The University of Tromsø, Faculty of Science and Technology, has a position vacant as Researcher. The position is attached to Tromsø Geophysical Observatory.
Tromsø Geophysical Observatory (TGO) (http://uit.no/prosjekter/prosjekt?p_document_id=220219) is a department of the Faculty of Science and Technology and has a scientific staff of 2 scientists, and a technical staff of 3 engineers. TGO's purpose is to maintain observations of geomagnetism and the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the ionosphere. Data are delivered to various repositories worldwide but also locally archived. The quality of the measurements is paramount. TGO performs measurements in Tromsø, the field stations at Ramfjordmoen, in Adventdalen, Ny-Ålesund, and at instrument sites distributed over the Norwegian mainland, the Barents Sea and Svalbard.
TGO collaborates with several academic institutions: local, national and international, and with industry – in particular oil-related. TGO is also engaged in European Union and European Space Agency projects.
The research should be related to the overall operation philosophy of TGO, i.e. either long time-series and/or existing instrumentation. She/he is expected to be able to assume responsibility for TGO's geomagnetic and ionospheric observation programs, and take part in activities related to data quality control and archiving, and to some degree also maintenance of instruments in the field.
She/he is expected to collaborate with the private sector industry and the public sector, and be engaged in various activities leading to external funding and project involvement and development. It is desired that the successful applicant establish scientific collaboration with researchers at the Department of Physics and Technology, and at other departments within the faculty, and that she/he also engage herself/himself in supervision of master and PhD students.
Note: Deadline 13th March 2014!
Further information about the position is available by contacting Professor Chris Hall, phone +47 77 64 52 22, e-mail: chris<dot>hall<at>uit<dot>no.
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Hackenberg, Penn State Top Illinois 24-17 In OTChristian Hackenberg hit Kyle Carter with a 15-yard touchdown pass in overtime and Ryan Keiser sealed the win with an end zone interception, lifting Penn State over Illinois 24-17 on Saturday.
Penn State To Open 2014 Football Season In IrelandPenn State will open its 2014 football season against the University of Central Florida in Ireland, the first international game for either team.
Penn State Falls To Ohio State, 35-23Braxton Miller was his usual self, running for 134 yards and accounting for three touchdowns a week after getting knocked out of a game, leading No. 9 Ohio State to a 35-23 victory against Penn State on Saturday.
Penn State Sinks Navy 34-7 For O'Brien's First WinMatt McGloin threw for 231 yards and four touchdowns and Penn State overwhelmed Navy in a 34-7 win Saturday for rookie coach Bill O'Brien's first career victory.
O'Brien Looks For Answers For Penn State's Late LetdownPenn State's new head coach clearly wasn't happy, and meeting the media seemed like the last thing he wanted to do after losing his Happy Valley debut 24-14 to Ohio.
Playing With Heavy Hearts, Penn State Falls To Indiana, 73-54Just hours after the Nittany Lions former football coach died Sunday, Patrick Chambers pleaded with his team to play basketball Paterno-style. They did, but couldn't get a win.
Football: Penn State Opens Big Ten Play on Saturday at IndianaPenn State is coming off a 34-6 win over an overmatched Eastern Michigan squad last weekend.
Penn State Excited About Prospect of Big 10 Ice HockeyPenn State University will open play in Division I ice hockey in 2012 as they transition their program up from club status.

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I'm watching two new shows this season. My first impressions can be reviewed here (Himouto! Umaru-chan R) and here (Love is Like a Cocktail). They are two different series with very different characters, but they do have a common thread. Let's discuss a little further.
Himouto! Umaru-chan R is a series about a young girl named Umaru who presents herself to the world as this perfect, straight-A student who does well at all that she does. Other students see her as beautiful, smart, and incredibly popular. Yet when she gets home? She throws aside the facade and the real her comes forward. She changes so much that the entire animation style of her changes into a new version. She's sloppy and obsessed with herself, focusing solely on things like video games/anime/junk food. The two different versions of herself are rarely married in the series and she often is focusing on one or the other.
In Love is Like a Cocktail (Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara), our main character (Chisato) is a wildly respected businesswoman. She is viewed with the utmost respect in the office and always appears to be prim and proper. When she's home? A relaxed version of herself comes forward and starts drinking with her husband. She is relaxed and allows herself to be silly. The straight-laced businesswoman is no more and instead we see this lovable goofball who is super affectionate to her husband. She vocally comments about the fact that she does not want to have drinks with coworkers because she is afraid of this version of herself coming forward.
Umaru, similarly, tries hard to hide this version of herself from others. She wears a mask in public when she's at arcades calling herself U.M.R. Her closest friends do not even truly know her secret side.
In each case, there is a public version of the character and a private version. There is a version of their personality only reserved for those who they know the best, but hide it from the rest of the world. Many of us do this. We present a version of ourselves we want the world to see. We hide our insecurities. We publicly ignore the things we enjoy. We hide our personal problems. Nowhere is that more prevalent than on social media.
Social media has become the perfect place for people who want to present a "perfect" version of themselves. There are no problems, only the carefully curated version of themselves is presented. The blemishes are hidden. Pictures are taken from perfect angles. Issues with their families are kept away from view. Personal failings are ignored. Whether we realize it or not – we do carefully curate what we show the world. The problem is, nothing can be concealed forever. In the Gospel of Luke 12:2-3, Jesus says exactly this! Anything you try to hide will one day be revealed. The lies you are telling will eventually be exposed. Nothing done in secret will remain secret forever.
So far, our two leads have been able to mostly conceal their "secret selves." However, this will not last forever. Eventually, someone will discover the messy, otaku nature of Umaru's home self. Either her friends or enemies will discover this truth! Eventually Chisato will have a drink in front of her coworkers and her silly self will be revealed. The facade will fall aside. The question then becomes – was it worth hiding yourself from the world for so long?
In the case of Umaru, her home self is a total mess. While there are elements of it which are fine (who cares what media she enjoys), but she's a slob, she's obsessive, and she can be super rude. She may not want the world knowing about her secret self, but there are ways of fixing that – such as not being so sloppy and not being so rude! Chisato's home self isn't so much a mess, just constantly blushing, silly, and very affectionate toward her husband. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, per say, but she feels vulnerable then and doesn't like the world seeing her vulnerable. Honestly, we all don't like that vulnerability.
Feeling exposed can be tough. Letting yourself go and relax can be hard in front of people you do not know. Does that mean we need to do it in front of everyone? Not necessarily. Does it mean, though, that we need to present a false version of ourselves in the world instead? Of course not. Being yourself in front of people does not mean you need to present everything about yourself at all times. There are personal aspects of each of us we wish to only keep in front of our closest friends or family. However, pretending to be something else, presenting a false facade – that is unnecessary. Be comfortable, but also remember to be you.
Himouto! Umaru-chan R is streaming on Amazon's Anime Strike.
Important advice. And something so elementary to building genuine relationships with others.
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EACH NEW MISSIONARY STANDS ON THE CORNERSTONE AND SAYS THEIR NAME AND WHERE THEY ARE FROM.
The new missionaries and their trainers are known for the first time!
THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS OF THESE FAITHFUL NEW MISSIONARIES. tHEY ARE IN GREAT HANDS!


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A simple program for formatting a home inventory for insurance purposes

## Usage
Create a home inventory in a spreadsheet and export it as a CSV with headers. Some typical columns might be "Item", "Serial Number", "Date Purchased", and "Price".

```
bin/inventory data.csv
```

This will produce HTML output using the default theme.

## Special Columns
- `Description` is used as the header for each item

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A float is a mathematical rational (but not a Common Lisp rational) of the form s*f*b^e-p, where s is +1 or -1, the sign; b is an integer greater than 1, the base or radix of the representation; p is a positive integer, the precision (in base-b digits) of the float; f is a positive integer between b^p-1 and b^p-1 (inclusive), the significand; and e is an integer, the exponent. The value of p and the range of e depends on the implementation and on the type of float within that implementation. In addition, there is a floating-point zero; depending on the implementation, there can also be a ``minus zero''. If there is no minus zero, then 0.0 and -0.0 are both interpreted as simply a floating-point zero. (= 0.0 -0.0) is always true. If there is a minus zero, (eql -0.0 0.0) is false, otherwise it is true.
lower-limit, upper-limit---interval designators for type float. The defaults for each of lower-limit and upper-limit is the symbol *.


