Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean famous for its pristine wilderness. High-impact tourism is discouraged. Morne Trois Pitons National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has some fantastic hiking trails, including one to Boiling Lake. There are many waterfalls and rivers. Champagne is a snorkelling spot where underwater steam vents emit a constant stream of bubbles. It is very easy to go whale and dolphin watching.
The twisting mountain roads mean that getting anywhere is a slow but nevertheless thrilling process. There are many small villages along the coast. It is located in the hurricane belt and has been hit numerous times.
You just want to chill on the beach and drink.


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As The Blast previously reported, XXXTentacion was shot and killed on Monday afternoon in Florida. Officials believe the suspects are two black males, both wearing purple hoodies with long sleeves. The shooter allegedly wore a red mask.


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What is Fortnite Battle Royale? Tips, strategies and hints to win
If you're starting the Epic Games mega hit here are some of the things you need to do to avoid being owned!
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Fortnite Battle Royale is a free massively multiplayer game which pitches 100 players against each other on massive destructible maps.
It's already passed 50 million downloads and has proved to be a huge hit on platforms including XBox One and Playstation 4.
You can fight alone or in teams, and there are all sorts of weapons to find and structures to build and demolish in the maps.
It's tough out there - so here are some of the top tips to help you survive - and maybe even eventually win a round! Watch our video above for some top tips too.
Happy Landings
You need time to arm yourself up after you drop from the flying bus onto the map. This means that you need to check where you're going to touch down. It's a good idea to land near structures as that's where chests containing weapons and equipment are hidden - but avoid built up areas where a lot of other players may try to land. Remote is good so you can arm yourself properly. Use the glider to travel further if you need to.
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Beware of the circle
The eye of the storm or 'circle' on the map is crucial to the game. You must stay within it otherwise you take damage and die. Watch the timer for when it is about to shrink. Leave it too late and you'll be in a rush and vulnerable to attack by waiting enemies!
Arm yourself as soon as possible
Your first priority has to be to tool up - search nearby buildings and get your five item slots filled as soon as you can. Ditch items if something better comes up - and if you're in a team make sure other members know about weapons which you've spotted but don't need. Stronger team means greater chance of longer survival.
Weapons rundown
Pick weapons which suit your style of play. Shotguns, pistols and smgs for close quarters, assault rifles medium range and sniper rifles for far away. Consider your tactics and prepare - don't get caught in a close quarters battle with a sniper rifle equipped. Sounds obvious but it's surprising how many times players are switching weapons while they're being attacked. White ones are weakest, then green, blue, purple, orange and gold - getting more powerful in that order.
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Don't shoot when you don't need to
Fortnight players have their headphones on and are listening intently. Don't get a weapon and shoot in delight - someone may be lurking and you will just have alerted them to your presence. In Fortnite he who shoots first generally wins. Also be wary of running in areas you suspect might have opponents in - it's easier to hear you.
Pick your fights
If you see someone running across the countryside don't just open fire. Chances are there are a squad and you'll be giving your location away. The classic Fortnite kill is the close-in ambush. To do that you need to think about the best time to attack.
Use cover
Don't just sprint across open ground without thinking - consider where you could hide if you come under attack. You can be seen from miles off so using hills, trees, buildings and so on as cover is a good idea.
Use view
Fortnite's third person view means you can actually see stuff that's going on while being completely in cover. A good example of this is standing inside the top of a structure - you can see all around below due to the camera angle in comparative safety.
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Drink shield potions when you get them, close doors in houses so it's harder to say when you're there. Keep medikits and bandages for when you need them. While player buildings are useful they also absolutely give a position away - approach with care! Keep moving - staying in a building and expecting to stay safe at the end of the game when powerful weapons are about is a sure way to die.
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A Chinese proverb says: "a man is not a stalk of grass or a tree, he is a sentimental creature". As a matter of fact, this is entirely wrong; because plants also have feelings and various emotions, they even have languages, music or dances etc.; only that they express these in special and unique forms, which are not easily identified by common people. Sensitive plant Linn is one of the most typical grasses that have emotions.
Sensitive plant Linn is a perennial herbal plant. It could grow as tall as 1 meter and it also has thorns on its stalks. Its flower is round, light red, and the size of the flower is like beans; the flower has no pedals, and consists of many pistils, which look as if hairy balls; as soon as its leaves are touched, they would close and sink down like a beautiful and shy Dai girl who covers her face at the sight of a handsome young fellow.
Why could sensitive plant Linn feel shy? In the base of its leafstalk and the base of its double leave, there are two bulging parts. They are the stergrimas, and are quite sensitive to stimulations. In the center of the stergrima, there is a vascular bundle; when people touch the leaves, the stergrima would bring the leaves together, thus the leaves would dropped. After a while, the stergrima would be filled with cell liquid again, the pressure increases and the leaves would open again. The leafstalk would stand up and everything would restore to the original appearance.
This special feature of the sensitive plant Linn is its adaptation to the unfavorable environment of the outside. The native land of sensitive plant Linn is in Brazil of South America. There are frequent storms there. Every time when the first raindrop falls on the leaves, the leaves would close immediately; and the leafstalks would sink, thus avoid being damaged by the storm.
The whole plant of sensitive plant Linn is poisonous and could be used as medicines. It has the effects to make people calm down and to stop bleeding. If the leaves are pounded when fresh, they could cure zona. It originates in tropical areas of South America, and now scatters in all tropical areas on the globe. It grows in Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong in China.


I am trying to run bedtools intersect to find which genes are present in each of the locations I have in a bed file.
No matter what i do i get an error like : Error: unable to open file or unable to determine types for file temp.bed.
I was trying to intersect with a bed file from table browser but even if i try to intersect this file with itself i get the above error.
There are no whitespaces in b/w and it is tab delimited properly.
Anyone knows what is going on ?
Thank You that seemed to do the trick, there was indeed a space.
I was doing print chr,"\t",start,"\t",stop while generating it in python, changing it to print chr+"\t"+start+"\t"+stop fixed it.
This may help direct you to any formatting or ordering issues.
Chromosome sort order for bedops?


Leptis Magna was widely regarded as one of the most beautiful Roman cities and its excellently preserved remains make it one of the best Roman sites. Founded by the Phoenicians in the 5th century BC, Leptis Magna came under Roman control in the 2nd century BC. It flourished under the reign of its native son, Septimis Severus, in the 3rd century AD who enlarged and embellished the city, becoming second only to Rome with a population of 100,000. Buried under sand for centuries, the city has been extensively excavated since the 1920s. Among its many highlights are the Gladiator Circus, amphitheatre, marketplace, theatre, basilica and the many forums, baths, streets and arches.
Sabratha was a Phoenician trading post, part of the short-lived Numidian kingdom of Massinissa and under the influence of Carthage before coming under Roman control in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. It prospered as a trading centre for gold, ivory, leather, spices and slaves brought to the Mediterranean from central Africa which saw the city rebuilt with many impressive monuments. Like the more famous Leptis Magna, Sabratha today has some excellently preserved Roman ruins in a beautiful setting on the Mediterranean coast. Most famously, its theatre has a capacity of 5,000 and the stage area has been renovated with a three storey, marble-columned frons scena. Other features include the large forum surrounded by the temples of Liber Pater, Serapis, Hercules and Isis, the Christian basilica of Justinian and the Capitolium.
Dougga was an important Punic city prior to Rome's annexation of Numidia in 46 BC but flourished under Roman and then Byzantine control. The ruins today form the most impressive Roman site in Tunisia. These include the capitolium dedicated to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva (one of the finest Roman monuments in North Africa), the forum surrounded by a marble colonnade, the amphitheatre, circus and public baths. The mausoleum in the southern part of town is the only surviving major Punic monument in Tunisia.
The small village of El Jem (known in classical times as Thysdrus) contains the impressive ruins of the largest Roman amphitheatre in North Africa, and the third largest in the world after the Colosseum in Rome and Capua near Naples. Built in the 3rd century AD, the amphitheatre was elliptical in form, probably four storeys high and designed to accommodate up to 60,000 spectators. Lack of funds and political rivalries meant the amphitheatre was never finished, but today it remains incredibly well preserved and intact. You can climb several storeys to survey the whole amphitheatre or explore the underground passageways where the gladiators and animals waited before being released into the arena.
Founded in the 3rd century BC, Volubilis became an outpost at the edges of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD, as capital of its province of Mauritania Tingitana. Housing the best Roman ruins in Morocco, Volubilis is best known for its numerous and detailed floor mosaics. Some of the notable structures remaining are the ruins of the basilica, capitol, the great houses of Orpheus and Ephebus and the triumphal arch of Caracalla which spans the decumanus maximus.


