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Obama & Bill Clinton officially embrace imperialism, then poormouth liberty, independence, and freedom
As anyone paying any attention to politics already knew, neither Barack Hussein Obama nor Bill Clinton are committed to liberty, freedom, or independence, and like the good power-hungry statists they are, they openly embrace imperialism and military occupation. When it serves their interests.
Today the mainstream media prominently ran two statements, one by each man.
Each statement began with a dissembling lie about how neither Obama nor Clinton really have anything to say about Scotland's wish for independence from the mis-named "United Kingdom."
You know, kind of a disarming warmup for the dagger-in-the-chest that is coming right behind it.
You know, they support the "united Kingdom" that was only united through Britain's imperialism, deceptive diplomacy, military conquests, occupation, land theft, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and religious totalitarianism.
After the blase disclaimer, each man then goes on to say that Scotland should not become independent from its longtime foe, occupier, and vampire-like neighbor, England aka Britain, home of the Britons (not the Scots).
Both Clinton and Obama provide generic and vague sentimentalist goo as their supporting argument. Both rely on some version of "We know you don't like it, but it really is best for you, the little people."
See, Scotland owns a lot of oil and gas fields that will instantly give it financial independence from Britain, which in turn may become the weak sister, not the domineering exporter of bad TV and cute Cockney accents it is now.
I vote for freedom for Scotland. I vote for independence from Britain, like we Americans have. I vote for liberty from Britain's insane laws that have turned justice upside down.
If anyone from Scotland reads this, please know that we Americans love our independence from the damned British, and we hope you do, too.
By Josh First
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Along with other beautiful stained glass windows dedicated to free speech and religion, "Militia" is just another large, elaborate stained glass window in the Pennsylvania State Capitol building (photo above).
This window's prominent place in the Capitol is no accident, as the free citizen militia were fundamental to being an American citizen, and formative in founding the nation. After all, it was a free citizen militia (photos below) that was so determined to hold on to their liberties (now yours) that they literally faced down the world's greatest super power, shooting only when they saw the whites of their hardened enemy's eyes.
Like the other rights in the Bill of Rights, belonging to the militia is an individual right. No central or national army can supplant it. It is the exact purpose of the citizen militia to act as a counterweight to a centralized army or National Guard. As the Second Amendment so clearly states, you can't belong to a militia unless you are armed with a military-quality arm, that you own and keep in your possession, as the original militia did.
Militia is not the heavily regulated, structured, centralized Army or National Guard of today; well-regulated meant muster rolls were kept. Militia was always a grass roots, citizen-led counterbalance to national governments, whether of Britain or the new United States. Unless the National Guard reports only to the local citizens or state governors, then it is not the heir to or the modern representation of the founding militia. The militia were and must remain separate from the central (national) government and its standing army.
The Bill of Rights does not describe governmental rights. All ten of its amendments describe and reserve citizens' individual rights and liberties, and set limits on government power. Who creates a "Bill of Rights" that grants the central government the "right" to make an army and disarm the citizens? The fact that Americans have owned firearms since the beginning demonstrates the clear intent of the Bill of Rights. Whether or not some of today's Americans are aware of, or comfortable with some Constitutional rights and obligations, they exist nonetheless. This is who we are. It'll take a Constitutional amendment to change the Second Amendment, if you don't like it. And changing it could lead to a second civil war, because the Second Amendment guarantees all the other amendments, and, like the Revolutionary War militia, free citizens are still willing to fight for their liberties.
Let's talk more about that supposed potential change to the Constitution.
Gun prohibitionists are now pursuing an orgy of unconstitutional laws that exponentially grow government intrusion and end citizenship as defined since the birth of America. Do gun prohibitionists and anti-gun politicians really believe that freedom-loving Americans will just roll over and "turn them all in," as US Senator Dianne Feinstein so casually says? I guarantee you a massive, defiant, and probably violent dissenting reaction across the nation in response to such an effort, if not an outright armed rebellion. Political elites like Feinstein and their fellow urbanites have little contact with "fly-over country," so they do not know, care, understand, or respect the views of their fellow citizens there.
Statists, like Feinstein, whose greatest goal is a big government involved in citizens' lives from cradle to grave, are deaf and blind to the kind of vehement resistance now brewing among tens of millions of citizens. Many, many Americans feel and see the America they knew and loved being transformed into an unrecognizable juggernaut aimed at controlling citizens' lives and erasing their liberties. Seething beneath the surface of daily life is an increasing, simmering frustration and mistrust. It's one thing to beat them at the ballot box. It's another thing altogether to aim to disarm them.
These citizens know that the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. The more the government does, the less the citizen can do. To them, government is a direct threat, not a solution.
Gun control already exists in overbearing quantity; new laws that would take away guns from law-abiding Americans are exactly the kinds of unconstitutional assaults on individual liberty that the Second Amendment was designed to repel and that the citizen militia was created to address. Using democracy to achieve undemocratic results has been the method of extremists from both Left and Right; with the latest wave of proposals, gun prohibitionists reveal their own extremism.
Draft resistors, anti-government dissenters, and assorted protests have been historic hallmarks of one part of the electorate. Will Second Amendment-rights activists have to carry their God-given guns on a Million Man March to Washington, DC, carrying today's equivalent of the 1776-era military-grade musket, the AR-15, to get their point across?
Pro-abortion activists have long stated matter-of-factly that legally prohibiting abortion won't end abortion, and that those who want one will seek it out, legal or not, safe or not. Well, folks, tens of millions of Americans are about to have that equivalent experience with their guns, taking them into the back alleys, yards, and woods, where they will have them, despite whatever the government may say. Such defiance is what created America. Let's hope it doesn't end up re-creating it.
Adam Lanza's insane massacre of school children in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, is so painful, so emotionally scarring that I will never be the same person I was the day before it occurred. My three children are as gentle, innocent, defenseless, and precious to me as those children were to their parents, and the thought of losing mine or theirs in such a cruelly violent way is too much to contemplate. My heart aches for the Sandy Hook parents. My fury rises at the incompetent parole board that unleashed murderer William Spengler to murder again, this time the brave firefighters who rushed to douse his arsonist blaze in Webster, NY. Blame enough to go around, but the actual problem-solving is hard.
Let me try: Does Hollywood really have an unfettered, unaccountable right to use its power of suggestion to continually encourage cruel, unchecked violence across America? During the recent Benghazi debacle, weren't we told that the First Amendment doesn't necessarily confer a right to make a movie that might incite violence? Thus, if Hollywood wants to continue marketing sadistically happy murder carnage from Django Unchained and the equally moronic Gangster Squad, why don't all movies and video games with a modern gun in them have to pay a 50% 'violence mitigation fee' on each ticket sold? Use that money to put armed guards in schools, gratis Quentin Tarantino and Sean Penn.
In sum, disarming innocent citizens will not succeed, at least not without forcing millions into long-neglected, perhaps forgotten, well-regulated militias to defend their rights. Using emotional crises to immediately demand sweeping new laws is irresponsible. Can cooler heads prevail? Let us hope and pray so.
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PANIC was successfully commissioned on the Clay Telescope in April 2003. It is currently available on the East Nasmyth Platform of the Walter Baade Telescope.
PANIC (Persson's Auxilliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera) is a near-infrared camera designed to operate at one of the folded ports (formerly known as auxilliary nasmyth ports) of the 6.5m Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. PANIC contains a Rockwell 1024x1024 infrared (HAWAII) detector with 0.125 arcsecond pixels, corresponding to a 2x2 arcminute field of view. The current filters include four broadband filters: Y, J, H, Ks and two narrowband filters: H2 and Br γ.
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Q: How To Upload Multiple Images With Links To Them In mysql Currently I have a code which is working perfectly for one image upload. But i want to upload multiple images at a time with same Image Title, Image Description for image group being uploaded as these images will be used in photo slideshow(See Images below please)
My Current Code is as follows -
PHP Code -
    $bsq->connect_db();
    $fileName = $_FILES["image"]["name"];
    $fileNameNew = preg_replace('/\s+/', '_', $fileName);
    $fileTmpLoc = $_FILES["image"]["tmp_name"];
    // Path and file name
    $pathAndName = "uploads_admin/".$fileNameNew;
    // Run the move_uploaded_file() function here
    $moveResult = move_uploaded_file($fileTmpLoc, $pathAndName);
    // Evaluate the value returned from the function if needed

    if($_POST['action']=="add"){
           $all_columns[]="image_subject";
           $all_columns[]="image_name";
           $all_columns[]="clinic";
           $all_columns[]="image_link";

