Shoppers will be getting a little more bang for their bucks this weekend during the state�s annual sales tax holiday.
The break from state and local taxes began officially at 12:01 a.m. today, and will continue though Sunday. During the holiday, most clothing and footwear priced under $100 is exempt by law from state or federal taxes.
Some �super sales� are planned for merchandise in every department, she said. And added some of the shoes that usually sell for more than $100 have been marked down so they will qualify for the tax exemption.
Shoppers can save $8 on ever $100 they spend if each item in their basket is on the exempt list, and costs less than $100. Coats, diapers, clothes and shoes qualify. Accessories, cleated athletic shoes and ski or hiking boots and waders are on the �taxed� list.
This year, student backpacks under $100 qualify for the exemption, as long as they have straps and can be worn on the back and are intended for school.
According to the law, retailers must collect taxes on items that are not on the tax-free list, but as part of their promotions, they may include the taxes as part of the sale price.


Then the farm began showing results.
"We harvest once in every year (instead of several times because it rains most of the time in the area)," said Catindig. The sweet and sour kiwot honey costs P3,000 per gallon.
Beekeeping, therefore, becomes a family enterprise, and in Catindig's case, a community livelihood.
His recommendation? To put measures that help poor farmers earn more. Under the PCA road map, it means improving coconut yields and at the same time creating value-added products that naturally come with coconut production.
Are these not what Catindig's farms in the Bicol region have been efficiently doing, first through beekeeping and then through coconut pollination?


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Bulgaria's Last King Says He Won't Run for President
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Bulgaria's last King and former Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha made clear he does not hold a special "interest" or affinity for the Presidency of the country.
Admitting his special attitude to being head of state in principle, has added, in a Friday interview with private bTV station, that for most of his life he has been taught to only take decisions based on careful judgment and not to make moves calculating his own benefit.
"After all, I began my life as head of state, so it is not my last ambition," he pointed out.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha made his comments against the background of uncertainty about the candidates in the forthcoming presidential elections due in Bulgaria this autumn.
No major party has announced a nominee as of the moment, with election date likely to be scheduled for October.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who returned to Bulgaria early in the 2000s after having lived in exile for more than 50 years, downplayed suggestions that he had returned to the country only to claim ownership of property that belonged to his family before Communist rule.
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I've heard it said that smoking is one of the most difficult habits to give up, not only because of the addictive nature of nicotine, but also because of the mental and emotional connections between smoking and many other familiar, daily activities and routines.
Mark explained to me that, in many situations, this was her common course of action and reasoning—that his friend (like many other smokers) often was smoking not because of her need for a nicotine "fix," but rather because in her mind, smoking was associated with these routine activities. ("I always smoke when I… drink, socialize, go to work, drive, take a break, etc.) Smoking had become a part of many other activities. It simply felt unnatural to engage in these activities without a cigarette in hand.
I have begun to wonder what my Christian walk and my faith would be like if I began to associate God (and godly activities such as worship, prayer, meditation, scripture memorization, witnessing, etc.) with all the other mundane activities in my life. How would things be different if I always prayed, or quoted a scripture, or gave thanks to God, simply because, "Well… I don't know… that's just what I do when I _________ (eat, drive, go to work, hang out with friends, etc.)"? What if I included God in so many activities that I couldn't extricate Him from my life—not because of the "fix" He gives me, but because He's been such a part of everything I do that I subconsciously react to every situation by first turning to Him and to do otherwise feels foreign and awkward? How would my world change if every situation felt unnatural unless my hand was in His?


Over the weekend, the Joanne Sharpleys Source For Sports Highland Storm Peewee A boys hosted the Matt Duchene Fall Classic, and won the tournament championship, going undefeated in the process.
In the first game of the round robin, the Storm were facing a familiar foe in the Sturgeon Lake Thunder.
The game was a tightly contested battle, with the two teams skating away with a 2-2 tie.
Goal scorers were Alex Little and Joe Boice, both goals unassisted.
The second game of the day had the Newcastle Stars slated as opponents. The Storm were victorious running away with this one, with an offensive supernova destroying the Stars 9-0. The score says it all in this matchup, as the Storm had three times as many goals as the Stars had shots.
In the third and final contest of the day, the boys were matched up against a very well rounded Mariposa Lightning team with lots of fire power. Our boys scored two goals a period, and stellar goaltending from Darian Maddock turned away all but one of the Lightning numerous grade A scoring chances. Leading the way in scoring were Joe Boice with two goals and an assist, Tyson Clements with a goal and an assist, Dylan Keffer with a goal and an assist, Jake Sisson and Alex Little with a goal each, Cole Prentice and Colin Glecoff added an assist each as well.
In the semi-final game the Bancroft Jets had the pleasure to contend with our powerhouse Storm. The Jets never scored until the third period after a plethora of opportunities, but the game was out of reach, as Joe Boice already scored four of his own, to take this one 4-1. Cole Prentice gain an assist on all of Joe's goals, and finished with four points. Aiden Neave and Colin Glecoff added assists.
The championship game was a rematch with the Mariposa Lightning, and subsequently was a goaltending battle with our boys sealing the deal with a 2-1 victory. Congratulations to the Joanne Sharpley's Source for Sports Highland Storm Peewee A Matt Duchene Fall Classic Champions.
Friday night was the home opener for Dollo's Foodland and Smolen's Dentistry Highland Storm Midget A team as they hosted the Penetang Flames. The first period had the home side in penalty trouble for most of the time frame with the visiting club jumping out to a 3-0 lead as the segment ended. Owen Patterson-Smith notched the first tally of the night for the hosting club on a power play of their own, making it 3-1 and three minutes later he scored again, both on feeds from Jadon Wood to bring the score within a goal but the visitors quickly rebutted to end the second period at 4-2. In a tight checking third period the Storm scored first midway through the time frame on a goal by Mac Rider pulling within one but the Flames scored two more shortly after to jump out to a 6-3 lead, as the Highlanders applied a flurry of pressure over the last four minutes they could only score one more by Patterson-Smith, giving him three on the night, alas ending the game as a 6-4 defeat. Jaydon Wood had three assists on the night; Kyle Lavergne had two with Jacob Haedicke and Jon Morrison one each.
For the second game of the weekend, the Dollo's Foodland and Smolen's Dentistry Highland Storm Midget A team took to the ice against the Almaguin Ice Devils in Sundridge on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18. The team unfortunately was still down to two lines due to injuries but a lively squad took to the ice against the home team, finishing the first period down two to one, the first goal of the night was scored by Chris Thompson. The second period proved to be the best they've played this season, where the Storm ravaged the Devils, scoring four goals; a natural hat trick for Jaydon Wood with the other tally by Owen Patterson-Smith, the period finished with the visitors having a 5-4 edge. Period 3 was a see-saw battle, the home team tied it up quickly but the Storm answered with the go ahead goal halfway through. The first win of the season was in sight until a controversial Devil's goal with two seconds left on the clock tied it up and the game finished 6-6. Within seconds of their first victory of the season, a spirited effort from the entire squad was made and we look forward to the Cody Hodgson Midget Fall Classic tournament next weekend in Minden.
The Highland Storm Bantam A had a busy week with three games, resulting in one win and two losses. It began Tuesday, Oct. 13 in Haliburton against the Parry Sound Shamrocks. The Highland Storm grabbed a 9-2 victory.
The Highland Storm team was on fire in the first period scoring five goals, leading 5-2 after 15 minutes of play. Lucas Haedicke started it off by chipping it in past the goalie, minutes into the game, with help from Noah Black and Braeden Robinson. Minutes later, Braeden Robinson snuck in close for the second goal, passes from Shawn Walker and Nikolas Dollo. Shamrocks reacted quickly to tie it up, but not for long. Lucas Haedicke rushed up the boards and manoeuvred nicely toward the net and found the opening, assisted by Noah Black. The Highland Storm took the lead once more. It was Braeden Robinson that got the next goal, a nice pass from Shawn Walker, while on a power play. Nearing the end of the period, a hard rush by Lucas Haedicke, a pass onto the stick of Zach Morissette and he made it 5-2.
The momentum continued in the second period. The Highland Storm dominated the play. Passes from Tanner Crang and Billy Walker found James Alexander alone in front of the net and he banged in the sixth goal. Late in the second, Austin French got a power play goal, with help from Nigel Smith and Noah Black, ending the second. The Highland Storm continued to push, another rush by Lucas Haedicke, a pass off to James Alexander who found the stick of Zach Morissette and he put it away, for the eighth goal. With less than two minutes remaining in the game, Shawn Walker started the rush to centre, he found James Alexander, who passed it to Nigel Smith and he scored the final goal. Great job, boys!
The Highland Storm Bantam A team met with the Penetang Flames and suffered a 9-0 loss, Friday, Oct. 16 in Haliburton.
Saturday, Oct. 17, the Highland Storm Bantam A team travelled to Huntsville to play the Otters and returned with a 4-2 loss. The first period ended with the Highland Storm down 2-0. It was Owen Gilbert who got a breakaway and put the Storm on the scoreboard in the second. Although, the third period was full of penalties, Isaac Little's pass gave Shawn Walker a breakaway, which he capitalized on nicely. All the boys played really well.
Join us this weekend for the Cody Hodgson Fall Classic Tournament in Haliburton.