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Q: How to combine like elements in list? I'm trying to reorganize my list according to its peers.
I have this list:
['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']
and i want to do something like this:
['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']
the element 'datetime' must be the first element in list, but i think i can do this after reordered list

A: Full Code
data = ['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM',
        'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']
data.remove("datetime") # removing datetime as it is the odd one in the list
data = sorted(data, key=lambda x: x.split("-")[-1])# sorting based on the last element ie. element after '-'
data.insert(0, "datetime") # Inserting the odd element 'datetime' back
print(data)

Output
['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']

Hope this helps. happy Coding :)

A: If the last "word" is prefixed by hyphen then:
indata = ['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']

print([indata[0]] + sorted(indata[1:], key=lambda e: e.split('-')[-1]))

Output:
['datetime', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-DVENTO', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PREC_MM', 'INMET_BRASILIA_A001_M-PRESS_HPA', 'INMET_CURITIBA_A807_M-PRESS_HPA']

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Veterans' Affairs 54
Cross Government 45
Management of Job Network Contracts
The audit reviewed the management of the first round of Job Network contracts, which focused on Job Matching, Job Search Training and Intensive Assistance. The objective of the audit was to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business's management of the first round of employment services contracts. A key part of this examination was to assess the Department's level of confidence that the program was meeting government objectives based on performance and management information.
Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
Administration of Business Entry Program
The objective of the performance audit was to assess the administrative effectiveness of DIMA's business entry program against the background of the Business and Temporary Entry program objective, with particular regard to whether:
the existing performance management mechanisms and compliance monitoring strategies support the achievement of program outcomes and outputs;
the quality of decision-making;
business processes facilitate prompt visa decision-making consistent with program objectives; and
decision-making support mechanisms promote robust and timely decision-making.
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Published: Thursday 22 July 1999
Electronic Travel Authority
All persons, other than Australian nationals, are required to hold a visa to enter and stay in Australia. This audit's focus is on the entry component of the visa process and specifically the Electronic Travel Authority (ETA). The ETA is an electronically-stored authority for travel, which facilitates the entry of tourists and short-term business travellers from countries where the risk of non-compliance with visa conditions is low, that is, in countries classified as 'low risk'. The objective of the performance audit was to assess the administrative effectiveness of the ETA.
Published: Friday 15 January 1999
Use and Operation of Performance Information in the Service Level Agreements
The audit reviewed the use and operation of performance information in service level agreements between Centrelink and three agencies; the Department of Social Security, the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs and the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. The objective of the audit was to establish whether the performance assessment framework specified in the agreements enabled the adequate assessment of achievements under purchaser/provider arrangements entered into by DSS, DEETYA and Centrelink.
Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs; Centrelink; Department of Social Security
Provision of Migrant Settlement Services by DIMA
The audit addressed administration of migrant settlement services by DIMA, in particular:
strategic management, including corporate planning, performance measurement and reporting arrangements; and
operational management of some of the individual schemes operated by DIMA (the Adult English Migrant Program and Translating Interpreting Services were not covered as part of this audit).
Getting Over the Line: Selected Commonwealth Bodies' Management of the Year 2000 Problem.
The audit reviewed six budget-funded agencies (Australian Customs Service, Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink, Department of Defence, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, and Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) and two off-budget entities (Airservices Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia). The ANAO also examined the Office for Government Online's (OGO, formerly the Office of Government Information Technology, or OGIT) whole-of-government coordination of the Commonwealth's Year 2000 efforts.
Australian Customs Service; Australian Taxation Office; Centrelink; Department of Defence; Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs; Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Management of Boat People
The objective of the audit was to assess the economy, efficiency and administrative effectiveness, including accountability, of the management of boat people by the Department and the providers of major related services to DIMA such as: the Coastwatch Service within the Australian Customs Service and the Australian Protective Service within the Attorney-General's portfolio. The audit examined key issues in the management of boat people largely from a risk management perspective. The audit conclusions are presented in terms of: the economy, efficiency and administrative effectiveness, including the accountability, of operations; and the administrative functions which support the management of boat people, such as detection, reception of boats and costs.
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Australian Protective Service; Australian Customs Service
Published: Tuesday 21 October 1997
Immigration Compliance Function
The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess whether the department had taken appropriate action in response to the recommendations in Audit Report No.35 1993-94, titled The Compliance Function, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. The recommendations of the 1993-94 report, which formed the criteria for the audit, were primarily concerned with compliance after entry to Australia had been gained.
Published: Wednesday 22 May 1996
The audit examined how well performance information for programs administered by the (now) Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA) facilitates good decision-making and provides a suitable framework for control and accountability for performance.
Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
CES Case Management
This audit reviewed the efficiency and administrative effectiveness of case management in the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) to identify good practices and any areas in need of improvement.
Department of Employment, Education and Training


How did your journey as a filmmaker develop?
Since childhood I have been drawn to the arts. It has been a language I have understood and something that came naturally and passionately. However, I could not find an art form that I fully connected with. I made my first film at 16 and it was like a light bulb went off. I had found the best way, for me, to convey emotion, opinion and story. I was hooked!
Being a woman in the film industry…what is the biggest thing you've learned so far?
Don't take anything personally. It is, no doubt, a challenge at times to be in an industry that is male dominated. I have learned to work extremely hard, mentally and physically but it has made me a stronger filmmaker. In the end it doesn't matter if you are male or female, you all work equally as hard to create an end product that you can hopefully be proud of. If a film can not only make an audience cry and laugh but change their views and opinions on life, I don't care if that film was directed by a male of female, a story speaks for itself.
What has been one of your biggest insecurities in life and how do you personally overcome those inner battles?
I battle with ego on a daily basis. You don't enter this business without having one and because of that ego I am wretched with insecurities. Is my work good enough? Will I ever climb to the top? Will I win a bunch of awards? To keep myself balanced, emotionally, I communicate a lot with my friends and family. I have also been blessed with mentors in the industry male and female that can relate to these issues and offer advice. I also try to write and create projects that will benefit my community to create win win situations and ground myself to what is really important.
Talking about women empowerment, what does that look like for you in your life?
Empowerment for me is also another word for freedom. I do not nor will I ever feel shackled to a job, a relationship or a society. I choose to be in this industry and love every ugly part of it, I choose to be in my relationship and respect my partner whole heartedly and finally I choose to be a part of society and society will be all the better because I am in it…that to me is the power of women and women empowerment.
When you really dig deep… What comes to mind when you look at yourself in the mirror?
I see someone who is not perfect but is happy. I see someone who knows the power of love and has fully immersed herself in it.
What's one of your wildest dreams that hasn't manifested yet in your life… but you can't wait for it to become a reality?
I am working very hard towards writing, funding and directing my own feature length film. It is no easy task to do even one of the three but no dream is too big and no goal is unreachable.
If you were in a room with a bunch of crazy women dreamers… What would you tell them?
Intuition never lies. Silence the noise around you and go with your gut. I have always followed that little voice inside and it has never let me down. If it feels right it is right, never second-guess that.
The Power of Your YES!


