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Projects on the Horizon
By By David Barron | on April 9, 2014 | 1 Comment
By David Barron
Our councilmember Felipe Fuentes, sent a letter of support to provide taxpayer funding for a private developer who is proposing to build an unwanted 48 unit apartment complex in Sunland Tujunga. Mr Fuentes did not bother to confer with the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council, even though he knew the community has always been opposed to the Samoa Project and desired a park instead, as promised by former council member Wendy Greuel.
Zoning laws tell you what you can and can't build. Urban Planning is supposed to keep the public interest in mind regarding land use regulations. State governments have the power to zone for the improvement of health and safety. Local government is supposed to allow each community to have control of their neighborhood. That's why we elect our council members to represent us in all government matters in order to insure our good quality of life, which includes protecting our land use and zoning laws. That's why we have residential, industrial, manufacturing and commercial zones which create order in our city and in our daily lives.
Though the Samoa project was voted upon by elected officials, against the community's will, I think the way they went about it was unethical. Also our Sacramento legislators voted in additional law's to bypass certain zoning laws, our constitution and have been trying to weaken CEQA. Most often our elected officials tell us what we are getting instead of asking us what we want. Perhaps one way to oppose this project is claim that Assembly members and developer's violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states: "That no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty without due process of the law." It appears this project does not conform to the Master Plan. It does not meet the spirit and intent of original zoning laws. And such laws as Senate Bill 1818 should be repealed, because they only benefit developers who use taxpayer dollars for their financial benefit and the benefit of the supporting elected officials and not the neighborhood.
Currently we're now dealing with other similar events such as the water crises, sediment removal from our local dams and a proposal to build solar farms in our residential neighborhoods between homes which involved then Assembly Member Felipe Fuentes regarding AB 1990, Solar for All. However, these proposed solar farms would financially benefit only the owners of those farms, professional investors…and not the ratepayers.
Back in 1924, we had a six year drought which forced officials to plan ahead by developing the Major Water Project, which have apparently has been mismanaged by political forces. Los Angeles County Department of Public Works wants to remove sediment from our local dams, using the least of amount of money, that would endanger local residents in the foothills instead of placing the sediment further away.
Hopefully, Mayor Garcetti and the newly elected board members of all ninty-five Neighborhood Council's will continue to grow and outreach to their community and pay close attention to these issues and vote in their community's best interest that will cut government spending and taxes.
Editor's note: Mr. Barron is a Civil Servant, local community activist and a Commentator for the NVR.
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First congratulations to the acsviitts on at least slowing down H-D I grew up in Tujunga. Lived there my first 16 years. I still think that Tujunga wants to be a small town and would not have annexed with L.A. in the 20 s if it was not for the depression.When we lived there, we got our hardware from Foothill Hardware or Merrithew's. I hope I spelled their name right. If they did not have what we needed, it was off to La Cresenta or Van Nuys to Builder's Emporium. That's always how things have been. I think a new H-D would kill off both small hardware stores in the area and add boatloads of truck traffic, day laborers and noise to the area.I would like to see the Council and H-D shift it's focus from Tujunga to an area near Tujunga perfectly suited for a large builder's supply Sun Valley.Why?1. SV is already LOADED with building supply outlets especially rock products. The contractors are already in Sun Valley!2. SV is poor and in need of better paying jobs. Something I would hope Coucilmember Alarcon would support.3. Boatloads of truck traffic, day labor, dust, noise all ready there. H-D would be an improvement.4. Built in industrial base of customers needing tools and supplies. Some firms run 24 hous down there. It would be closer to the City's own operations including DWP, Sanitation and Street Services. The proposed H-D at the old K-Mart would be the only one I know of in a SOLIDLY residential area. Think about where you see Home Depot's.A. Roscoe and Balboa is near the airport and a rail line near an old national guard base and other building supply outlets.B. Sherman Way near Coldwater is in a commercial industrial area.C. The Plant is at the old GM site. That's largely industrial with big commercial stores.D. Fullerton is near rail road tracks and in an industrial area of Fullerton.5. The new H-D would still in the City of Los Angeles. L.A. still gets sales tax and permit revenue.6. Residents in Sunland and Tujunga have ALWAYS traveled out of the area for whatever they want. If they want H-D they go down the hill toSun Valley. Business as usual.7. Residents of Burbank's north side would now have another option to Lowe's.8. H-D would get to keep customers it will make enemies out of by building in Tujunga.Any other views for or against Sun Valley?By the way, what would be a good use for the old K-Mart site? Someone is going to do something with it. And sorry to say I don't think they will turn it into a drive in theater again.
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BTW, the special exhibition of the minerals from the Rauris valley, Salzburg, Austria was excellent - see Frederic's photos.
Thanks for tourmaline and aquamarine Roger ;).
Some minerals of uncertain origin.
The young public were numerous.
Rhodochrosites are rarer, I think.
I am enjoying the Munich Show Report.
Thank you Jordi, Mr. White, Roger, Peter, Ploum, Martin and all the contributors.
A lot of Siberian tourmalines.
Back in Barcelona, some brief thoughts to close my statements in this thread.
This year, as said in https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewtopic.php?p=42179#42179 has been particularly poor in novelties, but the hobby do not seems to decay and despite the general economic situation in the Mineral Shows we seem to live in a kind of bubble, where we ignore everything negative and this "mineral bubble" seems to feed itself with the passion with which the mineral collectors we enjoy the minerals. Blessed bubble! despite some prices difficult to comprehend, despite the lack of novelties, "la nave va"!!
The Meteorite's exhibits, the topic of this year, were not particularly exciting for us, the mineral collectors. Therefore apart of the excellent exhibition about Rauris nicely photographed by Ploum, we look at a showcase with some pieces from the German collector Walter A. Weber displaying an excellent representation of rare minerals.
To finish our selection this is our favorite: an excellent Bobierrite from Kovdor, Russia.
Is this the end? I hope not and I want to show a 2nd specimen at last, which I acquired at Munich.
Delicate cluster of needle like quartz crystals.
China still offers beautiful mineralisations. Discoveries are correlated to the growth rate of a nation.
Here is a cassiterite which parts are gems (golden yellow).
There was also an excellent thematic exhibition on old microscopes.
Research microscopes, R. Fuess, Berlin.
Petrographic microscopes, R. Fuess, Berlin.
Study of plagioclase according to the method of Fedorov, ca 1920.
Glad I'm not the only one who is a fan of my great-great-granddad's polished brass!
Did anyone get photos of the ". . . new blue Albites with Microcline and smoky Quartz from somewhere in China.." that Jordi mentioned. I did not see any in the thread. Thanks.
As promised, some more "miscellanous photos"
This seller seems to search and escape route to run away.
Posted: Nov 08, 2014 13:08 Post subject: Munich Show (Mineralientage) 2014 - Until next year Mineralientage!
With over 20.000 visitors only in Sunday, Munich Show 2014 was a successful Show. Long live to the Mineralientage!
Moving files today we still found several photos forgotten that I add now to complete our contributions.


