Members Attending: Bill Baugh, Bonnie Baugh, Brian Bogardus, Donna Bogardus, Karen, Breitinger, Kurt Breitinger, Jim Creer, Judy Creer, Carol Haff, John Haff and Rudy Wilmoth.
Guests Attending: Jim & Peta Culley.
Everyone except the Bogarduses met at the Welcome Center for the short drive to the Creer Estate. Brian and Donna beeped on their way by (nobody heard) to the Club P.O. Box to check the mail before ending up at the water filled hole in the ground behind 4047 Fairfax Street in Martinez.
As always there was more food than mouths. The Creer's provided the bratwurst and hot dogs as well as all the fixin's. Donna brought her world famous chicken & sausage shish-ka-bobs. John brought his blue ribbon cheese cake. I'm sorry if I forgot what everyone else brought, but there was plenty of high-octane human food. And then to top it off we had to suffer through some homemade peach ice cream, oh the pain.
After eating most of us tried in vain to burn some of the calories consumed by thrashing around in the pool. Jim has this huge inflatable dragon that is as hard to tame as U.S. Highway 129 between North Carolina and Tennessee. A lot of us tried to ride it only to be thrown off repeatedly. Some had more success than others, notably Carol, and it turns out this dragon requires a smooth and balanced application of power mixed with healthy respect just like the Gap. Because this is a family oriented publication we won't even go into where the inflation valve on this green monster is.
Because Brian was only 2 weeks removed from knee surgery he really couldn't do any diving, as such the 3rd Annual Big Splash contest never did get off the board (so to speak.) Jim tried a few wave makers but, nobody else joined in.
We ate, we swam, and the afternoon wore on. It wasn't until only about half the attendees were left that we realized that we were supposed to have a meeting and elect the new slate of officers. Oh well, it's not like the club will cease to exist. We'll do it next time. Times like this just reinforce this year's Presidential nominee, Rudy's, idea for a separate business meeting. We get together for these rally's and are too busy having fun to worry about mundane issues….
We're changing how we're doing our monthly meetings. Instead of everyone driving separately to the restaurant and then leaving separately, we will first meet to have a short business meeting, and then caravan to the designated restaurant. The purpose of this activity is to increase the visibility of our club and to drive more together as a club. It will also provide a fixed location for new members to meet up with our club before joining us on a drive.
As your president, I will organize the August business meeting and restaurant. I will hand out or send by US Mail the assignments for the rest of the months. You may trade with anyone if you cannot do your designated month.
The designated organizer of the monthly meal will plan a short drive to the selected restaurant to follow our regularly scheduled 1st-Thursday-of-the-month Business Meeting. There is no reason we can't continue using any of the former restaurants, or any new restaurant the organizer chooses. The pre-dinner drive should should neither be direct nor lengthy. If possible, consider taking the club through one or more of the 10,000 subdivisions in the CSRA so that folks can actually see the club caravan.
The business meeting starts promptly @ 6:30 p.m. If at all typical, the Business Meeting will end about 6:45 p.m.
As a courtesy to Little Mexico restaurant, I would encourage members to arrive early for a social hour at Little Mexico to share beverages and appetizers before our business meeting. I will be there no later than 5:45 pm on the days of our Business Meetings.
We will depart immediately for the restaurant, with the organizer in the lead.
When we arrive at the designated restaurant, we should endeavor to park together in a spot visible to passing traffic. The organizer may pre-arrange parking with the restaurant to facilitate this.
I expected maybe 4 or 5 cars to show for breakfast, but pretty much double that showed up. Donna and I, Rudy and Patty Wilmoth, Larry & Rita Garner, Denny Smith in yet another yellow Miata (his third), Dave & Autumn Schumacher, Stacey & Cindy Timmerman, Kurt Breitinger and Dave Winkler. Also including Fred & Betty Garren who came all the way from Chapin, SC.
We zigged and zagged a bit to get from Martintown Rd over to Sweetwater Rd that takes you right into the square in downtown Edgefield and is such a pretty drive. There was only one other person in the Ten Governors Cafe when we got there, and as we usually do, we made ourselves right at home and because it was a buffet restaurant, we didn't need to bother with that whole pesky ordering thing. The proprietor kept the coffee coming and we spent a pleasant hour or so eating and gabbing.
Welcome to Historic Edgefield, home of ten governors, several gaily painted turkeys and temporarily 9 Miatas.
I'm not sure how long this cafe has been here, but it is a good bet not all ten governors ate here.
Join your fellow Miata Club members for some coffee, a bit of gossip, more coffee, a morning meal and maybe one more refill of coffee.
We will meet at 7:00AM at the Circle K at 1132 W Martintown Rd, just south of I-20 Exit #1, for the 20 mile scenic drive to the Ten Governors Cafe in Edgefield, SC 803-637-9050. Ten Governors serves a breakfast buffet for $4.95, beverages are a buck more. Menu.
Afterward we will return to North Augusta via SC 23 & SC 230, optionally ending up at the Arts & Heritage Center in the new Municipal Building, so we can stuff the People's Choice Ballot Box for member Carol Haff's entry in the Augusta Photography Festival. Admission is $3 and Carol promises to reimburse us our entry fee if she wins.
Once again we had another spectacular fireworks event at Fort Gordon. The Weatherman cooperated and our group consisting of more OTMs than Miatas left the Cracker Barrel at 7:03 for the slow drive to Fort Gordon. Carnival rides replaced our usual spot so we headed to the center of the field and picked out a new prime location. We had various picnic dinners to include everything from green apple wine to funnel cakes. A Jimmy Buffet band entertained us while we waited for the real show to begin. The fireworks were explosive and our resident Photographer Carol Haff shared some of her great shots. We all rushed for our cars after the show and had a nice wait for the drive home.
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Albert II., punim imenom Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi, (Monte Carlo, 14. ožujka 1958.), trenutni je knez Monaka i starješina vladarske dinastije Grimaldi. Vladar je od 6. travnja 2005., sin Rainiera III. i nekadašnje holivudske glumice Grace Kelly. Godine 2011. oženio se bivšom plivačicom Charlene Wittstock s kojom ima dvoje djece, princezu Gabriellu i princa Jacquesa, zakonita nasljednika kneževskoga prijestolja i dinastije.

Životopis

Od 1977. do 1981. Albert je studirao ekonomiju, politologiju, psihologiju, englesku literaturu, povijest umjetnosti, antropologiju, geologiju, sociologiju, njemački jezik i glazbu na koledžu Amherst u Massachusettsu, SAD. Diplomirao je 1981. godine političke znanosti. Govori engleski, francuski i njemački jezik. Kratko vrijeme služio je u Francuskoj ratnoj mornarici s činom zastavnika.

Poslije majčine smrti u prometnoj nesreći 1982. godine, postao je predsjednik Crvenog križa Monaka te je sudjelovao u brojnim dobrotvornim akcijama.

Budući da je dugo bio neženja, što je stvaralo probleme za kneževinu, koja bi se bez nasljednika prijestolja morala vratiti pod upravu Francuske, počele su se širiti glasine o njegovoj homoseksualnosti, što je Albert opovrgnuo u medijima u više navrata. Istovremeno s takvim glasinama, počele su kružiti priče o njegovim vezama s brojnim poznatim ljepoticama, koje uključuju manekenke Claudiju Schiffer i Naomi Campbell, glumice Brooke Shields i Bo Derek, pjevačicu Kylie Minogue i mnoge druge.