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Rio; Your Highness; Hanna; Arthur
Sunday, Apr 10, 2011 by Joseph "Jay Dub" Wade (@JayDubSA), Martin "Vargo" Schneider (@SchneidRemarks), and Ian "Professor Clumsy" Maddison (@professorclumsy)
More animated talking animals coming at you this week in the form of Rio: Ian "ProfessorClumsy" Maddison heroically stepped in to save Joseph "Jay Dub" Wade's sanity. Meanwhile, Martin R. "Vargo" Schneider thought he'd have a blast with Your Highness and turned out to be incredibly wrong. Finally, Jay Dub decided he'd play it safe and watch two non-animated, only-the-humans-talk films named for their title characters, Hanna and Arthur.
by Ian "ProfessorClumsy" Maddison
EXPECTATIONS: Every time I visit the cinema these days I am forced to sit through a terrible advert for Orange mobile phones, courtesy of the animated cast of Rio. I have never once heard anybody of any age laugh at this thing, which hardly fills me with optimism. However, with Jay Dub left a gibbering wreck after last week's Hop, I felt the only humane thing to do was to step up myself and endure what can only be an arduous ninety-six minutes.
REALITY: "Has Pixar made a movie about talking birds yet? No? Okay, let's do that before they do. You guys, start drawing birds. You, start rounding up as many celebrity voices as we can get. You, get me a coffee!"
"And should I start working on a script?"
"A what? I don't have time for that now, I have concept art to approve... What the hell is this? I said big eyes, damn it! Big eyes! Humongous eyes! If I don't fill sixty percent of every shot with eyes, the kids won't buy it! Eyes! Dancing birds! Celebrity voices! This is how movies are made!"
Hilarious animated hijinks! No wait... not hilarious. The other thing. Tedious.The above scene is how I imagine Rio was first conceived, and I would not be at all surprised if I later discovered this to be true. The characters are poorly designed and mostly feel shoe-horned into the story, what little of it there is. Our hero Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) is a blue macaw brought from Rio do Janeiro to Minnesota by smugglers; there he is found and nurtured by Linda (Leslie Mann). One day, Blu's domesticated world is turned upside down when wildlife conservationist Tulio (Rodrigo Santoro) appears and reveals to Linda that Blu is the last male blue macaw in the world and that he needs to return to Rio to mate with the last female, Jewel (Anne Hathaway). Along the way he is helped by an interchangeable cast of characters voiced by will.i.am, Jamie Foxx and Tracy Morgan, and hindered by the incredibly evil Nigel (Jemaine Clement).
Everything trundles along at such a poorly executed pace that things like character motivations get cast aside in favour of endless party scenes. You know how we're always complaining that animated films keep ending with a dance party? That dance party is the entirety of Rio. It doesn't let up for one second to give you time to ponder why the hell the villains in this movie care so much about their particular goal of kidnapping two birds. Presumably they're worth a lot of money, but there has to be a point where you write off your losses. This is exactly why the protagonists in The Karate Kid made no logical or emotional sense. You'd think they could have portrayed something pretty simplistic in a talking-bird film, instead of what they tried to do.
You see, the real villains in this film are three young men who live in a slum and are presumably forced into a life of crime. Why that necessarily involves the smuggling of rare birds is beyond me, especially when they all seem to answer to a damn bird themselves. It's really coming to something when a bird can force you into a life of oddly specific criminal activity for absolutely no reason. But, consider the implications of that. One character in this film is a young orphan who sleeps in a box on a metal roof. We're shown his tragic predicament early on and it looms forever over the rest of the film. Later, he appeals to Linda and Tulio because he wants to do the right thing. Tulio claims he cannot be trusted because he is obviously a little rat slum orphan scumbag, and Tulio knows the dangers of Brazil. Then Linda decides they have to trust him, because she is a wise, enlightened, white American who can reach out with kind arms and an accepting soul; the poor need the rich to grant them redemption, after all.
All those massive eyes all focused on something just off screen to the left there.
It is impossible to dislike the antagonists because the film has such a high and mighty stance over them, and it's also impossible to like the protagonists because they're constantly fluctuating between whining about nothing and partying at the slightest provocation. It's like watching a bunch of college students lord it over a group of less fortunate youths because they assume they must be evil and lazy in order to be poor. It's almost Randian, which is appropriate given what we're anticipating next week.
Is that Rio's biggest crime, or should we be more offended by the fact that this film is simply not in any way funny? There were plenty of kids and other people in the crowd with me, and I can't remember the last time I heard such a morbidly silent audience. If the makers of Rio were less interested in filling the screen with gigantic eyeballs and spent more time working on a script for their celebrity actors to read between real jobs, this could have at least been mildly amusing. The cast members don't even bring much to their roles, apart from the occassional rap session.
Jesse Eisenberg, in particular, is not cut out for voice-over work. After his Academy Award-nominated performance in The Social Network, it is clear that his naturally fast and understated speech pattern does not lend itself well to animated birds. Not that the design work helps at all; some of the characters in this film are even identical, not just in appearance, but in personality. There are only so many times you can show kids a big fat guy with a flat nose who also loves to dance before they start getting them confused.
I really can't imagine anyone warming to this crap when we have Rango still delighting audiences as a hugely superior alternative. Maybe it's about time these animation studios started to realise that it's not all about filling the screen with 3-D eyes; unique character design and heartfelt storytelling actually do resonate with young people.
Fucking huge!
MINORITY REPORT: I wanted bigger eyes, but the damn artists just couldn't pull it off. They're all fired now, damn them! Where's my damn coffee? I want coffee with huge eyes! - Blue Sky Studio Exec
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Another great show at the Poncan Theatre - this time Rick Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra playing orchestrial accompaniment to Douglas Fairbanks 1920 movie the "Mark of Zorro." I talked to Mr. Benjamin before the show and asked him if he had a Wikipedia article about the orchestra and he told me there was an entry but that it was pretty bad. I told him that I wanted to take some photos of the orchestra after the show and expand his article as I had done for Dennis James when Dennis came to the Poncan Theatre last year and he thought that was fine.
Rick Benjamin is the director and founder of the world renowned Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, formed and dedicated to the exploration and preservation of American popular styles. Benjamin has an active career as a pianist and tuboist as well as an arranger.
Benjamin's interest in ragtime music began in ther 1970's when he was eight years old. Benjamin was visiting his grandparents and wandered out to the garage and discovered an old 1917 Victorola with ragtime music from the turn of the century. "As music poured out of the dusty ancient machine, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of complete wonder: A new world, glowing with life, was calling out to me from another time," Benjamin says. "The sounds were somehow much more meaningful to me than the current pop music of the Gerald Ford era. ...I knew in my bones that these performers and their composers were expressing their sheer joy in life through their music."
Benjamin says he learned that ragtime was the first authentic American music. "Until ragtime came along, all our pop music here was imported from Germany or England," Benjamin says. "Suddenly, with this new ragtime music -- from the Midwest, from Chicago and St. Louis -- was America's first homegrown music product."
Benjamin studied at Juilliard and intended to become a professional tuba player. While a student at Juilliard in 1985, had a "dental accident" while he was having a tooth extracted by a dentist that shattered his teeth. As a result, Benjamin was unable to play the tuba after his jaw was wired up. "I couldn't play, couldn't open my mouth any wider than a straw," says Benjamin. Unable to play, Benjamin was assigned a research paper on Arthur Pryor, an 1890s conductor and music director. In his search Benjamin found that Pryor's personal collection of over 4,000 pieces was in an old theater in Asbury, New Jersey that was about to be torn down. Benjamin was given the collection free for the hauling off and it rook him three days to cart it off.
