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Q: Duplicate Oracle Database from Windows to Linux I have a regular Oracle 12c database already created, named ECLS. I've been given a pile of .BKP files, not from this database, and have been told to replace everything in ECLS with the contents of these files.
Here's how I've attempted to do that so far:
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> shutdown immediate;
SQL> startup pfile='/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_1/dbs/initECLS.ora' nomount;
SQL> exit
$ rman auxiliary /
RMAN> duplicate database to ECLS backup location '/u01/dumpfilesgohere' NOFILENAMECHECK;

Inside the pfile, I have this line set:
*.enable_pluggable_database=true

It runs for 2.5 hours, then it fails with this error message:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 02/02/2017 14:05:04
RMAN-05501: aborting duplication of target database
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-11003: failure during parse/execution of SQL statement: alter database recover logfile '/u01/app/oracle/fast_recovery_area/ECLS/archivelog/2017_02_02/o1_mf_1_73358_d970psod_.arc'
ORA-10562: Error occurred while applying redo to data block (file# 66, block# 799698)
ORA-10564: tablespace NCDS_TS
ORA-01110: data file 66: '/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_1/dbs/D:ORADATAFUUVZPD152204CC3CA44789537C2BE3F39041EDATAFILEO1_MF_NCDS_TS_CQ476L1O_.DBF'
ORA-10561: block type 'TRANSACTION MANAGED DATA BLOCK', data object# 106975
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktbrcl:NOOP incompat_opt], [212], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []

In the logs at /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/ecls/ECLS/alert/log.xml I see these messages:
<msg time='2017-02-02T14:05:03.614-05:00' org_id='oracle' comp_id='rdbms' type='UNKNOWN' level='16' host_addr='127.0.0.1' pid='5138'>
 <txt>Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/ecls/ECLS/trace/ECLS_pr07_5138.trc:
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log 'D:\ORADATA\FUUVZP\ONLINELOG\O1_MF_1_CQ39NGLV_.LOG'
ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status
Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory
Additional information: 3
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktbrcl:NOOP incompat_opt], [67], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
 </txt>
</msg>
<msg time='2017-02-02T14:05:03.614-05:00' org_id='oracle' comp_id='rdbms' type='UNKNOWN' level='16' host_addr='127.0.0.1' pid='5138'>
 <txt>Slave exiting with ORA-10562 exception
 </txt>
</msg>
<msg time='2017-02-02T14:05:03.614-05:00' org_id='oracle' comp_id='rdbms' type='UNKNOWN' level='16' host_addr='127.0.0.1' pid='5138'>
 <txt>Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/ecls/ECLS/trace/ECLS_pr07_5138.trc:
ORA-10562: Error occurred while applying redo to data block (file# 66, block# 1200147)
ORA-10564: tablespace NCDS_TS
ORA-01110: data file 66: '/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db_1/dbs/D:ORADATAFUUVZPD152204CC3CA44789537C2BE3F39041EDATAFILEO1_MF_NCDS_TS_CQ476L1O_.DBF'
ORA-10561: block type 'TRANSACTION MANAGED DATA BLOCK', data object# 106975
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktbrcl:NOOP incompat_opt], [67], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
 </txt>
</msg>

The fact that I'm seeing Linux errors about files not being found and Windows file paths suggests to me that this is somehow related to the fact that the .BKP files were generated on a Windows machine while the place they're being used is a Linux machine.
How can I account for this? Is there some setting in the pfile that I need to change during startup? Or is there another argument that needs to be passed to RMAN in the duplicate command?

A: An Oracle employee told me that redo logs are not platform independent. They told me I'd either have to shut down the Windows database and take a cold backup of it without any redo logs, or I'd have to restore the files I already have to another Oracle database running on Windows.
We ended up setting up a new Windows machine to restore the database to.

A: Set up your restore to move the files to their new homes, since Linux and Windows can't have the same file paths.
Use something like this (from Oracle docs):
RMAN> RUN
{
  #  If you need to restore the files to new locations,
  #  use SET NEWNAME commands:
  SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 1 TO '/dev/vgd_1_0/rlvt5_500M_1';
  SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 2 TO '/dev/vgd_1_0/rlvt5_500M_2';
  SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 3 TO '/dev/vgd_1_0/rlvt5_500M_3';
  ALLOCATE CHANNEL t1 DEVICE TYPE sbt;
  RESTORE CONTROLFILE FROM AUTOBACKUP;
  ALTER DATABASE MOUNT;
  SET UNTIL SEQUENCE 124 THREAD 1;
  RESTORE DATABASE;
  SWITCH DATAFILE ALL; # Update control file with new location of datafiles.
  RECOVER DATABASE;
}

Note that you will need to know which Oracle datafile number corresponds to which actual file in the backup.
You can use this command to get a list of backup file numbers and their original file names:
RMAN> list backup of datafile 1;

This will give output like that found at the bottom of this document.
  List of Datafiles in backup set 2
  File LV Type Ckp SCN    Ckp Time  Name
  ---- -- ---- ---------- --------- ----
  1       Full 175337     21-OCT-03 /oracle/dbs/tbs_01.f

A: Generally  we follow the following steps during the database duplication using RMAN-

*

*We go to platform A, in your case Linux.

*Restore a backup of database from another platform B, in your case it's Windows.

*Restore data files/archived logs created on B.

*Recover the restored backup on platform A.

The Cross-platform redo application is only supported for physical standby but not for general media recovery which is involved while duplicating database using RMAN.
So, if you had cold RMAN backup, we don't need to recover the database during duplication, then you could proceed ahead.
Reference:

*Restore From Windows To Linux using RMAN Fails (Doc ID 2003327.1)(MOS ID required)

A: I am not familiar with this error bot the problem is rman wants to apply the archive log
D:\ORADATA\FUUVZP\ONLINELOG\O1_MF_1_CQ39NGLV_.LOG

but did not find this archivelog.
This follows from the error message
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log  D:\ORADATA\FUUVZP\ONLINELOG\O1_MF_1_CQ39NGLV_.LOG

and from the Linux error that follows.
So it seems that the duplication needs an archive log  that is not contained in the backup file.
You have to clarify why this happens.
You should ask the following question to the provider of the backup:

*

*Was the source database mounted or open when the backup was taken?

*Was the source database running in archive mode when taking the backup?

*Is this backup a consistent backup or an inconsistent backup

*Is it an inconsistent backup (made from an open or crashed database) and does it contain the necessary archive logs?

I assume that this is a backup that was taken from a running database and contains only copies of the database files and no archive log backup was taken.
You can run your DUPLICATE command with the NOREDO option but if he backup is inconsistent you will not be able to open the database.
Solution:Run the duplicate command with the NOREDO option. If this doe not work
either get  backup with the necessary archive logs or get a consistent backup and duplicate with NOREDO option.
Database Backup and Recovery Reference 12.2:

**Backup-Based Duplication''
  [...]
  For backup-based duplication of databases in ARCHIVELOG mode, RMAN recovers by default up to the last archived redo log generated at the time the command was executed, or until a time specified with a SET UNTIL clause.
For backup-based duplication of databases without a connection to the target database, RMAN cannot determine whether the source database was in NOARCHIVELOG mode. Therefore, you must use the NOREDO option when the source database was in NOARCHIVELOG mode when the backups were taken. You can also use the NOREDO option when you do not want to apply archived redo log files to a consistent backup.

