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Q: The bounds on void-pointers in ANSI C89/ISO C90 Is there a way to portably determine the upper and lower bound on void-pointer values in ANSI C89/ISO C90? (I currently do not have a copy of the standard with me (I have one at home). Of course if void-pointer values are guaranteed to be unsigned  this task is trivial (via sizeof(void *)); however, I cannot recall if this is guaranteed or not. I can think of a few very inefficient algorithms (increment until overflow, etc.), but I would like to know if anyone has a relatively cheap (in terms of time-complexity) and portable way to calculate these bounds.)
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Also: Is there a portable way to determine the validity of the pointer values?
Why: This came up in a discussion with a co-worker and it stumped me. I don't know what he's working on, but I just want to know because I am interested! :-)

A: There is no portable way to determine if a given pointer is valid or not.  You have to know what kind of memory system you're dealing with.  Depending on the operating system and processor, there may or may not be a way to query the virtual memory manager's page tables to determine the valid ranges of pointers.
For example, on Linux, you can examine the special mmap file under /proc to get the virtual memory map of a process.  Here's an example of cat reading out its own memory map:

$ cat /proc/self/mmap
08048000-0804c000 r-xp 00000000 09:00 5128276                            /bin/cat
0804c000-0804d000 rw-p 00003000 09:00 5128276                            /bin/cat
0804d000-0806e000 rw-p 0804d000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
f7ca7000-f7e40000 r--p 00000000 09:00 3409654                            /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
f7e40000-f7e41000 rw-p f7e40000 00:00 0
f7e41000-f7f68000 r-xp 00000000 09:00 2654292                            /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.6.so
f7f68000-f7f6d000 r--p 00127000 09:00 2654292                            /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.6.so
f7f6d000-f7f6f000 rw-p 0012c000 09:00 2654292                            /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.3.6.so
f7f6f000-f7f72000 rw-p f7f6f000 00:00 0
f7f83000-f7f85000 rw-p f7f83000 00:00 0
f7f85000-f7f9a000 r-xp 00000000 09:00 2637871                            /lib/ld-2.3.6.so
f7f9a000-f7f9c000 rw-p 00014000 09:00 2637871                            /lib/ld-2.3.6.so
ff821000-ff836000 rw-p 7ffffffea000 00:00 0                              [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp ffffe000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]

You can see the ranges of valid pointers, along with the bits indicating if the memory is (r)eadable, (w)ritable, e(x)ecutable, or (p)resent (i.e. not paged out to disk).

A: Pointers are guaranteed by spec to be unsigned. But why on earth do you want to find the bounds? "Everything between 0x00000001 and 0xffffffff" is not really a useful test, since the number of valid pointers will be some tiny subset of that.

A: I know that on Win32, 64-bit pointers are sign-extended. It's fun to inspect a 32-bit minidump from a 64-bit machine if you don't sign extend pointers.
See here for how a 64-bit pointer (POINTER_64) works on Win32.

A: void * is always big enough to hold a pointer to addressable memory.  Any other use is strictly prohibited by the major league baseball association.
Example: The dec-10 was a 36 bit architecture with 36 bit words.  Yet the addresses were 18 bits and you could hold 2 pointers in any register/word.
Yeah - that's an extreme example.  If you must do math with pointers, sizeof is valid; but doing pointer math on anything other than a contiguous array is dodgier than dodgy.
Finally - never use a 'void *' to store a pointer to an object or pointer to member in C++.  Many compiler implementation actually use multiple 'physical' pointers to implement multiple inheritence of concrete (or partially concrete) classes.   In reality this almost never comes up because very few people use multiple inheritance in this way, and when they do, very rarely slice and unslice pointers.  When it does come up, it's really hard to figure out what happened.

A: You have to discern the integer value to which a void * can be cast from the actual bit pattern in memory - casting a void * to an integer type may involve conversions!
Assuming sizeof(void *) == sizeof(long), for a void * p the following may well be false:
((long)p) == *((long *)&p)

Also, the standard doesn't specify whether there even is an integer type large enough to hold the values of all valid pointers!
Therefore, there just is no portable way to do what you want to do...

A: Aside from a region that corresponds to NULL, there is no (portable) restriction on the memory addresses at all.  A sufficiently hardened OS could utilize various CPU/OS mechanisms to supply each process with random and well-distributed addresses with each call to malloc(), and position independent executable plus ASLR can allow code to run from any address as well.

