Replica Piaget Emperador XL big size watch is derived from the original Emperador that was developed 50 years' ago. As the case, full of classicalism, has a same width on the upper side and lower side while the middle is a little bit narrow, soon after Replica Piaget Emperador as launched, it becomes classic. So today we bring the Replica Piaget Emperador XL as our theme today and the official number is: G0133070.
Replica Piaget Emperador series has all Replica Piaget fine traditions, and it is fitted with Replica Piaget's delicate movement. In 1957, Replica Piaget Emperador launched the Replica Piaget Emperador and brought a new look to its watch collection. Replica Piaget Emperador XL series has long rectangular case and the round lines stops at the end, perfectly matching the arc line of the wrist. The long rectangular case stresses the harmonious combination of lines and arc lines. The warm hues of 18k rose gold even highlighted the wriggled and balance design. The silver dial is the new explanation on the current classic design. The radiation pattern and thinner Baton shape time scales made of roes gold richen Replica Piaget's designing style.
The radiation patterns and rose gold time indexes adorn the elegant dial and hour, minute, small second and energy reserve are presented before you. Within the inner side of the watch, the Replica Piaget 551P movement is fitted on it. 551P movement derives from the 500P movement and it is fitted with two small complication functions: the small second on the 10 o'clock fully expresses Replica Piaget's techniques while at the 6 o'clock, the energy reserve reflects its grandeur. All in all, the long and thin Barton hand lies and shines in the dial. Replica Piaget Emperador XL from the former century will start its grand future in the more fierce watch markets.
These are 99% similar to that of original in looks as well as quality. Customers are satisfied with its quality which is equivalent to original and its low cost.
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W&W in 2014 was hold in Hong Kong and many brands has novelties in this fair. As one those watch brands who attended this fair, it was a great opportunity to exhibit its new watches and technologies. So, in the second W&W, Panerai launched its latest movement-P.4000. This is the 18th movement in the Panerai movement series and it surely impressed audience with its new technologies.
Since the new movement is launched, then there must be a new watch to be the platform to let it play its performance, and the 572/573 are the latest watches and this also meet satisfy Panerai that it expected a twin watches to display it. This P.4000 is the first movement that is fitted with eccentric rotor, which is known as the mini-rotor. This movement can work 72 hours. The advantage of this rotor is that the movement can become thinner, which reaches only 3.95mm. The thinner movement contributes to the thinner case. P.4000 has two editions: the first one is applied on the stainless steel watches whose plate is dull polished and is embossed with beautiful patterns. What's more, the rotor is tungsten-alloy. The another movement is applied to the red-gold edition whose rotor is made of 22k gold.
Some styles and designs from the 512/513 are visible on the 572/573: both play the simplicity to their best. Due to the same case, people who are not familiar with them may think there are the same, but difference can still be seen on four of them. The very difference lies on the 9 o'clock. 572/573 have small second as well as '9' time indexes while 512/513 only have small second on the dial. The another difference is found on 6 o'clock. And the P.4000 movement launched by Panerai brand has a good performance and provide excellent power reserve for the Panerai watches.
Bell&Ross is a famous watch brand in the area of Swiss military watch, and its watch series are inspired by the aircraft cockpit dashboard timer, which is abandoning grandiose appearance, with function for honor and the design is complementary to commit to provide precise timing for those professionals who have strict requirement. In 2014 Basel watch display, Bell&Ross has brought a lot of surprise to us!
Bell&Ross ensures that every watch strictly follow four big principles of clear display, excellent function, accurate measuring line and stable performance as follows: the watch dial design sets the clear and simple reading time as principle; every watch has specific utility function; every watch is the crystal of the strict Swiss watch making technology to ensure precise function; the quality and texture of the Bell&Ross can compare with the professional military watches as its performance is consistent no matter in sea, on land or in the air.
To commemorate the legendary Tornado jet, Bell&Boss specially added a new member of Instrument BR 03-94 Tornado limited wrist watch. This wrist watch is made from the design blueprint of Aircraft cockpit dashboard, featuring dumb black dial of 42 mm in diameter and the global limited set of only 50 pieces. There are two timers at the balance position from 3 to 9 o'clock, and the Orange colors logo which is especially set for the 30th anniversary of Squadra in Aerea Tornado squadron is eye-catching in the position of 6 o'clock, highlighting and praising the outstanding achievement of the Tornado aircraft. Anti-dazzle crystal glass watch mirror, large luminous pointers and other equippement guarantee the watch have clear display for both day and night.
This Bell and Ross watch is also equipped with the excellent Swiss mechanical movement which has 40 hour power reserve, to be precise and reliable and durable. The waterproof of 100 meters brings great convenience to the wearer to be the best choice for those who love sports.
On December 14, 2015, Shanghai, the world famous watch brand rolex hand in hand again with the Salzburg Festival which is enjoying the international reputation, honorably represented the "Salzburg Festival night" in the Roosevelt mansion in the bund in Shanghai No.27. To reveal the leadership position and importance of the salzburg festival in the field of classical music, and showed the support of salzburg festival in 2016, the rolex invited chairman of salzburg festival, Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler, joined hands with the guests who are to show the music performance during the period of the festival in 2016, to solely present a ground-breaking music performance. At the same time, rolex on December 15, 2015 to January 17, 2016 in The Rolex Experience grandly launched the oyster perpetual Daydate 40 exhibitions, this classic wrist watch being the symbol of excellence and fame, in that night, was showed to the guests attended the salzburg festival dinner in advance.
Founded in 1920, salzburg festival is the highest and the most famous music festivals around the world, it keeps the unremitting pursuit of top art in nearly a century, and always makes great efforts on committing to bring high quality performance for the audience, thus attracts millions of visitors to watch. In 2012, the rolex and the popular salzburg festival started the cooperation relationship. Adhering to adhere to the pursuit of the perfect idea, rolex mission and beliefs of salzburg festival coincides with each other. Since then, mutual sides helps artists achieve excellence, and promotes and popularizes music all over the world. In 2016, Salzburg festival will be entering the 96th, under the guide of the chairman of Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler, again next year will be a music event worth the much-anticipated attention.
Just check the Rolex Daydate replica if you also want to have the latest Rolex watch at the lowest price.
Hublot – What's Carbon Fibre?
Amazing appearing without a top material that could match it would not express designers' intent. If you lay stress on the appearance, then the material is the texture and the texture and quality will finally decide the product's quality. Speaking of the material, Hublot has a say. No matter how expensive the material is, and no matter how the complicated the process is, Hublot will applied it to it, just like Ferrari does. As long as there are material that could express designers' ideas, then Hublot will tried its best to find it, even to compose it.
