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Fleet Management beyond 2020 – Will there be consequences?
Covid-19 has forced many companies and industries to change the way that they use their fleets. As people work from home and offices remain empty, it doesn't make sense to send a salesman driving around the country for a meeting that could take place on a video call. Our sudden changes in attitudes to work, along with the societal and governmental pressure towards tackling the climate crises, deter managers from investing in expensive fleet cars. To employees who are spending less time on the road, it's no longer the bonus it once was. In the United Kingdom, France and Germany, new car registrations have plummeted.
What the future holds for fleet managers?
While there are reasons to be concerned, the future is not necessarily bleak for fleet managers. Even during the pandemic, delivery fleets have experienced unprecedented growth. As in all difficult times, adaptability will be vital to surviving the pandemic and beyond, and fleet managers will need to adapt to changing customer demands and new green regulations.
Here are the most prominent forces for change for the near future and beyond.
Electric vehicles have become far more common on the roads. While petrol and diesel car sales have dropped by 21% and 38% respectively, pure electric vehicle sales rose by 184%. With plans to ban the registration of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 in several European countries, governments have been encouraging electric vehicles through subsidies and the prospect of driving in low emission zones.
Low ranges and long charging times mean that electric vehicles still aren't suitable for drivers that make big journeys or spend all day driving with little chance to charge their cars. As technology develops, making a move to electric could be cost-effective for some fleet managers.
Government work-from-home directives
During the first lockdown, more of us were working from home than before, and for most of Europe, the official government advice is still to work from home where you can. While this advice is in place, companies need to avoid face-to-face meetings and are encouraged to conduct things like interviews and client meetings online. Fleet managers should watch their government's directives carefully, as extended work from home policies will reduce the need for fleet drivers.
Fleed managers and regional lockdowns
As Europe is expected to come out of its second lockdown, countries have adopted a region by region tier policy. Fleet managers will continue to struggle with keeping their fleet operational and productive while ensuring they keep their staff and customers safe and stick to government guidelines. Taxi fleets in tier three will likely struggle due to the closure of bars and restaurants. Redeploying your fleet to lower-tier areas may lessen the blow.
On the other hand, taxi fleet drivers may gain business from a new opportunity. As people start to go back to their offices, many may be hesitant about taking public transport in the winter due to the risks associated with traveling in an enclosed space with many strangers. Fear of winter illness could cause an increased demand for shorter taxi rides, and fleet managers who adapt to low-cost city driving vehicles could benefit.
Vaccine Rollout
Vaccines are being approved across the globe and life may get back to some form of normality sooner than we think. While we expect that some companies will continue to allow staff to work from home and conduct meetings online, many functions will return to the office. The news of the vaccine should not make fleet managers complacent. Producing and distributing doses will take time. It's also likely that some things will stay. Many companies will have found benefits in allowing staff to work from home, and more people are comfortable with shopping online and getting home deliveries. Now is the time to show your company why your fleet is crucial.
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Guided By Voices and the songs that never stop
I first encountered Guided By Voices in a pile of free CDs. It was 1994, I was working as an intern at Billboard magazine in New York City, and one of the undeniable perks of the gig was the massive amount of freebies that poured into the mag in that pre-Internet era.
I discovered a lot of great new music that summer, but nothing that blew my mind quite like the work of Robert Pollard and his band Guided By Voices. While it may sound a bit absurd, it felt like I'd discovered a secret Beatles nobody knew about but me.
GbV's seminal disc Bee Thousand hit me like a thousand surreal butterflies singing pop tunes, and I've been a fan ever since. Their very best songs make me want to scream along at the top of my lungs, anthems for those who didn't know they needed an anthem.
It's hard to nail down Guided By Voices. They're a rock band with a strong power-pop vibe, and an often-nonsensical stew of lyrics that make just as much sense as you want them to. At their peak, each album from GbV feels like a message from another planet made just for me – lo-fi and crackling with pretty little mistakes, a radio stuck between stations on the coolest sounds around. On stage, they were a boozing, debauched riot far different from the brittle beauty of their albums.
I like bands that feel bottomless. Acts that have deep backlists, frequent changes in style and approach, and a dogged determination to see their own vision through. The Bowies, the Zappas, the Nick Caves, the Pollards. A self-proclaimed jock from Dayton, Ohio, Robert Pollard isn't someone you'd pick to be one of the busiest songwriters of all time.
And he's prolific. Good god, he's prolific. Pollard has a compulsion that drives him to perpetually come up with new songs – more than 2000 in his career to date, spread out over more than 100 albums by Guided By Voices, solo albums and an entire stadium full of side bands and one-of projects.
I mean jeez, I'm a pretty big fan, I've got something like 60 of Pollard's various albums GbV and otherwise, and I'm still a long way from having it all. Still, nothing for me quite tops that absolutely golden stretch from album no. 3 (Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia) to album no. 11 (Do The Collapse).
A recent biography of Pollard, Closer You Are by Matthew Cutter, does a pretty good job of attempting to nail down GbV's niche appeal. It's particularly strong on the band's early years, sketching Pollard as an eager young rock fan who became a professional teacher with musician dreams. Pollard was the kind of teenager who'd literally spend hours making up dozens of pretend album covers for his imaginary bands. The after-hours musician didn't actually "make it" until he was in his mid-30s.
The flood never stops. After breaking up for the first time in 2004, GbV returned just a few years later and the albums have been coming one, two or three a year at least ever since. Pollard is 62 now, and still banging out the hits for a very devoted fan base.
That can be to GbV's detriment for some. Of their 13 (!!!) albums since 2012's revival, there's always a few great songs, a lot of good ones, maybe one or two dogs. The music has lost that mysterious edge it first had in the 1990s, but still has plenty of great hooks and riffs. But the constant flow of new material makes it kind of hard to sit down and soak them in properly.
That's just Bob's way, like it or lump it. Yet it's kind of fun to pick up GbV album No. 26 or Pollard side project No. 37 and find a few songs that sound like they should've been massive hits in some alternate universe. He won't stop. Maybe he can't stop.
And maybe that's the reason we Guided By Voices fans keep coming back, album after album after album. They're songs just for us, in the coolest club in the land, and while they'll never be as omnipresent as a Taylor Swift hit maybe, they're magic all the same.
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The journalist, reporter, writer and television director Cristina Morató was born in Barcelona in 1961, and studied journalism at the Bellaterra Journalism Institute in Barcelona. She has been a traveller with her camera for more than twenty years, during which time she has spent long periods in Latin America, Africa and Asia. She has visited more than forty countries, and has written extensively about their culture and anthropology. She is a founder member of the Spanish Geographical Society (http://www.sge.org/). She is also a member of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society of London. In 2000 she decided to leave her television career for good in order to travel and write books about the great women explorers of the past, women who have largely been forgotten by history. She has published, to popular and critical success, the following books on this topic: Intrepid and Adventurous Women Travellers (Viajeras intrépidas y aventureras, 2001); African Queens (Las reinas de África, 2003); Ladies of the East (Las damas de Oriente, 2006) and Arabian Captive (Cautiva en Arabia, 2009), an enthralling biography of Countess Marga d'Andurain, a Franco-Basque spy who lived in Syria in the 1930s and attempted to enter Mecca. Rebel Divas (Divas rebeldes, 2010) is a change of direction for her writing career: it is a series of portraits of the more human, lesser known side of some of the greatest divas of the twentieth century, including Jackie Kennedy, Eva Perón, Maria Callas, Coco Chanel and Audrey Hepburn. In 1982, barely 20 years old, while she was still studying journalism at the Bellaterra Institute in Barcelona, Cristina Morató decided to travel to Central America to work as a war reporter. She travelled through Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador and wrote reports on the refugee camps there, as well as capturing with her camera the lives of the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua and the situation of Salvadorian refugees in Honduras. After this baptism of fire, she discovered that although she loved travelling, she did not have the stomach for covering wars as a reporter. At this point she decided to carry on travelling the world with her camera, dedicating herself primarily to reporting on the situation of women in developing countries. She has also spent more than ten years making a photographic record of the identity markers of indigenous peoples (especially the textiles woven by the Maya people, the Amazonian Indians and the tribes of northern Thailand). In 1983 she travelled to Africa for the first time, to Equatorial Guinea, where she spent three months in the interior city of Evinayong in Rio Muni carrying out a wide-ranging report on the lives of Spanish voluntary workers in this former colony. She also wrote and shot photographic reports attacking the difficult situation of women in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where they are denied even the most basic rights. In 1985 she returned to Africa again, this time to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), where she spent nine months in the hospital at Buta, supervising the work of the Cooperación Sanitaria Española, a Spanish medical NGO. While on this trip, she developed an interest in the personality and achievements of Dian Fossey, and visited the habitat of the last remaining mountain gorillas in Virunga, and produced an in-depth article on the region and the country's most important natural parks. This visit was followed by several others to the African continent in the footsteps of the great explorers of the nineteenth century. In 1987 she spent several months in Senegal, and lived for a while on the Île de Gorée, just off the coast of Dakar, taking photographs of the island and of the descendants of the African slaves who set off from there to America. She carried out an anthropological study of the signares, female inhabitants of Gorée and of Saint Louis. She also explored the Casamance region, where she lived in adobe impluvium houses and took a photographic record of this vanishing style of architecture. In 1992 she travelled through Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in search of the white myth of the 'dark continent', accompanied by the writer Javier Reverte. As a part of this journey, at the invitation of the Ugandan government, she spent four months exploring the mythical source of the White Nile, the Murchison Falls: the landscape mapped and described by the most famous British nineteenth-century explorers, such as Burton, Speke and Stanley. After this journey she published a number of articles about these nineteenth-century explorers and also about their wives, who travelled with them on their daring voyages and helped them make history. In her book African Queens, Morató dedicates chapters to such unfairly forgotten women as Isabel Burton, the wife of the explorer Richard Burton, or Mary Moffat, wife of David Livingstone. Attracted by the indigenous Mayan culture and by their magnificent textiles, Cristina Morató has, over the course of more than ten years, visited various villages in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in Guatemala and the Tierras Altas de Chiapas in Mexico, photographing their rituals and their elaborate ceremonial clothing. She has organised several exhibitions of Mayan textiles in Barcelona and Madrid. As far as South America is concerned, she has produced a number of photo-essays on Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama. In 1986 she travelled to Argentina and spent a year living there, travelling from Patagonia in the south to Salta and Jujuy in the north. During this time she travelled to Tierra del Fuego and from her base in Ushuaia managed to realise one of her dreams: circumnavigating Cape Horn. After a truly difficult journey on board a sailing ship owned by Jean-Paul Bassaget, who had once been the captain of Cousteau's ship the Calypso, she managed to pause at Cape Horn and produce a photo-essay on this desolate spot, filled with shipwrecks and legends. A little after this she travelled to Colombia, where she spent four months travelling all over the country, in particular the La Guajira region on the border with Venezuela, where she photographed the landscapes which inspired many of the most famous novels of Gabriel García Márquez. A trip to Cartagena de Indias and the islands of Providencia and San Andrés gave rise to another article about the Caribbean and its citizens of black slave descent. And then, having fallen in love with Asia, from 1990 onwards she has visited, amongst other places, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and the northern part of Thailand, where she has spent long periods living with the local mountain tribes and photographing their rituals and impressive clothing. On three occasions she has won the Silver Pen Award (Pluma de Plata) granted by the Mexican Office of Tourism for the best article written in Spanish about the country. In 2003 she received the 'Friend of Thailand' award from the Thai Ministry of Tourism for her promotion of Thailand and Thai culture in Spain (she remains the only Spanish journalist to be awarded this prize). She has organised several exhibitions of her own photographic work in Spain, including Children of the Corn (Los hijos del maíz, 1993), about Mayan clothing and rituals, and Oaxaca: Land of Clouds (Oaxaca: País de las nubes, 1994), about the landscape and the inhabitants of this beautiful Mexican state. She has contributed to several publishing projects, including the book The Worst Journey of our Lives (El peor viaje de nuestras vidas, Plaza y Janés, 1998). Over the last few years she has dedicated herself to rescuing from oblivion the greatest women travellers and adventurers in history by publishing three very successful books that have introduced to the Spanish public many previously forgotten figures, including the greatest British travellers of the nineteenth century. Intrepid and Adventurous Women Travellers (Viajeras intrépidas y aventureras, Plaza y Janés, 2001), with a prologue by Manu Leguineche, is a long-form essay which describes the extraordinary adventures of the most famous women travellers in history, from early pilgrims and crusaders to the discoverers of the African continent. This book made accounts of female travellers a popular subject in Spain. In 2003 she published African Queens (Las reinas de África), an homage to the women who travelled across Africa from the nineteenth century to the start of the twentieth. And in 2005 she published her third book, Ladies of the East (Las damas de Oriente), seven biographies of great female travellers and explorers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most of them British, who, attracted by the Arab world, journeyed through the Middle East. Arabian Captive (Cautiva en Arabia, 2009) is her first full-length biography, an account of the little-known figure of Countess Marga d'Andurain, a spy and an adventurer who lived in the Middle East in the 1930s, where she ran a hotel in the desert by the Syrian town of Palmyra. Rebel Divas (Divas rebeldes, 2010) brings together the biographies of seven of the great myths of the twentieth century: Maria Callas, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Eva Perón, Barbara Hutton, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy. Her most recent book is Tragic Queens (Reinas malditas, 2014), which is being translated into several languages. It describes the passionate lives of six queens and empresses who were all tragically unable to choose their own fates. As well as her great success in Spain, Cristina Morató's books have been published in Portugal, Bulgaria, Poland and France. Over her career, Cristina Morató has alternated periods of travel with stretches spent working on radio and television as a presenter, reporter and director. Nowadays she dedicates herself to her writing and to public speaking; she also has a monthly opinion column in Mujer de Hoy, a supplement to the newspaper ABC. She also writes for the magazine ¡Hola!, to which she has contributed a number of biographical essays on travellers and adventurers, not to mention the great divas of the twentieth century.
Cristina Morató (Barcelona, 1961) studied journalism and photography. From an early age she has travelled the world as a reporter and has written many articles and in-depth reports. After spending long periods of time in various countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa (where she worked for the NGO Cooperación Sanitaria Española in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), she visited the Middle East for the first time in 2005 and travelled to Syria and, later, Jordan. During these years she alternated her travels with periods of directing programmes for television, a job that she decided to give up in order to dedicate herself full time to writing the lives of the great women explorers and travellers, most of them forgotten by history. In search of their traces she has travelled to more than forty countries. The documents, books and facts that she found on her travels gave her the material to write Intrepid and Adventurous Women Travellers (Viajeras intrépidas y aventureras, 2001), African Queens (Las reinas de África, 2003), Ladies of the East (Las damas de Oriente, 2005) and Arabian Captive (Cautiva en Arabia, 2009).
Her interest in discovering the human, lesser-known side of the great divas of the twentieth century, Maria Callas and Coco Chanel among them, led her to write Rebel Divas (Divas rebeldes, 2010).
Her most recent book is Tragic Queens (Reinas malditas, 2014). It describes the passionate lives of six queens and empresses who were all tragically unable to choose their own fates.
As well as this, Cristina Morató is a founder member of the Spanish Geographical Society (www.sge.org) and belongs to the Royal Geographic Society of London.


