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package org.kiji.schema;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.kiji.schema.avro.TableLayoutDesc;
import org.kiji.schema.layout.KijiTableLayouts;

/** Tests final columns. */
public class TestFinalColumns extends KijiClientTest {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestFinalColumns.class);

  @Test
  public void testFakeKiji() throws Exception {
    final Kiji kiji = getKiji();

    final TableLayoutDesc layoutDesc = KijiTableLayouts.getLayout(KijiTableLayouts.FINAL_COLUMN);
    kiji.createTable(layoutDesc);

    final KijiTable table = kiji.openTable("table");
    try {
      final KijiTableWriter writer = table.openTableWriter();
      try {
        final EntityId eid = table.getEntityId("row-key");
        writer.put(eid, "family", "column", "string value");

        try {
          writer.put(eid, "family", "column", 1L);
          fail("Final string column should not accept anything else but strings.");
        } catch (KijiEncodingException kee) {
          LOG.info("Expected error: " + kee);
        }

        final KijiTableReader reader = table.openTableReader();
        try {
          final KijiRowData row = reader.get(eid, KijiDataRequest.create("family", "column"));
          assertEquals("string value", row.getMostRecentValue("family", "column").toString());
        } finally {
          reader.close();
        }
      } finally {
        writer.close();
      }
    } finally {
      table.release();
    }
  }
}


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Mull parking all set for £9 per day
by Louise Glen
Neil Morrison at Ledaig Car Park.
Councillors have backed plans to roll out an unpopular parking charge that will hit islanders making essential journeys to the mainland.
Members of Lorn and the Isles area committee agreed to introduce the £9-a-day charge on Mull, which will include parking for ferries to Oban and Iona – something thousands of islanders objected to.
It was a tight vote, with the chairwoman using her casting vote to pass the order.
Thousands of people had signed a petition against the traffic regulation order.
Campaigner Brian Swinbanks, chairman of Tobermory Harbour Association, said: "We lost, to a group of councillors who were not prepared to look at the big picture and who only saw pound signs. I am incredibly sorry.
"We worked on a plan for all of Tobermory – and for all of Mull and Iona. We worked not to oppose traffic regulation but to ensure that the impact of the proposed charging was fully considered for an island community."
"Councillor Mary-Jean Devon was fantastic, and the two SNP councillors Julie McKenzie and Jim Lynch were totally on our side and tried to move an amendment.
"We lost three to four and I am so sorry and so sad that the majority of councillors could not work with us and see a better future..
"The effect on tourist and the knock on effect on businesses will be considerable. Our idea of a park at the top of the town was totally ignored.
"The one piece of good news access to the harbour which would have been restricted to cars only will now be changed.
"On the down side, coaches – but not service busses will be charged at Ledaig which again will effect the cruise liner and visitor experience business."
A spokeswoman for Argyll and Bute Council said they were unable to comment.
Aberdeenshire Council's car parking income up 70% compared to last year, after free parking scrapped
Mull's famous photo-taking binman forced to explain himself
Oban residents invited to public consultation to discuss flood defence prospects
Highland Council poised to test 'plastic roads' in north trial

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NYFF10 Movie Review: We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay)
Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are (Somos lo que hay) is the most welcome surprise I encountered in this year's New York Film Festival. Appropriately enough I saw this horror film exactly a week ago the morning after it won the "Next Wave" Spotlight Competition at Austin's increasingly popular Fantastic Fest. With a film festival's focus on movies outside the mainstream, We Are What We Are is the least intimidating opportunity for first-time festival attendees to experience what it's like to go to one of these in the wonderful venues offered by the Lincoln Center.
The Mexican film centers on a family of ritualistic cannibals living hand-to-mouth on whatever prey their father can scavenge, usually a prostitute to the matriarch's chagrin. After his mysterious death, an internal power struggle ensues as the two brothers, Alfredo (Francisco Barreiro) and Julian (Alan Chávez), vie for the role of family leader with each other and their mother, Patricia (Carmen Beato). Sister Sabina (Paulina Gaitán) backs the more thoughtful Alfredo, despite some incestuous tension between her and the hotheaded Julian.
Much of the backstory explaining the rituals is left unsaid, but their is a twisted eroticism which hovers over the film, alluding to some kind of sexual component. This leaves a lot of room for speculation. Were the parents also brother and sister? Is Patricia's jealousy over her husband's penchant for prostitutes tied to an unseen sexual aspect of the ritual? Does Sabina choose to back Alfredo precisely because their is no sexual chemistry between them? Is Alfredo's decision to target gay men an admission of latent homosexuality?
The insular sexuality pervading We Are What We Are contributes to the film's elegiac tone, as if this family is a breed unto itself which can only turn to each other to procreate. Like in 2008's Let the Right One In, there is a deep sadness wafting through the film, an implication that these creatures are the last of their kind, a cuththroat order of primate facing extinction as modernity encroaches into their territory. Part of this danger is represented by the two corrupt cops who track them down, hoping to cash in on the weird circumstances behind what they now suspect are serial killings. But also symbolic of this family's "end of history" is the house full of ticking clocks (due to their late father's day job, clock repairman), a constant reminder to the viewer of an unspoken finality these primal beings face.
We Are What We Are's horrific and erotic elements make for a perfectly accessible film to those afraid of foreign language art films. In fact, though the film is in Spanish, it is not dialogue driven. None of this is to say the film is dumb or that I endorse it for this reason. Quite the contrary, We Are What We Are is a throwback to a type of horror movie seldom seen any longer, one in which the scares come through the suggestion of danger rather than graphic exposure to it.
We Are What We Are is playing at the 48th New York Film Festival at 9:45 p.m. tonight, at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway (at 65th Street), New York, NY 10023, and 11 p.m. Friday, October 8th, at the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam), upper level, New York, NY 10023. For more ticket information go online here, or call (212) 875-5050
Labels: 48th New York Film Festival, Alan Chávez, Carmen Beato, Francisco Barreiro, horror, Jorge Michel Grau, Mexican, Paulina Gaitán, Somos lo que hay, We Are What We Are
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Today's Books
Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hiphop Photography, 9780066211688 (0066211689), Amistad, 2002
Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli began photographing the graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hip hop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Queen Latifah and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Emimem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hip hop's evolution much in the same way Gordon Parks recorded the Civil Rights Movement, or akin to the manner in which James Van Der Zee, the great photographer of Harlem in the 1920s, met the energy and spirit of his times.
Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hip Hop Photography is the first major pictorial history of hip hop culture based around the work of one photographer. Culled from a vast archive, the approximately 150 images in Who Shot Ya? represent the visual diary of a generation, essentially following this socio-political art form from the streets of New York City to the billion-dollar global industry it has become. While some of these iconic renderings have graced the pages of magazines and fanzines through the years, most are published here for the first time.
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Amazing Books
Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science (Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs)
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. "Big data," "data science," and "machine learning" have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science...
ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed
Sams Publishing, 2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed is a revision of the best-selling ASP.NET Unleashed, by Microsoft Software Legend Stephen Walther. It covers virtually all features of ASP.NET 2.0 including more than 50 new...
Mathematics for Computer Graphics Applications
Industrial Press, 1999
Computer graphics is more than an isolated discipline at an intersection of computer science, mathematics, and engineering. It is the very visible leading edge of a revolution in how we use computers and automation to enhance our lives. It has changed forever the worlds of engineering and science, medicine, and the media, too. The wonderful...
Operations Excellence: Smart Solutions for Business Success (International Management Knowledge)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Achieving operative excellence is an important endeavor for all companies – it is the golden path that leads to increased value over the long term.
By applying operative levers systematically and managing them correctly, companies are doing everything in their power to ensure that...
Graphene Nanoelectronics: From Materials to Circuits
Springer, 2012
Graphene has emerged as a potential candidate to replace traditional CMOS for a number of electronic applications; this book presents the latest advances in graphene nanoelectronics and the potential benefits of using graphene in a wide variety of electronic applications. The book also provides details on various methods to grow...
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Oxford University Press, 2010
No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the landmark Democracy in America, publishing its two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Ever...


