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A road trip to Gujarat - Rani ki Vav at Patan, Sun Temple at Modhera, Adalaj ki Vav and the ruins of Champaner
'Now what will Gujarat have to offer except vegetarian food and temples ??!??!' I asked my wife.
'Stop behaving like a weirdo and get your facts right.The history of Gujarat began with Stone Age settlements followed settlements like Indus Valley Civilisation. Nanda, Maurya, Satavahana, Gupta, Allauddin Khilji, Akbar, Maratha and Chalukya empires have all ruled over this great land. ' snapped back my wife.
I was taken aback for a minute but still decided to come back with something which will ensure I have the last laugh. 'Oh yeah !! Well... I am sure a road trip will be impossible given the conditions of roads in other states ' Success; I thought.
'Actually, Gujarat has one of the best infrastructures in India ' she grinned.
'Damn!'
So began my quest to create a 4 Day road trip across Gujarat. I did some research and came across 3 important location which I wanted to visit -
Rani ki Vav at Patan
Sun Temple at Modhera
The ruins of Champaner
After a bit planning and ensuring our Hyundai Accent 2003 was in travel condition for this 1000 Km journey, we left for Gujarat early morning.
Day 1 was all about travelling.
Left from Pune early morning, traveled through Mumbai and en route through Surat, Vadodara and reached Ahmedabad late night.
The roads from Borivali Mumbai to Gujarat are as plain as butter. My vehicle manage to keep an average speed of 60+ Kms ... and believe me with Accent 2003 its very good. Also worth mentioning is that there are good options to stop and rest through the entire route.
We managed to get correct directions from time to time from a sweet lady who was kind enough to tell us if we should go straight, or take third exit or if we were on fastest route. Sometimes I do feel i have secret crush on her.... oh Google Maps. Hate her family member though who keeps suggesting me what I want to search or auto completing me...
Tried giving KFC (Khakra Fafra Chai) a try but this is not for me. Locals however love the dish
Now it may seem me and my wife lead a high flying life, but the fact is we are always living on the brink. So imagine our surprise when we managed to get good hotels at excellent price on Treebo hotels website. I would personally suggest you to give it a try once.
We reached late evening, had our dinner and dozed off to sleep.
Day 2 early morning we left for the UNESCO world heritage site - Rani ki Vav
The journey from Ahmedabad to Patan takes approximately 3 hours by road hence it is advisable to leave early morning.
Rani ki vav is an intricately constructed stepwell situated in the town of Patan in Gujarat. It is located on the banks of Saraswati River.
Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the third millennium BC. Rani ki vav was built in the complex Maru-Gurjara architectural style with an inverted temple and seven levels of stairs and holds more than 500 principal sculptures . Rani ki vav was built as a memorial to an 11th century AD king
Bhimdev I by his widowed queen Udayamati and probably completed by Udayamati and Karna after his death.
The stepwell was later flooded by the nearby Saraswati River and silted over until the late 1980s. When it was excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India, the carvings were found in pristine condition.
It was added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites on 22 June 2014
6 floored structure with amazing carvings
Exquisite carvings on the walls
Often called the Khajurao of Gujarat
Posers !!! Me and wife Suchita getting clicked
The complete view of the Rani ki Vav
Admiring all the intricate carving and the detailed stories engraved in them easily takes up 3 hours.As usual the local guides or guards can help you with some of the best info at the site.
Do ensure to visit the Patola weaving center nearby. Though we could in no way afford it, the owner of the weaving enter is courteous enough to explain the entire process to all the guests.
From Patan its an hours journey South towards Modhera Sun Temple
The Sun Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the solar deity Surya located at Modhera village of Mehsana district of Gujarat. It was built in 1026-27 AD during the reign of Bhima I of the Chaulukya dynasty. It is built on 23.6° latitude (approximately near Tropic of Cancer)
No worship is offered now and is protected monument maintained by Archaeological Survey of India.
The entire temple is over whelming in terms of architecture, mathematical alignments, design and the science behind it.
It is absolute essential to hire a guide available at the entry point to enjoy the temple.
Had availed services of guide named Mr. Vipul Rawal, Ph. : 9924888505 who was extremely knowledgeable.
We found many interesting sculptures here. One interesting statue was that of Sun God- who looks like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Wonder if there was actually a much free and open society and flow of knowledge from India to countries and Egypt and vice versa.
Exploring Sun temple properly easily takes up 3 hours of your time.
Dead tired and hungry, we decided to head back to Ahmedabad for much needed rest.
Day 3 again began early with a visit to Adalaj ki vav at Gujarat.
The history of the Adalaj step-well built in 1498 is established by an inscription in Sanskrit found on a marble slab positioned in a recess on the first floor, from the eastern entry to the well.
Its construction was started by Rana Veer Singh of the Vaghela dynasty of Dandai Desh. But he was killed in a war, wherefater a Muslim king Mahmud Begada of a neighbouring state built it in Indo-Islamic architectural style, in 1499.
The Adalaj step-well is a popular tourist attraction of the Ahmedabad city and is situated 18 kilometres north of the city.
Guards work as guides here but give useful info on the history of the place. We were also told of a spookly tale where Rani Roopba spirit is sometimes seen moving across the now closed balconies of
the step well.
After spending an hour and clicking photos (hoping not to click any lady in royal ornaments or who looked like a queen) we headed towards Champaner.
The drive from Adalaj ki Vav to Champaner through Vadodara takes approximately 3 hours. We got to enjoy sweet corn along the way and chomped our way to the last planned location along our itinerary.
Champaner was introduced to most of India through this movie-
Even though the movie was fascinating and spoke of collective might of villagers of Champaner, the movie did not do any justice to the architectural beauty hidden in the region.
Champaner was founded by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda Dynasty, in the 8th century.
By the later 15th century, the Khichi Chauhan Rajputs held Pavagadh fort above the town of Champaner.
The young Sultan of Gujarat, Mahmud Begada, deciding to attack Champaner, started towards it with his army on 4 December 1482. After defeating the Champaner army, Mahmud captured the town and besieged Pavagadh, the well-known hill-fortress, above Champaner, where king Jayasimha had taken refuge. He captured the Pavagadh fort on 21 November 1484, after a siege of 20 months.
He then spent 23 years rebuilding and embellishing Champaner, which he renamed Muhammadabad, after which he moved the capital there from Ahmedabad. In 1535, after chasing away Bahadur Shah,
Humayun personally led some 300 Mughals to scale the fort on spikes driven into rock and stonework in a remote and unguarded part of the citadel built over a precipitous hillside on Pavagadh Hill.
Champaner is today the site of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, which UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site in 2004.
Sultan Begada also built a magnificent Jama Masjid in Champaner, which ranks amongst the finest architectural edifices in Gujarat. It is an imposing structure on a high plinth, with a central dome, two minarets 30 meters in height, 172 pillars, seven mihrabs, and carved entrance gates with fine latticed windows called "jalis"
Entrance to the main corridor at Jama Masjid
Kevada mosque nearby
It was late in evening when we realized it was an hour journey back to Vadodara and we decided to head back.
Day 4 was all about our return journey back to Pune. We managed to have a quick lunch along the way at Bhajandas dairy farms, Virar Mumbai.
While on return journey, do visit the Schmitten factory outlet on Surat highway
Delight for chocolate lovers
Gujarat for us is unfinished travel love story and we will be back again to explore this amazing part of our India.
We tried to make a travel video of this 3 day trip - Gujarat Road Trip
Copy paste link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSaA9cUfsA&t=16s
Thanks for reading and happy travelling :)
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ITR17
Disclosure exemptions
2006 International Tax Disclosure Exemption
ITR17 covers 2006 international tax disclosure exemptions where disclosure is not necessary for the administration of the international tax rules.
Section 61 of the Tax Administration Act 1994 (TAA) requires people to disclose interests they hold in foreign entities.
Under section 61(1) of the TAA, a person who has a control or income interest in a foreign company or an interest in a foreign investment fund (FIF) at any time during the income year must disclose the interest held. However, section 61(2) allows the Commissioner of Inland Revenue to exempt any person or class of persons from this requirement if disclosure is not necessary for the administration of the international tax rules (as defined by section OB 1) contained in the Income Tax Act 2004 (ITA).
Under section 61(2), the Commissioner has issued an international tax disclosure exemption which applies for the income year ended 31 March 2006. This exemption may be cited as "International Tax Disclosure Exemption ITR17", and the full text appears at the end of this item.
Scope of exemption
The scope of the 2006 disclosure exemption is the same as the 2005 exemption.
Interests held by residents
Disclosure is required by residents for these interests:
an interest held in an FIF
an "income interest of 10% or greater" held in a foreign company. The disclosure obligation applies in respect of all foreign companies regardless of the country of residence.
An "income interest of 10% or greater" is defined in section OB 1 of the ITA. For the purposes of determining exemption from disclosure it includes these interests:
an income interest held directly in a foreign company
an income interest held indirectly through any interposed foreign company
an income interest held by an associated person (that is not a controlled foreign company) as defined by section OD 8 (3) of the ITA.
If a husband and wife each hold an income interest of 5% in a Cayman Islands company, the interests would not be exempt from disclosure because the husband and wife are associated persons under section OD 8(3)(d). Under the associated persons test they are each deemed to hold the other's interests, so they each hold an "income interest of 10% or greater" which must be disclosed.
They are not required to account for attributed controlled foreign company (CFC) income or loss under the CFC rules. However, they would have to account for FIF income or loss under the FIF rules.
In this example the husband and wife must disclose their interests as interests in a foreign company and as interests in an FIF. However, only the FIF interests should be disclosed on an IR439, IR440, IR441, IR442 or IR443 form (see "Overlap of interests" below).
Foreign company interests
A resident who holds a control or income interest in a foreign company must disclose that interest, regardless of the company's country of residence. The 2006 international tax disclosure exemption also makes no distinction about residence, and any interest in a foreign company which is an "income interest of 10% or greater" must be disclosed. Disclosure is to be made on an IR477 or IR479 Interest in a foreign company disclosure schedule.
The disclosure exemption makes no distinction on the residence of a foreign company for these reasons:
attributed (non-dividend) repatriation rules apply to an "income interest of 10% or greater" in a controlled foreign company (CFC) regardless of the CFC's country of residence.
to identify tax preferences applied by the taxpayer (whether or not specified in Schedule 3, Part B of the ITA) in respect of an interest held in a foreign company which is resident in a Schedule 3, Part A of the ITA jurisdiction (ie, Australia, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom and the United States of America).
the requirement for a CFC which is resident in a country not listed in Schedule 3, Part A of the ITA to attribute foreign income or loss from 1 April 1993.
Foreign investment fund interests
An interest in a foreign entity must be disclosed if it constitutes an "interest in a foreign investment fund" specified within sections CQ 5(1) and DN 6(1) of the ITA. These types of interest must be disclosed:
rights in a foreign company or anything deemed to be a company for the purposes of the ITA (eg, a unit trust)
an entitlement to benefit from a foreign superannuation scheme
an entitlement to benefit from a foreign life insurance policy
an interest in an entity specified in Schedule 4, Part A of the ITA (no entities were listed when this TIB went to press).
However, any interest that does not fall within the above types or which is specifically excluded as an interest in an FIF under sections CQ 5(1) and DN 6 does not have to be disclosed. The following are listed in sections CQ 5(1), DN 6, EX 32-35, EX 36(1) and EX 37(1) as exclusions from what constitutes an interest in an FIF:
an "income interest of 10% or greater" in a CFC (separate disclosure is required of this as an interest in a foreign company)
an interest in a foreign company that is resident and liable to income tax in a country or territory specified in Schedule 3, Part A of the ITA (ie, Australia, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Norway, United Kingdom and the United States of America)
an interest in an employment-related foreign superannuation scheme
a qualifying foreign private annuity, unless an election has been made to remain within the FIF regime, by the due date for filing the person's 2004 tax return. See Inland Revenue's booklet Overseas pensions and annuity schemes (IR257) for more information
interests in foreign entities held by a natural person other than in that person's capacity as a trustee, if the aggregate cost or expenditure incurred in acquiring the interests remains under $50,000 at all times during the income year
an interest held by a natural person in a foreign entity located in a country where exchange controls prevent the person deriving any profit or gain or disposing of the interest for New Zealand currency or consideration readily convertible to New Zealand currency
an interest in a foreign life insurance policy or foreign superannuation scheme acquired by a natural person before he or she became a New Zealand resident for the first time, for a period of up to four years.
A resident who holds an interest in an FIF at any time during the 2006 income year must disclose the interest and calculate FIF income or loss on the form Interest in Foreign Investment Fund Disclosure Schedule (IR439, IR440, IR441, IR442, IR443). The FIF rules allow a person four options to calculate FIF income or loss (accounting profits, branch equivalent, comparative value and deemed rate of return method), so the Commissioner has prescribed five forms to disclose and calculate FIF income or loss from an interest in a FIF using one of these methods. The respective forms to use for whichever FIF income calculation method you choose to apply is as follows:
IR439 form for the accounting profits method
IR440 form for the branch equivalent method
IR441 form for the comparative value method
IR442 form for the comparative value method and multiple interests
IR443 form for the deemed rate of return method.
Overlap of interests
A situation may arise where a person is required to furnish a disclosure for an interest in a foreign company which is also an interest in an FIF. For example, a person with an "income interest of 10% or greater" in a foreign company which is not a CFC is strictly required to disclose both an interest held in a foreign company and an interest held in an FIF.
However, to meet the disclosure obligations only one disclosure return (either the IR477 or IR479 form or the IR439, IR440, IR441 or IR443 form) is required for each interest a person holds in a foreign entity. Here are the general rules for determining which disclosure return to file:
Use the appropriate IR439, IR440, IR441, IR442 or IR443 form to disclose all FIF interests, and in particular:
an interest in a foreign company which is not resident in a Schedule 3, Part A country and is not a CFC (regardless of the level of interest held)
an income interest of less than 10% in a CFC which is not resident in a Schedule 3, Part A country
an interest in a foreign life insurance policy or foreign superannuation scheme, regardless of the country or territory in which the entity was resident.
Use the IR477 or IR479 forms to disclose:
an "income interest of 10% or greater" in a foreign company (regardless of the country of residence) that is not being disclosed on the IR439, IR440, IR441, IR442 or IR443 forms.
Disclosure is not required on any of the forms for an income interest of less than 10% in a foreign company (whether a CFC or not) which is also not an FIF interest. An example is an interest which is covered by the Schedule 3, Part A exclusion from the FIF rules.
Interests held by non-residents
The 2006 disclosure exemption removes the need for interests held by non-residents in foreign companies and FIFs to be disclosed.
This would apply for example to an overseas company operating in New Zealand (through a branch) in respect of its interests in foreign companies and FIFs.
The purpose of the international tax rules is to make sure that New Zealand residents are taxed on their share of the income of any overseas interests they hold. However, under the international tax rules non-residents are not required to calculate or attribute income under the CFC regime (sections CQ 2(1) and DN 2 of the ITA 2004). In addition, under sections CQ 5(1)(e) and DN 6(1)(e) of the ITA 2004 a non-resident is not to be treated as deriving or incurring any FIF income or loss. The disclosure of non-residents' holdings in foreign companies or FIFs is not necessary for the administration of the international tax rules.
The 2006 international tax disclosure exemption removes the requirement of a resident to disclose an interest held in a foreign company (if the interest is not also an interest in a FIF) that does not constitute an "income interest of 10% or greater" (ie, it is less than 10%). The disclosure exemption is not affected by the foreign company's country of residence. Further, an interest in an FIF must be disclosed.
The 2006 disclosure exemption also removes the requirement for a non-resident to disclose interests held in foreign companies and FIFs.
Persons not required to comply with section 61 of the Tax Administration Act 1994
This exemption may be cited as "International Tax Disclosure Exemption ITR17".
This exemption is made under section 61(2) of the Tax Administration Act 1994. It details interests in foreign companies in relation to which any person is not required to comply with the requirement in section 61 of the Tax Administration Act 1994 to make disclosure of their interests, for the income year ending 31 March 2006. This exemption does not apply to interests in foreign companies which are interests in foreign investment funds, unless that interest is held by a non-resident of New Zealand.
In this exemption, unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used have the same meaning as in section OB 1 of the Income Tax Act 2004.
Any person who has an income interest or a control interest in a foreign company (not being an interest in a foreign investment fund), in the income year ending 31 March 2006, is not required to comply with section 61(1) of the Tax Administration Act 1994 in respect of that interest and that income year, unless the interest held by that person during any accounting period of the foreign company (the last day of which falls within that income year of the person), would constitute an "income interest of 10% or greater", as defined by section OB 1 of the Income Tax Act 1994, as if the foreign company was a controlled foreign company.
Any non-resident person who has an income interest or a control interest in a foreign company or an interest in a foreign investment fund in the income year ending 31 March 2006, is not required to comply with section 61(1) of the Tax Administration Act 1994 in respect of that interest and that income year if either or both of the following apply:
No attributed CFC income or loss arises in respect of that interest in that foreign company by virtue of sections CQ 2(1) and DN 2 of the Income Tax Act 2004, and/or
No foreign investment fund income or loss arises in respect of that interest in that foreign investment fund by virtue of sections CQ 5(1)(e) and DN 6(1)(e) of the Income Tax Act 2004.
This exemption is made by me acting under delegated authority from the Commissioner of Inland Revenue pursuant to section 7 of the Tax Administration Act 1994.
This exemption is signed on the 9th day of March 2006.
Martin Scott
Acting Group Manager, Corporates