Edit:
It seems that Windows archive logs aren't compatible with Linux (the OP's answer). So use the way that avoids  archive logs as described above:

*

*Make a backup of the database in mounted state (not open)

*use the NOREDO clause for duplication

A: The endian is different between Windows and Linux. You can use transportable table spaces to move your database. At some point you need to change the endian of your transportable table space export. Here is the documentation.
Transporting Data Across Platforms

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Royal Oak, MI – This summer Jaime Rodriguez poured countless hours and thousands of dollars into a project that now means long bicycle rides 2-3 days a week pulling around a castle full of books.
Prior to constructing a little free library on wheels, Royal Oak resident and his girlfriend Crystal built nine standard little free libraries and donated the to Brilliant Detroit.
This year the couple started with the "Happy Bunny Bicycle Bookery!" This is an adult sized tricycle with a bright multi-colored umbrella and boxes on the back to transport books. The storage boxes are orange with painting of bunnies done by local artist Carl Oxley, and the point of the bookery is travel through the Royal Oak area, accepting kids books, putting books into free libraries that need stocked, and paying forward half of the books that come in to Brilliant Detroit.
The Happy Bunny bookery was popular, but difficult to steer and take long distances. So Rodriguez decided to up his book-sharing game by building a portable castle that definitely gets him noticed as he rides about ten miles in and around Royal Oak 2-3 days each week delivering and receiving books.
The castle itself is about the size of a portable potty, perched high on the back of a pedicab frame. The wooden structure has cabinet areas and drawers, plus a fold down peak so it can be more easily stored and be brought to indoor venues like community centers or hospitals. It's designed to look like the Neuschwanstein Castle, although Rodriguez hasn't found the right person to paint it yet.
"I'm hoping that an art teacher might want to take this on as a class project," he said. "That would be a great experience for some kids."
Building the book castle was some experience for Rodriguez also, who learned as he went along.
"I had to make a drawer. I'm a nurse. I don't know how to make a drawer. So I had to You Tube it and it took a whole day just learning how to build a drawer."
The drawers also, it should be noted, are adorned with cutouts in the shape of wings. There is also a fold-down drawbridge at the back where youngsters can step up and get a better view of the books.
As far as kids on the street or the parks, Rodriguez only pulls up if there are parents around. He also takes care to screen the books. "Some are just really outdated, and others are just junk for kids to look at but aren't really teaching them anything," he said. He pays attention to removing those with gender and racial stereotypes, and he works with Scholastic Books to purchase books in larger quantities through the educational reading brand he trusts.
Each week he gives out about 200 books a week during his ten mile bike trips. Donations seem to come in at a regular pace. Rodriguez works at a local hospital as a nurse, and word there has gotten around. He is often leaving at the end of his shift with donated books to be added. "I've got like 14 boxes in my basement," he said.
But the books go quickly, and the need is great. "When children are learning to read, they need 200 books in those years when they are learning in order to be proficient," he said.
While the sight of a man peddling along with a 450 lb castle full of books to give often strikes people as impressive, Rodriguez said it is nothing compared to what others are doing.
"Brilliant Detroit is really doing all the hard work," he said. "They're turning houses into community centers, they're having classes where parents are learning to read along with their kids, making sure kids have something to eat. That's the real work. Our job is just to give them books."
Those who want to know more can reach out Happy Bunny Bicycle Bookery on Facebook. The couple is hoping to find an art teacher who may be interested in painting the castle as a class project. Also if anyone would like to donate to help this effort continue, there is a GoFundMe page.
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Q: DateTime as Object in dictionary I have read here that a dictionary (of string, object) can hold multiple variable types. However, in the function below, endTime does not appear to get assigned. The line Console.Write(lobjWaveOutList(0)("endTime")) in the code below gives me the error 'the given key was not present in the dictionary'.
Private lobjWaveOutList As New List(Of Dictionary(Of String, Object))()
Public Sub addIndex(waveOut As Object, endTime As DateTime)
    Console.WriteLine("endTime:")
    Console.WriteLine(endTime)
    lobjWaveOutList.Add(New Dictionary(Of String, Object)() From {{"waveOut", waveOut}})
    lobjWaveOutList.Add(New Dictionary(Of String, Object)() From {{"endTime", endTime}})
    Console.Write(lobjWaveOutList(0)("endTime"))
End Sub

I called the addIndex function with the following parameters:
waveouts.addIndex(New WaveOut(), DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(10))

A: lobjWaveOutList(0)("endTime") will not work because it is accessing the first dictionary in the list, which only contains a "waveOut" item.  The "endTime" item is in the second dictionary in the list.  To get that one, you'd need to do this:
 Console.Write(lobjWaveOutList(1)("endTime"))

As Neolisk pointed out, it would seem more appropriate, based on your example, to simply have a single dictionary, containing multiple items, rather than a list of dictionaries, each only containing a single item.

A: As you have a list of Dictonary "endtime" is here: lobjWaveOutList(1)("endTime")