//Get All values to insert in to table
           $all_values[]=addslashes($_POST["image_subject"]);
           $all_values[]=addslashes($_POST["image_name"]);
           $all_values[]=addslashes($_POST["clinic"]);
           $all_values[]=addslashes($pathAndName );

//=====================

$qry=$bsq->webdreaminsert("sa_galleryuploads_by_admin",$all_columns,$all_values,'');
echo mysql_error();

header("location:upload_file_for_downloading_list.php");
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
    }

And HTML Form For upload Image Is As follows -
      <form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="addtwebinar1" id="addtwebinar1" onsubmit="javascript:return validateimage1();" >
      <input type="hidden" value="add" name="action" />

Add Images For Photo Gallery

      Image Title*
      <input name="image_name" id="image_name" type="text" size="40" value="" />

      Image Description In Short*
      <input name="image_subject" id="image_subject" type="text" size="40" value="" />

      Clinic Name*

           <select name="clinic" id="message" >
        <option value="">Select Clinic</option>
        <option value="arogya">1. Arogyawardhini Ayurved Clinic</option>
        <option value="smruti">2. Smruti Ayurved Clinic</option>
        <option value="tarpan">3. Tarpan Ayurved Clinic</option>
        <option value="vishwa">4. Vishwawardhini Ayurved Clinic</option>
        </select>

                Your Image For Upload*
                File To Upload:

                <input type="file" size="40" name="image"  id="image" />

               <button >Upload</button>

            </form>

Current Look of My Active Image upload Form -

And I Want Like Below (Created Graphically)

A: You can use a for loop.
For the form, do something like this:
for($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) {
        echo "<input type=\"file\" size=\"40\" name=\"image{$i}\"  id=\"image{$i}\" />
";
}

And for the processing, just put all of that in a for loop as well.
   for($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) {
   $fileName = $_FILES["image".$i]["name"];
   $fileNameNew = preg_replace('/\s+/', '_', $fileName);
   $fileTmpLoc = $_FILES["image".$i]["tmp_name"];
    // Path and file name
   $pathAndName = "uploads_admin/".$fileNameNew;
   // Run the move_uploaded_file() function here
   $moveResult = move_uploaded_file($fileTmpLoc, $pathAndName);
  // Evaluate the value returned from the function if needed

  if($_POST['action']=="add"){

  $image_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['image_name']);
  $image_subject = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['image_subject']);
  $clinic = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['clinic']);
  $image_link = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), "\\/")."/".$pathAndName;

  //=====================

  mysql_query("INSERT INTO `sa_galleryuploads_by_admin` VALUES ('', '{$image_name}',  '{$image_subject}', '{$clinic}', '{$image_link}' )") or die(mysql_error());

  if(!mysql_error()) {
     echo "success";
   }

   }

You can edit the number that the loop goes up to, to match the number of fields/images you want to show. Good luck!
edit: You also need to sanitize validate your inputs. At the very least, use mysql_real_escape_string().
Also, mysql_* functions are deprecated. You should switch to using either mysqli or pdo. I'd suggest mysqli to start off, because it also offers a procedural approach, whereas pdo is completely object oriented.

