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Q: Undefined reference for unoptimised constexpr used as default parameter I do not understand why the below code compiles with GCC optimised, but fails to link with "undefined reference to `base::A_VAL'" when unoptimised. Am I doing something dodgy? Is this something that's a compiler bug (never is)? This is with g++ 5.4.0 on Ubuntu.
base.h:
class base {
public:
    static constexpr unsigned int A_VAL{0x69U};
};

derived.h:
#include "base.h"
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class derived : public base
{
public:
    int some_func(void) {
        cout << "Some func" << endl;
        return 0;
    }
};

concrete.h:
#include "derived.h"

#include <utility>

class concrete : public derived
{
public:
    concrete(int a, std::pair<unsigned int, unsigned int> data = {A_VAL, A_VAL}) {
        some_func();
        std::cout << "First: " << data.first << " Second: " << data.second << endl;
    }
};

test.cpp:
#include "concrete.h"

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    concrete c{1};

    c.some_func();
}

g++ -O2 -std=c++14 -o test test.cpp

Fine.

g++ -O0 -std=c++14 -o test test.cpp

/tmp/ccm9NjMC.o: In function `main':
test.cpp:(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `base::A_VAL'
test.cpp:(.text+0x28): undefined reference to `base::A_VAL'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

A: When optimizing GCC is probably able to determine (after inlining an constant folding) that the body of concrete's constructor can be replaced pretty much by
some_func();
std::cout << "First: " << A_VAL << " Second: " << A_VAL << endl;

Since operator<< for the standard stream class takes integers by value, and A_VAL is a constant expression, the call above doesn't require there to be any storage for A_VAL. Its value is just plugged in. As such, GCC doesn't need there to be an out of class definition for A_VAL, as is normally required for static class members.
When not optimizing, GCC quite likely initializes the pair object. std::pair's constructor takes objects by reference, and a reference requires an object to bind to. So the the definition of A_VAL becomes required and so the linker complains.
You need to define the object somewhere (pre C++17)
// At namespace scope
constexpr unsigned base::A_VAL;

Or switch to compiling as C++17. Then A_VAL (like all constexpr static members data) will be implicitly an inline variable, and the compiler will resolve its definition by itself.

A: I'm not sure howconstexpr affecting this, but you just declared static class variable, but not defined it. I.e. usually you need to have constexpr unsigned int base::A_VAL{0x69U}; somewhere in .cpp file.

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Key component in the assembly and functioning of vertebrate striated muscles. By providing connections at the level of individual microfilaments, it contributes to the fine balance of forces between the two halves of the sarcomere. The size and extensibility of the cross-links are the main determinants of sarcomere extensibility properties of muscle. In non-muscle cells, seems to play a role in chromosome condensation and chromosome segregation during mitosis. Might link the lamina network to chromatin or nuclear actin, or both during interphase. Interacts with MYOM1, MYOM2, tropomyosin and myosin. Interacts with actin, primarily via the PEVK domains and with MYPN (By similarity). Interacts with FHL2, NEB, CRYAB, LMNA/lamin-A and LMNB/lamin-B. Interacts with TCAP/telethonin and/or ANK1 isoform Mu17/ank1.5, via the first two N-terminal immunoglobulin domains. Interacts with TRIM63 and TRIM55, through several domains including immunoglobulin domains 141 and 142. Interacts with ANKRD1, ANKRD2 and ANKRD23, via the region between immunoglobulin domains 77 and 78 and interacts with CAPN3, via immunoglobulin domain 79. Interacts with NBR1 through the protein kinase domain. Interacts with CALM/calmodulin. Isoform 6 interacts with OBSCN isoform 3. Interacts with CMYA5.
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GO terms: TTN is active in the following subcellular-locations: condensed nuclear chromosome, cytosol, extracellular exosome, extracellular region, I band, M band, sarcomere, striated muscle thin filament, Z disc.