Preuzeo je prijestolje pod imenom Albert II. 2005. godine, nakon očeve smrti.

Službeno je posjetio Hrvatsku 21. travnja 2009. godine.

Brak i potomstvo
Albert ima dvoje izvanbračne djece s dvije žene, kći Jazmin Grace s Tamarom Jean Rotolo i sina Alexandra Grimaldi-Costu s Nicole Coste, koji ne mogu sudjelovati u nasljedstvu monegaškoga prijestolja, jer su rođeni izvan bračne zajednice, iako je Albert priznao očinstvo. i dvoje blizanaca rođenih u braku s bivšom južnoafričkom plivačicom Charlene Wittstock, s kojom se vjenčao 1. srpnja 2011. godine:
 kraljevna Gabriella Therese Marie (10. prosinca 2014.)
 krlajević Jacques Honore Rainier (10. prosinca 2014.)

Športska djelatnost
Sudjelovao je na pet Zimskih olimpijskih igara od 1988. do 2002. godine kao član nacionalne momčadi u bobu. Član je Međunarodnoga Olimpijskog Odbora od 1985. godine i predsjednik Monegaškoga Olimpijskog Odbora.

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

 Albert II. - Hrvatska enciklopedija
 Albert II, monegaški knez - Britannica Online
 Životopis Alberta II.
 Princeza Charlene od Monaka rodila blizance - novilist.hr

Monegaški vladari
Grimaldi
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We invested in excess of 15 land development projects in Edmonton and Calgary managed by Qualico.
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Haiku #7
Posted by Roger
Fish scales leopard skin
Many party voices now
Ne ne ne não não
Tagged: haiku
Favourite rundown
Now that I've seen them all, here's what I think of the current top 6 favourites to win's changes:
1. Israel
This drifted after the first rehearsal by doing exactly what should be done in a first rehearsal and shortened after the second rehearsal by doing exactly what should be done in a second rehearsal. People are weird. I don't think the colour mix (orange/pink dress and red background) is ideal, but the cameras give plenty of attention to the best asset of this entry: Netta's expressions. Right now it feels that its bookie position is justified, but we'll know better on Tuesday.
There seems to be a buzz around here for this song (and for him), and he's doing everything right so far, assuming he'll beat the cold by then. But will the professional juries, many of them songwriters, appreciate being told how to do their job?
3. Estonia
This really improved for me watching the rehearsal (I'm not sure what they're doing different, it's the same dress) and the ESC Nation team has been humming it all over the narrow alleys of Alfama. But I mustn't forget the first impression of the song, and it's not boding well for it.
There seems to be a new and stronger than ever buzz around this, under the assumption that he'll defy his doctor's orders and give his best in the final. I still think the routine is a bit messy and the song a bit too weak to make it though.
This combines what the last two winners had: The sad-happy song with a modern club backing track of 1944, and Salvador's clever use of the audience for the full effect. Plus a really, really good song. I fear that Émilie's charisma isn't big enough to win this, especially when she's up against someone like Netta.
6. Cyprus
OK, they're doing the best out of that song and voice, but it's still that song and that voice. Winner? Really? Are people new?
Second rehearsal: Sweden to Ukraine
Super effective on screen again. Less so inside the arena, because some of the visuals are intended for the overhead camera shot. Also, it smells like Chinese food in here. #ProhibitedItemsScandal
Still doing what I hoped they wouldn't. If I were to write something nice about this, there's a really nice shot of Lea & co with the audience behind them near the end. But it takes a long time to get there.
The fish scale jacket and trainer shoes are still there. Vanja sings well when he wants to, but at parts he just doesn't bother. It's hard to tell if he's taking himself (and his song) seriously.
Yeah, still the same well-rehearsed routine.
There are gondolas going outside the arena, so we went on one of them. Really nice view of the bay, round trip is €5.90. Much recommended.
Tagged: Montenegro, rehearsal, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine
Second rehearsal: Poland to Latvia
Music stopped after 20 seconds, now we're hearing "I have time to go to the toilet?". Properly started after less than a minute, so I guess it's a no. A similar act to what we've seen. In the arena, this is electrifying and I finally got my first goosebumps of the year with the pyro during the bridge (am I that superficial - or was it that good?)
The on-screen heart is now about where Christabelle's liver is, still not anatomically correct but less disturbing than in the mouth. In the arena, the LED shower and laser show is spectacular, audience is in for a treat. Dancer now appears in the shower much later than in the first rehearsal, which was a good decision I think. A good rehearsal for Malta, but it would be better without the pyro.
More bad vocals. Either everyone partied late last night, or you should warn your non-fan guests on Thursday. Can crowd energy save this?
Tagged: Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Poland, rehearsal
Second rehearsal: Russia to Georgia
Small improvements on the camera angles, but they still look like it's their first time on TV. Think of this, only with a better song and better vocals:
The dress is still here. Still too many camera switches (at some part of the song, every time the drum beats), and some ouch notes there. I still really like it, but their best hope is that juries are as forgiving to Australian vocals as they were last year.
I still don't like the song, the routine, or anything made of leopard, but here's a few things it has going for it:
Waylon's voice
Waylon's eyes
The six packs on some of the dancers
Didn't improve, because it didn't need to. People loved it.
Watching this in the arena, in which the acoustics made everything sound good so far, but not this. More focus on the three backing singers this time, and there's an on-screen exploding snow effect during the first chorus. Three people applauded. Julia is rolled out with her volcano as the Moldovan prop rolls in.
I won't wake
Last night did not go well. Food ordered at 20:30 and arrived at 22:00, bill took another hour. This country has a pace of its own. Then I got an urgent message from the Belgian press that I left a mouse and a sock at the press centre. Oops.
Tagged: Australia, Georgia, Moldova, Netherlands, rehearsal, Russia

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This wine is remarkably concentrated—one of the benefits of the prolonged drought—and needed time for its imposing tannic structure to round out and soften. In keeping with our desire to not market this wine until it is ready to drink, we're delighted to have delayed its sale and to make it available only now after the release of the 2012 and 2013 vintages.