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Demonstration Alert: U. S. Embassy Colombo, Sri Lanka
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No Charges in Fourth of July Boat Tragedy
Rashed Mian
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice's office announced Thursday that there will be no charges filed in the tragic Fourth of July boating accident that claimed the lives of three children last year.
Rice's office determined "that no criminal charges are appropriate," but they will continue to investigate the incident in order to issue what the district attorney's spokesman called "comprehensive findings and recommendations" at a future date.
The DA's office noted that the investigation uncovered a "unique combination of circumstances" that led to the boat capsizing as 27 people—17 adults and 10 children—celebrated a fireworks demonstration on the 34-foot boat in Cold Spring Harbor.
"Additionally, it has also uncovered gaping holes in the maritime regulatory system and contributory design flaws in the vessel," Rice's spokesman John Byrne said. "The combination of these factors proved to be deadly but cannot support criminal charges that require proof beyond reasonable doubt."
The statement didn't say what specific design flaws contributed to the accident.
The three children who tragically died—8-year-old Victoria Gaines, 12-year-old David Aureliano of Kings Park and Harlie Treanor, 11, of Huntington Station—were all trapped in the cabin when the boat sank.
Shortly after the incident, the cabin cruiser's owner said the boat was not overcrowded and that there were enough life jackets on the vessel.
The man at the helm told reporters afterward that a wave hit the boat right before it capsized.
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Taxation of India's Professional Cricket: A Proposal
April 1, 2008 — drsubrotoroy
Tax professional cricket: Hockey's debacle shows the distortions in India's sports markets
First published in The Statesman, April 1 2008, Editorial Page Special Article http://www.thestatesman.net
All cricket involving professional international-level players, whether Indian or foreign, that comes to be broadcast to Indian audiences or played before Indian spectators, deserves to be subjected to a new, severe, discriminatingly specific excise-tax. Cricket below professional international level would be unaffected. Revenues received by the Union or State Governments from a new "International Cricket Tax" should be specifically "earmarked" to subsidize other sports as heavily as possible. Individual Indian athletes, gymnasts, swimmers, archers etc. as well as Indian teams in soccer, hockey, rugby, volleyball and other sports would be encouraged and enabled to train or compete at sporting events around the world using revenues raised from taxation of professional international cricket involving India. Had our Ministry of Finance or any other New Delhi ministry any serious sense of the economics of public finance, they would have proposed such a simple device of national policy years ago, certainly after the Hansie Cronje gambling scandal broke.
The distortions of our sports markets have come to be highlighted today by the collapse of Indian men's hockey coinciding with Indian men's cricket ballooning from a little international success and a lot of greedy consumer-fed wealth. The public is hardly aware of it but Indians have in fact done very well recently in several international sports ~ especially women's and men's boxing, women's weight-lifting, athletics, archery, table-tennis, swimming, women's hockey and men's soccer. Yet youngsters around the country face extremely distorted decisions between investing their time and energy in any sport other than cricket ~ on the outside chance they might hit gold like a Sachin Tendulkar or MS Dhoni or Irfan Pathan and improve their families' material well-being for ever more, rather like buying a winning lottery ticket. As a general rule, the structure of economic incentives should be such that a physically talented 10 or 11 year old male or female child should be indifferent between choosing among different sports in which to specialize, cricket being one possibility. Physical fitness through sport along with proper nutrition for all children in the country needs to be the general national goal.
Notwithstanding its virtues, joys, pleasantries and sportsmanship, cricket cannot be considered a nation-building sport for India's masses. Cricket in England and the West Indies has long declined in face of more vigorous mass sports like soccer and basketball ("West Indian" athletes emigrating to North America). Australia and New Zealand love cricket but they tend to love and excel in many sports and cricket to them is just another ~ if cricket suddenly vanished they would merely move more towards rugby, swimming, tennis etc.
In India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as South Africa and Zimbabwe, cricket does have some political nation-building role via the secular symbolism involved in choosing a representative national team on merit ~ but that still does not make cricket the single most suitable sport for mass physical or moral upliftment among scores of millions of poor children.
Cricket is similar to baseball and American football in requiring quite a lot of equipment per player; in requiring relatively high technical specialized training (opening batsman, spin-bowler, pitcher, quarter-back); and in not providing all who play it a "total body workout" within a short length of time. One may need to be fit to play cricket but playing cricket in and of itself is not the best route to physical fitness.
Professional international cricketers thus need to be provided with a lot of support ~ gyms, massages, fitness sessions, physiotherapy etc. Field games like rugby, soccer, hockey or basketball do provide "total body workouts", do not require nearly as much equipment per player and call for much less technical specialized training.
For sake of national policy-making, relevant comparisons should not be made at first class or professional levels but rather on the level of school playing fields, village playgrounds or urban parks and open spaces on any bright day where a bunch of lads have nothing better to do than create a game for themselves. In India as around the world, all that a dozen or more lads need to make a game of it is a ball that can be kicked between them. America's inner cities have a single basketball hoop around which a game comes to be played.
The high life-time earnings of professional international Indian cricketers arises ultimately from television advertising of mass consumer goods and services ~ aerated sweet drinks, mobile telephone services, chocolates, potato-chips, soaps, shampoos, detergents etc. There is in general nothing wrong with such outcomes of a free process of contracts. The late libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State and Utopia gave a classic case of the great basketball player Wilt Chamberlin earning a vast income and wealth because very large numbers of people were freely choosing to part with their money to watch his genius at play.
America, however, has had a long history of sports during which sporting markets have become very competitive in the economic sense. Indian cricket reveals monopolistic trends. Selection at national level, hence to an international professional career of about a decade or so, contains a strong random or arbitrary element to it. At the same time, since the early 1990s professional cricketers in India (unlike those in other countries) have refused to gracefully retire even after poor performance and have had to be chucked out after titanic political struggles that sometimes find mention in Parliament. There is hardly any of the "free entry" or "free exit" that define competitive conditions in an industry.
India's international cricketers play under India's Flag and sing the Indian National Anthem; the economic externalities involved are so obvious and the monopolistic or cartel power of Bombay's cricket and TV businesses so severe that even nationalization of the sport at professional international level might have been considered ~ except for the sheer incompetence our government displays at handling any nationalized industry properly. Thus taxation of cricket and earmarked transfer of those revenues to other sports in India may be the most effective way to move towards a proper structure of incentives.
Sin taxes
Though our Finance Ministry seems quite unaware of it, excise taxes are supposed to be "sin taxes" only ~ e.g. on tobacco and alcohol to try to reduce their consumption and, if demand is inelastic, to extract as much revenue as possible out of them to put to healthier purposes. One reason consumption of professional international-level cricket in India has become unhealthy has undoubtedly to do with the gambling that takes place behind the scenes on innumerable aspects of the game. Placing a severe "sin tax" on professional international cricket will reduce its consumption and hence reduce the gambling deriving from it too. Even the masses who do not gamble but merely watch it on TV for vicarious pleasure and entertainment may need a jolt to prevent addiction. The way to implement a severe discriminatory tax on professional international level cricket in India may be by government control or nationalization of the public arenas in which it comes to be played as well as of course control of the television-broadcast rights. One of our many problems has become that our politicians and senior bureaucrats long to mingle freely with big business and cricket and Bollywood icons themselves; amidst all the glamour and fun that they would much rather be part of, they are unable to think about the public interest less obscurely than they might have done.
Posted in Economics of sports, Excise taxes, India's cricket, India's Public Finance, India's sports, International cricket, Professional sports, Public Choice/Public Finance, Robert Nozick, Sports. Leave a Comment »
An Open Letter to Professor Amartya Sen about Singur etc
July 31, 2007 — drsubrotoroy
A letter to Prof. Sen
First published in The Statesman 31 July 2007, Editorial Page Special Article
Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University
Dear Professor Sen,
Everyone will be delighted that someone of your worldwide stature has joined the debate on Singur and Nandigram; The Telegraph deserves congratulations for having made it possible on July 23.
I was sorry to find though that you may have missed the wood for the trees and also some of the trees themselves. Perhaps you have relied on Government statements for the facts. But the Government party in West Bengal represents official Indian communism and has been in power for 30 years at a stretch. It may be unwise to take at face-value what they say about their own deeds on this very grave issue! Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and there are many candid communists who privately recognise this dismal truth about themselves. To say this is not to be praising those whom you call the "Opposition" ~ after all, Bengal's politics has seen emasculation of the Congress as an opposition because the Congress and communists are allies in Delhi. It is the Government party that must reform itself from within sua sponte for the good of everyone in the State.
The comparisons and mentions of history you have made seem to me surprising. Bengal's economy now or in the past has little or nothing similar to the economy of Northern England or the whole of England or Britain itself, and certainly Indian agriculture has little to do with agriculture in the new lands of Australia or North America. British economic history was marked by rapid technological innovations in manufacturing and rapid development of social and political institutions in context of being a major naval, maritime and mercantile power for centuries. Britain's geography and history hardly ever permitted it to be an agricultural country of any importance whereas Bengal, to the contrary, has been among the most agriculturally fertile and hence densely populated regions of the world for millennia.
Om Prakash's brilliant pioneering book The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720 (Princeton 1985) records all this clearly. He reports the French traveller François Bernier saying in the 1660s "Bengal abounds with every necessary of life", and a century before him the Italian traveller Verthema saying Bengal "abounds more in grain, flesh of every kind, in great quantity of sugar, also of ginger, and of great abundance of cotton, than any country in the world". Om Prakash says "The premier industry in the region was the textile industry comprising manufacture from cotton, silk and mixed yarns". Bengal's major exports were foodstuffs, textiles, raw silk, opium, sugar and saltpetre; imports notably included metals (as Montesquieu had said would always be the case).
Bengal did, as you say, have industries at the time the Europeans came but you have failed to mention these were mostly "agro-based" and, if anything, a clear indicator of our agricultural fecundity and comparative advantage. If "deindustrialization" occurred in 19th Century India, that had nothing to do with the "deindustrialization" in West Bengal from the 1960s onwards due to the influence of official communism.
You remind us Fa Hiaen left from Tamralipta which is modern day Tamluk, though he went not to China but to Ceylon. You suggest that because he did so Tamluk effectively "was greater Calcutta". I cannot see how this can be said of the 5th Century AD when no notion of Calcutta existed. Besides, modern Tamluk at 22º18'N, 87º56'E is more than 50 miles inland from the ancient port due to land-making that has occurred at the mouth of the Hooghly. I am afraid the relevance of the mention of Fa Hiaen to today's Singur and Nandigram has thus escaped me.
You say "In countries like Australia, the US or Canada where agriculture has prospered, only a very tiny population is involved in agriculture. Most people move out to industry. Industry has to be convenient, has to be absorbing". Last January, a national daily published a similar view: "For India to become a developed country, the area under agriculture has to shrink, urban and industrial land development has to take place, and about 100 million workers have to move out from agriculture into industry and services. This is the only way forward for bringing prosperity to the rural population".