At the beginning of his reign, Alexander faced a serious crisis: the vassal tribes in the north were in open revolt and the Greek towns in the south considered rebellion. The Greek author Plutarch of Chaeronea, describes the events in section 10.6-11 of his Life of Alexander. The translation was made by M.M. Austin.
[11.1] So at the age of twenty Alexander took over the kingdom, which faced dangers on every side, being exposed to great jealousies and deep animosities.
[11.2] For the neighboring tribes of barbarians would not submit to Macedonian rule, and longed for their ancestral dynasties. As for Greece, Philip had defeated her in the field but had not had time enough to subdue her under his yoke; he had simply introduced change and confusion into the country and had left it in a state of unrest and commotion, unaccustomed as yet to the new situation.
[11.3] Alexander's Macedonian advisers, alarmed at this crisis, took the view that he ought to give up Greece completely, without recourse to arms, and as for the barbarians who were inclined to revolt, he ought to apply conciliation to win them back by handling gently the first symptoms of rebellion.
[11.4] Alexander, however, took the opposite view, and set out to establish the safety and security of his kingdom through boldness and determination, in the conviction that if he was seen to waver in his resolve, all his unrest and the enemies would be upon him.
[11.5] Accordingly, he put an end to the barbarian wars which threatened on that side by conducting a lightning campaign as far as the Danube, and in a great battle he defeated Syrmus, the king of the Triballians.
[11.6] On hearing that the Thebans had revolted and that the Athenians were in sympathy with them, he immediately led his army through Thermopylae, declaring that since Demosthenes referred to him contemptuously as a boy while he was among the Triballians, and as a youngster when he had reached Thessaly, he wanted to show him before the walls of Athens that he was a man.
[11.7] On reaching Thebes he wanted to give the Thebans a chance to change their minds, and so merely requested the surrender of Phoenix and Prothytes,note[Theban leaders.] promising an amnesty to those who defected to his side.
[11.8] But the Thebans retaliated with a demand for the surrender of [the Macedonian generals] Philotas and Antipater, and issued a proclamation that those who wanted to join in the task of liberating Greece should come and fight on their side. So Alexander ordered the Macedonians into battle.
[11.10b] The city was captured, plundered and razed to the ground.
[11.11] Alexander's calculation was essentially that the Greeks would be so struck by the magnitude of the disaster that they would be frightened into submission, but he also wished to give the appearance that he was giving in to the complaints of his allies. For the Phocians and Plataeans had denounced the Thebans.
[11.12] So, making an exception for the priests, all the guest-friends of the Macedonians, the descendants of Pindar, and those who had vote for revolt, he sold the rest into slavery, numbered over 6,000.
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package com.koch.ambeth.ioc.accessor;

import static org.objectweb.asm.Opcodes.INVOKESTATIC;

import java.lang.ref.Reference;
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;

import org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor;
import org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter;
import org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor;
import org.objectweb.asm.Opcodes;
import org.objectweb.asm.Type;
import org.objectweb.asm.commons.GeneratorAdapter;
import org.objectweb.asm.commons.Method;

import com.koch.ambeth.ioc.IInitializingBean;
import com.koch.ambeth.log.ILogger;
import com.koch.ambeth.log.LogInstance;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.ReflectUtil;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.TypeUtil;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.collections.ArrayList;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.collections.Tuple2KeyEntry;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.collections.Tuple2KeyHashMap;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.exception.RuntimeExceptionUtil;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.proxy.ClassLoaderAwareClassWriter;
import com.koch.ambeth.util.typeinfo.IPropertyInfo;

public class AccessorTypeProvider implements IAccessorTypeProvider, IInitializingBean {
	@LogInstance
	private ILogger log;

	protected final Tuple2KeyHashMap<Class<?>, String, Reference<AbstractAccessor>> typeToAccessorMap =
			new Tuple2KeyHashMap<Class<?>, String, Reference<AbstractAccessor>>() {
				@Override
				protected void resize(int newCapacity) {
					ArrayList<Object[]> removeKeys = new ArrayList<>();
					for (Tuple2KeyEntry<Class<?>, String, Reference<AbstractAccessor>> entry : this) {
						if (entry.getValue().get() == null) {
							removeKeys.add(new Object[] {entry.getKey1(), entry.getKey2()});
						}
					}
					for (Object[] removeKey : removeKeys) {
						remove((Class<?>) removeKey[0], (String) removeKey[1]);
					}
					if (size() >= threshold) {
						super.resize(2 * table.length);
					}
				}
			};

	protected final Tuple2KeyHashMap<Class<?>, Class<?>, Object> typeWithDelegateToConstructorMap =
			new Tuple2KeyHashMap<>();

	protected final Lock writeLock = new ReentrantLock();

	@Override
	public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Throwable {
		// Intended blank
	}

	@Override
	public AbstractAccessor getAccessorType(Class<?> type, IPropertyInfo property) {
		Reference<AbstractAccessor> accessorR = typeToAccessorMap.get(type, property.getName());
		AbstractAccessor accessor = accessorR != null ? accessorR.get() : null;
		if (accessor != null) {
			return accessor;
		}
		Lock writeLock = this.writeLock;
		writeLock.lock();
		try {
			// concurrent thread might have been faster
			accessorR = typeToAccessorMap.get(type, property.getName());
			accessor = accessorR != null ? accessorR.get() : null;
			if (accessor != null) {
				return accessor;
			}
			try {
				Class<?> enhancedType = getAccessorTypeIntern(type, property);
				if (enhancedType == AbstractAccessor.class) {
					throw new IllegalStateException(
							"Must never happen. No enhancement for " + AbstractAccessor.class + " has been done");
				}
				Constructor<?> constructor = enhancedType.getConstructor(Class.class, IPropertyInfo.class);
				accessor = (AbstractAccessor) constructor.newInstance(type, property);
			}
			catch (Exception e) {
				throw RuntimeExceptionUtil.mask(e);
			}
			typeToAccessorMap.put(type, property.getName(), new WeakReference<>(accessor));
			return accessor;
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			throw RuntimeExceptionUtil.mask(e);
		}
		finally {
			writeLock.unlock();
		}
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public <V> V getConstructorType(Class<V> delegateType, Class<?> targetType) {
		Object constructorDelegate = typeWithDelegateToConstructorMap.get(targetType, delegateType);
		if (constructorDelegate != null) {
			return (V) constructorDelegate;
		}
		Lock writeLock = this.writeLock;
		writeLock.lock();
		try {
			// concurrent thread might have been faster
			constructorDelegate = typeWithDelegateToConstructorMap.get(targetType, delegateType);
			if (constructorDelegate != null) {
				return (V) constructorDelegate;
			}
			Class<?> enhancedType = getConstructorTypeIntern(delegateType, targetType);
			constructorDelegate = enhancedType.newInstance();
			typeWithDelegateToConstructorMap.put(targetType, delegateType, constructorDelegate);
			return (V) constructorDelegate;
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			throw RuntimeExceptionUtil.mask(e);
		}
		finally {
			writeLock.unlock();
		}
	}