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Son Little Summons A Gospel Singer's Spirit In 'Demon To The Dark'
By Rachel Horn
Son Little's new album, New Magic, comes out Sept. 15.
The Philadelphia singer-songwriter Son Little has made his name through an adventurous, yet chilled-out, approach to blues and soul music. His self-titled 2015 debut was "nu-soul, not neo-soul," wrote NPR contributor Jim Allen; without attempting to duplicate classic rhythm and blues, Son Little retooled that music with electronics, minimalism and unconventional song structures.
The project continues on Little's forthcoming album New Magic. The record closes with "Demon To The Dark," a 21st-century spiritual of sorts that finds its narrator begging for forgiveness and redemption: "Deacon Phillips, can you hear me / My dear old man, now, are you there / I think my train is off the railing / Is there some way to get it clear?"
"Deacon Phillips" is the gospel singer Washington Phillips, whose own experimental approach to older styles of music makes him a kindred spirit to Little, even if he recorded nearly a century prior. Phillips sang traditional hymns while accompanying himself on the "manzarene," an instrument of his own invention that a 1907 newspaper article described as "a box about 2x3 feet, 6 inches deep, [on] which he has strung violin strings, something on the order of an autoharp." Little says that in creating "Demon To The Dark," he tried to replicate the manzarene's sound with a Suzuki Omnichord; the result is an otherworldly twinkling over heavy organ, gospel piano and faraway kettle drums.
In a statement, Little says "Demon To The Dark" is what he imagines it would be like to have a conversation with Phillips, whose music Little says he listens to "when things get hectic or I'm feeling low." Phillips was, according to Little, "a very devout religious man, who no doubt wouldn't approve of a lot of the things going on around here these days (sex, drugs, rock and roll)."
"Still, his music gives hope," Little says, "because it sounds like love and forgiveness."
New Magic comes out Sept. 15.
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No, I would have to pay the courts, a lawyer and so on. Twenty-five dollars a year seems like a small fee to pay to have all that legal work done for you. No one works for free except the ones who keep turning out kids and living off the system.
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Langwood Commons Appeal
Appeal Remains Under Review for Fells Environmental Lawsuit
The appeal filed late last year in the lawsuit aimed at restoring MEPA environmental of impacts from the Langwood Commons development project at the former hospital site is expected to be heard this spring in the Massachusetts Appeals Court. If the Appeals Court asks for argument on the briefs filed late last year, it is likely to be scheduled in the next few months.
The suit filed by Friends of the Fells, ten individual citizens, and the City of Medford seeks to counteract the attempt by the developers – with the concurrence of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) – to proceed with the development without completing environmental impact review of the impact that 4,500 new daily traffic trips would have on historic parkways and the Fells Reservation.
The legal challenge asks the Court to rule that the developers are violating state environmental laws by attempting to evade MEPA review through improper segmentation of their development from the project's traffic impacts The case also asks the Court to determine that DCR is violating MEPA by failing to ensure that the Fells' parkways are safe
and protected from alterations that would adversely affect their scenic and historic characteristics.
Prior to 2009, DCR and the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs had rejected the developers' attempts to avoid completing environmental review by insisting that under state law the developers are required to complete the MEPA process to identify a reduced scale for the project before commencing any construction.
In a June 2008 letter, DCR insisted that "mitigation measures, respecting the scenic that and historic integrity of the Middlesex Fells Parkway system, must be implemented to address public safety risks directly posed by development of the project." At that time, the development would have added 5,000 new daily traffic trips. In an Advisory Opinion issued July 3, 2008, the Secretary informed the developers that their project remained subject to MEPA jurisdiction even if they refused to seek a DCR permit to perform traffic mitigation work and verified that "DCR has a statutory obligation to ensure that its roads are 'reasonably safe and convenient for travelers."
In a letter to the environmental affairs Secretary dated June 4, 2009, the developers reported that traffic would be reduced from 5,000 to 4,500 daily trips.
DCR Reversal
On September 18, 2013, DCR reversed its early position in a letter, citing the change from 5,000 to 4,500 daily trips, claiming "much has changed in the development of your separate project since 2008 and your project has been scaled back considerably since that time." DCR dismissed as "prior misapprehensions" its insistence prior to 2013 that "mitigation measures, respecting the scenic that and historic integrity of the Middlesex Fells Parkway system, must be implemented to address public safety risks directly posed by development of the project."
Instead, based solely on the small decrease in projected traffic, DCR stated that the developers' project could proceed without any parkway mitigation at all. In December 2013, the Secretary's MEPA Director cited this DCR letter in a new Advisory Opinion that removed the project and its impacts from MEPA jurisdiction, thereby voiding the developers' MEPA obligation to present a reduced-scale project plan that could be built without bringing harm to the parkways.
Parkways impacts after the project is built
Allowing the developers to build their project at its current scale would result in worsening traffic congestion and safety problems for the parkways. This would then force DCR either to demand that the developers obtain a permit to modify the parkways after the project is built, or to undertake extensive parkway changes using taxpayer funds. With traffic at such a large volume, there would be no way to prevent traffic alterations that would harm the scenic and character-defining features of the adjacent historic parkways.
This "segmentation" of the development project from its expected impacts in order to evade MEPA environmental review is at the heart of the lawsuit which aims to restore the Langwood Commons project to MEPA jurisdiction so as to minimize and prevent damage to the environment in the Middlesex Fells Reservation.
Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation


Discover the warning signs of enterprise application failure so you can spot these issues before they add up to a nightmare situation for your company.
Application failure and service disruption can rapidly short-circuit a company's online sales, customer service, or internal processes. In 2011, Japan's Mizuho Bank suffered a system meltdown that shuttered its massive ATM and Internet banking services for several days and delayed processing of 1.16 million transactions, worth a total of about $10 billion. A software glitch at a New Zealand telecommunications company resulted in 47,000 customers being incorrectly charged for hitting their data limits early. The company reimbursed customers in a $2.7 million settlement. While these are examples of massive software failures, the types that get senior executives fired, even minor application disruptions can cost a bundle and create management discontent.
IT departments need to consider the ramifications of a service outage, including how to know when a meltdown is looming. This article will discuss the warning signs of application failure, and offer advice for spotting issues before they become fatal.
Enterprise application failure takes many forms, but it's the day-to-day glitches disrupting customer service or employee productivity that are most common. IT wastes precious staff time trying to troubleshoot and fix problems, while the business loses money. Small changes to software can create unknown problems affecting business results. Google, AOL, Bing, Shopzilla, and other Internet leaders recognize that even small increases in response time - 4/10s or .5 second - would theoretically have zero impact to users, but can take a measureable toll on site usage and therefore revenues. A business should define upfront what constitutes application failure in its core systems, in terms of unacceptable results for the business, users, or customers.
What causes employees or customers to call the help desk in a flash is when a site, application, or transaction begins to run noticeably slower. First, define the threshold for acceptable response times — which will vary depending upon the criticality of the system and related transactions. This data comes from a variety of sources, including server logs, website metrics tools, and whatever monitoring data is available from your individual applications. Ideally, a company will have a centralized application monitoring system that aggregates response times across systems and websites so that IT can see in one place where business-critical transactions are failing.
These days, everyone's talking about "Big Data," and how companies can capitalize on the petabytes of data streaming from the Web and other places. The downside of the data explosion we are now experiencing is that transaction volumes can spike unexpectedly. Knowing when these spikes typically occur is one way to stay ahead of an application meltdown. Otherwise, if your storage and server systems are not provisioned correctly, the application or website may buckle under the pressure.
For instance, a company like Yahoo! needs to plan for transaction volumes early in the morning in its top markets, when users are checking the news. Conversely, a gaming site might experience spikes in the late evenings when people get home from work and are ready to play. Planning for those expected capacity shifts is standard course, but what about the unexpected spikes? This requires monitoring solutions that keep tabs on the average response times for a particular application, and alert IT when response times begin to inch upward.
It's also critical to obtain an intrinsic understanding of the performance characteristics of the application. A stock-trading application deals with small data per transaction but potentially large transaction volumes, depending upon time of day or related events. A video production system, however, manages far fewer transactions but enormous files. The app manager needs to consider the timing of those large file transfers with other demands upon the infrastructure, in order to make just in time changes to maintain required service levels.
With the advent of cloud computing and virtualization, many organizations are running IT off of a shared, dynamic infrastructure. Virtual machines are running on pools of servers and storage, shifting around application loads according to business rules. This sometimes creates application contention issues, when two applications are competing for the same storage drive at the same time. Network optimization can help, but IT needs to pay particular attention to capacity planning in these new environments. In our experience, application issues more often occur in the storage and database layers, not the application itself. The ability to see through all of these layers quickly can help an IT organization stay on top of shifting supply and demand in the private cloud.
Firefighting and cleaning up messes can be minimized if a company takes the time to develop a plan and process for application performance needs and business SLA requirements. This entails mapping business requirements to application requirements, setting thresholds and metrics for intervention, and continuously monitoring the entire infrastructure from user/transaction to disk. These tools and processes can tell IT managers how long until storage will be at risk, and the impact of infrastructure adjustments on capacity.
Planning entails determining what can be archived and what truly needs to stay "live." Which applications require the fastest storage and servers, and which can make do with lower-cost devices? Balancing performance with cost and business needs is crucial; there really can't be enough refinement of this exercise in the modern enterprise.
Sherman Wood is VP of Products, at Precise.