In addition to metal, there is another material that we have to mention is the Carbon fiber. Not in F1 car, many other luxury sport car choose carbon fiber as the material. The biggest advantage of this material is lightness. In the same volume, carbon fiber is 5 times lighter than the steel, while it has 5 times harder than steel. So far, carbon fiber has improvement and now it is a CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics) to enhance the stability. This material has much more intensity, so it serve as the pivotal part in the car. Although Hublot hasn't had so many materials than Ferrari, Hublot appears to be luxury than the Ferrari. Big bang, launching in 2005, expressed the core philosophy through the unique material that is hard to find in the earth, from the nature rubber and precious metal, to the fiber, ceramics, titanium and king gold, magic gold, and magic ceramic material.
I have to admit that I am a big fan of special material, so when I learn that Hublot is about to launched the carbon fiber watch, I was so excited. Generally speaking, titanium contributes to a dark color, ceramic is too bright, so only the carbon fiber is perfect: Not too bright not too dark.
Rolex is a classic brand of the Swiss clock industry. Rolex because of its constantly pioneering spirit of innovation and excellent quality, becomes numerous remarkable outstanding people's first choice, but also the status symbol of successful people. Rolex mechanical men's watches deeply loved by successful people with solemn, practical, not frivolous and not flattering style; And its precision and also the characteristics of the ultra-high not easy bad has attracted numerous consumers. Here will bring you to best and high-value rolex watches for you if you are to buy a replica rolex online for the ROLEX Daydate or the Rolex Dayjust watches. Just know more about them and make your purchase from China online store to save more on replica rolex watches while getting the best cheap one for yourself.
For the rolex daydate watches, the appearance are almost the same, the watch bezel with triangle grooved design and the Arc calendar display window at the 12 o'clock position, and the bullate calendar window at the three o'clock position, which are the rolex brand characteristics deeply rooted in the hearts of the people's. The difference of this rolex daydate watch with others is its watch dial color, which is white watch dial matching with the Vintage Roman time scale to add some gentle breath on this gold rolex watch.
Rolex Dayjust 116233-63203 Mechincal Men Watch highlights a noble quality through the combination of gold and silver color. The silver watch dial matching with the gold Roman scale and the gold three needles, along with small convex lens date display window function, the design of this Rolex dayjust watch very attracts people's attention. What is more, the golden triangle lines resistant outer bezel tightly connects to the 904 l stainless steel and 18ct gold watch strap.
The new Rolex Oyster Datejust Pearlmaster watch combines the precious material and the luxury diamonds perfectly. The watch case and watch strap are both made of the 18ct everose gold by Rolex, and it is equipped with the 18ct white yellow gold outer bezel and the watch strap chain links, and engraved with the dazzling diamonds. On the surface of such gorgeous jewelry watch are decorated with the black or white nacre mother of pearl, and the pink golden lotus pattern. This watch can be the most beautiful lady watch that was launched by Rolex, before this, the feeling of the Rolex lady watches mostly is the contractible man watch with the same proportion. The carving dial lady watch launched in the year of 2009 more let people think that making lady watch is not the advantage of Rolex brand. But this Rolex Oyster Datejust Pearlmaster 80285 – 74945BR watch in terms of appearance is very eye-catching, offering the lady who is to buy Rolex watch another Strong argument in addition to quality. The oyster lady datejust pearlmaster watch is applying with the Rolex homemade 2235 automatic mechanical movement.
If you want to buy a eye-catching man watch for your boyfriend or husband apart from the Rolex brand at the same time, the new Rotonde de Cartier Terre et Lune day and night display watch is a good choice, which is applying with the hollow-out theme. This watch case is made by the 18k red gold, matching with the white hollow-out Roman numerals time scale, and the Meteorites dial and the phases of the moon display panel. Through the button at two o'clock position, you can adjust the second time zone function conveniently. The button at four o'clock position is responsible for the phase of the moon, after you press the button, the Meteorites phases of the moon will move to a particular location above the tourbillon (6 o 'clock position).
ETA7750 was once a proud one. ETA 7750 had its first debut in July 1st, 1974, and it is derived from ValJoux 7750. Valjoux is a famous movement producing plant, and particularly it is known for complication movement. ETA-7750 use a driven leverage, which is simple, and easy to maintain. It is less superior to Lange 1001, but is the best one from the perspective of functions. Thanks to ETA-7750, more watches brands can produce watches, and avoid fee in developing new movements. ETA 7750 movement is a classic type. 3 chronograph counters corresponds to Omega logo. At 3 o'clock there is a date display. No matter from the aesthetic view or its functions, it is the best in design.
Since 1860, Tag Heuer becomes the bell weather in the advanced watches, and modern chronograph technology. It is the best and luxury brand that works with top car race, so Tag Heuer deeply roots in this field. In the brand new Grand Carrera series, Tag Heuer is inspired by the car race, produce a unprecedentedly precise watch with amazing precision and stability. Tag Heuer CALIBRE 36 RS CALIPER CAV5185.FT6020 is fitted with a Calibre 36RS movement that provides the best stability.
Strap, bezel and crown on the sport watches are made of rubber. In the sports, rubber can be a good shock absorber, and protect your wrist from being hurt. Choosing a sport watch should depends on your own needs, and complication watches would not be suitable for everyone. Sincerely, I hope everyone would get a diver watches that you expect. And the ETA movement watches are also more and more popular nowadays for its excellent performance and affordable price. Thus, you can own your own swiss replica watch at relatively lower price than that of on sale at the local stores.
Hong Kong, China, is city that walks in the leading edge, while the "invasion" of Rolex makes a great name for itself.
Nowadays, Rolex watches are so popular in Hong Kong, because the number of Rolex brand shops in Hong Kong is on the rise, so to speak, they appear to make Rolex become the household name, and provide the guarantee for the customer, and trustworthy, which can be seen from the product quality and accuracy of Rolex. So, now many mainland people of China like to go to Hong Kong to buy Rolex watches, here we just remind you some attention matters when going to Hong Kong to buy Rolex watches.
Buying Rolex watch in Hong Kong, you need to choose the Rolex shop with credibility and quality guarantee and warranty, such as the exclusive shop. When buy Rolex watch, you need to take care of the approval distributor certificate issued by the general agent, and the watches was sent out by the distributors of the general agency, which listed the state region size, sales date and type of certificate. When to shop in Hong Kong, just go to those shops with "Hong Kong famous brand management center", "Hong Kong tourism board" or "HKFB", or buy goods with "HKFB" logo which is guaranteed.
Due to the need to go through the customs from Hong Kong, and according to the relevant provisions of the customs, you need to pay the tax of 20% of the invoice when carrying the Rolex watch which is bought in Hong Kong. So before buying watches in Hong Kong you must know better the price, to see if the price of the watch buying in Hong Kong and 20% taxes is reasonable or not.


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Top 7 reasons to discover the Galapagos Islands with Silversea
Gill Haynes
Traveller, Writer and Partnerships Director at Silver Travel Advisor
Date published: 23 Jul 19
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To feel like a child again
The Galapagos Islands feel like an ecological playground where the animals come to you, showing curiosity but no fear. It seemed extraordinary to stand within 6 feet of nesting Blue-Footed Boobies, with puffball chicks peeking out from under their mum, and for the birds to look totally unconcerned. Scaly-headed land iguanas – like pocket dinosaurs - waded across our paths, while crested marine iguanas – looking more like the punk-rock version – heaped themselves up into piles on the sand as we wandered past. Sea lions cartwheeled around us as we snorkelled, seeming puzzled by our aquatic clumsiness while they pirouetted with the grace of ballet-dancers. Galapagos seems like paradise before the fall – man and animals as one. And it feels like the biggest privilege in the world to be able to visit it.