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KingAlarm to transition 3,000 contract workers to staff employees
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Security company KingAlarm will transition its over 3,000 private contract officers to staff employees by April 1.
KingAlarm Managing Director, John Azar said it is a move that the company has been working on since November.
"It's something we have wanted to do for a long time, to provide much deserved benefits to security officers. But the timing previously to this may have been too risky for us as a company if we were to have done so, along with the associated cost that the consumers would have to face. But because we feel that others are now going to have to follow suit, we felt that the timing was right to do this," Azar said.
Azar's revelation follows the announcement that security personnel stationed at Government organisations, who are classified as private contractors, will be upgraded to staff employees.
He said that following a memo that was shared to staff on Thursday, advising them of the change, the security officers are pleased with the benefits signing a staff contract would bring, including sick, vacation and maternity leave, as well as overtime where applicable.
"They are very happy because the end result will be certain benefits that were not previously available to them. It also takes a level of uncertainty out of the equation," Azar said.
Government is moving to amend over 500 contracts to upgrade the status of guards, hired through security guard firms, to provide services at ministries, departments and agencies, to employees.
This was in light of last September's Supreme Court ruling establishing security guards as employees and not private contractors.
Azar said he is not necessarily anticipating a loss in business, even though the cost for the service will be borne by his clients. But, he said he is "very mindful and very much aware of the fact that many consumers of security guard services in particular, are already finding the cost prohibitive so there is certainly a concern about the affordability of the service."
He added: "We will negotiate with our clients on a case by case basis, but again, the important fact here is this increase will not represent an increase in our profit margins, but simply an increase as a result of the transition and the additional cost that we will be faced with. On that note, a lot of persons may not realise or appreciate how razor-thin the profit margins in the industry are, in some cases as low as three or four per cent. So, genuinely there is no room for companies like ourselves to absorb such an increase, and unfortunately, it will have to be passed on to the consumers."
He further stated that he has given his clients advance notice about the increased costs, as they have been communicating since October.
"I would certainly hope that that level of advance and open and honest communication with our clients would at least minimise the risk and minimise the dislocation because we've kept them in the loop and we've attempted as best as possible to give them as much time as possible to adequately adjust their budgets," Azar said.
"The reality of it is when you look at the cost of sick leave, vacation leave, maternity leave, employer's portion of statutory deductions, overtime; the range increase you're looking at is high 30 per cent into 40 per cent," he said.
King Alarm
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So at school Jereme got his first Ouch report. I went to pick him up from school and noticed the teacher had a piece of paper in her hand for me. As I approached Jereme I noticed a scratch on his face... and a dried up bloody lip. She instantly explained that there had been an accident, and she wasn't exactly sure what had happened. Details were few, but involved him, a filing cabinet, and yes SPIDER MAN AND VENOM. Apparently Jereme was the one who was taking care of the dogs and venom came and attacked, knocking him into the filing cabinet. Another violent act committed by the very disturbed venom that seems to control all little boys ages 2-7. How could I help but laugh?!
hopefully he is feeling better. What a bad day!


Address: Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu.
The Inkaterra Asociacion was founded to conserve the environment, ecosystems, cultural, archaeological and natural resources and to maintain an ecological balance. It also works to support Peru's cultural identity and sustainable development. Part of Inkaterra profits are invested in the association activities, such as: environmental education to local kids in Machu Picchu pueblo, research programs and management of an orchid garden in the hotel with over 300 species, as well as a rescue and preservation project of the Spectacled Bear, a highly threatened species.
The Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel offers also the "Tea Excursion" at the Tea House; which allows guests to learn about tea-crafting techniques and participate in its preparation process.
Set amid waterfalls and gardens at the foot of Machu Picchu, whitewashed casitas with eucalyptus beams are strewn along stone paths.
There are 372 varieties of orchids and 18 species of hummingbirds on the grounds, this accommodation includes several excursion possibilities such as bird-watching and orchid tours, as well as a twilight nature walk.
Each room features a terrace and plunge pool overlooks a lush garden with private entrance. Travelers register in the privacy of the Villa, and our extended VIP treatment includes round-the-clock butler service. Also each villa has an open fireplace, plus sitting and dining areas, the expansive marble bathrooms offer an indoor shower and tub.
The acclimatized room includes complimentary satellite internet access, plasma screen satellite TV with DVD player, iPod speakers, minibar, safety box, and cordless telephone.
Organic center, with adventure and private tours.
"Andino" Sauna with eucalyptus, bamboo and candles.


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One participant died of CMV hepatitis.
One patient diagnosed with swine flu, requiring transient face mask oxygen and recovered.
One patient 4 years after transplant relapsed and was started on actemra. After 2 years of actemra ( a TNF inhibitor) patient developed pseudomonas pneumonia.


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The DEW Line
"Distant Early Warning" for the global defense industry ... or how I learned to stop worrying and love the POM
It's the Gas, Stupid
Energy Man
Who says the top minds of the Department of Defense aren't focused on energy policy?
I give you James L. Jones, retired US Marine Corps general (as in, four stars), former head of US European Command and Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe, ex-commandant of the Marine Corps and (trivia alert) veteran of the siege at Khe Sanh.
Mr. Jones is now the president and chief executive officer of the Insitute for Energy, of the US Chamber of Commerce. His new job description reads:
"... to increase the variety of the U.S. energy supply and associated infrastructures, to advance international cooperation on energy issues, to protect national energy security, to promote better understanding of changes to the global climate and its effects on the environment, and to expand economic opportunities wherever possible."
Count on Mr. Jones to look into the Fischer-Tropsch production system, which can turn any carbon-based form of energy into synthetic oil. The most attractive energy form in the US is coal shale, which is attractive becasue it is abundant and there's a whole bunch of states that have got nothing else to do with it. The Department of Defense is signed on to generate at least 200 million gallons of Fischer-Tropsch fuel to demonstrate its viability in aircraft engines, including the B-52 and all 707-based aircraft in the air force fleet (KC-135, RC-135, E-3, E-8C, etc).
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Oil-Free By 2050
The US military needs oil -- about 300,000 barrels a day, in fact -- to fight.
Lots of oil comes from the same places where the military actually is fighting today, or may be fighting sometime in the not so distant future (Iran, are you listening?)
Oh, the irony!
It should come as no surprise then that the Department of Defense is giving very serious thought to oil independence. The notion is that the nation -- and particularly the military -- must have assured access to energy, and oil isn't such a safe bet any more.
Champions of this concept are known to include John Young, DOD's director for defense research and enginneering; Ron Sega, under secretary of the air force and -- on Capitol Hill -- New York Republican Representative Steve Israel and Maryland Republican Representative Roscoe Bartlett.
There's been some press about a highly-touted air force experiment using a sythentic base fuel (derived from natural gas pumped in from Oklahoma) to power one of the B-52's eight engines.
But that's just kid-stuff, really.
It's very clear that a much broader vision exists within DOD to really go ... all .. the ... way, and fast.
The vision can be found in this master's thesis by air force Lt Col Michael J. Hornitschek, who originally published the document for the Air University's Center for Strategy and Technology. It has since been republished in the air force Journal of Logistics. It's a thesis, but it often reads like a very good Popular Science article.
Here's a quick excerpt that explains the vision:
"A directed-energy based, highly-automated force, capable of generating a majority of its own power in a distributed fashion from local and environmental sources, could theoretically provide that future. The potential efficiency, environmental ubiquity, universality and convertibility from one form to another of this configuration, make strong arguments that the force of 2050 can be powered almost exclusively by electricity and hydrogen.
Setting aside conventional paradigms allows one to imagine a conceptual 2050 force. All navy ships might employ nuclear-powered direct-electric drives, lightweight nanoengineered hulls, and directed energy armament. All army and marine corps future combat system land vehicles (many of which are unmanned) are designed for modular upgrades with plug-in electric hybrid or fuel-cell power, lightweight carbon nanotube-based armor and directed energy weaponry. Today's vulnerable tanker fuel trucks are replaced with smaller hybrid or fuel-cell powered trucks carrying stable, solid hydrate-based hydrogen batteries or combat safety-engineered liquid hydrogen containers. Individual soldiers are outfitted with pocket hydrogen fuel cells to power 10-15 onboard electric systems. Virtually all combat fighter aircraft are small, unmanned or single-seat, and powered by liquid or even nano-engineered solid hydrogen-based fuels. Ultra-efficient aircraft designs eliminate the need for tanker aircraft. All imagery (sic), surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms are either space-based or unmanned vehicles, orbiting for weeks at a time exclusively on solar-generated power while peering through weather from above."
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It's the Gas Stupid (Part 2)
After DefenseTech.org picked up my post about Active Combustion Controls for aircraft engines, a reader named Neil asked this question:
I wonder, why has it taken this long to be able to try enabling this advance? I would think, real fuel injection for jets and not just the same afterburner stuff we've had for decades, would be already in the bag.
Good question!
First, inventing an afterburner is a cinch compared to a fuel injector, especially one with "active" controls that precisely sense the measure of fuel needed at any given moment.
But the biggest reason for the delay is because the military customer has never asked for it -- until now, that is.
Engine companies still like to make money, and that means they do what the customer tells them to do. Until very recently, that meant finding ever-increasing ways to make military jet engines more powerful. The embodiment of that trend is the Pratt & Whitney F135, the 40,000lb-thrust monster powering the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Efficiency hasn't been completely ignored in the process, but nor has it been embraced.
Back in the late-1980s, the air force started up a program called Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET), with a major goal to improve fuel efficiency by a wide margin. Many study and design contracts followed, but when the JSF program decided to go primarily with the F135, which is just an improved version of the F-22's F119, the IHPTET community was forced to wait a few more years.
Then comes along the next-generation long range strike concept, and, voila, the military suddenly needs both a super-powerful and a super-efficient kind of engine. Although the IHPTET program no longer exists, it has provided the baseline for continued research on improving engine efficiency. IHPTET's successor is another program with an equally awkward name: Versatile Affordable Advanced Turbine Engines (VAATE). Under this new funding account, a new program exists called Project Advent (an acronym for Advanced Versatile Engine Technology), and this is the likely demonstration vehicle for the active combustion control concept.
Hope that answers your question, Neil.
The US Air Force has just issued a rather innocuous-looking notice for a new technology called "active combustion control". But this is quite a momentous development, and here's why.
Today, the air force has two kinds of warplanes that can survive in modern and future combat, in which fighters and bombers have to compete with integrated air defenses as well as increasingly sophisticated enemy fighters.
One kind is the Northrop Grumman B-2A bomber. It's relatively slow, but super-stealthy. It can fly for a long time and drop a lot of weapons.
The other kind is like the Lockheed Martin F-22A. It's extremely fast and also super-stealthy. But it doesn't fly for very long without refuelling and can carry only a couple of strike weapons (okay, eight if you're talking about the Small Diameter Bomb).
The missing link is a single aircraft as nimble as the F-22, as long-range as the B-2 and as at least as stealthy as both. In short, it's the dream warplane for every gadget-hearting air force general.
And it is the basic concept for what the air force now calls the Next Generation Long Range Strike aircraft. It's supposed to be ready to enter service by 2018 to 2020.
The trick to meeting this schedule is for some company to come up with the next breakthrough in aircraft engine technology. The breakthrough is called active combustion control, which is just a fancy name for integrating a fuel injector into an aircraft's propulsion system.
Aircraft engines using active combustion controls should be able to fly longer distances at a lower rate of fuel consumption.
With today's engine technology, the flow of gas into the combustion chamber is fairly unrestricted, which is not very efficient. Many years ago, the automotive industry fixed this problem with fuel injectors, and now the aerospace industry wants to make a similar leap -- although at a far greater level of sophistication.
It's a new spin on old concept. In the past, aircraft designers used variable-geometry wings (think: F-111, F-14 and B-1) to be more efficient in high-speed and cruise-speed. With active combustion controls, the goal is to reconfigure the engine instead of the airframe to be optimal in both states.
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What loan term should be reported on the HMDA LAR for a loan that was declined? In this case, the customer had applied for a loan with a 120-month maturity, but the credit department made its decision based on its counter-offer of a loan with a 240-month maturity.
One of the Bank's customers is an incorporated religious organization which is controlled by a board of three trustees. Who would be the beneficial owner of such an organization?
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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	_ "net/http/pprof"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"runtime"
)