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TV Licence Fee Decision
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Ne1L C911 posts since 11 Sep 2011 12 June 2019 12:17pm
Jon posted:
BM11 posted:
Yes, because ITV are going to be happy taking all the BBC PSB requirements whilst the commercial lucrative stuff goes to a new rival.
I mean the very basic stuff like sports rights and some political coverage.
Well sports rights aren't really considered PSB.
But it's just your fantasy anyway. I know see no real political desire to get rid of the BBC and even though this has turned into a bit of PR disaster for the BBC it's still not that high up on the agenda even from the Daily Mail. The BBC will either backtrack or the story will just die down and it will be forgotten about in 6 months time.
Getting rid of the BBC would be lead to a national outrage that would make the poll tax riots of 1990 seem like handbags at 20 paces!
The BBC have found themselves in an impossible situation. They are a business and have to make money but at the same time have to cope with the current economic climate. Whichever choice they made they were damned.
CBBC and Cbeebies are probably responsible for keeping a whole generation of parents this side of going potty
BBC 4 is a superb channel
BBC News probably keeps a lot of night workers and insomniacs company
I don't watch BBC 3.
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Revolution342 posts since 27 Oct 2005 12 June 2019 12:56pm
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Jay Lee posted:
I see Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid "fighting back tears", together with the backing of the BBC-bashing press who report on every twist and turn on Good Morning Britain, are milking this story for every thing it's worth at the moment, whipping hostility against the BBC.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Good Morning Britain leapfrog in front of BBC Breakfast now in the ratings and viewer share, and the BBC's viewing figures collapse generally.
No, because this will die down. People will come back to the BBC because of the alternative.
The blame should lie with the government but it's a masterstroke on their part and the usual suspects have fallen for it -- hook, line and sinker. They were praised when they offered free licence fees so why haven't they been criticised for taking them away?
Of course the BBC shouldn't be exempt of criticism. They have wasted lots of money on ill-fated schemes and poorly planned logistics, and the stars are overpaid. I'd personally like to see the Australian PSB system replicated as there would be a lot of transparency. But I digress.
And I'm not sure why Piers Morgan or indeed anyone at ITV should be celebrating and pushing for the abolition of the licence fee. It would make them more accountable to producing quality programming which is a thing of the past on commercial TV. Where once ITV produced TV that BBC could only dream of (The World at War, World in Action, Survival), it has been decimated thanks to the company mergers, in fighting and squabbles that happened during the 90s and 2000s. No quality thresholds in place.
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Riaz604 posts since 6 Jan 2016 12 June 2019 1:00pm
itsrobert posted:
I'm a bit torn on this debate. On the one hand I feel that the BBC's existence as a public service broadcaster is nonnegotiable. However, I have to ask if the BBC couldn't stand to be cut back a bit? It does seem very bloated and tries to do too much. I get the point that they are trying to cater for everyone in the public good, but getting back to basics might not be a bad thing. I would certainly be happy to pay for a smaller but much higher quality BBC.
VMPhil posted:
Exactly. No popular entertainment programmes would mean a vast majority of people not interested in paying the licence fee, so no minority services like Radio 3, Asian Network or BBC Four that arguably make the BBC what it is.
There are two schools of thought on this subject. The first is that the BBC has to produce a sufficient amount of popular entertainment in order to convince the public to pay the TV licence fee in the first place. The second is that popular entertainment should be exiled to channels funded by commercials, subscription, or both because it can succeed in this environment, and only PSB and niche programmes are funded from the TV licence fee - which should be reduced dramatically (under £50?) to compensate for it no longer funding popular entertainment.
james-20014,824 posts since 13 Sep 2015 12 June 2019 1:28pm
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I see this has got people ranting again about them sending excessive numbers of people on "paid jollies" to the likes of the Women's world cup and Glastonbury... I just want to slap these people so hard. How many people would they send to cover these events, then, one presenter and a single cameraman?
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iloveyorkshire512 posts since 28 Nov 2003 12 June 2019 2:01pm
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JKDerry posted:
Can you imagine what ITV Parliament would be like now in 2019 if Thatcher had offered that for real?
Wasn't Granada or Carlton involved in the Parliament Channel before the channel was transferred to BBC's remit
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08tom612 posts since 24 Nov 2007 12 June 2019 2:01pm
BBC plays a vital role in the British media entertainment industry. If it was axed it would have a huge impact. The likelihood is the BBC would be sold off and major show like doctor who could be made in America.
ITV will never allow the BBC to be funded by advertisement because there is only so much money in the advertising pot and if the BBC take a huge cut of this it will impact ITV as well as others. If anything ITV would like to buy BBC Studios but that's to costly.
As much as I like Netflix and Amazon Prime they don't add a huge amount to the British industry. And without sounding all UKIP I don't want an American streaming service to be my main source of entertainment. I want a British streaming service to sit along the big boys that supports British content makers. After all we make some of the best content in the world.
Even though BritBox won't work that well I do think one major British streaming service will work better against the big boys rather than every broadcast having a small streaming service. I wish the BBC would focus more on the future and accept that the licence fee will not last forever. The worst case would be if funding stopped and the BBC go bust. There needs to be transition period. For example instead of have loads of radio stations could they create audio shows on BBC Sounds.
However this is the future and does not solve the issue of the day. If the BBC can't fund its self then it can axe the free licence fee offer for over 75s. It's not great but you have to do what you have to do. In my view free licence fee is a benefit not an offer and since the government put it on the BBC it became an offer rather than a benefit. The government knew full well the BBC could never be able to deliver the deal in its current state and the BBC could not fight this as there was anti BBC people in charge. Also the BBC could not go public with it at the time due to the JS scandal. If people want over 75s free licence fee then they need to put the pressure on the government to put back the benefit. I feel for the over 75s but this is the reality. The BBC should never put in this position. In terms of timing it great timing due to the conservative contest. The BBC could really do with labour and other come out and say they would pay the benefit. If they do the BBC would be in a good position. Right now it's not so clear. If I was the BBC I would hold my nerve.
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Inspector Sands13,582 posts since 25 Aug 2004 12 June 2019 4:10pm
iloveyorkshire posted:
No it was operated by United Artists Cable and paid for by the cable companies (when there was more than one!). For a while BBC Parliament was played out by Millbank Studios which was owned by Granada/Carlton. Its now in house and from the BBC bit of Millbank I think
The BBC still has no role in covering the proceedings, that's now done by a company called Bowtie TV
noggin14,312 posts since 26 Jun 2001 12 June 2019 5:22pm
Inspector Sands posted:
Yes - and Bowtie is now part of the large global NEP group.
Brekkie31,384 posts since 4 Jan 2003 12 June 2019 5:33pm
HTV Wales Wales Today
Presumably all those papers so outraged at pensioners having to pay for the BBC are willing to give away their products for free to the over 75s too.
As for other funding options through taxation - as much as I like the idea of it being funded through a levy on commercial and subscription rivals, and even the wider industry such as the press and ISPs, practically it would be complex and raise far less.
Direct taxation another option, but there is a general reluctance to add 1% to the tax rates to raise funds for the NHS so not going to happen for the BBC.
The BBC could have gone further and excluded those on pension credit who have someone under 75 in their household. It really needs to be remembered though this never was the BBC's gift to pensioners - it was funded as a welfare benefit from general taxation, not something the BBC decided to do for pensioners then withdrew. Indeed if anything the rest of us should be angry for our taxes funding pensioners licence fees for so long.
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Ne1L C911 posts since 11 Sep 2011 12 June 2019 5:40pm
Ben Fogle is to donate his entire Animal Park salary for 1 year to help pay for licences for the over 75's:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48607896
Andrew13,576 posts since 27 Mar 2001 12 June 2019 6:05pm
Yorkshire Look North (Yorkshire)
I'm not entirely sure how you've jumped to that conclusion.
Piers sounding off about the issue of the day, and the fact today's issue was the Licence Fee, means viewers will now stop watching BBC Breakfast?
Ne1L C posted:
As the size of his salary is unknown it's less than £150k, which itself would pay for just 1000 licences out of the millions the Tories now expect to fund.
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Public viewing for the late Aya Nakagawa Teramoto, 65-year-old, Tokyo-born Issei and Hacienda Heights resident, who passed away suddenly at home on March 9, 2017, were held on Thursday, March 16, at Fukui Mortuary's "Chapel in the Garden." A private funeral was held on Monday, March 20, at Nishi Hongwanji by Rev. William Briones. Aya is survived by her beloved daughters, Ryoko and Junko Teramoto.