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People run away from the front line deep into the Ukraine, because to stay under the fire of the rebels dangerous.
Residents of Pivdenne, Donetsk region, continue to save your things almost under the fire of fighters. Day presence of the OSCE mission people have used in order to get to a safe distance of their relatives, according to a story TSN.19:30.
"In a rented apartment in Toreck. On the Ukrainian side, of course, we are Ukrainians", – says the woman who came to old mom. 80-year-old Claudia is crying because she burned down a barn, broke fragments of other buildings, and she must now leave home, in which lived his entire life. "People ran out naked as the house was burning. Run, who where. What we are firing what we have done?" – she complains.
In Pivdenne, Donetsk oblast, people are selected from the destroyed village and on the hill stand and the export of their goods. Someone- bee hives, some clothing, and livestock. A narrow corridor in the crosshairs of the militants, the people leave their Homeland. For how long nobody knows.
The sound of gunfire in Pivdenne was quiet for a few hours while in the village worked the OSCE observation mission. Ukrainian military took advantage of a pause and unloaded supplies for the local, because the nearest store is necessary to go 8 km walk or an illegal move in occupied Gorlovka. Local sometimes do so at your own risk, because the terrorists "DNR" consider it a crime. "Illegal border crossing, and the adjacent street – Horlivka. If desired, this 15 day of first term. The second time is already four years", – explained the local.
CSKA are confident that after the completion of the international observers hostilities resumed because the Pro-Russian forces too active in the last days behaved in this direction. The head of the OSCE mission Alexander hug says that his organization is ready to support the renovations, but from the "DNR" there are no guarantees of safety and promises to cease fire, so the restoration of peaceful life in Pivdenne it is not.


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package com.quinadosinc.dcn.desktop;

import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplication;
import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl.LwjglApplicationConfiguration;
import com.quinadosinc.dcn.DCNGame;

public class DesktopLauncher {

	public static int height = 720;
	public static int width = 1024;

	public static void main (String[] arg) {
		LwjglApplicationConfiguration config = new LwjglApplicationConfiguration();
		config.resizable = false;
		config.fullscreen = true;
		config.forceExit = true;
		config.height = height;
		config.width = width;
		new LwjglApplication(new DCNGame(), config);
	}

}

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Is it not unusual for states to ask each other for assistance. This time, North Dakota has asked for assistance from Montana to keep the peace.
As many of you are aware, there have been protests in North Dakota that have recently turned violent. I have worked with the North Dakota Sheriffs in the past and they have requested our assistance.
The Montana Highway Patrol has already sent troopers there to assist.
I will be taking four Gallatin County deputies to help those Sheriffs keep the peace. We will be there for approximately a week.
We are working with Montana DES and Governor Bullock for mutual aid with the state of North Dakota for reimbursement of expenses.
My decision has nothing to do with the politics of the situation and only to do with trying to help deescalate a volatile situation.
We are peace officers and law enforcement and I am confident that if we had a large incident occur here, they would not hesitate to help.
The Montana Sheriff's and Peace Officers have sent a request to Montana Sheriffs for assistance and are coordinating sending teams from other Offices and our deployment.


The trilateral meeting was held today at the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs.
The meeting was attended by Trade Unions, Employers" Association and Minister of Economics.
Discussion on changing the approach to labor safety has been intensified following the tragedy that occurred in the Tkibuli Trade unions also demand to decrease the retirement age for high-risk professions.
"The list of conditions that the trade unions considered was important for people employed in this enterprise has been presented. We divided these issues into two conditional groups. One part is social benefits, and the second part is labor safety, "- Health Minister David Sergeenko said.


'Mortal Kombat' has always been famous for surprises, yet these tip menus infer only how low a rabbit hole went.
Back in a days before a Internet, before many video diversion secrets became common knowledge, players had to spend hours (and a whole lot of quarters) experimenting to learn lie codes and secrets in their favorite games.
Mortal Kombat has always been a good instance of this. The strange arcade games were filled with dark fatalities, tip characters and more, only watchful for players who put in a time and bid to discover.
Now, some-more than 20 years after a recover of a arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and 3, players have detected a previously-unknown tip menu that exists in all 3 games. The find creatively happened behind in October, yet a user of YourMKArcadeSource has recreated it in a new video that is still fascinating to watch.
It's called a "EJB Menu," that is presumably named after Mortal Kombat creator Ed J. Boon. Players contingency submit a really specific array of symbol commands to entrance it, and any game's formula is different. It involves dire a retard symbol mixed times and swapping between doing it for actor one and actor two.
Once inside, there is a engorgement of secrets to discover. In Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, accessing a menu, lets players watch all of a impression endings, submit initials directly into a game's leaderboard, run debug tests and more.
There is even some-more to do in Mortal Kombat 3's version of a menu. In that chronicle of a EJB Menu, players can watch all of a game's fatalities as good as play a super-difficult chronicle of a arcade classical Galaga.
So far, it isn't famous if this tip menu is permitted in console versions of a 3 games. Considering a EJB menu has a series of arcade specific functions, we're guessing a answer is no, yet one commenter on a YouTube video says it does work in Midway Arcade Treasures 2, that facilities a series of classical Midway games alongside Mortal Kombat. Regardless, a fact that players are still finding secrets in these games some-more than 20 years after is crazy. You can watch a demo of a tip menu below.
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Quang Tri vs Santa Rosa C.
The distance between Tristan Da Cunha, Tristan Da Cunha and Arbaat, Sudan is approximately 8,164 km or 5,073 mi.
To reach Tristan Da Cunha in this distance one would set out from Arbaat bearing 219.1° or SW and follow the great circles arc to approach Tristan Da Cunha bearing 228.1° or SW .
Tristan Da Cunha has a marine west coast climate (Cfb) whereas Arbaat has a subtropical hot desert climate (BWh).
The average annual temperature is 14.2 °C (25.6°F) cooler.
Average monthly temperatures vary by 5.8 °C (10.4°F) less in Tristan Da Cunha. The continentality subtype is barely hyperoceanic as opposed to truly oceanic.
Total annual precipitation averages 1645.4 mm (64.8 in) more which is equivalent to 1645.4 l/m² (40.38 US gal/ft²) or 16,454,000 l/ha (1,759,042 US gal/ac) more. About 47 2/9 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 16.9° lower in Tristan Da Cunha than in Arbaat.
The table shows values for Tristan Da Cunha relative to Arbaat. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Arbaat vs Tristan Da Cunha.