The collection included rare musical scores and manuscripts. Even at the conclusion of this, I wasn't sure what I had," Benjamin said. Then he found signatures on compositions from Scott Joplin, W.C. Handy and Sousa. "I had pieces no one had ever heard of before." The manuscripts turned out to belong to the library of Arthur Pryor, a conductor, composer and arranger who led a touring band and a recording orchestra. The collection contained thousands of works from the 1920's by composers including Scott Joplin, Edward MacDowell, W.C. Handy, Victor Herbert, and Jerome Kern. Pryor had been first conductor for the Victor Talking Machine Co and as conductor, got to decide what was recorded to play on the new fangled Victrolas. "Anybody who was anybody in that era would send their scores to Mr. Pryor in hopes that they would be recorded," Benjamin said. The collection had been thought to have been destroyed in a fire.
In 1986 Benjamin decided to form a 14-piece orchestra of fellow Juilliard students to perform the music using authentic period arrangements of a similar ensembles from the ragtime era.
Benjamin had originally made a request to Juilliard to perform a concert of turn-of-the-20th-century American composers which was rejected by Juilliard's dean. "Absolutely not, we do Bach, Brahms and Beethoven, not W.C. Handy," said Juilliard's Dean. Benjamin skirted Juilliard's rule against performing ragtime music under the guise of presenting a Mozart program at a concert hall. "I was a rebel, you see," says Benjamin and left the doors to the concert hall open to attract passerbys. Benjamin presented the inaugural performance to a packed house at Juilliard's Recital Hall. The program of their initial performance included the 1912 score of W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues," selections by Irving Berlin and Victor Herbert, and a manuscript orchestration of Joplin's "Peacherine Two-Step." After the performance Juilliard professor Vincent Persichetti told Benjamin that he should make musical preservation of "America's original music" his life's work.
Benjamin was put on probation for producing a concert of ragtime over the dean's objections. However someone in the audience recorded Benjamin's first concert on a walkman and the recording came to the attention of Columbia Records executive Thomas Frost, who loved the music. Frost produced the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra's first recording. "Suddenly we went from nobodyhood to having this nine-time Grammywinning guy producing us," Benjamin said. Benjamin quit Juilliard and has been leading the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra ever since. "I became so engrossed developing my orchestra full time and curating the thousands of historic orchestrations I had found that one day I cleaned out my locker and left [Juilliard] without a word," says Benjamin.
Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra made their New York debut at the Alice Tully Hall in March 1988. In their debut they performed twenty-one pieces composed between 1905 and 1920 and a medley of tunes from the 1890's. In their debut the orchestra performed in a variety of styles including "a concert waltz, a maxixe, one-steps, two-steps, foxtrots and blues, and, of course, numerous rags, some quite picturesque." Allan Kozinn wrote in the New York Times that their performance "came off not as a dry musicological dig, but as an evening of superannuated but abidingly energetic fun." The performance by Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra was the first of its kind at the Lincoln Center by a professional ragtime ensemble.
In February 1999, Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra premiered Oh, You Kid! at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Oh, You Kid! is a collaboration between the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Rick Benjamin's Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and the American Dance Festival as part of the Doris Duke Millennium Awards for Modern Dance and Jazz Music. The commission pairs modern jazz companies with jazz composers and performers for works that feature live music. Anna Kisselgoff wrote in the New York Times that the show was "exuberant romp to ragtime music."
In June 2003 Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra premiered their version of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha Stern Grove Festival. Treemonisha had originally premiered with full professional staging by the Houston Grand Opera in 1975. However Benjamin thought that the Houston staging was "too heavy, too Verdiesque" and spent five years reconstructing the opera score for a 12-piece theater pit orchestra of the kind Joplin and his peers wrote for and performed with. "We want to do it exactly as we think he would have done it in 1911 on tour, " said Benjamin. "The train would arrive at some town in Iowa, and the cast and chorus would take a buggy, or maybe walk, down to the theater with their simple properties - - maybe a couple of canvas backgrounds -- set it up and give this show with the local pit orchestra."
Benjamin says that Joplin "understood the power of the operatic medium to deliver a message. As a black man at the time, he probably wasn't allowed to go to the opera." Benjamin hopes his new orchestration will encourage musical groups to perform Treemonisha "with a small orchestra, of modest needs, and still convey this wonderful message. Joplin would be beaming from some place, because his work is being performed." "I see Treemonisha as "opera" in name only," writes Benjamin. "It is much more an amalgamation of the well-established American traditions of vaudeville, tab-show, melodrama, and minstrelsy, all held together by Joplin's marvelous music. For this, the ideal accompaniment should be provided by the regulation twelve-piece theatre orchestra of that era."
Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra are well known for their recreation of playing original scores to silent films while the silent movies are simultaneously projected on screen. Silent movies for which they perform the score include Buster Keaton's Cops, Harold Lloyd's Never Weaken, and Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant. "It's like going to the movies with the extra benefit of live music," says Carol Woodruff, director of Cultural Outreach at East Carolina University. "This is a really cool show. The musicians get really pumped and put their whole lives into their performance," says Mary Ruth Helms. Benjamin says he is surprised by the response from younger listeners. "Surprisingly, our audience demographics seem to indicate the audience is younger, Generation X, and not the seasoned citizens, as they are known. It surprises us," says Benjamin. "I think a lot of younger people ... move away from some of the commercial stuff that's crammed down their throats."
Benjamin has a collection of nearly a thousand period cinema-orchestra scores.
In addition to touring, Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra performs on radio programs for the New York Times' WQXR, National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Voice of America networks.
Benjamin has conducted the the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra (Denmark), the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Olympia Symphony in Washington State, the New Jersey Symphony, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Austria.
Benjamin has written articles on popular music that have appeared in several periodicals.
Benjamin performs lecture tours on late 19th and early 20th Century American music at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Benjamin is at work on two books: The American Theater Orchestra and Encyclopedia of Arrangers & Orchestrators: 1875-1925.
In addition to curating the collection of Arthur Prior, Benjamin also curates the collection of Simone Mantia, B.F. Alart, and Frank H. Wells theatre orchestra collections. Benjamin's collection totals about 10,000 fully-orchestrated selections from the 1890s – 1920s.
Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra were selected to be America's "Ambassador of Goodwill" at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain.
Benjamin was greatly encouraged in his musical career by his grandfather, J. Edward Smith, who played violin, clarinet & piano, among other instruments, throughout his life, and was a musician with the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, in Monmouth County, NJ, for many years until his death. Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra continue to perform regularly in Monmouth County, NJ venues, where both grandfather and grandson lived.
Benjamin lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and lectures at Bucknell University.
Rick Benjamin and the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra have recorded eleven CD's and produced two DVD's of their music accompanying silent movies.
1. New York Times. "MUSIC; Practice Session Offers a Behind-the-Scene Look" by Robert Sherman. January 9, 1994.
3. Decator Herald and Review. "Strange circumstances lead to Ragtime Orchestra's genesis" by David Burke. September 19, 1997.
4. New York Times. "Review/Ragtime; From a Trove Of Rediscovered Joplin et al." by Allan Kozinn. March 24, 1988.
5. The East Carolinian. "Paragon Ragtime comes to ECU" by Laura Pekarek. March 11, 2004.
6. New World Classics. "Why a New Version of Treemonish?" by Rick Benjamin.
7. New York Times. "Outdoors, Concert Fare That's Serious And Rare" by Allan Kozinn. July 20, 1990.
8. San Fransisco Chronicle. "How Joplin heard America singing" by Jesse Hamlin. June 21, 2003.
9. Stamford Advocate. "Orchestra performs soundtrack to Buster Keaton films" by Nadia Lerner. January 4, 2007.
10. New York Times. "Footlights" by Lawrence Van Gelder. February 17, 1999.
11. New York Times. " DANCE REVIEW; Fast and Loose in the Age of Ragtime" by Anna Kisselgoff. February 22, 1999.
Here are additional photos that I took of the performance.