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package com.codingchili.core.files;

import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.function.Supplier;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import com.codingchili.core.configuration.Configurable;
import com.codingchili.core.configuration.CoreStrings;
import com.codingchili.core.configuration.exception.InvalidConfigurableException;
import com.codingchili.core.configuration.system.*;
import com.codingchili.core.context.StartupListener;
import com.codingchili.core.context.TimerSource;
import com.codingchili.core.files.exception.*;
import com.codingchili.core.logging.ConsoleLogger;
import com.codingchili.core.logging.Logger;
import com.codingchili.core.protocol.Serializer;

import static com.codingchili.core.configuration.CoreStrings.*;

/**
 * <p>
 * Handles loading and parsing of the configuration files.
 */
public abstract class Configurations {
    private static final ConcurrentHashMap<String, ConfigEntry> configs = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
    private static final AtomicBoolean initialized = new AtomicBoolean(false);
    private static Logger logger = new ConsoleLogger(Configurations.class);

    /*
      When uninitialized default in-memory configuration is used, this configuration is
      flushed on initialization. This allows testing against the default configuration and
      without file access or modification to configuration paths when testing.
      Also allows configuration files to not be present at startup and reset.
     */
    static {
        init();
        reloadAll();

        StartupListener.subscribe(core -> {
            if (initialized.get()) {
                logger.onAlreadyInitialized();
            } else {
                logger = core.logger(Configurations.class);
                new FileWatcherBuilder(core)
                        .rate(TimerSource.of(Configurations::getConfigurationPoll))
                        .onDirectory(Paths.get(launcher().getConfigurationDirectory()).toString())
                        .withListener(new ConfigurationFileWatcher())
                        .build();

                initialized.set(true);
            }
        });
    }

    private static void init() {
        configs.put(PATH_LAUNCHER, new ConfigEntry(new LauncherSettings(), LauncherSettings.class));
        configs.put(PATH_SECURITY, new ConfigEntry(new SecuritySettings(), SecuritySettings.class));
        configs.put(PATH_SYSTEM, new ConfigEntry(new SystemSettings(), SystemSettings.class));
        configs.put(PATH_STORAGE, new ConfigEntry(new StorageSettings(), StorageSettings.class));
    }

    private static void reloadAll() {
        loaded().forEach(configurable -> reload(configurable.getPath()));
    }

    private static int getConfigurationPoll() {
        return system().getConfigurationPoll();
    }

    /**
     * Loads a configurable from specified path and instantiates a settings object.
     *
     * @param <T>   type of the configurable bound by clazz
     * @param path  the path to the json configuration.
     * @param clazz a class with settings that extends a Configurable.
     * @return an instantiated configurable.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static <T extends Configurable> T get(String path, Class<T> clazz) {
        Supplier<Boolean> loaded = () -> configs.containsKey(path) && configs.get(path).clazz.equals(clazz);

        if (path == null) {
            throw new InvalidConfigurationPath(clazz);
        }

        if (loaded.get()) {
            return (T) configs.get(path).configurable;
        } else {
            // if not loaded: synchronization is required to avoid multiple loads of a single file.
            synchronized (Configurations.class) {
                // synchronized check if loaded: for second and later threads waiting.
                if (loaded.get()) {
                    return (T) configs.get(path).configurable;
                } else {
                    // load synchronized for first thread.
                    return load(path, clazz);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Inserts a configuration file from memory into the configuration store.
     *
     * @param configurable the configurable to be stored.
     */
    public static void put(Configurable configurable) {
        configs.put(configurable.getPath(), new ConfigEntry(configurable, configurable.getClass()));
    }

    /**
     * Disables monitoring of changes, saves all configurations back to disk.
     */
    static void shutdown() {
        initialized.set(false);
        saveAll();
        init();
    }

    private static void saveAll() {
        loaded().forEach(Configurations::save);
    }

    /**
     * Reads a configurable from the given path into loaded configurables. If the
     * given path does not resolve to a configuration file the configuration file
     * is instead instantiated from the given class.
     *
     * @param path  the path to the class to instantiate.
     * @param clazz the configurable class on the path.
     */
    private static <T extends Configurable> T load(String path, Class<T> clazz) {
        boolean defaultsLoaded = false;
        T config;

        if (ConfigurationFactory.exists(path)) {
            try {
                JsonObject json = ConfigurationFactory.readObject(path);
                config = Serializer.unpack(json, clazz);
            } catch (NoSuchResourceException e) {
                logger.onFileLoadError(CoreStrings.getFileReadError(path));
                throw e;
            }
        } else {
            try {
                config = clazz.<T>getConstructor().newInstance();
                defaultsLoaded = true;
            } catch (ReflectiveOperationException e) {
                logger.onInvalidConfigurable(clazz);
                throw new InvalidConfigurableException(clazz);
            }
        }
        config.setPath(path);
        configs.put(path, new ConfigEntry(config, clazz));

        if (defaultsLoaded) {
            if (!clazz.getName().equals(LauncherSettings.class.getName())) {
                // we cannot warn if the launcher defaults are loaded.
                if (launcher().isWarnOnDefaultsLoaded()) {
                    logger.onConfigurationDefaultsLoaded(path, clazz);
                }
            }
        } else {
            logger.onFileLoaded(path);
        }
        return config;
    }

    public static void reset() {
        configs.clear();
        init();
        saveAll();
    }

    /**
     * Checks if an alternate file with the same name exists in another folder.
     *
     * @param rootDir     The root dir is the union of the path and override.
     * @param filePath    The file to check if exists in another directory.
     * @param overrideDir The other directory to check in.
     * @return a path to the overridden resource if exists or the filePath itself.
     */
    public static String override(String rootDir, String overrideDir, String filePath) {
        String overrideFile = filePath.replace(rootDir, overrideDir);

        File override = Paths.get(overrideFile).toFile();

        if (override.exists()) {
            return CoreStrings.format(override.toPath());
        } else {
            return filePath;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Reloads a configuration file from specified path.
     *
     * @param path of the configurable to reload.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    static void reload(String path) {
        if (configs.containsKey(path)) {
            Configurations.load(path, configs.get(path).clazz);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Saves a configuration to file without updating the cache.
     *
     * @param configurable the configurable to be written.
     */
    static void save(Configurable configurable) {
        ConfigurationFactory.writeObject(configurable.serialize(), configurable.getPath());
        logger.onFileSaved(ID_CONFIGURATION, configurable.getPath());
    }

    /**
     * Get all loaded configurables, useful for modifying them before saving.
     *
     * @return a list of all the configurables loaded.
     */
    public static Collection<Configurable> loaded() {
        ArrayList<Configurable> loaded = new ArrayList<>();
        configs.values().forEach(entry -> loaded.add(entry.configurable));
        return loaded;
    }