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Q: Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Destination array was not long enough? I have this scheduled task that runs every day on the server, the task was working perfectly for 1 year. After a server change (moved the task to a new server), the task started crashing with this execption:
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Destination array was not long enough.
Check destIndex and length, and the array's lower bounds.
at System.Array.Copy(Array sourceArray, Int32 sourceIndex, Array destinationArray,
Int32 destinationIndex, Int32 length, Boolean reliable)
at System.Collections.ArrayList.ToArray()
at Directory.MessageVector.findMessageById(Int32 msgId)
at Directory.Connection.ReaderThread.Run()
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext,
ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

I looked on the internet for this error but all I found relateed to multithreading, parallel programming and locking mechanisms. BUT my task doesn't use any of that, it does not use parallel programming or locking mechanisms, it a simple task that retrieves data from databases and send emails and it was perfectly running before the server change.
ANY IDEAS ????
thank's.

A: According to the stack trace ArrayList.ToArray is throwing the exception. Something is indeed horribly wrong. Is your app multithreaded? Does the third-party DLL support multiple threads? If it does, somebody probably forgot to properly synchronize that specific ArrayList. If not, you probably have to synchronize calls to the DLL.
See this Q&A for example.
Edit: I missed looking at the last couple of stack frames. Multithreading is indeed in play here.

A: As you rightly say most of the article online refer to multithreading issues.
The fact that your exception says
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

suggests that this is in fact the case.
Might be worth searching your code for any instances of/reference to "System.Threading".
Alternatively if you are certain it's not your code ask for the DLL source code or at least a debug build so that you attach a debugger.