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Q: Ojdbc7 doesn't contain oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTypes.CURSOR Currently we are using (oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleTypes.CURSOR) with registerOutParameter using  ojdb14
Now we are migrating ojdbc7. What is new mode as
oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes is even not visible?

A: According to the Oracle JavaDocs this is oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes.CURSOR
The class is defined public, so it is accessible.
The following code compiles fine:
public class OracleTest
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    System.out.println("CURSOR is: " + oracle.jdbc.OracleTypes.CURSOR);
  }
}

And prints:
CURSOR is: -10


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Peering at his computer screen, Panagis Galiatsatos assesses the new seating arrangement of a Baltimore church. He's pleased to see that congregants will be spaced more than 6 feet apart, as recommended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Since March, the pulmonary and critical care doctor and co-founder of Medicine for the Greater Good has been participating in frequent telephone and video conversations with leaders of local churches, synagogues and mosques. In the early days of the pandemic, they discussed how COVID-19 information could be added to virtual sermons. Now, the focus is on safely reopening the sanctuaries.
"The front-line people are not the doctors and nurses," says Galiatsatos. "We are the last line. The community is the front line. The more the population can spread proper information and not spread the virus, the better we can be at putting an end to this pandemic."
Better Health for All
Pandemic Anchor Strategy
Johns Hopkins leaders are bringing testing, education and resources to the disadvantaged communities most harmed by COVID-19.
Alicia Wilson
The vice president for economic development at the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System grew up in Northeast Baltimore and is now helping communities like her own combat COVID-19.
Community Calls
Health care leaders from the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center host a twice weekly conference call to deliver reliable COVID-19 information to underserved Baltimoreans.
The conversations are part of a multipronged push by Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University to tackle a particularly troubling aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic: the disproportionate harm it is causing to already disadvantaged communities, particularly African American and Latinx people.
The effort, called the COVID-19 Pandemic Anchor Strategy, brings information and testing to Baltimore neighborhoods, provides additional bilingual support for Spanish-speaking patients, distributes food, and opens crucial lines of communication with community residents and leaders.
"You can give people medicine, but if you're not meeting their basic needs you're not really treating the whole person," says Sherita Hill Golden, vice president and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine and a member of the Pandemic Anchor Strategy group.
Disparities Didn't Start with COVID-19
The COVID Tracking Project, which documents racial and ethnic disparities by state, shows that African Americans and Latinx people are at greater risk of COVID-19 harm compared to whites in Maryland.
African Americans, at 29% of the state's population, account for 41% of COVID-19 deaths and 36% of cases. Latinx people, at 10% of the population, account for 11% of deaths and 31% of cases.
White people, at 51% of the population, make up 43% of deaths and 26% of cases. Native Americans, severely hit nationwide, are less than .05% of the state's population — too few to show up in the tracking project's data.
The factors contributing to these health disparities were entrenched long before COVID-19, says Golden.
Because of systemic racism that influences medical systems and social policies, she says, people of color are disproportionately distrustful of health care institutions and more likely to live in neighborhoods with poor access to green spaces, healthy food, and safe and affordable housing. For those reasons, they are more likely to develop conditions like asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which can worsen COVID-19's toll.
The same people are at particular risk of infection from the coronavirus because they more often have low-paying jobs that don't allow the luxury of working from home or taking time off. They are also more likely to live in densely populated neighborhoods and in close quarters with extended family, making physical distancing a challenge.
Latinx patients and families may also experience language barriers that hinder appropriate education, testing or care.
And the pandemic makes communication in health care settings even more difficult. With face masks and noisy powered air-purifying respirators, speech is harder to understand. Also, visiting restrictions mean family members can't be there to comfort their loved ones.
The Pandemic Anchor Strategy
In March, as The Johns Hopkins Hospital began treating its first patients who had COVID-19, Alicia Wilson, vice president for economic development at The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Heath System, was thinking about how to take the hospital's response to the pandemic beyond its walls.
With the support of Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels and Johns Hopkins Health System President Kevin W. Sowers, she brought together health system and university leaders to form the COVID-19 Anchor Strategy Work Group.
The group identifies, develops and deploys interventions in coordination with the Baltimore school system, the city and state health departments, and other agencies and organizations to bring education, testing and other resources to Baltimore communities that are particularly hard hit by the pandemic.
The efforts so far include:
· Connection and Education. Johns Hopkins experts have led phone and video conversations and town halls with clergy members, parents, students and older adults on topics such as how to entertain children during the summer, and legal rights in case of eviction. Virtual movie nights, TikTok competitions and trivia games, offered in English and Spanish, provide more opportunities to build connections with young people. Flyers distributed in English and Spanish give information about physical distancing, mask wearing and other safety measures.
· Culturally Appropriate Care. A new program called Juntos seeks to reduce cultural and language isolation for Latinx patients and their families by connecting them with bilingual clinicians. "Having someone speak to the patients directly in their primary language is comforting," says Tina Tolson, senior director of operations for Johns Hopkins Medicine Language Access Services. Tolson created Juntos with Kathleen Page, associate professor of medicine; Centro SOL (Center for Salud/Health & Opportunities for Latinos) and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity.
The service does not replace medical interpretation, Tolson says, but offers additional support for this vulnerable population. "The Juntos providers are often able to ascertain more information directly from the patient to promote healing and ensure understanding of a complex clinical situation," she says.
Talia Robledo-Gil, an internal medicine-urban health resident, is one of about a dozen Juntos volunteers who talk with patients and family members, sometimes answering questions and sometimes simply easing their isolation and fears. "With really critically ill patients, it can mean explaining to their loved ones why they need to be intubated, even though they seemed fine yesterday," says Robledo-Gil, who grew up in a bilingual, bicultural Miami home with parents born in Peru.
· COVID-19 Testing and Follow-Up. Johns Hopkins clinicians are traveling to homeless shelters, sober living facilities and neighborhoods deemed COVID-19 hot spots to provide on-site testing.
They set up temporary testing sites, including one that was under the Jones Falls Expressway, in response to requests from the city or from organizations like Health Care for the Homeless or the Helping Up Mission.
The testing teams notify people of their test results and help them get appropriate care if needed.
One option as a place to live for people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 — and for health care workers — is the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Through a partnership among Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland Medical System and CareFirst, the hotel is providing rooms to people who are homeless or living in crowded conditions that make physical distancing difficult.
· Food. Grab-and-go meals and food pantries are available for employees at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Sibley Memorial Hospital. Wilson notes that employees may be living in households with reduced incomes because of pandemic shutdowns, and they may have safety concerns about going to a grocery store. Johns Hopkins also works with the Maryland Food Bank to provide meals to thousands of low income adults in East Baltimore.
· Advocacy. "We are working with our government and community affairs team to brief state lawmakers about COVID and disparities," says Golden. There are also plans to recommend legislation aimed at reducing health disparities, she says, but they are still in the early stage. "We are able to have our pulse on a lot of these issues because we are talking and listening to residents," says Wilson.
The programs all build on the recognition that health care does not begin and end at the hospital door. Sometimes, it takes the form of a virtual lesson with teenagers.
Galiatsatos, previously a guest teacher at the Maree G. Farring Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore, returned recently to give lessons about COVID-19. He discussed the chemistry of sanitizers and explained the importance of masks. One student confided that her mother might have COVID-19, and Galiatsatos arranged testing and the care she needed.
"My school has a very diverse population of learners," says Olivia Veira, a teacher at Maree G. Farring. "A lot of their information comes from memes and social media. They want to know where the virus came from, and when this will be over.
"Dr. Galiatsatos answers in terms that are accessible to students, while also emphasizing the importance of masks and physical distancing. He's giving them real scientific information."
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package org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.euphoria.core.testkit;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.euphoria.core.client.operator.AssignEventTime;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.euphoria.core.client.operator.SumByKey;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.DefaultTrigger;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.FixedWindows;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.KV;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.TypeDescriptor;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/** Test operator {@code SumByKey}. */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class SumByKeyTest extends AbstractOperatorTest {