Telegraph Media Group has hired Sky News executive producer James Weeks to become the publisher's new head of video.
The appointment is one of a number of job changes at the group, which includes a promotion and new title for digital editor Ed Roussel.
Weeks, who has spent 13 years at Sky News, most recently as executive producer for new media, will oversee all of the Telegraph's video operations, reporting directly to editor Tony Gallagher.
Conrad Quilty-Harper has been promoted to interactive news editor, overseeing graphics and data journalism on Telegraph.co.uk and its iPad application.
Telegraph Media Group said Quilty-Harper would "work closely with the newsdesk on investigative reporting projects derived from large databases".
Ed Roussel becomes executive editor (digital), with overall responsibility for content strategy across the Telegraph website, mobile and tablet applications.
Last week Roy Greenslade reported that up to 30 redundancies were to be made at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph.
Among those to leave last week were the Telegraph's online editor Marcus Warren.
Greenslade also named Saleem Khawaja, the group's digital technologist, head of visuals, Guy Ruddle, picture editor Kim Scott-Clark, graphics chief Derek Bishton and review editor Tom Horan as among those to have been made redundant.


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Bermuda Lake Estates is garden home community of about 85 homes. The majority of these comfortable homes are 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and they are close to the schools and shopping. These are homes on slabs with spacious yards. It's a great place to raise your family.


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Review: This double disc is a complete overview of pianist Dharmawan's stunningly broad stylistic span. Not everything here is world-centric and it is not always pretty, but the gems are worth it, where he addresses the relationships between Indonesian music & modern jazz in unexpected and startlingly creative ways. Mark Wingfield adds some sonic guitar in places.


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25 April 2019 Milena Raskovic
INSANITY. That is the only way to describe witnessing Billie Eilish perform at Auckland's Spark Arena last night. I had little idea what to expect when I arrived for the performance – I've been listening to her music on repeat for months, but nothing could prepare me for what I saw.
At 17 years old, Pop music's terrifying and prodigious singer-songwriter already had the venue completely sold out. It's her third visit to New Zealand after playing The Tuning Fork in 2017 and at Laneway in 2018 on the back of her critically acclaimed EP Don't Smile At Me.
Seeing the arena packed, it hit me how massive she really is, but when she finally appears on stage wearing her signature oversized sweatshirt and bootleg Gucci shorts, the loud screams that bordered on desperation; one comes to understand that "BILLIEMANIA" is a "thing" – a Generation Z take on "Beatlemania". No, I'm not really "that" old, but I am a Millennial, which currently feels like light years away from Gen Z.
The entire audience, comprising predominantly of teenage girls, sang back her songs word for word, screaming at times, and she's only just released her debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO". It was incredible.
She opens the show with her latest track "Bad Guy" and as her voice warms up, you could clearly tell she was under the weather – the audience is happy to help by singing along. As she belts out her every hit to date, her energy levels soar and she's dancing around in typical Billie fashion – influenced by hip hop and a heavy dose of horror aesthetic. The Exorcist comes to mind. I love it.
Her pop influences are a-plenty and can be heard in her playful, word-association lyrics, and her precociousness has earned her comparisons to Lorde – however her vocals along with her deadpan stare and "no fucks given" attitude for me personally resonates with early Fiona Apple, who was around the same age as Billie when her debut album came out.
The moody singer of her generation, Fiona has already said everything Billie is repurposing long ago, namely at the MTV Acceptance speech:
"This world is bullshit! And you shouldn't model your life–wait a second–you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're saying and everything. Go with yourself. Go with yourself."
Perhaps a redux, an amalgam of influence, nonetheless you can't deny the Billie effect and what she represents for her own generation. She even has Dave Grohl talking about her: "The same thing is happening with her that happened with Nirvana in 1991". Pretty big stamp of approval there.
As she wraps up her third track of the night "Lovely" – Billie addressed the crowd:
"This is f***ing crazy. No, for real. I'm standing here trying to think if this is a dream or not because my dreams be trippin' sometimes and this seems like one of my dreams. There ain't no way this is real. I'm not even gonna get into it because I'm gonna break down…"
And she manages, just about.
One of the many highlights of the show was the pared down and her first-time performance of "I love you". As she sits down with her brother she serenades her audience expressing her rawest emotions and giving you the "feels".
Towards the end, she pleads the audience to put down their phones and be present, be in the moment with her. Be it the current age of social media or 17th century Europe – François de La Rochefoucauld comes to mind here: "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves." She speaks the truth. And with that, her last song of the night "Bury your friend" I put my phone down. Finally…whilst being "in the moment" I get it.
Billie gives her final bow, tears up and walks off stage.
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Susan Paterson was born in 1958 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She attended Mount Allison University receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1980. She has also attended Byam Shaw School of Art in London, England; NSCAD, Halifax; Academy of Realist Art, Toronto; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Grand Central Atelier, New Hampshire. Her studies have been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshield's grant, a Nova Scotia Arts Council grant and an Academy of Realist Art scholarship.
Susan has exhibited extensively across Canada since the early eighties, presenting more than thirty solo shows and many more group shows including 'Capture 2014, Nova Scotia Realism' juried by Tom Smart and Peter Dykuis which travelled throughout Nova Scotia and 'Terrior, a Nova Scotia Survey' at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Susan's work has been chosen as a finalist three times in the online BoldBrush painting competition, three times in the still life category of Art Renewal Center's Annual International Salon and twice in International Artist magazine's competition. As well she was chosen as the first artist in residence at Port Bickerton Lighthouse's annual artist residency in Port Bickerton, NS.
Her work is in collections all over the world including City of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Art Bank, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bell Canada, Husky Oil, Magna International, Oshawa Foods, Citibank, Olympia and York Developments and K.K. Sakai, Tokyo, Japan.
Publications featuring Susan's work include 'From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists'; 'Take your Time with Each Step', International Artist magazine and 'Master Painters', International Artist magazine.She has been commissioned by the Dept. of Medicine, Dalhousie Univ., Heritage Museum, Dartmouth; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Sherbrooke Village and Mount Allison Football Program.
My work evokes the past, both in technique and in subject. I do highly detailed studies of landscape, florals and everyday objects, capturing the subtleties of the light, colour, and textures that are so fascinating but so often overlooked. When I'm painting I love getting lost in the details and the challenge of creating an illusion that explains how I feel about what I see. I'm fascinated by light and how it describes form, changes colours, is reflected back and disappears into the dark depths of a background. I work in subdued colours, preferring the subtleties of the subject to stand out. I get great pleasure from slowing down, spending hours intently observing and trying to capture the incredible beauty that surrounds us.