Handlebar Mustache: TT showdown: Lanky Lux vs Spirited Aussie should be epic!
TT showdown: Lanky Lux vs Spirited Aussie should be epic!
Andy will be in the start house in the Maillot Juane. The question is will he have it on later in the day? Cadel is one of the best Time Trialists in the world and seems to be in the best form of his career. He has also shown us that he can avoid bad luck for a full 3 weeks. Andy is not built like a time trailist, doesn't look the part, has not performed well in TT's past. All that said the same was said about Sastre vs Evans in 08. Some how someway Sastre was able to put in the TT of his life to keep the jersey. The only thing we are sure of is that one of these "brides maids" is FINALLY getting hitched.
Here are some recent battles that happened at the end of the TDF (Floyd vs Oscar, Marco vs Jan). It doesn't always end as you would expect, so we are excited to see how it turns out! Take our poll on the upper right of this page to let us know how you think it will turn out!


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Q: Powershell 5.1 if statement result is incorrect I'm using Powershell 5.1 in constrained language mode with no access to additional modules.
I've created a script to return information from "net user query (username) /domain" that includes an If statement to return results if the end user I'm checking isn't a member of certain groups.
The If statement doesn't appear to be working correctly and I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.
1.
$enduser = read-host "please enter username"
Net user query $enduser /domain
$u = @{}; net user $enduser /domain | ConvertFrom-String -Delimiter '\s{2,}' -PropertyNames Name,
Value | ForEach-Object { $u[$_.Name] = $_.Value }
$globalgroups = $u_.'global group memberships'

 if ($globalgroups) -inotlike '$_.EXAMPLEGROUPNAME'
    {
    write-output "user is not part of EXAMPLEGROUP"
    }

I have also tried
2.
if ($globalgroups) -inotlike '*EXAMPLEGROUPNAME*'
{
    write-output "user is not part of EXAMPLEGROUP"
}

3. as well as creating new variables
$EXAMPLEGROUP1 = { $u[$_.'global group memberships'] = $_.'EXAMPLEGROUPNAME' }
$EXAMPLEGROUPtest = { $u[$_.'global group memberships'] = $_.'value' }

and changing the if statement to;
if ($globalgroups) -inotlike '$examplegroup1'
{
write-output "user is not part of EXAMPLEGROUP"
}

the #2 snippet of code appears to work for one specific group which always appears as the first result in global group memberships, however if a different group name is added which appears later in the list of global group memberships, it always returns that the user isn't part of the group, even though I can see it there.
What can I change to make this work?

A: I am not sure why exaclty you are using Net user query. But as far as i can see, you try to make an If statement to return results if the end user you are checking isn't a member of certain groups in Active Directory.
I would rather than using Net user query do something like this:
$enduser = "TestUser"
$examplesgroupname = "Test-Group"
$groupmembership = Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $enduser

foreach ($membership in $groupmembership.name) {
    if ($membership -ne $examplesgroupname) {
        $membership_validated = $true
        ##statement Is true when user is not member of the examplegroup
    } else {
        $membership_unvalidated = $false
        ##statement Is false when user is member of the examplegroup
    }
}

Write-Host $membership_validated

If you need to use Net user query for a certain reason, than give a short feedback and i will try to fix your script with Net user query included.

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News | energy |
Tondgouyan Petrochem Company Sets Record in PET Production
EghtesadOnline: Shahid Tondgouyan Petrochemical Company in Khuzestan Province has set a record in the production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) products during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March-October), managing director of the company said.
"About 670,000 tons of products were produced in the period, which was 10% more compared to the company's output in the same period of last year," Reza Qasemi Shahri was also quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry's news agency Shana.
"During the seven-month period, more than 60,000 tons of products were added to the company's production," he said, adding that this is a record figure in the history of the company since it was established 16 years ago.
The rise in production is the result of the company's development plans, which included repairing the air compressor, replacing boilers and substituting catalysts.
With the completion of several projects, the company set an annual record of 1.1 million tons of products in the last fiscal year (March 2020-21), which was unprecedented in the company's history. STPC seeks to break that record this year.
The net profit of the company recorded a growth of 76% in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2021) compared to the previous year. The company earned more than $105 million last year while the figure was $60 million a year ago. Its sales also increased by 41% from $350 million to $500 million in the same period.
In the past two years, more than 10 new PET grades have passed lab tests and entered the market. PET film grade (BoPET films) and PET bottle grade for use in the packaging and food industries are among recent products.
Another product is a new grade of High Viscose PET, also called engineering polyester yarn. It is used to produce industrial yarns of high strength. The use of engineering polyester yarn includes tire yarn, tarpaulin tents, sturdy fabrics, fishing nets, shipload ropes and conveyors.
The production of crystal PET for use in ovens and microwave containers is also underway. High tenacity polyester will be added to the company's production soon.
HTPET has the ability to undergo high tension stress and is used as chords in auto tire manufacturing. The company is striving to gain the technical know-how to produce three more grades of PET.
Located at the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in the southwestern Khuzestan Province, STPC is the largest producer of PET products and pure terephthalic acid in Iran.
Petrochem Company Tondgouyan
Tondgouyan Petrochem Company to Raise Output
Bushehr-Based Petrochem Company Conforming to IMO Sulphur Cap
Tondgooyan Petrochem Company Raises Output