Rice is indeed grown in Arkansas or Texas as it is in Bengal but there is a world of difference between the technological and geographical situation here and that in the vast, sparsely populated New World areas with mechanized farming! Like shoe-making or a hundred other crafts, agriculture can be capital-intensive or labour-intensive ~ ours is relatively labour-intensive, theirs is relatively capital-intensive. Our economy is relatively labour-abundant and capital-scarce; their economies are relatively labour-scarce and capital-abundant (and also land-abundant). Indeed, if anything, the apt comparison is with China, and you doubtless know of the horror stories and civil war conditions erupting across China in recent years as the Communist Party and their businessman friends forcibly take over the land of peasants and agricultural workers, e.g. in Dongzhou.
All plans of long-distance social engineering to "move out" 40 per cent of India's population (at 4 persons per "worker") from the rural hinterlands must also face FA Hayek's fundamental question in The Road to Serfdom: "Who plans whom, who directs whom, who assigns to other people their station in life, and who is to have his due allotted by others?"
Your late Harvard colleague, Robert Nozick, opened his brilliant 1974 book Anarchy, State and Utopia saying: "Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)". You have rightly deplored the violence seen at Singur and Nandigram. But you will agree it is a gross error to equate violence perpetrated by the Government which is supposed to be protecting all people regardless of political affiliation, and the self-defence of poor unorganised peasants seeking to protect their meagre lands and livelihoods from state-sponsored pogroms. Kitchen utensils, pitchforks or rural implements and flintlock guns can hardly match the organised firepower controlled by a modern Government.
Fortunately, India is not China and the press, media and civil institutions are not totally in the hands of the ruling party alone. In China, no amount of hue and cry among the peasants could save them from the power of organised big business and the Communist Party. In India, a handful of brave women have managed to single-handedly organise mass movements of protest which the press and media have then broadcast that has shocked the whole nation to its senses.
You rightly say the land pricing process has been faulty. Irrelevant historical prices have been averaged when the sum of discounted expected future values in an inflationary economy should have been used. Matters are even worse. "The fear of famine can itself cause famine. The people of Bengal are afraid of a famine. It was repeatedly charged that the famine (of 1943) was man-made." That is what T. W. Schultz said in 1946 in the India Famine Emergency Committee led by Pearl Buck, concerned that the 1943 Bengal famine should not be repeated following dislocations after World War II. Of course since that time our agriculture has undergone a Green Revolution, at least in wheat if not in rice, and a White Revolution in milk and many other agricultural products. But catastrophic collapses in agricultural incentives may still occur as functioning farmland comes to be taken by government and industry from India's peasantry using force, fraud or even means nominally sanctioned by law. If new famines come to be provoked because farmers' incentives collapse, let future historians know where responsibility lay.
West Bengal's real economic problems have to do with its dismal macroeconomic and fiscal position which is what Government economists should be addressing candidly. As for land, the Government's first task remains improving grossly inadequate systems of land-description and definition, as well as the implementation and recording of property rights.
With my most respectful personal regards, I remain
Yours ever
Suby
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Land, Liberty & Value
Government must act in good faith treating all citizens equally ~ not favouring organised business lobbies and organised labour over an unorganised peasantry
First published in The Sunday Statesman Editorial Page Special Article, December 31 2006,
EVERY farmer knows that two adjacent plots of land which look identical to the outsider may be very different in character, as different as two siblings of the same family. Adjacent plots may differ in access to groundwater and sunlight, in minerals and salts, in soil, fertilisers, parasites, weeds or a dozen other agronomic factors. Most of all, they will differ in the quality and ingenuity of thought and labour that has gone into their care and cultivation over the years, perhaps over generations.
John Locke said: "Whatsoever that (a man) removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property… For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no one but he can have a right to what that once joined to, at least where there is enough and as good left in common for others" (Second Treatise of Government). Plots of land are as specific as the families that have "mixed" their labour with them. Locke wrote of labour being something "unquestionably" the labourer's own property; in the same libertarian vein, Robert Nozick opened Anarchy, State and Utopia saying "Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)".
But as we recognise the universal sanctity of the individual person and his/her private property, we have to start qualifying it. If you purchase a field, forest or estate through which runs a pathway traditionally used by the public to get from one side to the other then even as the new owner you may not have a right to forbid the public's use of the pathway. By extension, it is clear the State, the community of which you are a citizen, may approach you and demand there should be and will be a public road or thoroughfare through your property in the common interest. Such is the sovereign's right of "eminent domain" recognised throughout the world, not only in times of war or natural disaster but also in normal times where private property may be taken for public use. The individual's right to free use of his/her property is circumscribed as a result.
What may be certainly expected though in all matters is that the State will act in good faith, i.e., that it has conducted proper technical surveys and cost-benefit analyses as well as transparent public hearings, and has honestly decided that the road must be constructed using this route and no other. The doctrine of eminent domain implies that while the right to private property may be basic, it is not absolute, as indeed no right is, not even the right to one's own life. In India, one key difference between the landmark Golaknath (AIR 1967 SC 1643) and Kesavananda Bharati (AIR 1973 SC 1461) rulings had to do precisely with the former recognising the right to property being fundamental as in our original 1950 Constitution, while the latter consented to the Indira Parliament's denial of this.
When private property is taken, fair compensation must be paid. For example, the American Constitution says "no private property may be taken for public use without just compensation". What is just compensation? Typically it would be the "fair market value" — but that must be properly adjudged accounting for the best future use of the land, not merely the historical or traditional past use of the land.
Consider, in a mature urban real-estate market, a plot made vacant because a warehouse located on it has accidentally burned down. What is the value of the plot now? Another warehouse could be built, but other bids could come in too for construction of offices or residential flats or a multi-storey garage. The plot's value would differ depending on which use it is ultimately put to. And this value would be ascertained by calculating the expected cash flows into the future from each of these possibilities, discounted appropriately to account for the fact the future is less valuable than the present, with the highest value alternative being chosen. That is how a mature private real-estate market works in theory, though in practice there would be zoning and environmental restrictions to account for the traditional nature of the neighbourhood as well as possible pollution by effluent waste etc.
In India, Government departments and ministries have inherited prime urban real estate from British times. Amidst the highest value real estate in Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi etc. will be found a military camp or flats built for military personnel, having nothing whatsoever to do with furtherance of the nation's defences today. The appalling state of government accounting and audit of our public property and institutions includes the fact that neither the Union nor State Governments and municipalities have the faintest idea of assets, including real estate, that they own. These public assets are frequently open to abuse by managerially uncontrolled government employees.
Fallacies even more curious seem to be currently at work in Indian policy-making, whether by this or that political party. The "eminent domain" doctrine requires a public purpose to exist for acquisition of private property by the State: e.g. construction of a road, bridge, dam, airport or some other traditional public good which is going to be used by the public. In India as elsewhere, "land reform" did involve taking an absentee landlord A's land and distributing it to B, C, D and E who worked as peasants on it. But nowhere else outside formerly communist China has land been forcibly taken from peasants B, C, D and E and handed over to this or that private capitalist in name of economic development (in a reverse class war)!
Eminent domain doctrine requires good faith on part of the State with respect to its citizens and that implies treating all citizens' interests equally – not e.g. favouring an organised business lobby or organised industrial labour over the unorganised peasantry uneducated in the wiles of city people.
Also, there is no reason why Government should be interested in a particular product-mix emerging out of a given private factory (such as the so-called inflation-unadjusted "Rs one lakh car" instead of telecom equipment or garments or textiles). Dr Manmohan Singh's statement last week that he wishes to see "employment-intensive" industries merely added to Government confusion: from Henry Ford to Japanese "lean business" today, everyone knows the direction of change of technology in the automobile industry has been towards robotics, making modern manufacturing less and less manpower-intensive! The Tatas themselves underwent a major downsizing and restructuring in the last decade, hiving off industries not considered part of their "core competence".
Traditional agriculture of Singur's sort represents the most labour-intensive employment-generating kind of rural economy. While such rural life may appear unsatisfying to the urban outsider, there is, as Tolstoy, Rabindranath, Gandhi and others knew, subtle happiness, contentment and tranquility there absent in alienated industrial sprawls. "Surplus" labour occurs in agriculture because of technological improvements in quality and delivery of agricultural inputs as well as new education and awareness (Theodore W. Schultz,Transforming Traditional Agriculture). It is mostly seasonal and all hands are used during the harvest when even urban migrants flock back to help. Industry did not leave Bengal in the 1960s and 1970s because of Mamata Banerjee but because of urban unrest, the culture of gheraos and lockouts, and bad regulations of the labour and capital markets associated largely with Ms Banerjee's Left Front adversaries.
The basic fiction the Union and State Governments have made themselves believe is that their idea of an industrialisation plan is necessary for economic development. It is not. Real economic problems in West Bengal and elsewhere are financial to do with State budgets. "Debt overhang is there" is how the RBI Governor apologetically put it last week. Interest payments on the West Bengal State public debt consume larger and larger fractions of the revenue: these payments were at Rs 13 Bn in 1995 but grew to Rs. 92 Bn by 2004, and may jump to Rs 200 Bn in the next decade. The communists have been in power thirty years and no one but they are responsible. Making the State's budget healthy would require tackling the gargantuan bureaucracy, slashing ministerial extravagance (foreign trips, VIP security) etc. It is much easier to hobnob with the rich and powerful while tear-gassing the peasants.
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Q: Fit just taken photo into imagebutton I have an ImageButton, when I press it I can take a picture with my phone. When I take the picture the ImageButtons gets the picture as its source. But the problem is, is that the image doesn't scale down to the dimensions of the ImageButton. It just shows a part of the image in the Imagebutton instead of scaling down. After doing a bit of research I saw you have to use a draw 9 patch. But that is not possible in this case, because the image aren't in my resources, they are made by the user itself.
Can someone help me with this?
My code:
if (requestCode == REQUEST_CAMERA) {
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    for (File temp : f.listFiles()) {
        if (temp.getName().equals("temp.jpg")) {
            f = temp;
            break;
        }
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    try {
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        btnImg.setImageBitmap(bm);
        String path = android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + File.separator + "Phoenix" + File.separator + "default";
        f.delete();
        OutputStream fOut = null;
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        try {
                fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
            bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 85, fOut);
            fOut.flush();
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else if (requestCode == SELECT_FILE) {
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String tempPath = getPath(selectedImageUri, MainActivity.this);
Bitmap bm;
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bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(tempPath, btmapOptions);
btnImg.setImageBitmap(bm);
}