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Yale FES, Sage Hall, Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect Street
* Speaker, when more than one author listed
8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:40 *Gary Gorton (Yale University) and Guillermo Ordõnez (University of Pennsylvania), "Crises and Productivity in Good Booms and in Bad Booms"
10:30 Francois Geerolf (Toulouse School of Economics), "A Theory of Power Law Distribution for the Returns to Capital and of the Credit Spread Puzzle"
11:50 Michael Magill (University of Southern California) and *Martine Quinzii (University of California-Davis), "Prices and Investment with Collateral and Default"
2:00 *David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis/Simon Fraser University), Fernando Martin (FRB St. Louis) and Shengxing Zhang (New York University), "Rehypothecation"
2:50 Xavier Gabaix and *Matteo Maggiori (New York University, Stern School of Business), "International Liquidity and Exchange Rate Dynamics"
4:10 Peter Hammond (University of Warwick, UK), "On Designing and Efficient Spot Market System: From Myerson, Selten and Harsanyi to Walras via Warehousing and Demand Revelation"
10:00 *Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford, UK), Alexandros Vardoulakis (Federal Reserve System), and Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business), "How Does Macroprudential Regulation Change Bank Credit Supply?"
10:50 *M. Udara Peiris (ICEF, Higher School of Economics) and Herakles Polemarchakis (University of Warwick, UK), "Monetary Policy and Quantitative Easing in an Open Economy: Prices, Exchange Rates and Risk Premia"
12:10 Markus K. Brunnermeier and *Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University), "International Credit Flows, Pecuniary Externalities, and Capital Controls"
1:00 Lunch
2:20 *Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov, and Philipp Schnabl (New York University, Stern School of Business), "A Model of Monetary Policy and Risk Premia"
3:10 *Michael Richter (Yeshiva University) and Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University & New York University), "Back to Fundamentals: Abstract Competitive Equilibrium"
9:30 Jan Werner (University of Minnesota) "Speculative Trade under Ambiguity"
10:20 *Aloisio Araujo (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada & Funacão Getúlio Vargas), Alain Chateauneuf (Paris School of Economics), J. Gama-Torres (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada), and Rodrigo Novinski (Faculdades Ibmec-RJ), "General Equilibrium, Risk Taking and Volatility"
11:40 Jonathan Burke (Pepperdine University) "Generic Determinacy in Overlapping Generations Models"
David Andolfatto (FRB St. Louis & Simon Fraser University)
Aloisio Araujo (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura
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Sean Crockett (City University of New York)
Anastasios Dosis (ESSEC Business School, France)
Itamar Drechsler (NYU, Stern School of Business)
J. Gama-Torres (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura
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Francois Geerolf (Toulouse School of Economics)
Gary Gorton (Yale University)
Peter Hammond (University of Warwick, UK)
Matteo Maggiori (NYU, Stern School of Business)
Filipe Martins-da-Rocha (FGV and CNRS) Filippo Massari (University of New South Wales)
Enrico Minelli (Universitá di Brescia)
M. Udara Peiris (ICEF, Higher School of Economics)
Martine Quinzii (University of California, Davis)
Michael Richter (Yeshiva University)
Catherine Rouzaud (University of Paris)
Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
Alexi Savov (NYU, Stern School of Business)
Susan Schommer (IMPA)
Martin Shubik (Yale University)
Stephen Spear (Carnegie-Mellon)
Ross Starr (University of California, San Diego)
Spyridon Terovitis (University of Warwick)
Alexis Toda (University of California, San Diego)
Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford, UK)
Alexandros Vardoulakis (Federal Reserve System)
Shengxing Zhang (New York University)