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Jul-31-14 Cheapo by the Dozen: Oh, crumb. I didn't think about the Kg2 line.
Black is one pawn down.
White threatens 28.Nc3 followed by Qxb7.
A) 28.exf3 Qxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Bh3+ 30.Kg1 Re1#.
B) 28.Kg2 Qxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Bh3#.
The queen is immune, but white has no other choice!
Yep, perhaps a little too simple?!
al wazir: Sac the ♘! Sac the ♕! What else are they for?
Knowing it is a puzzle some here will have seen it all in a second. On a good day we just might have seen it in a real game of our own, right?
But I am a bit afraid that I would definitely not have realized (and neither did mighty Torre) just how poisonous 25.-,Qb4(!!) is.
As we now know, White should have tried something else, instead of 26.a5. Something, anything, that keeps the black Queen from e1. Maybe 26.Rc3. Probably he should never have allowed the black queen in on that e1-a5 diagonal in the first place.
Is 25.-,Qb4 the best move, theoretically? I don�t know. In OTB chess, surely. It�s the brilliant winning idea that your opponent might not see.
Once: What a delightful little puzzle!
The usual prescription for a position like this is for the attacking side to play 27...Bh3 to pile up on the misplaced white fianchetto bishop. But that loses to the brutal 28. Nc3 which protects f1 via an xray.
So we have to act fast. A check to ram our attack home before white has a chance for Nc3. The immediate 27...Qxf1 would be a Monday solution, but on Thursday it comes short.
This looks great for black. He has three pieces clustered around the white king and he threatens mate with Rxh2. The white knight and rook are frozen (more or less) in place defending against other mates.
Unfortunately for this line, white wins with either 32. g4 or 32. Qb8+ followed by g4. White defends h2 and will play Qg3 forcing an exchange into an endgame where is oodles of material ahead.
Anyway, we are in sniffer dog mode and there is an unmistakeable whiff of mate about this position. 27...Nf3+ has got our nostrils twitching.
And in each case white doesn't get the chance for the liberating move Nc3.
Jul-31-14 Caissas Clown: Thursday is often,for me,A Day Too Far,but this was relatively easy. I am guessing that several of us sensed there would be a Q sac,but first had to silence the Siren voice , calling out "Noooo!! Can't be - it's not Monday !":-).
Penguincw: Hmm. This is one of the easiest Thursday puzzles ever (except that I didn't get what will happen if 28.exf3, although the rook should be involved somehow).
Jul-31-14 Castleinthesky: Ah, my kingdom for a Thursday (or in this case, a Queen). This was an intuitive puzzle as the position was very compact and it was immediately clear that mate was the objective. It took me about as long as a Monday to solve it and it looks like other members had the same experience, so I'll give myself a point.
kevin86: The queen is sac-ed but black will gain profit from it.
patzer2: Timman's 27...Nf3+! solves today's Thursday puzzle with a mate-in-four after 27...Nf3+ 28.exf3 Qxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Bh3+ 30.Kg1 Re1#, or mate-in-three (as in the game continuation) after 27...Nf3+ 28. Kg2 Qxf1+ 29. Kxf1 Bh3#.
Jul-31-14 M.Hassan: Black is a pawn down.
Jul-31-14 cjgone: Very elegant position.
thegoodanarchist: I think White should return the pawn with 23.Qc3, to avoid the wicked attack.
Beautiful play by Timman, though.
Jul-31-14 Pedro Fernandez: <<FSR>: ♫��♫ Basically, it's as easy as pie. ♫��♫ 27...Nf3+!! 28.exf3 (28.Kg2 Qxf1+!) Qxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Bh3+ 30.Kg1 Re1#> I thought I got it my friend, but I didn't! 27...Bh3 28.Nc3! Nf3+ 29.exf3 Qxb1 30.Nxb1 Re1 31.Nd2 1-0!! LOL! (I didn't check the white last move).
Black to play (27...?) "Medium"
Like many, I suspect, I was going with 28. Kg2 Nd2, which wins the game (a rook after 29. Ne3) but in much less spectacular fashion, until I noticed the queen sac right as I was about to post.
kevin86: Ok, I goofed! Forget the fork that wins the rook- Bh3 is checkmate!
Nov-05-16 SpiritedReposte: What a mate.


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Q: Q: Facebook SDK Main Activity When they tell me to add default activity class name, should I write com.example.milanovic.hellou.MainActivity or MainActivity or .MainActivity.
com.example.milanovic.hellou is the name of the package I'm using.
<activity android:name=".MainActivity" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

A: From my understanding, since you specify your package in the AndroidManifest.xml file, the MainActivity's package should be specified relatively to that. For example, if you package is com.example.app and your activity is com.example.app.Activity, then you can type it as .Activity(without dot is also fine), but if it is different, then full package as totally.different.package.Activity, if it is subpackage, try: .subpackage.name.Activity
Finally in your case it is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.milanovic.hellou">

    ...

    <application ...>

        <activity android:name=".MainActivity" >
             <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
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        </activity>

    </application>
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The purpose of the present study was to examine the plasminogen localization and to detect levels of its fragments (angiostatins) in various regions of rat brain as well as to establish whether rat brain astrocytes could be involved in angiostatin production. It was shown immunohistochemically that plasminogen is distributed broadly in the various brain regions, with predominant expression in meningeal layer and IV, V, and VI layers or cerebral cortex, dentate gyrus, meningeal and Purkinje cells, molecular and granular layers of cerebellum, as well as vessel walls. Angiostatin polypeptides were detected by Western blot analysis mostly in the cerebral cortex and were represented by 50 and 40-30 kDa polypeptides. In the whole cell lysates from primary cultures of rat astrocytes, immunoreactive polypeptides with Mm ~ 92, 84, 65-60, 50, 40, 38-30 kDa, corresponding to native plasminogen and a variety of its truncated products, including angiostatin polypeptides, were revealed. Incubation of astrocytes with exogenous plasminogen resulted in gradual increasing levels of some plasminogen fragments, particularly 30 kDa protein. Moreover, this polypeptide appeared to be the single angiostatin released by astrocytes in vitro. We report here for the first time that astrocytes are one of the cell types in CNS that could be responsible for angiostatin formation and releasing.