func init() {
	os.Chdir(filepath.Dir(os.Args[0]))
	os.Mkdir("logs", 0755)
	runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
}

func main() {
	var err error
	if err = InitGlobalConfig(); err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	if err = InitLog(); err != nil {
		fmt.Println("failed to init log.")
		return
	}
	go func() {
		fmt.Printf("start metric interface %s\n", GlobalConfig.MetricBind)
		fmt.Printf("%s\n", http.ListenAndServe(GlobalConfig.MetricBind, nil))
	}()
	if err = InitRepeater(); err != nil {
		lg.Error("init repeater error, %s", err)
		return
	}
	go repeater.Forward()
	select {}
}


Don't miss this new extended peek of the AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON trailer featuring even more Action!
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Samsung has released new extended trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, which features more action and differs from the original as it reveals few new footage.
May 2015 will be exciting because The Avengers: Age of Ultron will debut in theaters on May 1, 2015.
Watch exclusive extended peek of the new Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" trailer here.


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Q: Effective Use of Java Reflection - is this a hack, or is this standard practice? Hey, long time listener first time caller, and I'm asking a question related to Java reflection, and how easy it lends itself to apparently ugly coding.  The following method attempts to take two similar objects (one object having all of the fields of the other object, and then some) and compare the two of them for equality.  It will (allegedly) return true if the getters that the objects share are equal, and will return false if they are not equal.
public boolean validateArchive( Object record, Object arcRecord ) throws IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException
{
    log.debug( record.getClass().toString() );

    Object methodValue;
    Object arcMethodValue;

    for ( Method method : record.getClass().getMethods() )
    {
        if ( method.getTypeParameters().length == 0 && method.getName().startsWith( "get" ) && !method.getName().startsWith( "getClass" ) )
        {
            methodValue = method.invoke( record );
            arcMethodValue = arcRecord.getClass().getMethod( method.getName() ).invoke( arcRecord );

            log.debug( "Method name: " + method.getName() );
            log.debug( "Archive value: " + arcMethodValue );
            log.debug( "Object value: " + methodValue );

            if ( arcMethodValue != null && methodValue != null && !arcMethodValue.equals( methodValue ) )
            {
                return false;
            }
            else
            {
                if ( arcMethodValue == null && methodValue != null || methodValue == null && arcMethodValue != null )
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return true;
}

This method does what I expect it to do in the unit tests, but it looks ugly, and feels wrong (I'm particularly not a fan of the nested 'if').  I was just hoping for some pointers on how to do this more effectively/efficiently.  If I've broken some kind of posting rule, feel free to correct me, I am eager to learn, etc.

A: For this particular task I would recommend implementing the equals method in the classes that will be compared, unless you don't have that option (for example, if you don't have the source code for the original class). IDE's like IntelliJ provide support for the "equals" and "hashcode" methods creation (in IntelliJ, you provide the fields that will be compared and which fields can be null or not). For this particular case, I would say go with these tools.
There is one case where I think that an implementation using Reflection would be useful - in a unit test, if you want to throw an assertion error if the equality is no true, you can actually throw an assertion for the exact field that is failing, and not just a generic "object is not the same" assertion error - even in this case, I would perform an equals after my original validation just to be sure that the objects are the same, or at least that the equals method is implemented and working properly.
PS: If you want to get rid of all this coding check the Beans Common library;
PS 2: Reflection is not bad, and it is used everywhere where you don't have an explicit code call - Spring configuration files, for example. Just don't abuse it.

A: As you are looking only for "properties" you could use commons beanutils and more precisely this class...
(I guess you cannot implement .equals because your objects don't share the same type...)

A: I believe you're testing for unnecessary cases in your if statements, and can reduce them to this:
if ( arcMethodValue == null ) {
    if ( methodValue != null) {
        return false;
    }
} else if ( !arcMethodValue.equals( methodValue ) ) {
    return false;
}

Also, you're calling method.getName() 4 times, you could create a variable and then use it.

A: Your return code is unnecessarily complicated. The standard idiom for comparison of reference types is this:
  (field1 == null) ? (field2 == null) : field1.equals(field2);

This is much clearer and is pretty standard (Effective Java 2nd Edition, page 43).

Update:
There was a confusion since earlier I had written return [idiom]. Yes, in this case a return would not be what the original poster want. He would want if ![idiom] return false; instead. My point is that the [idiom] works, and it's much better.