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beets & noodz
a blog for columbia university musicians
David Acevedo (CC '19)
July 19, 2018 July 20, 2018 bncu
"Music that has brought me closest to tears is both traditionally beautiful […] but also has a degree of intentional imperfection embedded into it."
Choosing the opening quote for composer & trumpeter David Acevedo's (CC '19) post was tough, because there were lots of good ones:
"You don't have to force yourself to play art you don't like." (why isn't this something we practice more?? Wouldn't it save us from many unnecessary existential crises??)
"Improvisation is just spontaneous composition. Composition allows you to edit what you've done in improv." (We're feeling all the Jeremy Corren vibes here.)
"Harvesting & distributing memes." (when asked his favorite hobby aside from music. Check out his Insta for reference).
David's music, which he writes and performs with his band, Eyehear, is a lot like his favorite food, pastelitos: layered and heady, satisfying, and a bit surprising, with its familiar flavor profile presented in a slightly tweaked way. In his own words, his music "allows for the improv I want to do." It's funky, jazzy, rough around the edges–a "multi-informed" sound that is strangely beautiful and very human.
In the midst of recording Eyehear's new album, "Heard Mentality."
David's jazz background almost paradoxically enabled the eventual formation of jazz-based Eyehear. He "never really vibed with" the improv he grew up with in high school, "done over a cycle of harmonic chord changes"; he prefers what he and his four band members have adopted as their signature: "open, free, avant-garde improv where there aren't set chord changes attached to what you're playing." As Eyehear's band leader, composer, and manager, David finds the most humbling aspect of the band to be the guys' sheer talent. When David writes in his trumpet solo, his band members only see free accompaniment in the score. The music happens, quite literally, in-the-moment, with keyboardist Sean Kim and Joseph Freund (electric guitar) listening to the groove drummer Daniel Mesko and Conner Duke (electric bass) establish, and improvising off of it. The resulting "piece" is an ever-evolving entity: "played 10 times, the piece will sound 10 different ways. Similar to itself, but not the same."
David Acevedo (trumpet) and Joseph Freund (guitar)
One of the most striking things about the tracks on Eyehear's debut album (released March 30, 2018) is a distinct unripened quality, like a key that requires some wiggling in the lock before the door opens. A dissonant guitar riff here, a slightly wonky chord there–these are, for David, "humanity coming into the music over technical perfection." Music that's too clean, for David, misrepresents what is most human about us–our emotional diversity, our less well-rounded moments. If "totally pure music is not possible; composers will always be influenced by their life," then David's approach to music offers us an honest, sincere look into the mechanics of the music itself, and what they represent.
Who are David's favorite influences, then? Some perfectly-imperfect musicians: "Steve Coleman, Francis Poulenc, Stravinsky, my band." He takes after Thelonious Monk's timeless advice, "A genius is the one most like himself" (snaps for Thelonious Monk and being unapologetically yourself in 2018!!). He hates food on his hands of any kind and insists on eating even fries with silverware. He's also a Nintendo® head.
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Which route Hannibal chose to cross the Alps is still one of the unsolved enigmas of history. Now, researchers believe they might be able to track his route. Their evidence – horse manure. Hannibal's achievement became a legend even in his lifetime. The Carthaginian led tens of thousands of men and horses from the Iberian Peninsula across the Alps into Italy.
A march of five months and 1,500 kilometres. A most spectacular feature was the presence of war elephants, a sight no one west of the Pyrenees had ever seen. Whereas in Carthage – by then a Mediterranean superpower – they had been used for some time as precursors of the modern tank. The enigma of Hannibal's route across the Alps has fascinated scholars and adventurers alike. A team of researchers believes to have found proof that Hannibal opted for the Col de la Traversette, almost 3,000 metres high.
According to geomorphologist William Mahaney, "It's only from here that he could have overlooked the Po Basin", as is related by ancient sources. Mahaney and microbiologist Chris Allen from Belfast University have evaluated soil samples form the French side of the pass. They contained intestinal bacteria, proving that considerable numbers of animals must have come about the site in Hannibal's times.
In summer, 2017 Mahaney and Allen took samples on the Italian side, and they are hoping that the lab results will further back up their hypothesis. Whichever route Hannibal took, his march on Rome was a strategical as well as a logistical masterstroke.