Open Europe: EEA plus: a model for the future of the UK in Europe?
For all the noise about Europe in the UK, British sceptics (with some exceptions) aren't necessarily great at thinking outside the box.
We have previously looked at the existing models used by countries that have decided against/been refused EU membership (i.e. Norway's EEA membership, Switzerland's Free Trade Agreements, Turkey's customs union with the EU, or simply the WTO) and concluded that they would all have drawbacks for a country and economy as large and diverse as the UK. In particular, the Norwegian model is pretty much a non-starter.
However, there is another hypothetical model, which we will set out in a forthcoming briefing, that could be more attractive if it could be secured: let's call it 'EEA plus'.
Now, we don't necessarily advocate this particular option and this is only a blogpost, but intellectually and politically, it's far more attractive than anything we've seen so far in terms of a fundamental replacement for the current EU structure.
Over the last decade, several figures, including Jacques Delors, former EU Commission President, and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former French President and author of the EU Constitution, have suggested the UK be given 'associate membership' or 'special status'. Neither concepts have been fully fleshed out, but Giscard d'Estaing suggested that a 'special status' could allow the UK to opt-out of future EU policies, which could allow it to continue to vote on policies it took part in but not on those it didn't. Lord Owen has made a similar argument - which he will expand on in a speech today.
From where we sit, there is one absolutely vital element that has to be added if this is going to work for the UK: voting rights. The great weakness of the EEA model at the moment is that a country like Norway, as we have noted repeatedly, is out of the EU but run by the EU. It just wouldn't work for the UK (which is home to 36% of the EU's wholesale finance market, for example).
So what 'EEA plus' would involve is single market access but with votes on all laws which are EEA relevant. For EU geeks, it would be a bit like EEA-EU co-decision over single market laws. There are several ways in which this could work. For example, an "EEA council" already exists with members from both the EU and EEA states. This could be expanded to be the effective decision-making body for the EU as a whole in the fields that apply to both constituencies. Alternatively, a majority could be needed in both the EU Council of Ministers and a comparable EEA body for it to become law in both. A range of other issues, such as an arbitrage mechanism and ECJ jurisdiction, would have to be thought through. Also, it would have to be designed so that only genuine single market measures made it into the agreement - not the add-ons such as employment laws (which Norway has to accept) - whilst the UK may wish to stay inside the EU customs union (which Norway and Switzerland are not part of). The UK may also want to be part of other areas, such as crime and police cooperation (perhaps on a bilateral opt-in basis) and there would also need to be consideration about the merits of retaining its veto over EU foreign policy for example.
But, crucially, such an arrangement would get around the massive drawbacks inherent in the Norwegian model. Another great advantage of this model is that it could provide an institutional wrapping for all those countries that for one reason or another cannot be full EU members, and certainly not eurozone members: the UK, Norway, Switzerland and maybe even Turkey. It would be a new mode of European membership - and, if the UK can get its act together, very much the "economic growth" tier.
If you think this is far-fetched, you might be right, but it's actually not a new idea. In 1989, ahead of the negotiations that would establish the EEA agreement, Delors mooted a "more structured partnership with common decision-making and administrative institutions", which would have potentially given those countries market access and decision making powers, rather than the limited right of refusal that EEA countries currently have.
(ii) or, alternatively, we can look for a new, more structured partnership with common decision-making and administrative institutions to make our activities more effective and to highlight the political dimension of our cooperation in the economic, social, financial and cultural spheres.
It would be premature to go into the details of this institutional framework. I have my own ideas, but they need to be discussed by the new Commission and then informally, without obligation, with the countries concerned. It should be noted however that the options would change if EFTA were to strengthen its own structures. In that case the framework for cooperation would rest on the two pillars of our organizations. If it did not, we would simply have a system based on Community rules, which could be extended — in specific areas — to interested EFTA countries and then perhaps, at some date in the future, to other European nations.
This option could probably qualify as both "in" and "out". For one, it would be very similar to the Single Market plus deal that Boris Johnson has argued for in the past and, could be defined as staying in the EU, although on a radically different basis.
A final sobering thought: the final result of the EEA talks only granted EEA states 'decision-shaping' powers through representation on non-legislative committees and consultation with the EU Commission and a right of refusal that is relatively weak becuase it can result in loss of market access – giving an indication that this will be a challenge to achieve.
We want no part of any Tarrif Union. We want free trade in the big, growing, real world. The sinking ship of Europe is less and less significant for the future of our nation.
It's a superficially attractive idea. But if you want it to be taken seriously you will need to explain how in practice the decision making would work. It isn't enough to focus just on the Council. What about the Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice? The members of the EU are not going to abandon these institutions just to please the UK. So would there be a British (and Norwegian and Swiss and Turkish?) Commissioner and members of the Parliament and a Judge? If so, how could their roles be limited to the areas of EU activity in which their countries were involved?
And do you envisage simply membership of the Single Market or would you want Britain to have a role in, for example, competition policy, external trade policy, energy policy or environmental policy? A Britain which was a full player in all these areas could, if it so wished, claim to be a member of the EU even if it secured opt-outs in other fields. A Britain which simply participated in the single market could not.
At least you have grasped that the "Norwegian model" the "Swiss model" etc woild be nul and void with those an other countries (why indeed not Turkey which would never have stomached the EU's constitutional meddling in an Islamic society!! but for which free trade would be attractive)joining the UK AND THE COMMONWEALTH.
With such a grouping the bargaining balance would be more than interesting!
Rather like those who still cling to the hope that Britain will one day join the euro - it's called "clutching at straws" or "cognitive dissonance", the refusal to face inconvenient facts.
We all know what the EU has always intended to become, we all know we do not want to be part of that destination.
What part of "totalitarian, anti-democratic, bankrupt, doomed, incompetent, dishonest and devious" does Open Europe still not understand?
"I have worked with those people! They are devious, they are corrupt, they are evil" .
I could not have put it better myself, and the more time goes by the more I realise how right he was. Would anyone in his right mind want to be involved with them?
It is highly unlikely that the EU effectively will split itself in 2 (or 3 if you add the EZ).
On the other hand it is essential that the UK has at least a say in but preferably a veto on the stuff that matters for the UK (as OE states).
-or a freetrade plus agreement, which would mean changes are only possible if all parties agree. Fully agree that freetrade very likely will have to include customsunion (staying out of that makes being an EU-centre very difficult (as you will end up with piles of extra paperwork when distribute stuff over the EU, which makes any investor thinks twice).
Anyway would be a positive if a new structure for the UK could be copied for other countries (Switzerland, Norway, Turkey for instance).
The discussion in the UK looks more and more to be hijacked by the 'referendum now' folks.
As by far the majority of them whether in parliament has not much to add (at least intellectually) I seriously doubt that that is a positive more a bunch of loose guns.
This is not a climate in which you come to optimal or even good solutions.
Cameron or better the Conservatives should get grip on their MPs. Eg to start with having them have their say and not starting new controversial stuff from his own side.
If nothing changes there is a big problem. It is hard to imagine that this (government by a dysfunctional party) can go on till say end 2017.
Commentators etc of the same sort are mainly annoying and a waist of time (at least mine), but not really relavant in the bigger picture of the EU reneg.
However Cameron still misses the plot in the way that he should have catched the initiative in this discussion long ago and drive the discussion (determine the agenda) iso being driven by it.
Basically the basic idea of a reneg looks pretty good, only the overall strategy is completely lacking (or if there is one failing)and he simply has completely lost the initiative. And the communication towards the other parties (at least the ones at home) is extremely poor). You or your inner circle simply cannot call bigotted Talibani loons. Or after 1/2 a year after the 'great design' of the reneg plan the population still not properly understands that there will remain a link with the EU and reneg is highly complicated, and a referendum now is not Cameron's call as he has no majority. A lot of the misunderstanding in the electorate simply looks to be caused by that.
BoJo (probably the only other candidate that can keep the exit crowd quiet at least for a while and has a realistic chance to win an election) has some personal issues playing.
"The discussion in the UK looks more and more to be hijacked by the 'referendum now' folks"
That would be the population. Not easy for non-Brits to grasp but there is a marked sea change here and this is something that is going to happen. We are going to go. We might just have to remove all of our political parties first.
See the latest poll putting UKIP two points behind the conservatives at 22 percent - the surge is simply staggering.
The EU wonks can fiddle with their structures all they want but it won't stop the freight train now that people's minds are made up.
Well not as difficult to grasp as apparently for UKips that you need around 50% (and reflected in MPs) of your population to get things happen and not 22%. I suggest you have a look at the word majority in a dictionary.
-fall back position in a discussion a one-liner.
Glad I am not Cameron and have to pretend to take it all serious. Of course your vote is, the rest is simply not.
Anyway enough said on that.
On the GS study. Imho it is (in a way) inconsistent. Saying in one part that the UK will not be a Norway or so. In another part that an unstructured exit will hit both economies and hard.
Imho that would point clearly into the direction of a deal (on a freetrade zone or something similar). MAD otherwise. One with an RPG the other with a normal bullet, but both are finished at the end.
It is clear that that point is not properly communicated (yet?) with the markets and the public abroad. Another communication failure by Cameron and his merry men.
Both markets as the EU general public are your friends or could be if you play your cards right.
Handellsblatt and several Dutch papers this week/last weekend run some articles in which this also was completely missed. The fact that the otherway around the EUrest would take a big hit was simply completely ignored.
GS was already a few steps further, as expected, but missed the fact that it points into the direction of a deal on a freetradezone. More Norway plus iso not even Norway.
Anyway communication on that has to be stepped up both towards the markets (if GS donot get it, the rest will certainly not). And to the foreign voters (via the foreign media). Goldman it was btw a first study on the topic clearly they missed some stuff.
From another angle (the internal UK discussion) this is the stuff that leads to '3 million jobs' (and probably 4 million in the EU seen the average labourcosts and tradevolumes btw).
Probably not in the IKip public's mind, as St. Farage has clearly one-lined that the UK can leave from one day to the next without problems because the EU imports less from the UK, than the other way around and UK exports to the EU (or EZ?) have dropped under 50%. But everybody else might have some worries as they have not seen the light yet, you can not all be blessed.
All this bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo is meant to deceive, complicate and suppress.
Each cancelled acronym probably means $100 MM or more in savings on the bureaucracy and big government nonsense.