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Have the Reptilians been chased out of our Solar System?
By Waterput,
October 30, 2021 in UFOs & Aliens
Waterput
According to various sources it becomes more plausible that perhaps the Galactic Federation of Worlds has been able - together with an Earth Alliance - to rid the Earth and our complete solar system from the nefarious Reptilians and Grays (Ciakkahr and Nebu). What do you guys think of that? It would now be up to humanity to finally take back their own sovereignty and clear the mess that was left behind because of the Deep State that would have been controlled by these extraterrestrial bad forces.
Take a look at: https://exopolitics.org/secret-underground-war-reaches-its-final-countdown/ and https://galacticanthropology.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/it-is-time-to-soar-as-humanity-and-add-the-last-stone-to-the-monument-it-is-now-up-to-us-now/
8 minutes ago, Waterput said:
According to various sources it becomes more plausible that perhaps the Galactic Federation of Worlds has been able - together with an Earth Alliance - to rid the Earth and our complete solar system from the nefarious Reptilians and Grays (Ciakkahr and Nebu). What do you guys think of that?
How reliable are these 'various sources' though? Sorry, but it reads like science fiction fantasy to me.
The probability that any of this corresponds to reality is zero.
25 minutes ago, Waterput said:
If I were a reptilian, I'd be chilling out on Neptune.
Hi there, I posted this text for I thought that the existence of Reptilians behind the scenes of the Cabal or the Cult, was part of the paradigm that Icke presents. I have only read parts of Icke's 'The Answer' and I'm not sure what he knows about their origin and if he mentions any other extraterrestrial forces that work for the good. I wasn't expecting anyone to readily accept this idea of a big cleansing that would have taken place on the Moon, Mars, various moons from Mars and Ceres, together with the cleansing of all Deep Underground Military Bases and the hiding places in Antarctica.
1 hour ago, Grumpy Owl said:
Perhaps we are at the point that certain science fiction is about to come true. It has happened with many other science fiction concepts in the past. Perhaps this article makes the idea a bit more plausible? Haim Eshed, a former Israli space security chief mentions this 'Galactic Federation' - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-news/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-extraterrestrials-exist-trump-knows-n1250333
I am a so-called Experiencer who has had and still has a very specific learning experience. And no David has other aspects to learn and understand. And it would be very unsettling for him to see it directly. The phenomenon overwhelms Humans on every perceptible scale. It is beyond imagination and since it has never chosen the direct way to explain it to humans. Even I do not know if humans exist who can fully comprehend it. All I can suggest is that it surpasses the limits of speculation based on current scientific understanding. Anyone who tries to grasp it from a human point of view will see it as a UFO/angel phenomenon, but the truth starts when you lose all illusions about it. And it knows when you are ready to begin. Words cannot describe how difficult it is.
9 hours ago, Origin said:
Thanks Origin, I like this. What if the time has come to make more people aware of this phenomenon? How to reach people who are open to this possibility? If you've got any ideas, let me know. I'm new to this forum, so I don't know if you have talked about your own specific experiences here somewhere. I'm curious to learn more about your Experiencer experiences. I guess it's time for a change :)
No one has the task of making people more aware of this. There is no message to convey because Humans cannot understand it. The reason why. This also applies to almost all Experiencer who do not understand what they see. A limitless sophisticated intelligence is at work here. And It does not act and behave according to linear patterns. Three dimensional structure and the illusion of time only apply to humans and their notions. The biggest illusion is that humans believe they are interacting with aliens and UFOs. Or beings based on belief systems such as religions. The worst fact is that everything is a lie. Nothing crashed in 1947. No one was physically abducted. They simply believe it. They are reflections of assumptions. All the countless books about the phenomenon are pointless. Those who have to record it are not the ones who asked the questions...And what the right context is. How it works you would classify as impossible. It ensures that certain humans have it to study more intensively. Just assume that there is a principle of non-interference in processes and knowledge transfer. We don't decide anything on our own, even when something is discovered. That which is currently understood as reality is not yet the answer to what really exists. As a non-experiencer, you couldn't bear the true appearance and reflect it properly in yourself. I can't talk about the details that I can understand. I can only indicate that we are very much mistaken and that almost nothing is in the right context. It is as if you are standing in an infinitely gigantic highly complex actual state and what has infinite non-linear sequences and patterns. And I'm implying that we can't really understand and translate spatial expansion yet. The only thing you can rely on are the recorded images of the phenomenon. Descriptions of what it should be are insignificant. It is beyond imagination and human assumptions at present will not justify it. There is only one phenomenon
Duewy
According to the spear being alliance this is fake news...
https://youtu.be/k2d7piV5_eU
Humans can imagine as many gods or alien as they want - the final frontier of reality will be white noise. And the experience of not knowing or having learned anything. It does not even bother to show presence. Countless dreams will never become reality.
illuminated1981
Our planet is not cleansed of this evil. The reptilians as you call them are nothing but the serpents of sumerian/babylonian/christian/hindu beliefs. The "Greys" as you call them are actually the souls of the pure blood offspring of the serpents/reptilians. They're what the book/bible call the nephilim. They went to war with each other, killed each other off, and the serpents were trapped in the valleys of the earth for 70 generations. The souls of the nephilim, 1/10 became demons on the surface, and 9/10s became demons below the surface. That's why "The Greys" are the bitches of the reptilians. They're the souls of the pure blood nephilim(the children of the serpents). And trust me, they're not gone. They likewise were trapped for 70 generations. That's why 6000 years of life after the flood produced little technological progress, while technology literally exploded in the last 100 years or so. The "Greys"/demons were let loose not long ago, and now the "deep state" as you call it has "organized" around these beings. The pedophile guild that uses kids as currency to buy their way into the "deep state" to get access to "Grey" technology, have a stranglehold on this government. These demons and their serpent parents haven't got the kick in the ass. That's just what these people want you to believe to take your mind off the fact that the serpent seed master plan is alive and cranking. That plan is to use their new biological weapon(covid) to kill off everyone who isn't serpent seed, and to implement their transhumanist agenda, for post-human civilization by forcing humans to take a vaccine that rewrites their DNA. The CDC makes it a point to say, "Oh we're not really re-writing your DNA, that's crazy talk." But they're likely utilizing CRISPR/CAS 9 to re-write our DNA in stages with each booster. But I'm sure that they want to make us all better humans with their gene editing technology. I mean, you can always trust the elite. The serpents and the demons are by far not booted out of here. They're still here making moves.
On 10/31/2021 at 4:33 AM, Waterput said:
It's all a deception, my friend.
I watch all those channels on YouTube.
In fact, I watched them all. All the psychics, medium, intuitive telepath... people that talk to the dead
They are all being deceived. And don't even know it.
It is the new religion, "The law of one"
Don't fall for it.


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The President Sang Amazing Grace (Hardcover)
By Zoe Mulford, Jeff Scher (Illustrator)
Sigh ...
Recommended by Mary
Lyrical account of the day President Obama sang with a grieving nation following the 2015 shooting in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina
When nine people were killed in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, the nation grieved as one, and when President Barack Obama sang "Amazing Grace" during his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney, it was acknowledged as one of the most powerful moments of his presidency. Singer/songwriter Zoe Mulford was so moved that she wrote the song "The President Sang Amazing Grace," which was then illustrated by filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher for a video that has been viewed countless times. This book presents the lyrics to the song, Scher's paintings, excerpts from Obama's eulogy, biographies of those who were killed, historical context, and sheet music.
Zoe Mulford is a singer/songwriter. She is based in Philadelphia and Manchester, UK. Jeff Scher is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, animator, and painter whose work is in the collections of major museums. He resides in New York City.
Juvenile Nonfiction / Music / Songbooks
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Modern
Publisher: Cameron Kids
"Following the 2015 shooting that killed nine African-American people at a Charleston, S.C. prayer service, President Obama read a eulogy before leading those gathered in song. When Mulford, a singer-songwriter, heard the president sing "Amazing Grace," she wrote a song about the shooting and aftermath that was recorded by folk artist Joan Baez and animated by Jeff Scher. Adapted into a picture book, Mulford's sensitive lyrics ("But no words could say/ what must be said/ for all the living/ and the dead") accompany Scher's wash renderings. . . . The title may well serve as a conversation starter . . . in discussions with children about tragic events. Back matter includes factual information about the massacre and biographies of the Emanuel Nine."
— Publishers Weekly
"The President Sang Amazing Grace is one of my Preview selections for Fall 19. The first time I read it I don't think I took a breath. The second time, I burst into tears. I then decided it had to be shared with our Hicklebee's community."
— Valerie Lewis, Owner, Hicklebee's


Two members of the Acel Moore High School Journalism Workshop committee were in Washington in early August to receive a national award honoring the program for its efforts in promoting diversity in journalism education.
Angie Baylock and program director Oscar Miller accepted the 2018 Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award on behalf of staff volunteers and Philadelphia Media Network.
From left, George L. Daniels, journalism professor at the University of Alabama, Angie Baylock, workshop committee member, and program director Oscar Miller at the awards luncheon.
The award was presented during the Trailblazers of Diversity luncheon at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications annual conference.
Workshop program director Oscar Miller.
Throughout his 42-year career at the Inquirer, Moore worked tirelessly with teachers and educators in the Philadelphia School District to promote journalism careers of students of color. In 1984, he founded a high school urban journalism workshop that bears his name.
Linda Shockley, managing editor of the Dow Jones News Fund, and Oscar Miller at an AEJMC seminar in Washington D.C.


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Don't use racist word looting, experts in US media warn
The latest string of smash-and-grab attacks on high-end stores in California should not be called looting as that would be racist, two criminal justice experts told the media and police.
The lecture on linguistics came after the San Francisco Bay area police departments had described a series of brazen thefts at luxury retail outlets over the weekend as looting. Lorenzo Boyd, a professor of criminal justice and community policing at the University of New Haven, told ABC7 news channel on Tuesday that the term has strong racial connotations and is typically used when "people of color or urban dwellers are doing something." Boyd, a former deputy sheriff in Boston, went on to claim that when people of different ethnicity "do the exact same thing," such criminal acts are rarely called looting.
Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, concurred, saying that it "seems like it's an organized smash-and-grab robbery. This doesn't seem like looting."
Both experts concluded that the media ought to be careful in their choice of words, as "people draw their own conclusions, if the terminologies that you use are tethered to people's understanding of how they have been used in the past," Reynolds opined. The two experts surmised that some outlets had chosen the word 'looting' intentionally, in a bid to link the crime spree to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.
Boyd and Reynolds' advice caught flak online, with many conservatives on social media saying that the experts' comments were nothing but political correctness gone mad or a diversionary tactic intended to shift the focus away from the actual crime problem.
Over the weekend, Southern California saw multiple 'smash-and-grab' attacks on luxury stores as well as at least one pharmacy, where groups totaling as many as 50 criminals, brazenly snatched garments, jewelry and other goods, and then fled the scene in cars. It even came to physical violence when dozens stormed a Nordstrom store on Saturday night, kicking and punching two employees and pepper-spraying another one.
Some have suggested the criminals are knowingly taking advantage of California's law that took effect in 2014 and which stipulates that an individual caught shoplifting goods that are worth less than $950 in total will get away with a misdemeanor charge. Critics say this lenient approach only serves to bolster thieves.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed on Monday to come down hard on the robbers, adding that he wants "people prosecuted and we want people to feel safe." His message was echoed by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin who said he would press felony charges against nine criminals arrested recently.
Incidentally, similar 'smash-and-grab' thefts have also been reported up north, in Chicago.