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Nato calcisticamente nella Roma, in cui militò dal 1931 al 1937, riuscì a trovare poco spazio in squadra, essendo riserva del titolare Fasanelli e contando 3 presenze.

Palmarès

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Competizioni nazionali

 M.A.T.E.R.: 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1941-1942

Collegamenti esterni

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Race season is finally here - the Test 'n Tune, PE1, and PE2 are live on MotorsportReg. Follow the links below to register, and get ready to start another autocross season!
When is it going to show up on the main web site?
Do you mean the reg links getting linked on the main site Randy?
Yep, that's what I'm talking about.
We're working on getting them up on the site. Should be there in the next few days.
If you need help with this sort of thing I'm willing. I work in IT for a living.
can we get an over / under for temperature on Saturday and Sunday?
The AccuweatherTM forecast is 61F with morning rain on Saturday and 52F on Sunday. Of course that's if you can count on that forecast at all.
You can see what I'm thinking about!
Heck, we work in IT. Aren't we 50% wrong about 75% of the time?
Today's forecast shows 1-4 inches of snow from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning. Snowcross anyone?
That's a great point. I'm so excited for the season to begin but honestly I'm not sure that I own enough stuff to keep me warm if that's the case. In any event, the only thing would make that trip would be the Subie.
I'd do it. I've got snow tires and am going through rallycross withdrawal.
If it snows Saturday will NTR plow the lot for Sunday? If we truly get 1-4 inches it's possible it will not melt in time.


Kayle hunted with us in 2014 and has returned with his son in law, Ed and friend Brandon to Hunt Plains Game. Kayle's wife and daughter will be joining us later in the week after a quick visit to Cape Town. The girls will be doing day tours with Denise, which includes, Sandboarding, a cheetah walk and a day at the Spa.
The guys arrived late on Friday night, so it was straight to the lodge for dinner and a good night's sleep.
We headed out to the range to sight in the rifles; they would be using Induna Safaris firearms. The sighting in went swiftly and no adjustments would be required.
We headed out to see what we could find to put a stalk on.
Kayle was the first to harvest an animal, taking a Blue Wildebeest bull and what a great specimen it is. Well done Kayle.
Brandon was next, making a great shot to claim a great Blesbok Ram.
We headed over to one of our other properties today and Ed was the first to draw blood. It was Ed's first time hunting and the nerves did get the better of him in the beginning but he ended up taking a great old Nyala Bull, well done Ed on getting your first African animal.
Late afternoon Brandon made a shot on a Kudu bull after a great stalk but unfortunately it was not a fatal shot so some tracking had to be done. The Kudu was eventually caught up with after a few miles of tracking and Brandon managed to get a shot of which connected with the Kudu as it was about to go over a hill. This was enough to anchor the bull and for Brandon to claim his Trophy Kudu Bull. Well done on some great tracking Brandon!
Brandon made a great shot on a Nyala Bull in the morning to claim himself another great Trophy.
Whilst looking for a Gemsbuck for Ed we came across a really impressive Copper Springbuck and Kayle decided he would like to take it to complete his Grand Slam. Well done on completing your Grand Slam Kayle with a great specimen of a Copper Springbuck.
Whilst leaving the area a Gemsbuck was spotted and Ed was quick to get on the sticks to make a great shot to claim his Gemsbuck.
The afternoon was spent looking for Kudu for Ed, and yet again he made an excellent shot to claim his Kudu Bull. What a great Kudu it is and I think the African Hunting bug has bitten Ed! This was to be Ed's last animal on the trip but I'm sure Ed will return to Hunt Plains Game again in the near future with us.
After a great stalk on a cull Warthog, Kayle made a brilliant shot. Kayle was looking for a Trophy Warthog but due to the dry conditions none were seen but lots of young and female warthogs were spotted. Maybe next time Kayle!!
Brandon wanted a Zebra rug to take home so we were off in search of Zebra, they were found but they gave us the run around until Brandon made a great double lung shot to secure his Zebra rug. Well done Brandon.
It was great having the guy's visit us on this short trip to Hunt Plains Game and we hope to see you all in the near future again. Take care.
We had a fantastic experience at Induna Safaris. The property is beautiful and the animals are plentiful. As a beginner level hunter, I was very grateful that Kelvin was such a patient and capable teacher. Both Kelvin and Denise are terrific hosts. The accommodations are very comfortable, the staff are very friendly, and the food is delicious. We can give Induna Safaris our highest recommendation.
We had a wonderful holiday at Induna Safaris. Denise took the "girls" sandboarding, cheetah walking, and to the spa while the men hunted. The food was delicious! The rooms were comfortable and the company was delightful. Great conversations by the fire. We are looking forward to coming back!
What a great experience! Your hospitality and care was wonderful. The hunting was superb, and the food was out of this world! Mahalo for the memories!!


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Q: EXTJS Passing Form Fields and Assigning Values to Variables in Controller I'm trying to create a login form that mimics the call to a server and "authenticates" a users information.
Here's my Login.js code. this is the form I created:
Ext.define("ies.view.login.Login",{
extend: 'Ext.window.Window',
    xtype: 'login',

requires: [
    'ies.view.login.LoginController',
    'Ext.form.Panel'
],

controller: 'login',
bodyPadding: 60,
draggable: false,
title: 'Login Window',
closable: false,
autoShow: true,

items: {
    xtype: 'form',
    reference: 'form',
    itemId: 'LogInForm',
    method: 'post',
    items: [{
        xtype: 'textfield',
        name: 'username',
        fieldLabel: 'Username',
        itemId: 'username',
        allowBlank: false
    }, {
        xtype: 'textfield',
        name: 'password',
        itemId: 'passwords',
        inputType: 'password',
        fieldLabel: 'Password',
        allowBlank: false
    }, {
        xtype: 'displayfield',
        hideEmptyLabel: false,
        value: 'Enter any non-blank password'
    }],
    buttons: [{
        text: 'Login',
        formBind: true,
        itemId: 'submit',
        listeners: {
            click: 'onLoginClick'
        }
    }],

}
});

This is my controller code:
Ext.define('ies.view.login.LoginController', {
    extend: 'Ext.app.ViewController',
    alias: 'controller.login',
    onLoginClick: function(){
        //var username = form.down('textfield[name=username]').getValue();
        //var password = form.down('textfield[name=password]').getValue();
        //get form field values
        var username = this.lookupReference('username');
        var password = this.lookupReference('password');
        console.log(username + ' ' + password);
        // This would be the ideal location to verify the user's credentials via
        // a server-side lookup. We'll just move forward for the sake of this example.

/********************************************/
if ((username === 'carol' || username === 'denise' || username === 'coley' || username === 'yegappan' || username === 'julie' || username === 'dawn' || username === 'yvonne' || username === 'chuck' || username === 'belinda' || username === 'atlante' || username === 'blake' || username === 'ernie' || username === 'Patrick.Dwyer') && password === 'password1'){
/********************************************/

        // Set the localStorage value to true
        localStorage.setItem("TutorialLoggedIn", true);
        console.log("Atuthenticated");

        // Remove Login Window
        this.getView().destroy();

        // Add the main view to the viewport
        Ext.widget('app-main');
    } else {
        document.getElementById("displayfield-1014-inputEl").innerHTML = "Authentication Failed";
        console.log("Not authenticated");
    }
    }
});

I'm not sure how to pass the form fields and assign them to the username and password variables in the controller code. All help is really apreciated. Thanks!
I'm using EXTJS v 5.1

A: The name and itemId aren't relevant here. Instead, use the reference property in conjunction with lookupReference.