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Caesars Palace Details
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Details
The holiday season hits Las Vegas
Casinos Save Private Salons
NEVADA -- State gaming regulators on Wednesday asked two of Nevada's largest casinos to make like Capt. Ahab and hunt more vigorously for so-called "super whales."
Representatives from Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay came to the Sawyer Building seeking Gaming Control Board approval to continue operating private gaming salons in their respective Strip casinos.
Both officials got what they came for, but only after board members spent several minutes chastising them for failing to meet past promises that the salons would attract more high rollers, or 'whales,' to Las Vegas rather than other international gaming destinations.
Board member Bobby Siller said he was discouraged that Caesars has only lured one new customer, and just two players overall, to its private salon during its first two years of operation. He was more upset when a Mandalay executive added her resort's private gaming area was only used 10 times by six players, all existing customers, during that same span.
"It just seems like no one is making an effort to go after this selective group," Siller said of extreme high rollers, which he dubbed super whales. "What have you been doing the last two years?"
When gaming companies in 2002 asked the state to overturn a law that required all gaming to take place in public, Siller said the casino industry indicated a pool of high-end players had been identified and was seemingly waiting in the wings to gamble privately in Nevada. Though he does not oppose salons, Siller wondered why those players have not materialized.
"It just seems like you're not holding up your end of the commitment to create new customers," Siller said.
Rosalind Krause, vice president of casino services at Caesars Palace, said her company spent $15 million developing salons that have generated casino winnings of approximately $6.4 million during closed-door play.
Despite those results, Krause said private gaming is an important amenity that keeps Caesars Palace competitive when vying for big players, even if they don't opt to play behind closed doors. Caesars is also expanding its marketing efforts in Asia, a process that could drive more players to the private gaming areas, Krause said.
Mandalay Bay Vice President and General Manager Terri Porcaro said her company is also trying to lure more high-end Asian players through its salons, though high end international play "isn't huge" at her resort, she said.
Porcaro declined to disclose financial details of Mandalay's salon.
Like Siller, board Chairman Dennis Neilander said he was disappointed by the salons' progress, though he added that external pressures have hurt high-end play throughout Las Vegas, most notably last year's severe acute respiratory syndrome and the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"The regulations seem to be working," Neilander said of the 2-year-old laws that made salons possible. "Hopefully we're on the track to getting new customers."
The only other local casino with private gaming, MGM Grand, in August told the board no customers had used its private gaming areas since they opened two years ago. Still, others find long-term value in the concept.
George Smith, a Richmond, Va.-based gaming analyst with Davenport & Co., believes salons can help casinos attract or retain international players in today's increasingly competitive global gaming environment.
"There's a marketing angle there," Smith said. "That (high-end player) niche is still out there, and some people are pursuing it as they see the industry shift toward a retail, low-end slot player."
Ron Reese, a spokesman for Las Vegas Sands, said Wednesday his company has also applied to open a private salon at The Venetian, though state regulators have not ruled on that request.