  @Test
  public void testSumByKey() {
    execute(
        new AbstractTestCase<Integer, KV<Integer, Long>>() {
          @Override
          protected PCollection<KV<Integer, Long>> getOutput(PCollection<Integer> input) {
            final PCollection<Integer> inputWithTime =
                AssignEventTime.of(input).using(i -> 0).output();
            return SumByKey.of(inputWithTime)
                .keyBy(e -> e % 2)
                .valueBy(e -> (long) e)
                .windowBy(FixedWindows.of(org.joda.time.Duration.standardHours(1)))
                .triggeredBy(DefaultTrigger.of())
                .discardingFiredPanes()
                .output();
          }

          @Override
          protected List<Integer> getInput() {
            return Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9);
          }

          @Override
          protected TypeDescriptor<Integer> getInputType() {
            return null;
          }

          @Override
          public List<KV<Integer, Long>> getUnorderedOutput() {
            return Arrays.asList(KV.of(0, 20L), KV.of(1, 25L));
          }
        });
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


12.4-QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES-HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS - HACCP: WHAT IS IT? 12.4-Quality control issues-Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points - HACCP: what is it?
12.4-QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES-HAZARD ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINTS - HACCP: WHAT IS IT?
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points - HACCP: what is it?
The scope of quality control in developed countries has expanded enormously in recent years. Today it encompasses not just the traditional commercial concerns with 'quality' but also all food health and hygiene concerns associated with modern consumerism. Coffee is part of the modern food chain and health concerns are increasingly shaping quality controls at the receiving end.
Gone are the days of settling claims on mould or contamination damage 'internally' through the payment of a simple allowance. Not only may customs and health authorities in consuming countries order the destruction of 'hazardous' parcels, but they will also trace responsibility back to the source: the country, the shipper and even the individual grower. Relatively light-hearted sounding phrases such as tracking and tracing food products from farm to fork, stable to table or plough to plate are, in fact, the political outcome of consumer pressure. People want to know their food is safe and if one particular sector of the food industry is found to pose a problem, then all other sectors are affected as well.
Food health and hygiene concerns are relatively easily addressed in developed countries. The difficulty for developing nations is that the resultant procedures and regulations are then applied equally to food crops imported into developed countries. The import trade is increasingly passing such consumer-imposed food chain management issues on to exporting countries that, in most instances, have to find the answers or lose the business. A particular food safety issue for coffee is concern over the presence in foods and beverages of ochratoxin A (OTA), a mycotoxin that is believed to cause kidney damage. OTA is a probable human renal carcinogen (cancer producing substance - IARC evaluation Class 2B). Although the toxicological status of OTA has not yet been settled, importing countries are increasingly paying attention to its occurrence in coffee and other products and are requiring the adoption of preventative measures.
HACCP is a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards from raw food material production to manufacturing and consumption.
1. Analyse hazards, for instance microbiological (e.g. bacteria, viruses, moulds, toxins), chemical (e.g. pesticide residues), or physical (stones, wood, glass etc).
2. Identify critical control points. These are points in the food's production (from raw to processed to consumption) at which a potential hazard can be controlled or eliminated.
3. Establish preventative measures with critical limits (values) for each control point, such as a minimum drying time to ensure mould growth cannot progress.
4. Establish procedures to monitor the critical control points (e.g. how to ensure that adequate drying occurs).
5. Establish corrective actions to be taken when monitoring shows that a critical limit has not been met, such as disposing of potentially contaminated cherry.
6. Establish procedures to verify that the system is working properly. For example, test drying facilities for leaks or contamination.
7. Establish effective record keeping to document the HACCP system, such as records of hazards and control methods, the monitoring of safety requirements and actions taken to correct potential problems.


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<?php

namespace google\appengine\runtime;

require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/ApiProxyBase.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/ext/remote_api/remote_api_pb.php';

require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/CallNotFoundError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/ArgumentError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/DeadlineExceededError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/CancelledError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/ApplicationError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/OverQuotaError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/RequestTooLargeError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/ResponseTooLargeError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/CapabilityDisabledError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/FeatureNotEnabledError.php';
require_once 'google/appengine/runtime/RPCFailedError.php';

use google\appengine\ext\remote_api\Request;
use google\appengine\ext\remote_api\Response;
use google\appengine\runtime\RPCFailedError;

class RemoteApiProxy extends ApiProxyBase{

  private $apiHost = null;
  private $apiPort = null;
  private $requestId = null;

  /**
   * Constructs an instance of RemoteApiProxy.
   * @param string $apiHost Host to use
   * @param int $apiPort Port to use
   * @param string $requestId ID of the request
   */
  function __construct($apiHost, $apiPort, $requestId) {
    $this->apiHost = $apiHost;
    $this->apiPort = $apiPort;
    $this->requestId = $requestId;
  }

  /**
   * Makes a synchronous RPC call.
   * @param string $package Package to call
   * @param string $call_name Specific RPC call to make
   * @param string $request Request proto, serialised to string
   * @param string $response Response proto string to populate
   * @param double $deadline Optional deadline for the RPC call
   */
  public function makeSyncCall(
      $package,
      $call_name,
      $request,
      $response,
      $deadline = null) {

    if ($deadline === null) {
      $deadline = 5;
    }

    $remote_request = new Request();
    $remote_request->setServiceName($package);
    $remote_request->setMethod($call_name);
    $remote_request->setRequest($request->serializeToString());
    $remote_request->setRequestId($this->requestId);

    $serialized_remote_request = $remote_request->serializeToString();

    $opts = array(
      'http'=>array(
        'method'=>'POST',
        'header'=>
            "Content-type: application/octet-stream\r\n" .
            'Content-Length: ' . strlen($serialized_remote_request) . "\r\n",
        'content' => $serialized_remote_request
      )
    );