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Cast : Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle	Screenplay : Claire Denis, Marie N'Diaye	Release : March 24, 2010	Director : Claire Denis	Genre : Drama	Country : France	Stream Now	Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
White Material (2009)
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White Material opens with a scene that, we'll eventually learn, comes at the very end of the story. The second scene takes place much earlier, not all the way at the beginning, but comfortably before the middle. Nothing about the transition between these scenes implies in any way that they aren't related in the usual way - honestly, nothing implies that they're related at all- and for pretty much all of the next hour and three-quarters, that's how things are going to be: scenes come and go with little concern for how they fit into the story, and the film never makes specific mention of that fact. If the viewer is going to get any sort of sense of what goes on and what it means, he or she will have to be prepared to do a lot of work; White Material is a not a film that tells, but a film that has to be engaged with fully, thought about and re-watched and re-considered and even after all that every viewer is going to end up with a private reading that is probably different from the next person's.
No doubt about it, we're right in the middle of Claire Denis Country. Though not all of her films are equally inscrutable (ranging from the perfectly straightforward Friday Night to the ludicrously, beautifully opaque The Intruder, the best of her films I've seen), none of them are easy. Denis makes tone poems, basically, movies in which the emotions one feels are not entirely contingent upon understanding where those emotions are coming from; in this respect White Material is merely typical. There's a whole lot that's obvious about it, really: its crawling sense of dread, erupting in one of the most apocalyptic finales in any recent movie; the unforgiving indictment of European privilege in the face of grueling African poverty; how classically tragic it all is, in depicting a strong woman whose strength is the very reason that she ends up suffering so greatly at the end.
Without getting too deep into plot specifics, White Material is primarily about Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert), a French immigrant living an unnamed central African country (it was shot in Cameroon), where she manages a struggling coffee plantation with her husband André (Christopher Lambert, as "Christophe"), their son Manuel (Nicolas Duvauche), and André's father Henri (Michael Subor), the owner of the plantation. A civil war is raging not very far from the Vial homestead, and the rebels, holding the greater measure of power as the story begins, don't look too kindly upon the interloping Europeans in their midst, threateningly dismissing them as "white material" - the phrase, like the film's title, is in English. One of the rebel leaders is a figure known as The Boxer (Isaach De Bankolé), who will end up running into Maria in a most unexpected way, and it's arguably this relationship, teased out of several discontinuous segments, that forms the beating heart of White Material.
Denis, who spent much of her childhood in Africa, does not have terribly romantic ideas about a stubborn Frenchwoman refusing to leave her beloved African plantation in the face of immediate danger: the script which she wrote with Marie NDiaye (a French novelist of Senegalese descent) offers Maria no mercy for the litany of foolish choices she made. At one point, hearing of Maria's attempt to buy her way out of trouble, a local official turns on her with more disgust than he seems to feel even for the rebels, and while it comes early enough in the movie to surprise and even upset us a little bit, he makes a fair enough point, if rudely. Maria's unexplored sense of post-colonial privilege drives every moment of the film's plot; when she angrily dismisses all those other whites for ruining Africa (in exactly the same language that, unbeknown to her, she has been dismissed, or will be, or whathaveyou), she is hypocritically and unthinkingly describing herself.
Though, for as much as the film is a definite political tract, and it would be idiotic to deny the potency of racial representations in the film (Huppert has rarely looked so conspicuously pale as she does her, thanks to a series of outfits that wash out her already delicate face), there's more to it than just that. It's equally a character study, with Huppert giving a stupendous performance, easily her best since The Piano Teacher in 2001, playing a woman whose refusal to deal with the world around her - to believe, in essence, that her own willpower can stave off the encroaching rebel forces - borders on clinical insanity. At one point, Maria admits that she never wants to return to France; it's not the right place with a woman of her courage. Implicitly, she's acknowledging that the danger and violence of this civil war is appealing precisely because it allows her to prove that she's better than everyone else: in that moment, she reveals herself as a deranged, violent person, though the moment is played with enough quietude, Huppert refusing to allow it as anything but a simple matter-of-fact declaration of intent, that the full impact of it isn't clear. When, at the very end, Maria finally erupts, it's a startling moment but not a very shocking one: we've been primed for this all along, and the fact that the film concludes with the last breakdown of whatever hypocritical illusion of civility has been holding the Vial plantation together seems inevitable more than anything else.
A grim, nasty film it sounds like; and a grim, nasty film it is, like Herzog with all the joy deliberately sucked out. But Denis's inclinations as a filmmaker do not permit her to make something so completely grinding as all that, though she feints in the direction of realism by working with cinematographer Yves Cape on giving the movie that grainy, handheld "documentary" style that European filmmakers like to use to demonstrate how very serious they are. Realism is a dodge, though, for Denis's intentions are more lyrical, and the moments that linger the most from the film are those where that realistic camerawork is bent in service of the poetic and irrational. Few moments I've seen in any movie released in America in 2010 are going to haunt me longer than a lengthy shot of rebel soldiers drifting through trees and down a hill like ghosts; and the power of the concluding moments (of both the chronological narrative and the movie) comes in no small part from the way in which Denis and Cape stage them as if they were making a horror movie all along. Meanwhile, the score by the English band Tindersticks plays discordantly underneath all, unsettling the film even as it adds immeasurably to its sense of doom.
If there's a major flaw in White Material, beyond the somewhat pedantic political moral, it's that the joylessness is so complete that the film itself becomes a bit suffocating. Denis has never been one to clown around, but there are moments here and there - the sublime "Nightshift" scene in 35 Shots of Rum is a recent example - where she allows enough light to sneak in that for a moment, the audience can regroup and briefly feel alive to the director's glistening command of the medium. There is not a trace of that here: the film drives on and on, and its most cinematically exhilarating moments are also, generally, its most merciless. I suppose I am basically saying that the movie is too powerful for me, which is assuredly my problem and not Denis's; it is of course the whole point of her story to leave the audience feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, and it succeeds wildly at that goal. It is, though nobody's idea of a good time, one of the most essential films of the year.
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This is fairly confusing! iTunes has a global equalizer and "presets". Presets are assigned to a song through the "get info" fields. If the global equalizer is enabled it overrides the presets, if its disabled the presets work.
This makes sense. One could set the equalizer to "classical" as a default behavior, but enable the global equalizer for "small speakers" when not connected to a quality sound system.
It's not quite so logical on the iPod. Assume there's an iTunes preset already.
- If the iPod EQ setting is "Off", the iTunes preset is ignored.
- Any other setting: the iTunes preset is used! In other words the setting is ignored.
The last seems wrong to me. The correct behavior should be to override the iTunes preset. Otherwise, when there's an iTunes preset present, the third option is meaningless. If one hooks small speakers to the iPod, for example, one may wish to switch to a "small speaker" setting.
Mess up your iTunes library? You're stuck. No way to recover your music from the iPod without something like this.
iPoding | What's that in your pocket?
Diagnostic mode -- hold the two side and center buttons down for 5+ seconds and then release.
iPod: The Battery Status Indicator Is Approximate: "The iPod battery indicator shows, approximately, how much charge is left in the battery. In some cases, you may find that the battery indicator shows a charge left, but iPod stops playing because the battery is, in fact, depleted. This does not necessarily mean anything is wrong with your iPod's battery. Follow the steps in this document to determine if your iPod's battery is working correctly."
Apple is the master of proprietary, patented, connectors. It's the hardware equivalent of digital rights management; it provides customer lock-in. Microsoft, a software vendor, is strongly incented to "pervert" (add proprietary extensions) standard software interfaces, Apple, a hardware vendor, is strongly incented to "pervert" (add proprietary extensions) hardware interfaces.
Customers, of course, want open interfaces and open connectors -- but we're not smart enough to insist on them.
I suspect SendStation is challenging Apple to smack them down, and thus demonstrate that their customers are very much locked in. It will be interesting to see what happens!
If they get away with this, they'll sell a ton of these things. I'll buy one of course!
Music from atop the cabinet filled the (small) room. It was as loud as we would want, and the sound was remarkably clear. The slender speakers and the elegant iPod were almost invisible.
"There are times that I really feel I'm in the 21st century", Emily said, "This is one of those times."
Very impressive. The speakers are a bit bigger than I expected; I think the SONY SRS-T77 is more compact. It's the only comparable product; but it's twice the price of the SRS-T55. Mind you, these are so good I'm tempted to keep them by my iBook and buy the SRS-T77 for the office.
The speakers folded up are 2x3.5x4 inches. The battery compartment, holding 4AA batteries, makes up a fair bit of the size -- to be significantly smaller the device would probably need an internal rechargeable lithium battery and the price would be much higher.
SONY claims 24 hours of battery life at 10mW output. Maximum output is 1 W/speaker or 2W. You can buy an external SONY adaptor (ACE60HG) for about $20; I think it's a 6V/700mA adaptor. SONY of course says not to use any other adaptor, a possibly compatible RadioShack universal charger is about $16 -- not much less.
If you think you'll buy the charger, however, remember than the SRS-T77 comes with a power adaptor. Once you add in the cost of the adaptor you should consider getting the SRS-T77.
I thought that for convenience and portability I'd run off batteries, but we'll see. I may end up using them so much at home that it'll be worth buying the SONY power adaptor.
The speakers will work when powered off, but my iPod doesn't put out a strong enough signal to use for long in that mode. If you want to use your iPod as an alarm clock, and you're a light sleeper, this may come in useful however. I think leaving the speakers turned on overnight might drain the batteries. I'll experiment a bit with this.
Lucid-M2X: 2X DVD-R/RW w/DVD-RAM Portable FireWire MULTI Drive: "DVD-MULTI technology allows a DVD-RAM disc up to 9.4GB in capacity to be inserted into the slot-loading Lucid M2X drive and be used as a virtual hard disk at the Mac OS desktop level, with data dynamically read and saved to the disc on the fly"
Very interesting! Given how much disk space digital photos take up, this might be worth considering.
Oops. I posted this in the wrong blog. Here's where it really is.
>Does blogspot offer RSS feeds?
As of today, I think they might. Here's the story.
blogspot is free and convenient.
Blogger Pro product. The Pro product has the RSS feeds, it's been offline.
for free, to the Pro version.
What I haven't figured out is how to give each posting a unique persistent url!
http://jfaughnan.blogspot.com/rss/jfaughnan.xml is the URL for the RSS feed.
I've moved my main blog to jfaughnan.blogspot.com.
This blog will be for quick personal notes only.


In what areas do you think the PC gaming scene needs to develop, and as a developer what efforts are you making to move it in that direction?
In many ways the PC gaming scene is developing in the ways we think it should - developers are taking advantage of the PC's strengths by building online-enabled games (both MMOs and games with connectivity, strong post-release content as featured in BioWare's Dragon Age etc). Some developers are building the more casual games which draw in non-gamers to the PC gaming market and others are focusing on episodic content - both are exciting initiatives.
It's nice to know that even though Dragon Age hasn't been released (finished?) yet, it already has a "strong post-release content". How innovative.
Finally, what are you most looking forward to in the world of videogames in 2007, and why?
So many games, so little time! A number of titles stand out as games I'm really looking forward to. Speaking as both a gamer fan and as the CEO of BioWare, our own Mass Effect is a game I am incredibly excited to play once it's finally released (even though Greg and I are both playing it over and over to help the team find and solve bugs and provide gameplay suggestions as our awesome Mass Effect team works hard to bring it to conclusion in the next few months).
Mass Effect will be truly innovative in a number of respects over past games - as an epic RPG, the digital actors are probably going to be the most credible, realistic characters ever yet seen in a videogame and the uncharted worlds promise amazing exploration and depth. As well, the story is really good and the game is quite seamless in terms of accessibility fused with great depth. Another BioWare title, Jade Empire: Special Edition is also a really great game - something BioWare's RPG fans on PC will be able to sink their teeth into before Mass Effect when Jade SE comes out early this year!