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Academic journal article The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Vote as You Pray: The 1928 Election in Washington County, Arkansas
By Gage, Justin Randolph
ON OCTOBER 20, 1928, AN ADVERTISEMENT in the Fayetteville Daily Democrat informed readers that Washington County, Arkansas's most prominent clergyman, Rev. H. K. Morehead, had failed to pay his poll tax, rendering him ineligible to vote in that year's election. The ad crowed, "After weeks of labor in an effort to persuade Southern Democrats to desert the party of their fathers and join hands with the most corrupt political machine the world has ever known, it develops that the Reverend Gentlemen . . . is unable to vote." Paid for by the Smith-Robinson Club of Washington County, the ad suggested, "A man unwilling to contribute ONE DOLLAR to the common school fund for a poll tax, has no right to advise Democrats how to vote."1 The advertisement clearly illustrates not only Democrats' fears that white southerners would shrug off their traditional allegiances in the 1928 presidential election but also the complex collision of church and state that occurred that year in Arkansas. Many Protestant leaders around the country voiced their disapproval of Democratic presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith because of his perceived hostility to prohibition and his Catholicism. But Reverend Morehead and other Arkansas ministers were immersed in another controversy mixing religion and politics. In that same election, the state's voters would determine the fate of Initiated Act No. 1, which would ban the teaching of evolution in tax-supported schools. Numerous ministers around the state had been campaigning to remove evolution from schools' curriculum since 1926. Religious elements in the presidential campaign compounded the controversy, creating complex fractures in longstanding party and religious allegiances.
Washington County was one of many Arkansas counties where evolution and Al Smith were public, fiercely contested issues that brought the church into the political realm. Local Protestant leaders urged both the passage of Initiated Act No. 1 and the election of Smith's Republican opponent Herbert Hoover. They might appear to have made their case, since similar proportions of voters backed Hoover and voted to ban the teaching of evolution. Despite the county's longstanding loyalty to the Democratic party, the Republican presidential candidate received 56 percent of its votes, a twenty-point increase from the 1924 election. By contrast, Hoover topped the 1924 totals by just ten points statewide. Washington County, the home of the state's flagship university, passed the anti-evolution act with a 61 percent majority, close to the 63 percent majority statewide. But the seeming closeness of the Hoover and antievolution vote masked deep differences within the county. Only 30 percent of voters in the county seat of Fayetteville favored the act, making evident the conflict that emerged between church leaders and the university community. University president John C. Futrall and much of his faculty were among the state's most vocal opponents of the teaching ban. Other communities in the county showed considerable variation in their voting against the wet Catholic Smith and for the ban on the teaching of evolution, making clear that different sets of people were responsible for the Hoover and anti-evolution majorities. The county was not moving in lockstep with its ministers.
Al Smith received only 41 percent of the popular vote in 1928 and lost the electoral vote, 444 to 87.2 Republicans carried four southern states-Texas, Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina-for the first time since Reconstruction, as well as Tennessee and Kentucky. Historians disagree on the reasons for Republican success, but most cite Smith's Catholicism, Democrats' more lenient prohibition platform, and the country's economic prosperity. Some also cite Smith's urban, immigrant roots and his connection with New York City's Tammany Hall machine. Most southern Democrats could have found several reasons not to vote for Smith, as many were dry Protestants who might be suspicious of Catholicism and urbanites. …
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Publication date: Winter 2009
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As an informed citizen, you know that back in November the internet named an Australian boat Ferry McFerryface. Some laughed, others griped, and NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance simply explained, "the people voted for it so we listened." Ferry McFerryface had won fair and square.
But no, as it turns out, this is actually one of the more bizarre political scandals in an era made up almost exclusively of bizarre political scandals. Ferry McFerryface didn't win that competition, not even close. Andrew Constance actually overrode the vote and named the boat "Ferry McFerryface" in an attempt to generate press, which, uh, worked. He also undermined the project of democracy, but that's for him and his conscience to sort out.
This was inspired by a developing trend in democratic maritime naming -- for instance, a small research submarine named Boaty McBoatface and a whale tracked by Greenpeace named Mister Splashy Pants. What's even stranger is that Constance originally claimed the name "Boaty McBoatface" won this competition, but they changed it to "Ferry McFerryface" to avoid confusion with the research submarine.
This conspiracy of Watergate proportions was exposed by Nine News Australia after a freedom of information request revealed that the actual winner was the name "Ian Kiernan" (one of the founders of the environmental group Clean Up Australia). "Ian Kiernan" received 2,025 votes; "Ferry McFerryface" received 182. The vote itself cost $81,000 ($100,000 AU).
In light of this, the name "Ferry McFerryface" is no more, and the ferry will take the name "May Gibbs," after an Australian children's book author famous for Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, which both sound like great names for boats. Note that this still isn't the name that won the competition. "We always intended this vessel would be named for the kids," said the mastermind of the conspiracy.
The other five ferries in the fleet were named by the government and are called Catherine Hamlin, Fred Hollows, Victor Chang, Pemulwuy, and Bungaree.
Constance had originally urged the public, "Let's really generate some of the best names possible."
James Chrisman is a News Writer at Thrillist who believes those responsible should now be called Liar McLiarface. Send news tips to news@thrillist.com and follow him on Twitter @james_chrisman2.


