reviewing The Wine Dark Sea in the Hudson Review, Gary Krist is very critical of the plot of the books, suggesting that the books are full of elements of "pop fiction" and O'Brian's excessive "delight in the sheer specificity of seafaring mechanics."[36] However, he did not deny the qualities that "push it close to that great, fuzzy art-entertainment meridian" including character development and at times, "the sense of being in the presence of an active, complex, and compassionate intelligence."[36]
Numerous authors have admired the Aubrey–Maturin series, including Iris Murdoch, Eudora Welty and Tom Stoppard.[1] Science fiction author David Drake has stated that his Republic of Cinnabar Navy was inspired by the Aubrey–Maturin books.[37]
On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed The Jack Aubrey Novels on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[38]
Frederick Marryat, a 19th-century pioneer of the nautical novel, who wrote under the name "Captain Marryat" — a real-life successful naval officer in the Napoleonic Wars, and thus a contemporary of Aubrey and Maturin.
C. S. Forester, 20th-century novelist whose Horatio Hornblower series in many ways influenced O'Brian's sea-tales.
Thomas Cochrane, dashing and controversial captain in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars whose exploits and reverses inspired many events in the fictional careers of both Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower.
Ramage, first of a series of novels about Lord Ramage, an officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, written by Dudley Pope.
Prial, Frank J. (7 January 2000). "Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
Prial, Frank J. (19 October 1998). "The Seas of Adventure Still Beckon a Storyteller; At 83, Patrick O'Brian Journeys Into History". The New York Times.
"Master of invention". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 November 2003.
Myers, Kevin (22 January 2000). "O'Brian: the most Irish Englishman". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 18 April 2014.
Heer, Jeet (13 November 2003). "Tall Tales from the Sea: C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian". National Post. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
King, Dean (2000). Patrick O'Brian:A Life. MacMillan. pp. 179–180. ISBN 978-0-8050-5977-9.
From the introduction to The Far Side of the World
Ollard, Richard (1994). "The Jack Aubrey Novels: an editorial review". In Cunningham, A. E. (ed.). Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography. New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 23–32. ISBN 0-393-03626-X.
Beinart, William (December 1998). "Men, Science, Travel and Nature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Cape". Journal of Southern African Studies. 24 (4): 775–799. doi:10.1080/03057079808708601. JSTOR 2637474.
"The odd couple all at sea". The Telegraph. London. 11 January 1997. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
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Burr, Ty (5 May 2009). "Star Trek". The Boston Globe.
Cunningham, Arthur E., ed. (1994). Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography. Boston Spa: The British Library. ISBN 0-7123-1070-3.
King, Dean (2001). A Sea of Words: Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales (3rd ed.). Henry Holt and Company. pp. xviii–xx. ISBN 0-8050-6615-2.
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"The Hundred Days". Publishers Weekly. October 1998. Retrieved 13 March 2015. He offers a wealth of sly humor (Navy officers' talk is ""really not fit for mixed company because of its profoundly nautical character"")
Yardley, Jonathan (5 January 1997). "Newcomers Face Rough Seas in O'Brian's Admiral". Washington Post. Retrieved 9 February 2015 – via Orlando Sentinel. O'Brian's characteristically wry, understated fashion
"The Commodore" (15 February 1995 ed.). Kirkus Reviews. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2015. Maturin's enlightened 18th-century speculations on love, sex, and politics endow the action with rich, often comic, ironies, expressed as always in O'Brian's hyperbolic, nearly Joycean flights of rhetoric.
"The Nutmeg of Consolation" (1 July 1991 ed.). Kirkus Reviews. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 11 December 2014. witty, literate and engaging
"The Letter of Marque" (1990 ed.). Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 26 November 2014. swift witty tale
Binyon, T. J. (1977). "The Mauritius Command". quoted on W W Norton site. London: Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 16 May 2014. O'Brian has a gift for the comic
Myers, Kevin. "More Praise for O'Brian and his Work". quoted on WW Norton site. Irish Times. Retrieved 16 May 2014. no one can make you laugh so loud
Walton, Jo (11 October 2010). "Out of his element: Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain". Tor.com. Retrieved 10 December 2014. There's a wonderful scene where he runs from the bailiffs back to sea and calls back "Mr Pullings, press that man!" He presses the bailiffs who have come to arrest him for debt!
O'Brian, Patrick (2003). Post Captain (paperback ed.). Harper Collins. p. 51. ISBN 978-0006499169.
Brunvand, Jan Harold (January 2004). "The Early Bird is Worth Two in the Bush: Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs". In Lau, Kimberly J.; Tokofsky, Peter; Winick, Stephen D. (eds.). What Goes Around comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. pp. 152–170.
Brown, Anthony Gary (2006). The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book (2nd ed.). Jefferson, NC: MacFarland and Company. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-7864-9385-2.
Bennett, Stuart (1994). "Four Decades of Reviews". In Cunningham, A. E. (ed.). Patrick O'Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. Boston Spa: The British Library. p. 150. ISBN 0-7123-1070-3.
Horowitz, Mark (16 May 1993). "Patrick O'Brian's Ship Comes In". Book Reviews. New York Times. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
"21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey". Editorial Reviews. Publishers Weekly. October 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
Bosman, Julie (20 November 2011). "O'Brian Novels Are Going Digital". New York Times.
"The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, in reading order". Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
Snow, Richard (6 January 1991). "An Author I'd Walk the Plank For". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