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Arsenal facing goalkeeper crisis
Arsenal are facing a goalkeeping crisis.
Bernd Leno has been a top signing and has established himself as Arsenal number one ahead of Petr Cech.
At the end of this season Petr Cech's contract expires. Arsenal have a decision to make whether to offer the veteran stopper a new contract or let him see out his career in France or back in the Czech Republic.
On loan at Napoli is David Ospina. The Colombian's contract with Arsenal is not due to expire until 2020.
If Arsenal decide to dispense with the services of Cech, it would make sense that Arsenal keep Ospina as number 2 next season.
The huge problem is beyond that. Arsenal do not have a natural number 2 coming through.
Current Arsenal number 3 is Damian Martinez.
The Argentine goal keeper is now 26 and made his Arsenal debut 6 years ago. He will never be good enough to step up to number 2 at Arsenal. To be a number 2 at a top club, you have to be good enough to play 38 Premier League games.
Imagine the scenario; Leno get's injured in the first game of the season. Out of for entire campaign. A number 2 needs to be able to step up into the role of number 1. Martinez is not that.
Arsenal's number 2 is currently Cech. Manchester United have Argentine number 1 Sergio Romero. Chelsea with Argentina number 2 Willy Caballero.
Manchester City's number 2 is Claudio Bravo, who spent 2 years as Barcelona number 1 and was Goalkeeper of the Tournament at the 2017 Confederations Cup.
Simon Mignolet is Liverpool's number 2. He has played over 200 times for the club, and Tottenham have Michel Vorm who has played over 100 times in the Premier League.
Even Everton have a solid second choice keeper in former Dutch number 1 Maarten Stekelenburg.
In summary, to be a number 2 at a top club you need to be an experienced goal keeper, an international. Martinez is neither of these.
Behind Martinez is Matt Macey. The tall Englishman is now in his mid-20s.
Macey is performing well at Plymouth, but it is doubtful if he would have what it takes to be Arsenal Number 2. I would expect him to replace Martinez as number 3 next season.
So moving into 2019/20, I would expect our 3 goal keepers to be Leno, Cech / Ospina, Martinez / Macey.
The crisis Arsenal are facing is below first team level.
According to the club website, we have one goal keeper in our academy. 23-year-old Macedonian Deyan Iliev. He is another, like Macey and Martinez, who does not have what it takes to make it to the top.
After Iliev, the next goal keeper in line is talented 17-year-old Arthur Okonkwo.
Okonkwo has a bright future, with many who watch the youth teams claiming he is the best young keeping prospect we have had since Wojciech Szczesny. But he is 17. He is still a baby in goal keeping terms.
There is a 6 year age gap between Iliev and Okonkwo and Arsenal need to fill that gap.
Over the last 12 months, Arsenal have released a lot of goal keepers who had previously filled this gap.
Joao Virginia joined Everton this summer. The 19-year-old was rated by many at the club. Arsenal also released Ryan Huddart (21), Hugo Keto (20) and Alex Crean (19). These 4 goal keepers leaving have left a huge gap between Iliev and Okonkwo – and an even bigger talent gap between Cech as Number 2 and Okonkwo at the bottom end.
Last summer Arsenal signed Estonian Karl Jakob Hein. He is just 16 and was signed to fill the gap behind Okonkwo.
Over the summer, what Arsenal need to do is fill the gap between Iliev and Okonkwo.
It is likely that Iliev will leave, alongside either Martinez or Macey. That will mean 8 years between Macey and Okonkwo.
Sven Mislintat's scouting team, and the youth scouts, will be scouring the UK and Europe for the top 21 year old goal keepers.
Someone (or even 2) that could come in and take the place of Iliev in the U23 team. Someone who within 12 months could be putting pressure on Macey or Martinez to become Arsenal number 3. You would be looking at them being 20-22.
It will be a challenge to find someone.
You will not be able to sign someone currently doing bits in a senior team. It is unlikely they would be happy stepping down from first team football to academy football – unless that are outside the top leagues in Europe.
You could pull a first team goal keeper from Poland or Norway, for example, but you are not going to be able to target someone like Alban Lafont from Fiorentina.
Although Arsenal might completely rip up the structure of the club and target someone like Lafont or Bartłomiej Dragowski (another Fiorentina youngster) and have them fill the duel role of Arsenal U23 keeper, and Arsenal 3rd choice keeper.
Arsenal will address the skills gap in young goal keepers this summer. It will not be a major signing, but it will be someone who can come in at U23 level and push for the first team squad within 12 months.
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2 thoughts on "Arsenal facing goalkeeper crisis"
Martin November 20, 2018 at 9:41 am
Exactly why do you call the Happy situation with keepers a crisis?
keenosafc Post author November 20, 2018 at 11:34 am
"face" not "in"
We are likely to be losing Cech and Ospina. This leaves us with no senior 2nd choice. We also have a lack of U23 keepers – with Iliev over age next season,. This leaves us with an 18 year old playing U23
Arsenal fans unhealthy obsession with young players