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House left empty doesn't stay empty, thanks to…
House left empty doesn't stay empty, thanks to big bear
By Heather Hacking and Heather Hacking_ | Columnist
PUBLISHED: December 13, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2018 at 8:43 a.m.
MAGALIA — When Tina Sunderland trekked up to Magalia to check on her house after a recent storm, she knew she was going to see that it was damaged. But she didn't realize that she would find her home had also become occupied — by a bear.
Nor did Henry Lomeli, associate wildlife biologist with the Department of Fish and Game, expect to come face-to-face with the bear while crouched on his hands and knees under Sunderland's house.
The animal apparently had found the home a cozy place to spend at least the past several months. Sunderland last visited in July.
He'd made quite a nest for himself, including tearing apart the insulation, and had attempted to move up through the floor where it was warmer.
Sunderland has been living in the Bay Area for more than a year to care for her parents. While she was gone, Aaron Hattley, of Aaron's Yardcare, has kept the yard nice and "made it look like someone lived there."
During the recent storms, the wind knocked down a tree, which did some damage to the home, in the Paradise Pines area of Magalia. Sunderland, who built the house in 1989, came up to meet with workers and insurance adjusters with her friend, Julie Matthews.
The first night, Monday, the gals were in the house, vacuuming and dancing to rock and roll music, Matthews said.
At about midnight, "We heard 'pound-pound,' and Tina pounded (on the floor).
"Then the bear pounded" back.
They thought a transient had moved in under the house, and maybe a "pervert," the women joked, because they heard grunting.
They called 9-1-1 and the Butte County Sheriff's Office was sent out.
"The cops did check," Matthews said. "One of the guys looked under the deck and they could see a bear under the crawl space."
The officers stayed until about 4 a.m. and determined it was not an aggressive bear, Matthews said.
The women only slept for a few hours that night.
Tuesday, Henry Lomeli of Fish and Game arrived in the early afternoon.
"I didn't know what the situation would be," he said, and crawled through the crawl space, which is about 3 feet wide and tall.
He saw that the bear, estimated at about 450 pounds, had been "setting up shop."
"When I got under the house to where they heard all the noise, that's when I saw the bear," Lomeli said.
He did not want to tranquilize the bear, because getting the animal out would be difficult, and could harm the bear or further damage the house.
Instead, he took about eight sponges and soaked them in concentrated ammonia. He threw the sponges and set up a fan to blow the fumes at the animal.
"The bear immediately started to vacate."
"By the time I got back to make sure everything was working, I came face-to-face with the bear," which was about 3 feet from where Lomeli was on his hands and knees.
Although the run-in with the animal was closer than he would have liked, the ammonia trick did the job.
"I was surprised at how quickly he got out of there. I was hoping he would take a little longer.
"I wish all situations happened like that," the biologist said — "resolved peacefully where the house wasn't harmed and no one was injured."
The crawl space where the bear and Lomeli had entered was sealed later that day.
But later that evening, the women were in the home and Matthews saw the bear come up onto the patio and "knock on the window."
"I screamed," and went to hide."
They decided to seek a hotel in Paradise for the night.
The next day, Wednesday, a contractor pointed out where the bear had made claw marks on the now-sealed crawl space.
Reached Wednesday in the early evening, the women were in good spirits and planning to spend a second night in a Paradise hotel.
"When we leave the house we leave the music on," Sunderland said.
They were considering what could be done next. They believe the bear might have become comfortable with the home, and if it comes back it might need to be taken down.
Matthews said they warned the children in the area the bear is in the neighborhood. Neighbors also told her they've had garbage cans knocked down and fences broken, likely by the same bear.
Lomeli said contrary to what many people think, bears don't always hibernate. If there is a steady source of food, often through garbage bins and trash cans, bears will stay active during the winter.
"Almost all our bear problems begin with non bear-proof trash cans" and can unfortunately end with animals being killed.
This can be avoided through the use of bear-proof trash cans, he advised, available through bearsaver.com and kodiak-products.com.
He'd like to see all homeowners in the area protect against bears. As it is now, trash is strewn frequently by the animals, which causes more work for waste management companies.
"We have bear problems every week that people don't hear about," Lomeli said.
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1976 Amsterdam gig on vinyl and CD
Marvin Gaye's 1976 performance at Jaap Edenhal, in Amsterdam, will be released on CD and vinyl in January next year as Greatest Hits Live in '76.
This show was originally issued on DVD back in 2007, but is now made available as a live album for the first time. It features a wealth of material, including "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", "Let's Get It On", "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and many more.
Filmed footage of the 1976 gig from Amsterdam
If you think the track listing looks packed for a single LP release (13 tracks on side A), then remember Marvin loved a medley, as can be seen above!
Greatest Hits Live in '76 will be released on 27 January 2023 via Mercury Studios.
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Cardno completed entitlements and roadway improvement design for the Crossings at 880 � Master Planned Business Park in Fremont.
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DES Architects + Engineers' The Cove, a life sciences campus in South San Francisco, will provide space for offices, a hotel, retail and six acres of gardens.
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T.Y. Lin provided construction management services for the North Torrey Pines Road Bridge in Del Mar.
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Students climb the walls at the LPA Inc.-designed BRIC Recreation Center at Cal Poly Pomona.
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The residential project at 333 La Cienega near Beverly Hills is scheduled to open in 2017 and will offer 154 rentable units, a sky deck pool and fitness center. The project was designed by MVE + Partners.
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Crews update the MWH-designed Sacramento River and EA Fairbairn water-treatment plants in Sacramento.
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Unique perspective on the New Stanford Hospital superstructure, one of several Bay Area hospitals currently under construction.
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A sleek three-story student services building designed by CO Architects will replace the existing PLA Building at Cal Poly Pomona and offer better protection against earthquakes.
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BKF Engineers is one of many design firms keeping busy due to the boom in construction around Transbay Transit Center, including at the Salesforce Tower shown here.
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Kleinfelder provided engineering services for the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego.
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The recently completed Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center in South Los Angeles, designed by HMC Architects, offers integrated inpatient and outpatient services on one site.
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Architects and engineers hit their full stride during 2014. Annual revenue for work in the region was up nearly 11% among the almost 100 firms participating in ENR California's annual design firms survey. And, for the first time since the survey has been conducted, the cumulative total for participating firms topped $4 billion.
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The results of the survey bode well for a lively construction market in 2015 and beyond.
"CO Architects' outlook for 2015 is very positive," says Scott Kelsey, the firm's managing principal. "Our backlog of work has increased significantly from 2014, and our ability to see further out in the future with respect to substantial revenues for the firm is much greater than in prior years."
A number of Bay Area projects, such as the $1.1-billion Salesforce Tower, helped BKF Engineers to increase its 2014 design revenue above $54 million for the first time in its 100-year history. President and CEO David LaVelle says the firm is on track to grow another 15% this year due to an upsurge in residential and commercial office development.
Multifamily revenue jumped 71%, and commercial revenue rose 16%.
Revenue from these burgeoning markets quickly filters into other sectors. "It's like a perpetual motion machine. Technology, feeding the office market, drives the multifamily residential market ... which then causes increased pressure on infrastructure for public agencies," says Gary M. Cappa, president and CEO of Consolidated Engineering Laboratories.
Many firms build teams that straddle disciplines to take advantage of these trends. BKF, for example, designs infrastructure for 25,000 new residential units in San Francisco. "These projects require us to use all of our expertise in the entitlement process, infrastructure design and traffic mitigation," LaVelle says.
Development money flowing in from overseas increasingly boosts development in both San Francisco and the Southland. "Los Angeles is showing no signs that the recent spate of development will stop soon, and in fact, foreign investment continues to grow," says J. Peter Devereaux, principal and CEO of Harley Ellis Devereaux. "We are currently working with three different development groups out of China on very large projects in addition to the U.S. developers we have traditionally served."
The growing network of mass-transit lines in the state provides added traction that especially benefits mixed-use projects. "This development phenomenon is spreading to other rail hubs connected to downtown L.A., like Anaheim and Pasadena," Devereaux adds.
The lingering drought poses one of the only dark clouds hanging over the Golden State, but even that crisis is providing ample design opportunities.
"Managing increasingly scarce water resources is one of the biggest challenges facing the state," says Louis Armstrong, AECOM's Pacific region executive. The firm's recent acquisition of URS better positions it to help its clients address complex water conservation, supply and storage issues, he says.
Investment flooding into water infrastructure stems from local stakeholders and the recent statewide $7.5-billion water bond. "Every possible local source of water is being considered," says Dave Harrison, California regional manager with MWH Global. "Brackish or impaired groundwater basins, seawater, stormwater and municipal wastewater are the big opportunities."
Some firms are shifting design strategies to help mitigate the drought's impacts. "Our area of focus will be on low-impact development," says Rob Hedrick, principal and California business unit manager for Cardno. "We plan to emphasize development of methods to harvest rainwater and recycle water—areas where our expertise will be a huge asset in the search for lasting, cost-effective solutions."
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Sigmund Freud: The Fork in the Road
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Freud's influence on psychology as a discipline was to fork a non- scientific branch
he was exposing his ideas in the Victorian Era
a time when men were gentlemen and women were ladies
there was a properness as to how things were supposed to happen
the topics sex and aggression were not talked about, they were not polite, not the sort of things people discussed
then along comes Sigmund Freud telling this dark story of mankind
"the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture"
"No mortal can keep a secret, if his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips, betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
someone trained to analyze at a psychological level can see things about a person that they cannot even see themselves
perhaps not surprisingly, this fascinated many people in the Victorian era, they couldn't help but to be drawn to this very provocative notion of humanity, and once they got there, Freud had a quite complex story of how he thought humanity worked
the virus: psychic conflict
the "it", a primitive part of us which has biological drives wants them all met: food, comfort, water, sex, aggression
the id behaves according to the pleasure principle, and the id wants to gratify these desires immediately
we say primitive because this is perhaps how things happened in primitive times
super ego
the super ego is the part of us that wants to be the perfect us, that people like and respect, does things competently, has leadership qualities
the conflict is that following your id is generally not going to get you admired in terms of what your super ego desires, a conflict between the primitive side of us and the side of us that society has endeavored us to be
the job of the ego is to try to find ways of satisfying the id without compromising the super ego
this is not always an easy job and there are many complex ways in which this plays out
e.g. you are brought up very conservative and religious but when you grow up, you find out there is a thing called pornography, and a part of you, your id, wants to see it and experience it, but another part of you, the super ego, wants to be seen as an upstanding member of society who does not view pornography, so then your ego sets out to find a way to view pornography while still being respected, e.g. maybe you could become a crusader against pornography which would necessitate that you get a sense of what pornography is so that you can speak out against it.
all throughout our lives, we are trying to satisfy both the id and the super ego
when we cannot resolve these conflicts, we develop psychological problems
we don't consciously know about the conflict going on, but it is going on nevertheless and it's shaping our behavior
Freud's influence on the development of psychology
Freud looked past the symptoms, and instead looked for the cause in terms of a narrative
when you go to the doctor, he will look for symptoms, and then superficially treat them with remedies
what Freud wanted to do was to not just deal with the symptoms as a doctor, but be able to explain the cause and deal and thus have the vocabulary to deal with it
this kind of medical treatment often doesn't care why treatments work, just that they work, Freud wanted to find out why by attempting to discover the underlying cause of psychological problems
Freud's non-scientific approach led psychology to an identity crisis
was psychology to be more like a experimental science (pre-Freud) or more like a general health care approach (Freud)?
much backlash to Freud trying to make psychology an approach to health care involving untested narratives instead of keeping it an experiment-based science
the problem was that the vast majority of Freud's ideas were scientifically untestable, i.e. you are never going to find an "id" or and "ego" or a "super ego" which you could repeat experiments on
the argument against Freud was that he was simply interested in ideas which you could never verify as being correct or not, and to a scientist that makes them almost worthless
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Aw, I wanna go to China. ): Remind me next time to sneak into your suitcase.
China has amazing food :) Especially Nanchang, in my opinion.
Everyone always thinks that CHina is always polluting! Actually, America produces more industrial waste than CHina does, CHina does more agrilculture. China does produce a lot of waste, but mainly it's because they have a big population and practically MAKE EVERYTHING THAT AMERICA HAS!!!!
Secondly, Chinese people don't get credit for anything. They were the backbone of the completetion of the Transcontinetal (I tried spelling this, okay? :/) Railroad and when they took the picture of all the workers, Chinese people were loaded in a catapult and were shot back into China. Argh!!!
If you give America the same population as China, then their waste/pollution will be way more.
How would you know, though?
Haha, I tend to read useless fact books.