40. From April 2003, the Government began paying benefits and state pensions directly into customers' bank accounts (direct payment). The Post Office Card Account (POCA) was developed by Post Office Ltd to act as a 'simple' banking vehicle whereby customers could obtain these benefits if they could not, or did not wish to, use any other kind of banking account. POCAs allow holders, or a nominated helper, to take cash out, free of charge, at any Post Office branch using a plastic card. It cannot be used for any purpose other than to receive benefit payments. For example, it cannot be used to obtain cash from ATMs or to pay bills, either directly or by direct debit, and it carries no overdraft facility. It is the electronic equivalent of the old benefits order book.
41. Whilst the POCA offers very limited functionality, approximately forty percent of the benefit claimants converting to direct payment opened a POCA. The POCA helped Post Office Ltd retain some of the £400 million worth of transactions, which would otherwise have been lost when the Government changed to direct payment. Around 3.7 million customers of the DWP currently have their benefit or pension paid into a POCA. HM Revenue and Customs and the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency also provide some services through the POCA, taking the total number of card accounts to around 4.3 million. For comparison, just over 11.6 million state pensions were paid to recipients in February 2006.
42. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a contractual commitment to fund the POCA over the seven years of the contract. The current POCA contract will cost the Government at least £1 billion between 2003 and 2010. The precise value of the contract will depend on how many customers use the card account between now and the end of Government funding in March 2010. The POCA is also partly funded by the main high street banks and the Nationwide Building Society, who together will contribute £180 million over the period 2003-08 on a voluntary basis. Royal Mail Group earns around £195 million annually from the POCA contract.
43. The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) considered that the reason for the termination of the POCA contract was "almost certainly financial, given that the cost per transaction to government for payments into a POCA is apparently £1 whereas payments into bank accounts cost just 1p". The DWP confirmed that these were the relative costs of the POCA and added: "80 per cent of our payment costs go on the 23 per cent of customers who are paid by Post Office card account".
44. However, we were informed by the NFSP that these figures were not entirely accurate: "The Post Office, we are led to understand, have got a rate card for their services to banks et cetera, and their rate is something in the region of £45 per year to the DWP for the Post Office Card Account. This figure has become loosely equated to being, with some minor additions to that which they might call VAT et cetera, around £52 a year, hence £1 a week". If, as is likely, many customers receive one payment a week, this £1 a week would explain the £1 per payment figure given by the Government. The NFSP continued: "the one penny, I am led to understand, is the BACS cost of a transfer through any BACS system, and of course the banks then pick it up or the customer, of course, if they get into difficulties or if they are paying direct debits out or whatever else at their particular end. Going to your latter point about what do sub-postmasters get, there is an initial payment—or was an initial payment because there are not very many of them being opened these days—where a sub postmaster gets the equivalent of £2.60 for every account that is actually opened as a one-off payment, and currently sub-postmasters are paid 15p per £100 for monies drawn out of that card account".
45. As we indicate later in this Report, the perceived financial benefit for the taxpayer from DWP's ending of the POCA is questionable if these revenues for Post Office branches continue to be found from the public purse in the form of increased subsidy payments to keep the network afloat—always assuming that the size of the current network be maintained.
46. In January 2006, it became apparent that the DWP would not be renewing its contract with Post Office Ltd after the end of the current contract, all but bringing an end to the POCA in its current form.
47. While the current contract comes up for renewal in 2010, it has always been the understanding of the NFSP that POCAs would be continued beyond then. The NFSP suggested that the Government had stated at the time of the introduction of POCAs that the card account or an equivalent scheme would be guaranteed. The NFSP quoted a 2003 joint DWP/DTI statement, which described the POCA as "the cornerstone" of new banking products at the Post Office. The NFSP also maintained that POCA customers, the NFSP and MPs were never at any stage informed that the POCA was a short-term or temporary scheme.
48. When our predecessors took evidence in the last Parliament on direct payments, they were led to believe by the Government that the POCA would replace the business that would be lost through the change in benefit payments arrangements. There was no suggestion it was temporary. We wanted to know what had changed since then. The Minister told us: "I do not think anything changed. The contracts that were signed and agreed were of seven years duration and those contracts are due to expire in 2010, therefore they have to be renewed, revisited or altered". The Minister also claimed that all the parties involved in developing the POCA contract knew that the contract would not be extended.
49. We asked our other witnesses whether they thought the Government had made the involved parties sufficiently aware that the POCA contract would not continue after 2010. Mr Cook, Managing Director of Post Office Ltd, told us that the Royal Mail Group organisation "had an expectation that there would be a continuing need for a method of providing benefit payment to individuals who do not have a bank account. My belief is that whilst this contract will end in 2010, there will still be a continuing need, maybe not on the same scale, for individuals to receive their benefit payment in cash in some mechanism". The CWU were also unaware that the contract would not be renewed: "simply, no, we were not [aware]. The Post Office Card Account came into being in 2003 and was only fully rolled out to the whole of the UK from April 2005, as there was a two-year migration programme, so in reality it has only been up and running for just over a year. Our belief was that it was going to be extended beyond the life of the contract".
50. The NFSP told us that during the monthly meetings it had with the DWP and Post Office Ltd drawing up the POCA, it was "not told that it was going to end in 2010". It further claimed: "nor was anybody else. As you know, the customers had to sign up, although it was a convoluted process to sign up for a Post Office Card Account. None of those opened that card account thinking it was going to end in 2010, not a piece of mention was in that literature. You do not go and open a bank account, for example, and think the banks are going to close the account down, do you," and later "I believe that everyone thought, even those that knew that this contract was for a term—and I suppose if we had thought about it we would have expected that all contracts are for a term and do not last forever—there was an expectation on everyone's part that during the period between 2003 and 2010 we would be working together to find the 2010 equivalent of the Post Office Card Account, but in fact what happened, as we know, is less than a year after the last order book was cashed the account was called time on, which I think took everyone by surprise".
51. We do not believe that the Government deliberately set out to mislead our predecessor Committee with regards to the longevity of the POCA. However, nor do we believe that the Government made clear the possibility that the contract would not be renewed. Most of the DWP's partners in the POCA assumed that the contract would be renegotiated after 2010. This has, quite understandably, led to a lot of bad feelings amongst these partners and a sense of betrayal amongst sub-postmasters. Sub-postmasters will have made business decisions based on the understandable, but ultimately false, expectation that the contract would be renewed. We note that the Minister is now holding out the possibility of a substitute for the POCA. We would welcome any clarification of what this would be.
52. With 14,500 branches, the Post Office is the largest retail and financial services chain in the UK. It is larger than the largest bank network (2,500 branches) and all of the UK's banks and building societies combined, and it has branches in locations where banks and building society branches have ceased to exist. It is also larger than any of the major high street stores (2,000 branches). 94 percent of the population live within a mile of a Post Office branch and 28 million customers visit one every week.
53. As a company, Post Office Ltd depends on a small number of large clients for the bulk of its income. Just two clients—the DWP and Royal Mail—have accounted for around sixty percent of its income. The Post Office network's income from Government—in the past one of its main sources of revenue—fell by £168 million in 2005-06, as more benefits were paid directly into bank accounts. This trend is expected to continue: "in five years' time less than 10% of Post Office Ltd's income will come from the Government".
54. NFSP research has found that POCA transactions bring in an average of £249 income for sub-postmasters per month, which amounted to 10 percent of their net pay. Sub-postmasters in urban deprived areas were most dependent on card accounts as a source of income, as POCAs brought them an average of £403 or 12 percent of net pay. By contrast, the NFSP's research revealed that sales of Post Office financial services including personal loans, credit cards, instant saver accounts, guaranteed equity bonds, growth bonds, child trust fund, car insurance and home insurance generated an average of just £7 per month income for sub-postmasters, while 58 percent of sub-postmasters received no income whatsoever from such sales.
55. The DWP's decision to discontinue funding the POCA is likely to have an impact on the viability of some individual Post Office branches. Royal Mail Group told us that one of the main purposes of Post Office branches was to get "the right amount of cash in the right town on the right day of the week so people can collect benefits, and that second part of the whole purpose of the Post Office is rapidly disappearing". The CAB considered that "the great unknown is whether people will choose to undertake bank account transactions at Post Office counters or whether the business will be lost to the network altogether". Use of POCAs not only results in a transaction fee for sub-postmasters, "it also brings in the opportunity for sales of other products, either at the Post Office counter or in the attached retail unit. Such sales help support the financial viability of the retail unit as a whole".
56. The DWP told us: "there is no reason why the end of Post Office card account funding in March 2010, as always planned, should automatically lead to Post Office closures. There is also no reason why Post Office Ltd should not be able to retain the business of existing Post Office card account customers if it offers them the services they want, or, indeed, if it improves on what is currently available via a Post Office card account through its own new products".
57. The DWP also stated: "there have been claims that there will be significant Post Office closures or that customers will no longer be able to collect their benefit or pension at the Post Office. Such claims are misleading, are worrying customers unnecessarily and are not in Post Office Ltd's own interests".
. people just are not using the sub-Post Office and the Post Office as they used to previously. There is a whole variety of different ways for people to be able to access services, and that is not to criticise, this is a modern age, we have got to equip the Post Office with the ability to go out into the market to provide services".
59. We pressed the Minister further about the number of Post Office branches the Government thought would be optimal. He told us: "we have a starting point of at least 4,000 which would be able to survive in the hard-faced commercial world. The difficulty I have got, sir—and, forgive me, I would love to be more helpful—is if I were to put a figure anywhere between 4,000 and 14,500 to the Committee today that would almost automatically become Government policy and a Government statement". The Government's stance over the future size of the Post Office network is something that we return to at the end of this Report.