Ringle, Ken (2 August 1992). "Is this the best writer you never heard of? Patrick O'Brian, the swashbuckling recluse". Washington Post. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
McNally, Frank (12 December 2014). "The Life of O'Brian". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
Eyre, Lucy (28 November 2014). "Why Patrick O'Brian is Jane Austen at sea". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
Krist, Gary (Summer 1994). "Bad Art, Good Entertainment". The Hudson Review. 47 (2): 299–306. JSTOR 3852288.
Drake, David. "With the Lightnings". Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
"100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts". BBC News. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019. The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
Brown, Anthony Gary (2006). The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-2482-6.
Brunvand (January 2004). "The Early Bird is Worth Two in the Bush: Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs". In Lau, Kimberly J.; Tokofsky, Peter; Winick, Stephen D. (eds.). What Goes Around comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. pp. 152–170.
Cunningham, A. E., ed. (1994). Patrick O'Brian: A Bibliography and Critical Appreciation. Boston Spa: British Library. ISBN 0-7123-1071-1.
King, Dean (2000). Patrick O'Brian:A Life. MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-5977-9.
King, Dean (2001). A Sea of Words: Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales (3rd ed.). Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-6615-2.
King, Dean (2001). Harbors and High Seas: Map Book and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-6614-4.
Lavery, Brian (2003). Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O'Brian. Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-946-8.
O'Neill, Richard (2003). Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World. Running Press. ISBN 0-7624-1540-1.
Miller, David (2003). The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-Pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navy. Running Press Book Publishers. ISBN 0-7624-1652-1.
Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff; Thomas, Lisa Grossman (2000). Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. W W Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-32094-4.
The Gunroom of HMS Surprise. General resources for the novels, including links, reviews and historical background.
Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project Maps following the action of all the books.
Guide for the Perplexed by A G Brown. Translations into English of foreign phrases within the novels.
The Aubrey-Maturin series from W. W. Norton, US Publisher
Aubrey-Maturin series E-Book page
Geoff Hunt Covers for all books in the series
"Patrick O'Brian's Last"
Steel, David (1794). "The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship". San Francisco Maritime National Park Association. Retrieved 12 May 2019. Detailed manual of seamanship that is especially useful for its descriptions and illustrations of the varied and obscurely-named types of sailing ships encountered in the novels (see pages 236–42, especially).
Master and Commander
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Desolation Island
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Jack Aubrey
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Hussein
Testimonies/Three Bear Witness
The Road to Samarcand
The Golden Ocean
The Unknown Shore
Richard Temple
The Last Pool and Other Stories
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In 2010, California passed groundbreaking legislation requiring retail sellers and manufacturers doing business in the state to disclose their efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their direct supply chains. The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (SB 657) was designed to provide consumers with information to make informed purchasing decisions regarding the products they buy and companies and brands they support.
New Era applauds this effort to raise consumer awareness of labor rights and risks in supply chains as well as of the steps that companies can undertake to address these risks. Our commitment to supply chain social responsibility and transparency is evidenced by our voluntary participation in the Fair Labor Association, a non-profit organization that evaluates and publicly reports on company social compliance programs. Since we joined in 2003, the Fair Labor Association has made available on its website annual public reports containing information on our company's progress towards implementation of the FLA Code of Conduct.
The New Era Code of Conduct (which is aligned with the FLA Code of Conduct) is based on internationally recognized labor and human rights standards. New Era is committed to upholding this Code of Conduct, including international principles aimed at preventing trafficking<1 and slavery2, and all forms of forced labor. Our efforts include:
Upfront communication and engagement with our suppliers on our Code of Conduct expectations: Before we place production with any new supplier, the supplier must agree to, in addition to complying with all applicable laws of the country of manufacture, comply with our Code of Conduct (and apply the higher standard in cases of differences or conflicts). At a minimum, the supplier must also agree to: provide new hire and refresher trainings on employees' rights and responsibilities as they relate to the Code of Conduct; provide confidential reporting channels for employees to report non-compliance with the Code of Conduct; submit to compliance assessments where payroll, working hours, physical inspection and confidential discussions with employees will be conducted to assess compliance; and remediate in a timely manner any findings of non-compliance.
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Sie sind hier: Security Programmes
1: Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration.
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Insecure Power and Violence: The Rise and Fall of Paul Malong and the Mathiang Anyoor, by Alan Boswell. HSBA Briefing Paper, October 2019.
War Crimes and Punishment: The Terrain Compound Attack and Military Accountability in South Sudan, 2016–18, by Flora McCrone. HSBA Briefing Paper, August 2019.