    /**
     * List all available configuration files.
     *
     * @param path root path to search from.
     * @return a list of paths to configuration files.
     */
    public static Collection<String> available(String path) {
        try {
            return Files.walk(Paths.get(path))
                    .filter(file -> !file.toFile().isDirectory())
                    .map(Path::toString)
                    .map(text -> text.replaceAll("\\\\", CoreStrings.DIR_SEPARATOR))
                    .collect(Collectors.toList());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new FileReadException(path);
        }
    }

    /**
     * List all available configuration files from the server configuration root.
     *
     * @return a list of paths to configuration files.
     */
    static Collection<String> available() {
        return available("");
    }

    /**
     * Clears all loaded configuration and reloads on next get.
     */
    static void unload() {
        configs.clear();
        init();
        logger.onCacheCleared(ID_CONFIGURATION);
    }

    /**
     * @return system settings stored in the cache.
     */
    public static SystemSettings system() {
        return get(PATH_SYSTEM, SystemSettings.class);
    }

    /**
     * @return security settings from the cache.
     */
    public static SecuritySettings security() {
        return get(PATH_SECURITY, SecuritySettings.class);
    }

    /**
     * @return launcher settings stored in the cache.
     */
    public static LauncherSettings launcher() {
        return get(PATH_LAUNCHER, LauncherSettings.class);
    }

    /**
     * @return storage settings stored in the cache.
     */
    public static StorageSettings storage() {
        return get(PATH_STORAGE, StorageSettings.class);
    }

    /**
     * @param plugin the plugin to get configurations for.
     * @return storage settings for the given plugin
     */
    public static RemoteStorage storage(Class<?> plugin) {
        return storage().getSettingsForPlugin(plugin);
    }

    private static class ConfigurationFileWatcher implements FileStoreListener {
        @Override
        public void onFileModify(Path path) {
            Configurations.reload(path.toString().replaceAll("\\\\", DIR_ROOT));
        }

        @Override
        public void onFileRemove(Path path) {
            Configurations.reload(path.toString().replaceAll("\\\\", DIR_ROOT));
        }
    }

    private static class ConfigEntry {
        final Configurable configurable;
        final Class clazz;

        ConfigEntry(Configurable configurable, Class clazz) {
            this.configurable = configurable;
            this.clazz = clazz;
        }
    }
}