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All of your assets and liabilities.
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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (UK tax authority).
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Q: VBA Modules and passing arguments I have a module that can be called from any part of my application to check if a particular font is installed on the users system, and if not - install the font and check again before continuing
Main Applicaton
if RequiredFont.Run(strFontName) = FALSE Then '(error message and exit sub)

Module "RequiredFont"
Public Function Run(Font As String) As Boolean
    if check(Font) = FALSE Then
        Run = FALSE
        Install(Font)
        if check(Font) = TRUE Then Run = TRUE
    Else
        Run = TRUE
    End If

Private Function Check(Font as String) as Boolean
'code to check the font exists on the users localmachine, returns true/false
End Sub

Private Sub Install(Font as String)
'code to install the font on the users localmachine,
End Sub

My first question is:
Is the best way to make arguments available to all functions and subs, to pass them through each time I call? (as shown above).... or is there a simple way to declare an argument as variable to the whole module when Run() is called?
My Second Question is:
Is there a way I can avoid Run() alltogether and just call the module name "RequiredFont" directly, I remember that in other languages, calling a sub by a certain name would automatically run that sub when the module is called
Thank You
EDIT - This is how my code looks now:
Private FontName As String
Private FontFile As String

Public Function Run(strFontName As String, strFontFile As String) As Boolean

    FontName = strFontName
    FontFile = strFontFile
    Run = False

    If CheckFont() = False Then InstallFont
    If CheckFont() = True Then
        Run = True
    Else
        'message error"
    End If

End Function

Private Function CheckFont() As Boolean
    'code to check if the font is installed
    On Error Resume Next
    'Create a temporary StdFont object
    With New StdFont
        ' Assign the proposed font name
        .Name = FontName
        ' Return true if font assignment succeded
        If (StrComp(FontName, .Name, vbTextCompare) = 0) = False Then
            CheckFont = False
        Else
            CheckFont = True
        End If
    End With
End Function

Private Sub InstallFont()
' code to install the font
    MsgBox "You need the following font installed to continue." _
    & vbNewLine _
    & vbNewLine & "'" & FontName & "'" _
    & vbNewLine _
    & vbNewLine & "Click OK to launch the font. Please click the INSTALL button at the top"
    OpenFile (PATH_TO_FONTS & FontFile)

End Sub

A: Using function arguments is a good coding practise, that way you know exactly what goes in and what goes out a function.
You can however use a global variable, which would be set once when Run is called and still be accessible to the other functions.
'could also be Private to hide it from other modules
Public myFont As String

Public Function Run(Font As String) As Boolean
    myFont = Font
    '...
End Sub

Private Function Check() as Boolean
' you can access myFont here
End Sub

Private Sub Install()
'idem
End Sub

Regarding your second question, I don't think you can.

A: You can declare optional functions, and set defaults:
Public Function fxMyFunction _
    (Optional lngProj As Variant, _
     Optional strFruit As Variant = "banana", _
     Optional booTest As Boolean = False) As String

   '' IsMissing requires that lngProj be a Variant
   booNoProject = IsMissing(lngProj)

   fxMyFunction = strFruit

End Function

The Optional arguments must follow non-optional arguments.
About functions that "run on inclusion"
You do have to call functions and subs by name.  There is no "self-running function" feature for a VBA standard module.  VBA "includes" all modules on compiling.
VBA class modules are where you will find the equivalent of constructors.  Investing in VBA's version of object-orientation doesn't seem helpful for your current need.  If you do go that direction, some aspects will start looking familiar to you (though perhaps just enough to get frustrating, as OO remains a feature that was added later and looks the part).