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Security is a precondition for meaningful safety and real opportunities for development. There are many ways of encouraging security in societies affected by armed violence. In some cases, governments may invest in enhancing security through reforms to their armed forces, police forces, and justice sectors. Around the world, communities themselves are involved in ensuring their own security through neighbourhood watch groups, local militias, and other forms of meting out justice.
The promotion of security thus involves a wide range of initiatives. Security programming includes a host of military, peacekeeping, policing, justice, and penal activities designed to restore real and perceived safety. Typically, security programmes can take place before, during, and after armed conflicts come to an end, but also in countries ostensibly unaffected by warfare. Key types of security programmes examined by the Small Arms Survey include disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration and security system reform as well as weapons collection and destruction, stockpile management, and ammunition and small arms tracing.
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) consists of a range of interventions to promote security when armed conflicts come to an end. The Small Arms Survey has shown that DDR activities have expanded dramatically in size and reach since the early 1990s. Well over 60 DDR activities have taken place in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Central, South, and South-east Asia, and the South Pacific. Numerous multilateral and bilateral agencies are now supporting DDR, including the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, and the International Organization for Migration.
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Security sector reform (SSR) incorporates a wide range of activities designed to ensure civilian oversight over security institutions and actors. Typically, the key focus of SSR is ensuring that military, policing, judicial, and penal organs of the state are organized in line with acceptable standards, while also managed effectively by the executive and legislature. The Small Arms Survey has undertaken research on various aspects of SSR, including in relation to the police use of force, arms and ammunition stockpile standards, and the 'right-sizing' of the armed forces.
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Armed violence prevention and reduction (AVR) entails a number of interventions designed to reduce the exposure and effects of insecurity. AVR activities can be subdivided into 'direct' and 'indirect' programmes and projects. The first category is focused on reducing access to arms, working with at-risk actors, and enhancing the institutions to regulate armed violence. The second category typically aim to reduce the risk factors associated with the onset of armed violence, including through youth employment schemes, activities designed to promote youth education, and urban renewal initiatives.
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1. Steve Martin has signed on to be a part of the film adaptation of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Although his role has not been announced, it is rumored that he will play one of the Hollywood producers who wants to turn the Bravo company's story into a film. The screenplay has been adapted by Simon Beaufoy, who won the Academy Award for the Slumdog Millionaire screenplay, and will be directed by Ang Lee. The more names that get added to this film, the more excited I am getting about it.
2. Indie filmmakers Andy Mingo and Josh Leake have purchased the film rights to the Chuck Palahniuk novel Lullaby. Chuck Palahniuk will be co-writing the script with Andy Mingo, who will also be directing the film.
3. Legendary Television has acquired the television rights to Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's comic book series, Lazarus. The comic book series takes place in a futuristic world where 16 families rule society, each of whom has a Lazarus, who is an genetically-engineered being who protects the family. Greg Rucka will write the pilot episode and is executive producing the series.
4. In more comic book news, Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the comic book series Chrononauts. The time-traveling adventure comic follows the first scientific duo that travel back in time. The first issue of the series from Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy was just released in March from Image Comics.
5. Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, and Glenn Close are set to star in the film adaptation of The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey. The film will be directed by Colm McCarthy, who has previously worked on a number of U.K. television series including Sherlock, Doctor Who, and Peaky Blinders. The film is set to shoot in the United Kingdom in May 2015.
6. Sony is in final negotiations to pick up Verona, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. The only detail that has been released so far is that it is a reimagining of the story through a lens of an epic, 300-style world. While this sounds kind of ridiculous on its own, I imagine it can't be much more further into the ridiculous than the 1996 Baz Luhrmann retelling.
7. Sony Pictures will be adapting Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Amy Pascal has been signed to produced and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Sarah Polley has signed on to write the script.
8. Octavia Spencer is in final negotiations to play God in the film adaptation of The Shack by William P. Young. The story, which is being adapted by Lionsgate, follows a young man whose daughter was abducted. The Christian fiction novel has sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, 18 million copies total worldwide in 39 languages.
9. The Joan Didion essay "Goodbye To All That" has been optioned by Megan Carlson and Brian Sullivan to become a feature film. The essay follows Didion as she goes to New York in her 20s and covers her life until 1964 when she moves to Los Angeles.
10. ABC Family has ordered the TV series Shadowhunters, which is based on The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. The series will be produced by Constantin Film, with Ed Decter serving as executive producer and showrunner. The show will begin filming in May, but no air date has been set yet.
11. Bruce Willis and Elizabeth Marvel will be starring in a Broadway play adaptation of Misery by Stephen King this fall. The play is written by William Goldman, who also worked on the screenplay for the 1990 film adaptation starring James Caan and Kathy Bates.