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Features, From the Editor 6
Who is the Man in Red?
By Dan Gvozden @dangvozden · On April 15, 2016
Since the debut of the latest volume of Amazing Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott has teased readers with the sudden return of many previously deceased characters in Spider-Man's universe. All of this seems to be facilitated by the mysterious "Man in Red," a gray-haired mystery character in a red suit that claims to have supernatural powers/"miracles." His hidden face suggests that he's someone we'd recognize just by looking at it, which got us thinking, "Who is this mysterious man?"
Cohosts of our Amazing Spider-Talk podcast, Mark Ginocchio and Dan Gvozden, offer their takes on this intriguing mystery:
Mark's Take
I'm probably traveling far off the reservation for this theory but I cannot help but fixate on the fact that Dan Slott and co. are taking major strides to keep the identity of the "man in red" for "Dead No More" a secret. Granted, the last time a Slott story featuring a long-running mystery like this, it turned out to be Norman Osborn with a face transplant, so the precedent is there for this villain to be someone we all know and met before, but I'm going to take a leap of faith here and speculate about a total wild card:
Johnny Bates.
That probably elicited a number of "who's?" and that's kinda why I'm leaning this way. Johnny Bates is the alterego of the independent character Kid Marvelman, aka Kid Miracleman. Miracleman is one of the most controversial comics in the medium's history. In the early 1980s a young (but equally crazy) Alan Moore reintroduced the characters after they'd essentially been put on ice for copyright infringement (Miracleman and Kid Miracleman both bear a significant number of similarities to Captain Marvel/Shazam). Bates, once the lead character, Michael Moran/Miracleman's kid sidekick, was transformed into a sociopathic supervillain. The well-coiffed Bates would always dress in fine suits and was CEO of the electronics company Sunburst Cybernetics.
A few years ago, Marvel Comics acquired the rights to the Marvelman/Miracleman property and started reprinting the old Moore stories in their own series. They didn't sell particularly well, but that hasn't stopped the rumor mill from speculating about when these characters might start to appear in Marvel's main continuity. As was the case with Angela, a character Marvel acquired from Image Comics a few years back, why go through all that trouble only to use the Miracleman property for reprints? And considering we just experienced a major Marvel crossover that brought characters from different universes and timelines together for the first time, it's not a stretch to think that it could be Bates's time to cross over.
More specifically, in the most recent issue of Amazing Spider-Man, the man in red tells Max Dillon, "I'm the man who can make miracles." "Miracles" is certainly a specific word choice, especially for a character who used to go by the moniker "Kid Miracleman." Additionally Bates physically fits the profile of the man in red (though Amazing Spider-Man #10 reveals his hair as platinum blonde, Moran's color, while Bates always had jet black hair in contrast to his former mentor).
There are obvious holes to my theory. Why would Bates be targeting Spider-Man? Perhaps in the new Marvel Universe Sunburst Cybernetics is up and running and he wants to take down the competition, Parker Industries? And what's with the Egyptian motif in the "Dead No More" teaser images? Well, on that end I don't have much, but the Miracleman comics were always laced with Moore's sense of mysticism and mythology. He portrayed his characters as living Gods. So maybe there's something to that with the man in red's headdress in the latest "Dead No More" teaser.
Lastly, a reveal of this nature feels momentous enough to justify the slow burn tease from the past few months. Why make such a point of obscuring the character's identity, if you're just going to put Norman Osborn or Miles Warren in a new costume? Then again … Mason Banks.
Dan's Take
Let me just say that I think Mark's take is so out-there interesting that I kind of hope that he's right. It would be a bold choice, on the level of bringing in Mephisto for "One More Day," which doesn't mean it would be the right choice for the story but it would definitely be interesting (not like Mason Banks).
That said, it doesn't all fall into place for me, for many of the reasons that Mark already outlines, namely the connection to Egypt and the Lizard's insistence that he's worked with the Man in Red before.
That's why I'm going to make the terribly lazy prediction that the Man in Red is none other than Miles Warren in a new costume, even though I can't think of a time he's worked with the Lizard (but they were both top scientists in NYC before they decided to experiment with their bodies and minds). I know it is the laziest guess at who it could be, but hear me out on this, there are reasons to be excited about a Miles Warren reveal. Here's why:
Dan Slott has been incorporating Miles Warren, aka the Jackal, into his run on Amazing Spider-Man since the very beginning, with him taking the forefront in "Spider-Island" and a few stories afterwards. On our latest Amazing Spider-Talk podcast, Mark and I discussed "No One Dies" and I suspected that Slott was attempting to bookend his run on the book, revisiting previous stories to close each chapter and put the toys back in the toy box.
So it only makes sense that we would revisit the Jackal, who had previously put all his cards on the table, exhausted his cloning schemes to their fullest extent, and was resoundingly defeated not only by Spider-Man, but by Kaine, his greatest mistake. The next logical step for him would be to go back to his roots to rethink his approach to defeating Spider-Man.
Based on the teaser from last week, we see the Man in Red in an Anubis facemask – yet to be seen in the comics themselves – drinking champagne with a reborn Gwen Stacy. Those in the know about Egyptian mythology know that Anubis appeared as a man with a jackal head and was the god of the afterlife, typically associated with the mummification process. Clearly there is something magical going on with the rebirth of all these characters, though they could also be clones.
Let's say that Miles Warren investigated his Jackal identity and arrived at some kind of Egyptian artifact or inspiration that moved him to update his costume, while retaining the Jackal imagery, and gave him either new but similar powers and a new lease on life, the emotional destruction of Spider-Man. Sure, it is a reach but why did Miles Warren dress like a Jackal in the first place? Well… come to think of it, he never dressed like a Jackal ever… just some strange green monster.
The biggest clue to me that this could be Miles Warren remains the "Dead No More" teaser image and how he's cavorting with Gwen Stacy, along with the return of Kaine. Miles Warren's anger with Spider-Man is that he blames him for the death of Gwen Stacy, who he secretly loved during his time as their professor. The romantic nature of their relationship in the teaser poster suggests that perhaps through some devious means Miles has found a way to make that happen.
Also, from Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 4) #10, the Man in Red wears glasses, just like Miles Warren.
Anyway, that's just my thoughts on the Man in Red's identity. As much as I'd like to see the Jackal get a makeover I'm also kind of sick of the character and would love to see something crazy like Mark's suggestion or just a new villain for Spider-Man to fight. The animal motif to the Man in Red is right in line with Spidey's rogues gallery and I'd love to read the story of a shockingly new villain set to terrorize Spider-Man's world.
Or… it's just Mephisto.
What are your thoughts on the identity of the Man in Red? Do you agree with Mark or Dan? Are they both crazy? Leave us your thoughts in the comments.
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Anyone looking to book a badminton court in South Berkshire should be looking to play badminton at Singh Sabha Sports Centre. Availability varies, but the badminton facilities are excellent. Leagues can operate from the venue, as well as one off games with your friends. Rackets and shuttlecocks are sometimes available for hire from the reception desk for those that don't possess the correct badminton equipment, but we recommend you call the facility before arrival to double check. Nets are also stored on site and checked on a regular basis to ensure it is kept to the highest standard.
If public transport isn't your thing, then there are alternative travel options. The venue is easily accessible by car and free parking facilities are available on site. This also makes it the perfect facility for teams hosting home games, as it means the facility is extremely accommodating for travelling away team players.
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Patrick was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is a partner at the law firm of Anderson, Moore, Bailey & Nowell, LLC. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina. Following college, Patrick worked in the real estate, advertising, and marketing fields before starting law school at the Charleston School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor. After sitting for the bar exam he moved back home to Spartanburg to begin a Judicial Clerkship with Seventh Judicial Circuit Court Judge J. Mark Hayes. Upon completing his Judicial Clerkship for Judge Hayes, Patrick began work as an Assistant Solicitor for former Seventh Circuit Solicitor and current U.S. Congressman Trey Gowdy. Patrick's initial case load focused on General Crimes, with cases ranging from forgery and property crimes to Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill.
Following the General Crimes case load, Patrick became the DUI prosecutor for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. He was the DUI prosecutor for 3 years, and was responsible for both Magistrate level and Circuit Court level DUI charges. His case load ranged from DUI and Felony DUI to Failure to Stop for Blue Light and Habitual Traffic Offender. Patrick left the Solicitors Office in 2011 to go into private practice. He devotes the majority of his practice to defending clients charged with DUI, Felony DUI, Drug charges, and all criminal offenses. He also represents clients on divorce and custody matters, as well as general civil litigation.
Patrick's lifetime ties to Spartanburg have given him extensive knowledge of the community and its people, and that lends itself well to representing his clients' interests successfully. Patrick knows the area because he has lived here all his life. Patrick prides himself on being available whenever his clients need him. Whether it is before a court date, or after a case is resolved, he strives to ensure his clients get the best results, and is there to guide them through every step of the process.
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In pics: Tornado rips away buildings near Oklahoma City
World | IBNLive | May 21, 2013, 7:05 am
A man carries his belongings through debris after the suburb of Moore, Oklahoma was left devastated by a tornado, on May 21, 2013.
An aerial view of damage to neighborhoods in Moore, Oklahoma May 21, 2013, is seen in the aftermath of a tornado which ravaged the suburb of Oklahoma City.
Residents walk through debris of homes after the suburb of Moore, Oklahoma was left devastated by a tornado, May 21, 2013. The death toll in tornado reached 24.
Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and survivors picked through the rubble of their shattered homes on Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, wiping out blocks of houses and killing at least 24 people.
A police car destroyed by a tornado stands on the street in Moore, Oklahoma May 21, 2013.
Storm chaser videographer and photographer Brad Mack records a tornado near a home in South Haven, in Kansas May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died.
Overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado touched down in the town of Moore, near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma May 20, 2013. The huge tornado that struck the town of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday was given a preliminary rating of at least EF4, or the second highest strength level, with winds of up to 200 miles per hour (321 kph), a US government agency said.
Destroyed cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma May 20, 2013. A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage. At least four people were killed, KFOR television said, citing a reporter's eyewitness account, and hospitals said dozens of people were injured as the dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 US states with more twisters.
Residents help repair the roof of their neighbour's house which was damaged by a fallen tree when a tornado swept through Shawnee, in Oklahoma May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died.
A damaged mobile home is pictured amid the debris after a tornado swept through Shawnee, in Oklahoma May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died.
Lightning from a tornadic thunderstorm passing over Clearwater, Kansas strikes at an open field May 19, 2013. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died.
An aerial view of damage to neighborhoods in Moore, May 21, 2013, is seen in the aftermath of a tornado which ravaged the suburb of Oklahoma City.