	protected Class<?> getConstructorTypeIntern(Class<?> delegateType, Class<?> targetType) {
		String constructorClassName = targetType.getName() + "$FastConstructor$"
				+ delegateType.getName();
		if (constructorClassName.startsWith("java.")) {
			constructorClassName = "ambeth." + constructorClassName;
		}
		writeLock.lock();
		try {
			AccessorClassLoader loader = AccessorClassLoader.get(targetType);
			try {
				return loader.loadClass(constructorClassName);
			}
			catch (ClassNotFoundException ignored) {
				return createConstructorType(loader, constructorClassName, delegateType, targetType);
			}
		}
		finally {
			writeLock.unlock();
		}
	}

	protected Class<?> getAccessorTypeIntern(Class<?> targetType, IPropertyInfo property) {
		String accessClassName = targetType.getName() + "$" + AbstractAccessor.class.getSimpleName()
				+ "$" + property.getName();
		if (accessClassName.startsWith("java.")) {
			accessClassName = "ambeth." + accessClassName;
		}
		writeLock.lock();
		try {
			AccessorClassLoader loader = AccessorClassLoader.get(targetType);
			try {
				return loader.loadClass(accessClassName);
			}
			catch (ClassNotFoundException ignored) {
				return createType(loader, accessClassName, targetType, property);
			}
		}
		finally {
			writeLock.unlock();
		}
	}

	protected GeneratorAdapter createGA(ClassVisitor cv, int access, String name, String desc) {
		return new GeneratorAdapter(cv.visitMethod(access, name, desc, null, null), access, name, desc);
	}

	protected Class<?> createType(AccessorClassLoader loader, String accessClassName,
			Class<?> targetType, IPropertyInfo property) {
		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
			log.debug("Creating accessor for " + targetType.getName() + "." + property.getName());
		}
		String accessClassNameInternal = accessClassName.replace('.', '/');

		Type abstractAccessorType = Type.getType(AbstractAccessor.class);
		Type objType = Type.getType(Object.class);

		ClassWriter cw = new ClassLoaderAwareClassWriter(ClassWriter.COMPUTE_MAXS, loader);
		cw.visit(Opcodes.V1_1, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC + Opcodes.ACC_SUPER, accessClassNameInternal, null,
				abstractAccessorType.getInternalName(), null);
		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(Type.VOID_TYPE, Type.getType(Class.class),
					Type.getType(String.class));
			Method method = Method.getMethod("void <init> (Class,String)");
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, method.getName(), desc);
			mv.loadThis();
			mv.loadArg(0);
			mv.loadArg(1);
			mv.invokeConstructor(abstractAccessorType, method);
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		java.lang.reflect.Method r_get = ReflectUtil.getDeclaredMethod(true, targetType,
				property.getPropertyType(), "get" + property.getName(), new Class<?>[0]);
		if (r_get == null) {
			r_get = ReflectUtil.getDeclaredMethod(true, targetType, property.getPropertyType(),
					"is" + property.getName(), new Class<?>[0]);
		}
		java.lang.reflect.Method r_set = ReflectUtil.getDeclaredMethod(true, targetType, null,
				"set" + property.getName(), property.getPropertyType());

		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(Type.BOOLEAN_TYPE);
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, "canRead", desc);
			mv.push(r_get != null && Modifier.isPublic(r_get.getModifiers()));
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(Type.BOOLEAN_TYPE);
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, "canWrite", desc);
			mv.push(r_set != null && Modifier.isPublic(r_set.getModifiers()));
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(objType, objType);
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, "getValue", desc);

			if (r_get == null) {
				mv.throwException(Type.getType(UnsupportedOperationException.class),
						"Property not readable: " + targetType.getName() + "." + property.getName());
			}
			else {
				Type owner = Type.getType(r_get.getDeclaringClass());
				mv.loadArg(0);
				mv.checkCast(owner);
				mv.invokeVirtual(owner, Method.getMethod(r_get));
				smartBox(mv, Type.getType(r_get.getReturnType()));
			}
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(Type.VOID_TYPE, objType, objType);
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, "setValue", desc);

			if (r_set == null) {
				mv.throwException(Type.getType(UnsupportedOperationException.class),
						"Property not writable: " + targetType.getName() + "." + property.getName());
			}
			else {
				Type owner = Type.getType(r_set.getDeclaringClass());
				mv.loadArg(0);
				mv.checkCast(owner);
				mv.loadArg(1);
				Type paramType = Type.getType(r_set.getParameterTypes()[0]);
				if (!objType.equals(paramType)) {
					if (r_set.getParameterTypes()[0].isPrimitive()) {
						mv.unbox(paramType);
					}
					else {
						mv.checkCast(paramType);
					}
				}
				mv.invokeVirtual(owner, Method.getMethod(r_set));
			}
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		cw.visitEnd();
		byte[] data = cw.toByteArray();
		return loader.defineClass(accessClassName, data);
	}

	protected Class<?> createConstructorType(AccessorClassLoader loader, String constructorClassName,
			Class<?> delegateType, Class<?> targetType) {
		if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
			log.debug("Creating fast constructor handle for " + targetType.getName());
		}
		String constructorClassNameInternal = constructorClassName.replace('.', '/');

		Type delegateTypeHandle = Type.getType(delegateType);
		Type objType = Type.getType(Object.class);
		Type superType;

		ClassWriter cw = new ClassLoaderAwareClassWriter(ClassWriter.COMPUTE_MAXS, loader);
		if (delegateType.isInterface()) {
			superType = objType;
			cw.visit(Opcodes.V1_1, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC + Opcodes.ACC_SUPER, constructorClassNameInternal,
					null, superType.getInternalName(), new String[] {delegateTypeHandle.getInternalName()});
		}
		else {
			superType = delegateTypeHandle;
			cw.visit(Opcodes.V1_1, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC + Opcodes.ACC_SUPER, constructorClassNameInternal,
					null, superType.getInternalName(), null);
		}
		{
			String desc = Type.getMethodDescriptor(Type.VOID_TYPE);
			Method method = Method.getMethod("void <init> ()");
			GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, method.getName(), desc);
			mv.loadThis();
			mv.invokeConstructor(superType, method);
			mv.returnValue();
			mv.endMethod();
		}
		java.lang.reflect.Method[] r_methods = delegateType.getMethods();

		Constructor<?>[] constructors = targetType.getDeclaredConstructors();
		for (Constructor<?> constructor : constructors) {
			Class<?>[] constructorParams = constructor.getParameterTypes();
			for (int a = r_methods.length; a-- > 0;) {
				java.lang.reflect.Method r_method = r_methods[a];
				if (r_method == null) {
					// already handled
					continue;
				}
				if (!delegateType.isInterface() && !Modifier.isAbstract(r_method.getModifiers())) {
					// only handle abstract methods
					r_methods[a] = null;
					continue;
				}
				Class<?>[] methodParams = r_method.getParameterTypes();
				if (constructorParams.length != methodParams.length) {
					// no match
					continue;
				}
				boolean paramsEqual = true;
				for (int b = constructorParams.length; b-- > 0;) {
					if (!constructorParams[b].equals(methodParams[b])) {
						paramsEqual = false;
						break;
					}
				}
				if (!paramsEqual) {
					// no match
					continue;
				}
				r_methods[a] = null;
				implementConstructorOfConstructorType(r_method, constructor, cw);
			}
		}
		for (java.lang.reflect.Method r_method : r_methods) {
			if (r_method != null) {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException("No matching constructor found on "
						+ targetType.getName() + " to map on delegate method " + r_method.toString());
			}
		}
		cw.visitEnd();
		byte[] data = cw.toByteArray();
		return loader.defineClass(constructorClassName, data);
	}