After a series of unexplained fits, a man is taken to hospital where surgeons find a "still springy" 10cm worm in his head.
A Chinese man has had a 10cm tapeworm extracted from his brain - and surgeons say it was still swimming.
Dr Wang Chunliang, who led Mr Liu's treatment, told the South China Morning Post: "The worm was still alive when we took it out.
"It was springy, white all over, and could swim."
It is believed that the tapeworm found its way into Mr Liu's brain from contaminated or undercooked food, most likely grilled food, which was his particular favourite.
In 2014, British scientists removed a rare tapeworm from a man's brain after it had lived there for four years.


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Anna Reynolds - Stand by Your Van
Stand by Your Van explores the game show where contestants hold onto a vehicle for up to 100 hours. Mark Fisher gets bleary-eyed at the prospect
A lot of people are attached to their cars, but some people can get too attached. In 2005, a Texas car dealership joined in the national craze for 'Hands on a Hardbody' competitions, challenging contestants to keep touching a Nissan truck for as long as they could in the hope of winning it. The longer such contests go on – and they can reach 100 hours – the more delirious the participants get, which is most likely why, after lasting 48 hours, competitor Richard Thomas Vega II let go. Had he held on just a few moments longer, it would have been time for one of the statutory five-minute breaks. As it was, he lost.
Whether heartbroken, humiliated or just plain wiped-out, the 24-year-old headed to the nearest Kmart store, threw a dustbin at the window and helped himself to a shotgun. That's when he committed suicide. As acts of endurance go, such competitions put into perspective even the excesses of the Edinburgh Fringe (as far as we know, nobody has died as a result of a Mark Watson comedy marathon). So it's something of a relief that Menagerie theatre company has repackaged a ludicrous idea into an altogether more sane format.
Lasting a perfectly manageable 90 minutes, Stand by Your Van condenses the hysteria, will power and drive to succeed into a single interactive play. 'The obvious theatrical parallel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? which is about the 1930s ballroom dancing competition where the last couple standing are the winners,' says director Paul Bourne, adding that, at the time of his death, Robert Altman had been signed up for a movie treatment of the same idea. 'This is a big, fun, 12-hander. Each time the actors come back, they are in a different configuration – all the black actors one end, all the white actors the other; all the women one end, all the men the other – so it's constantly refreshing.'
Featuring a genuine £28,000 pick-up truck and 100 members of the audience sitting on the stage for added excitement, the play takes the form of a real competition. Playwright Anna Reynolds has written several alternative endings, allowing the audience to decide on their favourite competitor and to influence the result. 'There is a looseness that makes it seem real,' says Bourne. 'The audience can shout out and get behind people. But if we'd made the actors stand for 100 hours, Equity would have had me over the coals.'
On the way, Stand by Your Van will capture something of the surreal, if not dangerous, consequences of the competition. The manager of the fateful Texas contest later described the effects of sleep-deprivation on the contestants. He recalled one becoming convinced he was in Oklahoma, another thinking he saw plants on the truck's bonnet, and a third believing her husband was snogging another woman. 'After about 30 hours you start to go nuts,' says Bourne. 'You see things, you hear voices. We don't have a suicide in the play, but all the elements are based on what happens when people are sleep-deprived.'
Taking advantage of the competition's regulation breaks, the play shows us not only a dozen people stuck to a van, but also their inner lives and even a bit of a state-of-the nation commentary. 'What drives people is a real conviction that they are going to win. We took people who represent archetypally our entire nation; so, we have a character from Wales, Glasgow, the North East and so on, as well as a range of ages and social backgrounds. We use the whole thing as a metaphor for the UK today; the sense of community and altruism versus a sense of individual goals and desires, and how far people will go to win what is essentially a piece of metal.'
By relaying the events live on television monitors, Bourne adds a flavour of more familiar endurance spectacles such as The Apprentice and I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! 'The camera will focus on the hands and faces, so you get a sense of scale and intimacy. It's Big Brother meets weird America plus Britain today in which we will say and do anything for the prize.'
Stand by Your Van, Pleasance Courtyard, The Pleasance, 0131 556 6550, 8–31 Aug (not 18, 25), 7.40pm, £10. Previews 5–7 Aug, £5.
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Someone's gonna win a pick-up truck! All competitors have to do is be the last person to keep their hand on the 25,000 vehicle to win it! Easy, right? Wrong. An extraordinary 'live competition' play. www.menagerie.uk.com
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import com.linkedin.thirdeye.anomaly.alert.template.pojo.MetricDimensionReport;
import com.linkedin.thirdeye.api.DimensionMap;
import com.linkedin.thirdeye.dashboard.views.contributor.ContributorViewResponse;
import com.linkedin.thirdeye.datalayer.dto.MergedAnomalyResultDTO;
import freemarker.template.TemplateMethodModelEx;
import freemarker.template.TemplateModelException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateNumberModel;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import org.apache.commons.collections.MapUtils;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;