To experience all-inclusive luxury aboard even while discovering such an amazing wilderness ashore
Silversea has just announced that the 100-passenger Silver Origin, their first ship designed specifically for Galapagos, will set sail from July 2020. This new ship will take Silversea's existing Galapagos cruises to new heights of comfort while keeping the emphasis very much on the islands as a destination.
Every room will have a verandah or horizon balcony, seeming to shorten the distance between you and the shore. And with a crew to guest ratio that's close to 1:1 and with the greatest number Zodiacs per guest in the region to take you ashore swiftly and in small groups, Silversea really does make their service personal.
The Ecuadorean cuisine on board hits particular high spots: the seafood is outstanding – fresh and full of flavour – while the chocolate desserts, made with 75% Ecuadorean cocoa, are heaven on a plate.
Moreover, with just about everything included in your fare, Silversea enables you to focus on what you are seeing and experiencing, not on how much any extras are going to cost. The Silversea package emcompasses international flights to Quito, pre-cruise hotel stays, the charter flight out the islands themselves, all transfers, all drinks, dining, wi-fi and tips on board and all excursions ashore.
Perhaps on account of this, I was struck by how friendly and outward-looking a mood was on board. This is Expedition Sailing rather than standard Cruising, and while it is inescapably expensive (although great value), the people on-board were not flashy. Conversation was about where you had been, what you had seen and what you were looking forward to. Casting an eye around the Explorer Lounge as we were about to go ashore one day, everyone was decked out in shorts and t-shirts with their complimentary Silversea backpack on their shoulders. The net wealth in that room was off the scale, but you would never have known it.
To learn so much without trying
Silversea hand-picks Galapagos naturalists and specialists who accompany the entire week-long-voyage, taking small groups ashore, giving insider-talks on board and always being on hand to answer questions and share their passion for such a special place. Red-Footed boobies, we learned, are sized up as a mate not for their startlingly coloured feet but how blue their bills are. Blue-Footed boobies meanwhile excel by having the bluest feet. In Galapagos, blue is the colour, it would seem!
Almost by osmosis, you acquire an understanding of the history of the islands, their role in framing Darwin's theory of evolution, their importance as habitat for rare species and why they need to be protected for the future.
To see the islands without the crowds
Silversea does not tie-up at any point in the week-long trip - you go ashore from the ship by zodiac, a rigid inflatable boat, that carries a maximum of 16 people (you do need to be nimble enough to get in and out of these boats, but you don't need to be super-fit). Escorted by your helpful naturalist, you are therefore only ever exploring in a small group, and things are managed so that you rarely see any other visitors – it's just your small group, the landscape and the wildlife. You do feel properly like an explorer, not a tourist.
To experience the diversity of Galapagos
With Silversea, you bunny-hop from island to island for a week. None of the distances are great, but the differences are. Some islands are little more than bare rock. Others are dotted with scraggy trees, or cactus, or mangroves. You land on a beach the colour of Devon clay at one place, on sands as golden as castor sugar at another.
In each new environment, you meet new forms of wildlife adapted to the specific conditions. Fur seals loll on the northern beaches, sea lions sprawl on the ones to the south. The low-lying thickets of one island make the perfect nesting site for Frigate birds, their red-throats inflated like spinnakers, while Wave Albatrosses perform their beak-clicking and sky-pointing courtship dances among the scrub on another.
The poster boys of the islands, the giant tortoises, inhabit just a few of the islands – the breeding centre at San Cristobal (pleasingly un-zoo-like) giving a particularly good insight into how these ancients have come close to the brink but now roam wild in their thousands.
And just when you think you've seen everything, the islands seem to come up with something new and extraordinary. Penguins on the other side of a bay where you have just swum with tropical fish. A short-eared owl hunting for nesting stormy petrels along a rocky coastline. Pelicans begging for scraps at a fish market on our final day ashore, being seen off by a semi-tame sea-lion.
To enjoy the sights below the waterline as well as above it
Silversea make snorkelling easy and a pleasure, even if you've not tried it before. At the start of the week, everyone receives a shortie wetsuit, a mask and a snorkel (and help on how to do it if needed). The items are cleaned and stored at the stern and you pick them up daily, join your zodiac group and simply plop over the side once you arrive at the snorkel site.
The boat hovers nearby ready to pick you up once you are done, while your naturalist guides the group – often in crystal clear waters – through schools of dazzling fish. Moorish Idols with their TV aerial top fin, hump-head parrotfish looking like the bruisers of the deep, festival-crowds of orange damselfish. Plus glimpses of a passing – and totally safe - black tip shark.
Even better was to look out over the stern of our Silversea ship at night, when the glow of the galley lights attracted turtles, flying fish and - making the most of those that didn't fly far or fast enough - a dozen Galapagos sharks. Like so much that we saw on this trip, all utterly mesmerising.
Because Galapagos has year-round appeal
Whichever month you choose, there are wonderful things to see. In January, green turtles lay their eggs. In May, when we travelled, frigate birds are in mating plumage and blue-footed, red-footed and Nasca boobies are on their nests. August is baby sea-lion season and November is noted for whale shark sightings. Broadly, December-June is the hotter rainy season (though we didn't see any rain at all) and July-November is the dry season but with cooler seas and stronger winds. This is where a ship of Silversea's size comes into its own – still tiny by cruise ship standards, but well equipped to deal with any rough seas, should they come. We barely felt any motion in the ship for the whole week we were on board.
Silver Travel Advisor recommends Silversea.
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Seagilly
It's interesting to see Silversea renewing their support for conservation in the Galapagos in this just-published press release:
"To safeguard the well-being of the Galapagos Islands for future generations, Silversea Cruises has launched a dedicated fund that will preserve the natural wonders of the archipelago. By supporting a diverse selection of projects each year, the Silversea Fund will strengthen the balance between humans and nature in the Galapagos, as part of a long-term conservation strategy. In addition to benefitting regional conservation efforts and enhancing their connection with this unique destination, the fund's donors will enjoy savings on Silversea's voyages, as the cruise line will match guests' contributions in the form of a Future Cruise Credit to underpin its commitment to the cause.
Established in partnership with Galapagos Conservancy—the only US-based organisation focused exclusively on protecting the Galapagos' unique ecosystems and biological integrity—the Silversea Fund for the Galapagos will educate and support the archipelago's local communities by financing projects related to youth empowerment; education and training; and science, technology and conservation. The fund welcomes both formal and grassroots project proposals from the Galapagos' four inhabited islands: San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Isabela, and Floreana.