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Their very small displays sometimes make smartphones difficult to operate. In the future, a projector will help: if the cell phone is standing on a table, for instance, it can project a large-format display onto the table surface. The user will have the option of operating the smartphone via the projection function or from the display screen itself.
The LED projector consists of an array of hundreds of tiny microprojectors.
The LED projector will help: The user will have the option of operating the smartphone via the projection function or from the display screen itself.
It's convenient to be able to show people vacation snapshots on a smartphone. Butpicture details are often hard to make out – the display is simply too small. A new LED projector could help: You position the smartphone in a small cradle on a coffee table, for instance, and it projects the image onto the table top: crisp, bright and DIN A4 size. If a user wants to zoom in on a portion of the picture, they can swipe the projection with their finger the same way they would swipe a display screen – the projected image can be controlled using the same principle as the display itself.
The special thing about the LED projector: the entire image displayed, such as a vacation snapshot, is crisp and clear – even if projected at a very flat angle with the beams striking the table surface at a diagonal. Usually, this would distort the picture and make it blurry in places. The researchers who developed the projector at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena were able to solve this problem, though: "Our projector consists of hundreds of tiny microprojectors in an array, each of which generates a complete image," explains Marcel Sieler, a scientist at IOF. "This technology, known as 'array projection,' is modeled on nature – on the compound eye found in some insects – and with it for the first time we can create very thin and bright LED projection systems with tremendous imaging properties." In the simplest case of vertical projection onto a level surface, each of these tiny projectors casts the same image onto the viewing surface. Hundreds of individual images overlap to create a sharp and bright overall picture. But if the device is positioned at an angle to the "screen," each little projector shines a slightly different image. Just how these individual images will have to look in order to create a sharp overall picture is a function of the angle at which the image is projected, and of the geometry of the "screen" itself. This is because each projector in the array has a slightly different perspective of the overall scene. The large depth of focus of the micro lenses enables these key features: even free-form screen geometries such as curved surfaces can be used. The experts refer to this as the projector's "tailored focus" capability. Each of the individual images is computed using software the researchers have developed: the position sensor and the smartphone's camera could deliver the geometric information, which the software uses to perform its calculations and compute the individual images along with their focus setting.
The optics were manufactured on wafers containing around 300 chips, each in turn housing 200 lenses for the microprojectors. "The manufacturing process is suitable for mass production, and that makes the devices economical to make," Sieler points out. The sensors that tell the smartphone whether and how the user has used the projection as a control field are already state-of-the-art technology: "The image is overlaid with infrared lines invisible to the user. If the user's finger breaks one of these lines with a swipe motion, for instance, the sensor registers this and advances to the next image," Sieler explains. It will still be another three or four years before the projectors appear on the market: the new projection technology requires a high pixel density on the part of the digital imaging system. The researchers will premiere their prototype of the new LED projector at the Optatec trade fair being held May 22-25 in Frankfurt; the prototype is suitable for initial use on static images. The device itself measures just 2 x 2 cm in size (Hall 3, Booth D50 + D51).


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Q: WCF Client - only first 255 bytes of stream returned from WCF service contain values I have been tasked to look after an ASP.Net WebForms application that communicates with a WCF service hosted by a Windows service. The binding used for the service is netTcpBinding.
The service exposes methods to Upload and Download 'files'. The user select to upload a file and the HttpPostFile.InputSteam is passed directly to the service as a parameter in the service 'Upload' method. The service saves the stream as a byte array to the database [database field data type is varbinary (max)].
The file download data flow is essentially the reverse process. The bytes are retrieved from the database; loaded into a MemoryStream in the WCF service; and then returned to the Web Application.
I have captured the data contained in the streams (sent / received) at each step in the above operations - on the client (web app) and the service. I have looped through and written out to a flat file the bytes contained in each stream.
The byte array in each case is identical [byte value; and number of bytes in the stream] except for the File Download operation. At the point where the stream is returned to the Web Application from the WCF service. Here the number of bytes received is correct but only the first 255 bytes are populated. The values of the remaining bytes are zero
I have made a host of experimental changes to the binding values - in both the client at service - as I believe that the problem must lie here. To date I have not influenced the status of the bytes returned in any way. The logs for the Client and service do not show any that any exceptions are thrown or any other problems.
I do not have much experience in setting the correct combinations of binding (and other configuration) attributes for Client and Server applications – having relied on defaults in the past. We need the service and client to be configured to transfer the maximum allowable file size. Unfortunately I cannot use MTOM.
This post and links, did not offer me any insight. So far I have found no other information that helps.
Hopefully someone can assist me with what the issue might be. Below are the bindings that I am using:
Client [web.config]:
  <bindings>
         <netTcpBinding>
            <binding name="TCP"
                       closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                       openTimeout="00:10:00"
                       receiveTimeout="00:01:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                       transferMode="Streamed"
                       maxBufferPoolSize="512"
                       maxBufferSize="2147483647"
                       maxConnections="10"
                       maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">

               <readerQuotas maxDepth="32"
                             maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
                             maxArrayLength="2147483647"
                             maxBytesPerRead="4096"
                             maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
               <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00"
                 enabled="false" />
               <security mode="Transport">
                  <transport clientCredentialType="Windows" protectionLevel="EncryptAndSign" />
                  <message clientCredentialType="Windows" />
               </security>
            </binding>
         </netTcpBinding>

Service:
<netTcpBinding>
        <binding name="netTCP"
                 closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                 openTimeout="00:01:00"
                 receiveTimeout="00:01:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                 transferMode="Streamed"
                 listenBacklog="30"
                 maxBufferPoolSize="512"
                 maxBufferSize="2147483647"
                 maxConnections="30"
                 maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
                 portSharingEnabled="true">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="32"
                        maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
                        maxArrayLength="2147483647"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096"
                        maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
        </binding>
      </netTcpBinding>

A: Silly me. I think I have got it.
The bindings were OK. I was not dealing with reading the bytes correctly from the stream into the buffer on the client.


Looking for Lanzar products? Need to find deals on Lanzar? Search for Lanzar offers on Shopping.com.
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Do not be embarrassed to discuss and claim that thanks you for your reception.
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A former Lagos State Accountant General and governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, has noted that he will continue the developmental strides of his predecessors if elected as the governor of the state in 2015.
Ambode, who gave the assurance yesterday during the inauguration of his Gbagada, Lagos campaign office and of the steering committee of the Akinwumi Ambode Campaign Organisation (AAMCO), also vowed to run a people-oriented government that would impact on all Lagosians.
"The irreversible foundation laid by Senator Bola Tinubu and continued by Governor Babatunde Fashola will be continued by me and I want to create a new level of leadership that challenges the status quo and tackles poverty," he said.
He however enjoined members of the campaign committee to work extra hard to secure his victory at the APC primary, which is a pre-condition for any governorship aspirant to contest an election.
"To win the primary requires hardwork. Committee members in all the local governments will go back to work. And I can assure you that we will never shove anyone aside if we win the election, we will go to all the nooks and crannies of the society to identify what the people want," he noted.
Ambode whose aspiration and seeming support from party bigwigs has been generating concern among other aspirants, warned his supporters to eschew violence and abuses on other aspirants, saying in the long run whoever wins the primaries would still need the support of others to win the governorship election.