	protected void implementConstructorOfConstructorType(java.lang.reflect.Method r_method,
			Constructor<?> constructor, ClassWriter cw) {
		Type[] paramTypes = TypeUtil.getClassesToTypes(r_method.getParameterTypes());
		Method method = Method.getMethod(r_method);
		GeneratorAdapter mv = createGA(cw, Opcodes.ACC_PUBLIC, method.getName(),
				method.getDescriptor());
		Type instanceType = Type.getType(constructor.getDeclaringClass());
		mv.newInstance(instanceType);
		mv.dup();
		for (int b = 0, sizeB = paramTypes.length; b < sizeB; b++) {
			mv.loadArg(b);
		}
		mv.invokeConstructor(instanceType, Method.getMethod(constructor));
		mv.returnValue();
		mv.endMethod();
	}

	public static void smartBox(MethodVisitor mv, Type unboxedType) {
		switch (unboxedType.getSort()) {
			case Type.BOOLEAN:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Boolean", "valueOf", "(Z)Ljava/lang/Boolean;",
						false);
				break;
			case Type.BYTE:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Byte", "valueOf", "(B)Ljava/lang/Byte;", false);
				break;
			case Type.CHAR:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Character", "valueOf",
						"(C)Ljava/lang/Character;", false);
				break;
			case Type.SHORT:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Short", "valueOf", "(S)Ljava/lang/Short;",
						false);
				break;
			case Type.INT:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Integer", "valueOf", "(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;",
						false);
				break;
			case Type.FLOAT:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Float", "valueOf", "(F)Ljava/lang/Float;",
						false);
				break;
			case Type.LONG:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Long", "valueOf", "(J)Ljava/lang/Long;", false);
				break;
			case Type.DOUBLE:
				mv.visitMethodInsn(INVOKESTATIC, "java/lang/Double", "valueOf", "(D)Ljava/lang/Double;",
						false);
				break;
		}
	}
}

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text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WagahighChoices.Ashe
{
    internal class Logger
    {
        private readonly object _lockObj = new object();
        private SearchDirector _searchDirector;
        private readonly List<BufferEntry> _buffer = new List<BufferEntry>();

        public async Task SetSearchDirectorAsync(SearchDirector searchDirector)
        {
            BufferEntry[] records;

            lock (this._lockObj)
            {
                this._searchDirector = searchDirector;
                records = this._buffer.ToArray();
                this._buffer.Clear();
            }

            if (records.Length == 0) return;

            try
            {
                foreach (var record in records)
                {
                    await searchDirector.LogAsync(record.Message, record.IsError, record.Timestamp).ConfigureAwait(false);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                try
                {
                    Console.Error.WriteLine("[{0}] Log Error: {1}", DateTime.Now, ex);
                }
                catch { }
            }
        }

        private async void Log(string message, bool isError)
        {
            var timestamp = DateTimeOffset.Now;

            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("[{0:G}] {1}", timestamp, message);
            }
            catch { }

            SearchDirector searchDirector;
            lock (this._lockObj)
            {
                searchDirector = this._searchDirector;
                if (searchDirector == null)
                {
                    // searchDirector 設定前ならば、保存しておいて、後で流す
                    this._buffer.Add(new BufferEntry(message, isError, timestamp));
                    return;
                }
            }

            try
            {
                await searchDirector.LogAsync(message, isError, timestamp).ConfigureAwait(false);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                try
                {
                    Console.Error.WriteLine("[{0}] Log Error: {1}", DateTime.Now, ex);
                }
                catch { }
            }
        }

        public void Info(string message) => this.Log("Info: " + message, false);

        public void Error(string message) => this.Log("Error: " + message, true);

        private sealed class BufferEntry
        {
            public string Message { get; }
            public bool IsError { get; }
            public DateTimeOffset Timestamp { get; }

            public BufferEntry(string message, bool isError, DateTimeOffset timestamp)
            {
                this.Message = message;
                this.IsError = isError;
                this.Timestamp = timestamp;
            }
        }
    }
}


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This is the reason managed office spaces are the trend today. These are otherwise called as coworking space, serviced centres, ready to use offices, or shared business centres. Offices bring together many commercial activities and businesses. So, they are located in a central place to all of them.
For instance, the clothing business company will have a shipping concern and a tailoring unit located near it. A bakery will have flour sellers and packaging paper sellers near it. In short, working from an office places the worker at a distinct advantage. He or she gets plenty of material and support to carry out the work.
The rapidly expanding internet and related technology has opened the doors to many businesses. People are doing business from their homes. But, they need an office. The birth of the virtual office guarantees an identity to these entrepreneurs. But, it does not give them the office space.
When you have a need to interact with your clients in real time, you need to have a brick-and-mortar office. The shop must have real staff that meet the customer in person and sell their goods or services.
And often, this space requirement is not huge. One can get a two-room affair and a staff of four to five people. This is where the shared offices kick in. Most of the offices built until now had seating capacity for fifty to hundred workers. The building owners now are facing empty office space all over the country.
Shared offices thus present the ideal solution to the growing demand for smaller offices. People use the Coworking Space Bangalore since they do not have large establishment fees, the maintenance is taken care of, and the amenities are good since it serves more than one concern.
Coworking office spaces provide an atmosphere of productivity. You get a maid or office peon to help you with small things and can access the office stationery. The maintenance staff keeps the stationery supply such as pens, paper, erasers, files, and so on, stocked. And if you need anything else, you can always send the office boy for it.
You can impress your clients with the big office building and the lavish facilities. After all, you only shoulder a fraction of the amount for all that. Your office also seems to have an excess of staff and the buzz of activity adds to the feeling of 'ongoing work'. This even inspires the workers to do more.
For the worker who did not opt for a shared office environment, the chances of increased productive hours decrease. Distractions in the form of the postman, the milkmaid, the house cleaning person, and of course, the baby will surely nip all enthusiasm.
The best option to increase productive hours is to invest in a shared office. Join a coworking group and work from an office. Businesses can take their businesses to the next level with minimum investment. So, when one works smart, one gets better results.


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Q: How can set these iptables rules to run at startup I usually run my iptables rules whenever I login. From the terminal I type ;
sudo sh firewall.sh

Setting up my sister's computer, I want to give her some basic firewall protection. She wont be logging in as admin, just a standard account. How can I make a firewall script run everytime she logs in without her having to type in any password?
The script I wrote for my sister's computer contains ;
#!/bin/sh

modprobe ip_conntrack
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 --sport 32768:61000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 --sport 32768:61000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 443 --sport 32768:61000 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p icmp -j DROP

iptables -I INPUT -p icmp -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -p udp -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --syn -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

I've placed it in her home folder as firewall.sh and set it to be executable (right click on the file, and checking the "allow executing file as program" option in the permissions tab).
Running this script from the terminal as root works fine.
After typing ;
sudo sh firewall.sh

I typed into the terminal
sudo iptables -L -v

and I get
Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  lo     any     anywhere             anywhere
    0     0 DROP       tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcpflags: FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
    0     0 DROP       udp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere
    0     0 DROP       icmp --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes)  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
    0     0 DROP       icmp --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcp spts:32768:61000 dpt:https
    0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             udp spts:32768:61000 dpt:domain
    0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  any    any     anywhere             anywhere             tcp spts:32768:61000 dpt:http
    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    lo      anywhere             anywhere

How can I have this this script run automatically at login, or possibly save these rules permanently for my sisters computer? Could you please provide some detailed code, as my first attempts at rc.local method and iptables-save have not been very successful. On every reboot, all INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD chains are reset to ACCEPT, with no policies listed when I type sudo iptables -L -v

A: You may want to use the iptables-persistent package rather than mess with your boot scripts.  First, run your script to set up the firewall rules.  Secondly, run sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent, and follow the prompts.  When it asks to save the current rules, hit "Yes" at both prompts.  Now, on reboots, your iptables rules will be restored.