/**
 * Stateless class to provide util methods to help build data report
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public final class DataReportHelper {
  private static final String DIMENSION_VALUE_SEPARATOR = ", ";
  private static final String EQUALS = "=";

  public static final String DECIMAL_FORMATTER = "%+.1f";
  public static final String OVER_ALL = "OverAll";

  private static DataReportHelper INSTANCE = new DataReportHelper();

  private DataReportHelper() {
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  public static DataReportHelper getInstance() {
    return INSTANCE;
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          report.getResponseData().getSchema().getColumnsToIndexMapping().get("dimensionValue");

      int numDimensions = report.getDimensionValuesMap().get(groupByDimension).size();
      int numBuckets = report.getTimeBuckets().size();

      // this is dimension vs timeBucketValue map, this should be sorted based on first bucket value
      Map<String, Map<String, String>> dimensionValueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();

      // Lets populate 'OverAll' contribution
      Map<String, String> overAllValueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
      populateOverAllValuesMap(report, overAllValueMap);
      dimensionValueMap.put(OVER_ALL, overAllValueMap);

      Map<String, Map<String, String>> dimensionValueMapUnordered = new HashMap<>();

      for (int p = 0; p < numDimensions; p++) {
        if (p == 0) {
          metricDimensionReport
              .setCurrentStartTime(report.getTimeBuckets().get(0).getCurrentStart());
          metricDimensionReport
              .setCurrentEndTime(report.getTimeBuckets().get(numBuckets - 1).getCurrentEnd());
          metricDimensionReport
              .setBaselineStartTime(report.getTimeBuckets().get(0).getBaselineStart());
          metricDimensionReport
              .setBaselineEndTime(report.getTimeBuckets().get(numBuckets - 1).getBaselineEnd());
        }

        // valueMap is timeBucket vs value map
        LinkedHashMap<String, String> valueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        String currentDimension = "";
        for (int q = 0; q < numBuckets; q++) {
          int index = p * numBuckets + q;
          currentDimension = report.getResponseData().getResponseData().get(index)[dimensionIndex];
          valueMap.put(String.valueOf(report.getTimeBuckets().get(q).getCurrentStart()), String
              .format(DECIMAL_FORMATTER,
                  Double.valueOf(report.getResponseData().getResponseData().get(index)[valIndex])));
        }
        dimensionValueMapUnordered.put(currentDimension, valueMap);
      }

      orderDimensionValueMap(dimensionValueMapUnordered, dimensionValueMap,
          report.getDimensionValuesMap().get(groupByDimension));
      metricDimensionReport.setSubDimensionValueMap(dimensionValueMap);
      populateShareAndTotalMap(report, metricDimensionReport, metric, groupByDimension);
      ultimateResult.add(metricDimensionReport);
    }
    return ultimateResult;
  }

  private static void orderDimensionValueMap(Map<String, Map<String, String>> src,
      Map<String, Map<String, String>> target, List<String> orderedKeys) {
    for (String key : orderedKeys) {
      target.put(key, src.get(key));
    }
  }

  private static void populateShareAndTotalMap(ContributorViewResponse report,
      MetricDimensionReport metricDimensionReport, String metric, String dimension) {
    Map<String, Double> currentValueMap =
        report.getCurrentTotalMapPerDimensionValue().get(metric).get(dimension);
    Map<String, Double> baselineValueMap =
        report.getBaselineTotalMapPerDimensionValue().get(metric).get(dimension);
    Map<String, String> shareMap = new HashMap<>();
    Map<String, String> totalMap = new HashMap<>();
    Double totalCurrent = 0d;
    Double totalBaseline = 0d;
    for (Map.Entry<String, Double> entry : currentValueMap.entrySet()) {
      totalCurrent += entry.getValue();
    }
    for (Map.Entry<String, Double> entry : baselineValueMap.entrySet()) {
      totalBaseline += entry.getValue();
    }
    // set value for overall as a sub-dimension
    shareMap.put(OVER_ALL, "100");
    totalMap.put(OVER_ALL,
        String.format(DECIMAL_FORMATTER, computePercentage(totalBaseline, totalCurrent)));

    for (Map.Entry<String, Double> entry : currentValueMap.entrySet()) {
      String subDimension = entry.getKey();
      // Share formatter does not need sign
      shareMap.put(subDimension, String.format("%.1f", 100 * entry.getValue() / totalCurrent));

      totalMap.put(subDimension, String.format(DECIMAL_FORMATTER,
          computePercentage(baselineValueMap.get(subDimension),
              currentValueMap.get(subDimension))));
    }

    metricDimensionReport.setSubDimensionShareValueMap(shareMap);
    metricDimensionReport.setSubDimensionTotalValueMap(totalMap);
  }

  private static double computePercentage(double baseline, double current) {
    if (baseline == current) {
      return 0d;
    }
    if (baseline == 0) {
      return 100d;
    }
    return 100 * (current - baseline) / baseline;
  }

  private static void populateOverAllValuesMap(ContributorViewResponse report,
      Map<String, String> overAllValueChangeMap) {
    Map<Long, Double> timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    Map<Long, Double> timeBucketVsBaselineValueMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    int currentValIndex =
        report.getResponseData().getSchema().getColumnsToIndexMapping().get("currentValue");
    int baselineValIndex =
        report.getResponseData().getSchema().getColumnsToIndexMapping().get("baselineValue");

    // this is dimension vs timeBucketValue map, this should be sorted based on first bucket value
    String groupByDimension = report.getDimensions().get(0);
    int numDimensions = report.getDimensionValuesMap().get(groupByDimension).size();
    int numBuckets = report.getTimeBuckets().size();

    for (int p = 0; p < numDimensions; p++) {
      for (int q = 0; q < numBuckets; q++) {
        int index = p * numBuckets + q;
        long currentTimeKey = report.getTimeBuckets().get(q).getCurrentStart();
        double currentVal =
            Double.valueOf(report.getResponseData().getResponseData().get(index)[currentValIndex]);
        double baselineVal =
            Double.valueOf(report.getResponseData().getResponseData().get(index)[baselineValIndex]);

        if (!timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap.containsKey(currentTimeKey)) {
          timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap.put(currentTimeKey, 0D);
          timeBucketVsBaselineValueMap.put(currentTimeKey, 0D);
        }
        timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap
            .put(currentTimeKey, timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap.get(currentTimeKey) + currentVal);
        timeBucketVsBaselineValueMap
            .put(currentTimeKey, timeBucketVsBaselineValueMap.get(currentTimeKey) + baselineVal);
      }
    }
    for (Map.Entry<Long, Double> entry : timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap.entrySet()) {
      Double currentTotal = timeBucketVsCurrentValueMap.get(entry.getKey());
      Double baselineTotal = timeBucketVsBaselineValueMap.get(entry.getKey());
      double percentageChange = 0d;
      if (baselineTotal != 0d) {
        percentageChange = 100 * (currentTotal - baselineTotal) / baselineTotal;
      }
      overAllValueChangeMap.put(entry.getKey().toString(),
          String.format(DECIMAL_FORMATTER,percentageChange));
    }
  }