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The Folio Society was founded in London in 1947. It was the brainchild of book-lover and collector, Charles Ede, whose desire to combine the typographical and artistic standards of the private presses with the latest industrial technology, resulted in some of the most beautiful and imaginative bindings ever seen.
During WWII strict austerity measures had been placed on book production, leaving Charles increasingly concerned about the decline in standards which might not be easily overturned after the war. He wanted desperately to spread his enthusiasm for books beyond the confines of the small circle of comparatively rich and in doing so, set about outlining his plan, with good friend and Golden Cockerel Press owner, Christopher Sandford, to bring the 'poor man's fine edition' to the masses. He attended the London College of Printing in 1946 and by 1947 had launched the Folio Society, sharing premises with the Golden Cockerel Press in a Dickensian garret in London's Soho.
Charles planned to publish one book a month, selling through booksellers and trying to establish a feel for demand. There were formidable problems, however, not the least of which was post-war paper rationing. Although Charles qualified, as an ex-serviceman, for a reasonable amount of paper, it was only sufficient for about five books. For the rest he begged and scrounged.
In October 1947, the Society produced its first book: Tales by Tolstoy, with pen and ink illustrations by Elizabeth Facfadyen. George du Maurier's Trilby followed in November and a translation of Aucassin and Nicolette appeared in December. The editions proved difficult to sell though and for its first three years, the Society's existence hung in the balance. Determined to generate more interest, the Society launched an advertising campaign in 1949, inviting people to subscribe directly and rewarding them with a presentation volume for becoming members.
The campaign was successful and gradually the Folio Society began to make a name for itself. By the mid-1950s, it had moved to larger quarters, where a spacious garden allowed club room members to enjoy wine and sandwiches. Charles' main focus, however, was to keep building the library and his enthusiastic involvement with the Society remained undimmed for twenty-four years, by which time he had secured its image and reputation.
By 1971, the Folio Society had grown so large, that Charles, who was known for his involvement in every aspect of production, including choice of titles and supervision of printers and illustrators, could no longer do everything himself. Instead, he turned his attention to antiquities and John Letts and Halfdan Lynner took over the business. Both had backgrounds in publishing and they were keen to establish a clear identity for the Society. Its purpose was not just to be a producer of handsome books but a publisher of new literary discoveries and in the early 1980s one such manuscript crossed their path. Whilst researching his book on the Indian Mutiny, historian Christopher Hibbert discovered the vividly written diary of General Richard Barter of the 75th Gordon Highlanders and the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs. Barter had been on a leisure trip to the hills, when the mutiny broke out and instead found himself marching back towards Delhi. The result, combined with photographs held by Barter's great-great grandson, was The Siege of Delhi: Mutiny Memories of an Old Officer (1984).
In 1982 the Folio Society changed hands again. Now under Bob Gavron's chairmanship, it has grown considerably. The classics are still represented but the broader dimensions of publishing and production are now recognised. Fine artists have been commissioned for illustrations and bindings have a flamboyancy worthy of their contents. Indeed, the books are instantly recognisable as "Folio". No two of them are alike, yet they all share the commonality of quality.
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Idiozeitgeist » It's Allen Huffman time!
Allen and St. Chris at The Puffin's Roost, 6 December 2006.
First, what the heck is "The Puffin's Roost" and second, thanks for using THAT version of the photo. Whew!
Click the "Puffin's Roost" link, man! It's the gift shop in the Norway Pavilion at Epcot.


ToDo: Get Bamboo Flooring. Check!
Jude, Guinevere and I went to Swamp Creek today and had a terrific morning, as the photoset below attests. This is something new, so let me know if the photoset is not working out as hoped.


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Swiatoslaw Kuznik received doctorate in violin performance at the University of Maryland, College Park. He finished his master of music degree in violin performance at the Frederick Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, and graduate performance diploma at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. Dr. Kuznik is a member of the Maryland Symphony, performs with the Concert Artist of Baltimore, and is a founding member of the Kuznik Piano Trio. He has performed with the New World Symphony Orchestra (Florida), the Philharmonic of the Nations (Germany), National Philharmonic, West Virginia Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Washington Summer Opera Festival, and Lafayette Symphony. Mr. Kuznik performed under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Sergiu Comissiona, Antoni Witt, Jerzy Maksymiuk, and Jacek Kaspszyk. Dr. Kuznik served as a concertmaster and the violin faculty at the Siena Summer Session for Music and Arts in Siena University, Italy and he serves as a faculty at the InterHarmony International Music Institute. Among the awards Dr. Kuznik has received are the first place in the Baltimore Music Competition, the Eugene and Eleanor Knapik award at the Indiana University School of Music, and the scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture. Since 2005, he is a music faculty at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson. Dr. Kuznik started Suzuki violin group classes in Towson at Notre Dame Preparatory School based on Mimi Zweig teaching philosophy to which he was introduced in her pedagogy classes at Indiana University and Summer Teacher's Retreat organized by String Academy at Indiana University. His most influential violin teachers include Elizabeth Adkins, Henryk Kowalski, Zoltan Szabo, Alan de Veritch, Atar Arad, Frederico Agostini, Ik-Hwan Bae, Gerald Fischbach and Tadeusz Wronski.
PLAY: our faculty piano trio performing Mendelssohn Trio in d minor, op. 49
Dr. Aneta Otreba received her doctorate degree in cello performance from University of Maryland, College Park, where she worked as an ensemble assistant and studied with Professor Evelyn Elsing and members of the Guarneri String Quartet. Since 2003, she is a member of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Her additional performances include Concert Artists of Baltimore, Annapolis Symphony, New World Symphony (Florida), and Washington Summer Opera. Dr. Otreba was also accepted to the Hyogo Performing Orchestra in Japan. She won first place in Baltimore Music Club Competition, Liberman Competition, and Peggy Friedman Gordon Music Competition. Dr. Otreba is a cello teacher at Baltimore String Orchestra Camp and also cello and chamber music faculty at the Siena Summer Session for Music and Arts in Siena University, Italy. Her students have been selected to perform with the All State Junior and Senior Orchestras and Side by Side with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts. Dr. Otreba is also offering cello lessons in Lutherville and Timonium area at Towson University and St. Paul's School.
Play: Dr. Aneta Otreba, cello, Dr. Frederick Minger, piano–D.Popper Hungarian Rhapsody


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Labour candidate John Kent calls on MP Jackie Doyle-Price to halt police cuts
By Staff Reporter on February 6, 2018 2 Comments
Halt police cuts now
THURROCK MP Jackie Doyle-Price has been called on to oppose government plans to impose yet another cut on police funding.
John Kent – Labour's candidate for the Thurrock constituency – has written to the MP detailing the history of funding cuts and told her to "take a stand" when the Police Grant Report is laid before Parliament on Wednesday.
Mr Kent said: "The Labour Party is calling on Tory MPs to stand up for the force and the people of this country. Eight years of cut, cut, cut is enough.
"The people of Thurrock are not as stupid as this government seem to think. Theresa May promised to protect funding after 2015, but the police faced further cuts. Direct Government funding has fallen by over £400 million in real-terms since 2015.
"Despite this lie, late last year the government set out its provisional funding settlement for the coming financial year again falsely claiming this equated to £450 million in extra funding.
"In reality, the only new money government has committed is an extra £50 million for counter-terror policing – they couldn't follow through with their planned cuts here after last year's terrorist attracts in London and Manchester.
"The rest, the £400 million – relies on council tax peters coughing it up. People know this."
Mr Kent said: "The Conservative Government has only kept its funding at the same level compared with last year meaning it is imposing yet another real-terms cut, this time worth £100 million."
"Everyone will know the effects the Tory eight-year squeeze on police funding has had. We all see it – or rather we don't see police officers patrolling our streets, we don't see PCSOs being proactive, and we don't see detectives reacting to our calls.
"The situation in Grays town centre is not unique – even in Thurrock – but it is a perfect example of what happens when police resources are stretched beyond breaking point.
"Drunks congregating outside shops, even when they're open, threatening, frightening, and intimidating passers-by, let alone spewing litter, vomit and worse on our streets … and not a police officer in sight.
"It's time for a change in policy."
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Lebián (o Lipián o Lebiantu) fue un toqui mapuche entre 1769 y 1774, que encabezó a las tropas pehuenches contra el Imperio Español en Chile durante la rebelión de 1769, en el contexto de la Guerra de Arauco.