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Q: Many transaction commit redelivered(true) log entries I have a Camel app setting up a route from JMS (Tibco) queue writing to a DB (Oracle) in an XA transaction (using Atomikos).
On larger messages, we see a lot of "transaction commit redelivered(true) on messageId xxx".
Why would there be so many "redelivered(true)" messages?
I asssume it takes too long to write larger > 1 MB messages to the DB - is there a way of increasing the timeout - so that a transaction can take more time on both the Tibco and Oracle side? I have already set the jta timeout to a larger value for Atomikos in jta.properties - but still immediately after starting the app some messages are processed but many redilvered notices keep on being written.
Thanks
Thomas


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using System;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace Proto.Cluster
{
    public class PidCache
    {
        private readonly ICollection<KeyValuePair<ClusterIdentity, PID>> _cacheCollection;
        private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<ClusterIdentity, PID> _cacheDict;

        public PidCache()
        {
            _cacheDict = new ConcurrentDictionary<ClusterIdentity, PID>();
            _cacheCollection = _cacheDict;
        }

        public bool TryGet(ClusterIdentity clusterIdentity, out PID pid)
        {
            if (clusterIdentity is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(clusterIdentity));

            if (clusterIdentity.CachedPid is { } identityCachedPid)
            {
                //If the PID is already cached using ClusterIdentity, we can skip the lookup altogether
                pid = identityCachedPid;
                return true;
            }
            return _cacheDict.TryGetValue(clusterIdentity, out pid);
        }

        public bool TryAdd(ClusterIdentity clusterIdentity, PID pid)
        {
            if (clusterIdentity is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(clusterIdentity));

            if (pid is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(pid));

            if (!_cacheDict.TryAdd(clusterIdentity, pid)) return false;

            clusterIdentity.CachedPid = pid;
            return true;
        }

        public bool TryUpdate(ClusterIdentity clusterIdentity, PID newPid, PID existingPid)
        {
            if (clusterIdentity is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(clusterIdentity));

            if (newPid is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(newPid));

            if (existingPid is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(existingPid));

            if (!_cacheDict.TryUpdate(clusterIdentity, newPid, existingPid)) return false;

            clusterIdentity.CachedPid = newPid;
            return true;
        }

        public bool TryRemove(ClusterIdentity clusterIdentity)
        {
            if (clusterIdentity is null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(clusterIdentity));

            clusterIdentity.CachedPid = null;
            return _cacheDict.TryRemove(clusterIdentity, out _);
        }

        public bool RemoveByVal(ClusterIdentity clusterIdentity, PID pid)
        {
            if (clusterIdentity.CachedPid?.Equals(pid) == true)
            {
                clusterIdentity.CachedPid = null;
            }

            if (_cacheDict.TryGetValue(clusterIdentity, out var existingPid) && existingPid.Id == pid.Id &&
                existingPid.Address == pid.Address)
                return _cacheCollection.Remove(new KeyValuePair<ClusterIdentity, PID>(clusterIdentity, existingPid));

            return false;
        }

        public void RemoveByMember(Member member) => RemoveByPredicate(pair => member.Address.Equals(pair.Value.Address));

        private void RemoveByPredicate(Func<KeyValuePair<ClusterIdentity, PID>, bool> predicate)
        {
            var toBeRemoved = _cacheDict.Where(predicate).ToList();
            if (toBeRemoved.Count == 0) return;

            foreach (var item in toBeRemoved)
            {
                item.Key.CachedPid = null;
                _cacheCollection.Remove(item);
            }
        }
    }
}


Today there were the semifinal matches between Peshawar Region and Karachi Region Whites and between Lahore Region Whites and Karachi Region Blues, in Multan Cricket Stadium.
In the first semifinal of Jazz National T20 Cup 2016 by Cool & Cool Karachi Region Whites qualifies for the final match by defeating the Peshawar Region Team on 15th September, at Multan Cricket Stadium.
The second semifinal of Jazz National T20 Cup 2016 will be played between Lahore Region Whites and Karachi Region Blues, at 8: PM Pakistan Standard time in Multan Cricket Stadium.
It is left to see which domestic cricket team will win the second semifinal of Jazz National T20 Cup 2016 and will make its place for the finale.