  /**
   * Convert a map of "dimension map to merged anomalies" to a map of "human readable dimension string to merged
   * anomalies".
   *
   * The dimension map is converted as follows. Assume that we have a dimension map (in Json string):
   * {"country"="US","page_name"="front_page'}, then it is converted to this String: "country=US, page_name=front_page".
   *
   * @param groupedResults a map of dimensionMap to a group of merged anomaly results
   * @return a map of "human readable dimension string to merged anomalies"
   */
  public static Map<String, List<MergedAnomalyResultDTO>> convertToStringKeyBasedMap(
      Map<DimensionMap, List<MergedAnomalyResultDTO>> groupedResults) {
    // Sorted by dimension name and value pairs
    Map<String, List<MergedAnomalyResultDTO>> freemarkerGroupedResults = new TreeMap<>();

    if (MapUtils.isNotEmpty(groupedResults)) {
      for (Map.Entry<DimensionMap, List<MergedAnomalyResultDTO>> entry : groupedResults.entrySet()) {
        DimensionMap dimensionMap = entry.getKey();
        String dimensionMapString;
        if (MapUtils.isNotEmpty(dimensionMap)) {
          StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
          String dimensionValueSeparator = "";
          for (Map.Entry<String, String> dimensionMapEntry : dimensionMap.entrySet()) {
            sb.append(dimensionValueSeparator).append(dimensionMapEntry.getKey());
            sb.append(EQUALS).append(dimensionMapEntry.getValue());
            dimensionValueSeparator = DIMENSION_VALUE_SEPARATOR;
          }
          dimensionMapString = sb.toString();
        } else {
          dimensionMapString = "ALL";
        }
        freemarkerGroupedResults.put(dimensionMapString, entry.getValue());
      }
    }
    return freemarkerGroupedResults;
  }

  public static class DateFormatMethod implements TemplateMethodModelEx {
    private final DateTimeZone TZ;
    private static final String DATE_PATTERN = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

    public DateFormatMethod(DateTimeZone timeZone) {
      this.TZ = timeZone;
    }

    @Override
    public Object exec(@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") List arguments) throws TemplateModelException {
      if (arguments.size() != 1) {
        throw new TemplateModelException("Wrong arguments, expected single millisSinceEpoch");
      }
      TemplateNumberModel tnm = (TemplateNumberModel) arguments.get(0);
      if (tnm == null) {
        return null;
      }

      Long millisSinceEpoch = tnm.getAsNumber().longValue();
      DateTime date = new DateTime(millisSinceEpoch, TZ);
      return date.toString(DATE_PATTERN);
    }
  }
}

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The first thing you'll notice about the Tread 2 are its far more manageable dimensions. While it's still a far cry from svelte, wearability is vastly improved. Further helping in the practicality department is the new crown system which uses an articulating arm to access many of the watches features. The arm adds a nice visual touch to the new case design as well, which is constructed of multiple pieces varying in texture. Another big change is the removal of the seconds belt, eliminating the culprit of all that noise. However, this does remove the most animated element of the watch; but if you're missing that bit you can put the minutes belt into a seconds mode.
The Tread 2 also has the capacity to enter "chronograph" mode, which zeros the minute belt and sets the hour at 12. From there you can time events as you would any chronograph. Watch above as Jeff explains.
It's important to note here that the Tread 2 is not yet in final form. Some of the functions are still being hammered out, as are a variety of possible color combinations. Look for a final Tread 2 to hit the market later this year, and we're told pricing will be around $10,000 - $7,000 less than the Tread 1.