NOTE: If you change your rules after this, you will need to do the following command(s) after the changes:
To save your IPv4 iptables rules: sudo su -c 'iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4'
To save your IPv6 ip6tables rules: sudo su -c 'ip6tables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v6'

A: Assuming you have the firewall rules in:
/etc/iptables.up.rules

Perhaps the most obvious answer will be to create a file called iptables in:
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d

with the content:
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.up.rules

and make it executable using
sudo chmod +x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables

This way before your network interface is activated your rules will be loaded.

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Daly Point Nature Reserve is a bird lovers paridise. It has several trails through different forest types that provide different habitats for many types of birds. The first trail as you leave the visitor center goes through an old field. From here you can go into the woods on the White Pine Path or the Woodland Trail or continue on to the Salt Marsh Trail. The Coastal Path will take you along the shore of the bay and the Gulch Path follows a small stream valley. There's a lookout tower on the hill at the end of the Field Trail that provides views of the bay. The Salt Marsh Trail also provides a boardwalk out into the Salt Marsh with views of the bay and the Warbler Trail is a boardwalk that goes through a wet area of open woods. The bay has many types of shorebirds while there are bird feeders field and woods trails that attract the smaller songbirds. The birds are quite used to visitors and will even eat from your hand. If you like birds and are in the Bathurst area you need to take time to make a stop at Daly Point.
From downtown Bathurst take Main Street south to Bridge Street until you come to a junction in the road at the former site of the pulp mill. Turn left on Bridge Street towards Caraquet. After 3.2 km turn left on Carron Drive. The Daly Point visitor Center will be on your left after another 500 m.
The Daly Point Nature Reserve began in 1989 as a stewardship project between Brunswick Mining and Smelting and the NB Dept. of Natural Resources and Energy.
The park consists of 6 km of trails running through more than 100 acres of salt marsh, old fields, and mixed forest. From these trails one can view hundreds of species of flowers, plants and animals. Special attractions include the thousands of Canada Geese who arrive on their migration in the fall, and the rare Maritime Ringlet Butterfly found only in four salt marshes in the world.
Benches and interpretive signs are found on the trails to give visitors an opportunity to identify, and stop and admire, the nature around them.


The Trafalgar Bay Pub you thought you knew has been regenerated. Not simply just a lick of paint and a new landlady and landlord. Think bigger. Much bigger. A whole brand spanking new lease of life.
Imagine the traditional Sam Smith pubs we know and love … and then some. Trafalgar Bay has been boldly revamped into so much more than just a pub. It is now a much-needed community hub in York that caters for all. A space where small businesses are given platforms to showcase their work in the form of social gatherings. Non-discriminatory with its family friendly, dog friendly, autism friendly and just about anyone friendly ethos. Something which the rest of York's thriving pub scene struggles to successfully achieve. Reasonably priced draft beers, ales, and tipples as well as a vast array of non - alcoholic beverages. A no swearing policy and zero tolerance on aggressive or drunken behaviour, raucous hen parties or stag dos and no fruit machines or frills. Just good old fashioned banter, cosy fires, a pool table, and board games and books aplenty, all oozing Yorkshire charm.
Landlord and Lady, Phil and Sarah, have poured a whole lot of love and passion into this place and it really shows. The pub has become incredibly popular and well known for its social events including crafting sessions, meet and greet socials, quizzes, and fundraisers. There is a real sense of belonging here meaning no-one is ever not 'part of the family'. B E A U T I F U L .
If you haven't already get yourselves down there.


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21 November 2011 in Business, Cape Town, Community, Coworking, Digital nomad, Entrepreneur, Flexoffice, Shared office, South Africa, Startup
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft's Turf
Via: http://jascoll.blogspot.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O'Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft's Office software any more.
Via: http://www.nytimes.com
Venkat Panchapakesan of Google, left, and David Girouard, who runs Google Apps for Business. The service has lured small businesses, but few big companies, away from Microsoft Office.
He has installed Google Apps for Businesses, which provides word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and calendar software, for 400 people and said he planned to "convert" 900 more.
Because Google Apps performs many of the same functions as Office, but through a Web browser instead of local software, it is cheaper to own and operate than Microsoft's desktop software, he said. An additional 1,400 people will be giving up their Microsoft e-mail, documents and spreadsheets for Google in December.
Mr. O'Brien said he was also seeing a difference in behavior. Many people can look at and work on the same content together, and access their memos and calendars from lots of different Web-connected devices. So people are starting to work together by sharing documents that are stored in the cloud. Even at this early stage, he said, "it started to change us."
What's happening at Journal Communications is one small win for Google and its cloud computing challenge to Microsoft's lucrative Office division, maker of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. But more than 4 1/2 years after Google Apps for business made its debut, the question remains how much of a dent Google is making in Microsoft's business.
Microsoft says Google's efforts are hardly noticeable. But Google executives say that more and bigger companies are signing up for the cloud service.
Possibly more important to Google is the way that Apps helps Google build social networks inside business. If successful, it would be a threat to Microsoft's biggest division and would create another inroad in its struggle with Facebook to dominate users' online lives.
"Businesses are inherently about people and relationships," said David Girouard, who runs Google's Apps business. Predictable things, like figuring out the supplies needed for manufacture, were "not the minimum to play," he said. "You need to have a social system, where a guy can introduce an idea about a new supplier, and he gets input from a lot of people quickly."
Though Mr. Girouard said that 5,000 businesses a day signed up with Google Apps, few big companies have done so, most likely because some people do not entirely trust a cloud-based service, they like Microsoft or do not want to force employees to learn a new system. So Google does the next best thing and is focusing primarily on smaller businesses. Google maximizes the appeal of documents, calendars and spreadsheets at a cost of $50 a person a year. Many companies say that is 50 percent to 80 percent cheaper than Office. Google has the deep pockets to go slow since its search-related businesses bring in over $30 billion.
Microsoft has deep pockets too. Its Office division revenue alone is $5.6 billion.
Most corporate software is sold through big consulting firms, like I.B.M. or Accenture, but Google has yet to use a partner. "They have approached other companies, but others think it's not in their best interest," said David M. Smith, an analyst with Gartner. He estimates Google gets just $150 million a year from Apps, and that it is not enough to cover costs. Google says it does make a profit.
Instead, it uses the business in "asymmetric warfare" with Microsoft. "Google spends $1 to make Microsoft spend $10 defending itself, because Microsoft went after Google on search," Mr. Smith said.
Microsoft is dismissive of the situation.
"We sell a copy of Office 2010 every second — over 100 million so far," said Tom Rizzo, a senior director in the Office division. "Nine out of 10 customers who use Google keep Office on their desktop."
Microsoft started its own online documents business in June, at a price of $2 to $27 a month for each employee using the service. Mr. Rizzo, a 10-year Microsoft employee, would not say how sales were, but said, "I think this has the potential to be the fastest-growing product I've ever been a part of."
Via: freshnetworks.com
Bradley Horowitz, vice president in charge of products at Google+, the company's new social network, says the long-term reality of cloud computing will be the obliteration of any line between business and consumer. "Work and home meld into each other," he said. "People at home already have access to huge supercomputers through the Google grid; they will not abide having old tools at work."
Google Apps is centered on Gmail, used at no cost by hundreds of millions of people. The free version comes with ads and fewer features. Paid Apps have no ads, and Google says it guarantees a sustained quality of service and provides features like a way to publish corporate videos.
Capgemini, a technology services consultancy, uses Apps in a Guatemala-based call center because employees were used to the free version. That cut training time. Virgin America uses the Gmail system for its 2,100 employees, but lets people choose whether to use Microsoft Office. "When you have people on one tool, it takes them awhile to convince them it's worth it to move," said Dean Cookson, Virgin's chief information officer. "It comes down to finding the killer thing the new one does."
Google recently enabled companies to create corporate pages inside Google+, its social network site akin to Facebook. Where the consumer version of Google+ has a feature called "Circles," which allows a person to keep the posts he shares with his frat brothers separate from those he shares with his mother, corporate Circles can be used to create virtual departments and teams, or for collaboration on projects including e-mail, documents, or video.
Once Google+ has perfected features like security and encryption, said Mr. Horowitz of Google, "it will change the way people work, share and communicate. I'll have work conversations at 100 water coolers a day."
Via: blog.turnthescrew.com
At Journal Communications, Mr. O'Brien's staff used Circles to train people on the transition from Microsoft Office to Apps. "We deployed six different teams in six rooms," with video links between each, he said. "People could go into different rooms, and get different expertise from anyone in one of the other rooms." He thinks using Circles to establish ad hoc teams of reporters will enhance collaboration among the company's newspapers and television businesses.
Mr. Girouard said that Google Apps would introduce even more features with Google+ over the next few months. "We're headed to a place where all productivity is inherently social," he said. "Questions like 'What do we do next?' and 'Who needs to make a decision today?' are handled inefficiently now. It's why there are so many meetings in companies." Social networks in business, he said, could be faster, less formal and more efficient.
Social networking "is the next phase of what we're going to do in business," said Mr. Girouard.
Article via: Quentin Hardy
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Q: build folder link to unexisted path I installed CentOS 8.
CentOS-8-x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso

I need to compile a driver, I did:
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

After that, I still can't make driver source code ( by using 'make'), it reports build path is empty ( no such file or directory )
make[l]: *** /lib/modules/4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64/build: No such file or directory

l checked the build path in /lib/modules/4.18.0-80.el8.x86-64, it link to:
build -> /usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64

but this path didn't exist.
What inside /usr/src/kernels is
4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64

If I do:
sudo yum install kernel-devel

it reports:
Package kernel-devel-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 is already installed.

UPDATE
If I manually change the KERNEL_SRC in Makefile
from
KERNEL_SRC :=/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build/

to
KERNEL_SRC :=/usr/src/kernel/4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64/

It can build, my problem is I install kernel-devel via yum, why it didn't create the correct kernel src path?


The death occurred in London early this morning of Mr. William Lawrence Baillieu, one of the outstanding figures in Australian industry. He was 76.
Mr. Baillieu had been living in Europe for three years following a serious illness in Australia. His health lately had been improved considerably, but a week ago he contracted influenza. He was recovering when pneumonia developed. His daughter, Miss V. L. Baillieu, was with him when he died at his London home, 12 Hyde Park Gate.
Mr. Baillieu was born at Queenscliff on April 22, 1859, and was the second son of the late Mr. J. G. Baillieu, one of Melbourne's earliest pioneers. At 14 he entered the Queenscliff branch of the Bank of Victoria, and at 25, with Mr. Donald Munro, began business as an auctioneer and estate agent. After seven years Mr. Baillieu withdrew from the partnership and founded W. L. Baillieu & Co. From this beginning Australia saw the launching and development of some of the greatest industrial enterprises now existing in the Commonwealth.
Mr. Baillieu was chairman of the Electrolytic Zinc and of Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavays) Ltd., chairman of directors of Broken Hill Associated Smelters and North Broken Hill, and a director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Yarra Falls Ltd., Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co., Zinc Producers' Association, Melbourne Trust, Metal Manufacturers Ltd., Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Co. and the Hampden Cloncurry Copper Mines. He also had large pastoral interests and was a director and vice chairman for many years of the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.
Mr. Ballieu is survived by three sons —Mr. Clive Baillieu (who is one of Australia's leading business men in London), Messrs. H. L. and T. L. Baillieu (who are on the land in Victoria), and four daughters—Mrs. Robert Ramsay. Mrs. Julian Smith, Mrs. J. Vickers (N.S.W.). and Miss V. L. Baillieu.
In 1901 Mr. Baillieu was elected to the Legislative Council for Northern Province, and eight years later joined the Murray Watt Cabinet as Minister for Public Works and Leader of the Council. In 1911 he resigned his portfolio of Public Works but remained as honorary Minister, and in 1912, when the Watt Ministry was formed, joined it as Honorary Minister and leader in the Council. He continued to hold these offices until the defeat of the Peacock Ministry in 1917. He retired from public life in 1922, when he was unofficial leader in the Upper House.
Mr. Baillieu was a brilliant organiser and a man with a great capacity for leading. He had wide sympathies, and he and his brothers presented to the Government the present Anzac Hostel for Wounded Soldiers in Brighton.
'Baillieu, William Lawrence (Willie) (1859–1936)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/baillieu-william-lawrence-willie-5099/text26023, accessed 22 April 2019.


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Ниже приведен список экорегионов в Мозамбике, о чем свидетельствует Всемирный Фонд дикой природы (ВФП).

Наземные экорегионы
по основным типам местообитаний

Тропические и субтропические влажные широколистные леса
 Прибрежные леса Мапуталенда
 Прибрежные леса Южного Занзибара-Иньямбане

Тропические и субтропические луга, саванны и кустарники
 Редколесья Восточного Миомбо
 Редколесья Южного Миомбо
 Редколесья Замбези и Мопане

Затопляемые луга и саванны
 Прибрежная затопляемая саванна Замбези
 Затопленные луга Замбези

Горные луга и кустарники
 Горные леса и луга Восточного Зимбабве
 Кустарники и заросли Мапуталенда-Пондоленда
 Горные леса и луга Южного Малави
 Горные леса и луга Южного нагорья

Мангры
 Мангры Восточной Африки
 Мангры Южной Африки

Пресноводные экорегионы
по биорегиону

Великие Африканские озера
 Ньяса (Малави, Мозамбик, Танзания)

Восточный и прибрежный
 Бассейн Восточного побережья (Мозамбик, Танзания)
 Озера Чилва и Чиута (Малави, Мозамбик)

Замбези
 Низкий Велд Замбези (Мозамбик, Южно-Африканская Республика, Свазиленд, Зимбабве)
 Замбези
 Муланье (Малави, Мозамбик)
 Нагорье Восточного Зимбабве (Мозамбик, Зимбабве)
 Высокий Велд Замбези (Зимбабве)
 Луангва Среднего Замбези (Мозамбик, Замбия, Зимбабве)
 Нижняя Замбези (Малави, Мозамбик)

Морские экорегионы
 Бухта Софала/Болотистое побережье
 Делагоа
 Восточно-африканский Коралловый берег

Ссылки
 Burgess, Neil, Jennifer D'Amico Hales, Emma Underwood (2004). Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.
 Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. «Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas». Bioscience Vol. 57 No. 7, July/August 2007, pp. 573—583.
 Thieme, Michelle L. (2005). Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC.

Экорегионы Африки
Мозамбик

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An advanced power producing technology known as Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Reactors now enables the burning of coal refuse. This technology is perhaps the single greatest hope of ridding Pennsylvania's landscape of hundreds of small mountains of coal refuse leftover from the environmentally insensitive heyday of coal mining. Sometimes referred to as cogeneration plants, or simply "cogens", the CFB plants employ advanced pollution control equipment that allow them to meet the strictest air quality emission standards in producing electricity. Additionally, the byproduct ash produced has been found to be very useful in reclaiming abandoned mine lands that have been polluted with acids and metals (including the very coal refuse sites that fuel the plants).
Testimony - Waste Coal Incentives by PA DEP Secretarty McGinty before the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.