60. We were interested in finding out if a Post Office network of 4,000 branches would be sufficient for the Royal Mail Group to fulfil its universal service obligation. Postcomm told us: "we have not seen any evidence to support the assertion that this is all that would be needed to meet the Universal Service Obligation. Our view is that such a reduction would break the terms of Royal Mail's licence, as it would not be serving the reasonable needs of customers in terms of access to postal services".
61. The Royal Mail Group told us: "the most pressing issue for the Post Office network involves creating a sustainable future for the rural service, where the majority of the 7,854 branches are fundamentally loss-making and have depended on the £150 million of funding made available by the Government to stay open. The rural branches make up more than half the total number of branches in the network, but they account for less than 10% of total business. Some 1,000 branches serve fewer than 50 customers each week".
62. Help the Aged, Postwatch, the CWU and the CAB were also concerned about the impact the closure of POCAs would have on the Post Office network, especially in rural areas. Help the Aged told us: "further Post Office closures will mean that vulnerable older people will have to increasingly rely on ATMs, some of which charge for access to cash". Postwatch suggested: "customers are uncertain about future methods of payment for their benefits, and are concerned about the continuity of a valued local service". Postwatch believes the Government needs to recognise the impact of its decisions on the viability of the Post Office network, and produce a coherent, cross-government strategy for the network's future.
63. The CWU told us that the end of the POCA would "have a devastating effect on the whole of the network", particularly rural communities. It further believed that the end of the POCA would impact on the wider communities: "customers living in a village or a more rural area are less likely to withdraw their benefits from a cashpoint or a bank or building society and they are more likely to withdraw their cash over the counter at Post Offices. The stats are that just 4% of rural areas have a bank, whereas 60% of rural areas have a Post Office, so it is a given that people in rural communities will draw their money at the Post Office". However, it produced no further evidence to substantiate that conclusion. The CAB stated: "if the contract for the POCA is not renewed after 2010 it will remove another important revenue stream for sub-postmasters. This change will threaten the profitability of certain Post Office branches, particularly those in rural or urban deprived areas, at a time when the future of the subsidy for rural Post Offices is under review, and where the threat of a wave of branch closures cannot be ruled out".
64. The POCA is the second highest earner for rural Post Office branches, second only to postage work. NFSP's research found that rural sub-postmasters received an average of £158 per month (8% of net pay) for POCA transactions. After POCA transactions, the next highest income source for sub-postmasters was from services payments. On average, payments brought in £132 (5% of net pay). This covered dealing with Post Office customers' payments for services ranging from electricity and gas to cable television, telecommunications and council tax and a range of bill issuers. However, this income source is also under threat. Alternative suppliers have developed bill payment services which are available in local shops, for example PayPoint. These alternative suppliers have been awarded some of the contracts previously held by Post Office Ltd. The most recent example was when, in April 2006, the TV Licensing contract was awarded to PayPoint.
65. The Highland Council were worried about the impact falling incomes for Post Office branches would have on the wider rural community: "With many of the services provided at Post Offices still remaining unprofitable it will be important that some public service subsidy is retained. This will be particularly important to remote peripheral and rural communities, where access to an adjacent Post Office could mean a round trip of over 30 miles. It must be recognised that Rural Post Office Services are not simply a public service in their own right. Many rural Post Offices exist as part of another private enterprise such as the running of a rural shop. The partnership approach is an essential feature of most rural Post Offices where the demise of one part of the partnership can undermine the profitability of the whole business enterprise. The subsidy to Post Office Ltd to continue the support of rural, and most likely unprofitable, Post Office services allowed many wider community services to be retained".
66. The rural part of the network is currently supported by the 'Social Network Payment', a payment of £150 million a year that helps Post Office Ltd meet the cost of maintaining the non-commercial part of the rural Post Office network and to test new ways of delivering services into rural areas. With 7,854 rural Post Office branches, that amounts to an average subsidy of just over £19,000 annually. The DTI told us that, as part of the new financial framework, "expenditure for Post Office Ltd, including Social Network Payments of £150 million per annum for the next two years and any funding after 2008, would also be met by the Government rather than from Royal Mail Group's reserves (the level of support after 2008 would depend on Government decisions on the future of the Post Office network)".
67. The Government has committed itself to payments for the Social Network until 2008. It has also agreed to consult with regards to any decision it takes on the Social Network for the post 2008 period. We will watch with interest the form and outcome of such consultation, which must be conducted in the most open and thorough manner and with a reasonable period for interested parties to respond.
68. The rapid pace of change throughout financial services presents unavoidable challenges for Post Office Ltd. It is almost inevitable that Post Office branch incomes will fall over the coming years as customers become more financially aware and naturally graduate to bank accounts (including internet banking), which can offer them greater functionality, such as bill payment. We regret that Government policy is accelerating this process.
69. With the reduction in income for Post Office branches from the termination of the POCA, coupled with a fall in income from other sources, we are very worried about the future of the Post Office network as it stands today. We are especially concerned about the impact on the commercially unviable parts of the network, and the implications Post Office branch closures would have on their wider communities.
70. We asked Royal Mail Group what size of Post Office network it envisaged, given the falling demand for its services, such as the withdrawal of the POCA. Alan Cook, Managing Director of Post Office Ltd, told us it: "is really for government to determine. It is really clear that they have to decide exactly what scale of network, or, if you like, community provision they would feel appropriate". When pressed on what he thought would be a viable network, Mr Cook told us that "a commercially viable network would be around 4,000".
71. The Minister told us that the Government thought the final number of Post Office branches should be higher than 4,000 but that it was still deciding on the size of the network as it had "a community obligation as well as a commercial obligation and that is what is being examined at the moment".
72. We asked the Minister whether, given the ending of the POCA and apparent lack of direction for the Post Office network, the Government had given up on the Post Office network. The Minister told us: "I do not think the Government is giving up on the Post Office Network. I referred earlier on to the commitment that the Government has demonstrated since 1999 where we have committed some £2 billion to the Post Office: £500 million helped fund the Horizon IT infrastructure which has had a direct effect on POL's [Post Office Ltd's] ability to secure and expand new business such as online banking facilities, and the E-top-up market which has generated revenue to POL of £340 million, we have committed £150 million per year, as you know, to support the rural network, we have spent £210 million to support the urban re-invention network and some £30 million of investment to modernise branches, as well as £25 million into pilots to examine how we can best deliver services in a different way to rural areas which might not be able to support and sustain their own sub-Post Office". He added: "we are examining the future of the network at this very point. We know that we have got time-limited support for the rural network because we have committed ourselves to £150 million to 2008; we are of the opinion that that cannot continue".
73. If the Post Office network were just a commercial entity, it would not deserve to be supported by Government. However, it fulfils a wider community need. In many places Post Office branches serve as the heart of the community.
74. Some Post Office branches, especially those in rural areas, will always remain unviable. We believe that it is vital that across the whole of Government there is a clear recognition of the role that Post Offices play in delivering Government objectives in the community. Decisions are needed by the Government now to plan the Post Office network for the future, taking into account postal services and the wider social functions provided by Post Offices in local communities. If the Government fails to act, the network and all the benefits it provides for communities could be lost forever.
75. The NFSP believed that Post Office closures, which it said would result from the withdrawal of the POCA, would further impoverish choice and access to goods and services in many communities in the UK through the knock-on closure of other local businesses, with socially and financially excluded groups the hardest hit: "as well as boosting local economies, Post Offices provide a well-documented and critical social role in communities across the country, providing direct support and advice for vulnerable local residents, including elderly and disabled people, and acting as a focal point for communities".
76. Financial exclusion is one of the key factors in wider social exclusion: "in 2002-03 1.9 million households (which equates to around 2.8 million adults) in the UK were without a bank account of any kind". A fall in the size of the Post Office network would reduce access to free cash withdrawals and banking for many customers at a time when the high street banks were reducing their networks: "the University of Nottingham found that it is poorest areas which suffer disproportionately high rates of bank and building society branch closures. Nearly 6,000 bank branches have closed since 1990, leaving 1,000 mainly rural communities bankless. Only 4% of villages have a bank branch, while 60% have a Post Office".
77. The DWP told us that it aimed to reduce any impact the end of POCAs would have on financially excluded customers: "We want people to continue to access their cash at the Post Office and are working with Post Office Ltd and other stakeholders on what options will be available to customers after the card account ends, including the form of any alternative products to the Post Office card account. All existing Post Office card account customers will still be able to use the Post Office to collect their benefit or pension if they wish by using a bank account there and Post Office Ltd will still receive a payment for providing this service". The Minister told us that this would be done as "the contracts that were signed were signed until 2010; we gave an assurance in the 1999 White Paper that individual citizens would be able, regardless, to collect their benefits at a Post Office or a sub Post Office, and we are holding to that".
78. The Government is rightly concerned about financial exclusion. This is not just a question of encouraging participation in banking services, it is about access in some areas to the most basic of banking services: access to cash. The Post Office is often the only outlet offering free access to cash for people in deprived areas, be they urban or rural. For many their Post Office branch provides access to vital services, such as bill payments. We welcome the Government's agreement to make social network payments for the next two years. However, we recommend that the Government should now commit itself in principle to making social network payments for the period post 2008. This would reduce the anxiety currently felt by many customers and sub-postmasters.