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    protected $details;
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    public static function createFromString($string)
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        $entry = new JobHistoryEntry();
        $entry->setEventName($args['event_name']);
        $entry->setDetails($args['details']);
        $entry->setTimestamp(new \DateTime($args['timestamp']));

        return $entry;
    }

    public function getEventName()
    {
        return $this->eventName;
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    }

    public function __toString()
    {
        return json_encode([
            'event_name' => $this->eventName,
            'details' => $this->details,
            'timestamp' => $this->timestamp->format(\DateTime::ISO8601),
        ]);
    }
}

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I offer face to face consultations at my clinic near Clapham Junction station or via Skype.
I offer a free, introductory call to all prospective clients to discuss your requirements and check that we're well suited to working together. If you decide to proceed, we will schedule your initial consultation. You will receive an email with a health questionnaire and you will also be asked to keep a food diary to be sent prior to our meeting.
This is a detailed health assessment during which I will analyse your case and together we will discuss your physical health, emotional wellbeing, current and past diet and set future goals. I will then produce a tailored nutritional and lifestyle plan that fits around you along with recipe ideas, supplements and/or testing recommendations, if necessary.
After 4-6 weeks to the initial consultation, a follow up is recommended in order to check your progress and discuss the challenges you've faced and your achievements. At this stage, any necessary amendments wwill be made to your nutritional and lifestyle plan. The number of follow-ups will be determined by your response to the plan.
This is a lighter consultation for those without specific health conditions, looking at how their current nutrition could be optimised. It consists of a diet review and recommendations provided during the consultation. You will be required to keep a 7-day food diary to be sent out before our scheduled meeting.
I offer advice on how to shop healthier, smarter and within your budget by shopping with you at your preferred supermarket. I will help you learn to read labels and how to pick the cleanest products.
After a brief consultation prior to the massage, I will ask you to pick your preferred essential oil to blend with a carrier oil for a soothing aromatherapy experience. I believe in the importance of a holistic body massage (head to toes) to reach maximum relaxation, however I can, under request, focus or avoid any area you wish to.
Depending on the stress level or muscle tension, I may suggest some stretching exercises and magnesium baths that you may want to experiment at home for an optimal and long-lasting effect.
Swedish massage will calm your nervous system and promote a sense of relaxation and wellbeing, reducing anxiety and tension in the body.
Deep tissue is a variation to the Swedish massage and focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. This massage is particularly effective for people with muscular pain and for who enjoys a firmer touch.
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Designated hitter role in high school baseball has been expanded
There are now two scenarios in which a designated hitter may be used.
Designated hitter role in high school baseball has been expanded There are now two scenarios in which a designated hitter may be used. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/07/10/designated-hitter-role-high-school-baseball-has-been-expanded/1694010001/
Chad Lindskog, Evansville Courier & Press Published 2:16 p.m. CT July 10, 2019 | Updated 2:44 p.m. CT July 10, 2019
Reitz's Ryan Kassel (17) makes a hit during the IHSAA Class 4A sectional championship against the Castle Knights at Bosse Field in Evansville, Ind., Monday, May 27, 2019. The Knights defeated the Panthers 14-2 in five innings to claim the sectional title. (Photo: SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS)
High school baseball coaches will have a few more options in how they call a game for the 2020 season after the National Federation of State High School Associations revised Rule 3-1-4 this summer.
The first is the traditional one, where the DH may be a 10th starter who hits in place of any one of the nine starting defensive players.
The new, second scenario allows the DH to also be a starting defensive player. Basically, the player has two positions. The team would begin with nine starters, one of whom also assumes the role of the DH.
In practice, the change allows coaches to keep pitchers in the lineup after removing them from the mound. Before, if a coach wanted to remove a pitcher and keep his bat in the lineup, he would have to move him elsewhere in the field, which could require him to continue to throw and put further strain on his arm.
"Typically, pitchers are stronger hitters as well," NFHS director Elliot Hopkins said in a news release. "However, the intent of the rule is not for it to become strictly a pitcher-designated hitter role. The rule provides additional avenues for other position players as well. The change allows coaches to strategize how to keep players in the game to contribute offensively while allowing another player a chance to participate on defense."
A potential situation where the new rules can be applied is to substitute better defensive players in the field without sacrificing offense.
"The traditional designated hitter role remains intact," Hopkins said. "However, the committee felt it was necessary to make an additional option available to coaches that could be strategic but also maximize participation."
Memorial names new athletics director
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Murder, the underworld, drug addiction – over four decades, Maureen sticks by her brood through thick and thin. But then the unforgivable happens. Maureen is told a terrible secret which threatens to rip her family apart. She can't say anything. She is too frightened of causing a bloodbath.
The only thing Maureen can do is get rid of the betrayer, before it is too late.