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Initially only available as a three-door hatch, it very soon grew to include a cabriolet, the somewhat awkward-looking Clubman estate, the Coupe and its Roadster offspring, the short-lived coupe-like Paceman and off course the Countryman SUV.
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Stephen William Tayler was born in Buckinghamshire (UK) in 1953. Having taken up the clarinet and piano, he gained a music scholarship to Shrewsbury School, followed by three years at the Royal College of Music in London studying the clarinet with Colin Bradbury and also studying organ. He taught himself to play the guitar and bass guitar, as well as playing saxophone, recorders and penny whistles. He played in many orchestras, ensembles, experimental groups and bands, but he felt that life as a performer was not for him. During all this time he had developed a fascination with recording, and decided to pursue a career in the audio world.
As a mixing and recording engineer, music producer and sound designer he has contributed towards albums by Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Milla Jovovich, Rush, Bob Geldof, Rupert Hine and Tina Turner. Stephen works closely with producer, filmmaker and artist Sadia Sadia. Starting with analogue and tape techniques, and subsequently an early adopter of synthesis, sampling and digital technology, he is based out of one of four long-term project spaces at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, UK.
In 2010, Stephen mixed most of the tracks for the album Director's Cut. In 2011, he did all of the mixing on 50 Words for Snow, as well as recording contributions from Steve Gadd, Elton John and Stephen Fry. In 2012, he mixed Running Up That Hill 2012 Remix.
In August 2014, Stephen returned to work with Kate at the Hammersmith Apollo, for the show Before The Dawn. Stephen was brought on board to specifically control Kate's vocal sound, processing and effects. He joined the sound team of nine people, and the preparations for the show took many months. The resulting shows were recorded and released on the album Before The Dawn. Stephen mixed the album with Kate, as well as doing the audio postproduction on the project.
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If you are looking for a longer hike, you can see the Squaw Mountain Fire Lookout immediately to the east of Chief Mountain and with a little research and planning, these could be combined into a longer day.
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Moon Mix Ordered to Cease Operations, Facing Large Fine For Untested Products
By Kayla Johnson | Oklahoma Chronic Magazine | July 21, 2020
Oklahoma cannabis company Moon Mix has been in the news over the last two months, since the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority issued the industry's first recall regarding a batch of their products back in May. A second recall was issued in June, for an additional two batches, causing serious concern among patients about the safety of their vape cartridges.
Now, two months after the initial recall was issued, the OMMA has ordered the company to completely cease operations, after the Authority's investigation found that all three batches contained pesticide levels well above legal limits. According to the OMMA, Moon Mix not only failed to test these batches as legally required and continued to sell them, but they purchased cannabis without first acquiring test results on multiple occasions, and purchased product from out of state.
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Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not recognize legitimacy of "elections" in separatist regions of Ukraine
by NINE O'CLOCK November 10, 2018 0200
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) does not recognize the legitimacy of the so-called "elections" of November 11 in the regions controlled by separatists from Donetsk and Lugansk, on the territory of Ukraine, and firmly condemns their organization.
According to a release issued on Saturday, these elections are "a grave infringement on the Ukrainian constitutional order and the commitments assumed during the Minsk Agreements, the agreed format that seeks to peacefully solve the conflict."
MAE reiterates its support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine in its internationally-recognized borders and firmly condemns any attempt to ignore international norms and to undermine the efforts to achieve peace in eastern Ukraine.
According to the release, MAE appeals to the responsible parties to actively involve themselves in dialogue in order to overcome the current crisis and to identify solutions in conformity with the norms of international law and the wish of all European states to live in peace and security.
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Don Chislett's young Guildford City side gave a hugely disciplined and hard-working performance to take the three points at Grand Drive on Thursday evening. It proved to be a valuable victory that keeps City in close contact at the foot of the table. Much of the first period was played at a frantic pace with there being no question that the hosts were happy in mid table security. Indeed with the impressive form of most clubs in the relegation scrap, clubs such as Raynes Park and Bedfont Sports have been dragged into the fight. Despite the home side's ambition going forward City's defence stood firm with Tadej Venta especially looking impressive. City for their part made in roads but often the final pass would let them down, and play in general was scrappy. In a period of pressure midway through the half City forced three consecutive corners, but it wasn't until just prior to the interval that the visitor's had a clear sight of goal. From a long Jordan Taylor throw the ball fell to Anthony Baker eight yards out from goal but his low effort was deflected for a corner. Dan Stewart then worked a good shooting position but a bobble saw his effort miss the target, and following good work from Kiyanu Pillay on the left Stewart ran across the corner of the box before shooting wide.
Playing up the slope in the second half, and doubtless with Don Chislett's words of wisdom ringing in their ears, City looked more threatening. Early on Anthony Baker's flick on was volleyed wide by Dan Stewart, and with Jack Collins and Myles Jones driving the side forward from midfield chances started to appear. Jones released wide man Kiyanu Pillay who cut in and saw his shot deflected, and minutes later Jones fed Anthony Baker whose effort was blocked at close range by Vale keeper Sam Filler. City were enjoying their best period of the match and when Anthony Baker found himself in space but struggling to bring the ball down he managed to lay the ball back to his strike partner Stewart whose low effort was palmed around the post. From the resultant corner Kris Campbell's acrobatic overhead kick was cleared off the line. Against the run of play Vale's Jerome Smart launched a speculative long range effort from 40 yards that saw Liam Beach back-peddling to tip the ball over the bar at full stretch. City's breakthrough came on 67 minutes. To the evident delight of the large travelling support, Dan Stewart brilliantly turned amidst heavy traffic on the edge of the box to drill a low shot into the corner. Raynes Park began to leave gaps as they pressed for an equaliser and after 84 minutes substitute Ishmael Erskine saw a fierce effort well saved by the diving Filler. Florin Ramizi and the hard-working Rory Cornelius posed problems to the Vale defence late on but in the end City settled for their deserved single goal victory.
Team: Liam Beach, Jordan Taylor, Luke Simmonds, Myles Jones, Tadej Venta, Kris Campbell, Rory Cornelius, Jack Collins, Dan Stewart, Anthony Baker (Florin Ramizi 67), Kiyanu Pillay (Ishmael Erskine 73). Unused sub: Bruce McPhail.
City now move on tomorrow (Saturday) to Knaphill (kick-off 3pm) for the next six pointer at the foot of the table. City's travelling support at both Westfield and Raynes Park was quite exceptional and very much appreciated by the players, and it would be terrific for the Sweeney to once again support the side in some numbers at Knaphill.