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Facebook Is Launching Its Own Digital Wallet, But May Receive Friction From US Policy Makers
Arooj Ahmed
Business, cryptocurrency, Facebook, money, news, Social-Media, Technology
Facebook is finally ready to launch its digital wallet, named Novi. However, legislators across the USA may prove to be a problem.
Recently, David A. Marcus, head of Facebook's Financial (F2) Division, sat down with tech e-mag Axios to discuss the new wallet and the challenges it faces. For those unaware, Novi is a new brand that essentially boils down to a personalized online wallet. With many transactions happening online, and Facebook being a central hub of these very transactions, it seems natural that the social network would want to extend its grasp across the world wide web. More so than that, it seems that whatever the online niche, Facebook actively invest itself in it. They bought WhatsApp, Oculus, Instagram, tried to do the same with Snapchat, established a streaming platform, and has often been called out for being anti-competition.
At any rate, even the mere establishment of an online wallet system from the social network is something that is bound to raise a few eyebrows. This is put best by David A. Marcus, who states that Facebook has a trust deficit that needs to be overcome. He's not wrong. The past few years have not been kind on the company's social image and standing. A list of allegations regarding Facebook stealing user data, the site being rife with Russian bots that manipulated election data, and even its role as a platform for planning the US Capitol Riots have developed an aura of distrust. This is best defined by the Congressional hearings that the social media giant was subjected to all the way back in 2018 (and more recently in 2021).
Clearly, there's not much love for Facebook, especially amongst politicians and lawmakers. However, it's undeniable that a platform such as Novi can prove to be extremely helpful. It provides a mainstream site for cryptocurrency exchange, and actively makes the entire process of dealing with the stuff more accessible. Therefore, Novi isn't necessarily a platform set out with the most evil of intentions. However, other than giving Facebook another source via which it can poorly utilise user data, lawmakers are also concerned that this way the social network could even form it's own cryptocurrency. Worse, with Novi being such an accessible platform, that currency could actively devalue other real life currencies, such as the US dollar itself.
All of this information is speculative, to say the least. Ultimately, only time will tell of the impact that Facebook's e-wallet will have on the global market. Provided it gets into the air in the first place.
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Why Family Vacations Matter… A Lot!
Expenses, Stresses, and Busyness Aside… Family Vacations REALLY do matter!
In my life before children, I was a fairly avid traveler and I spent much of my non-traveling time dreaming about where I'd visit next. Since having kids, my love of travel has not waned, but my financial means certainly have. Dance classes and diapers have eaten into my already small travel budget. But, I have insisted that travel not be something we give up. Because of my commitment to getting away—and sharing my love of travel with my kids—over the past six years we've managed to make some incredible memories on family vacations.
While we've never flown with the kids much farther than Florida, we've found many local destinations and road-trip accessible adventures that were equally as exciting. It's not how far you go, or how exotic the destination, but that you actually take the time to plan the trip and spend uninterrupted time together as a family that matters. Staycations can be fun, but the magic really happens when you get away from home.
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If, however, there were a destination that was easily accessible, bursting with museums, kid-centered attractions, family-friendly restaurants, scenic rural towns and a bustling, culture-filled urban centre—then I could justify a cross-boarder weekend excursion.
That's exactly what I found in upstate New York and the reason we keep returning to Rochester. A 1.5-hour drive from Niagara Falls, Ontario, three hours from Toronto, and four from Ottawa, Rochester is easily accessible by car while also serviced by an international airport and the Amtrak train.
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Summer camp was my happy place. But also my sad place. It started the summer I was nine. My mom had loved camp as a kid. So much so that she'd built it up to be the most magical and wonderful experience in the world. And, somehow nine-year-old me, who was nothing short of a mama's girl, was convinced she was ready for a four-week overnight camp experience…all on her own!
Ever pictured yourself mixing cement while on holiday? How about teaching English or math on your next vacation? Believe it or not, more and more Canadian families are doing just that—and enjoying every minute of it.
Have you ever woken up in a great mood ready for a productive day, but as soon as you sat down to work you felt stressed, unmotivated and exhausted? This could be the result of a daunting to-do list or hundreds of unanswered emails – or your home office's Feng Shui might be out of whack!
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In which year Supreme Court of India came in to force?
The majority of you realize that India wound up autonomous on August 15, 1947. Be that as it may, do you know why we observe Republic Day? January 26, 1950, is the day the Constitution of India became effective. What was until the point when at that point known as Union of India authoritatively turned into the Republic of India. For a long time now, the Indian Constitution has been the perpetual instrument that guarantees the working of the administration framework.
So what is this Constitution? It is the nation's preeminent law and not just characterizes the system of the fundamental political standards, yet in addition builds up what the distinctive government organizations ought to do as far as methodology, forces, and obligations. It contains key rights, order standards and the obligations of nationals. It is the longest composed constitution of any nation on the planet. The Parliament can't supersede it on the grounds that the Constitution was made by an exceptional Constituent Assembly.
How about we investigate how the Constitution was made. In spite of the fact that it came into compel just in 1950, the interest for a Constituent Assembly was made in 1934. M.N. Roy, a Communist gathering pioneer, was the first to disputable the thought. This was then taken up by the Congress party and the British government acknowledged the request in 1940. The August offer, as it was known, enabled Indians to draft their Constitution.
The Constituent Assembly for unified India met out of the blue on December 9, 1946. Be that as it may, relations between the Muslim League and the Congress disintegrated and the previously requested a different gathering for Muslims. At this point, occasions were moving quickly towards autonomy. After freedom, the individuals who spoke to the regions that had gone to Pakistan must be supplanted and new decisions must be held. A Drafting Committee was constituted on August 29, 1947, with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as Chairman to set up a Draft Constitution.
This advisory group at long last completed their work on November 26, 1949. The date is in this way known as Constitution or National Law Day. The procedure was finished when the individuals marked the report — two duplicates in English and Hindi — on January 24, 1950.
the idea of key rights and the administration's elected structure, however, the division of intensity between the focal and state governments was taken from the Canadian constitution. From the French was obtained the possibility of freedom, equity and club and, from the Soviet Union, the thoughts of essential obligations and the Planning Commission.
For what reason do we require a Constitution?
Relatively every part of our lives is administered by an arrangement of standards. Think about your amusements; every one has its own particular directions; your schools have certain guidelines that you need to take after. Grown-ups are not excluded from rules; working environments have them. Some are forced by custom and convention. Additionally society likewise needs certain standards so individuals can live respectively in a protected way.
These are called Laws and are made by lawmaking bodies like our Parliament. The Constitution is the incomparable law of the nation and it contains laws concerning the legislature and its associations with the general population.