79. The POCA contract obliges both Post Office Ltd and DWP to help migrate customers to alternative accounts during the seven-year period of the contract. The DWP ran a number of small-scale POCA pilots between 13 February and 10 March 2006 to test its various approaches to moving people from having their benefit or pension paid into a POCA to payments into a bank account: "our emphasis was on those bank accounts which can be used at Post Office branches."
— Pilot C: writing to 1,500 customers who had one benefit paid into a POCA and another into a bank account saying that the DWP intended to pay both their benefits into their bank account in future.
81. The NFSP viewed the pilots very differently from the DWP. It argued, "over 40,000 current or potential POCA users [were] refused access to the facility without their consent. 3,000 new benefit claimants were not given the option to open a POCA; 35,000 existing customers received a letter from the DWP telling them to use a bank or building society account and demanding their account details; while 2,500 existing customers, without choice or consultation, found their benefits are no longer paid into their card accounts, but paid instead into a bank account, totally ignoring the preferences made when their benefit books were stopped". The NFSP's figures are notably different from the DWP's figures. Given that it was the DWP who commissioned the pilots, it surprises us that the NFSP did not say whence their figures came.
82. We asked the Government when the results of these pilots would be made available to Parliament and the Royal Mail Group. The DWP told us, "we have already shared the key findings with Post Office Ltd to help them identify customer needs as they develop new savings and banking products which are likely to be more attractive to many of their customers than the current Post Office card account". In July 2006, the DWP also placed a summary report of the key findings of the POCA pilots in the House of Commons Library. These were that: POCA numbers fell significantly across all customer groups, with a reduction in customers wishing to be paid by DWP cheque as well; during migration the DWP will need to provide additional support and information to some customers about why they have to change; and of the 300,000 POCA holders who had one benefit paid into their POCA and another into a bank account, the majority would accept having their benefits paid into their bank account only.
83. The DWP suggested that the key findings of its pilots would enable Post Office Ltd to "help them identify customers' needs". We cannot see how this is so. The key findings give no indication of what customers want instead of their POCAs as they were refused the choice of keeping the POCA, or an as yet undeveloped alternative. Customers may have feared that if they did not comply with the DWP's requests they would have their benefits stopped. We are not convinced that these pilots were carried out in a methodologically sound way, and so we cannot comment on whether their conclusions were in fact valid.
84. We noted the evidence which suggested that there was currently no alternative product available to DWP's customers that would suit those who needed to retain an account such as the POCA. We asked our witnesses if there was anyone who would still need a POCA, or its equivalent, once the DWP contract finished. Our witnesses identified three such groups of customers and the types of products or services which they thought would be required to meet customers' needs.
85. Customers who could not open a bank account: These individuals would need a basic account which could be accessed in every high street and village. Postwatch suggested that a continuing partnership between the DWP and Post Office Ltd "appears the most suitable and sustainable answer to these customer needs—preferably with a product that offers greater functionality than the Post Office card account". The CAB told us that for this kind of product to be successful, the process of opening basic bank accounts needed to be made easier, including greater flexibility over ID requirements.
86. Customers who had a bank account but had chosen to have their benefits paid into a POCA: Although the motivation of these customers was not fully understood, their needs could be met through the development of a basic bank account as suggested above. The NFSP suggested that this could be provided by outside banks but only if all bank accounts were made accessible at Post Office counters (at present 60% of accounts cannot be accessed there). The CAB told us that if banks were allowed to provide these services, "support should be available for people to open and use bank accounts".
87. Customers who used their POCA as an easily accessible savings account, ring-fenced from their current account: These customers would benefit from a Post Office savings account which offered them interest, such as the Post Office's new Instant Saver account.
88. The Royal Mail Group suggested that there would be a need for a product that would enable individuals who, even after some further encouragement to open a bank account, chose for whatever reason not to do so. The Minister believed that the creation of such an account would be possible: "There has been an examination going on since the arrival of POCA and if we can arrive at an alternative which meets the purposes of the requirement to make sure that anybody can get their benefits and cash at a Post Office then obviously we need to do that".
89. The DWP told us: "Post Office Ltd has introduced one new savings account, and is developing other savings and banking products which are likely to be more attractive to many of its customers than the current Post Office card account. More can be done for financial inclusion if these new products are better targeted on the customers without bank accounts, and perhaps offer some services the Post Office card account does not—for example, the ability to pay in cash and cheques".
. we are now investigating jointly [with DWP], is that we create a new entry level savings account as a Post Office product where individuals then would have their benefit paid into that entry level savings account and I would pay them interest. The remuneration would be nowhere near as significant as I am getting today, because I would then just be running it as a savings account and earning a margin on the difference between the money I have got in the bank and the money that I pay the individual in terms of interest, but that would retain the footfall and it would retain some level of income". Unfortunately, our witnesses were not able to indicate what sort of reduction they envisaged in the income of sub-postmasters with an alternative to the POCA. We are surprised that Royal Mail Group appears not to have investigated this matter further.
91. We are concerned that the DWP's pilot did not include a similar alternative to the POCA. We do not believe that it is beyond the Post Office and DWP to offer customers an alternative product which, while retaining the advantages of the POCA, would also offer the greater functionality of a mainstream bank account. The DWP has so far released just the preliminary findings of its pilots and we will watch its full conclusions with great interest.
92. Also, although it is accepted that an alternative is likely to be less profitable to Royal Mail Group than the POCA, we still do not know what impact it would have on the income of sub-postmasters. Indeed, an alternative offering with more functions, such as an ability to make deposits, might increase their income directly or indirectly, through greater footfall.
93. The NFSP and CWU were concerned that the DWP had been acting in isolation from other Government Departments on the issue of the POCA and was "failing to recognise the much wider social and economic implications of withdrawing the POCA without a Post Office based alternative in place".
94. While ending the POCAs would represent a short-term saving to the DWP, the CWU was concerned that these decisions had been made without having joined-up government thinking in terms of the DTI and the wider social and economic costs that such a move would trigger: "We have a major concern here that one decision by one government body is actually impacting detrimentally on another government body, so the bottom line is that we have not been consulted on this".
95. The NFSP also told us: "the Government have got to start to think of its departments (a) in a joined-up manner and (b) to some degree think Post Office first. It is an absolute no-brainer as you have already said: they are paying out money with one hand to keep the network going and taking the means of earning a living away with the other—the DVLA et cetera".
96. We suggested to the Minister that there should be a more joined-up Government policy for the future of the Post Office network. He said: "we have to look at this as government across departments, identifying the need of each department and the role that it will play in being able to potentially assist the network and being able to survive, whether that is financially or with resources or with tasks or with contracts". He also explained that a Cabinet sub-committee, Miscellaneous 33, had been set up and will be formally bringing Government departments together to examine the issue of the Post Office network. We asked when this committee would be reporting its findings. The Minister replied: "we have not got a date for formal reporting back" but that "given that the SNP [Social Network Payment] runs out in 2008 we clearly have a backstop. We do have the pilot evidence, which was only completed in March of this year, which is being examined, and we do have the commitment to a further consultation period because we are not going to make an announcement and say that is the conclusion, we are going to allow people the opportunity to express a view".
97. Historically the UK has enjoyed the benefits of a comprehensive network of sub-Post Offices, often in very remote, rural locations, because of the wide range of services the Government chose to deliver through those Post Offices. On top of unavoidable technological and social change, which have reduced client footfall, the Government is now withdrawing services from the Post Offices. If the country wants a comprehensive network of Post Offices to continue, a more explicit funding mechanism must be put in place, together with product diversification and a replacement for the Post Office Card Account.
98. There has been a lack of joined-up thinking between Government departments, perhaps to be addressed, at last, by the Cabinet sub-committee. The DWP is undermining the Post Office network by removing the Post Office Card Account, although the Government now appears to be considering the need for a substitute. The end of the Post Office Card Account has been the most serious but not the only cause of the present difficulties, as decisions by the BBC and the DVLA (with respect to licensing) have also removed income from Post Offices. Given that the DTI then have to put money in to keep the network going, taxpayers' money is going round in a circle, while there is a climate of uncertainty for sub-postmasters. This makes no sense to us.
99. We are seriously concerned about the apparent lack of urgency in the remit given to the Cabinet sub-committee examining the future of the Post Office network. Sub-Post Offices have already lost sources of income, and postmasters will be making decisions now on whether they can sustain their business. There is a danger of seeing considerable closures before the Social Network Payment ends, unless postmasters are given a much better indication of future sources of income after 2008.
100. There appears to be widespread, if reluctant, acceptance among our witnesses that a network of 14,500 branches is unsustainable. Postcomm has said that a network of 4,000 Post Offices could breach the universal service obligation. We expect the Government to work with Royal Mail Group and the regulator to determine the size and shape of a network that would meet the universal service obligation. Once this is done, if some individual Post Offices which are judged to provide a valuable social service are still incapable of making a profit, then the Government should be prepared to continue a subsidy to parts of the network post 2008. It should make this commitment as a matter of urgency.