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Passage to Europe: Dostoevskij in the St. Petersburg Arcades
In the little that has been written about Dostoevskij's short work "The Crocodile" (1865), critics have conventionally emphasized its intertextuality, reading the story as a playful imitation of Gogol′, a satire on the journalistic squabbles of the time, or an "allegorical" attack on the contemporary writer Černyševskij. Indeed, Dostoevskij presents us with a caustic parody of petty styles and grandiloquent debates that occupied the periodical press of the time. It is hardly surprising that the first installment of "The Crocodile" received little appreciation from those same journalists whom Dostoevskij ridiculed. The incomplete text has remained on the margins of Dostoevskij's oeuvre ever since.
What has been largely ignored in the sparse commentary on "The Crocodile" is the particular context in which the story takes place: the St. Petersburg Passage proper. This is surprising, considering the prominent role that this cultural site played in the Russian capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Modeled after a Parisian prototype, the Passage was the first shopping arcade in Russia to encompass under one roof both commerce and popular entertainment. Following the arcade's sensational opening in 1848, crowds were drawn to its live music, gas lighting, elegant dining, and curious exhibitions. Whereas the commercial part of the enterprise fully developed somewhat later, show business flourished in the Passage in the 1850s and early 1860s. Here one could encounter an Egyptian mummy, a German giant, and an exotic crocodile. One such crocodile appears in Dostoevskij's story: as a spectacle and as a vessel for spectacular ideas.
In a peculiar Russian variation on the international theme of the arcades, the Literary Fund was incorporated into the structure of the spectacular Passage as well. There, the Literary Fund organized public readings by esteemed writers and critics; it was within its walls that amateur theatrical productions took place—in which Dostoevskij, among other celebrities, took part.
As has often been the case in Russia, generous borrowings from the West (especially those of a spectacular nature) generated both admiration and discontent, public opinion oscillating between assimilation of, and resistance to, Western culture. Embracing both "high" Russian literature and popular Western entertainment in a single space under its glass roof, the St. Petersburg Passage reflected a disharmonious conjunction of local and foreign, as well as material and literary, elements in the Russian culture of the 1860s. In positioning Dostoevskij's piece within and against the culture of spectacle, I analyze "The Crocodile" as the writer's reflection on Russia's equivocal relation to the West in the nineteenth century.


A Solar combiner box is a simple electrical component for combining and housing the wiring coming from your solar panels. Depending upon your particular solar system design you may or may not even need one of these components. For many systems the wires coming from the strings of solar panels are combined inside the inverter so there is no need to use a combiner box. However, if the distance between your panels and your inverter is significant, or if you have more than 2 or 3 strings in your solar system, then a Solar combiner box may be useful.


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Perthshire schools without maximum pupils could be closed down
Schools without the maximum number of pupils could be closed as part of a radical shake up of education services across Perthshire.
20th Aug 2016, 12:22am
Updated 20th Aug 2016, 1:28am
Schools in Perthshire not at maximum capacity face closure. Picture: Steven Brown
Council chiefs are preparing to launch a review of all primaries and secondaries in an effort to bring rising revenue costs under control.
The initiative, part of Perth and Kinross Council's five-year transformation programme, will look at the condition of school buildings, pupil numbers and occupancy rates.
According to a Lifelong Learning Committee report, several options will be considered including shared headships, catchment reviews and "rationalisation through closure." The possibility of building new schools in areas of high demand will also be considered.
The move comes just months after councillors approved the latest budget, which proposed a £145 million investment in the school estate over the next seven years. This does not include a new secondary school planned for Bertha Park which is being funded by the Scottish Government. In her report to councillors, service manager Carol Taylor said: "The ongoing revenue costs of the school estate are significant.Education and Children's Services spent £29.1m on the school estate in 2015-16. These costs include rates, energy, cleaning, building maintenance, grounds maintenance and the unitary charge for the Investment in Learning schools.
"There are also revenue pressures associated with new schools, due to additional rates, cleaning and grounds maintenance, all of which need to be funded from existing resources."
She said: "It is important, in light of the significant investment and cost associated with the school estate, that it is managed in an efficient and effective manner, and that the priorities which are addressed meet the wider strategic objectives of the council and the needs of our communities."
Schools which will bear the most scrutiny are ones running at less than 60 per cent capacity.
According to figures released by the local authority, there are 11 schools with an overall suitability grade of C, meaning poor, "showing major problems and/or not operating optimally". A total of ten schools are also rated C for their condition.


I divided and repotted amaryllis bulbs into a Lechuza Delta 20 planter, which seemed the perfect choice for the trio. I used a combination of Jolly Gardener Premium Potting Mix with a specially-blended cactus/succulent mix from Ted's Greenhouse in Tinley Park, IL. The ratio of the two was about 12 parts potting mix with 1 part cactus/succulent mix.
One of the easiest ways to fail with amaryllis is to plant the bulbs too deeply and water too much, so the planter combined with the well-drained yet rich soil mix should keep the fungal monsters at bay.
The Lechuza Delta 20 planter is designed as a two-part system with a layer of light-weight gravel in the outer pot in which the legs of the inner planter sit to keep plants' roots from getting too much moisture.
I gave the pot a good soaking from above to settle the soil and make sure the excess drained out before putting the inner section into the outer pot with the gravel.
The amaryllis bulbs had grown on the patio all summer and had lots of fat, healthy roots. One of the reasons for repotting the bulbs at this time is to assure insects and diseases are caught before the next growing season. I will leave the newly-planted pot in a sunny window and won't water again until the bulbs show signs of growth.


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            string personal = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
            string desktop = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);

            photo_folders = new string [] {
                Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.MyPictures),
                Paths.Combine (desktop, "Photos"), Paths.Combine (desktop, "photos"),
                Paths.Combine (personal, "Photos"), Paths.Combine (personal, "photos")
            };