Most people have heard the phrase "iron sharpens iron" at some point.
It's from Proverbs 27:17 and in full it says "as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another".
For many people in Christian circles and otherwise, this is a nicety that they use to encourage meeting together regularly.
For others, the phrase might encourage you to ensure that the people around you are constantly challenging you, rather than dragging you down.
Unfortunately for many, very little sharpening takes place despite their hopes.
But then, a lot of people have never tried to sharpen something made of iron before – and so they don't have a full appreciation for what the phrase is really getting at. They might not be prepared to either apply the process or have it applied to them.
Sharpness is simply the meeting of two geometric planes at an angle – the closer the planes get to each other, the sharper the object.
When something is made of metal, the only way you can make it sharp is to progressively take pieces of metal off the object from each of the two planes, until they meet as closely together as you can make them.
For something as hard as iron, the process of gradually removing metal from it is not always pleasant. In fact, it is usually accompanied by sparks, heat, or a bit of both.
If you're not prepared to give the blade the necessary treatment – it simply won't get sharp.
For a particularly dull blade, the process of sharpening at first is quite brutal (at least – so far as the blade is concerned).
You have to get the blade in a position where it can actually be honed, and that necessarily involves removing more metal.
You might have to remove rust or reshape the bevel of the blade.
Perhaps previous mistreatment has left the blade with damage and nicks that need to be taken out before it can function well.
It's only after the initial hard work that you can start to even begin the process of sharpening properly. Over time, the sharpening process becomes finer. You've gone from roughing out the shape and angles to really getting the blade sharp.
This results in a blade with a high polish.
But if you polish the blade before you have prepared it, it will look pretty but be useless for its job.
A blade that has been through the entire process cuts better, works better, and serves its purpose better.
You can't sharpen iron with a marshmallow. It's too soft. But not all blades need the same treatment.
A chisel blade made of D2 steel is hard to sharpen. It requires particular stones. A2 steel is different.
The Japanese laminate their blades, so that there is a "soft" metal to ease the sharpening process, while the cutting edge is made of a very hard, but highly brittle, type of metal.
Each different type of tool requires a different technique as well.
So before you start thinking that all tools can be sharpened the same way, just remember that sharpening the wrong way, with the wrong things, can blunt the tool even worse than it started.
The woodworker in me would be delighted if my blades would stay sharp forever. But they don't.
The blades in our clever metaphor here are exactly the same.
But the more regularly they are honed and kept in prime condition, the less often they require a complete resharpen.
We take off tiny, invisible pieces of metal from the blade each honing – to ensure that it's as close to perfect as we can get it with our human efforts.
It would be easy to try and keep our blades sharp by sticking them in a drawer. But what's the point of a sharp tool that doesn't get used?
If you want to sharpen and be sharpened – then be prepared for sparks and heat, pain and confrontation, and a bunch of hard work.
But provided the process is in the hands of a master craftsman, the result will be a fine blade.


The Holistic Health Care & Research Organization (HHCRO) is established by Prof. Dr. Sharique Zafar, founder and President of organization, who belongs to a well known and respected family of Peerzadas of Ambehta in Saharanpur district of northern India. This family descends from Hazrat Shah Abul Ma'ali (1552–1615), a great spiritual Sufi saint of that time.
President's ancestors have always been very generous for spiritual, social and educational upliftment of the society. Shah Moulvi Mohammad Arif (from 8th descendent family of Hazrat Shah Abul Ma'ali) was a spiritual person and great philanthropist of his region. He had good relations with Sir Syed, and he donated and collected large funds for the establishment of Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, that is now Aligarh Muslim University, as one of the biggest residential institution in India. Shah Arif's son was Shah Khaleel Ahmed who worked as sub overseer in different regions of India during early 19th century. He was a great adventurist, wildlife and nature lover person.
Shah Khaleel had acquired good traditional knowledge of herbs and also processing of formulations, and he used to treat many patients in his own traditional way. This knowledge was transferred to his grandson, Shah Muzaffar Islam (Dr. Sharique's father), as he accompanied him on jungle visits and used to see many medicinal herbs and plants on the way. Shah Muzaffar Islam is a Unani physician having extraordinary skill of Kushta making and classical Unani pharmaceutical techniques.
1.	General motto is the prevention of diseases and maintenance of health in India and abroad.
2.	Propagation and development of holistic traditional /alternative systems of medicine in India and abroad through media and by conducting National and International Seminars / Symposia / conferences and Workshops etc.
3.	To organize health awareness programmes for common people and to publish and distribute literature for the same.
4.	To improve social health status through counseling programmes in India and abroad.
5.	To improve general health status and to control population by the methodology of alternative healing systems like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine and allied disciplines.
6.	To conduct mother and child care programmes and research in this field.
7.	To improve medical care facilities among rural and urban slum population.
8.	To organize programmes and schemes for physical and psychological rehabilitation.
9.	To extend help to the handicapped, blind, deaf and dumb.
10.	To organize blood donations camps.
11.	To promote the use of natural things in daily life- style routine.
12.	To improve nutritional status among the poor.
13.	To organize exhibitions related to health and beauty problems and their natural holistic remedies.
14.	To undertake literary, experimental or clinical research projects under Govt. of India and also in collaboration with foreign organizations to develop the pharmacotherapy and management of major health hazards and complicated ailments like AIDS, Hepatitis, Cancer, Hemophilia, Thalassaemia and other such diseases and to establish the potential of holistic traditional health care systems in the world.
15.	To revive ancient holistic traditional wisdom of healing through collection, preservation, translation, research, publication and distribution of literature in the form of journals, Books, Video tapes, CD's etc.
16.	To set up libraries of traditional / alternative systems of healing in India and also extend collaboration with other foreign organizations for the same.
17.	To undertake comprehensive fact finding survey of medicinal plants flora of different regions of India and abroad.
18.	To organize educational excursions in search of effective and rare medicinal and aromatic plants.
19.	To collect photographs and produce video tapes, CD's on medicinal aromatic plants to enhance the knowledge of identification among the students of Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and other allied systems of medicine.
20.	Conservation, cultivation, research, propagation and distribution of medicinal and aromatic plants.
21.	To promote public interest and extend guidance to them for growing the medicinal plants used as home remedies.
22.	Population control and conservation of environment through natural means.
23.	To improve and standardize pharmaceutical methods used in traditional /alternative healing systems of India and abroad.
24.	To organize Training courses on various aspects of Holistic traditional systems of medicine.
25.	To conduct courses on holistic traditional systems like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Tibetan medicine, Chinese Herbal medicine and other allied disciplines for the benefit of India and Foreign nationals.
26.	To interact and collaborate with other organizations of the world engaged in holistic health care and research work.
27.	To provide consultancy services to already existing /to be started traditional holistic healing centers in India and Abroad.
28.	To organize /help institutions to organize Human Resource Development programmes to ensure continuous supply of technical man-power like physicians and therapist at the centers existing or to be commenced in India and abroad providing the health care facilities through holistic / traditional systems of healing.
29.	To enter into agreement with individual or institutions; desirous of having the facilities of holistic traditional healing systems, wherein our organization/Trust will provide all the technical services and know-how required for the establishment or smooth functioning of the centre on a cost plus basis.
30.	To assist / take-over any institution, society or trust with all its properties, assets, records, and accounts and merge the same with this organization.
31.	To accept deposits and receive (or make) gifts, donations and charities discount (or) cash from (or) to any person, institutions, companies, organization (or) Trust etc.
32.	To provide effective and safe Ayurveda / Unani medicines, cosmetics and health foods through our sister concern company "Orris Naturals".
33.	To establish holistic traditional healing centers in India and abroad in the benefit of global health.
34.	To establish Institutions / colleges of Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Naturopathy, and other allied disciplines.
35.	To do all (or) everything lawful, which ought and may be incidental and conducive to carry out all (or) any of the objects of the organization.