Well really that should be a "Piece" as without words it ain't a Song, but that is the parlance and when in Rome, do Romans.
This article is gong to be huge (over 3,100 words). This subject is so huge that people have written bibles on each part of this. I am glossing to try to give you the basics which will get you started (or finishing). Take each part bit by bit. Come back and do it all again. If you are open then you can learn something extra every time.
How often do I hear the complaint; I have made millions of 8 bar loops but no complete songs? Well if I got a dollar for every time then I wouldn't need to work. Trouble is we all know that a loop is not a real piece of music. It may be an idea. It may even be a very cool, killer idea. But if it isn't expanded into a full song/piece/composition then it is useless. As useless as a car without an engine, or wheels.
I have attacked this subject a few times but don't feel like I have made any difference. Now I know that maybe it is a waste as those who do, do. And those who don't, don't (and whine about it). I have attacked this from the angle of the psychology and even from pictures of notes. I guess I will do that again and maybe this time I will feel like I got it covered. This is the video for those who don't like to read. Readers will get more below.
Now if you are thinking that my video can't help you because it isn't the style you write (or want to write) then please don't fall into that trap. Country, Extreme Metal, or whatever form of EDM is en vogue this month are different, unrelated. WRONG! Music is like a box of chocolates. It is all yummy and melts in the sun. Choc goop is choc goop no matter what seashell shape it was in.
All music starts with an idea. In DAW-speak we call that a loop. Commonly we work that idea up vertically (more layers of sounds) but forget to work the idea horizontally (progression over time). Layers of sounds are part of music for sure but time is a more important part. Think on this: a piano piece, if it doesn't develop over time it has no existence past the first phrase (few bars). You have no extra layers to add so you have to develop the idea over time. See that arrangement image on the right there, that is my idea over time.
Start with your loop or idea. I would prefer to think of it as an idea. A loop is nothing but random Lego pieces. An idea is what those Lego pieces can become. So stick your first pieces of Lego together, then work out what the big idea is, what you need to tell the world with this construction. In that image the yellow box is the initial idea. The rest is working the idea through time.
Here's the initial idea.It is pretty simple as ideas go but with the right effects, makes an engaging Ostinato to hang my piece on.
Now it would be tempting to add layers of sounds till I feel like there is a huge slab of block rockin' beats. This is the short term ego trap. remember that time is a vital part of your piece. I like this two bars but it is only a first phrase. Like Hans Zimmer is saying in the ad for his Masterclass, music is a conversation. This is the first question. There needs to be more to this, an answer and an expansion of the idea for it to be able to live through time.
I hear this idea over and over as I make it and I start to get a feel for what it wants to do next. I take a copy and make some changes. This is called a Variation and is a cornerstone of making music. Work on the art of variations. Literally what I did here was to copy that initial 2 bars out till I had 8 bars (3 copies). I then made a variation on the 4th time.
I'm going to take a bit to talk about variations as they are the cornerstone of making music. Yes I know I just said that but I am hoping that you really get this thing.
If you look at the image above you see the first phrase (in yellow) is copied out so it plays 3 times. Then it does something different. Repetition creates the groove or theme. Variations create the conversation or development of that idea over time.
Creating variations is really not that hard, even if you don't yet understand much about Key or Scale – trust me that knowing these does help you heaps. Variation means same but different. It does not mean random new thing. See how my variation follows the same rhythm but alters the notes. This keeps familiarity of the groove but creates movement. If we change the rhythm and melody too much it becomes random. Experimental Jazz is broader in the application of this than Trance. Here I simply work down the octave.
Now I have 8 bars with a variation. This is not enough as I can tell my idea is only half-developed right now. Easy solution is to take that 8 bars, copy it off and make another variation. I could vary lots of things but that would not be so good here as this is the Riff of the piece so it needs to be predictable, but with an edge of movement.
I don't normally do drums till I have the piece reasonably well fleshed out as to me drums are a supporting part and I don't want them filling the space I could be using for more important elements. That is a thing worth noting if you find it hard to get past a certain point as maybe, just maybe, you are filling all the space with drums so there is no space to hear possible variations (questions & answers).
If this is where you think you may be at, either mute the drums or drop them back in the mix till they do no more than lightly pulse the groove (as opposed to nailing it to the tree in the next county). You may note that this is how I have my drums mixed in the piece.
I made these drums in exactly the same way I made the ostinato. Two bars, repeat with a little variation, repeat again with a few more variations. Boom tsk.
Now remember we want those variations to be subtle lest every few bars sounds like a completely new duck washing monkeyface. However, we also don't want to use the same pattern ad nauseam so I done maded a second pattern which also fits with the initial idea. We can do that as there is always more than one way to flense a feline. The interchange of drummular ideas gives a subtle sense of variation without even writing a new note.
With drums in place, I feel the need for a stronger core to this piece and there is little better than a nice firm, round, mound of fundamental to both anchor your ideas and move the groove.
Back to my first two bar idea and the notes wrote themselves because by now I could feel the shape I wanted the bassline to have. It is simple but with a nice flat electro-funk feel from a little off-beat action -otherwise known as syncopation. I will admit to being weak on notes but the more I know the better I get at it. They call that practice. So for now if you don't rightly know your C Sharp from your D Flat it isn't the end of the road. BUT you do need to know the Root of your piece and the Root of the current Chord. They are the place to start and/or end.
My first two bars start on the fundamental which is C. They skip down to E which is the middle of the major Triad. Nice safe note. Finally, there is a wee note blipped in on the D. Odd as it is not a real strong note in C Maj, but it is a Leading Note to toss us into the next phrase.
As you should now be able to see that second phrase is a copy & paste with a Variation: i) goes down, ii) goes up; i) happens again to keep the familiarity then iv) is a new variation that starts on G which just so happens to be the magical 5th in the Triad. That climbs up through the Leading Tone (B) to the Fundamental on C. Then there's that playful little D again to toss us 'round the loop.
What I hope you get from this is not so much to copy my groove but to see that all you need are a few musical pointers to a) hold the groove and melodic structure, b) advance both those things at once by creating a recognizable pattern.
This has really fleshed my initial idea out to become a workable little piece – well half-piece. I am hoping that you can see how I have been building in both the vertical (layers of sound) and horizontal (idea progressing over time) dimensions.
String pads can add such wonderful reassurance or tension to any piece. That is why you hear them used soooooo much. And yet they sound great every time. I pretty well dialed these notes in. It is a really simple 1st, 3rd, 5th, 4th thing. All with basic triad chords. That is my start and I like it plenty. For a simple piece, I think simple is good.
If working on a deep space piece with a Prog edge I might use all manner of odd voicings so it sounds fascinating. That and Phasers just love to chew through the interesting harmonics. Horses for courses is my point. But still, don't go past simple till you know why.
I let everything I have play out with these strings as altogether it sounds great and so bears repeating. Of course, to be purely mercenary I am adding time too. Sometimes if you don't know what comes next, you repeat till you just know what that new part needs to sound like.
There are whole articles on Orchestration and String Arranging. I like this one a great lot so I won't attempt to rewrite it here as Pete is far better at it than I.
I use these basic techniques to build from the notes in my chords and extract a melody. Here are the first 8 bars. I based these notes more on the root notes.
For the second 8 bars I get a bit more esoteric and grab far more broadly from the available notes. Same chords, different rhythm and notes. Power of variation.
If you are really paying attention you see that my phrases don't strictly conform to the 8 bar boxes. I have 16 bars and I intend to sprawl all over them. In this I did create a slight problem as my second phrase sounded like it started again whilst using the same instrument. A failing or an opportunity. I decided to make it the latter as I could hear that cool thing where the players swap in the middle of an instrumental – guitar to sax, Ritchie Blackmore to Jon Lord, Eddie Van Halen to Eddie Van Halen (on keys).
I duplicated the lead sound and made a few tweaks so it was similar but different. There is a natural change-over note where I let the two sounds overlap; then there is that lovely bit of surprise as the new sound takes over. What a lift to push the high-point of the piece. "While you see a chance, take it" – Steve Winwood.
While this is going on I get the strings out of the way by stripping them back to the root notes. Not vital at all but working fast I didn't want to wade through possible clashes. The space lets the leads take um, the lead. Orchestrate as you need, but only ever as much as you need and not a pizzicato more.
Good enough for Motley Crue, good enough for me. There is a rule in art called Rule Of Thirds. Basically, it means you pop the most exciting bit of the picture two-thirds of the way across the image. In a Rock song that just so happens to be where the screaming solo is. As luck (or great management) would have it, that swap in the solo is right in the pocket of the 75% point of the tune. It makes it work better than if the very same thing happened elsewhere. Do what you can to make sure the culmination or final answer to the idea of your piece happens at this point.
Do what you can to make sure the culmination or final answer to the idea of your piece happens at this point. To find where that point is if you already have all the sections laid out; take the total number of bars, divide by 3 and multiply that by 2. Just about there is where you want to lay out the culmination of your idea. This is the insight to the question posed by your initial idea.
I hear you saying that you have no idea, no story, it is just a beat. I am a firm believer that this is part of where you are going wrong as with no sense of a story, occasion or scene there is nothing to guide you how to build your initial idea into a greater arrangement. I don't have a name for this piece. I couldn't even tell you what it is about but I could clearly hear a sense of story as I was writing it. That is what I mean.
The conclusion of the piece is where the original idea, the variations, and the answers all come together. This is the point where the arguing couple find they agree on things after all. The Choruses hit harder and everything sounds grander that you thought possible.
In my case, I have all the elements in action. Drums, Bass, Ostinato, doing what we know. Then I shake it up a bit. I give the basic chords to the second lead sound, and to filll the brief of same but new I take the first 8 bars of the lead and stretch them out to play across the whole 16 bars. That makes the notes something we know but the delivery different. It may be a formula but it works and my 2 bar idea is now out to 85 bars.
Everything has to finish and how you do that is important. Let the piece speak to you. Some pieces will want a big finish, some will want a repeat till fade and some will want to do something odd to make em hang. I decided to take a bit from columns A & C.
You see the chords leading into a final chord. I use the term loosely as this isn't a full chord. Remember I wanted a big finish but also a sense of suspension. I got the Fundamental to tell us we are home, but then two of the 5ths to have an up sort of a feeling. The bass holds the Fundamental. The string takes the same basic shape but adds another note to hoist the hang just a bit more. I'm sure there are Latin terms but who cares as the way it plays is what matters.
With the ostinato sound I don't want the pattern to continue but I don't want the sound to stop either. I need a Fill. A great way to get a fill is to use an Arpeggio. I draw one in that covers the octave and that fits the brief. The arpeggio can now be used to create some other fills in our arrangement. Re-using is a great thing as it creates familiarity so you can show an idea in one place and expand it later. That is the essence of Arranging.
You can see the little fills here in yellow. There are a couple of bars to ease us into the piece, a couple between the solo and the Recapitulation (final Choruses to you) and of course the ending. I could have done more but it could just as easily swamped the piece. Use your judgment.
The last thing I do is a bit of Automation (here in yellow).
In DAW-land we tend to separate notes and performance. Automation is a way we can put some of that back in. I could make a whole article on clever ways to make MIDI notes seem more real but you can see them on YouTube. What I did here were a few adjustments to Filter & Volume to let the parts say what I wanted them to. Never forget that automation can have a wonderful impact on how your arrangement works.
Out of two bars, or a few seconds, of music I now have a full piece. I could make it longer if I added another idea but 2:30 of usable music is not too bad for a few hours work.
Great article Benjamin! In addition to the very help content, I have learned a new word, 'flense'.