            // Make sure we don't accidentally scan the entire home or desktop directory
            for (int i = 0; i < photo_folders.Length; i++) {
                if (photo_folders[i] == personal || photo_folders[i] == desktop) {
                    photo_folders[i] = null;
                }
            }
        }

        public void Import ()
        {
            Hyena.Log.DebugFormat ("Importing photo folder: {0}", PhotoFolder);
            Banshee.ServiceStack.ServiceManager.Get<LibraryImportManager> ().Enqueue (PhotoFolder);
        }

        public string Name {
            get { return Catalog.GetString ("Videos From Photos Folder"); }
        }

        public string ImportLabel { get { return null; } }

        public string [] IconNames {
            get { return new string [] { "gtk-open" }; }
        }

        public bool CanImport {
            get { return PhotoFolder != null; }
        }

        private string PhotoFolder {
            get {
                foreach (string folder in photo_folders) {
                    if (folder != null && Banshee.IO.Directory.Exists (folder)) {
                        return folder;
                    }
                }
                return null;
            }
        }

        public int SortOrder {
            get { return 0; }
        }
    }
}

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True Crime Writer Toni Rio follows a wise guy straight from his brief stint behind bars to his execution in a dirty alley. When his two killers see her witnessing their gruesome work, she runs, but she doesn't get far. FBI agent Nick Manelli has to keep his cover intact and keep the sexy witness alive, and there's only one way he can think of to do both. He has to kidnap her.
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Amanda M. Lee
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Bay Winchester is having a tough week. As the local editor of Hemlock Cove's only newspaper, she just happens to be present when a body is found in an area corn maze. To make matters worse, the police believe the murder may have something to do with the occult. This wouldn't be a problem for a normal reporter, but since Bay is descended from a well-known line of actual witches, the town is understandably on edge. Between the suspicious townspeople, the befuddled police presence and that random hot biker guy that may or may not have something to do with the murder — Bay has her hands full. When you add the typical family problems, multiplying ghosts — and one monster of a zit that she's sure came from her aunt's curse — Bay is just struggling to make it through the week. Of course, when the killer sets his sights on Bay, things could get a whole lot worse.
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Sarah Renee Lonelodge
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Religion & Spirituality
Death is only the beginning of John & Catherine's journey. But leaving this world behind entails much more than simply strolling through a gate of gold and pearl. Instead they find themselves with an unconventional angel reliving their own failures and successes one by one. As choices already made are unfolded and examined, John and Catherine are finally able to see the true nature of life. What part of it will determine their eternity?
Caste Away: Growing Up in India's "Most Backward" Caste
Hill Krishnan
Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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Genre: Children's eBooks
Easter is not Easter without Eggs! That's what Henrietta believes and what she's expected to provide when 100 children are invited to Farmer Johnson's big Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday. How Henrietta connives to collect, dye, and hide these eggs is her task. Involving every able-bodied bird on the farm to reach her quota is her mission. Birds of a feather must stick together, she believes. Even with their efforts she is still one egg short. Who will provide it? You'll have to read the book to find out.
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Strong earthquake in Guerrero shakes Mexico City
By BY Examiner Staff • December 11, 2011 12:00 am
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A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico's western Guerrero state Saturday night, shaking buildings and causing some panic just over 100 miles away in the nation's capital. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The U.S. Geological Service estimated the quake's magnitude at 6.7, after an initial reading of 6.8. It said the quake was centered about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southwest of Iguala in Guerrero. That is 103 miles (166 kilometers) south-southwest of Mexico City.
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Joanne Lunn is an English classical soprano in opera and concert.

Career
Joanne Lunn studied at Royal College of Music, where she graduated and received the Tagore Gold Medal.

Lunn performed in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Gluck's operas Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, and in Verdi's Falstaff. In 2004 she appeared as Helena in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and directed by David Pountney. She performed in Monteverdi's Orfeo, conducted by Philip Pickett, in Paris and for the Beijing International Music Festival.

In 2000 she took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, a project which performed and recorded the complete church cantatas of Bach.
Her recordings of Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir include Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73, for the Third Sunday after Epiphany.
She has also recorded Bach cantatas with the Bach Collegium Japan.

For Bach's motets, she collaborated in 2003 with the Hilliard Ensemble. She performed Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Roger Norrington, also with Frieder Bernius, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall. She recorded the work with Philippe Herreweghe. She recorded Bach's Mass in B minor with both Jürgen Budday and the Maulbronn Chamber Choir, and Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre. In 2010 she performed the work in St. David's Hall, Cardiff, with Elin Manahan Thomas, Robin Blaze, Toby Spence, Peter Harvey, the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Thierry Fischer.

Lunn recorded John Rutter's Mass of the Children with the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by the composer, and performed the work both at St Paul's Cathedral and at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

References

External links
 Official website
 Entries for recordings by Joanne Lunn on WorldCat

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English operatic sopranos
21st-century British women opera singers
Alumni of the Royal College of Music

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Q: How to read integers on file with java using Buffered Reader? Here is the file im trying to read:
P 1.0 0.0 0.0
80 10
80 30
230 37
280 30
280 10
T
t 100 -75
r 30 0 0
s 0.5 1.5 0 0

Heres part of my code:
File file = new File("coordinatess.txt");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
String st;
glPushMatrix();
while ((st = br.readLine()) != null){
                        String str[] = st.split(" ");
                        if(str[0].equalsIgnoreCase("P")){
                            glColor3f(Float.parseFloat(str[1]), Float.parseFloat(str[2]), Float.parseFloat(str[3]));

                        }
                        else if(str[0].equalsIgnoreCase("T")){
                            br.readLine();
                        }
                        else if(str[0].equalsIgnoreCase("r")){
                            glRotatef(Float.parseFloat(str[1]), Float.parseFloat(str[2]), Float.parseFloat(str[3]), 0);
                        }
                        else if(str[0].equalsIgnoreCase("s")){
                            glScalef(Float.parseFloat(str[1]), Float.parseFloat(str[2]), Float.parseFloat(str[3]));
                        }
                        else if(str[0].equalsIgnoreCase("t")){
                            glTranslatef(Float.parseFloat(str[1]), Float.parseFloat(str[2]), 0);
                        }

                    }

I'm kind of having trouble reading the line without any letters. Its just integers. How would I read those lines specifically, after "P"?