A: As @z states, you can use a global variable, although this is bad practice.
Regarding question 2, you can give your function a unique name and omit naming your module to run it, e.g.
findOrInstallFont(Fontname)

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As Apple's coolness factor slips, can Google entice the Mac faithful to switch?
There are reports of Apple's coolness factor slipping and it doesn't surprise me, a Mac fan who wonders if the company hasn't been a bit stale lately.
Written by Sam Diaz, Inactive on May 10, 2010
Lately, I've been thinking about my allegiance to Apple. It's been on my mind for a while, but I think reality kicked in when I plopped down my own cash on the Droid Incredible as my new smartphone not quite two weeks ago, giving up - once and for all - on the iPhone coming to Verizon.
I've made no secret of my preference of Mac computers over Windows machines in these blog posts. And I've been tarred-and-feathered by readers here because of that position, called a few choice Mac Fanboy-type names along the way.
But lately, with the announcement of the iPad and the new iPhone OS, as well as the unintended peek at a next-generation iPhone, I'm just not all that impressed with what Apple has been doing. I have to be honest - it feels stale. And then there's the other part of the perception - the corporate behavior of the company. We're talking things like legal battles with HTC and Gizmodo, a bull-headed position on Flash combined with a childish public spat with Adobe over it and the controversy surrounding its app review process, including its self-appointed role as the moral police.
Lately, it doesn't feel like the same Apple, the cool Apple. It feels like corporate Apple and, if it gets called to Washington to answer allegations of anticompetitive behavior, it could get harder to differentiate Apple from Microsoft.
Earlier this month, YouGov's BrandIndex reported a sharp dip in Apple's brand buzz - it's coolness factor, if you will - during the month of April. It's hard to say that the corporate-centric stories have played a role there but those headlines have seemed to overshadow others. And then there was the Jon Stewart segment, where he called the company "appholes" over the controversy with Gizmodo.
Also see: Tech Republic: Is Apple losing its cool factor with techies?
It's hard to stay cool when Jon Stewart makes you look foolish on his show. Still, I wouldn't be surprised to see the coolness factor recover and gain some points with the next big announcement, perhaps the new iPhone at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
But I don't know if that's enough for me, anymore.
On the mobile front, I'm cool with my Droid Incredible - it works great as a phone, has all the apps I need, has expandable storage and a pretty good music player, as well, which is making me wonder if my iPod Touch might soon become a hand-me-down. And, unless there's some new killer WOW app for the iPad, I'm pretty much not interested in that device either.
I am very interested, however, in seeing what Google will do with the new Chrome OS, a browser-based operating system that will likely come in the form of a netbook later this year. Google offered a sneak peek at the OS back in November and, since a lot of my data is already stored in the cloud, I started to buy into this whole concept of browser-based computing.
And then it hit me. As much as I've always considered Mac OS X to be superior to Windows, what will I do if Chrome offers a better computing experience than either of the others? I can't help but wonder: will it be enough for me to break my ties with my Mac, the last thing that's allowing me to remain a member of the Mac Fanboy Club?


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Is Greek Orthodox in communion with Rome?
Which Orthodox churches are in communion with Rome?
Is the Greek Catholic Church in communion with Rome?
Is the Greek Orthodox Church part of the Catholic Church?
Can a Roman Catholic go to a Greek Orthodox mass?
What Orthodox churches are not in communion with Rome?
Why is it called Greek Orthodox?
Is there a difference between Greek Catholic and Greek Orthodox?
Is Greek Catholic the same as Roman Catholic?
What rites are in communion with Rome?
When did the Greek Orthodox Church split from Rome?
Does the Greek Orthodox Church recognize the pope?
How is Greek Orthodox different from Christianity?
Can a Catholic receive Communion at a Greek Orthodox church?
Do Greek Orthodox believe in transubstantiation?
Does the Orthodox Church recognize Catholic sacraments?
While the Eastern Orthodox Church recognises what it shares in common with other churches, including the Catholic Church, it sees catholicity in terms of complete union in communion and faith, with the Church throughout all time, and the sharing remains incomplete when not shared fully.
The majority of the Eastern Catholic Churches are groups that, at different points in the past, used to belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, and the historic Church of the East, but are now in communion with the Bishop of Rome.
Maronite.
Syriac.
Syro-Malankara.
Greek Catholic church, an Eastern Catholic church of the Byzantine rite, in communion with Rome since the mid-19th century.
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Conclusion. With the Great Schism, the 2 churches drifted apart and there became small differences. Though of different ideals, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox are both Christians. The Catholic Churches have changed a lot, and continue to change while the Orthodox have not.
Both Catholics and Protestants are welcome to attend the Orthodox Mass but they CANNOT take Holy Communion, the Orthodox Priest is not allowed to give it to them.
The Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Antioch – except for some breaks of communion such as the Photian schism or the Acacian schism – shared communion with the Church of Rome until the East–West Schism in 1054.
The Greek word "orthodox" simply means "correct belief" and at the same time, "correct worship." It became the name applied to the Christian Church that grew and flourished in the eastern, predominantly Greek speaking regions of the late Roman Empire.
Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox believers both believe in the same God. 2. Roman Catholics deem the Pope as infallible, while Greek Orthodox believers don't. … Roman Catholics believe that Mary is free from original sin, while Greek Orthodox believers don't.
The two major divisions of the Catholic church are the Greek, or Eastern, and the Latin, or Western. The Western Catholic branch is also known as the Roman Catholic church, and the Eastern Catholic branch is also known as the Greek Orthodox church.
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Latin (Western) rites
Benedictine Rite.
Carmelite Rite (only by some communities or members of the order)
Carthusian Rite (a Western rite of the Gallican family)
Cistercian Rite.
Dominican Rite (only by some communities or members of the order)
Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Rite.
Jul 16, 1054 CE: Great Schism. On July 16, 1054, Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius was excommunicated, starting the "Great Schism" that created the two largest denominations in Christianity—the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths.
It is the position of the Eastern Orthodox Church that it has never accepted the pope as de jure leader of the entire church. All bishops are equal "as Peter", therefore every church under every bishop (consecrated in apostolic succession) is fully complete (the original meaning of catholic).
The Greek Orthodox are Christians and part of the Church that Christ founded. There is no difference. It's one and the same. The term "Greek" used to refer to the fact that historically the Orthodox Church was mainly Greek Speaking (at the time of Byzantium, the continuation of the Roman Empire).
Thus, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church attending the Divine Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Church will be allowed to receive communion and vice versa but, although Protestants, non-Trinitarian Christians, or Catholics may otherwise fully participate in an Orthodox Divine Liturgy, they will be excluded from …
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The Eastern Orthodox Church has never clarified or made statement on the exact nature of transformation of the bread and wine, nor gone into the detail that the Roman Catholic Church has with the doctrine of transubstantiation, which was formulated after the Great Schism of 1054; the Eastern Orthodox churches have …
In general, Catholic Sacraments are not recognized by the Orthodox, and participating in them (e.g taking communion) is a considered a sin.


Navoiyazot (Uzbekistan) will complete the construction of nitric acid production with a capacity of 500 thousand tons per year this year. Investment in the project is $ 216.6 million.
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package org.apache.hadoop.test.system.process;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.ShellCommandExecutor;

/**
 * The concrete class which implements the start up and shut down based routines
 * based on the hadoop-daemon.sh.