This song is the result of a unique collaborative experiment from the YouTube Originals special "Band Together with Logic." Logic put the call out around the world for anybody and everybody to collaborate with him on an original song. The first time any of them had ever met in person was to shoot this video.
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An exciting future for Intellident
Press Release: Intellident [December 31, 2010]
Copyright (c) 2010 Intellident
Abstract: Intellident, Manchester UK is delighted to confirm that on the 31st December 2010 it was acquired in whole by professional portfolio managers Chamonix Private Equity, thus exiting from the LINPAC Group. Initially was acquired in 2003 by LINPAC, primarily to service RFID opportunities in the supply chain market. t was during this time that Intellident became the pioneering market leader for the implementation of RFID into libraries. As adoption of RFID solutions in libraries grew, Intellident successfully launched a dedicated Dutch sales office and acquired Ident SAS in France, whilst becoming the most successful solution provider in the UK.
Intellident, Manchester UK is delighted to confirm that on the 31st December 2010 it was acquired in whole by professional portfolio managers Chamonix Private Equity, thus exiting from the LINPAC Group.
Initially acquired in 2003 by LINPAC, primarily to service RFID opportunities in the supply chain market, Intellident quickly rewarded the Group with a series of high profile projects, including end-to-end installations with Honda UK and the ground-breaking grocery and clothing projects with Marks and Spencer's, amongst others. During the years of LINPAC ownership, Intellident remained strong in developing supply chain applications, whilst having the backing to explore new and emerging markets.
It was during this time that Intellident became the pioneering market leader for the implementation of RFID into libraries. As adoption of RFID solutions in libraries grew, Intellident successfully launched a dedicated Dutch sales office and acquired Ident SAS in France, whilst becoming the most successful solution provider in the UK.
Jim Hopwood, Managing Director of Intellident, commented on the acquisition, "Being part of the LINPAC Group of companies for seven years has provided the opportunity to grow our company from a small team into, what is today, Europe's leading providers of RFID solutions across a range of markets. Although we are extremely proud to have been part of the Group, the time was right to explore new options that will allow us to continue to invest heavily in the ongoing development of products and solutions for the Supply Chain and Library sectors, where we are extremely fortunate to enjoy a fantastically innovative and loyal customer base; equally importantly, our new shareholders can provide us with the freedom and investment to grow the business further into additional markets as the adoption of RFID solutions continue."
With the acquisition by Chamonix, Intellident are today positioned to focus on core, sustainable and creative markets that will lead to a strong and profitable future for the company. All staff and management team remain unaltered and the company looks forward to working with its new shareholders to continue its growth and maintain its strategy of being Europe's leading provider of RFID solutions.
Intellident continues to operate as Intellident Ltd from its European headquarters in Stockport, UK.
About Intellident
Intellident is the UK's leading provider of RFID solutions to a range of markets, with particular focus on asset tracking and management. Together with leading the European library market with over 1,200 library installations, the company provides document management and asset tracking solutions to a range of blue-chip companies in the private sector, NHS and public sector. In addition, Intellident have direct sales offices in France and Netherlands, with a comprehensive partner programme delivering our products worldwide.
For further information contact Andy Chadbourne, Marketing Manager on: +44 (0)161 498 1148, or email a.chadbourne@intellident.co.uk
About Chamonix
Chamonix Private Equity acquires portfolios of direct private equity investments, portfolios of industrial trading divisions/subsidiaries and bank �debt-for-equity' portfolios. Chamonix's partners are Jane Crawford, Christopher Edge and Andrew Hartley, who have over 65 years combined experience in private equity. Chamonix aims to secure for its vendors both liquidity and also a route for disposing of non-core assets. Deals vary from portfolios of four to fifty individual businesses with values ranging from �30 million to �500 million. Chamonix handles investments throughout Northern Europe, including the UK and Ireland. Current investments include companies involved in a range of business services and industrial manufacturing.
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POLITICAL REGIMES IN CENTRAL ASIA: NEW PERSPECTIVES
Anfisa KLOKAVA, PhD. Candidate
Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT: There has been growing interest in the formation of political systems in Central Asian republics in recent years. These regimes went through one or more transition waves without reaching the minimum standards of democracy. Nowadays, the political regimes in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have specific stabilized institutional arrangements that had to stay on the point between consolidated authoritarianism and a hybrid form for 25 years. The purpose of this paper is to characterize and compare current political regimes in Central Asia. The use of the comparative method based on Dahl's procedural democracy criteria helps recognize the nature of political regimes in Central Asia. The article works with the definition of hybrid regimes to examine whether Central Asian regimes might be classified as hybrid. A group of factors that determine the character and originality of each political regime plays an instrumental role, while the section on conclusions will pinpoint exactly the causes of significant variations.
KEYWORDS: authoritarian domination, democratization, hybrid regimes, Central Asia.
ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE IMPACT OF TRAINING IN SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETING
Lucia CENDULOVA, PhD. Candidate
Faculty of Arts, "Matej Bel" University, Banska Bystrica
ABSTRACT: The aim of the study is to show the importance of the training of future simultaneous interpreters. The study follows a group of 35 students of translation studies in their first year of Master studies at "Matej Bel" University. The research is focused on the progress of these selected students during the first semester of their first year, and it is based on the analysis of the students' recorded target speeches. The recording sessions of their interpreting performances are carried out three times during the semester, during which the students are systematically trained in the area of simultaneous interpreting. Transcriptions of the speeches are analyzed according to the amount of information transferred from the source language, which gives us an overall image of their progress.
KEYWORDS: simultaneous interpreting, training, performance, translation studies, evaluation.
PLOTINIUS: SELF-AWARENESS AND THE ASCENSION ON THE LADDER OF TRUTH
Elena Daniela TARBĂ, Assistant Researcher
"Alexandru Dragomir" Institute for Philosophy
ABSTRACT: In this article, I analyze the role of the individual soul in the hierarchic Plotinian system with emphasis on the moment of the awakening of the soul and its ascension on the ladder of truth. In order to do so, I elaborate the view of the three hypostases. Doing so, I follow the path of the chain-like procession until the last shackle, matter, not without mentioning the importance of the dichotomy object-subject in Plotinian view. After I briefly talk about matter as the limit of existence, I insist on the necessity of a complimentary action directed upwards. In the end, I accentuate the double nature of the individual Soul in these movement of complementary actions as I analyze the function of Sight in relation with Beauty and the appearance of Eros.
KEYWORDS: One, Intellect, Soul, self-awareness, procession.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UK AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: FROM 1945 TO BREXIT
Lecturer H.S. VENKATESHA, PhD. Candidate
Department of Political Science, PG Centre ChikkaAluvara, Mangalore University Kodagu
ABSTRACT: The United Kingdom has always had an uncomfortable relationship with EU member countries. This covers most areas of the EU's range of interests from foreign policy through justice and home affairs, including the vexed question of border controls, to social and labour relations. Indeed, two of the UKs prime ministers were hugely affected by challenges emanating from continental Europe; such challenges were the making of Churchill and the breaking of Margret Thatcher. The relationship between the UK and the EU has the potential for dramatic change following David Cameron's commitment to hold on IN referendum on EU membership. Recently the people of Britain voted for a British exit from the EU. It has created new environment in the UK. It is creating fear to live in UK and some immigrants say they have stopped speaking their native tongue in public. Furthermore, other young immigrants say they fear discrimination over jobs and university admissions. UK's decision to leave the EU has an impact on India on multiple layers. However, economists and experts believe that the country need not be overly worried about the development as the transition is going to be slow and more details are to be expected.
KEYWORDS: European Union, Integration, Britain, Brexit and Impact.


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As is to be expected, Black Heart Bart trainer Darren Weir feels that not only Hartnell, but his horse as well, has the opportunity to beat Winx in the Cox Plate.
As the clock winds down toward the jump, however, the bookmakers do not seem to share Weir's whistling-past-the-graveyard opinion.
Winx continues to shorten as the Group 1 Cox Plate approaches, so those punters who took her last week when she was over $2.00 should be feeling pretty smug when they see her at $1.80 early on the day prior to the race.
Hartnell has move the other direction and will now pay $3.70 for a win, according to the expert handicappers at Bookmaker.com.
Bart, meanwhile, has four others between him and Winx, but Weir feels that Bart had a chance in the Caulfield Stakes, leading with 600 m and not surrendering to the mighty mare until there was just 200 m to go.
Yes. And if wishes were horses.
In this case, they are. Only a monumentally strange thing happening in the Cox Plate will see Bart ahead of Winx, even though Bart has three recent Group 1 wins, but none at Cox Plate length.