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1,000 More Troops: U.S Military Buildup Against Iran Is Ongoing 2.3333333333333 out of 5 based on 6 ratings. 6 user reviews.
1,000 More Troops: U.S Military Buildup Against Iran Is Ongoing
B-52H Stratofortress, from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. Click to see full-size image
On June 17th, Acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced that a further 1,000 troops would be deployed to the Middle East.
"In response to a request from the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) for additional forces, and with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in consultation with the White House, I have authorized approximately 1,000 additional troops for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats in the Middle East.
The recent Iranian attacks validate the reliable, credible intelligence we have received on hostile behavior by Iranian forces and their proxy groups that threaten United States personnel and interests across the region.
The United States does not seek conflict with Iran. The action today is being taken to ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working throughout the region and to protect our national interests. We will continue to monitor the situation diligently and make adjustments to force levels as necessary given intelligence reporting and credible threats," the entire statement read.
The announcement came shortly after the Department of Defense released another statement blaiming Iran for the attack on the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on June 13th.
The US troops are a part of an alleged broader military package of options that were initially laid out to U.S. leaders late last month, totaling as much as 10,000 forces, Patriot missile batteries, aircraft and ships.
Currently present in the area of the Persian Gulf are the USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group and 4 B-52H Stratofortress. On May 24th, Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said that the Pentagon will send approximately 1,500 American troops, along with drones and fighter jets.
"The deployment will include approximately 1,500 U.S. military personnel and consist of a Patriot battalion to defend against missile threats, additional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, an engineer element to provide force protection improvements throughout the region and a fighter aircraft squadron to provide additional deterrence and depth to our aviation response options," Shanahan said.
It came one day after the UK's Royal Navy would send 100 Elite Special Forces Marines to also coordinate with their US allies in the region.
The decision come amid US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo working hard on convincing other states that it was Iran behind the attack on the tankers.
In a press briefing, State Department spokeswoman Megan Ortagus said the following:
"The Secretary [Pompeo] has been working of course incredibly closely within the government with secretary – Acting Secretary Shanahan on multiple times, working on ensuring that we are – excuse me – able to defend our people and our interests. We're of course working on the diplomatic solution while Secretary Shanahan and the team at DOD is focused on our military options to keep our people, our interests, and our allies safe.
Over the weekend, as almost every weekend with the Secretary – he's probably the hardworking – most hardworking person I've ever worked for – the Secretary had a number of calls with the NATO secretary-general, with a Chinese politburo member, with a Singaporean foreign minister, a Kuwaiti foreign minister, UK foreign minister, Emirati foreign minister, Republic of Korea foreign minister, Qatari foreign minister. We obviously don't have readouts from every single call that he has, but we have worked incredibly hard with our allies on this assessment as it relates to Iran's actions last week in the Gulf of Oman."
She said that the US maximum pressure campaign on Iran was continuing and that it wouldn't stop until Iran "stops terrorizing the region."
To further stoke tensions, on June 17th, Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that output of uranium has increased four-fold and will surpass 300kg in the next ten days.
"In the field of heavy water, we had valuable achievements, including health and disease diagnosis," Kamalvandi told reporters. He said that there was still time for Europeans to salvage the situation, but they will not be given any longer.
"If Iran feels that the sanctions have been reinstated or not lifted, Iran has the right to partly or on the whole suspend its commitments," Kamalvandi said.
"Europeans have expressed inability to their commitments and the Islamic Republic will no longer wait for."
He added that after making the two moves said in the first step of the statement of the Supreme National Security Council, the second step will be easy to take passing the 3.7% enrichment level in matter of one or two days.
"If it is important for the Europeans to keep the nuclear deal they need to do their best; Iran acts in the context of the JCPOA."
He further said that Iranian officials have numerous scenarios at hand and overhaul was done on the heavy water plant and is ready to increase its capacity.
"If Iran doesn't have a market in two and a half months, heavy water stock of Iran may exceed 130 tons."
In response to Iran's announcement on uranium enrichment levels, National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said in a statement: "Iran's enrichment plans are only possible because the horrible nuclear deal left their capabilities intact. President Trump has made it clear that he will never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. The regime's nuclear blackmail must be met with increased international pressure."
Pentagon Plans to Send 5,000 Troops To Middle East To Deter "Defeated Iran": MSM Reports
US Continues Sending Troops And Equipment To Middle East To Deter "Defeated" Iran
US Considers More Drills And Troops In Greece To Boost Operations In Middle East, Northern Africa
U.S. Is Reportedly Readying To Deploy 120,000 Troops For War With Iran
Pakistanis are so stupid that they will receive $22 billions from Qatar which they don't mention that this money is from America through Qatar to agree
Pakistan to facilitate American and NATO terrorists to easily invade
Iran. How much stupid they are. This is similar as American and NATO
terrorists invaded Afghanistan, Iraq by support of Pakistan just for
loans. Pakistanis will always beg for money from us because of corruption.
Any group, party or country that support this kind of American and NATO
terrorism are called terrorists. Pakistan is a terrorist state. By
allying with America and NATO what kind of message Pakistan want to
convey to Russia and China. Recently UK airline also resumes landing in
Pakistan to spy on Pakistan and Iran. Foreign minister Qureshi wish to
make warm relations with UK and America on the expense of Iran, idiot.
Pakistan so quickly forgot the Trump's tweets that Pakistan is a
terrorist state. Wake up.
I'm reminded of that funny image: "Iran wants war. Look how close they put their country to America's bases".
The Calf Worshippers Israel will be very happy as America and NATO terrorists invade Iran. America and UK drumming for war with Iran. Today or tomorrow they will invade Iran.
Are Turkey and Pakistan are with Iran or like before they will be with America and NATO terrorists?
occupybacon
The countries that will profit the most from USA-Iran war will be Russia and second USA and the countries that will lose the most will be Saudis, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq and lastly Iran. However USA will never dare to invade Iran.
x2 Tu-142's, x4 Su-30 and the 177th Naval Infantry Regiment should do the anti-piracy job.
Dušan Mirić
Well, it is Russia's turn to send 1.000 men strong marine unit to Iran to get sun tanned.
Feudalism Victory
It's almost like all nuclear and almost nuclear powers are being primed to fight.
Maybe Iran should just say no to nuclear weapons. After all the us and Israel right now have nukes and they don't and it's been ok so far.
It makes no sense for the US to attack Iran given the US' longterm goal is to threaten China and Russia. Don't be surprised if all of this is done to distract from The Deal of Century.
Wanklord
HAARP = High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAARP will be the weapon of choice employed by the US Government in the upcoming war against Iran. Apparently, the Iranian regime doesn't visualize that the HAARP military installation located in Gakona, AK is capable of sending a Gigawatt (1GW) of high frequency radio waves into the Ionosphere heating that layer of earth's atmosphere, to then be redirected to any part of the planet and subsequently being discharged back to earth in the form of lightning strikes equivalent to 100 Mount St. Helens eruptions. Iranian nuclear installations and MRBM underground facilities will be the primordial targets of HAARP..
https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_21/461161/140522-haarp2_95823e74dfad2494bd0e81a36a228c95.fit-760w.jpg
The outcome of the usage of this strategic weapon will leave speechless and traumatized many generations of Iranians for centuries to come: parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran where once nuclear and ballistic facilities used to operate could easily resemble Arizona's Grand Canyon after HAARP's lightning strikes.
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/images/0531fyp.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false
ErichHonecker
Medieval Mohammedan savages. How many human heads have been
chopped by the beastly barbarians inspired by the so called islamic
"revolution"? Right after the lifting of the sanctions, Rouhani, with the approval
of his "supreme leader" (they are two people who wear slippers while
meeting foreign leaders), ran straight to America and signed a deal with Boeing
for around 100 passenger jets. So, why do they now look to Russia for help and
understanding. Or China. They have never been the friends of Russia or any
Russia-friendly Christian nation. Their constitution compels them to help any
and all Islamic causes worldwide notwithstanding the international law and the
rights of others (Bosnia, anyone?). The so-called Islamic revolution itself has
to be expressly beheaded. Surely, the World will be just a little better after that.
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package com.github.ambry.server;

import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
import com.github.ambry.clustermap.PartitionId;
import com.github.ambry.clustermap.ReplicaId;
import com.github.ambry.config.StatsManagerConfig;
import com.github.ambry.store.StorageManager;
import com.github.ambry.store.Store;
import com.github.ambry.store.StoreException;
import com.github.ambry.utils.Time;
import com.github.ambry.utils.Utils;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import static com.github.ambry.utils.Utils.*;

/**
 * The stats manager is responsible for periodic aggregation of node level stats and expose/publish such stats to
 * potential consumers.
 */
class StatsManager {
  private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StatsManager.class);

  private final StorageManager storageManager;
  private final File statsOutputFile;
  private final long publishPeriodInSecs;
  private final int initialDelayInSecs;
  private final Map<PartitionId, ReplicaId> partitionToReplicaMap;
  private final StatsManagerMetrics metrics;
  private final Time time;
  private final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
  private ScheduledExecutorService scheduler = null;
  private StatsAggregator statsAggregator = null;

  /**
   * Constructs a {@link StatsManager}.
   * @param storageManager the {@link StorageManager} to be used to fetch the {@link Store}s
   * @param replicaIds a {@link List} of {@link ReplicaId}s that are going to be fetched
   * @param registry the {@link MetricRegistry} to be used for {@link StatsManagerMetrics}
   * @param config the {@link StatsManagerConfig} to be used to configure the output file path and publish period
   * @param time the {@link Time} instance to be used for reporting
   * @throws IOException
   */
  StatsManager(StorageManager storageManager, List<? extends ReplicaId> replicaIds, MetricRegistry registry,
      StatsManagerConfig config, Time time) throws IOException {
    this.storageManager = storageManager;
    statsOutputFile = new File(config.outputFilePath);
    publishPeriodInSecs = config.publishPeriodInSecs;
    initialDelayInSecs = config.initialDelayUpperBoundInSecs;
    metrics = new StatsManagerMetrics(registry);
    partitionToReplicaMap =
        replicaIds.stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(ReplicaId::getPartitionId, Function.identity()));
    this.time = time;
  }