 *
 * Class requires two keys to be present in the Configuration objects passed to
 * it. Look at CONF_HADOOPHOME and
 * CONF_HADOOPCONFDIR for the names of the
 * configuration keys.
 *
 * Following will be the format which the final command execution would look :
 *

 *
 *  ssh host 'hadoop-home/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh --script scriptName
 *  --config HADOOP_CONF_DIR (start|stop) command'
 *
 */
public abstract class HadoopDaemonRemoteCluster
    implements ClusterProcessManager {

  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory
      .getLog(HadoopDaemonRemoteCluster.class.getName());

  public static final String CONF_HADOOPNEWCONFDIR =
    "test.system.hdrc.hadoopnewconfdir";
  /**
   * Key used to configure the HADOOP_HOME to be used by the
   * HadoopDaemonRemoteCluster.
   */
  public final static String CONF_HADOOPHOME =
    "test.system.hdrc.hadoophome";

  public final static String CONF_SCRIPTDIR =
    "test.system.hdrc.deployed.scripts.dir";
  /**
   * Key used to configure the HADOOP_CONF_DIR to be used by the
   * HadoopDaemonRemoteCluster.
   */
  public final static String CONF_HADOOPCONFDIR =
    "test.system.hdrc.hadoopconfdir";

  public final static String CONF_DEPLOYED_HADOOPCONFDIR =
    "test.system.hdrc.deployed.hadoopconfdir";

  private String hadoopHome;
  protected String hadoopConfDir;
  protected String scriptsDir;
  protected String hadoopNewConfDir;
  private final Set<Enum<?>> roles;
  private final List<HadoopDaemonInfo> daemonInfos;
  private List<RemoteProcess> processes;
  protected Configuration conf;

  public static class HadoopDaemonInfo {
    public final String cmd;
    public final Enum<?> role;
    public final List<String> hostNames;
    public HadoopDaemonInfo(String cmd, Enum<?> role, List<String> hostNames) {
      super();
      this.cmd = cmd;
      this.role = role;
      this.hostNames = hostNames;
    }

    public HadoopDaemonInfo(String cmd, Enum<?> role, String hostFile)
        throws IOException {
      super();
      this.cmd = cmd;
      this.role = role;
      File file = new File(getDeployedHadoopConfDir(), hostFile);
      BufferedReader reader = null;
      hostNames = new ArrayList<String>();
      try {
        reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
        String host = null;
        while ((host = reader.readLine()) != null) {
          if (host.trim().isEmpty() || host.startsWith("#")) {
            // Skip empty and possible comment lines
            // throw new IllegalArgumentException(
            // "Hostname could not be found in file " + hostFile);
            continue;
          }
          hostNames.add(host.trim());
        }
        if (hostNames.size() < 1) {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException("At least one hostname "
              +
            "is required to be present in file - " + hostFile);
        }
      } finally {
        try {
          if(reader != null) {
              reader.close();
          }
        } catch (IOException e) {
          LOG.warn("Could not close reader", e);
        }
      }
      LOG.info("Created HadoopDaemonInfo for " + cmd + " " + role + " from "
          + hostFile);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String pushConfig(String localDir) throws IOException {
    for (RemoteProcess process : processes){
      process.pushConfig(localDir);
    }
    return hadoopNewConfDir;
  }

  @Override
  public RemoteProcess getDaemonProcess(String hostname,Enum<?> role) {
    RemoteProcess daemon=null;
    for (RemoteProcess p : processes) {
      if(p.getHostName().equals(hostname) && p.getRole() == role){
        daemon =p;
        break;
      }
    }
    return daemon;
  }

  public HadoopDaemonRemoteCluster(List<HadoopDaemonInfo> daemonInfos) {
    this.daemonInfos = daemonInfos;
    this.roles = new HashSet<Enum<?>>();
    for (HadoopDaemonInfo info : daemonInfos) {
      this.roles.add(info.role);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void init(Configuration conf) throws IOException {
    this.conf = conf;
    populateDirectories(conf);
    this.processes = new ArrayList<RemoteProcess>();
    populateDaemons();
  }

  @Override
  public List<RemoteProcess> getAllProcesses() {
    return processes;
  }

  @Override
  public Set<Enum<?>> getRoles() {
    return roles;
  }

  /**
   * Method to populate the hadoop home and hadoop configuration directories.
   *
   * @param conf
   *          Configuration object containing values for
   *          CONF_HADOOPHOME and
   *          CONF_HADOOPCONFDIR
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException
   *           if the configuration or system property set does not contain
   *           values for the required keys.
   */
  protected void populateDirectories(Configuration conf) {
    hadoopHome = conf.get(CONF_HADOOPHOME);
    hadoopConfDir = conf.get(CONF_HADOOPCONFDIR);
    scriptsDir = conf.get(CONF_SCRIPTDIR);
    hadoopNewConfDir = conf.get(CONF_HADOOPNEWCONFDIR);
    if (hadoopHome == null || hadoopConfDir == null || hadoopHome.isEmpty()
        || hadoopConfDir.isEmpty()) {
      LOG.error("No configuration "
          + "for the HADOOP_HOME and HADOOP_CONF_DIR passed");
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "No Configuration passed for hadoop home " +
          "and hadoop conf directories");
    }
  }

  public static String getDeployedHadoopConfDir() {
    String dir = System.getProperty(CONF_DEPLOYED_HADOOPCONFDIR);
    if (dir == null || dir.isEmpty()) {
      LOG.error("No configuration "
          + "for the CONF_DEPLOYED_HADOOPCONFDIR passed");
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "No Configuration passed for hadoop deployed conf directory");
    }
    return dir;
  }

  @Override
  public void start() throws IOException {
    for (RemoteProcess process : processes) {
      process.start();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void start(String newConfLocation)throws IOException {
    for (RemoteProcess process : processes) {
      process.start(newConfLocation);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void stop() throws IOException {
    for (RemoteProcess process : processes) {
      process.kill();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void stop(String newConfLocation) throws IOException {
    for (RemoteProcess process : processes) {
      process.kill(newConfLocation);
    }
  }

  protected void populateDaemon(HadoopDaemonInfo info) throws IOException {
    for (String host : info.hostNames) {
      InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(host);
      RemoteProcess process = getProcessManager(info,
          addr.getCanonicalHostName());
      processes.add(process);
    }
  }

  protected void populateDaemons() throws IOException {
   for (HadoopDaemonInfo info : daemonInfos) {
     populateDaemon(info);
   }
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isMultiUserSupported() throws IOException {
    return false;
  }

  protected RemoteProcess getProcessManager(
      HadoopDaemonInfo info, String hostName) {
    RemoteProcess process = new ScriptDaemon(info.cmd, hostName, info.role);
    return process;
  }