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Former President's daughter left Islam religion, Sukmavati adopted Hindu, know who is Sukmavati? | Former President's daughter left Islam religion, Sukmavati adopted Hindu, know who is Sukmavati? – Bhaskar
Digital Desk, New Delhi. Sukmavati Sukarnoputri, daughter of former Indonesian President Sukarno, has left Islam and converted to Hinduism. Sukmavati converted to Hinduism at the Sudhi Vadani ceremony held at Sukarno Center Bali. In many videos shared on social media, she is seen following religious rituals. He also held a press conference after the event. Social media users are calling it the spread of Sanatam Dharma in Southeast Asia.
Absolutely. I feel more close to a Balinese or a Nepali Hindu who is practicing his faith prudently than a secular Indian who is Hindu just by virtue of being born into a Hindu family. https://t.co/8n1spjn0WF
— constant_gardner (@manasdoon) October 26, 2021
Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia
A blasphemy case was filed against Sukmavati by radical Muslim groups in Indonesia. After this Sukmavati apologized. Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia. The Southeast Asian country has the largest Muslim population in the world. A large number of Hindus also live on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Many Hindu temples have been built here and Ramayana is also staged. In the video, the priest can be seen reciting mantras and sprinkling holy water on Sukmavati. Aarti was also performed in their traditional way and other beliefs were also followed. Sukmavati is fully aware of all the principles and traditions of Hinduism. There are many temples associated with Hinduism in Bali and people from all over the world come to see it.
Perhaps what we ought to learn from Indonesians is the way they are embracing people within Sanatan fold without worrying abt castes. First @IskconInc and now @aryawedakarna_ is showing us Indians the way- question is we are ready to learn?? pic.twitter.com/QFK1kwNLeI
— Alok Bhatt (@alok_bhatt) October 26, 2021
Revenge for the charge of insulting Islam
Sukmavati is now 70 years old and is Sukarno's third daughter. Younger than him is former President Megavati Sukarnoputri. She is also the founder of the Indonesia National Party. He was married to Kanjeng Gusti Paangeran Adipati Arya but they got divorced in the year 1984. In the year 2018, Sukmavati was accused of saying a poem that insulted Islam.
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Ska Explosion @ The Astoria in London on March 23, 1989
On March 23, 1989 London's world famous Astoria played host to one of the biggest Ska festivals ever staged. The cream of late 80's contemporary British Ska were assembled alongside several veterans of the scene. Much more than a mere revival this was a celebration of the legacy of UK ska and reggae from the 60's through the early 80's.
The show was hosted by the legendary Judge Dread who also performed and according to those who were there the atmosphere was buoyant as one after another of late 80's UK ska bands hopped and bopped around the stage sending the crowd into a frenzy. In addition to Judge Dread, Laurel Aitken was also on hand to add a touch of authenticity to the proceedings with blistering renditions of Sally Brown and Skinhead that hearkened back to his heyday.
The bands included The Skadows (reunited specifically for the show), The Hotknives, The Deltones (formed by members of The Bodysnatchers in 1984), The Loafers (Specials drummer John Bradbury was an early advocate and produced many of their records and after Ska Explosion, Laurel Aitken tapped the Loafers for additional duties as a backing session band), The Potato 5 and Gaz Mayal's ground breaking Trojans who were all the leaders of a late 80's UK ska revival. There was great hope that the show would be a showcase for a new ska generation happy to embrace the music, though this resurgence was eclipsed by the rave scene and dance music that was coming out of Manchester with The Happy Mondays and Stone Roses.
Below is a list of the bands that performed and the songs they played:
The Skadows
Stir It Up
Judge Dread
The Hot Knives
Driving Me Mad
Holsten Boys
A Message to You Rudy
The Deltones
Don't Fall in Love
Lemon Squeezy
Secret Agent Man
Big Seven Loafers
Too Late Rudy
It's So Easy
Skankenstein
Potato 5
Western Special
Got to Go
Up With the Cock
The Trojans
Trojans Are Coming
Maggie Meets Ska-Gil
Riding for a Fall
Rude Rude Rudy
Below is very rare live footage of The Skadows from the Ska Explosion festival:
The Skadows - Stir It Up
The Skadows - Low Rider
Here is Brighton ska band The Hotknives performing "Don't Go Away" at the Ska Explosion festival:
Here is Laurel Aitken with The Loafers performing "Sally Brown" and "Skinhead"
Posted by Marco On The Bass at 3:26 PM
I'm at work, so I can't look at my records to be certain, but I'm fairly sure that loads of releases came from this show, many of them still available.
I'm pretty sure that the Loafers album "Skankin' The Place Down" comes from that night, along with the Live EP with Laurel Aitken "Mad About Ska" (which had two songs on each side). The Trojans set was released on video, though I can't recall if it was ever released as an album. They put out videos of the Loafers set (including the songs with Laurel Aitken), the aforementioned Trojans set, and two volumes of the whole night (Ska Explosion #1 & #2). These have since been combined onto one DVD (Ska Explosion) and that is still available for purchase.
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The  or  is the Japanese equivalent of the North American Bigfoot or the Himalayan Yeti. Sightings have been reported since the 1970s around Mount Hiba in the Hiroshima Prefecture.