A: use nested level to parse values Integer.parseInt(value) with exception handling
String str = "T 10 5.7";
String[] strings = str.split(" ");
for (String string : strings) {
    try {
        System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(string));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        try {
            System.out.println(Float.parseFloat(string));
        } catch (Exception e2) {
            System.out.println(string);
        }
    }
}

A: Try Santaji's way, and in try-catch block include finally as well outside try-catch block. Your final try-catch block should look like this. Any input stream must be closed.
String str = "T 10 5.7";
        String[] strings = str.split(" ");
        for (String string : strings) {
            try {
                System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(string));
            } catch (Exception e) {
                try {
                    System.out.println(Float.parseFloat(string));
                } catch (Exception e2) {
                    System.out.println(string);
                }
            } finally {
                  try {
                    if (file !=null) {
                          file.close();
                 }
            }
           }
        }

But, to convert integer to string, you could possibly use other ways like :
String.valueOf(number) (most preferred)
OR
Integer.toString(number)


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Stan Kroenke Proposes 80,000-Seat NFL Stadium In Inglewood
Trending News: Is An NFL Team Moving To LA?
Kristi Dosh
Although this isn't the first plan for a new NFL stadium in Los Angeles, it is the first backed by a current NFL owner who could realistically move his team.

Long Story Short
The owner of the St. Louis Rams has announced plan to build an NFL stadium on land he already owns in Inglewood, California.

Long Story
Stan Kroenke, current owner of the St. Louis Rams, purchased 60 acres of land in Inglewood, California last year adjacent to the former Hollywood Park thoroughbred racing track. It appears he now plans to team up with the owners of Hollywood Park to build an 80,000-seat NFL stadium.
#UPDATE: Reps to hold 11A news conf. on plans to build new NFL stadium in #Inglewood: http://t.co/nK0ffbbJvw pic.twitter.com/5RVEtmyvbH
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) January 5, 2015
Kroenke isn't just any owner, he's the owner of a team whose lease is nearly up. As the Los Angeles Times reported Monday, the Rams are expected to convert their lease to a year-to-year arrangement as the team negotiates with St. Louis for improvements to the stadium. The two sides are currently $575 million apart.
It's not uncommon for relocation to become a central theme any time a team wants a new stadium. When talks were breaking down between the Vikings and the Minnesota state government, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell visited legislators and urged them to approve the new stadium. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton said the NFL contingent mentioned wanting a team in Los Angeles and wanting it not to be the Vikings. Whether or not it was meant to be a veiled threat, we all now know that Minnesota approved a new Vikings stadium.
Los Angeles has also been a frequent talking point when new stadiums are discussed for the Chargers, Raiders and Rams. The Chargers and Raiders are already on year-to-year leases in their current digs. Until now, it's been easy to chalk the Chargers/Raiders/Rams-to-Los-Angeles stories up to an attempt to leverage a better stadium deal out of the teams' respective cities.
But is this time different?
.@LATimesFarmer on NFL in LA in @theMMQB: "If this were a game of Clue, we'd already have 2 answers—who and where" http://t.co/wamyTCx4XG
— Jenny Vrentas (@JennyVrentas) January 5, 2015
If it's going to happen, how soon could it happen?
The NFL has already responded and said no teams are relocating for the 2015 season.
"No team has applied for relocation and there will be no team relocations for the 2015 season," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said.
"We are committed to working towards having franchises that are strong and successful in their existing markets. Any decision on relocation in 2016 or later is subject to approval by the 32 clubs. An affirmative vote by 24 of 32 clubs is required."
Even if Kroenke and the rest of the Inglewood group could get NFL approval for relocation in 2016, there's still the matter of getting the City of Inglewood on board. The Los Angeles Times report indicated the developers plan to use no tax dollars for the project, but will still need to put the project on the municipal ballot for approval. The mayor however, expressed his support.
Inglewood was the former home of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings before the Staples Center opened. The new stadium could be ready for an NFL team by 2018, according to the Los Angeles Times report.