Biografía
El 3 de diciembre de 1769, Lebián lideró un malón contra la zona del río de La Laja y de Los Ángeles capturando cabezas de ganado y destruyendo todas las estancias que encontraba a su paso. Las tropas españolas enviadas en su contra fueron derrotadas y forzadas a retirarse a Los Ángeles. Alentado por la victoria, Lebián atacó el fuerte Santa Bárbara dos días después, y si bien lamentó algunas pérdidas, sus huestes lograron prender fuego a la ciudad y tomar el ganado encontrado en el área.

Al final de la guerra formó parte de la delegación enviada a Santiago para hacer la paz en 1774. Ese mismo año también participó en una pelea contra el toqui Aillapagui.

Asesinato
En septiembre de 1776, de acuerdo a la política de lealtad recompensada del gobernador Agustín de Jáuregui, Lebián fue nombrado soldado distinguido del ejército español y viajó a la ciudad de Los Ángeles para reunirse con el Maestre de Campo Ambrosio O'Higgins. Mientras retornaba a su hogar, una banda de españoles lo emboscó y lo mató. Uno de los sospechosos fue un capitán llamado Dionisio Contreras, pero no hubo manera de comprobarlo. Se rumoreaba que el maestre O'Higgins había dispuesto la muerte como parte de una política encaminada a eliminar por tales medios a dirigentes mapuches hostiles o fuertes en lugar de una guerra abierta, pero O'Higgins negó responsabilidad por la emboscada, persiguió a los asesinos y mandó a ahorcar a uno de ellos.

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Participantes en la Guerra de Arauco
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The ISIS proton sychrotron - beam data aquisition and analysis
A paper demonstrating the benefits of new and improved beam diagnostic systems for the ISIS synchrotron has been named runner-up in the NIDays paper competition.
Sarah Whitehead and Bryan Jones of ISIS demonstrate their monitoring systems in the target station main control room.
Operating two target stations at ISIS requires higher beam currents from the synchrotron and has led to a programme of detailed studies and upgrades. A key part of this is improving the beam diagnostic systems to better; monitor, control and ultimately improve the accelerators performance.
The amount of beam that the synchrotron can accelerate is limited by the proportion that escapes the accelerating fields and hits the edge of the vacuum pipe. This lost beam can cause synchrotron components to become radioactive which makes hands-on maintenance problematic. Monitoring loss levels is therefore crucial to the successful operation of the facility. Measuring beam profiles and positions allows accelerator physicists to understand how beam loss occurs.
A LabVIEW application has been produced to receive and display data from the 39 beam loss monitors around the circumference of the ISIS synchrotron, 2 multi-channel profile monitors which measure real time transverse beam profiles and 25 split-electrode beam position monitors.
The LabVIEW system synchronises and acquires 10ms of data from each monitor electrode, subtracts signal baseline, identifies peaks and troughs, and calculates the beam position for each revolution of the beam.
Beam loss can now be identified on the individual monitors at any time in the accelerator cycle. One of its key features is an ActiveX 3D graph control which can display losses at 4 times the previous spatial resolution.
The LabVIEW/PXI system has made the process of simultaneously collecting and analysing large amounts of data from each of the individual monitors relatively simple.
Another advantage to the system development is that instead of having to physically oversee an experiment from the control room, users are now able to log-on to the system anywhere in ISIS, with updates of results happening live. Different users may simultaneously access the data and analyse it in different ways across the ISIS network.
Alongside this, a profile simulator has been developed which will allow all electronics and computer hardware and software to be tested even in the absence of a proton beam.
In order to ensure LabVIEW is used to it's full advantage, Sarah has recently set up a LabVIEW User group for RAL, so that scientists involved in these experiments can come together to share their experiences and expertise.
As a result of all the developments ISIS staff have made in improving accelerator performance, Sunday 27th September 2009 saw ISIS beat the record for highest average 24 hour beam current - a record set back in 1997. This is an incredible achievement.
Bryan Jones and Sarah Whitehead, ISIS - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
Research date: November 2009
Read the paper in full
The ISIS Proton Synchrotron – Beam Data Acquisition and Analysis using PXI and LabVIEW' Bryan Jones, Sarah Whitehead


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On a highway in south Greeley on Thursday afternoon, Earl Trimble's life ended while he was doing what he loved — driving the huge cattle truck, his dog Buffy in the cab with him.
den under the seat, away from the flames.
Trimble, 72, was killed Thursday at the intersection of 22nd Street and the U.S. 85 Bypass when his rig collided with a pickup driven by Viola Marie Manweiler, 60, of Greeley. She remained in critical condition Friday night at North Colorado Medical Center.
Trimble loved to drive trucks and had been driving most of his life — from when he was a teenager — and drove with his father, according to Cherrie Brown, Trimble's daughter.
Trimble had three children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. After his run from the Yuma stockyards to Greeley on Friday, he'd planned to drive to Albuquerque to see a granddaughter graduate from high school.
Trimble was pulling a full load of cattle on the semitrailer and was unable to stop in time or avoid the truck that pulled in front of his rig. Police haven't determined who was at fault in the accident and said Friday that the investigation was continuing.
Up to 25 head of cattle were either killed outright in the collision, or had to be put down by veterinarians.
After the two vehicles collided, Trimble's rig rebounded into a traffic light pole and burst into flames. He wasn't able to escape.
Trimble's daughter picked up Buffy at the Animal Care Hospital in Greeley on Thursday evening. The dog was in remarkable condition, suffering from smoke inhalation and a few bumps and bruises.
Hutt also said Trimble and his wife, Twila, were inseparable. She would ride with him on trucking trips, along with Buffy.
Brown said the family will make arrangements for their father this weekend. The funeral will be in Sterling, with burial at Bayfield in southern Colorado, where Twila is buried.


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Michelle & Jake are close to our hearts and we were very sad to see the weather work against them in every possible way imaginable! Safe to say, this sweet bride probably desired for a colorful sunset of Marco Island as her wedding backdrop and one which she truly deserved, but Mother Nature had her own desire to shower blessings on these newlyweds. And this is exactly why we LOVE photographing weddings!
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Q: How to create a very basic php script for users to login and see the location of their vehicles My question is actually related with a basic car tracking web application.
My customers have 1 or more GPS devices registered for their accounts which are integrated to their vehicles.
I can send data to anywhere with GET format from GPS devices. Each GPS device has its own unique identifier code.
I want to put a very basic php page to make my customers able to login with their username & password to see their registered gps devices. And when they click one of them; they should be able to see the records coming from their site GPS devices and use a google map api to see coordinates in a small map.
Is there any way to put this script off the shelf or do someone can show me a way to make it basicly?

A: You can follow this Quick-start sample app for PHP on how the user can Sign In using their username and password.
Accoring also to this tutorial, first you need client id and secret key from Google API. Go to Google API console and create an OAuth client for Web Application. Next you will be presented with your Client ID and Secret, which will be required in code below.
### Google Settings.Client ID, Client Secret from https://console.developers.google.com ###
$client_id = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$client_secret = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$redirect_uri = 'http://path-to-script/google-login-api/';

When user clicks Google login link, user is redirected to Google Authentication page, once user grants the basic permission to your application, user is redirected back to your website with Authentication code. The code is than used to obtain Access Token, using Access Token the application can access current user data from Google, which could be used to register and login the user.