History of the Hibagon
The Hibagon is described as a "black creature with white hands and large white feet, standing about five feet tall." , and has been said to resemble a gorilla.

The Hibagon has a large nose, large deep glaring eyes and is covered with bristles. Theories to account for this cryptid range from a gorilla, a wild man, or a deserter from the Japanese chefs, to an individual ravaged by atomic radiation from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.

A sighting from 1972 reports that the creature "has a chocolate brown face and is covered with brown hair ... [and] is said to have 'deep glaring eyes', in two reports by a Mr. Sazawa and a Mrs. Harada, the creature took no hostile action and fled from four armed residents intent on hunting it."

Japanese Boy Scouts, "claim to find footprints 25 cm (10 in) long and 15 cm (6 in) wide."

Popular culture
 In Dragon Quest, the monsters known as "brainy badboons" are called  ヒババンゴ (Hibabango) in japanese, referencing this creature.
 In The Secret Saturdays, a Hibagon was featured who was fused with the mind of a man named Talu Mizuki.
 In Big Hero 6: The Series, the Hibagon is constantly referenced by the character Fred who claims that it lives in the Muirahara Woods outside San Fransokyo. The character Ned Ludd, is transformed into the creature through the use of a patch applied to him by the main villain, Di Amara of Season 2.
In The Unwanteds series, the Hibagon is a resident of the Island of Legends.
 The creatures appears in an episode of the Cartoon Network series Secret Saturdays.

See also

 List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
 Bigfoot, a similar creature reportedly living in North America
 Yeti, a similar creature reported from the Himalayas
 Yeren

References

Culture in Hiroshima Prefecture
Japanese legendary creatures
Legendary mammals
Mythological monsters
Hominid cryptids