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Just been reading your blog. I cannot get into my e-mail, part of the torture of living in Africa. Anyway, I wrote you a letter and am wondering where to send it to. Please email me with it!
I wish you a speedy recovery! I've been thinking lots about you!
I'm really worried about your injure. It seems serious. Surely you will recover, so don't precipitate you to take a bike again before being the time, the consecuenencies could be forever. TAke care!
I would recommend you to be patient. Give your foot time to recover. Don't risk a permanent injury in those toes.
Try to find information about Edurne Pasaban frostbite in Google.
Jill, I love that picture. I come from a boating family!
I hear you about the eliptical...I can't stand that thing...no matter what I do it says my heart rate isn't high enough. Blah.
I hope your foot heals sooner than later.
Did ya get my e-mail?
I hope your foot recovers quickly. You've inspired me to take up cycling! Good luck!
Cycling would probably be as good as anything else for your foot. A little increased blood flow never hurt anything. It's boring as heck, but maybe it's time for an indoor trainer. Just a thought.
What a fantastic and informative blog. It really provides a new and fresh perspective and I hope it will continue to hook me. Definately one for my favs list.
Maybe get a ping pong table? Good time for cross training.
- A thermometer (like the one you use for the turkey roast) stuck in your boot to tell you how warm it is in there.
- Ask the gym if you can switch your own saddle on the stationary bike.
We can be annoyingly practical.
I bet it would start a new trend!
Jill, I frostbit my feet lightly as a teenager and they have never been the same... I must always pay close attention to the conditions I am enduring, as my feet can't do what other folks' feet can. (Hooray for the bunny boot!) What has changed in your life is the need to truly think through things you haven't needed to bother with in the past. This shouldn't stop you, it just raises the bar. You always have the option of moving south and riding in warmer climes....not a huge concession given what you've been enduring with your foot. Take care of your foot, give it time....Good luck!
Plenty of lay person comments but I tend to agree with Julie in Alaska.
I've seen numerous cold weather injuries. You will always need to take extra precautions with your foot.
With any soft tissue injury, changes in tissue consistancy and nerve damage is a concern. But I know you're smart and these concerns have already crossed your mind.
Hang in there and most of all be patient.
I'm sorry your recovery is seeming so slow. It must be so frustrating, but you're probably right to talk with the doctor and see what she says. As for the spinning bikes, I bought a gel seat at Freddy's for about $10. It makes such a difference!!
Sounds like you are at a crossroads. Always good to get to those points. You know you will get back on eventually. And while it might never be exactly like before, you are still master of your own destiny.
I had to look back at the date that you frostbit your foot to be sure but it was barely 2-1/2 weeks ago! You are one impatient person if you are so anxious to start bicycling outside in the wet again that you would risk further damage to your foot (which you already damaged because of your impatience and disregard for the cold during the race). Take a deep breath, chill out, branch out, and find other ways to channel your energy and fill your days. You will get all of your fitness back and more before you know it because you are young. But the tissue and nerve damage you did to your foot needs time to heal and this process must be respected. You acted foolishly during the race and paid the price - time to wise up, even though that sort of calm, rational behavior does not make for good blogging.


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KEY POINTS: AIDS IN AFRICA
"The United States of America has a long tradition of sacrifice in the cause of freedom, and generosity in the service of humanity. We are the nation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the Peace Corps. And now we are the nation of the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief."
- President Bush, 5/27/03
HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest medical challenges of our time. The disease has killed more than 20 million people. Today, 42 million more are living with HIV. Across Africa, this disease is filling graveyards and creating orphans and leaving millions in a desperate fight for their own lives.
This legislation authorizes $15 billion to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, making it the largest up front commitment in history for an international public health initiative.
America believes in the value and dignity of every human life. In the face of preventable death and suffering, we have a moral duty to act, and we are acting.
This Act of Congress addresses one of the most urgent needs of the modern world. Because of the AIDS pandemic, a child born today in sub-Sahara Africa has a life expectancy of 47 years. This disease falls most heavily on women and children. Nearly 60 percent of those infected by HIV in sub-Sahara Africa are women.
During his trip to Europe later this week, President Bush will challenge our partners and our friends to follow our lead and to make similar commitments -- so, together, we can save even more lives.
The suffering in Africa is great. The suffering in the Caribbean is great. America has the power and we have the moral duty to help.
For more information, please visit /infocus/hivaids/
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Drew Jensen is the 11th commitment to the BYU football Class of 2016, announcing his commitment via Twitter on July 10, 2015.
Jensen preps at Brighton High School, where he is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to football. He was the starting quarterback as a 14 year-old freshman in 2012, passing for 957 yards, 9 TDs with 8 INTs and rushing for 304 more yards and a touchdown. He was an All-Region honorable mention as a freshman and also finished 6th in Utah throwing the javelin for the track team.
Jensen was rated 3-stars by Rivals and Scout. Rivals lists him as the No. 20 safety prospect in the West and No. 13 overall prospect in the state of Utah. ESPN has not yet rated him. He holds scholarship offers from BYU, Oregon State, Utah, and Utah State and has also been recruited by Air Force, Arizona, Army, Cal, Navy, Oregon, Stanford, Washington, and Washington State.
Last Team: Brighton HT/WT: 6'2", 195 lbs.


Each child's reaction to settling into kindergarten and the time it takes to become comfortable is dependent on many factors. Some will settle easily on their first day, while others may become distressed. Even somewhat confident children can find the adjustment difficult at first. It is important to know that the team of educators at Buddies will work closely with you and your child to facilitate a successful transition to kindergarten. Exchanging important information and developing collaborative relationships with educators will enhance your child's transition to kindergarten and ensure a smooth settling process. In a quality Buddies kindergarten program, your child will have the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships and to engage in experiences that will benefit them now and in the future.
What you can do to support your child to settle?
Buddies kindergartens will commence the year with staggered starts (see your kindergarten schedule for further details), enabling children to gradually build up the length of time they spend when starting, gaining both experience and confidence with their new environment, peers and educators.
Providing a Family Photograph (which helps to develop a connection and sense of belonging to the service) and completing the Buddies 'Getting to Know You Form' and sharing with educators the interests and favourite activities of your child that they can refer to when supporting your child to settle in.
If your child speaks another language at home it is important to share key words in this language to support communication.
Always say 'goodbye' when you are ready to leave. Some families think it is better to 'sneak away' when their child is not looking, but this can create feelings of mistrust and intensify the anxiety of separation. It's important to follow though and leave when you say you are going to leave, as returning again can prolong the child's distress. Provide your child with a reasonable timeframe for your return by putting this into words your child can understand, for example "I will be back after afternoon tea".
Talking about kindergarten with your child, what will happen there and letting them know that they will have a good time, will help them to settle. It is also a good idea to talk about the educators with your child, by referring to the 'Educator Profile Photos' (provided at enrolment). It is also important that your child knows you are confident about them being at the service.
Asking your educators for updates and advice about how your child is settling. It can be helpful to call the kindergarten later to see how your child has settled. Children who become very upset when they are left often settle very quickly and happily once the actual separation is over! If separation takes time, the educator may develop an 'Orientation Transition Plan' to further support your child. This plan is developed in collaboration with you to share consistent strategies to facilitate a successful transition.


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HEIL PT 1000®
PT 1000
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Heil's surprisingly affordable PT 1000 will change your thinking about rear loader performance. We put more than 60 years of Heil rear loader know-how and experience into a refuse collection vehicle that delivers the fastest cycle time in its class, an outstanding payload, and a best-in-class hopper. This truck also fits comfortably into today's increasingly restricted budgets.
Beneath its sleek exterior, the PT 1000 is a no-nonsense machine that will outperform anything else in its class. It offers a 15-second cycle time and a reload time of less than 6 seconds, with packing forces that take full advantage of Heil's experience in high-pressure hydraulics and lighter weight, high-tensile steel construction.
The PT 1000 features a large 3 cubic yard hopper that is the best in its class, making it the ideal truck for those occasional commercial garbage pick-ups. It can be equipped with a variety of container handling devices to suit just about any collection need. It also offers a payload density of up to 1,000 pounds per cubic yard, and a one-piece body sidewall that not only looks better, but also is easier to wash and maintain, resists rust and corrosion, and provides a smooth surface for signage.
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