    $context = stream_context_create($opts);
    $serialized_remote_respone = file_get_contents(
        'http://' . $this->apiHost . ':' . $this->apiPort, false, $context);
    $remote_response = new Response();
    $remote_response->parseFromString($serialized_remote_respone);

    if ($remote_response->hasApplicationError()) {
      throw new ApplicationError(
          $remote_response->getApplicationError()->getCode(),
          $remote_response->getApplicationError()->getDetail());
    }

    if ($remote_response->hasException() ||
        $remote_response->hasJavaException()) {
      // This indicates a bug in the remote implementation.
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In 2015, national residential real estate, by and large, had a good year. Supply and demand were healthy, in an environment rife with low interest rates and improved employment. The Federal Reserve finally increased short-term rates in December, and more increases are expected in 2016. Housing markets have shown a willingness to accept this. Save for a few expensive outliers where low inventory and high prices have become the norm, a balanced market is anticipated for much of the country for the foreseeable future. Improved inventory and affordability remain key factors for continued optimism.
New Listings in Chicagoland were down 6.5 percent for detached homes and 8.2 percent for attached properties. Listings Under Contract increased 15.4 percent for detached homes and 18.0 percent for attached properties. The Median Sales Price was up 10.9 percent to $203,000 for detached homes and 3.5 percent to $165,000 for attached properties. Months Supply of Inventory decreased 23.2 percent for detached units and 24.2 percent for attached units. Gross Domestic Product increased at an annual rate near 2.0 percent to close 2015, and that rate is expected to increase next year. Residential real estate is considered a healthy piece of the national economy. Contributing factors from within the industry include better lending standards and foreclosures falling back to more traditional levels. Declining unemployment, higher wages and low fuel prices have also conspired to improve personal budgets.


With a heavy heart we report the passing of beloved Union members Ron Dickinson & Kat Geary's son Austin Dickinson. Ron is a beloved Union member and steward working in the Tower Hill Garage. Kat is also a longtime Union member working in Smithfield. Our thoughts and prayers are with Ron & Kat at this most difficult time. Details for services are listed below.
DICKINSON, AUSTIN TYLER 18 of Narrow Lane Charlestown, RI died unexpectedly on Monday April 14, 2014 at his home. Born Jacksonville, North Carolina on April 25, 1995, he was the beloved son of Ronald A. Dickinson and Tammy (Randell) Dickinson. Austin was a senior at Chariho High School in Richmond. Austin enjoyed music, walking, camping, swimming and loved being around people. Besides his parents he will be sadly missed by his stepmother; Kat Geary and stepfather; Oscar Imbrogno. He also leaves his grandparents; Ronald A. Dickinson Sr. of Richmond, RI, Richard Randell of Hope Valley and Margaret Marques of Greene, RI, and his great grandmother Elizabeth Baton of Hope Valley, RI. He also leaves many loving aunts, uncles and cousins.
Brother Jason Spencer, from the Apponaug Garage is leading a team for a head shaving fundraiser aimed at curing childhood cancer. On Tues March 25th, 2014 5:00pm-10:00pm @ Whiskey Republic. Any member wishing to join Jason's team in this effort or to donate please click the link below.
It is with great sadness Local 2323 report's the passing of long time member Tony Alves, he was a beloved member for over 45 years. Tony is also the father of Robert & David Alves, both current IBEW Local 2323 members. Our thoughts & prayers are with the Alves Family.
The Local Union office is experiencing telephone difficulties. We are in the process of having the problem fixed. If you have any difficulty in reaching the Union office please see your steward they have alternate ways to reach the office staff on your behalf. Thank you for your patience.


The 2017 Winter Storm Events occurred in January and February of 2017. The Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors proclaimed a Local State of Emergency that was ratified on February 17, 2017. This proclamation requested assistance from State and Federal Agencies for anticipated damages from the Storm Events.
Due to the magnitude of the storm projects, Tuolumne County has found it necessary to receive obligated funding before starting large projects.
Below is a list of project areas to repair identified damages caused by the Storm Events.


In a recent post I described the cutover procedure used to move from a Virtual Chassis (VC) configuration to a Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Group (MC-LAG) configuration. One of the other requirements on this cutover was to utilize DHCP Relay. However I ran into a problem getting the DHCP Relay to work.


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After the Confetior and a series of prayers, the priest ascends the altar and begins to read the Introit. During High Mass, this is the set of verses that is chanted as Mass begins. In the Ordinary Form, this is referred to as the "opening verse", and is actually optional. The priest might say it silently, say it briefly before Mass begins, have it sung and chanted, etc. If we are looking for a way to positively reform the liturgy, the way we handle the Introit should be front and center.
The introit is one of those distinctly Roman traditions. The Introit is simply the singing of certain verses from the Scriptures (or in the case of Feasts surrounding the Blessed Virgin, Christian poets amongst others) that serve as an introduction to the Mass. Predominantly, they are taken from the Psalms. In one form or another, the tradition goes back to at least the early 5th century. It is highly probable that the practice is even more ancient. When the lover of the liturgy Pope St. Pius X proposed reforms, the Introit was one of his central reforms.
Like many others, I was quite surprised to learn that for those attending the ordinary form, the Introit is still part of the propers. Yet like many other occurrences, there are allowances for "other suitable" replacements. In practice, whenever this phrase has appeared throughout the missals, traditional customs and piety were abolished within the parish. This is a shame, and something we Catholics should rightly lament. Yet in recent times we are starting to see a change, especially among the "reform of the reform" crowd in both the Extraordinary and Ordinary Form. They realize the importance of the Introit.
Why would this matter? First and foremost, it gives the faithful a theme to remember throughout each Mass. The rest of the propers at Mass are intimately connected to the Introit. From the moment that Mass begins when the Introit is used, we are given a key point to remember throughout the Mass. For Trinity Sunday, the Introit talks about the blessed and undivided unity of the Trinity. The propers, including the other Scriptural readings, continue to develop this concept of the Trinity.
The Second Vatican Council called for a greater inclusion of Scripture into the liturgy. As a result, an extra reading was added to the Propers. Being faithful to this command, a restoration of the Introit in the parish life would be yet more exposure to the Sacred Scriptures. Most importantly, they allow us Catholics a chance to reconnect with the Psalms. All too often, the Old Testament is treated as something of boredom or pointlessness for the Catholic today. The Psalms are a remedy of this. Throughout all the Psalms, we read and sing a beautiful account of God's majesty and power. We learn through the Psalms not only that God is to be worshiped, but why He is to be worshiped with concrete examples. We tie ourselves to the great tradition of the people of God, even in the Old Covenant. Even the "Responsorial Psalm" in the modern Rite is all too often abused. Either the same one every week is used, or something new entirely is sang in its place. The Psalms are the true "worship" music of the Christian People.
Let us labor to assist in this restoration. Speak to those who are musical directors at your parish. Musical directors, consider going to the books and implementing them into the Mass. Priests, start insist on them being said every Sunday for the congregation's benefit and your own. If one wishes to truly restore anything, we must start from the beginning. We can find no better start than the Introit.