My dearies, I want to share with all of you, the moments of creativity of my daughter. I hope my dearies enjoy it the same I do. When a toddler is happy, surely a happy mommy too. The more they explore, the more they learn.
She likes to sing and play music.
My daughter adores to pretend or play music, cook, paint, dance, sing, watch movies and read and I never force her to do something that she doesn't want to do, and she is the happiest baby in the world indeed.
We enjoy time together, she is my little helper when I am cooking, she is my company during all my day along. We love to dance and shake our booty like the same way in Madagascar movie. Always there is time for big hugs and kisses, and she pretty adores it.
The moments are endless and for sure unforgettable and watch her grow up with happiness makes me feel the best mommy ever. I certainly enjoy sharing these fabulous times of bliss my dearies, and there will be more of that, and I will be more than delighted to share it.


Led by the University of Warwick in collaboration with the University of Cape Town, the researchers discovered that a plants' molecular clock is connected to their immune system to increase levels of resistance to infection at dawn – the time at which fungal infections appear most likely to occur, with plants unable to maintain the highest level of resistance at all times of day.
The researchers identified a single protein, JAZ6, in the plant cell which drives this time-of-day difference in the effectiveness of the immune response, with it connecting the plant clock to the immune system.
Arguing that they can now use JAZ6 to pick out the key parts of the plant immune response controlling resistance to fungal pathogens, the researchers say they can now focus on how to improve disease resistance in crops by molecular breeding.
Whilst previous research had shown that resistance against bacterial pathogens varied at different times of the day the new research has for the first time shown that the same is true for resistance against a fungal pathogen. The University of Warwick's new research is also the first to identify a mechanism of how the internal plant clock is driving the difference in plant immunity at dawn and night.
Molecular (circadian) clocks drive the daily rhythms in many organisms, from humans to insects to plants and even marine algae. They are the internal time keepers that enable organisms to anticipate predictable changes during a 24 hour period.
The researchers conducted the research by infecting plants with Botrytis cinerea spores every three hours over a 24-hour day and measuring the subsequent lesions that developed. They observed that the plants inoculated in the morning developed much smaller lesions and were more resistant to disease compared to those plants which were inoculated at night. Those inoculated at night had significantly larger lesions and far more growth of the pathogen in the leaves.
The research, Jasmonate signalling drives time-of-day differences in susceptibility of Arabidopsis to the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea, is published by The Plant Journal and is a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the University of Cape Town.
• The researchers found that the variation in the plant immune system was unconnected to the regulation of light.


Slovakia's State Veterinary and Food Administration conducted laboratory examinations on 7,427 beef samples in November, and none were found to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad- cow disease, according to a report issued Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture attache and posted on the Foreign Agricultural Service Web site.
Of all of the administration's tests, 5,965 were done on healthy animals, 1,164 on deceased animals, and 293 on emergency slaughtered livestock. Five samples were tested on animals with clinical signs of BSE; however, all of these proved to be negative. Since the beginning of the year Slovak vets tested a total of 80,968 beef samples, finding two BSE positive.
Slovak vets discovered the latest case of BSE in Slovakia in mid-April 2003. This was the 13th case of a BSE positive cow in Slovakia and the second on the Horna Zdana farm. The BSE positive animal was a 93-month old cow. Subsequently, a seven-animal herd was slaughtered under protective measures, the report said.