"The Silversea Fund for the Galapagos is a natural extension of our belief that sustainable tourism can open eyes and foster respect for our planet, particularly for such unique and diverse destinations as the Galapagos," says Fernando Delgado, Vice President and General Manager of Silversea Cruises Ecuador. "We will use education as a means to sustain the long-term conservation of the environment, leveraging on our strong relationships with the region's local people. We are honoured to have Galapagos Conservancy as our administrative partner for this initiative, and we know our guests will be excited to help protect the island's natural treasures by supporting the fund."
"We are dedicated to the long-term protection of the Galapagos Islands—a common goal that we share with Silversea Cruises," says Johannah Barry, Founder and President of Galapagos Conservancy. "We are delighted to support the Silversea Fund for the Galapagos and our partnership will make a significant impact on the conservation efforts throughout the region, from a grassroots level upwards. The Silversea Fund will help to protect the natural environment, as well as the fauna that inhabits the archipelago, for generations to come."
toptraveller
There is no comparison between causing disruption to humans who have a choice in the matter and creatures who do not. In cities such as Venice and Dubrovnik half the population have now left. As for the Stans, am returning to Kazakhstan next week at the invitation of the Foreign Minister. They have the opposite problem, not enough tourism so they want more.
Thanks for your informative piece Gill. I very much enjoyed reading it. What an interesting experience.
Travelling around the world is always a challenge between disrupting environments and societies or adding to them and doing so responsibly.
It would be interesting to ask the Greek islanders about their lives, income and well-being before tourists started arriving in the 70s. The Caribbean is another interesting case in point, and so it would seem are the 'Stans' in central Asia.
Or perhaps we should all just stay at home, not even venturing to Bournemouth for a few days!
Anyhow, I enjoyed your article! Thank you.
The Galapagos has survived for a million years without human intervention and the need to support local economy, so no reason why it can't continue to do so as long as the government keeps tourists away (which is what failed to happen in the case of the rain forests and is happening now in the Galapagos). Indeed, without tourism there would be no local economy needing support. The islands are in a self-destruct spiral. More tourists mean greater demand for a local infrastructure to support them. This is turn means more residents and bigger townships.
The biggest urban settlement has a population of over 10,000. It has been clearly proven that these places have had a huge negative impact on the evolutionary activity. Since 1990, tourist satisfaction rankings of the wildlife and beauty of the Islands have steadily decreased. Visitors are increasingly saying that they find the Islands surprisingly crowded with tourists.
Humans have also introduced invasive animal and plant species to Galapagos, many of which aggressively out-compete native species or negatively impact on the Island's habitats. Invasive species pose the greatest threat to biodiversity in the Galapagos.
Don't take the cruise companies' line without question. They have a commercial axe to grind, evidenced by the number of other places they have ruined, or are about to ruin. Examples such as Dubrovnik, Venice and Santorini spring to mind, and just look at their self-centered reaction to Dublin slashing the number of ships they will permit. Why do cruise companies think they have some god-given right to dump tourists wherever they want?
As to the Galapagos, sooner or later, this is all going to blow up, and a unique place that has survived for so long will be lost forever.
It's an unfortunate truth that unless unspoiled environments contribute to local economies, they tend to get destroyed by more human intervention, not less. Look at what is happening to the rainforests. But 'if it pays, it stays'. And Ecuador has done a lot to preserve the Galapagos as best it can and support the local economy - so fishing at the islands can only be done by local people. And one giant tortoise species that was wiped out on the Galapagos island of Baltra has successfully been re-introduced after captive breeding on another island. The number of visitors to Galapagos is tightly controlled and responsible, environmentally-aware companies like Silversea keep to the rules to minimise the human impact on the islands whilst contributing to their preservation. The naturalists on board the Silversea ship and indeed all the ship's crew are Ecuadorean, which greatly enhances the experience for passengers and gives insight into what actually is needed to conserve these extraordinary islands for future generations of animals as well as visitors.
Cruise ships should be banned from the Galapagos. There is already irrefutable evidence that the presence of humans in the Galapagos has dramatically slowed the evolutionary process of the creatures that live there. The addition of cruise ships simply adds another unnecessary risk to this unique and irreplaceable environment. Just for once, couldn't the cruise companies just leave it alone?

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A Rutgers University student who apparently committed suicide was the unknowing target of an internet broadcast showing him in a sexual encounter with another man, according to New Jersey authorities in the United States.
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Q: Lagrange Multipliers, maximize $f=xy$ restricted to $g=x^2+y^2=r^2$ So I have to solve the system of equations
$$\cases{\nabla f = \lambda \nabla g\\x^2+y^2 = r^2}.$$
Then $y=2\lambda x, x=2\lambda y$. Sorry if this is obvious, but how can I get $x$ and $y$ only as a function of $\lambda$? Otherwise I'm not able to find the values $\lambda$ to evaluate them and find a maximum.

A: One way to proceed is to multiply your first equation by x and your second equation by y, to get
$xy=\lambda(2x^2)=\lambda(2y^2)$, $\;\;$so $2\lambda(x^2-y^2)=0$ and therefore
$y^2=x^2$ and $y=\pm x\;\;$ (since $\lambda=0\implies x=y=0$).
(Now substitute into the constraint.)

A: You could also let $x = r \cos t, y= r \sin t$, then you have the unconstrained optimisation $\max r^2 \cos t \sin t = \max r^2 {1 \over 2} \sin (2 t) $, which is maximised at $t= { \pi \over 4}$ with value ${r ^2 \over 2}$.

A: Since $y = 2\lambda x$ and $x = 2\lambda y$, $x^2 + y^2 = 4\lambda^2(x^2 + y^2)$, i.e., $r^2 = 4\lambda^2 r^2$. Thus $4\lambda^2 = 1$, yielding $\lambda = \pm 1/2$. If $\lambda = 1/2$, then $y = x$, so from the condition $x^2 + y^2 = r^2$, we obtain $x = y = \pm r/\sqrt{2}$. If $\lambda = -1/2$, then $y = -x$, so the condition $x^2 + y^2 = r^2$ results in $x = r/\sqrt{2}$ and $y = -r/\sqrt{2}$ or $x = -r/\sqrt{2}$ and $y = r/\sqrt{2}$. The point $ (r/\sqrt{2}, r/\sqrt{2})$ (and $(-r/\sqrt{2}, -r/\sqrt{2})$) maximizes $xy$, with maximum $r^2/2$.

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Choral Music History Essay
Choral music entails the music sung by a choir. In this case, a choir is a musical assembly of singers. The size of the choir varies from a dozen of singers to a considerably large number of individuals as long as they can sing. Two or more voices sing each musical part to create a set of musical tunes.
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The origin of this form of music is the traditional music that people sung in groups across multiple traditional cultures. This form of music dates back to 2nd century BC in the ancient Greece. With time, there have been improvements in this art with the refinement of standards and ways of approaching it. Example of ancient Greece music includes Delphic hymns and Mesomedes (Paine 12).