Create Your Own Map : The topic I brought to you today is "How to create your own Map". Before we go further, let me give you a short definition of a Map."A Map is a two dimensional description of a specific area of land". So, what makes a Map very useful tool for us? Human beings are using this tool throughout ages. A map helps us to navigate through a certain area; also it gives us more geographic information about the world. Maps our ancestors use to keep in ancient times were not as developed as the ones we use today. With the help of technology, today as we are making everything more useful and profitable; Map has got its new appearance and specification. In this digital era, we prefer Map not on a sheet but on screens. The names 'Google Map' and 'Google Earth' are much known to us. Surely, you are also familiar of these navigation tools. Now, apart from these you can create your own Map using a range of efficacious software.
UMapper is a common map-creator interface which allows its users to create and manage interactive maps and geogames online. It provides you an effortless method in creating Flash maps that are easy to embed and share through a blog or website. UMapper lets you to include and edit features to your map in an easy way. You need to create an account to use this tool with the site.
Clicking on 'Sign Up' button you can get started with this.
Then input your required information.
Once you are signed up, its home page will be on screen.
Now click the "Start Mapping" choice.
Input a title for map, description and pick a map provider and finally "Submit".
You can use the toolbar just right of the screen to decorate your map with lines, markers, or shapes. Once you attached these ingredients to your map, you can click on the elements to include more information and change their outlook.
Google Map Maker is a facility provided by Google in which you can make changes or add more elements to Google Maps which are then reviewed by other users and either accepted or changed.
First, create a Google Account if don't have already.
Now, search for the tool on internet and open the site.
Once the site is opened, click the red "Add New" tab and select the type of feature you would like to add to your map.
Then add the feature into the map.
Give it a name and make description of it.
This a very useful tool for creating and publishing your maps. You can also embed your maps into your website or blog. Here is how will you use this tool.
Go to the website; tap on the "Create your Own Map" choice on the right of the page.
Select and click "Join" option below your chosen option.
Next, input the needed information.
Now, check your email you included. Check your email and open the link in the mail you have got.
This will take you to the "Target Map" home page.
Go to the "Create your own Map" alternative again to begin.
Chose a continent or country you want to map, and go to "Next" button.
You can create your own custom map, just select "Point a Map" alternative, and then click "Next". This will take you to your map.
Now tab the icon right to the "Map Editor" button to lengthen the menu.
Now, tap "Add Zone", give a name to your zone and start clicking the areas you want to add to the zone.
Continue the procedure until you are done mapping.
Map fair is a handy tool to create maps quickly and easily. You can create a custom map that designs places you specify. You can publish and edit your maps at any time once you have created your successfully.
Steps to create your own map using Mapfaire are as follows.
Visit the website, and click the green colored "Start" button on the bottom right of the home page.
Click the icon at the top of the screen next to the text that says "Your title goes here".
Now add your title, and then click the green "+Add a point" button to add a point to your map.
Add a title with any information that you would like to include.
This is an incredible tool which helps you to create maps with the help of Microsoft Excel data. Begin your mapping.
Click the "Sigh Up" tab.
Click the "Create Account" alternative.
Now click the "+New Map" option to create a new map.
Choose a map of your like: Streets or Terrain.
Now, click the teardrop button to add a maker.
These are the best free tools I could suggest you to create a map on your own. You can use anyone of these for a best result. Whereas so many other tools are available, you don't have to go through all of those.


Vanilla Ink and Nikki McWilliams Design are joining forces to host the aptly titled, Autumnal Delight Night – for one evening only you can meet your local designer-makers, buy their great wares and even maybe win a goodie bag of treats and surprises!
Win: Free goodie bags including treats and discounts for the first 20 guests. Old school raffle with top prizes on the night.
Dance: There'll be music too!
Read their blogs about the event on their respective blogs, Nikki McWilliams Design and Vanilla Ink; and visit their Facebook event page for all the latest updates.


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The first time I saw Caladium bicolor (Rubicundum) it was growing in a plant display stream at Selby Botanical Gardens. The plant was 6 feet tall with 2 foot leaves. The leaves were dark green with purple veins and bright pink. I immediately wanted this plant but none were available at the gardens.
Dewey Fisk informed me it was collected many years ago in the center of a small village in South America. The village grew it in the center of the village in a landscape display. The collector who was visiting the village could not help himself and took a piece of the plant and brought it back to the states.
Caladium bicolor (Rubicundum) is an easy Caladium to grow to 1 to 3 feet tall. If you want to grow this Caladium to 3+ feet it will need to be grown with wet feet in a very warm and humid situation.