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Q: How to do the equivalent of git checkout  in mercurial with subrepositories? According to Mercurial GitConcepts the equivalent of git reset --hard is hg revert -a --no-backup. After doing that I expect the equivalent of git checkout <commit> which is hg update -c <cset> to work.
However it fails with error abort: uncommitted changes in subrepository 'subrepo/subsubrepo' even after running hg revert -a --no-backup in subrepo/subsubrepo and subrepo.

A: So far as I can tell, the problem is that Mercurial tracks the subrepo commit associated with each main repo commit.  So it's not enough to ensure both the subrepo and the main repo are "clean."  You also have to ensure that the subrepo is updated to the commit which corresponds to the main repo's commit.
In my opinion, hg revert is more trouble than it's worth in most cases (it also behaves oddly when you want to cancel out of a merge).  If you just want to make the repository look like the parent of the working directory, it's generally more fool-proof to do hg up -C . (note capital -C, and remember this leaves no backup); you can replace . with some other commit to update to that commit in one step.  Since updating is recursive, this should work correctly on a subrepo.  However, it will operate recursively on the entire repository, including subrepos, with one command, so make sure you're not blowing away changes you meant to keep.


Grouville Primary School scooped two of the prizes in the 2013 Genuine Jersey Royal Potato Competition by growing the heaviest crop and the most tubers. St Lawrence won in the course work category.
In addition, seven classes from Grouville School made the top ten of the 208 classes in all 32 primary school who completed the competition to see who were the most successful in growing Jersey Royals in a bucket over three months.
In the hotly-contested Constables competition, the Constable of St Mary, Juliette Gallichan, grew the heaviest crop while her namesake in Trinity, John Gallichan, grew the most tubers. The honours in the media competition went to Carrie Cooper and Sara Palmer of BBC Jersey who grew the most tubers, and Gwyn Garflield-Bennett of Connect magazine whose bucket produced the heaviest crop.
The competition is organised by the Genuine Jersey Products Association and sponsored by Belles Fleurs Nursery. It was also supported by The Jersey Royal Company and Public Health.
The judges were: farmers Alan Le Maistre, Mike Labey and Alan Le Feuvre, and Peter Tabb, vice-chairman of the Genuine Jersey Products Association.
The schools' competition incorporates specific studies over the three-month growing period learning how plants grow, where food comes from, understanding the history of the Jersey Royal and the importance of eating a balanced healthy diet.
Each class receives a growing kit comprising two Jersey Royal seed potatoes a container, polystyrene chips, compost and fertiliser.