  /**
   * The core daemon class which actually implements the remote process
   * management of actual daemon processes in the cluster.
   *
   */
  class ScriptDaemon implements RemoteProcess {

    private static final String STOP_COMMAND = "stop";
    private static final String START_COMMAND = "start";
    private static final String SCRIPT_NAME = "hadoop-daemon.sh";
    private static final String PUSH_CONFIG ="pushConfig.sh";
    protected final String daemonName;
    protected final String hostName;
    private final Enum<?> role;

    public ScriptDaemon(String daemonName, String hostName, Enum<?> role) {
      this.daemonName = daemonName;
      this.hostName = hostName;
      this.role = role;
    }

    @Override
    public String getHostName() {
      return hostName;
    }

    private String[] getPushConfigCommand(String localDir, String remoteDir,
        File scriptDir) throws IOException{
      ArrayList<String> cmdArgs = new ArrayList<String>();
      cmdArgs.add(scriptDir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + PUSH_CONFIG);
      cmdArgs.add(localDir);
      cmdArgs.add(hostName);
      cmdArgs.add(remoteDir);
      cmdArgs.add(hadoopConfDir);
      return (String[]) cmdArgs.toArray(new String[cmdArgs.size()]);
    }

    private ShellCommandExecutor buildPushConfig(String local, String remote )
        throws IOException {
      File scriptDir = new File(scriptsDir);
      String[] commandArgs = getPushConfigCommand(local, remote, scriptDir);
      HashMap<String, String> env = new HashMap<String, String>();
      ShellCommandExecutor executor = new ShellCommandExecutor(commandArgs,
          scriptDir, env);
      LOG.info(executor.toString());
      return executor;
    }

    private ShellCommandExecutor createNewConfDir() throws IOException {
      ArrayList<String> cmdArgs = new ArrayList<String>();
      cmdArgs.add("ssh");
      cmdArgs.add(hostName);
      cmdArgs.add("if [ -d "+ hadoopNewConfDir+
          " ];\n then echo Will remove existing directory;  rm -rf "+
          hadoopNewConfDir+";\nmkdir "+ hadoopNewConfDir+"; else \n"+
          "echo " + hadoopNewConfDir + " doesnt exist hence creating" +
          ";  mkdir " + hadoopNewConfDir + ";\n  fi");
      String[] cmd = (String[]) cmdArgs.toArray(new String[cmdArgs.size()]);
      ShellCommandExecutor executor = new ShellCommandExecutor(cmd);
      LOG.info(executor.toString());
      return executor;
    }

    @Override
    public String pushConfig(String localDir) throws IOException {
      createNewConfDir().execute();
      buildPushConfig(localDir, hadoopNewConfDir).execute();
      return hadoopNewConfDir;
    }

    private ShellCommandExecutor buildCommandExecutor(String command,
        String confDir) {
      String[] commandArgs = getCommand(command, confDir);
      File cwd = new File(".");
      HashMap<String, String> env = new HashMap<String, String>();
      env.put("HADOOP_CONF_DIR", confDir);
      ShellCommandExecutor executor
        = new ShellCommandExecutor(commandArgs, cwd, env);
      LOG.info(executor.toString());
      return executor;
    }

    private File getBinDir() {
      File binDir = new File(hadoopHome, "bin");
      return binDir;
    }

    protected String[] getCommand(String command, String confDir) {
      ArrayList<String> cmdArgs = new ArrayList<String>();
      File binDir = getBinDir();
      cmdArgs.add("ssh");
      cmdArgs.add(hostName);
      cmdArgs.add(binDir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + SCRIPT_NAME);
      cmdArgs.add("--config");
      cmdArgs.add(confDir);
      // XXX Twenty internal version does not support --script option.
      cmdArgs.add(command);
      cmdArgs.add(daemonName);
      return (String[]) cmdArgs.toArray(new String[cmdArgs.size()]);
    }

    @Override
    public void kill() throws IOException {
      kill(hadoopConfDir);
    }

    @Override
    public void start() throws IOException {
      start(hadoopConfDir);
    }

    public void start(String newConfLocation) throws IOException {
      ShellCommandExecutor cme = buildCommandExecutor(START_COMMAND,
          newConfLocation);
      cme.execute();
      String output = cme.getOutput();
      if (!output.isEmpty()) { //getOutput() never returns null value
        if (output.toLowerCase().contains("error")) {
          LOG.warn("Error is detected.");
          throw new IOException("Start error\n" + output);
        }
      }
    }

    public void kill(String newConfLocation) throws IOException {
      ShellCommandExecutor cme
        = buildCommandExecutor(STOP_COMMAND, newConfLocation);
      cme.execute();
      String output = cme.getOutput();
      if (!output.isEmpty()) { //getOutput() never returns null value
        if (output.toLowerCase().contains("error")) {
          LOG.info("Error is detected.");
          throw new IOException("Kill error\n" + output);
        }
      }
    }

    @Override
    public Enum<?> getRole() {
      return role;
    }
  }
}


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The Coaque River () is a river in the Manabí Province of Ecuador.

Course

The sources of the Coaque River are in the Bilsa Biological Station in the Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve.
The river enters the Pacific Ocean at coordinates , to the south of Pedernales.

Channel maintenance

In the winter season of March 2012 landslides in Piedra Maluca deposited large amounts of mud in the river, which created a dyke in the river and caused floods affecting several houses.
Roads were closed in the communities of Coaque, Quiauque Abajo, Medio, Arriba, Colisa and La Playa due to the risk of further flooding.
Dozens of police and military were deployed to enforce the closure.
The Equitesa company was given responsibility for getting the water flowing again.

In February 2013 it was reported that Equitesa, which was building the road from Pedernales to San Vicente, had been mechanically excavating material from the river, apparently without a permit.
The excavations had in fact been authorized by a contract signed by the National Water Secretariat on 9 October 2012 to divert a section of the river and avoid future mudslides.
After four and a half months of work the Equitesa company had removed  of earth, allowing the river to flow smoothly through the new channel, which had a length of , with a height of .
The National Water Secretariat was continuing to widen the river bed, and would remove another .

Irrigation project

In 2013 the Spanish company Inassa was undertaking a feasibility study for the National Water Secretariat (Senagua) on the multi-purpose Coaque project in Pedernales.
The project will develop the Coaque and Tachina river basins, and will include a diversion dam,  canal and a system to irrigate  of land. It would also provide drinking water.
60,000 citizens of the Pedernales canton of Manabí would benefit from the project.

See also
List of rivers of Ecuador

References

Sources

Rivers of Ecuador
Geography of Manabí Province

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Sierra Jensen was a courageous, vivacious woman. Sierra had many callings in life: a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a violinist, a singer, a personal trainer, a believer in God, a violin instructor, a college student, and a homeschool teacher. She pretty much did anything she put her mind to and did it all with grace. Sierra's smile would light up a dark room, her doe green eyes made you feel at ease, and her ability to talk to anyone made you feel comfortable. She was one of the most positive people, even through the toughest of times.
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