  /**
   * Start the stats manager by scheduling the periodic task that collect, aggregate and publish stats.
   */
  void start() {
    scheduler = Utils.newScheduler(1, false);
    statsAggregator = new StatsAggregator();
    int actualDelay = initialDelayInSecs > 0 ? ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(initialDelayInSecs) : 0;
    logger.info("Scheduling stats aggregation job with an initial delay of {} secs", actualDelay);
    scheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(statsAggregator, actualDelay, publishPeriodInSecs, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  }

  /**
   * Stops the periodic task that is collecting, aggregating and publishing stats.
   */
  void shutdown() throws InterruptedException {
    if (statsAggregator != null) {
      statsAggregator.cancel();
    }
    if (scheduler != null) {
      shutDownExecutorService(scheduler, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Publishes stats to a local file in JSON format.
   * @param statsWrapper the {@link StatsWrapper} to be published
   * @throws IOException
   */
  void publish(StatsWrapper statsWrapper) throws IOException {
    File tempFile = new File(statsOutputFile.getAbsolutePath() + ".tmp");
    if (tempFile.createNewFile()) {
      mapper.defaultPrettyPrintingWriter().writeValue(tempFile, statsWrapper);
      if (!tempFile.renameTo(statsOutputFile)) {
        throw new IOException(
            "Failed to rename " + tempFile.getAbsolutePath() + " to " + statsOutputFile.getAbsolutePath());
      }
    } else {
      throw new IOException("Temporary file creation failed when publishing stats " + tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
    }
  }

  /**
   * Fetch and aggregate stats from a given {@link Store}
   * @param aggregatedSnapshot the {@link StatsSnapshot} to hold the aggregated result
   * @param partitionId specifies the {@link Store} to be fetched from
   * @param unreachableStores a {@link List} containing partition Ids that were unable to successfully fetch from
   */
  void collectAndAggregate(StatsSnapshot aggregatedSnapshot, PartitionId partitionId, List<String> unreachableStores) {
    Store store = storageManager.getStore(partitionId);
    if (store == null) {
      unreachableStores.add(partitionId.toString());
    } else {
      try {
        long fetchAndAggregatePerStoreStartTimeMs = time.milliseconds();
        StatsSnapshot statsSnapshot = store.getStoreStats().getStatsSnapshot(time.milliseconds());
        StatsSnapshot.aggregate(aggregatedSnapshot, statsSnapshot);
        metrics.fetchAndAggregateTimePerStoreMs.update(time.milliseconds() - fetchAndAggregatePerStoreStartTimeMs);
      } catch (StoreException e) {
        unreachableStores.add(partitionId.toString());
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Fetch the {@link StatsSnapshot} for the given {@link PartitionId}.
   * @param partitionId the {@link PartitionId} to try to fetch the {@link StatsSnapshot} from
   * @param unreachableStores a list of partitionIds to keep track of the unreachable stores (partitions)
   * @return
   */
  StatsSnapshot fetchSnapshot(PartitionId partitionId, List<String> unreachableStores) {
    StatsSnapshot statsSnapshot = null;
    Store store = storageManager.getStore(partitionId);
    if (store == null) {
      unreachableStores.add(partitionId.toString());
    } else {
      try {
        statsSnapshot = store.getStoreStats().getStatsSnapshot(time.milliseconds());
      } catch (StoreException e) {
        logger.error("StoreException on fetching stats snapshot for store {}", store, e);
        unreachableStores.add(partitionId.toString());
      }
    }
    return statsSnapshot;
  }

  /**
   * Get the combined {@link StatsSnapshot} of all partitions in this node. This json will contain one entry per partition
   * wrt valid data size.
   * @return a combined {@link StatsSnapshot} of this node
   */
  String getNodeStatsInJSON() {
    String statsWrapperJSON = "";
    try {
      long totalFetchAndAggregateStartTimeMs = time.milliseconds();
      StatsSnapshot combinedSnapshot = new StatsSnapshot(0L, new HashMap<String, StatsSnapshot>());
      long totalValue = 0;
      List<String> unreachableStores = new ArrayList<>();
      Iterator<PartitionId> iterator = partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().iterator();
      while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        PartitionId partitionId = iterator.next();
        long fetchSnapshotStartTimeMs = time.milliseconds();
        StatsSnapshot statsSnapshot = fetchSnapshot(partitionId, unreachableStores);
        if (statsSnapshot != null) {
          combinedSnapshot.getSubMap().put(partitionId.toString(), statsSnapshot);
          totalValue += statsSnapshot.getValue();
        }
        metrics.fetchAndAggregateTimePerStoreMs.update(time.milliseconds() - fetchSnapshotStartTimeMs);
      }
      combinedSnapshot.setValue(totalValue);
      metrics.totalFetchAndAggregateTimeMs.update(time.milliseconds() - totalFetchAndAggregateStartTimeMs);
      StatsHeader statsHeader = new StatsHeader(StatsHeader.StatsDescription.QUOTA, time.milliseconds(),
          partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().size(), partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().size() - unreachableStores.size(),
          unreachableStores);
      statsWrapperJSON = mapper.writeValueAsString(new StatsWrapper(statsHeader, combinedSnapshot));
    } catch (Exception | Error e) {
      metrics.statsAggregationFailureCount.inc();
      logger.error("Exception while aggregating stats.", e);
    }
    return statsWrapperJSON;
  }

  /**
   * Runnable class that collects, aggregate and publish stats via methods in StatsManager.
   */
  private class StatsAggregator implements Runnable {
    private volatile boolean cancelled = false;

    @Override
    public void run() {
      logger.info("Aggregating stats");
      try {
        long totalFetchAndAggregateStartTimeMs = time.milliseconds();
        StatsSnapshot aggregatedSnapshot = new StatsSnapshot(0L, null);
        List<String> unreachableStores = new ArrayList<>();
        Iterator<PartitionId> iterator = partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().iterator();
        while (!cancelled && iterator.hasNext()) {
          PartitionId partitionId = iterator.next();
          logger.info("Aggregating stats started for store {}", partitionId);
          collectAndAggregate(aggregatedSnapshot, partitionId, unreachableStores);
        }
        if (!cancelled) {
          metrics.totalFetchAndAggregateTimeMs.update(time.milliseconds() - totalFetchAndAggregateStartTimeMs);
          StatsHeader statsHeader = new StatsHeader(StatsHeader.StatsDescription.QUOTA, time.milliseconds(),
              partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().size(), partitionToReplicaMap.keySet().size() - unreachableStores.size(),
              unreachableStores);
          publish(new StatsWrapper(statsHeader, aggregatedSnapshot));
          logger.info("Stats snapshot published to {}", statsOutputFile.getAbsolutePath());
        }
      } catch (Exception | Error e) {
        metrics.statsAggregationFailureCount.inc();
        logger.error("Exception while aggregating stats. Stats output file path - {}",
            statsOutputFile.getAbsolutePath(), e);
      }
    }

    void cancel() {
      cancelled = true;
    }
  }
}


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