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Nerja illegal rubbish dump probe reveals further malpractice
The illegal tip has accumulated 800,000 cubic metres of rubbish. / E.C.
The town hall is already facing pressure over the unfinished sewage works while investigations shed light on another unauthorised tip
Eugenio Cabezas
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16 June 201713:37
More than a week since SUR first published the revelations over public figures' involvement in an illegal landfill site in Nerja, the accusations and developments continue, with around 40 people under suspicion.
SUR has had access to a document that former mayor, José Alberto Armijo, signed in June 1998, authorising the dumping of rubbish in an area near to the mouth of the Río de la Miel in Nerja. The land in question forms part of the natural park of the Sierras Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama.
The dump was being used until September 2016, when it was closed by the Guardia Civil's environment protection unit, Seprona.
Since then an investigation has been under way in a court in Torrox, and 40 people, including former mayor of Nerja Armijo, and current mayor Rosa Arrabal, are being questioned about their involvement. Other councillors, including Jorge Bravo and José María Rivas, are also being investigated, which has led to questions being asked about how such an environmental disaster was allowed to continue for so many years and why residents' complaints went unanswered.
Armijo told SUR last Saturday that the dump was "known about and tolerated".
While political party, Ciudadanos called for the PP, PSOE and IU to "distance themselves" from those councillors being investigated over the case last Saturday, the PP replied by asking for "coherence" and "support" for its councillors and ex-councillors.
Experts involved in the case have estimated a cost of 10.7 million euros to clean up the dumping site and the judge in charge of the case has accused those involved of supposedly creating a company to manage the site, in order to save money by not treating waste correctly which the judge has said is also tantamount to fraud.
'Operation Rubbish', as it has been labelled, using the English word, only adds to Nerja Town Hall's problems with regard to the environment. Considered to be the biggest case of waste mismanagement in Spain, it comes at a time when the local authority is under immense pressure over the paralysis of its waste water treatment plant. The project, which should have been completed in 2016, is still just 76 per cent complete, due in part to financial problems faced by Isolux-Corsán-Corviam, the company responsible for its construction.
In addition to the Río de la Miel site, a further 9,000 cubic metres of illegally dumped rubbish has been accumulating in the Barranco Viejo-Loma de la Vacas area, which is private land near the town centre, since 2007. The current tripartite administration (PSOE, IU and EVA-Podemos) reported the situation to the public prosecutor last month.
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Festivals Of The Dead Around The World
Death isn't always a taboo subject. Around the world many different cultures view death as just a part of life, a part of life worth celebrating.
BY Meelina Galope
Though modern day Halloween is more a celebration of getting free candy from strangers its origins come from the ancient Celtic Festival, Samhain – dating as far back as 3350 BCE. Hallow's Eve was inherently a Festival of the Dead. On the night of October 31, the Celts believed that the dead would return to Earth. Similar beliefs are held in different countries across the globe and some festivals of the dead are so old that they seem to have always been a part of the culture. Take a look at the different ways these cultures celebrate death and the intricate festivals they put on each year.
Known as: Halloween, Samhain, Allantide (Cornwall), Calan Gaeaf (Wales), Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man)
Once a Pagan holiday, Christianity modified the festival of Samhain by merging it with All Saint's Day and rebranding it as Hallows' Day, Hallowmas, Feast of all Saints, or Solemnity of All Saints. The evening prior became known as All Hallows' Eve and was the Catholic day to reflect on the realities of hell and to mourn the souls lost to evil.
Traditionally the Celts would wear ghostly disguises as a way to trick roaming malevolent spirits, and what we know today as trick-or-treating or guising used to be called souling or mumming. On All Souls' Eve, the poor in Scotland and Northern Ireland would beg the rich for a pastry known as Soul Cake. Families would later share the cake, light candles, and join in on prayer and songs.
In late as the 1950s, children began carving punkies – large beetroots, or turnips in you were in Scotland. Carrying their creations, the children would visit homes singing the "Punkie Night Song" and would offer prayers in return for cake or money.
Fact: Derry, Northern Ireland, hosts the UK's largest Halloween celebration, complete with street carnivals, bonfires, firework displays, and a hearty dinner of Colcannon (cabbage and mashed potato) and Barmbrack (fruit cake).
Known As: El Día de los Muertos, The Day of the Dead
One of the world's most famous festivals, The Day of the Dead comes from a two-month-long Aztec festival of offering foods, alcohol, flowers and ceramics to the Goddess Mictecacihuatl, or "Lady of the Dead", to celebrate the harvest and honor death. Today, Día de los Muertos is a blend of the Aztec festival and the Catholic traditions of the Spanish conquistadors.
From October 31 to November 2 each year, homes are awash with color and altars decorated with photographs, flowers, drinks and food. The flowers' brief lifespan symbolize the brevity of life, while brightly colored bunting, streamers and tissue paper symbolize energy and joy. Beside altars, families leave a washbasin and soap for the dead to wash after their long journey, and light incense to guide them home. On the final day of the festival, relatives have a picnic at graves with tequila and a mariachi band.
Fact: Mexican street parades are some of the most invigorating and lively parties on the planet, but the parades are not actually part of the original tradition. Rather they are consequence mainly of Mr Bond, in the film 007 Spectre. In these parades often a living person is carried in a coffin through the streets as vendors toss flowers and fruit into the casket
Known As: 盂蘭節, Yulan or Zhongyuan, The Hungry Ghost Festival