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Home Financial news what does Huawei do and why can't we just strip its kit out of our networks?
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This week the Government is expected to give the green light for Huawei to have a role in the UK's 5G network, coming after months of wrangling over the decision.
The UK's National Security Council gave the Chinese company the green light in April, but a final decision was pushed back after Theresa May stepped down as Prime Minister.
Recent weeks have seen the US ramp up pressure on the UK to ban Huawei, with a delegation having been sent to Britain earlier this month to lobby on the Huawei matter, claiming it would be "nothing short of madness" to grant them a contract.
But, as the drama surrounding Huawei and the UK's networks looks set to come to a crescendo, just what is it all about?
What does Huawei make?
Over the past few years, there has been much discussion about whether allowing Huawei into our 5G networks would put our privacy at risk, but it can be difficult to understand why this would be the case. After all, doesn't Huawei just makes phones?
Well, no – it does make smartphones, and has certainly carved out a big piece in this very competitive market, alongside Samsung and Apple. But, a much bigger, complex and more strategic business for Huawei has been in designing, manufacturing and supplying the networking gear that all these phones connect to.
When you select your phone, you'll also choose a network provider. In the UK, those include names like Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three, and each of those pays for a licence to operate a service across the UK. What that means they are responsible for putting down the technology and servers to deliver that service for its users.
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To do this, those operators divide the network into something called cells, which require base-stations, inside which are antennas, to deliver communications to your phone. Your phone seamlessly hands over from cell to cell as you move around the country, so you wouldn't even notice, and this is the non-core part of the network, called "Radio Access Network". Huawei is a major provider of kit for this part of the network.
Behind that is the "core network", which manages traffic across the entire network, as well as being responsible for other essential features like giving your phone an IP address, meaning you can connect to the internet, and authenticating whether you have a contract with a network provider. Huawei also provides a lot of this core networking gear.
In fact, Huawei is one of the few companies which provides an "end-to-end 5G solution", meaning it can make everything from the basic equipment to far more complicated software for the new wave of wireless technology. Compared to 4G, 5G will significantly boost the speed and capacity of wireless networks.
Discussions around including Huawei in the 5G networks have seemed to suggest the hardware won't be used in the "core" networks. Instead its tools are expected to just be allowed at the edges of the networks, like radio antennas at phone mast sites.
So why is it so hard to remove from our networks now?
For years, Huawei's equipment has been used in the core part of 3G and 4G networks which were built well before any row around whether to trust the Chinese company kicked off.
Even when it comes to things like undersea cables, which all global companies and tech firms rely on to receive and transmit data, Huawei probably makes the tools for signal processing at both ends of the fibre.
But perhaps the biggest problem operators would have in trying to remove Huawei's kit is that the company has the highest market share in Europe for base-stations, and when it comes to 5G networks, they run on top of 4G networks and 3G networks, which are using Huawei-built tools.
That would make it difficult to just strip it out, and many of the operators have warned it would be very costly to have to replace all the Huawei parts, because they would have to strip out the 4G systems, and buy new 4G and 5G systems from other equipment providers.
It's not hard to see why British carriers chose Huawei for so many years. After all, Huawei has established a reputation for selling high quality kit at low prices, thanks to the huge domestic market it has in China and the lower manufacturing costs.
In fact, the UK's BT was one of the first companies outside China to strike a deal with Huawei for equipment fifteen years ago – and it had since established good relationships in the UK.
As public opinion has changed, these relationships have become more strained. BT, for example, has been stripping out Huawei devices from its core 4G network for the past year, deciding to do so just months after it praised its tools saying others such as Nokia and Ericsson needed to "catch up".
Vodafone has also paused the deployment of Huawei's tech in its core networks.
However, both providers have reportedly been urging the Government not to implement an entire ban.
Could we just make our own?
Although the UK is known for its world-class research and actually was one of the pioneers of communication technology, right now there is no major British industrial player in the telecom equipment market.
Actually, it is a space where the number of suppliers has dried up over the past ten years, from around a dozen to now basically just Huawei, fellow Chinese supplier ZTE, Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung.
Even the US has slipped behind in this race, and also does not have its own domestic champion which could make the same tools Huawei produces.
For the UK at least, it is a space it seems almost impossible to catch up in – after all, this year Huawei will be spending $15bn (£11bn) on research, more than even US giant Apple. For context, across the whole of the UK, businesses spent £25bn in 2018.
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Dr. Bates, the pioneer of natural vision improvement, was asked over 100 years ago how much time was needed each day to practice healthy vision habits. (Think of the folks who want to know how long they have to work out to get "in shape".) This wise man replied that you have just as much time to see with straining destructive habits as with relaxed healthy ones.
Many people who start vision improvement have this same end-gaining mindset. "Tell me how often, and for how long, I should do palming", they'll say. They're missing the point. The purpose of palming is not to get better at palming. It's to give your eyes a period of deep relaxation. Other vision exercises like the Long Swing encourage fluid movement of the eyes — people can often stare without realizing it, especially at the computer. Still other exercises like eye chart practice let you hone the ability to focus on small details. The goal of vision exercises is to help your mind and eyes be more relaxed and easily focused, whenever you're looking.
If you think of the purpose of a particular exercise, rather than getting caught up in the mechanics of it, you might find another way to do it which feels like more fun. If you usually sit in front of the eye chart, letting the letters come into view while still remaining aware of the periphery in the room, go outside instead. Find a sign, a billboard far away or a "no parking" sign down the block, then use that as a natural eye chart. You'll be surprised how much you can make out, without straining. If it's too easy, move back or find something farther away.
Finally, "vision practice" can be just looking, and deciphering what you see. Babies learning to see their environment don't do eye exercises, they simply look around themselves, near and far and up and down, at toys and faces, delighted by it all. You can do the same, going for a walk, examining the depth in the roofs of the houses and the clouds overhead and the branches on the trees, the colors and angles and curves in your surroundings. The more you can see with the eyes of a child, the healthier and happier your vision will become.
This is the second article you suggested I read per our discussion of your Peripheral Awareness article (updated 5/5/18). I appreciate and agree with your advice to practice seeing all day long, in all that you do – and without strain or pressure to achieve.
I think the same applies to spiritual matters. There's a concept "continual prayer" that I think means to remain Aware/Conscious of Spiritual Reality as much as possible as we navigate the material world each day. I think you might agree that Awareness (and dare I say Focus) is an important determining factor in what we experience in these lives of ours.
Tom, I agree. Dr. Bates said you have as much time to see with good habits as you do with bad habits, basically all the time your eyes are open! The same goes for good posture, or good spiritual focus. Be an honest kind centered aware person all day long!


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by Martin Bryant — in Apps
Data visualisation platform Visual.ly has today launched a service that allows anyone to create and share infographics with no effort.
Visual.ly Create lets you choose from a range of infographics based around Twitter and Facebook data. Five visualizations are available at launch. For example, 'Facebook Monster' analyses your Facebook account to create a graphic depicting stats about your friends, your most popular photos and the like. 'Life of a Hashtag' shows information about the popularity of any Twitter hashtag you like, with a choice of templates allowing for some flexibility in presentation.
Visual.ly launched in July 2011 as a place for data visualizers to share their work and connect with those who want to commercialize them. Since then, the San Francisco startup says that it has become home to more than 11,000 infographics, 4,000 designers, and welcomed around 2 million visitors per month.
More than 500,000 people have used Twitter Visualizer so far, proving that there's an audience for easily customizable infographics. The new Create section of the site will act as a home to a growing number of such tools, with new data sources beyond Twitter and Facebook, and themes like sports, politics and food promised for the future.
While the novelty of infographics has undoubtedly worn off, their popularity remains intact as an accessible way of telling stories through data. We covered DataAppeal late last year, and you can expect to see more tools for easy creation of data visualisations to emerge from other players in the space this year.
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Corpoyer-la-Chapelle ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Côte-d'Or in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Montbard und zum gleichnamigen Kanton Montbard.

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Die Gemeinde liegt rund 22 Kilometer südöstlich von Montbard am Ufer des Flusses Vau.
Sie wird von den Gemeinden Darcey im Westen und Frôlois im Osten umgeben.

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