A: Use ImageView's method setScaleType. Pass ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE as parameter.
btnImg.setImageBitmap(bm);
btnImg.setScaleType(ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE);


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Fathers desperate appeal information son's disappearance Theo Hayez Belgian backpacker Byron Bay
The devastated father of a Belgian teenager who has been missing in Australia for 17 days promised his youngest son he would bring the 18-year-old home.
Laurent Hayez travelled to Byron Bay to help search for his son Theo, who went missing in the seaside suburb on May 31.
He was last seen leaving the Cheeky Monkey bar at about 11pm and never returned to the WakeUp! Backpacker hostel, where his passport and belongings were found.
Police have since released previously unseen footage of Theo and a friend at a local convenience store at about 7:45pm on Friday May 31 before heading to the bar.
Police have since released previously unseen footage of Theo (right) and a friend (left) at a local convenience store at about 7:45pm on Friday May 31 before heading to the bar
The footage gives a clearer picture of the last known clothing Theo was wearing; a black jumper, stone coloured pants and a grey cap with black shoes
The footage gives a clearer picture of the last known clothing Theo was wearing, and police hope the new CCTV footage may lead to new information regarding his disappearance.
His father made a tearful plea to the Australian public to not give up on his son, and said if witnesses were 'scared to come forward' they should send in anonymous tips.
'I promised Theo's little brother, Lucas, that I would bring his brother home,' he said.
'Please, help me keep my promise to him.'
The fresh appeal comes after his cousin and travelling companion Lisa Hayez revealed a WhatsApp message was sent from his phone in the early hours of June 1.
Mr Hayez said he 'respected the [app's strict confidentiality] rules' but said in this circumstance, the information on the app may be crucial to the investigation.
The devastated father of a Belgian teenager who has been missing in Australia for 17 days promised his youngest son he would bring the 18-year-old home
The 18-year-old was looking forward to returning home to start his university course studying maths and science following and eight month trip around Australia
'We know Theo used WhatsApp the night he disappeared. We understand the politics about confidentiality and respect that. But this is a question of providing assistance to a person in grave danger.
'It is vital that investigators get access to Theo's WhatsApp account without delay. Every minute counts.'
On Sunday Miss Hayez posted an appeal on Facebook, asking if anyone knows who he last contacted.
She wrote: 'Unfortunately it takes ages to WhatsApp to give any information to the police so if you could share this post so someone who knows someone who works for WhatsApp could help us to get these informations ASAP!'
Theo's phone last pinged at 1:42pm on June 1st, but police are concerned the device may have been placed on sleep mode.
Police have been working alongside their Belgian counterparts to build a character profile on Theo and agree his disappearance is out of character.
'We're baffled as to what's occurred, but let me just say – we're not ruling anything out. We want to conduct all lines of inquiry and we're keeping it open as we speak,' a police spokesman said.
He confessed the investigation was made more difficult due to the delay from when he was last seen to when he was reported missing.
But the police force have promised to 'not leave a single stone unturned' in the search for the missing teen.
Officers from Tweed/Byron Police District confirmed they are expanding their search around Byron Bay.
Extensive land, air and sea searches have been conducted to the east and north-east of town, as well as near Belongil Beach and Cape Byron.
Police hope the new CCTV footage may lead to new information regarding his disappearance
Theo was travelling on an eight-month gap year with his cousin and was due to return home a week after he vanished.
His mother Vinciane Delforge told a French broadcaster in Belgium she is holding out hope her son is safe and well – but said his disappearance is entirely out of character.
'We would love to believe that he met a girl and had a fling… and that's why there's no sign of life,' Ms Delforge said.
'But that just isn't him, that's not his style.'
She said her son was a 'meticulous planner' who had thoroughly researched his gap year to Australia in the months prior to leaving his home town.
'He is a conscientious, organised, responsible and attentive boy,' she said.
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3. Add in the flour and salt (optional) to the yeast mixture. Use a mixing spoon to incorporate the wet and dry ingredients until it comes together into a sticky ball.
4. Cover the dough with a towel and place in a warm part of your kitchen. Let rise for 1½ hours, or until it doubles in size.
5. Remove the risen dough from the bowl and knead on the counter with extra flour until the dough becomes smooth on the surface and no longer sticky. With a rolling pin, flatten the dough until it's about a 7 x 12 inch rectangle. If you don't have a rolling pin, you can cut the dough into 2 ounce portions and roll each into 7 inch long logs with your hands. Place the dough on parchment paper-lined baking sheets with cooking spray.
6. Brush melted butter and sprinkle garlic salt on the dough.
7. Bake the breadsticks for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
8. When the breadsticks come out of the oven, serve immediately or cool and store in the freezer for up to 6 months to eat at a later date.


Are you looking for a cozy and comfortable sleeping place for your newborn? Do you want something that you can move from room to room, while keeping a close watch on your sleeping baby? Then why don't you consider Moses baby baskets for your bundle of joy?
A small, cozy and portable basket is a perfect place to put your newborn. Baskets are smaller than a crib and are a lot easier to move, making them easy to set up in your room. Here is a small compilation of ten of the baby baskets for newborns.
A simple bassinet-style basket with high portability. You can fold the basket and carry it on the shoulder as a backpack. A washable, waterproof cover protects the basket from dust when not in use. The toy bar features two soft toys that can be removed individually or with the toy bar.
A long, wide, and spacious basket that allows a little one to lie down comfortably. The basket is made from sturdy cotton fabric and features large handles to hold or place the basket on the shoulder. The base of the basket is deep enough to keep the little one secure while you carry the basket around. Ideal for babies aged up to three months or weighing 15lbs.
The basket is handmade using 100% natural woven palm leaves. You get a padded bumper with a removable cotton cover and a blanket along with the basket. The cover is 100% cotton and machine washable. You can remove the entire bedding and replace it with another if required. The handles are sturdy enough to hold the basket. The basket is not ideal for carrying the baby around.
Keep your little one cozy in the gingham patterned Badger Basket Moses Basket with Hood. The foam mattress gives a comfortable cushioning to the basket. Even the bumpers have polyester filled pads for your baby's comfort. Your little one will sleep tight inside the basket while you carry him to work or to a relative's place. The baby basket comes in a rainbow of colors.
Are you going ultra-modern with your nursery? Then Badger Basket Natural Moses Basket will be a perfect choice for you. The Badger Basket Natural Moses Basket will keep your child safe and secure until he is about 8 pounds.
The knitted basket comes with a fleece sheet, blanket, and a mattress. The basket has an inner cloth lining, which can be removed for machine washing. The blanket and sheet can also be washed in a machine. The liner secures around the handles, so it does not come out when you carry the basket.
The basket is made from natural fibers derived from the maize plant. The base is deep enough to keep the baby secure even when you are moving him around. A detachable hood helps shield the baby from sunlight and can be removed when using the basket indoors. This Moses basket for baby ships with a mattress, sheet, and a removable liner.
Is space an issue in your house? Then here is a solution for you. The bassinet has a detachable Moses basket so that your child can rest comfortably anywhere. The removable changing table fastens tightly on top of the basinet and easily slides underneath when not in use. Plus, it comes with a large storage organizer and a diaper- stacker.
The basket is made from cotton rope material, which makes it sturdy. The large handles are made with the same durable material, which makes carrying the baby in the basket quite reassuring. The stitched inner lining is soft and you can add any bedding of your choice on top of it.
A knitted basket with a high wall on one side to shade the baby from sunlight. This Moses basket is lined with gingham cotton fabric. You get an attached bumper lining, mattress, pillow, and a blanket. You can remove the lining and mattress from the basket for machine wash, which makes maintenance very easy.
As convenient and cute as it might look, baby basket will not be of much use since babies outgrow them by 6 to 8 months of age. So keep your budget in mind while deciding on the baby basket.
Which one did you like the most among these newborn baby baskets? Tell us in the comment section.