Taoist and Buddhist cultures celebrate their festival of the dead on the fifteenth night of the seventh month (Ghost Month). It is believed that hell's gates open and deceased spirits roam on earth for twenty-four-hours in search of food and comfort. These spirits are 'pretas' – malevolent souls who died in an accident, are unburied, or never received a ritual send-off after death. They have long needle-like necks, because their families had not left food at the grave. Alongside the 'pretas', there are friendly ghosts that also return. To please the kind spirits families burn joss paper and incense, prepare an elaborate meal, and keep seats empty at the table for the spirits.
Fact: Fourteen days after the festival, families set lotus-shaped lanterns afloat on rivers or the sea to guide the lost souls to the next life. When the lanterns extinguish, the dead have passed on.
Know As: 于蘭盆會, Obon Festival, Matsuri or Urabon Festival
Sanskrit for 'hanging upside down', this Japanese festival is celebrated to ease the suffering of the dead. Obon begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when dead ancestors return to the world of the living. Families prepare a feast, and as the sun sets, hang paper lanterns outside to guide the spirits home. On the last day of the festival, the lanterns are cast out to sea and huge bonfires are lit. The bonfires and lanterns lead the spirits back to the afterlife until next year.
Fact: In the ancient story of Maha Maudgalyayana (Mokuren), a disciple of the Buddha visits his deceased mother in the afterlife. Desperate to set her free from limbo between life and death, the disciple dances the Bon Odori and successfully helps his mother reach the next life. Today, Japanese families dance the Bon Odori to ensure their relatives pass on safely.
Know As: गाई जात्रा, Gai Jatra, Cow Festival
The Festival of the Cow worships Yamaraj, the God with power over life and death. Celebrations take place on the first day of the dark fortnight, Gunla, in line with the lunar calendar (sometime between August and September). Every family who had lost a relative in the past year walks through the streets leading a cow. The cow, being highly venerated in Hinduism, is believed to help the dead ascend to heaven.
The Gai Jatra parade originated when the son of King Pratap Malla of Nepal (1624-74 A.D) died. Desperate to make his distraught wife smile again, the King asked his people to dress in elaborate masks and tell jokes. The story goes that the people were able to make the queen smile once again. Today, costumes and colors remain central to Gai Jatra.
Fact: If a cow is unavailable for the family to walk down the streets with, a young boy in a cow costume is an adequate substitute.
Know As: पितृ पक्ष, Pitru Paksha, Fortnight of the Ancestors
Pitru Paksha is a sixteen-day Hindu festival of the dead that involves a lot of food. The festival falls on the second paksha of the lunar month, Bhadrapada (the first full moon in September), and lasts until the next new moon, Sarvapitri amavasya or Pitru Amavasya. The central ritual is the death rite, Shraddha or Tarpan. Some Hindus believe that for three generations the dead reside in Pitru-loka, a realm between heaven and earth, with Yama, God of the Dead. A son in the family of the dead must perform Shraddha to help his ancestor ascend to heaven. The son calls on his ancestor to reside inside a ring of kush grass, which he wears on his finger. If the ancestor is happy with his son's performance, he will grant him health, wealth, knowledge, longevity and moksha (salvation).
Fact: This Indian festival feast must include Kheer (a sweet rice with milk), lapsi (a sweet porridge made of wheat grains), rice, dal, the vegetable guar (spring bean) and a yellow gourd.
Different cultures and people deal with death, and more specifically the returning of the dead in different ways. Having a party with lots of food, candles, and celebration seems to be common preference for many. Perhaps that's what many of the zombie-horror flicks got wrong — they forgot to bring their dead some Pan de muerto!
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Meelina is a student editor at Babbel, curently pursuing her MA in North American Studies at Berlin's Freie Universität. Originally hailing from San Francisco's Bay Area, Meelina's interests include missing the California climate, theatre and improv comedy, and rewatching copious amount of David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
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Light - Needs Bright, Filtered Light. Will rapidly deteriorate in dim lighting.
Watering - Keep soil evenly moist at all times. (about 2-3x per week) Do not overwater or leave plant sitting in water.
Repotting -Change dirt and transplant to a a larger pot annually. This plant naturally wants to become large, and therefore needs both spacial height and room for roots to extend.
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John Bry asked GRDC Executive Director Sherita Smith how he could get involved in the Grandmont Rosedale community before he moved into his home in Grandmont #1 last year. John also reached out the Grandmont #1 Improvement Association to introduce himself and to ask them how he might pitch in. Clearly John was familiar with the importance of resident involvement in creating community. You could say that creating community is what John does for a living. As Principal Planner Program Coordinator at Main Street Oakland County, John works daily to discover the many elements that are involved in creating a stable, desirable community. When John moved to Michigan to take the job with Oakland County, he simply moved into an apartment close to work. When he was ready to find a home, though, he did some research. A co-worker suggested he take a look at Grandmont Rosedale as it is known as "one of the stronger neighborhoods in the city," so John took a look. It was pretty much love at first sight: "I fell in love with the history and architecture of the homes." For weeks John drove through Grandmont Rosedale, looking at the beautiful homes, hoping to find one for himself. When he wasn't house hunting, John researched several of the homes, learning about architects, the families who lived in the neighborhood, and even where former residents were now.
John has a lifelong love for older homes, and research. In fact, John got his Master's degree in Planning and Historic Preservation with an emphasis on restoration in neighborhoods and downtowns. John's skill as a researcher has turned up some pretty interesting information. John's 1928 home in Grandmont #1 was once the home of a dentist and OB/GYN who were originally from Canada. This husband-wife team of doctors had their offices in the Fisher Building and moved to Boston Edison after living in Grandmont #1 for 14 years. The couple has since died and are buried in Canada. John research tools include census records, building permits, birth and death records, and of course, stories from neighbors. This interest in people, homes, and neighborhoods began when John was a kid growing up on a farm in northeast Indiana. In fact, one of his most exciting discoveries happening when he was just 13, and working on a 4-H civics project.