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Norfolk farmer scoops coveted lapwing award
Charles Inglis' parents-in-law Robin and Rose Carver, pictured in the middle, collected the award
A NORFOLK farmer has been recognised by the farming and conservation industry for his outstanding efforts to promote good habitat and environmental management on his farm.
Charles Inglis was awarded the highly-coveted Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group National Silver Lapwing Award, which is now in its 42nd year.
He said: "What an honour to be presented with the Silver Lapwing Award, particularly against such stiff competition. It is a special moment for myself and my parents-in-law Robin and Rose Carver, this will motivate us to continue our conservation work at Hole Farm."
"We are so thrilled and very proud to have been presented this award which will be in pride of place for the next year."
Hole Farm, Norfolk, was awarded from a national shortlist of seven farms, each selected for demonstrating outstanding commitment to good environmental practices, alongside running successful farm businesses.
The 2019 FWAG Silver Lapwing Award was presented to Robin Carver (Charles' father-in-law) on Monday 17th June 2019 by Charles Beaumont, Silver Lapwing head judge, Martin Hole, Silver Lapwing judge, and Duncan Sinclair, partner and agriculture manager for Waitrose & Partners.
This year the award ceremony was hosted by the 2018 Silver Lapwing winner Giles Mounsey-Heysham, and his son Toby Mounsey-Heysham, at Castletown Farm, Cumbria.
Among the guests at the awards was Jennie Stafford, an advisor for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) which works in close partnership with FWAG.
She said: "It is great to hear The Silver Lapwing Award continues to recognise and reward forward-thinking farmers who integrate conservation so brilliantly within their commercial farming enterprises. The pleasure and pride they gain from seeing the response of wildlife to the variety of habitats they manage was evident throughout the day."
The award recognises farmers who go the extra mile to protect and enhance the countryside in which they farm.
The judges commented that the competition was incredibly high this year and for the first time in Silver Lapwing history, the judges awarded two equal runners-up. David and Katherine Butler of East Wick Farm, Wiltshire and John & John Billington of Adbaston Hall and Kemsey Manor, Shropshire.
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It is a complete coincidence that my last couple of posts, including this one, have focused on Parsi food.
I was in the middle of writing this post, when the Nowroz Baug event came up, and after coming home I felt that I HAD to write about that first. Goes to show how much the Parsi way of life has become a part of mine too thanks to my marrying a Bawi.
At least from a food point of view!
The three pictures below sum up our relation in a way. Let me explain how, through the captions below them.
I was quite full, when I walked into Café Colony in Dadar a couple of weeks back. I had reached there after a day spent eating across Mumbai and we had more food to cover.
I was with the Bombay Street Food Restaurant team from Toronto and we were on a Finely Chopped Food Trail of Mumbai. The plan was to have a kheema pav at Cafe Colony and get a feel of the place and then move on.
We did have the kheema there and enjoyed it and were then ready to leave. Then I decided to order an omelette even though everyone said they didn't want one as they were satiated.
There was a reason behind why I did so.
I had actually ordered the omelette in memory of my first visit to Cafe Colony which was about 16 years back when I was dating a girl from the neighbourhood.
I had gone to meet her that day as our office was shut as there was some sort of strike going on. A bakery strike too I think and there was no bread available in the shops of Mumbai. I got my PG aunty to pack some alu parathas which I took for my Dadar chi Bawi and her mother. I didn't go up to her place though as I wasn't formally introduced to the family then.
I was a bit hungry so the two of us, the girl and not her mother that is, went to a nearby Irani café. We had omelettes and chapattis if memory serves me right. I don't remember much about the omelette to be honest.
We got married soon after. The evening of our marriage, I made an omelette for the new bride who was feeling hungry.
These days her mother, now my mother in law, comes to visit us on weekends and makes me omelettes for breakfasts on Monday mornings.
Since then I have learnt that Parsis call these masala omelettes 'poro'.
My mom in law makes the poro with egg white for me now and with tomatoes too. She skips the tomatoes herself and makes and on omelette with the unused yolks after she makes mine! She still likes alu parathas and our cook, Banu makes them for her, though she fondly remembers the parathas from my PG too.
I never went back to that café after our first visit 16 years back till I did so a month back. It's name, as I recently found out, is Cafe Colony.
Cafe Colony is not really a famous or iconic Irani Café unlike the Kyanis and Yazdanis or Britannias and Sassanians of the world. I would be really surprised if you don't live in Dadar East and yet know of the place.
I went back to Cafe Colony after all these years when I got the opportunity to conduct a Parsi food trail for SodaBottleOpenerWala.
I chose Dadar for the trail as that is an area less frequented by Parsi food lovers. Which is not surprising as there are hardly any Parsi restaurants there. I also zeroed in on Dadar because of the associations I have with the place through marriage.
I went in to do a recce at Cafe Colony and first met Mr Aga's daughter and finally (!) noted the name of the place. I have made two visits to Cafe Colony since then. One for the SodaBottleOpenerWala trail and one for the Finely Chopped Trail for Bombay Street Food.
Though not a big name in Mumbai, I discovered that Cafe Colony is quite the neighbourhood favourite. It was packed with customers every time I went there.
My mom in law goes ever evening to Cafe Colony to pick pav on her way back from her yoga class. She buys eggs from there too. She examines each egg for cracks before taking them home.
Café Colony is built on the format of the Irani cafes of yore which were provision stores where you would get food too. There are very few such places left in Mumbai. One that I have seen is Regal at Byculla.
Cafe Colony has a bit of an 'untidy' (read 'messy and unorganised' and not dirty) look inside. That probably reflects the granny's kitchen vibe and warmth that Café Colony gives. It is not air-conditioned, has not toilets. It doesn't feel hot inside thoug. The atmosphere is languid and peaceful and rather welcoming.
Is Cafe Colony an Irani Cafe?
Technically Cafe Colony might not even be an 'Irani café!' The current owners are Muslim and not Zoroastrian. I haven't been able to ascertain whether they trace their roots to Iran. The elderly gentleman who owns the cafe, Mr Aga, says they do. I am not sure if he understood my question. Moreover, they don't sell any 'Parsi food' here as his son Mirza told me.
However, there are enough reasons to call Cafe Colony an 'Irani' cafe. From what I gathered from Mr Aga and his son Mirza, the café was opened 84 years back by a Zoroastrian Irani. Mr Aga took bought the cafe about 50 years back and he runs it with his family today. His daughters stand at the counter and manage the show in the evenings. Mr Aga is often there at the shop himself as is his son Mirza. It's a family run outlet and as mom and pop as it gets.
They serve kheema, kheema ghotala (egg scrambled into mince meat curry), akoori and omelettes, which are typical of traditional Irani café menus, at Cafe Colony. As do they serve chai (with and without milk), bun maska and mava cakes from Irani bakeries. They sometimes sprinkle in sugar into the bun maska which brings back memory of times gone past to many. The best way to have this is to dip it into the hot and sweet and milky chai and then to nibble on it like a happy bunny.
They serve dishes such chicken curry, with a quite an intense and hot and spicy Mughlai restaurant-like gravy, and on Fridays, biryani too. The chicken pieces in the curry, if you get a leg piece, can be very very juicy. If not, just focus on the gravy.
The kheema at Café Colony makes for quite a hearty dish specially when mopped up with soft pav. The curry is high on garam masala, though not too much on chilli heat (by Indian standards), and the quality of the meat (goat or mutton) seems pretty good.
I must stress that the dish is not smelly as I have seen it to be in some of the iconic kheema places in Mumbai. The kheema at Cafe Colony gives a lot of pleasure for sure.
The omelette, the memories of which is what actually brought me back to the cafe after all these years, turned out to be one of the best I have had in restaurants in Mumbai. It was served hot on the table. Was seasoned perfectly. Was made flat, which as Amreen of Bombay Street Food pointed out, is how we Indians have grown up eating omelettes. Not the fluffy and spongy omelettes of modern western cafes in Mumbai that rarely excite me.
The omelette at Cafe Colony was so good that I finished it off with the pav, even though I was not hungry, while I told my table mates the story of the my Dadar romance.
When I put up pictures of Mr Aga on Facebook, Kunal Dhume, a chef friend of mine from Melbourne wrote in saying that he used to come here as a kid as his grandparents lived close by. Apparently 'Aga uncle' used to give him, and all kids who would come to the shop, toffees with their change. On my second visit, I reminded Aga uncle of the same and he gave me a Melody toffee too along with a big smile. Once again breaking the myth of Irani cafe owners being grumpy curmudgeons.
Cafe Colony takes its name from the Dadar Parsi Colony which is on the other side of the road and is around the Five Gardens area. Unlike other Parsi Colonies, it is not a gated community. The buildings and bungalows here are really pretty.
To get good Parsi food at Parsi Colony, you need to get invited to the houses of one of the many Parsis who live there as there are hardly and restaurants around as there are no proper Parsi restaurants there.
There are a few small takeaway places for Parsi food at 5 Gardens such as Parvez Hall and RTI where you get Parsi dishes made by elderly ladies who make some income through the Parsi trusts. The supply here could be a bit irregular and there's no seating at either. There's the tiny Café 792 where you might get dishes made by the legendary Parsi wedding caterer, Tanaz Godiwala, during the wedding season but you need to order these in advance. They sell some Parsi dishes made in house at Cafe 792 through the year and the menu changes daily. Close by is also the base of new gen Parsi caterer, Perzen Patel, and you can get her stuff through delivery apps such as Scootsy.
For the SodaBottleOpnerWala Dadar Parsi Trail we went to a house in the Dadar Parsi Colony. We had got Zinobia Schroff, a gifted pickle, jam and squash maker and Parsi caterer and food consultant to cook for us and hosted the meal there. She's a Parsi who came to Mumbai from Nagpur years back. Worked in the fashion industry initially and in hotels too and then through the dint of her own hard work and enterprise and love for food, manage to carve out a career in food and became a 'home chef' well before the term was invented.
Zen made a Sunday special dhansak with kewabs, both chicken and vegetarian and a festive dessert called ravo (suji halwa) for our lunch that afternoon.
It is tough to make good chicken kebabs but Zinobia made us some of the best I've ever had. Her dhansak that afternoon was a lot less thinner in consistency than the average dhansak but was still pretty flavourful and possibly more attuned to the urban sedentary lifestyle of today than the heavier ones. The vegetable dhansak was delicious too and was full of winter vegetables. I took some back for my mother in law who is an eggetarian now and she loved the dhansak while K liked the chicken one and tripped on the kewabs. Zinobia herself is moving towards a more vegetarian and healthy diet and the dishes she cooked reflected that without compromising on taste.
I've been tripping on the garab nu achar (pickle made with hilsa roe) and lemon ginger squash that I bought from Zenobia to take home.
Some people asked me why I did the Parsi food trail at Dadar. There are hardly any commercial eating outlets of note there after all.
Which is very true. Dadar is no Fort or Byculla for sure when it comes to Irani restaurants or Parsi food.
But then it is the Parsis of Dadar that welcomed me to their fold and it is thanks to them that Mumbai became my home.
It's rather personal you see.