Nevertheless, other ancient cultures such as the ancient Persia, China, India, and Rome had choral music. With the passage of time, medieval and renaissance music were developed. Medieval music entailed the music led by a choirmaster through singing of the verses while the choir sang the refrain.
This mainly occurred during the 14th and 15th century when there was the need to improve the performance. The renaissance music entailed the sacred choral music performed across the Western Europe. Repeatedly, hundreds of masses and motets were composed for choirs that were either cappella or not. From this era, choral music has evolved and continued to become popular with numerous choirs across the world.
Because of the variation in the sizes of choral music singers, a conductor or a choirmaster leads them. Often, the choirs consist of four sections aimed at being sung in a four-part harmony, but in other instances, the parts could range from three, five, six, or eight. To enhance the outcome of the voices, choral music could be sung with or without the accompaniment of instruments. Cappella refers to the choral music without any accompaniment (Apel 141).
This form of unaccompanied music is in much favour since it is applicable in chapels and the secular world. Some of the instruments that could accompany choral music include orchestra but piano, flute or guitar. Since choral music meets a variety of needs, its performance can occur in many locations like the church, school halls, and opera houses. In some instances, choral music could involve mass choirs meant for special reasons as celebrations or entertainment.
During the composition of the choral music, there are equally important voices that require consideration. These voices include soprano, alto, tenor and bass (Forney 45). Soprano refers to the highest vocal range, which is common among female singers though some boys could exhibit it. Alto is the second highest vocal range, which is the highest male voice while for females it is known as contralto. This voice is placed just below soprano, but above tenor.
Tenor is the highest vocal range for mature males. This vocal is lower than the alto, but higher than the bass. For an opera performance, this voice is used to play the role of a hero. Bass is the lowest male voice. In a choral music performance, these voices are integrated together to produce the desired tunes and appropriate message intended to be delivered.
Additionally, during the performance, the layout of the vocals involves intermingling to portray the exact tune desired. Repeatedly, the arrangement of sections is from soprano, bass, tenor, and alto consecutively, with the conductor and the accompanying orchestra just in front of them. This forms the exact layout that most choral music performances adopt.
Based on the variation of the choral music composers' concept, there are multiple types of choral music. Some of the major types of choral music include the cappella, anthem, cantata, motet, and oratorio (Juslin 71). The cappella music involves the choral music performance without the accompaniment of the instruments. This form of choral music is popular in churches or the secular world. The variation in the vocals of singers in a choir facilitates the expected voices and conveyance of message to the intended listeners.
Anthem is the choral music comprising of religious or political lyrics that may or may not have instruments accompaniment. This form of music is used to indicate the appropriate cultures that require adoption. Similarly, the music could serve as a form of passing appreciation in a formal manner to those who contribute significantly to the community. This explains the reason why this form of music is usually played in the formal occasions which encompasses all the people of a particular community (Paine 154).
Cantata choral music comes from the Italian word 'to sing'. During the ancient times, cantata entails any musical piece that was intended to be sung. Over time, this musical form has evolved. Presently, it refers to the musical work that can be sung with multiple movements and accompaniment of instruments.
The messages conveyed by this form of music could exhibit a secular or sacred subject. Similarly the cantatas are structured with three arias which are recitative with an introduction for each. In addition, the performance entails alternation of the arioso (short lyrical piece) with the arias. This nature of music yields the expected outcome of entertainment through message conveyance (Ulrich 78).
Motet refers to any short piece Latin music that is sung at the course of or after the offertorium. This form of music describes the movement of the different voices against each other. The main reason for motets is to serve the interests outlined in the 13th to the late 16th century.
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As the music is moral, any form of vulgarity is avoided. This music is meant for appropriate people who derive pleasure and understand finer details from hearing it. Other aspects aimed from listening to the music include education of people and advancement of art by those who have the desire for it.
Oratorio refers to the choral music composed with the intention of conveying the message in a narrative manner inclusive of an orchestra. Most of the narrative texts' basis is the stories extracted from the bible or scriptures. Despite the fact that Oratorio's basis is sacred subjects, it could facilitate the relay of semi-sacred subjects (Juslin 114).
Contrary to the opera, oratorio involves large-scale participants, but they do not have scenes that display acting or multiple costumes. In this regard, the main important aspect of the oratorio is the chorus and the narrator's recitatives give it a captivating feature and guide the story's progress.
After analyzing the choral music that suits the message conveyances, the integration of different form of choral music is likely thus resulting in unique forms of music. It is possible to extend this concept to any limit if the idea of mass movement and different types of vocals is considered.
Similarly, the choral music could vary from one geographical region to the other due to cultural variations and manner of message conveyance. Nevertheless, appropriate measures are vital considerations to ensure that the choir does as required following the designed structure of music during composition. This facilitates the maintenance of the concept of choral music.
Apel, Willi. Harvard dictionary of music. 2d ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.
Forney, Kristine, and Joseph Machlis. The enjoyment of music: an introduction to perceptive listening. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Print.
Juslin, Patrik N., and John A. Sloboda. Music and emotion: theory and research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print.
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Paine, Gordon, and Howard Swan. Five centuries of choral music: essays in honour of Howard Swan. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1988. Print.
Ulrich, Homer. A survey of choral music. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1973. Print.
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Greek: katharos, pure
A name specifically applied to, or used by, several sects at various periods; the Novatians and the Manichaeans were frequently known as Cathari, but in its more usual sense Cathari was a general designation for the dualistic sects of the later Middle Ages. In spite of several radical differences, there is a tendency among recent historians to consider these Cathari as the lineal descendants of the Manichaeans of the 3rd century, but conclusive proofs are lacking.
The essential characteristic of the Catharist faith was dualism, and as differences of opinion concerning this belief arose among the Cathari they became divided into various factions: the Bogomili in the East, and the Bagnolenses and Concorrezenses in Italy, professed a mitigated form of dualism, believing the evil principle inferior to the supreme beneficent principle; while the Albanenses in Italy, and almost all the non-Italian Cathari, among them the Albigenses, were rigid dualists, believing in the perfect equality of the good and evil principles.
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"These bands that get in the studio for two years and are forced to record 50 to 70 songs in order to come out with 10 tracks and the record companies are still not happy … they're looking for 'hit singles' rather than a great fucking album. Well, we haven't been working that way. — Ed Hale And The Transcendence
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"It wasn't supposed to be a concept album, but we were trying to make sure the songs were connected in some way because critics had said our albums 'weren't cohesive enough.' We didn't know that was one of the rules to making albums," Hale laughs. "It was only later, with a lot of it coming from DJ Kamran Green, that we started hearing how the songs could be tied together. This guy smoked more pot than anyone I had ever seen in my life. He's got this medical marijuana card, right? So he smokes out 24-7!"
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3. What bands are you influenced by?