Next, for the user to see their registered gps devices, use Google Maps Roads API to identify the roads a vehicle was traveling along and provides additional metadata about those roads, such as speed limits.
A request to snap to road must be sent via HTTPS, and takes the following form:
https://roads.googleapis.com/v1/snapToRoads?parameters&key=YOUR_API_KEY
For each valid request, the Google Maps Roads API will return a response in the format indicated within the request URL. Example element that may be present in a Snap to Roads response is the location that contains a latitude and longitude value.
Here is the sample request and response from the documentation.
You may also check this example on GitHub.
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Cambridge Road – Fresh Ideas in Martinborough
By RaymondJanuary 12, 2012No Comments
Lance Redgwell is one of a new breed of winegrowers who are bringing a fresh approach to the New Zealand winemaking scene. As with all nowadays, the focus is on the site and vine health and balance. After a search for a suitable place, Lance and Bridie purchased their tiny 1.8 ha site in 2006 on Cambridge Road on the Martinborough Terrace. The vineyard is planted to 73% Pinot Noir and 27% Syrah, the vines figuring among the oldest in the district at 24-25 years of age. The Syrah plants are thus venerable in New Zealand terms. The site was originally the 'Fraser Block'.
Following vineyard and winery experience with Puriri Hills near Auckland, Neudorf, Beaux Freres in Oregon and Tasmania, Lance bases his viticulture on biodynamics, this being the most natural approach for the balance, health and performance of the vines, vineyard and soils. Much of the inspiration can be attributed to James Millton and his advice. He acknowledges he is still coming to grips with understanding how the various and myriad of factors such as clone, rootstock, canopy, soil, spacing and their interaction affects the resultant wines, but definite ideas and beliefs have provided pathways of exploration and action. The long-term goal is for his family to continue his work, so his work is one in progress. I was impressed with his detail and openness to learn, and willingness to try new methods and ideas in any aspect of the vineyard management.
Being a fan of Pinot Noir wines with in-built complexity of flavour and structure, Lance has grafted the old 10/5 clone to Abel, and the proportions are now equal in Abel and clone 5. Such a measure may seem drastic to many, but the strength of conviction and belief in the traits of Abel-based wines called for action.
The same philosophy is carried through to the winemaking. The Cambridge Road wines are to represent the vines and site, but guided to finesse rather than size. A detailed and fully hands-on ethic is employed, and his "small farming" and small-batch winemaking is ultra-perfectionist. Though the vineyard planting look "messy" with inter-row planting of different crops, the surrounds, drive and grounds are immaculately kept, and the winery and barrel-room are spotlessly clean and very orderly.
As the Cambridge Road block is a small one, Lance sources fruit from other sites, with the aim of working with 20-25 tonnes of grapes annually. Lance credits Martinborough pioneer Clive Paton of Ata Rangi for much advice on understanding the performance of vines and vineyards in the district. The initial vintages, from 2007 were made at Julicher Estate, and again, Lance is grateful for the use of the facilities there, having respect for Outi Jakovirta's assistance. 2010 was the first Cambridge Road vintage fully managed by Lance in his newly commissioned winery on site.
I tasted some of the Cambridge Road wines guided by Lance. Despite the black labelled 'Animus' Pinot Noir 2008 looking to be the 'serious' wine, it is actually the second tier style, priced at $35.00 a bottle. This is soft and elegant with spicy influences to the fruit, with some alcoholic power showing. The 'Cambridge Road' wines are designed to be more traditional with the aim of subtlety and class, and the discreet and pale labels reflect this. The Pinot Noir 2009 is very elegant and tightly bound, but with a concentrated core that promises to unfold more. The Syrah 2009 is similarly structure with very fine textures, and archetype in varietal black fruit and pepper expression, along with complexing reductive hints that will harmonise and provide further layers of interest. This has 10% Pinot Noir, this softening the wine and providing a red fruit note. These two wines are priced around $55.00. The 'Dovetail' Field Blend 2010 was the wine that took my fancy. This is a blend of 71% Pinot Noir and 29% Syrah, and is a representation of the 'Home Block' plantings, and very much an expression of place, rather than cultivar. To many, this concept is alien or 'wrong' but from the terroirist and Old World perspective, a very valid style. Rich, plush, concentrated, the Pinot Noir base is velvety, the Syrah component adding drive and spiciness. At $65.00 this is not the most expensive wine. That title is reserved for the 'Noblestone' Pinot Noir 2007, the first vintage off 'Home Block' fruit. Two rosé wines are also made. I didn't taste these latter three wines, but I'm going to visit Lance at Cambridge Road again, and hopefully see these. www.cambridgeroad.co.nz


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Q: Json output string into an array or list Hi i am trying to set json output to an array or list, but receiving an error
"cannot convert from system.collections.generic.list to String[]"
String received in paramValue-
{"0":["1234","2222","4321","211000","90024","12","2121","322223","2332","3232"],"1":["0856","6040222","175002","23572","","","","","",""]}

List<string> strlist;
strlist = new List<string>();

var jr = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, List<string>>>(paramValue);

foreach (var item in jr)
{
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  // strList.Add(item)
}

In order to take "item" values in the List, I also tried item.Value.CopyTo(strlist); but got the error  "cannot convert from system.collections.generic.list to String[]".
Actually i need the "item" values to be stored in  List, so that i can pass into another functions.
Thanks

A: When you iterate over the dictionary you have the List<string> in the value, so you can not add that value array using add to the List<string> strlist; add expect it to be a single value not multiple, as you want to add multiple values you can use  AddRange.
like this
foreach (var item in jr)
{
     //Need some thing like this
     strlist.AddRange(item.Value);
}

if you want to use short-one then use
strlist.AddRange(jr.SelectMany(a => a.Value));