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Gandalf Murphy and The Grand Slambovian's Circus of Dreams Featuring Tink Lloyd, Accordionist
January 9, 2015 September 2, 2016 by Accordion Americana, posted in Next Wave
Tink Lloyd
By Christa T. for Accordion Americana According to Slambovian philosophy, within every woman lives a Tinker Bell or a Wendy. If acceptable as words to live by, or as a stunning oversimplification, such a statement shouldn't be analyzed too deeply. Rock music is notoriously shallow, but can be such fun. Not often has a band captured the imagination of so rabid a following as does Gandalf Murphy and the Grand Slambovian Circus of Dreams. Whether a band of pirates and thieves, beggars or misfits, Slambovian fans recognize something of themselves in them, some travelling hundreds of miles to attend concerts.
Based in New York State's Hudson Valley, and conceived in 1998 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., members of the band consist of Joziah Longo, lead vocal and guitar, Sharkey McEwen, lead guitar and vocal, Eric Puente, drums and Tink Lloyd, Accordionist and Multi-instrumentalist. In addition to the accordion, one of Tink's notable instruments includes one rarely heard or seen, the Theramin.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s Joziah, Tink and Sharkey were members of the progressive Rock band, The Ancestors, which released 3 albums. The three of them took a break from the road, focused on other things and then took a new look at music, reforming with a radically different and brilliant concept, one of a wandering band of Gypsies. The latest recording for Gandalf Murphy and the Grand Slambovians Circus of Dreams is "A Box of Everything", released in April of 2014.
The band regularly plays major Folk music venues, coffeehouses and music festivals often to sold out crowds. In August 2008 they made their first appearance outside of North America at the Rhythm Festival in the United Kingdom. Their reception in England was so enthusiastic that they were invited back for the 2009 festival, as well as several other UK festivals.
The flavor of the band is best captured by a live concert, or by one of their live recordings. The band is noted for the dedication and support shown by their fans. A high point of each year for many fans are the Grand Slambovian Hillbilly Pirate Balls, annual costumed events held in London and New York preceeding Hollowe'en. In the Spring of 2015, the band will be on tour with stops in New England, Eastern Canada, and the Midwest.
Their music is fresh, original and current, yet harkens back to the golden era of the late 1960's. It's obvious that to the loyal fans of The Grand Slambovians, the accordion is a much loved element of the band. Tink Lloyd and her accordion bring a unique quality and presence to the band's music. Tink is a gifted and skillful musician and, unlike the Tinker Bell character, not a Peter Pan groupie.
http://www.Slambovia.com
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Children at Emersons Green Primary School entered Fairtrade Fortnight with gusto last Tuesday. Tracy Cannard, PR Ambassador for Emersons Green Sainsbury's, and Becci Baldry, Counters Manager, taught a class of 6 and 7 year olds how to create a delicious dessert from Fairtrade produce of bananas and chocolate. First of all Becci gave the children an idea of what Fairtrade meant, explaining that many items at Sainsbury's come from such places as the Caribbean or West Africa where farmers not only receive a fair price for their bananas, chocolate, oranges, tea and much more, but are also ensured enough money to look after their land and their families. Becci also explained that Greene & Black chocolate was the first Fairtrade item Sainsbury's sold 16 years ago.
After slicing a banana, each child arranged their pieces on a pancake. Then a large scoop of ice cream was added and finally to complete the pudding, a goodly dollop of chocolate sauce. The day of the lesson happened to be an unusually warm spring afternoon and the budding chefs made short work of consuming their healthy banana pancakes before trudging back to their classrooms. Every school who participates will be entered into a free prize draw, in which one school will win a selection of Sainsbury's 'Active Kids Cooking' equipment.


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/*
 * Do not modify this file. This file is generated from the ec2-2015-10-01.normal.json service model.
 */
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;

using Amazon.Runtime;
using Amazon.Runtime.Internal;

namespace Amazon.EC2.Model
{
    ///
    /// Container for the parameters to the DeleteSnapshot operation.
    /// Deletes the specified snapshot.
    ///
    ///
    /// <para>
    /// When you make periodic snapshots of a volume, the snapshots are incremental, and only
    /// the blocks on the device that have changed since your last snapshot are saved in the
    /// new snapshot. When you delete a snapshot, only the data not needed for any other snapshot
    /// is removed. So regardless of which prior snapshots have been deleted, all active snapshots
    /// will have access to all the information needed to restore the volume.
    /// </para>
    ///
    /// <para>
    /// You cannot delete a snapshot of the root device of an EBS volume used by a registered
    /// AMI. You must first de-register the AMI before you can delete the snapshot.
    /// </para>
    ///
    /// <para>
    /// For more information, see Deleting
    /// an Amazon EBS Snapshot in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
    /// </para>
    ///
    public partial class DeleteSnapshotRequest : AmazonEC2Request
    {
        private string _snapshotId;

        ///
        /// Empty constructor used to set  properties independently even when a simple constructor is available
        ///
        public DeleteSnapshotRequest() { }

        ///
        /// Instantiates DeleteSnapshotRequest with the parameterized properties
        ///
        /// <param name="snapshotId">The ID of the EBS snapshot.</param>
        public DeleteSnapshotRequest(string snapshotId)
        {
            _snapshotId = snapshotId;
        }

        ///
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        /// <para>
        /// The ID of the EBS snapshot.
        /// </para>
        ///
        public string SnapshotId
        {
            get { return this._snapshotId; }
            set { this._snapshotId = value; }
        }

        // Check to see if SnapshotId property is set
        internal bool IsSetSnapshotId()
        {
            return this._snapshotId != null;
        }

    }
}

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longest_sequence = []

for x in xrange(1,1000001):
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		if last_num % 2 == 0:
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		print sequence
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print "Answer: %6d" % len(longest_sequence)