I think each guy in the band has a different set of influences. So I can only speak for myself. But one thing I will say is that almost all of us are pretty much into anything. We're IN the music business, you know. So there's no real style or genre that we don't come into contact with. I mean, right now, while we're doing all this promotion for my latest single "Scene in San Francisco" which has jumped into the Billboard Top 30, our keyboard player Jon Rose is out on tour with Julia Iglesias in South America. Crazy. But you know, that's the biz. All our work right now is centered around promotion, meet and greets, record signings, interviews, photo shoots, so the guys in the band have time to do other things. And this is a great gig for Jon. No way he could take it, sincerely do a great job, or even get the job, unless he was into a wide variety of styles of music. Dig?
Me, I'm into anything and everything. I really NEED music. For my health and sanity. To make me feel good. Like it's part of my soul or something. I did this photo shoot yesterday that was very elaborate. A lot of makeup and styling and people on deck. And in order to get into it, we had to have music going in the background. They asked me what I wanted to put on. They were using Pandora, which is an incredible tool. One of the coolest things to come out of this new age. And we're in this photography studio filled with people of all different ages and backgrounds and at one point someone put on contemporary rap. But I just wasn't feeling it. It totally ruined the vibe of the shoot for me. Plastic, put on, contrived, commercial for the sake of being commercial, all posing and bragging and nothing substantial underneath. This is what it felt like at least. In the room.
But I had to be "on", right, totally ON… for the camera. So I went for the pure shit, the stuff that created me and who I am. Lou Reed, David Bowie, T Rex, Donovan, Hendrix, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Lennon, Wings, The Stones, Bob Dylan. Even the Dandy Warhols or The Pixies, The Replacements, Radiohead, U2, Muse. At its heart, this is where my music is coming from at i's core. Plus a few thousand others I suppose.
4. If you could tour with any bands, past or present, who would they be and why?
The Rolling Stones in the 70s. For obvious reasons. Never has been and never will be another "world's greatest rock band" quite like the Stones in the 70s. Way before all the bullshit started in the music business. Crafting songs like pottery to fit a specific genre using computers. Narrow-casting to please niche-niche markets based on polls and statistics. This kind of thing has ruined music as we know it today. We've got people like Adele or Katy Perry at the top of the charts who use three to ten people to help write a freaking song. And another five to produce it. That's become the norm now. Everyone pandering to everyone else in an attempt to please a very small imaginary group of music listeners who are scrambling away from regular radio in hordes for that exact reason. They're out there looking for something REAL and SINCERE and AUTHENTIC and the radio and record exec guys just don't see it. Albums like DARK SIDE OF THE MOON were made with a small band of four guys and a producer and a few engineers. And that's it. Real artists who could write great songs, looks be damned. Yeah, I'd love to tour with Pink Floyd if they ever got back together with Roger. For sure. I'd do anything with Paul (McCartney) just because he is still alive and, like many, I feel like I owe him a great deal for who I am today.
5. Best food to eat on tour?
I live on Sprite, coffee and protein shakes man. Among other things. I may not be the best role model for that kind of question.
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WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO WORK WITH ED HALE OF TRANSCENDENCE – BY GIL MAGNO
Dear Students, Friends and Readers:
I have started a series of updates to publicize those of my diligent students who are working in their art and who actually have contributed to society in the form of a CD recording or performances that bring joy and entertainment to others. I am very pleased to announce that I now working with Ed Hale of the band Transcendence. As many know, Ed Hale & Transcendence are known worldwide.
A few months ago I reveived a phone call from Ed Hale's management requesting an appointment for vocal classes. We began on 9/18/01. He was already well known all over the world. He studied until 9/12/02 and graduated from my Courses #1, #2, #3, and half of Course #4 before he eventually moved to New York. I found him to be an unusual individual with an evolved consciousness and a desire for his music to make a difference on the life of this planet.
Even though I have had hundreds of students who will use their voice singing rock, Ed didn't seem to fit the part. He seemed too developed a being to be a rocker. Then he gave me a copy of his CD, Rise and Shine. I listened to it very carefully and I was flabbergasted. Even though the songs are played in rock style, I could actually hear what he was singing about. It wasn't just a confusion of noise mixed with rhythm to which the voice was an accompaniment. I fell in love with that CD.
Most rock-and-rollers have no imagination in playing rock. Since most only know three chords and play them infernally loud, the voice becomes a blur; and all this is loved by the nightclub owners, because with the people driven crazy they will buy more and more booze. Ed's music is not that kind of confusion. You can actually sit down and listen to it with pleasure. Every song is distinct in melodic content. I call it a Concert Rock Band. The band has recorded I believe, seven CDs. You can buy them in stores or order them from CDBaby.com or Amazon.com.
Here's what Ed Hale had to say about our classes: "Working and studying with Gil Magno is working/connecting with an aligned soul, no pretense, no compromise. He is connected to all highest ideals of man and this comes across in his teaching so you walk away from a lesson with him feeling as though you have come in contact with the highest and best in you. It is pure inspiration that lasts for many days after the lesson ends."
[Marcus Pan, Legends Magazine]
"The musical group known as Transcendence is a tight-knit collective of some of the most notable musicians from the Miami and New York music scenes who first came together in 2000. The band is known for their reverence for melody, and an often eclectic and sometimes unnerving yet enticing tendency toward stylistic changes. "Smoothing across genres like a skater on ice, Ed Hale and company show amazing songwriting skills throughout Rise and Shine. They have just released a debut on TMG Records that is one I cannot listen to less than twice a week… Fusing such styles as brit-pop, Brazilian, rock, new wave, and classical – among others – Transcendence create a wild array of songs but somehow hold them together with left-field bite."http://www.transcendence.com
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I just paid $2.06 for this #Slurpee! Not some super-giant kegger or something. Just this tiny little $1-sized Slurpee. I thot at first the guy was kidding around. #NewYork u r special...
Ed Hale posted a photo:
Only in #Manhattan. Yes you're seeing it right -- this really is a sidewalk #cupcake #ATM machine. Just sitting there in case you want a cupcake any time of day or night.
Definitely one of the most creative gifts I've ever received. A dozen #eggs fresh from the farm. Nice thinking out of the box.
Filming Ed Hale "Honestly" music video
Ed Hale posted a photo: Filming Ed Hale "Honestly" music video
Filming Ed Hale music video "Honestly"
Ed Hale posted a photo: Filming Ed Hale music video "Honestly"
Happy #Easter! May the #joy of today's #miracles & good news envelope every day of your life!
A friend just sent this classic shot he found. This is the head #Rabbi/Priest of the oldest surviving Jewish sect in the world, the original #Samaritans from the bible. They also claim to posses the only copy of the actual map of the #Exodus of #Moses and
Loving the first #snow of #Spring!?!? Happy #Norouz from #NewYorkCity xoxoxoxo #edhale
First day of #Spring? With major #snow flurries and temperatures below 30 degrees...Sure!
It's well below freezing again in New York City but it's still time to make the donuts. (And how did we just know we were going to be back in the red again today...?)
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The softly-spoken finance officer, the veteran ICT expert, the young staff assistant preparing training documents, the receptionist everyone loved for her smile and the meticulous finance assistant she was talking to -- these were the victims of the October 5 bomb at WFP HQ in Islamabad.