Abstract: The City of Lausanne and the Canton de Vaud asked TSE Consulting to prepare a report giving specific consideration to the business development possibilities for a proposed sports cluster development project. This report is a supplement to previous reports and other studies being commissioned on this topic. This report has been developed over five weeks during January and February 2014. It was prepared by TSE Consulting in Lausanne with input from TSE Academic Advisor, Troels Troelsen, an Associate Professor of Sports Economics at Copenhagen Business School. Information for this report was drawn from interviews, desk research and existing documents, combined with TSE Consulting's experience of working with sports cities around the world. The Olympic Capital sports cluster already exists and as such this report focuses on providing some key points which will assist in the further development and enhancement of the existing cluster. The report starts with a background and understanding of the cluster as it is today and then provides some key ideas to the further development of the sports cluster in the Olympic Capital. The report provides a definition of a cluster and outlines some of the pros and cons of an industry cluster for the organisations that are operating within them. The key ideas for ensuring that the future development of the cluster is successful are described and a starting point is provided for the next step to take for each point. Final comments are then made in relation to the proposed cluster and the case studies that have been developed in relation to the cluster are outlined in the Appendices. The idea of the cluster is a very exciting start of a new expansion of the sport sector in Lausanne / Canton de Vaud. This report aims to provide ideas and background to kick start the development with very concrete recommendations so that the implementation can start over the coming months.
Abstract: Med dette skrift har vi ønsket at tage nogle temaer fra det Øresundsregionale projekt "Kreativ Metapol" op til behandling. Det er efter vores mening vigtige temaer, som dog først og fremmest afspejler, hvad videnpartnerne - CBS/CVL, Copenhagen Business School/ Center for Virksomhedsudvikling og Ledelse; MAH, Malmö Högskola og RUC, Roskilde Universitetscenter - i projektet har fundet interessant. Temaerne spænder fra spørgsmål om metapol-ideen over hvad der karakteriserer gode steder til deltagerkultur og eksperimenterende laboratorier. Når vi ovenfor skriver "tage temaer op til behandling", skal det ikke forstås som at vi mener at temaerne efter en sådan "behandling" er belyst i dybden, men snarere at vi ønsker at reflektere over nogle tematikker og der igennem invitere til videre fordybelse hos ikke mindst de mange praktikere, som projektet har været og er i dialog med og som er de egentlige bærere af de i projektet formulerede ambitioner om netværksbygning, videnudveksling og kreativitet på tværs af den dansk - svenske grænse gennem Øresund.
Abstract: Denne rapport handler om forandringer i den kommunale styring og organisering af dagtilbudsområdet – og om forskellige aktørers arbejde med lokale forandringsprojekter forskellige steder i dagtilbudsafdelingerne. Projektarbejdet, der her berettes om, handler både om aktuelle udfordringer i aktørernes egne arbejdssituationer og praksisser og om problemstillinger, der går på tværs af de institutionelle og kommunale organiseringer og styringsrelationer indenfor dagtilbud. Disse er fx nationale standardiseringstiltag, faglige kvalitetsmålinger, samt strammere økonomistyring overfor kvalitetsudvikling og -sikring.
Abstract: Since 1996, a variety of US states have decriminalized and legalized the use of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes. Today there are only 11 states with total cannabis prohibition (see Figure 1). Each state has developed its own system and standard of legalization/decriminalizetion, and its own form of regulation and oversight of both psychoactive and non-psychoactive cannabis production, processing, sale, and distribution.


Fredericksburg, Virginia, features a 40-block Historic District with buildings dating back to the 18th Century. Learn about the area's Civil War battles at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park before taking a tour of the Mary Washington House. Find out what's happening in this exciting city below!


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IES to Ghana Government: Time to Develop a National Hydrogen Policy and Roadmap
By FuelCellsWorksApril 20, 2021 4 min read (744 words)
April 20, 2021 | 4 min read
The world is moving into a "Hydrogen economy" led by developed economies, and the pace looks quite fast. In most advanced countries that are looking for ways to recover from the economic damages wrecked by Covid-19, they are setting mid-to-long term plans with more detailed targets that include hydrogen in several of their economy rebooting policy packages.
At close of first quarter 2021, over 30 countries have released hydrogen roadmaps and more than 200 large-scale projects have been announced along the value chain. The European Union (EU) have already giving a strong indication, with the aim of developing 40-gigawatt electrolyser capacity within the regional bloc and another 40 gigawatt of annual hydrogen imports by 2030, while many states in the United States (US) have committed to bold targets for zero-emission vehicles by 2035.
In the new "Green" economy, the approach is to include the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier to store large amounts of surplus renewable energy for long periods of time― and even to export renewable energy to different geographies. The understanding is that, "without long-term storage, additional renewable capacity above a certain threshold would not be efficient to build."
Hydrogen plays a vital role as a storage medium that has both the highest capacity and the longest energy release time. Added benefits includes hydrogen being converted efficiently into electricity, and used flexibly for domestic energy supply. The overarching expectation is that hydrogen would play a key role in a future climate-neutral economy, enabling emission-free transport, heating and industrial processes, and aside inter-seasonal energy storage. And so rather than being wasted, renewables' energy surplus can be used to produce hydrogen from water through a process called electrolysis, which can then be stored, transported and processed for a growing range of applications.
It is for these reasons, that some local communities and regional governments are also introducing hydrogen policies, as triggered by the national funding promises. Others are even more eager now to seek new grounds to stimulate local gross domestic product (GDP) growth.
Hydrogen traditionally sourced from natural gas and coal would continue to play important roles in industries that contribute highly to GDP. However, the shifting dynamics in the global renewable power market is pushing the "Green" hydrogen to the forefront. Already several countries in Europe and Asia hydrogen policies have touched up the significance of "Green" hydrogen to industries such as steel, agriculture, cement, and transportation.
In Ghana, the zero-subsidy renewable energy market and over-capacity power issues could stimulate new demonstrations in that direction. Government is presented with a huge opportunity in stimulating capital spending on new infrastructure, which establishes hydrogen as one of the new energy sectors.
However, government must first show commitments that it is more serious on renewable energy development. There have been several attempts by the private sector to explore the country's untapped potential in renewable energies. Nevertheless, the Government of Ghana has not exuded the needed support for these projects, to make the country a renewable energy hub. Certainly, it would take the penetration of more renewable energy capacity to open the door for the hydrogen agenda. As a result, there must be clear evidence of the significant number of policies and government-led programs regarding renewable energy.
Looking at the immense benefits such as decarbonisation, competitiveness and economic recovery, to be derived from hydrogen, the country must formally recognize the role of hydrogen in its "national energy and climate plan". The falling cost of renewable energy coupled with EU's plan to import most of its hydrogen in the future, present a great chance for Ghana to get on the front foot in the Green energy race. After all, Ghana is noted for its rich solar and wind resources.
The time is therefore ripe for Ghana to lay down a national strategy, aimed at accelerating the development of clean hydrogen. The country must have explicit hydrogen-related objectives, choosing areas of focus, be it for transport (such fuel cell vehicles and fuel cell technology), agriculture (fertilizer production), and industry (such as cement and steel).
It would only take a strong policy signal to trigger intense investment and business activity relating to hydrogen in the country. Giving the right policies, strategies and roadmaps centered on the hydrogen, the private sector would cause a hydrogen economy to emerge, with transportation, gas storage, and refueling stations et cetera serving as cornerstone. There is also the areas of fuel cell technology development and equipment manufacturing related to green infrastructure building to explore.
Source: IES
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Two BLACK INK CREW reality stars got into a HUGE FIGHT - inside Diddy's $40M Star Island MANSION.
Diddy opened up his party to celebrity friends - to ring in the new year in style. And well, that was a mistake.
In addition to celebrities - a lot of REALITY STAR RATCHETS were at the event - and it POPPED OFF.
According to MediaTakeOut.com's snitches, Rah Ali and Sky from BLACK INK CREW got into a fight - and Rah Ali beat Sky BLOODY.
An insider explained, "They broke up sh*t all in Diddy's house, got blood on stuff. It was real messed up. In a house like [Diddy's] they probably did $100K in damage."
No word yet from Diddy about the F*CKERY that went down last night . . .