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Murder Mystery parties in Bristol
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Perfect Murder, live action murder mystery events company, have completed a series of four immersive murder mystery parties in Bristol. We were asked to stage four events for a well-known national supermarket as part of their staff incentive scheme. The murder mystery events were held at The Marriot Royal Hotel on College Green and took place over two weekends.
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Perfect Murder's team of experienced professional murder mystery actors, based near Bristol, staged four individual murder mysteries, each with a different story and theme. Guests were immersed in a live-action murder mystery that ran in real-time; the story and plot plays out face-to-face with guests and the suspects are interact with guests throughout.
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Some progressives say Obama could appoint Merrick Garland without Senate approval. Only voters can change the situation.
Americans, like all humans, are trapped in history; thus we can't know now whether the American republic is on its deathbed or simply spiking one of its periodic fevers. The patient has recovered from near-fatal illness before; but it has to be said that lately—with the rise of a potential dictator in the form of Donald Trump and the effective collapse of a functioning national legislature—its breathing has developed an ominous rattle.
In such moments, the first rule for would-be physicians is well known: Primum non nocere—"First, do no harm." But in recent weeks, a handful of progressives have ignored that principle. A perfectly dreadful idea has been circulating: President Obama should, after waiting a few more weeks for the Senate to act on his Supreme Court nomination, simply proclaim Judge Merrick Garland "confirmed" and send him over the One First St. NE to take Antonin Scalia's vacant seat.
A worse idea could hardly be imagined. But the fact that serious people are discussing it demonstrates how effectively conservative legislators have undermined the very idea of civil dialogue. The congressional majorities have begun to act as if the United States doesn't have an elected president. They will not debate an authorization for use of force against ISIS; they will not permit Obama's budget director to testify about the budget; they will not hold hearings on his Supreme Court nomination. The message has been that the administration is not legitimate and no real legislating will be done on any subject.
The progressive argument for "confirmation by proclamation" begins with the Constitution's provision that the president "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate . . . shall appoint . . . judges of the Supreme Court." It doesn't say, they note, that "advice and consent" requires a formal vote. What if the president were allow the Senate a reasonable time to act on the Garland nomination? If it doesn't, Obama could announce that, in essence, silence means consent, and his nominee is appointed.
This argument does not simply torture the Constitution's text and history, it waterboards it. The words "advice and consent" in Article I of the Constitution may seem vague, but in context, they aren't. Senate confirmation is required not only for judges, but for "Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls … and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for." Even a Senate working in good faith could not necessarily confirm every presidential nominee within a fixed time period, and the text sets no deadline for these appointments. Elsewhere, the Framers did provide deadlines: For example, neither house of Congress may "without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days." A bill sent to the president for signature will become law unless he signs or vetoes it "within ten days (Sundays excepted)." Presidents also have the "power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session." The Framers understood deadlines, and they neither set one, nor implicitly granted the president power to set one, for confirmation.
Beyond that, as Peter Shane of Ohio State University recently pointed out in an interview, Article II of the Constitution makes clear that "advice and consent" is a formal vote, not just a moment of silence. The president has "power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur." In 225 years, to the best of my knowledge, no one has discerned this power vested in the president. There's a reason for that: It's not there.
On the other side, some conservatives have suggested that the Senate has no "duty" to consider a presidential nomination. Glenn Kessler, who runs the "Fact Checker" blog at The Washington Post, went so far as to give "three Pinocchios" to the idea of a senatorial duty, deeming it "mostly false." But this apparently means it's "maybe wrong or maybe not." As Kessler wrote, "It's matter of opinion whether a refusal to consider a nominee is a dereliction of constitutional duty or walking away from a constitutional responsibility." A matter of opinion is not, by definition, a matter of fact.
Strictly according to the text, the Senate has almost no "duties" at all: no duty to confirm any officials; no duty to pass an annual budget; no "duty" to count the electoral vote or honor its result; no duty to hold an actual trial of any impeached official; no "duty" to do anything except possibly to "assemble at least once in every year" for a few minutes, then head out for the fishing hole while the Republic burns. The word "duty" appears in the Constitution only as a term for fees on imports. But the only reasonable interpretation of the oath of office is that it brings with it the responsibility to govern; and therein duty lies.
The Senate's inaction sends a message to the country: The fate of the Supreme Court is an annex of the transient Senate majority. It is the property of a party and exists to do that party's bidding. That idea undermines the institution. Despite its somewhat threadbare majesty, the Supreme Court, like the rule of law itself, is actually a fragile thing.
The only way to force action on the nomination is the one at the heart of all Constitutional disputes. If the American people care about a government that works, and a Court that can function, they will pressure their senators today and retaliate against the recalcitrant in the fall. That's what "government by the people" means. Only the people can break the country's current fever.
Shoving poor Merrick Garland up the Supreme Court steps would compromise the legitimacy of every future decision. Once law is wounded in the house of its protectors, the damage may be irreversible.


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