Botan went back a long way with WFP, joining in 1991 in northern Iraq. His skills and smiles were always appreciated by those around him. He worked in Jordan and Sudan before coming to Pakistan.
At the time of blast, Farzana was at her desk, preparing documents for a training session scheduled later in the day. She would have celebrated her 23rd birthday on 10 October. She leaves a brother.
Abid was humble and quietly spoken. If you wanted to hear what he was saying you had to come really close. With WFP since 1998, he was known as a thorough professional, who smiled under pressure.
As soon as you entered the WFP office, the first face you encountered was Gul Rukh Tahir. She was known and loved for her shining personality and her smile. She was at her desk when the terrorist blew himself up.
Wahab, who leaves a wife and three children, came from the Swabi district. Meticulous and industrious, he will also be missed for his Pashtun jokes. He was standing at reception, checking something with Gul when the blast came.


Purpose A tool that converts PDF documents to PDF/A (Level A and B) documents, or validate a PDF file against the PDF/A specification. Versions available for Windows, Mac, and linux.
Commercially licensed product, developers licenses are free, see http://www.pdftron.com/store/licensing.html for details.


It's tough being an animal lover that's torn between life in the big smoke and chucking it all in to retreat to a smallholding in the most rural of rural countryside to set up camp with goats, donkeys, chickens and a life of pretend farmer bliss. Because after a very nomadic childhood I'm so happy and rooted in London, the city that makes me feel peaceful and like I belong somewhere. And the reality is that I'm not torn at all, I love where we live and have acknowledged that I may have to get my goat fix from all our numerous city farms instead of roaming around our back garden.
We have however joked about chickens. About how fun it would be to have some fluffy little characters pecking about the garden, collecting fresh eggs and living a little bit of The Good Life in the city. Of course we have Maddie and if finding a ginger kitten wasn't harder than unicorn poop we'd have Boo too. My brother used to have chickens although to be fair he does live in the countryside in Leicestershire but our dog walker has them in her back garden and she lives nearby with a fairly small outside space.
So our joking has now turned into thinking about where we would put a chicken coop, about how much space they need and how much time we would need for them. No-one is more surprised than me that Pete seems totally onboard about the idea of having chickens and dare I say it, almost more excited than me. He loves animals but I'm the devotee and he loves me because of how much I love them. This past weekend we were at a local garden centre buying a gift and he dragged me off to look at the one coop they had, taking measurements and photos.
There are no reservations, there's nothing stopping us really, apart from the foxes which live just the other side of the fence at the bottom of our garden and flaunt themselves in our garden pretty much every day. We'd need some kind of Fort Knox coop but maybe we just have to try and see what happens. We have plenty of space and it certainly feels like the countryside here, sitting in the garden and looking up at the stars at night or stopping Maddie from attacking the hedgehogs we see from time to time. The chickens wouldn't be out of place at all, would they?
Do you have chickens? If so I'd love to hear from you!


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Thinkuknow is delivered by the National Crime Agency's CEOP Command.
Thinkuknow is an education programme from the National Crime Agency's CEOP Command.
Since 2006, Thinkuknow has been keeping children and young people safe by providing education about sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.
Thinkuknow is unique. It is underpinned by the latest intelligence about child sex offending from CEOP Command.
Thinkuknow aims to ensure that everyone has access to this practical information – children, young people, their parents and carers and the professionals who work with them.
Alongside the Thinkuknow website the programme provides educational resources, including films, cartoons and lesson plans, to help professionals raise young people's awareness.
CEOP Command
CEOP is a command of the National Crime Agency and works to pursue and prosecute child sex offenders.
CEOP works with child protection partners across the UK and overseas to identify the main threats to children and coordinates activity against these threats to bring offenders to account. We protect children from harm online and offline, directly through NCA led operations and in partnership with local and international agencies.
Child protection is at the heart of everything we do and our approach is holistic. Law enforcement officers in CEOP and across the NCA work side by side with professionals from the wider child protection community and industry.
The lifeblood of the CEOP Command is intelligence - how offenders operate and think, how children and young people behave and how technological advances are developing - all are integral to what we are about and what we deliver.
If you're worried about your child and think something is not quite right, it's best to be on the safe side and find out more. Where can I get help? Report an incident to CEOP


This is a quick overview of the available plugins.
The archive plugin saves the feed's item.link URLs into a directory, specified by DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_DIR or through the output args value.
The above will save the "NASA breaking news" into the /srv/archive/nasa directory. Do not use interpolation here as the feed's variable could be used to mount a directory transversal attack.
This plugin outputs, to standard output, the arguments it receives. It can be useful to test your configuration. It also creates a side effect for the test suite to determine if the plugin was called.
This plugin does a similar thing when acting as a filter.
This filter just keeps the feed unmodified. It is just there for testing purposes.
The error plugin is a simple plugin which raises an exception when called. It is designed for use in the test suite and should generally not be used elsewhere.
The exec plugin is the ultimate security disaster. It simply executes whatever you feed it without any sort of sanitization. It does avoid to call to the shell and executes the command directly, however. Feed contents are also somewhat sanitized by the feedparser module, see the Sanitization documentation for more information in that regard. That is limited to stripping out hostile HTML tags, however.
You should be careful when sending arbitrary parameters to other programs. Even if we do not use the shell to execute the program, an hostile feed could still inject commandline flags to change the program behavior without injecting shell commands themselves.
For example, if a program can write files with the -o option, a feed could set their title to -oevil to overwrite the evil file. The only way to workaround that issue is to carefully craft the commandline so that this cannot happen.
Alternatively, writing a Python plugin is much safer as you can sanitize the arguments yourself.
The above is the equivalent of the archive plugin: it will save feed item links to the given directory.
The maildir plugin will save a feed item into a Maildir folder.
The configuration is a little clunky, but it should be safe against hostile feeds.
The above will save new feed items from the NASA feed into the ~/Maildir/nasa/ maildir folder, and will set the To field of the email to me@example.com .
The mbox plugin will save a feed item in a Mbox mailbox.
This is mostly for testing purposes, but can of course be used in the unlikely event where you prefer mbox folders over the feed2exec.plugins.maildir plugin.
There is some overlap between the code here and the maildir implementation. Refactoring may be in order, particularly if we add another mailbox format, though that is unlikely.
This plugin does nothing. It can be useful in cases where you want to catchup with imported feeds.
it assumes the transmission-remote command is already installed and configured to talk with transmission.
the hostname is passed in the args configuration and defaults to localhost. the folder parameter is also used to determine where to save the actual torrents files.
note that this will also append a sanitized version of the item title, if a folder is provided. this is to allow saving series in the same folder.
if the title is unique for each torrent, you may use a filter to set the title to the right location.
This plugin saves the feed items link element to the wayback machine. It will retry URLs that fail, so it may be necessary to manually catchup feeds if they have broken link fields.