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Ask The Big Question: Which NFL team will ultimately relocate to Los Angeles?
Disrupt Your Feed: Instead of relocating the Rams, the NFL should expand and add new teams in Los Angeles and London.
Drop This Fact: Two other sites in Los Angeles have already been approved for NFL stadiums: the Farmers Field plan that would put a stadium downtown and Ed Roski's plan in City of Industry. The developers of the former have only until April to find an NFL team under their agreement with the city, which has already been extended once.
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Spectral Analysis Review
10.4236/sar.2014.22002
Simulation and Modelling of near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) as Brain Monitor
Mohamed Shaaban Ali*
Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
Email: msali58@hotmail.com
Copyright © 2014 by author and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a method for non-invasive monitoring of cerebral oxygenation and hae- modynamics. Different devices provide information on changes of oxygenated (HbO2) and deoxygenated hae- moglobin (HHb), oxidized cytochrome aa3 (CytOx) or regional oxygen saturation (rSO2). NIRS has been used during adult and paediatric cardiac surgery.
1. Physical Principles of NIRS
The unique ability of light in the near-infrared (NIR) range (700 - 1300 nm) to detect the oxygenation-state of living tissue was first realized by Jobsis in 1977 [1] . Since then, NIRS has emerged as a technique for in vivo and continuous monitoring of cerebral oxygenation.
This technique is based on several physical characteristics of NIR light. First, the skin, scalp and skull are rel- atively transparent to NIR light, allowing transmission of NIR photons into the brain. As these photons pass through the brain, they undergo attenuation as a result of scattering and absorption by specific chromophores. These chromophores are intravascular haemoglobin and intracellular cytochrome aa3. Measurement of changes in cerebral chromophore concentration is related to the overall optical attenuation of NIRS light by a modified Beer Lambert Law [2] :
Received 11 February 2014; revised 15 March 2014; accepted 24 March 2014
where A = the attenuation of light in optical densities, a = the extinction coefficient of the chromophore (mM−1∙cm−1), [c] = the concentration of chromophore (mM), L = the distance between light entry and exit (cm), B = a path length factor that takes into of the increased optical path length due to scattering of light in the tissue, and G = a factor related to tissue and optode geometry.
The attenuation due to scattering and the geometric factor is not known and thus the concentration of chro- mophore cannot be quantified absolutely. Nonetheless, in a given tissue with a fixed optical geometry, it is like- ly to remain constant. Changes in attenuation, therefore, can be attributed solely to changes in the concentration of chromophore
where DC is the change in chromophore concentration; DA is the change in optical density.
Optical densities are measured at several wavelengths selected for their proximity to absorption peaks of chromophores of interest. NIRS measures changes in concentration of cerebral oxyhaemoglobin (HbO2), deoxy- genated haemoglobin (HHb), and, from their sum changes of total haemoglobin (THb), as well as changes in the cerebral concentration of oxidized cytochrome aa3 (CytOx). In addition, claims are made to measure the ratio of HbO2/THb and this is reported as "regional cerebral saturation" (rSO2) or as "tissue oxygen index" (TOI).
Cytochrome oxidase is the terminal member of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, producing the energy ne- cessary for conversion of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). If oxygen is unavaila- ble, electron transfer cannot take place and electrons accumulate on the haem and copper atoms of cytochrome aa3, causing it to become reduced. When oxygen becomes available, electrons are transferred to oxygen and cy- tochrome aa3 becomes oxidised. Thus, monitoring changes in oxidised form of the enzyme cytochrome aa3 can provide valuable information on oxidation-reduction state of the enzyme and hence on oxygenation at the cellu- lar level [3] [4] .
2. Limitations of NIRS
NIRS has the following limitations [5] -[7] :
1) It detects regional cerebral oxygenation (small area under the optodes).
2) Optical path length is difficult to identify.
3) Arterial versus venous changes are not distinguished.
4) The effect of extracranial tissue on NIRS signal is unknown.
5) Absolute quantification is lacking.
6) Vulnerable to light and movement artifacts.
7) Dissolved oxygen not measured.
3. NIRS Simulation and Modelling
Several methods of simulation and modelling were used to overcome such limitations [8] -[11] . Chang et al. [9] used a simulation method for understanding photon migration dynamics in human brain based on Monte Carlo algorithm by using three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data with multi-wavelength illumina- tion. MRI imaged the human brain with five layers; scalp, skull, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), gray matter and white matter. They found that such patient-oriented simulation model can provide significant characteristics on the optimal choice of source-detector separation within 3.3 cm for individualized case. Also, significant distor- tions were observed around cerebral cortex folding. Spatial sensitivity penetrated deeper to the brain in the case of expanded CSF. Such finding suggests that the optical method may provide not only functional signal from the brain activation but also structural information of brain atrophy with expanded CSF. It appeared that the three- dimensional time-resolved brain modelling method approached the realistic human brain and provides useful information for NIRS systematic design and calibration for individualized case with prior MRI.
Others [11] described a four-layered for NIR light propagation in a human head based on Mont Carlo method. They used wave lengths of 690 nm, 800 nm and 1300 nm. The four layers are scalp and skull (one layer), CSF, grey matter and white matter. They found that the wave length of 1300 nm is more appropriate for monitoring of human brain activity. Also, grey matter absorption was more sensitive at 1300 nm, and the spatial resolution was improved at 1300 nm.
It appears that NIRS is a promising brain oxygenation monitor. It has all the theoretical advantages that could make it a suitable device for real-time brain monitoring during cardiac surgery. It is to be hoped that increasing- ly sophisticated computer modelling will permit a better understanding of its limitations and that modern equipment will make possible the real-time correction for the scattering effects of extracerebral tissue.
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Douglas M. Mahony and Brian S. Klaas
Human Resource Management Practices and Alternative Conflict Resolution
Non-union Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Employer Willingness to Implement ADR
Employee Willingness to Use Voice
Managerial Reactions to Employee Use of Voice
Implications for HR Policy and Practice
Employers have numerous options when choosing how to design and implement their dispute policies and procedures. In this chapter we examine a range of non-union forms of voice with an emphasis on the resolution disputes arising from the employment relationship. In particular, we compare mechanisms of voice along four dimensions: reliance on informal versus formal procedures; reliance on internal versus external decision-makers; non-binding versus binding outcomes; and consideration of interest- versus rights-based claims. We further focus on how the management of voice processes might affect the willingness of employees to use voice and managerial reactions to voice when it is used. Several implications and directions for future research are discussed.
Keywords: alternative dispute resolution, employee voice, managers
Douglas M. Mahony
Douglas M. Mahony is Assistant Professor of Management and Axelrod Fellow at the College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University. His primary areas of research focus on group and organizational conflict, and nonunion dispute resolution processes and outcomes. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from Rutgers University.
Brian S. Klaas
Brian S. Klaas is Professor of Management and Senior Associate Dean at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He also serves as the Director of the Riegel & Emory HR Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published widely on topics relating to employee voice, organizational conflict and dispute resolution, and HR systems.