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Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park – 2 countries, 1 unforgettable desert safari
IIf you think the desert is bland, you've obviously never been to the Kalahari. It's a magical place where dry landscapes and red dunes provide the backdrop to a singularly unique experience, one that can only be found in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a fusion of the former Kalahari Gemsbok National Park of South Africa, which was set up to protect migratory game such as Gemsbok, and the neighbouring Gemsbok National Park in Botswana.
IIn the height of summer, the temperatures can reach up to 40°C.
TThese two wild wonderlands were separated by nothing but an unmarked international border. They form an ecological unit of some 37 000km² – a semi-desert wilderness of blonde grass, red dunes and enormous open spaces.
All that was needed was to formalise the arrangement and co-ordinate ecology management. So in 2000, this became the first of South Africa's transfrontier ventures.
AAuthorities on both sides learnt much from the union, but tourists were the real winners, being able to move between the two parks, and thus two countries, without a passport (unless exiting on the other side, of course).
Managing the ecology of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park as a single unit has been a great step forward for desert conservation. Plus, the opening of the border crossing at Mata Mata has opened more than just access between South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
TThis gateway has started talks about creating a corridor linking this giant park to nearby Augrabies National Park, due south, and from there the Ai-Ais Richtersveld Transfrontier Conservation Area in the west. Just north of that is Namibia's 26 000km² Sperrgebiet National Park.
That, in turn, abuts the Namib Naukluft National Park, one of the largest conservation areas in the world. If all goes to plan, they will all be linked in the near future.
SSustaining the spirit started by Kgalagadi may soon give rise to a mega-transfrontier park, protecting a desert storehouse of some of the most exquisitely adapted plants and animals on Earth. Proving that the African ethos of "Ubuntu" – sharing with your neighbours – really is the way forward.
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(17 Apr 2019) The Couperin consortium, which represents 240 higher education and research institutes in France, has renewed its bundled journal subscription deal with Elsevier, the publisher. The consortium's decision is noteworthy because other large European consortia recently have gone in the other direction. More details can be found from the original news here.
(5 Apr 2019) Literary magazines around the world have long helped readers to discover exciting new writers and serve as channels to read new works by established authors. Now Thailand is getting on board with its own - The Bangkok Literary Review (BKKLIT). Read the full story here.


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Meeting between Office Bearers of the Malaysian Bar with YB Michelle Ng and YB Lim Yi Wei (8 July 2020) 15 Jul 2020 9:00 am
Contributed by Liew Kok Heng, Writer/Editor, Bar Council Secretariat
From left to right: YB Lim Yi Wei, YB Michelle Ng, Secretary of the Malaysian Bar A G Kalidas, President of the Malaysian Bar Salim Bashir
The Office Bearers of the Malaysian Bar had the pleasure to receive YB Michelle Ng and YB Lim Yi Wei, the current Selangor State Assembly members of Subang Jaya and Kampung Tunku respectively, at Wisma Badan Peguam Malaysia on 8 July 2020. Both parties engaged in a robust discussion regarding legal aid and access to justice.
YB Michelle Ng reported that many members of the public who sought her assistance do not qualify for legal aid. As income levels differ between urban and rural areas, she was of the opinion that the means test for legal aid should be revised to reflect realistic income standards, with the Bantuan Sara Hidup ("BSH") matrices as a benchmark for aid. To further her point, she mentioned that child activist Syed Azmi Alhabshi's method of means test was to check whether the refrigerator of those seeking his assistance was fully stocked, as a more concrete way to ascertain their eligibility for legal aid.
The Office Bearers said that they would bring the matter of the means test to the attention of the National Legal Aid Committee for their consideration. On incentivising lawyers to take up more legal aid cases, the Office Bearers were of the opinion that imposing a mandatory rule that Members of the Bar are to take up legal aid work would be unfair to them as they are already funding and supporting the Malaysian Bar's Legal Aid Scheme.
As a step towards incentivising lawyers, A G Kalidas, Secretary of the Malaysian Bar, suggested that the Selangor State Assembly members take the lead in developing a state-level fund along the lines of the Yayasan Bantuan Guaman Kebangsaan ("YBGK"). He added that legal representation is a constitutional right for all citizens. The Selangor state government, as the most developed state in the country, can spearhead this initiative to ensure proper legal representation for its citizens. To that end, the Office Bearers stated that the Malaysian Bar is willing to work with the Selangor state government to roll out such a state-level legal aid scheme.
YB Lim Yi Wei highlighted the problem that members of the public faced without proper legal representation. Victims of domestic violence during the Movement Control Order ("MCO") received inadequate support when making complaints at police stations. YB Lim Yi Wei mentioned an incident where the victim and the alleged perpetrator were asked to give statements at the same time at the police station. Additionally, the police did not advise the victim about mechanisms such as the Interim Protection Order ("IPO"). For YB Michelle Ng, the presence of lawyers would alleviate and safeguard a victim's rights while at the police station.
The Office Bearers assured both Assembly members that they will bring this matter up with the Inspector General of Police. They also encouraged the Assembly members to have a meeting with the Chief Police Officer of Selangor on this matter.
From this meeting, the Office Bearers expressed their hope that the Assembly members would convey their views to the Selangor State Assembly, and for a positive collaboration ahead. In the event that the legal aid fund by the Selangor state government is to be actualised, the Office Bearers will assist in providing the necessary framework and structure for it to be successful.


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Jessica Alba: 5 Things to Know
The "Spy Kids 4" actress welcomed her second child with husband Cash Warren on Saturday.
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"The 4D, it's awesome," said star Jessica Alba (in Dolce & Gabbana), who is expecting her second child.
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Just in time for her latest movie release, Jessica Alba became a mom again on Saturday, Aug. 13. She and husband Cash Warren welcomed daughter Haven Garner on Saturday, who joins 3-year-old sister Honor as the couple's second child.
STORY: Jessica Alba Gives Birth to Second Daughter
The actress will be seen in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D when it opens on Friday. Here are five things you may not have known about the 30-year-old.
1. As a child, Alba suffered extensive health troubles. She spent a significant amount of time in the hospital, between frequent bouts of pneumonia, a ruptured appendix, a tonsillar cyst and collapsed lungs not once, but twice. Alba also suffered from asthma.
2. The actress got her start at 13-years-old in Camp Nowhere and the Nickelodeon series, The Secret World of Alex Mack. She graduated high school at 16-years-old and attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
3. Alba, who learned to swim from her lifeguard mother, was a PADI-certified scuba diver and used her skills on the Australian set of the television series Flipper.
4. Alba has actively supported many charitable organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, SOS Children's Villages and Clothes Off Our Back. Notably, she offered to work on a Bob Weinstein movie for free if the producer bid $100,000 in support of the AIDS charity Amfar. Alba has also worked with Declare Yourself and was an avid supporter of President Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign.
5. The international sex symbol, who has ranked among the hottest female celebrities for several years, is of Mexican, French and Danish descent. Alba maintains a strict no-nudity policy, refusing to go topless for any film or magazine.
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Spy Kids 4 also stars Joel McHale, Jeremy Piven and the vocal styling of Ricky Gervais. It opens nationwide on Friday, Aug. 19.
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Q: bind HttpPostedFileBase between views Is it possible to pass a HttpPostedFileBase file between views to populate a textbox type="file"?
I basically have an upload texbox that uploads a file to the server on ane page.
On the next page we can revise all the data submitted in the form, including the image. This page has a back button that need to pass all the data back to the original page, included the image.
Is that possible?

A: It is impossible to provide the value of a file input box, either through javascript or at page creation on the server for security reasons.  So, no, you won't be able to do this.
Instead, after the file has been uploaded, just write the information you want displayed on the next page in a regular div tag.

A: No.
Instead, you can store it somewhere on the server (eg, a temp directory, session state, or a database), and pass an identifier to the next step.


Basic thing is that it is the status and update on the all social media platforms and one of the most significant revolutions of the times and attracting the people of the world. It is also even created the sort of some good corporate collaboration of the social important causes. Now the social media proving to become an essential tool for the whole marketing and then to be as perfect youth market in all around the world is fact.
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Now the social media become prominent parts of the life for lots of people of the world and also for lots of the people in the world. Today most of the people engage along with the social media without stopping to think and what the effects are on the lives. Whether positive or negative and also some social becoming more and more is specific.
In the world, most of the employees have social media accounts and then, unfortunately, lots of people have developed the habit of checking their accounts and multiple times during the day and even on the time they are at work. Actually, the time spent on some personal accounts is the time that is not spent on work tasks.
Actually social media allow people to communicate with the friends and also to increase online communication power and those connections with the above fifty percent of online teens say social media have helped their friendships. Some great professionals in marketing, connecting and finding business opportunities are superior.
People especially the youth are most of the time too open and public with the personal information and details and also most actually not read the privacy policies and may be unaware that their information and used by the other particles. It is the main thing as high-quality genuine cause and content would also rule and then the headlines social media sites allow users to get involved with. It is the worst impact for us and for our families to getting going as successful interactions.
As cyberbullying and comply bully someone usually by sending intimidating or the threatening texts is commonplace and online causes emotional trauma. The extensive online engagement is absolutely correlated with the personality and brain disorders as complete social skills. It is best and less time for face to face interactions. The entire way the main thing is social ideas to get them as collaborated and concern with the right choice treatment.
One of the best things is that we can get free advertising campaign and it is perfectly shown that the sites and like the Facebook influence through the brand endorsement to spend money. Actually, advertisers get all kinds of personal information about through the social media and information they use to persuade the buying brand optimistic things.