The above will save the Image of the day updates to the wayback machine.
the droptitle filter will drop any feed item with a title matching the given args.
The above will process the feed items according to the global configuration, but will skip any item that has the word "Trump" anywhere in the title field.
example of fixes for a broken feed, in this case, the GitHub release feed which (sometimes) sends empty contents, in which case the item link field is used as a summary instead.
This filter plugin takes a given feed item and adds a content_plain field with the HTML parsed as text.
the html2text plugin is called automatically from the email output plugins and should normally not be called directly.
Ikiwiki recent changes show all the recent edits to pages, but the <link> element doesn't point to the edit page: it points to the recent changes page itself, which make them useless for link checking or archival purposes.
This parses the recent changes entries and extracts the relevant links from it.
This generates a feed with proper <link> elements but requires write access to the wiki.
This will also add the date to the URL GUID so that we refresh when a page is updated. Otherwise feed2exec would think the entry has already been passed.
Most of the actual work in the program is performed by plugins. A plugin is a simple Python module that has a output or filter "callable" (function or class) with a predefined interface.
$ python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"
Naturally, if you are going to write multiple plugins, you may want to regroup your multiple plugins in a package, see the module documentation for more information about this concept in Python.
There is a rudimentary plugin resolution process that looks for plugins first in the feed2exec.plugins namespace but then globally. This is done in feed2exec.plugins.resolve(), called from the add and parse commands. This means that the absolute path is expected to be used in the configuration file and internally.
You are welcome to distribute plugins separately or send them as merge requests, see Contribution guide for more information on how to participate in this project. We of course welcome contributions to this documentation as well!
configuration, but will skip any item that has the word "Trump"
anywhere in the title field.
I know, absolutely hilarious, right? More seriously, this is also how the feed2exec.plugins.html2text filter works, which is enabled by default and helps the email output plugin do its job by turning HTML into text. At this point, the only limit is your knowledge of Python programming and your imagination!
Output plugins are another beast entirely. While they operate with the same principle than filter plugins (search path and function signature are similar), they are designed to actually output something for each new feed item found. This can be anything: a file, email, HTTP request, whatever. If there is a commandline tool that does what you need, it is probably simpler to just call the exec plugin and there are numerous examples of this in the sample configuration file. For more complex things, however, it may be easier to actually write this as a Python.
Note that we try to make plugins silent in general. You can use logging.info() to have things show up in --verbose and logging.debug() for --debug but by default, your plugin should be silent unless there's an error that requires the user's intervention, in which case you should use logging.warning() for transient errors that may be automatically recovered and logging.error() for errors that require user intervention. This is to allow users to ignore warnings safely.
Sweet! Now it's not really nice to save this in /run/user/1000. I just chose this directory because it was a safe place to write but it's not a persistent directory. Best make that configurable, which is where plugin arguments come in.
which writes the article content instead of the link.
Notice how we return False here: this makes the plugin system avoid adding the item to the cache, so it is retried on the next run. If the plugin returns True or nothing (None), the plugin is considered to have succeeded and the entry is added to the cache. That logic is defined in feed2exec.feeds.parse().
Notice how we still fetch the actual feed content but stop before doing any permanent operation. That is the spirit of the "catchup" operation: we not only skip "write" operation, but also any operation which could slow down the "catchup": fetching stuff over the network takes time and while it can be considered a "readonly" operation as far as the local machine is concerned, we are effectively writing to the network so that operation shouldn't occur.
Hopefully that should get you going with most of the plugins you are thinking of writing!
Writing tests is essential in ensuring that the code will stay maintainable in the future. It allows for easy refactoring and can find bugs that manual testing may not, especially when you get complete coverage (although that is no garantee either).
Notice the two arguments named tmpdir and betamax. Both of those are fixtures, a pytest concept that allows to simulate an environment. In particular, the tmpdir fixture, shipped with pytest, allows you to easily manage (and automatically remove) temporary directories. The betamax fixtures is a uses the betamax module to record then replay HTTP requests.
Much better! Only 3 lines left to cover!
Notice how I explicitly provided a path to my test. This is entirely optional. You can just run pytest-3 and it will run the whole test suite: this method is just faster. Notice also how the coverage ratio is very low: this is normal; we are testing, after all, only one plugin here.
The only branches left to test in the code is the other possible error ("no link in the feed") and to test the "catchup" mode. You can see this in the actual test_plugins.py file distributed with this documentation.
If you discover a bug associated with a single feed, you can use the betamax session and the feed2exec.feeds.Feed.parse() function to manually parse a feed and fire your plugin. This is how email functionality is tested: see the feed2exec.tests.test_plugins.test_email() function for an example.
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Client protocol tasks implementations for Transaction related

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Q: Kafka Post Deployment - Handling ever-growing clients We have setup a Kafka Cluster for High Availability and distributed data load. The current consumers and producers specify all the broker IP addresses to connect to the cluster. In the future, there will be the need to continuosly monitor the cluster and add a new broker based on collected metrics and overall system performance. In case a broker crashes, as soon as possible we have to add a new broker with a different IP.
In these scenarios, we have to change all client configurations, a time consuming and stressful operation.
I think we can setup a Config Server (e.g. Spring Cloud Config Server) to specify all the broker IP addresses in a centralized manner, so we have to change all in one place, without touching all the clients, but I don't know if it is the best approach. Obviously, the clients must be programmed to get broker list from config server.
There's a better approach?

A: Worth pointing out that the "bootstrap" process doesn't require giving every single broker address to the clients, really only the first available address in the list is used for the initial connection, then the advertised.listeners on all the broker configs in the cluster, is what the clients actually use
The answer to your question is to use service discovery, yes. That could be Spring Could Config, but the more general option would be Hashicorp Consul or other service that uses DNS (Kubernetes uses CoreDNS, by default, for example, or AWS Route53).
Then you edit the /etc/resolv.conf of each machine (assuming Linux) the client is running on to include the DNS servers, and you can simply refer to kafka.your.domain:9092 rather than using IP addresses

A: You could use a load balancer (with a friendly dns like kafka.domain.com), which points to all of your brokers. We do this in our environment. Your clients then connect to kafka.domain.com:9092.
As soon as you add new brokers, you only change the load balancer endpoints and not the client configuration.
Additionally please note that you only need to connect to one bootstrap broker and don't have to list all of them in the client configuration.


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Back Roads Wine Trail is a collaborative effort by wineries located on or near Highway 92 to bring awareness to wine tourists about their wineries.
Back Roads Wine Trail got its name from an evening of brainstorming ideas over a glass (or two) of wine at the Nearwood Winery tasting room in Knoxville. Back Roads are off the beaten path, allowing your imagination to run a little wild with the possibility of adventure. Back Roads aren't in the city, even though they are only about an hour drive from Des Moines, Iowa. Back Roads run along rolling green hills, picturesque pastures where cattle and horses graze, winding streams, vineyards and lightly traveled highways. Get out of the city congestion to travel the Back Roads and enjoy some Iowa wine along the way.
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