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This is my second post prompted by the application of the Lost Cause myth to the Newt Knight/Free State of Jones legend recently claimed by some with a political agenda and represents my counter thoughts to those presented in Victoria Bynam's The Free State of Jones and Sally Jenkins and Paul Stauffers' State of Jones. I address the issue in support of my conviction that we Southerners should be reading, writing, and teaching Southern history, not to mention making movies of our own.
One who gives credence to Daniel Webster believes the Union predated the states. What, you might ask? Yes, well, that's what our Southern ancestors thought, too, when they heard that foolishness. But Webster had to do something to debunk the validity of state rights, and that was less violent than what Lincoln did. [Don't forget, however, that Webster wrote the Force Bill promulgating a federal military attack on South Carolina in 1833. I figure Webster would have approved of Lincoln.]
Now take Webster's imaginative recast of history in tandem with William T. Sherman's words in an 1864 missive to a subordinate in Huntsville, Alabama on dealing with Southern "treason" and intransigence against the United States government at whose pleasure the South even existed:
For my part, I believe that this war is the result of false political doctrine, for which we are all as a people responsible, viz: That any and every people has a right to self-government...In this belief, while I assert for our Government the highest military prerogatives, I am willing to bear in patience that political nonsense of...State Rights, freedom of conscience, freedom of press, and other such trash as have deluded the Southern people into war, anarchy, bloodshed, and the foulest crimes that have disgraced any time or any people.
Yeah, old war-is-hell Billy was a true patriot all right—a real supporter and defender of the Constitution. Then there was Charles Sumner's stated belief "promulgated" during Congressional Reconstruction that the only rights the states had were those Congress blessed them with. Excuse me? Yes, it was Southern intransigence that provoked his revealing himself, but that arrogant, self-righteous traitor to the very concept of the republic was referring to all the states. Then there was Thaddeus Stevens (Pennsylvania), speaking, also during Reconstruction, to defeated Confederate general Richard Taylor (Louisiana), stating that the Constitution needed to be discarded; it was not a fit document to govern the nation. Well, the Radicals didn't discard the Constitution, they desecrated it instead.
And we in the South didn't know what we were fighting for against thugs such as those?
Just as a writer of historical fiction justifies her use of an anachronistic word using the yard-stick of a its having been in general usage for twenty years prior to its first appearance in the dictionary, the layman or woman should be forthright enough to consider the political opinions of such men had been floating around for some time before the South threw in the towel and said she'd had enough working with those undermining the basic tenants of our federal system (state sovereignty/limited federal supremacy). Extrapolating, anti-Southern encroachments harkened back to the 1830s—and that's provable—all a forthright layperson has to do is pick up a history book. Alas, fewer and fewer indulge in such informed opinion now, but I would be willing to bet my Southern ancestors were very aware of this perfidious attitude spawned by self-aggrandizing economics, which required centralization to accomplish and maintain. This is the crop sown by Hamilton, tilled by Henry Clay, and fertilized with American blood by Lincoln's Republicans. We're reaping the results now. Next comes plowing under the fallow fields, a wasteland of lost liberty—eclipsing a Lost Cause.
Both Bynum's work and the Jenkins-Stauffer book on the Newt Knight legend make much ado about the Jones County unionists, particularly Jesse Collins, who I would agree was a unionist—such as he thought a "unionist" was. It's just my opinion, but what Jesse Collins wanted was the status quo that existed before the South seceded, which he didn't have once Northern aggression forced an oft-resisted centralization of the Confederate government in its effort to survive invasion.
Davis had problems with his governors, not just Piney Woods farmers, the latter being a more direct problem for the governors than they were to Richmond. Anyone who has studied the history of this period—or history period—knows this. People at war often balk at the demands of their beleaguered government. The people of the Confederacy sure weren't the first, and before it was all over, their government was under extreme duress, so, therefore, were its citizens. As a people they remained loyal to their government, particularly when faced with the hated alternative. And rest assured that alternative was hated and rightly so. Those comprising the alternative had just proven how evil they really were and things weren't going to improve for a long, long time. Given the nature of how Southern history is taught these days (or rather not taught), the Bynums, the Jenkinses, the Stauffers, and the Gary Rosses now making up the bulk of mainstream historians/media are taking the opportunity to try and persuade a Southern populace, who they assume to be ignorant until enlightened by them, to piss on their ancestors' graves. All assumption aside, why would anyone worthy of respect—or whose respect we would aspire to gain—do such a thing? The only people more reprehensible are Southerners who buy off on these pied pipers and actually do it. That's not to say the acceptance of facts when confronted with incontrovertible evidence should be considered sacrilege. We did lose the war after all, and there are a number of valid reasons for it—but Southern treachery falls too far down the list to be relevant. These subversives, however, would have Southerners believe otherwise. Worse, they portray men, whose feet of clay have long been regarded by Southerners with contempt, as American patriots. Historical studies identifying mistakes and even suggesting blame, where possible, should not be considered disloyalty to the Southern Cause, but critical self-analysis and the study of lessons learned are a good light-year away from sleeping with the enemy. That's what the mainstream today is demanding Southerners do in order to become true Americans. Count among today's mainstream many of our own Southern leaders; that is, after all, what they are doing.
In my opinion, Jessie Collins couldn't see the forest for the trees. On page 49 of their book, Jenkins and Stauffer inserted a ditty:
I'm de po' folks' lan' with my miles of sand,
and my cottonwoods moan and groan,
An' I'm gonna stay free from hills to the sea and
my forest are all my own.
The authors maintain the ballad supports the regional pride and independence of the poor whites in the region of Jones County and surrounds. I agree. Now tell me how in Hades anyone can deduce loyalty to Lincoln's Union out of that? What we have today is the absolute last thing those folks would have wanted. If they were here, vice their great-greats...they'd still be in the swamps. What the "federal union" resulting from ratification of the Constitution gave Collins and his neighbors was freedom from government and for seven decades state government stood as a bulwark against federal overreach. Secession—in tandem with all-out war waged against the state(s)—changed that. The interference on the part of the Confederate government, the government Collins forsook, was the direct result of unwarranted war waged against the South. His hatred of the Confederacy [which I suspect had more to do with partisan alignments within his county itself, divided along the lines of those actually working for the government (collecting taxes) and those who were not] probably translated more along the lines of "this wouldn't have happened if you people hadn't seceded. Everything would have been fine." No, it wouldn't have, but the Jesse Collinses couldn't see that. Independent, primarily subsistence farmers/grazers, they had been isolated from the conflicting economic interests dividing North and South and the North's ever-increasing push to marginalize the South's political power in the central government. The Confederacy, through necessity, had dared to "bother" Jesse Collins, disrupt his life, and interfere with his well-ordered existence, which had been relatively free of governmental presence. The war was the Confederacy's fault, not Yankee aggression—they'd always left him alone. Bynum, Jenkins, and Stauffer's implication that those so-called Jones-county unionists would be pleased with Hobbs' Leviathan of today is misleading and in my personal opinion, false.
Two other implications which run through both books—and this goes hand in hand with the authors' attempt to marginalize the "Lost Cause"—are that secession equals war and the South opted for war to protect slavery. No, the South risked a war to protect her posterity by that time already threatened economically (the tariff), politically (denial of the formation of slave-holding states in the new territories, exacerbating a situation that was already pivotal and in only a few years would leave the South totally outvoted in the general government, something both sides knew and which the North promoted and the South, for obvious reasons, resisted) and physically (the threat to Southern property, i.e. the underground railroad encouraging theft and the much more ominous threat of terrorism and anarchy which manifested itself in the raid of John Brown on Harper's Ferry. That attack was financed by Northern industrialists, philanthropists, and abolitionists who created a martyr of a psychopath while the Northern populace exalted his life and mourned his death. The financiers were never brought to trial, leaving them and those of their ilk free to continue their madness.)
I feel no embarrassment in conceding the South's agrarian economy was based on slave labor, especially when challenged by those supporting a regime sustained by a seemingly unlimited labor force of hapless immigrants ushered into poverty in filthy Northern cities to serve the masters of industry for a pittance. Really, who has the right to be judging anyone here on the basis of "humanitarianism"? But both perceived wrongs are irrelevant, because secession, no matter the reason, did not cause the war. Lincoln's aggression did. And here's the real crux of that second implication—Lincoln waged the war to free the slaves. What hogwash. Lincoln's war to "free the slaves" is the greatest spin of all. I'd go so far as to call it an out-'n-out cyclone. The refusal of the North, again for self-aggrandizing economic reasons, to accept an independent South with free-market ports, and the more immediate loss of tariff revenue, is what prompted Lincoln's aggression. It was the North that opted for war, and it did so for economic reasons.
But let's just suppose those Southerners so long ago really did not know what they were fighting for or believed after times got tough they were fighting for the rich man's slaves, that the state-rights issue and home rule and curbing the growing tyranny of a central government in the hands of industry never even crossed their poor "stupid" minds—it certainly should be crossing our minds now, because those were the issues that mattered and that's what the mainstream is trying to deflect. If we don't do something to reclaim our history, in fifty years all our Southern ancestors will have been opposed to the Confederacy—there will be nothing left spearheading those old battles, but evil slave owners, and the federal republic created by our founders will be a forgotten political theory swallowed up by a fabricated democracy embracing the concept of a worldwide, "elitist-supervised," mediocre humanity. (The lowest common denominator is the only way to make egalitarianism work).
Next time, a documented history of Jones County from another point of view.
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