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Signed and dated "Wm. T Richards 1878." l.l., titled on a presentation plaque.
Watercolor and gouache on gray paper, sight size 23 x 37 in. (58.4 x 93.9 cm), in a period frame.
Condition: Minor scattered retouch, not examined out of frame.


I'm still learning how to drive this beast, and making plenty of mistakes.
In the video you'll hear me bog and choke the engine, and grind some gears, and generally be confused about what gear I'm really in.
This manual transmission is known as a 5-over. With a two-speed electronically switched diff, for 10 forward and two reverse speeds. It has Air Brakes, and Manual Steering.
Shift pattern is as follows.
There is a diff gear selector on the stick. Out is High, In is Low. I think I got that wrong in the video.
1 is a granny, so generally starting in 2-lo.
When unloaded the shift sequence to get to highway speed is 2-lo, 3-lo, 4-lo, 4-hi, 5-hi. In 5-hi at 2100 rpm it's topping out just under 65mph.
Fourth and Fifth are interleaved so when splitting gears the pattern once you reach 4-lo is: 4-lo, 5-lo, 4-hi, 5-hi.
In this video most of the problems I experienced are from not running the engine at high enough revs before shifting. These two strokes like to be at about 1800+, which makes them sound like they are doing 4000rpm, and it would like to be there at all times.
Another thing I've learned since is while launching from stopped to hover on the clutch a little bit longer before letting it fully engage while building revs and accelerate briskly to avoid the bucking.


The next week on the 29 and 30 of October 2010, The Latin Flash Tour returns to México City for the second time, the event is the second edition of an initiative of Adobe's Flash Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow to visit Latin American countries to show the latest innovations, applications and functionalities of the Flash Platform, this year the tour starts in México and ends in Rio de Janeiro passing by Bogotá, Lima, Santiago y Buenos Aires.
The event will be held at the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City and will count with the talks of Grant Garrett (Influxis), Jerry Chabolla (Influxis), Enrique Duvos (Adobe) y Lee Brimelow (Adobe). Besides that the two days will be filled with talks and workshops that You simply can't miss.
I will be giving a talk on Powerflasher FDT 4 new features and how those can help You in speeding Your workflow called FDT to the extreme.
The site of the event is http://www.latinflashtour.com and the site of the México city event is: http://www.latinflashtour.com.mx where You can find the agenda and registration.
Last year event was really great and this year will be awesome, there are a lot of talks and workshops on diverse themes from Illustration with Flash and The Flash Platform for Designers Plataform to AS3 in the iPhone for Flash Designers, Multitouch Experience and a ton of themes more, if You are into Flash you really need to go, is a great place to learn and share with México's Flash Platform community… so what are You waiting for go there register and be part of it.
Adobe teams up with Facebook and releases new Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform ).
So if You where thinking on how to start developing Flash Applications for Facebook you will find this site very useful.
* Share: Create rich interactions for users to share with friends.
* Have fun: Make games social; let users compete against their friends.
* Connect: Let users connect to your RIAs with Facebook Connect.
* Solve problems: Build RIAs that harness the power of community.
* Reach people: Reach millions of Facebook users through social distribution.
The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
Adobe announced yesterday at Adobe MAX the advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web apps, content and video that runs across various OS and devices.
Some of the highlights of this announce are the preview of Flash Catalyst( formely code named Thermo in Adobe Labs), a professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding. Flash Catalyst enables artwork created in Adobe Creative Suite 4 to be imported with full fidelity and quickly converted into dynamic components such as buttons, scrollbars, input fields and more. Finished projects can be published directly to Flash Player or AIR. When combined with the next version of Flex Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst enables design and development to be done in parallel. This workflow supports iterative development and delivers higher quality results with faster time to market. A preview release of Adobe Flash Catalyst will be available for MAX 2008 attendees. A public beta version is expected to be available on Adobe Labs in early 2009. For more information, please visit www.adobe.com/go/flashcatalyst.
The Flex Builder "Gumbo" preview release, also available yesterday for MAX 2008 attendees, expands the use of Flex to a wider audience of developers, offering new data-centric development capabilities to create rich Internet applications. Gumbo also enhances project productivity through the improved design and development workflow with Adobe Flash Catalyst and improvements to core development capabilities such as the debugger, profiler and code editor. For more information, please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/. A new preview release of the open source Flex framework is also available on www.opensource.adobe.com.
Adobe AIR 1.5 is available immediately as a free download for Windows and Mac, and AIR 1.5 for Linux is expected to be available before the end of the year. For more information on Adobe AIR, please visit www.adobe.com/products/air/.
Furthering Adobe's commitment to the Linux community and as part of ensuring the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, a pre-release 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available on Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/linux64player.This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux systems and removes the need for 32-bit emulation.


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Q: Data Array Decimation I have an array which is changing rapidly and has variable length -this could be 100 minimum and about 5k maximum-. And i'm going to use these values to encolouring a data column that i produce by drawing lines one by one. This will be something like scan graph.
And another thing is, i have a fixed column length but variable data array length, so every member of the array should be fit into the graph. If the length of the data is less than column length, i should expand the array which is easier one and i did that. But if the length of the data is bigger, i have to do something like decimation.
The problem is, i should keep the characteristic of the array during the decimation. When i tried to calculate the arithmetic mean the group of every N member, the graph is getting smoother which i don't want to.
What should i do to fit this array into the graph, without change it's characteristic?
This is how the graph looks like : http://imgur.com/KFAzaAQ

A: I guess you mean that your relevant information is the location of spikes and their height. So you want to rescale the graph while preserving the spikes and their height.
One way to achieve that is to remove data points with minimal value difference with its neighbours. You could compute a score for each data point that is proportional to the difference of its value with its neighbour and decimate the data points with smallest score. A candidate score function is the sum of the square of difference.
You then create a score vector as big as your data vector and for each data value you compute its score like this
score[i] = square(data[i]-data[i-1]) + square(data[i+1]-data[i]);

Another candidate is
score[i] = abs(data[i]-data[i-1]) + abs(data[i+1]-data[i]);

You also want that this decimation is applied as uniformly as possible over your data so that the graph doesn't become distorted. One way to achieve this is to split your data into buckets and decimate in each buckets the required number of data points.
If you have to remove many data points (N > 2), it might be preferable to do it in multiple pass where each pass recomputes the score. In this case you don't distort to much the content of each buckets.


Largest and lowest-pitched member of the violin family. Also known as the contrabass, the double bass is usually about 1.8 m (about 6 ft) high and has four strings tuned to sound EE AA D G (EE = third E below middle C; G = second G below middle C) and notated an octave higher. A low fifth string is sometimes added, tuned to the C below the E string. On some instruments the E string is extended at the head and fitted with a mechanism that clamps off the extra length; releasing the mechanism allows the string to sound the low notes down to C. Three-stringed basses were common in the 18th and 19th centuries (often tuned A D G) and survive in Eastern European folk music. Early basses of the 16th and 17th centuries had four or five (or, rarely, six) strings. Modern dance-band basses occasionally add a high fifth string tuned to the C above the G string.
Until the 19th century, bass players used bows with the stick out-curved in relation to the bow hair�long after the in-curved bow was standard for the violin, viola, and violoncello. The out-curved bass bow continues in use alongside two in-curved models developed in the 19th century. Virtuosos on the double bass have included Domenico Dragonetti, conductor Serge Koussevitzky, and the jazz bassist Charlie Mingus.