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The Biden revolution
Joe Biden. ANDREW HARRER / EFE
Fighting the pandemic with mass vaccination - 220 million doses administered - and strong Keynesian economic stimuli. More taxes on the rich as a way to make equality of opportunity more real. Injection of public investment for infrastructure and creation of green economy jobs. Commitment to education from childhood to university, with direct aid to families. All this, which is no small thing, on the inside. And on the outside, multilateralism, the fight against climate change and the defence of human rights and democracy in the face of China's rise and the global autocratic danger it represents.
In his first 100 days in office, the US Democratic president, Joe Biden, has pressed the accelerator and is laying the foundations for a radical change with respect to his predecessor, both in terms of objectives and in terms of style and conception of society. Biden intends to quickly forget the tension of the Trump era and, although it is too early for any kind of triumphalism, it seems that green shoots of economic recovery are beginning to show and that the social and ideological polarisation that his predecessor had generated is beginning to subside. The image of Biden in Congress, flanked by Harris and Pelosi, also sends a message of change: women can be in charge and know how to. But, despite the lyrics and the music sounding good, the Biden administration will not have an easy time of it. Among other things because some of the ambitious measures of millionaire investment require a majority in Congress that he does not have, due to the Democrats' slim advantage,
In any case, Biden aims to launch the largest government investment since World War II with a tax hike on big business and on the wealth of the richest 1%. The US president wants to push ahead with a tax reform that will put an end to loopholes and the use of tax havens, and raise taxes to 39.6% for those who earn over $400,000 a year, the same as they paid when George W. Bush became president. It is, in fact, a profound change that means starting to dismantle the conservative revolution that began with Ronald Reagan in the 80s. In a way, Biden's plan, which appeals to the middle class over the financial power of Wall Street, is an America First of a social nature, not a neoliberal one like Trump's.
In ideological terms, Biden's message in favour of an economy with a social soul and a public engine, based on the strength of a full and plural democracy, in addition to imprinting a profound domestic shift, may also have a global effect opposite to that of Trump, who boosted populist authoritarianisms. In fact, Europe is also following, albeit with more difficulties, the path of public stimulus with the Next Generation funds, also emphasising the green economy and making good on the Franco-German axis as an emblem of liberal democracies.
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Farming takes precedence over festival race-going
January 8, 2022 4:04 am.
All About Magic winning the Listed Timaru Stakes (1400m) last year. Photo: Race Images CHCH
While many New Zealanders are enjoying the entertainment of festive season racing, South Canterbury farming couple Stephanie Rathgen and Grant Midgley have priorities that prevent them from being on-course to cheer home the current star of their racing string, All About Magic.
While the Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained five-year-old has been campaigning on the West Coast circuit, Rathgen and Midgely have had more than enough to occupy them on their 3,000-hectare property near Twizel.
On Monday they were harvesting silage for their winter fodder stores, while on the other side of the Southern Alps, All About Magic was taking her winning tally to six with victory in the Miss Scenicland Stakes (1500m) at Greymouth's Omoto racecourse.
It will again be a case of work before pleasure when the Showcasing mare lines up tomorrow in the Vernon & Vazey Truck Parts Kumara Gold Nuggets (1810m).
"It was great to see her win again and we're hoping for another good run at Kumara, but we can only watch from here as the farm comes first at this time of the year," Rathgen said on Friday, fresh from helping drench 1,500 lambs.
"We'll be through this crazy period in a month or so and when things do quieten down a bit we'll hopefully be able to take day-trips to the races closer to home."
Rathgen is a lifetime horsewoman, competing on the South Island showjumping circuit before being drawn towards racing and breeding several years ago.
"Grant's grand-parents raced horses but he's a farmer through and through, so I suppose I'm the one with the horse bug," she said.
All About Magic's dam Rosecroft, by Montjeu from the Moore family's prolific Soliloquy dynasty, was an early purchase, costing NZD$7,000 at the 2017 Karaka Mixed Bloodstock Sale.
The service she was carrying to Showcasing became All About Magic, who provided an early windfall when winning three times as a two-year-old at Riccarton, the last of them the Listed Berkley Stud Champagne Stakes (1200m).
Subsequent wins include the Listed Speight's Timaru Stakes (1200m) earlier this year and also at Riccarton, while various feature race placings include second in the Group 3 Valachi Downs South Island Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes (1600m) last autumn.
Rathgen and Midgley also bred and race Mackenzie Lad (Vespa), a winner twice at two last season and stakes-placed three times ahead of his sixth placing in the Group 1 Al Basti Equiworld NZ 2000 Guineas (1600m). He resumed at Wingatui on Boxing Day with a late-closing second, an encouraging pointer for upcoming three-year-old features.
Mackenzie Lad fits a similar profile to All About Magic as the progeny of another mare, Tallulah Belle (Iffraaj), bought by Rathgen for NZD$7,000 from the 2017 Karaka Mixed Sale.
Other judicious purchases include Olden Days (No Excuse Needed), a sister to the dam of New Zealand 2000 Guineas winner Madison County, who cost just NZD$3,000 in-foal to Madison County's sire Pins at the same sale.
Other mares in the Grantleigh Farm band include another by Iffraaj as well as daughters of Savabeel and Darci Brahma, while the range of stallions being bred to include Ocean Park, Per Incanto, Tivaci, Belardo, US Navy Flag, Vadamos, Embellish and Time Test.
"We're quite a way from those North Island studs but Majestic Horse Floats work in well with us as far as getting the mares up there and bringing them and their foals home.
"It's beautiful country here, great for rearing horses, with most of the property flat to rolling and suitable for cropping.
"It can get cold too, but we've got stables on hand so that if we do happen to get a snow event we can get everything inside."
From an original business model of selling a portion of the annual crop through the South Island Sale, the tried horse market is now more attractive.
"One of the changes brought by COVID includes the South Island Sale, so now we've opted to put them on the track and trade that way," explained Rathgen.
"Like any business, it's all got to pay for itself."
One horse that is staying is All About Magic, who has understandably attracted overtures from the time she started winning, but none of those has been entertained.
"We've had a few offers along the way but we really don't want to part with her; she's a lovely mare and I like the idea of adding her to our broodmare band.
"Just when that is we haven't decided, but while she's racing well we're keen to keep her going."