As a young teen, John started researching his hometown, Auburn, in northeast Indiana. John found out that in the late 1920s – 1930s, his town manufactured the very high end Duesenberg automobiles, which was pretty exciting. Then, from photos his grandmother showed him, John learned about a monument company in Auburn that was once owned by John's ancestors. The photo showed a beautiful building built in 1903 with four grand stone arches. John set out to the Dekalb County historian to find out more. He asked the historian if there was any more information about the building. The historian told John that the arches were in fact around, lying around actually, in the weeds at the city storage yard. John wasted no time and found, back by the oil drums and pipes, he found "an owl's face in limestone, staring up at me." John hacked back the weeds, revealing the gorgeous arches. The city of Auburn was so pleased with John's research, effort, and spectacular find, they installed the arches as a free standing monument in a garden at a senior center. It's not uncommon to see people gathering under the arches to be married, or just to have their photo taken under the beautiful arches. The arches had been lying in the weeds for over 20 years and now they stand as a reminder of the town's history and of one 13 year old boy's love for history, architecture, and his home town.
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In the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein come these heart-warming allegories of good and evil from best-selling authors Karen and David Mains.
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Publisher: Mainstay Ministries
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In the Tales of the Kingdom 30th Anniversary Edition, action, intrigue, and danger follow Scarboy wherever he goes, especially in the Enchanted City, where the "imperfect" are cast away and orphans are enslaved. Scarboy manages to escape the evil Enchanter to safety in Great Park, but has yet to confront his greatest fear—and he'll need enormous courage to conquer it!
An exciting series of inspirational stories for kids from best-selling authors David and Karen Mains, the gold-medallion award-winning Tales of the Kingdom offers fast-paced action and exciting storytelling with a enduring Christian message.
This children's chapter book is 84 pages of inspiring stories in durable hardcover binding, enhanced by 12 full-color, full-page illustrations from exceptional Bulgarian artist and illustrator Zhivko Zhelev. In addition, there are 8 colorful character sketches featuring Little Child, Princess Amanda, Ranger Commander, The King and others. The numerous illustrations of our 30th Anniversary edition reflect the racial diversities & ethnicities that exist in our modern world.
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Series: 30th Anniversary Edition
In the tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein come these heart-warming allegories of good and evil from best-selling authors Karen and David Mains. Reading these inspirational short stories, your entire family will be entranced as Scarboy and his friends boldly follow the one True King to overcome the evil Enchanter and his tenacious hold on the oppressed residents of Enchanted City.
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Four lame animals were reported in the reporting period
Four lame animals were reported in the reporting period. The four were in Tsavo East and were reported to be limping from unknown causes. The first was a lone male buffalo near Tahri camp. When we observed it, we found the left fore leg to be slightly lame but there was no manifestation of pain when the animal was walking away and even when running away after we disturbed it.
We could not see any swelling or injuries and we considered the condition to be minor to warrant any intervention.
The other was an elephant reported on the 24th by the resident pilot after he spotted it limping not very far from the same Tahri camp. He directed us to the site from the air as the area had dense bushes and not very accessible from the ground. When we found the nine-year-old elephant, we could not tell the nature of the problem from a distance because of the bushes but we could see it limping heavily from its left hind leg. We therefore decided to immobilise it for examination and diagnosis. This was accomplished on foot.
The lameness was diagnosed to be from an abnormally healed fracture of the mid left hind leg sustained long time ago. It too did not manifest any signs of pain when walking and it could bear its full weight on the leg.
There was nothing much that could be done to alleviate the lameness and the animal was revived. A similar condition in another elephant was reported on the 28th near Bachuma gate but this time the right hind leg was involved. We did not immobilise this second elephant.
Lastly we immobillised a female waterbuck at Ndara ranch for examination and treatment of the lameness of the left fore leg. This is one of the animals translocated to the ranch from Bamburi Haller Park (Lafarge ecosystems) last year. The condition had been reported several days before but the management was advised to observe and report if it persisted. The tentative diagnosis was a foreign object or abscess between the toes.
However, the condition aroused from neither of the suspected problems but was found to be due to the stiffness of the carpal joint from an unknown cause. There was nothing much that could be done to alleviate the problem. The animal was revived after administering a systemic antibiotic.
Confinement was recommended until the lameness subsided.
Further to the above cases, I also attended a wildlife scientific conference between the 18th and 20th April in Nairobi. The theme of the conference was 'Research Imperatives for Biodiversity Conservation and Management'. I made a presentation on the impacts of rinderpest disease in wildlife and its surveillance in Kenya in the three critical ecosystems of Somali (North-eastern & eastern), Tsavo-Amboseli and Rift valley/Maasai. The areas where susceptible wildlife species were sampled in these ecosystems were those where wildlife interact highly with livestock, particularly the Somali livestock. The presentation entailed a review of veterinary data between 2000 and 2006.
The Mobile Veterinary Unit operated by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust working with The Kenyan Wildlife Service and funded by Vier Pfoten