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HomeNewsUK's Sunak vows 'stability and unity' amid economic challenges, political disarray
UK's Sunak vows 'stability and unity' amid economic challenges, political disarray
LONDON: Britain's incoming prime minister Rishi Sunak vowed on Monday (Oct 24) to bring "stability and unity" at a time of economic crisis, after he was named the Conservative party's new leader.
"The United Kingdom is a great country but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge," he told reporters, appearing to rule out an early general election.
The 42-year-old will be the UK's first prime minister of colour after the premiership of Liz Truss imploded after just 44 days.
Penny Mordaunt, the last rival left in the party's leadership race after Boris Johnson dramatically pulled out, failed to secure the necessary 100 nominations from her fellow Members of Parliament.
"Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative party," senior backbencher Graham Brady said, as Mordaunt and Truss pledged their full support for Sunak.
However, nearly three hours after Brady's announcement, there was still no word from Johnson – even as Sunak urged his warring party to "unite or die", according to Tory MPs present in a closed-doors meeting.
Addressing the public for the first time, Sunak said: "We now need stability and unity and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together."
Just seven weeks after he lost out to Truss following Johnson's own removal from office, Sunak pulled off a stunning reversal in fortunes, and is vowing to do the same for Britain on a platform of fiscal responsibility.
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose nationalist government in Edinburgh wants to hold an independence referendum next year, was among the first to congratulate Sunak.
"I wish him well … notwithstanding our political differences," she said.
"That he becomes the first British Asian – indeed the first from any minority ethnic background – to become PM is a genuinely significant moment
Two European Union chiefs on Monday congratulated Sunak while stressing that "stability" was needed for Brussels and London to face shared challenges.
"Congratulations to Rishi Sunak on becoming the UK's prime minister," European Council President Charles Michel tweeted.
"Working together is the only way to face common challenges … and bringing stability is key to overcoming them," he said.
The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, said the EU legislature was committed to having "a strong and constructive relationship with the UK".
"At a time of enormous challenges, Europe needs political and economic stability. Our core interests remain the same," she said.
The pointed use of the word "stability" by both highlights EU hopes that Sunak would take a more conciliatory stance towards Brussels than his predecessors, Johnson and Truss.
Those two both sought to unilaterally override the part of the Brexit agreement that left the UK territory of Northern Ireland under EU rules for goods, risking confrontation with Brussels.
It was not yet known if Sunak would pursue that course or seek a negotiated agreement on the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol in the Brexit treaty on terms acceptable to the EU.
The protocol – negotiated under Johnson then repudiated by him – was designed to preserve peace in Northern Ireland as set out in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of conflict and which has the backing of the United States.
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Bob Nardelli. A good leader for Chrysler in its present plight?
The bloodletting at Chrysler is not going to be pleasant. It calls for a special kind of leadership to avoid worse outcomes than might have been possible. There have been business leaders in the past who relished the prospects of being in charge in such a crisis. They had earned their reputations as uncompromising men willing to made the big decisions in a slash-and-burn situation.
Uncompromising men? It's just that there are fewer stories about equally ruthless business women, because they haven't had as many opportunities. A few years ago there was Linda Wachner, America's first Fortune 500 female boss, whose high-handed management style was blamed for the bankruptcy of clothing company Warnaco. And I have little doubt that if Margaret Thatcher had found herself in change at Chrysler at the moment, she would have entered into the spirit of things with her legendary energy and decisiveness.
In times of crisis, it is tempting to portray events as dominated by the actions of great villains or heroes depending on your view of capital market mechanisms. The leader as hero rescues what can be saved, and in the process accepts that casualties as a vital part of winning the battle. That might be called the unconditional free-market view. Opposed to that, is notion of the leader brought in to a company in trouble is a villain, a mercenary, a ruthless bounty-hunter contracted to deliver what is required, 'dead or alive' in order to earn his own booty on behalf of a powerful rapacious corporate raider. That's the unconditional anti-capitalist view.
Young people around the world learn of their national heroes and traitors in terms rather like these. Cultural forces sustain the views, as part of each culture's 'national heritage', regardless of efforts at history teachers to offer a more nuanced explanation of events and of the impact of individuals.
Many years ago, Thomas Carlisle took the view that great leaders could be excused human flaws. Assuming they have something special which achieves great results, we must beware of belittling them for being all too human. That's one argument. Carlisle warned against what he called valetism. ('No man is a hero to his own valet').
One of various objections to Carlisle's idea is the way in which heroes suddenly become villains (the hero to zero effect), but in either case are granted exceptional abilities. It anticipated the more technical studies of leadership in search of the right stuff, the essence of leadership.
It took us a hundred years of work to suspect that the impact of great leaders was to a considerable degree based on the perceptions of followers. That's why I am rather keen to promote the suggestion that we get the leaders we deserve, and that they are to some degree the creation of our collective imaginations.
Before returning to Chrysler, it may be worth recalling the rise and fall of other leaders once hailed great, and then trashed. 'Chain saw' Al Dunlap comes to mind. Older subscribers will remember Al as hero of Wall Street, the wizard of down-sizing. Al was in demand for a company in need of the slash and burn treatment. Al kept producing the goods, metaphorically. He eventually was found not to be producing the goods literally, and had been engaging in all sorts of creative accounting.
Morer recently, we witnessed had the rise and fall of Sam O' Neal at Merrill Lynch. Sam had been lauded as Sam the Man who had shaken Merrill Lunch out of its strategic slumbers. He had also presided over the company at the time when it hit the buffers as one of the biggest losers in the sub-prime markets this year. Exit Sam with some $16 million compensation for his efforts during the good years.
Once the performance of Merrill Lynch fell, Mr O'Neal's contribution, and his leadership style were called into attention. He was autocratic. He would not listen to advice. He could be very difficult to work with. And so on.
When Cerberus acquired Chrysler, they turned to Nardelli.
Why? Private Equity business deals require leaders to be able to follow a plan, stick to the numbers. They may or may not be 'good with people'. If they are, it's a bonus.
Situational leadership suggests that different situations call for different leadership skills. In one well-known leadership formulation, leaders are invited to assess situations and seek an appropriate style. In Chrysler's situation, the temptation for the new owners is to regard a directive style as appropriate. That's how it's worked in the past. Hello, Bob, I think we've got just the job for you …Yes, a bit like Al., but we don't want any financial tricks. Remember what happened to Al.
So is Nardelli likely to be a good leader for Chrysler?
There are no easy answers in a case study like this one. Conclusions have to be supported by argument and indications of the assumptions being made. So far, I've been putting forward a qualification that it is not possible to put leaders into one of two boxes 'good or bad'. This is based on the evidence that leaders may have a style that suits them to some circumstances better than others.
The next point to consider is good for what and for whom. In evaluating Nardelli's impact at Chrysler we may wish to take the broad view that Chrysler appears to be in need of drastic and painful change, and that Nardelli was attracted with a deal in which he is generously rewarded for carrying out the painful operation of change.
I suspect he has some of the characteristics of the tough-minded leader required to meet the short-term financial objectives of Cerberus. I don't know if he will succeed in the wider challenge of creating something permanent that will be recognised as the New Chrysler. Sadly, among the biggest losers at Chrysler will be tens of thousands of workers who will be without jobs over the coming months. The unconditional free-marketeers will Maybe argue that the alternatives would likely have led to even more job losses at Chrysler further down the line. Maybe a tough approach now will create more jobs elsewhere, than a more 'humane' and collaborative approach which fails to bring about changes in market prospects of the ailing corporation.
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Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome debut novelist KATHERINE HILL for a reading of her book, The Violet Hour: A Novel.
Katherine Hill is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her writing has been published by AGNI, The Believer, Bookforum, Colorado Review, The Common, n+1, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is an assistant editor at Barrelhouse.


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Q: Units for Chi-Square test (meter vs kilometers) contingency table Units for Chi-Square test contingency table
Let' say we have the following example
Visitors to some place:
representation(1)
              Sunday | Monday

    expected    80%     20%
    observed    90%     10%

representation(2)
              Sunday | Monday

    expected    0.8     0.2
    observed    0.9     0.1

For case (1):
$\chi_2^2 = \frac{(80-90)^2}{80} + \frac{(20-10)^2}{10} = 11.25  $
For case (2):
$\chi_2^2 = \frac{(.8-.9)^2}{.8} + \frac{(0.2-0.1)^2}{0.1} = 0.1225  $
This could be asked in a different words, when we use kilometers instead of meters ant etc..
Which representation should be choosed?
Also we have some assumption that our "our sum of square" follows the chi-squrare distribution. Why it's correct?

A: The values in the contingency table have to be counts.  They can't be fractions, percentages, or measured quantities.
A kind of exception is with a chi-square goodness-of-fit test where you compare counts to expected proportions.
Also, the expected values aren't part of the contingency table per se.  They are calculated from the counts in the table.
This solves 99.9% of the difficulties suggested by your question.  I'm sure you can come up with examples where it unclear how to count real objects (schools of fish or individual fish?), but these cases are probably rare in practice.


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1 Remove the seat 2 Remove the left hand side cover (Fig. A). 3 Unplug the stock wiring harness connector from the ECM (Fig. B). 4 Move the data plug (Fig. B) out of the way to access bolt. 5 Remove the 3 bolts that hold the electrical box in place (Fig. B). 6 Slide the plastic box out from the frame. 7 Route the stock connector through the box and into the small opening in the frame (Fig. C). Fig. A Fig. B Fig. C Remove side cover Stock connector Stock connector Data plug Remove bolt Remove bolts FM810 www. fuelmotousa.com 2004-2005 Harley Davidson Dyna – FM EFI Tuner – 2 8 Plug the black connector of the Power Commander into the stock wiring harness connector (Fig. D). 9 Route the grey connector of the Power Commander through the box and plug it into the ECM. 10 Install the Power Commander against the rear part of the electrical box. Make sure to clean both surfaces with the alcohol swab first. Use the supplied velcro to attach the Power Commander. 11 Bolt the box back into place. 12 Reinstall the seat. Fig. D Fig.
If you feel that you are having any problems at all with the Power Commander II, disconnect it from your motorcycle. This will allow the motorcycle to run directly off of the stock ECU. The lights don't come on when I turn the ignition switch on.
Check to make sure connectors are seated and the kill switch is in the "run" position. The on-board adjustment buttons do not hold their settings. Be sure to wait 20-30 seconds after making adjustments before starting or turning off the bike.
the "upload all" button again should produce a "tables sent and verified" message. I typed in notes, but they didn't save.
You need to first push the "accept" button in the notes window and then the "save file" button.
Remove the bolt that holds the ground wires and bracket for the alternator connectors to the frame on the left hand side of the bike. This allows access to the Throttle Position Sensor connector. Unplug the stock wiring harness from the Throttle Position Sensor (Fig. F).Remove the main seat and the passenger seat. Remove the fuel tank cover. Remove the left hand fairing. Prop the fuel tank up. Lay the PCIII in the tail section temporarily and route the harness underneath the tail sec- tion (Fig. A). Removing the 4 bolts that hold the tail sectionb in place will make this easier Route the harness towards the throttle bodies (Fig. B) Attach the ground wire from the PCIII to the negative side of the battery.