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Q: How to make a JAX-RS annotated singleton class EAGERLY instantiated I am using Jax-RS 2.0 with Jersey 2.22.1 and Java SE 8, deployed in Tomcat 8.0.30.
I have the POJO annotated with the appropriate JAX-RS annotations, and its working as expected. I have also annotated the POJO with @Singleton. The class gets lazily instantiated as a singleton, which is the expected behavior of @Singleton. But I would like to instantiated the class eagerly, at application startup. Is there a way to do that? I have looked at the @Startup annotation but unfortunately, that is part of the EJB package and I am not using EJB's (nor would I like to import the EJB jar file).
I am also using the Springframework 4.2.4 which would by default eagerly instantiate singletons when using the @Service or @Component annotations but unfortunately, I cannot use those annotations on a JAX-RS POJO (this is why the class extends from SpringBeanAutowiringSupport.
I have attached the java code but since its working as expected I'm not sure that would add anything useful.
import javax.inject.Singleton;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.FormParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import org.xxx.profile.util.GeneralUtil;
import org.xxx.profile.util.WebServiceLogger;
import org.xxx.profile.util.datatransfer.AccountDTO;
import org.xxx.profile.web.exception.RestException;
import org.xxx.profile.web.exception.FailureResponse;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.SpringBeanAutowiringSupport;

@Singleton
@Path( "account" )
public class AccountWebService  extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport{

    @Autowired
    private AccountLogic accountLogic;

    @Autowired
    protected SimpleParser simplerParser;

    @GET
    @Path("get/{id: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9]*}")
    @Produces( MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON )
    @Consumes( MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON )
    public AccountDTO retrieveAccount(@PathParam("id") String customerId) throws RestException {
        try {
            return accountLogic.retrieveAccount(customerId);
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            String transactionID = GeneralUtil.getUniqueID();
            WebServiceLogger.severe( transactionID, "Unable to retrieve an account for the customerId: " + customerId, e, this.getClass() );
            throw new RestException( new FailureResponse( FailureResponse.Status.FAIL, "add user friendly message here", transactionID ), e );
        }
    }

}

A: See Jersey 2.22.1 User Guide:

If you want to use Jersey Spring DI support you will need to add the jersey-spring3 module into the list of your dependencies:
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.ext</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-spring3</artifactId>
    <version>2.22.1</version>
</dependency>

It seems to work for Spring 4, too. See Question 21443088


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Qeshlaq-e Ayan Ali Samad (, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Ayan Alī Şamad) is a village in Qeshlaq-e Jonubi Rural District, Qeshlaq Dasht District, Bileh Savar County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 55, in 12 families.

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Towns and villages in Bileh Savar County

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L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme
Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes
Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 134
Author: Hassan Ansari
La présente étude, L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme, Étude bibliographique et histoire de textes, concerne l'évolution religieuse et historique du Hadith imamite autour de la constitution progressive et complexe des doctrines aussi fondamentales que l'imamat et l'Occultation. L'annexe de ce travail comprend les textes en arabe de ces écrits identifiés et reconstitués à travers leurs citations.
In his work, L'imamat et l'Occultation selon l'imamisme, Etude bibliographique et histoire de textes, Hassan Ansari has attempted to reconstruct a number of doctrines related to the concepts of religious authority ( imāma) as well as occultation ( ghayba) in Twelver Shi'i Islam ( Ithnā'ashariyya). This has been done through identifying and collecting numerous references to quotations of early works in later Shiʿi texts. Ansari has reconstructed earlier layers of primary materials that are entirely lost and only pre-served in later sources.The book's Appendix comprises fragments of early works of Hadith reconstructed from later sources.
A Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency, Containing a Defence of the Treatise De Cive of the Learned Mr Hobbes
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 218/13and Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, Volume: 218/13
Editor: Malcolm de Mowbray
Author: Lambert van Velthuysen
Although little known today, the Utrecht physician and town councillor Lambert van Velthuysen (1622–1685) was a prolific Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher and a vociferous advocate of the new philosophies of Descartes and Hobbes. The Letter on the Principles of Justness and Decency of 1651 constitutes both the first published reaction to Hobbes's political philosophy and the first attempt by a Dutch philosopher at using Hobbes to supply a 'Cartesian' moral philosophy. It is also a highly original work that seeks to define the nature of virtue and vice and to justify the magistrate's right to punish crimes. It will thus be of interest not only to historians of philosophy but to all those interested in the social and cultural history of the Dutch Golden Age.
Duty, Language and Exegesis in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā
Including an edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's Tantrarahasya, Śāstraprameyapariccheda
Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, Volume: 17
Author: Elisa Freschi
The book is an introduction to key concepts of Indian Philosophy, seen from the perspective of one of its most influential schools, the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā, which flourished from the 7th until the 20th c. AD. The book includes the critical edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's Śāstraprameyapariccheda, which is part of his Tantrarahasya (written in South India, after the 14th c.). This text has never been translated before and it is one of the clearest elaboration of the Prābhākara thought.
The book particularly aims at presenting the linguistic, deontic-ethic, hermeneutic and epistemo-logical thought of the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā. Detailed glossary and indexes make it possible to use the book as a reference-tool for Indian philosophy and linguistics.