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Regulators hope to "bring the digital currency industry out of the shadows" The establishment of rules for crypto circulation "would minimize the threat to Russia's financial system" The Russian government and the country's central bank have reached an agreement to draft legislation or amend existing laws recognizing crypto as a form of currency, according to…
Regulators hope to "bring the digital currency industry out of the shadows"
The establishment of rules for crypto circulation "would minimize the threat to Russia's financial system"
The Russian government and the country's central bank have reached an agreement to draft legislation or amend existing laws recognizing crypto as a form of currency, according to a statement Tuesday.
The agreement is a significant reversal after the Bank of Russia last month proposed banning miners and several other crypto operations over concerns that they could endanger the country's financial system.
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Russia's regulation will seek to integrate a mechanism for the circulation of digital currencies into the country's financial system while ensuring control over credit institutions' cash flows, a rough translation of an accompanying draft document reads.
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Officials also said the regulation would ensure the protection of citizens' rights under a licensing regime aimed at cryptocurrency providers. Providers will need to have "financial airbags" in terms of liquidity and adequate capital.
"The complete absence of regulation of this industry, as well as the establishment of a ban, will lead to an increase in the share of the shadow economy, an increase in fraud cases and destabilization of the industry as a whole," the document reads.
There are additional plans to introduce an "obligation" for market participants to educate Russia's citizens regarding the risks associated with digital assets.
Several Russian regulators and lawmakers including the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Tax Service and others were involved in the decision-making process.
"The implementation of the concept will ensure the creation of the necessary regulatory framework, will bring the digital currency industry out of the shadows and create the possibility of legal business activities," the statement reads.
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Q: EXC_BREAKPOINT on NSFetchedResultsController.performFetch() because of -[CFString isNSString__]: message sent to deallocated instance I'm running into a repeatable crash when calling -performFetch on my NSFetchedResultsController in what SEEMS like a data-related crash:
 NSFetchedResultsController *aFetchedResultsController =
        [[NSFetchedResultsController alloc] initWithFetchRequest:fetchRequest
                                            managedObjectContext:self.managedObjectContext
                                              sectionNameKeyPath:sectionnamekeypath
                                                       cacheName:cacheName];

aFetchedResultsController.delegate = self;

NSError *error = nil;
if (NO == [aFetchedResultsController performFetch:&error]) {
    NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]);
}

It crashes at the performFetch() call. I turned on Zombie checking and it printed:
*** -[CFString isNSString__]: message sent to deallocated instance 0x12c6071d0

I've checked all of the strings in my function and I can't find a string that has that address. I NSLog()'d all of the strings along with their address locations. I figured it would break on whatever NSLog() line that referenced the string in question, but all of them were still valid.
This makes me think this is a problem inside NSFetchedResultsController.performFetch() but it's hard to imagine that they have this kind of bug. So, what else can I do to find out what string this is?
I haven't run into problems like this since we switched over to ARC. I'm not sure how to figure out where this string comes from.
It SEEMS like this is data related though. My app pulls down data from our server, imports it into Core Data, and then uses the NSFetchedResultsController to show the data in a UITableView. I can login as various different users, download their data, and the FRC fetches and works just fine. But when I login as this one particular user, then it crashes. That user is one of our biggest users and their dataset is thousands and thousands of records, so it's not something I can easily look through to visually find things that might be weird. Doing further testing and will update this if I find any new info.

A: I have -no- idea how this could have been the problem and potentially someone who understands the relationship between NSString and CFString could explain it to me.
My FRC (NSFetchedResultsController) took a sectionNameKeyPath to the initializer so that it would automatically break up the results into appropriate sections for my table view.
The sectionNameKeyPath was namefirstletter which is a method that I have defined in the base class of all of my Core Data objects.
In my -namefirstletter method, I had this code at the end:
NSString *uppercasefirstletter = [firstletter uppercaseString];
return uppercasefirstletter;

This code has been working for 6+ years, never had a problem. But it's suddenly a problem, so I'm wondering if there was a change in the latest iOS or something. Now, when I execute my FRC with the above code in my sectionNameKeyPath function, it crashes every time.
However, this fixed it:
NSString *uppercasefirstletter = [NSString stringWithString:[firstletter uppercaseString]];
return uppercasefirstletter;

Now it works every time.
Is -uppercaseString returning me an improperly managed reference? Can anyone explain this to me?

A: This looks like it's a known bug with iOS 16.1 and 16.2: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/717047


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