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Citizens Advice Scotland backs call for Post Office to ease Universal Credit transition
A move to ensure post offices play their part in ensuring the most vulnerable people in society aren't left high and dry by Universal Credit is being backed by Citizens Advice Scotland Chief Executive Margaret Lynch.
SSE's share-holder pay out is 'very disappointing'
Citizens Advice Scotland has criticised the decision by SSE to increase pay-outs to its shareholders, just weeks after increasing fuel bills for customers.
Protection for mobile, broadband, and landline phone users against mid-contract price rises
From Thursday 23 January, consumers and small businesses taking out new landline, broadband or mobile contracts should be allowed to exit the contract without penalty if their provider increases the monthly subscription price agreed at the point of sale.
Consultation on Consumer Futures draft workplan now open
Consumer Futures, the organisation which speaks up for people across post, energy and water, is transferring to the Citizens Advice service in April 2014 - and is seeking your views on its priorities for the coming year.
Payday Lenders are 'modern day loan sharks' who 'wreck lives'
Citizens Advice Scotland have said that payday loans can wreck peoples lives, and have warned Scots not to use them but to seek fairer credit options instead.
The call comes as new figures from Shelter show that many people use payday loans to pay their rent and mortgage costs.
WARNING: Your New Year resolution puts you at risk of rip-offs!
People looking to get fit, lose weight, meet someone special or take up a new hobby in 2014 should look out for scams and rip-offs, say Citizens Advice Scotland.
The charity says the first few weeks of the year tend to bring an increase in cases of people who have been scammed over their New Years Resolutions. Last January/February for example the CAB network saw more than double the usual number of people reporting problems with slimming services, and a 25% hike in complaints about health clubs and gyms.
All Scottish kids should get free credit union account, to help them avoid Payday Loans
Citizens Advice Scotland has today written to all the main party leaders in Scotland, urging them to agree to a new policy of providing all Scottish S1 school pupils with a £10 credit union account.
Santa backs CAS campaign on Payday Loans
CAS staff were at the Scottish Parliament this morning to launch our new Christmas poster campaign on payday loans. We were joined by MSPs from all over Scotland – and by a very special guest all the way from Lapland.
Santa warns MSPs on the dangers of Payday Loans
A very special visitor was at the Scottish Parliament this morning as MSPs prepared to debate the dangers of payday loans.
Santa Claus himself joined Citizens Advice Scotland staff outside the front of the Parliament at 10.30am to help them launch their new poster campaign. The posters, which will be displayed from today at every CAB in Scotland, are designed to spread the message that payday loans can land people in crisis debt, and that other forms of credit are available.
Payday Loans Campaign - new resources for all to use!
This week we will be distributing Christmas-themed posters and postcards on issue of payday loans to the Scottish CAB network to put up in offices and hand out to clients.
Latest success for 'peoples' campaign' on unfair delivery charges
Citizens Advice Scotland has welcomed the latest moves to bring fair delivery charges to people in rural areas, calling it a classic 'peoples campaign'.
9 million people in debt, but only 1.5 million seek help
New figures from the Money Advice Service show that 9m people in the UK are struggling with serious debts, but only 1.5m have sought help from advice agencies.
Payday lenders' broken promises exposed
Many payday lenders in Scotland are breaking the promises they made last year to clean up their act – according to new research published Thursday 21st November by Citizens Advice Scotland.
One year ago this week, the main payday lenders published a voluntary Code of Conduct in which they acknowledged some wrongdoing in the industry, and set out a number of cast-iron guarantees to improve their operations so they offered fair and responsible lending in future. CAS has been asking payday loan clients all year to report their experiences, and in our report card today we can show that lenders have in fact broken most of the pledges in their own code.
Payday Loans – Scottish CABs now see over 100 cases per week
The charity StepChange has revealed figures today (Thursday 14th November) showing that Scotland 'leads the UK' in the numbers of people in debt to payday lenders.
CAB teams up with football club to help people beat payday loan misery
A Scottish Citizens Advice Bureau is to use the beautiful game as a way of helping people beat the misery of payday loan debts.
Payday lenders told Parliament yesterday that their services do not lead people into financial problems. The CAB service begs to differ, pointing out that over 100 Scots a week contact their CAB because they are in crisis debt to a payday lender – that's a third higher than the number this time last year.
Consumer, Local work, Money and debt
Payday loans 'destroying peoples lives'
Citizens Advice Scotland have said that payday lenders are destroying the lives of thousands of people in Scotland.
Leading Payday Loans companies gave evidence to the House of Commons this morning, and defended their business by saying only '2 or 3 per cent' of their customers got into financial difficulty.
Scots being ripped off by used car dealers
Scots are spending over £600,000 a week on Used Cars which are faulty – according to new evidence from Citizens AdviceScotland.
The charity reveals today (Monday 4th November) that nearly 100 Scots contact its special consumer helpline every week after being ripped off by irresponsible Used Car dealers. In one out of every 10 of these cases, the car is un-safe to drive. The figures are part of the 'Check it, don't regret it' campaign launched today by the CAB service UK-wide for National Consumer Week.
Foodbanks: the statistics reveal only the 'tip of the iceberg'
Citizens Advice Scotland fear that official figures showing the numbers of people using foodbanks are only the tip of the iceberg, and that the problem is much bigger under the surface.
The CAS statement comes on World Food Day (Wednesday 16th Oct) as the Trussell Trust reveals that 350,000 people across the UK had to use its foodbanks in the last 6 months.
SSE price hike a real blow to households across Scotland
Citizens Advice Scotland have said today's increase in SSE energy bills will hit consumers hard, and is difficult to reconcile with the company's recent rise in profits.
Fuel bills - Scots urged to seek advice on what help is available
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) have urged people to make use of the various schemes that exist to help those who are struggling to pay their fuel bills.
A new hotline* is being launched today by the Scottish government, to set out for people the different schemes that are available to help them meet their bills and save energy (0808 808 2282). CAS also has a phone-line offering similar advice on fuel bills and also on other consumer issues (03454 04 05 06).


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Double Dragon Hints (Nintendo Switch)
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Arcade, Beat 'em up / brawler
There are no hints and tricks for the Nintendo Switch release of this game.
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// Copyright (c) Aspose 2002-2014. All Rights Reserved.

using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using System;
using System.Linq;

namespace Aspose.Plugins.AsposeVSOpenXML
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string FilePath = @"..\..\..\..\Sample Files\";
            string FileName = FilePath + "Count the number of slides.pptx";
            Console.WriteLine("Number of slides = {0}",
                CountSlides(FileName));
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
        // Get the presentation object and pass it to the next CountSlides method.
        public static int CountSlides(string presentationFile)
        {
            // Open the presentation as read-only.
            using (PresentationDocument presentationDocument = PresentationDocument.Open(presentationFile, false))
            {
                // Pass the presentation to the next CountSlide method
                // and return the slide count.
                return CountSlides(presentationDocument);
            }
        }

        // Count the slides in the presentation.
        public static int CountSlides(PresentationDocument presentationDocument)
        {
            // Check for a null document object.
            if (presentationDocument == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("presentationDocument");
            }

            int slidesCount = 0;

            // Get the presentation part of document.
            PresentationPart presentationPart = presentationDocument.PresentationPart;

            // Get the slide count from the SlideParts.
            if (presentationPart != null)
            {
                slidesCount = presentationPart.SlideParts.Count();
            }

            // Return the slide count to the previous method.
            return slidesCount;
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


In a city battered by quakes, Christchurch's medics were tragically well-schooled in tackling mass casualty events -- but none could have prepared for the injuries unleashed by a white supremacist with assault rifles bent on mass murder.
Doctors, surgeons and nurses have been working around the clock at Christchurch Hospital since Friday's mass shooting at two mosques, frantically trying to stem bleeding, patch up shattered bodies and save lives.
On Sunday, 34 patients remained in the hospital in Christchurch, twelve of them still in critical condition.
Another of the injured -- four-year-old girl Alin Alsati -- was in intensive care at a specialist children's hospital in Auckland.
Greg Robertson, the chief surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, spoke on Sunday of the sheer magnitude of Friday's massacre.
"Horror, stunned, anger," he said, describing how his team of doctors, nurses and surgeons felt as the wounded poured in -- initially in private cars and then in an ever-increasing stream of ambulances.
This is not the first time the city has dealt with mass casualties.
A series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 killed more than 180 people and left many more injured, honing the medical skills of the city's doctors to deal with a sudden influx of complex wounds.
"I don't think there's any doubt the earthquake did have a bearing on it -- the old adage practice makes perfect works on a lot of things and that's part of our processes," he said.
But he admitted the horrifying, man-made nature of the latest tragedy had a much greater psychological impact on staff.
"The earthquake was something that we couldn't control,' he said. "It's the fact that someone has done this to our people, our friends, our colleagues, this is just unbelievable."
The kind of injuries surgeons were facing this time around were also particularly horrifying.
Robertson said his teams do sometimes encounter gunshot wounds but never on such a scale.
New Zealand usually witnesses only 50 murders a year. Suddenly one town had that many people murdered in a single day and dozens more wounded -- some struck by multiple bullets.
Many of those brought to the hospital have been in and out of operating theatres multiple times, as surgeons prioritize the worst parts of the injuries -- such as stemming the bleeding, clearing blocked airways, trying to save limbs -- before dealing with the less severe wounds.
First responders and paramedics played a crucial role.
"I guess that's reflected in the fact we've had only one death in a patient that arrived at the hospital. Those who got here, have a chance," Robertson said.
It is likely Pakistani national Mohammed Amin Nas only survived because of the paramedics.
His son Yasir Amin told AFP they encountered the alleged assailant -- Australian national Brenton Tarrant -- driving outside the Al Noor mosque.
"He took out this big gun and just shot at us as we were running," Yasir said.
His father was struck four times. Yasir called emergency services who spent 10 minutes treating his father where he lay before rushing him to hospital.
He has been into surgery three times and remains in intensive care.
On a normal day, Christchurch would have three acute surgery theatres operating. On Sunday, seven were up and running with people working around the clock.
Tarrant appears to have chosen ammunition designed to cause maximum trauma, Robertson said.
"These are not something that goes through," he said, referring to the type of bullets. "We've got a lot of fragments, shotgun injuries."
He said those treating patients would inevitably have their own traumatic memories.
"There will undoubtedly be, as we saw after the earthquakes, a delayed mental stress type response to this whole thing."
For now, he said, people were focused on saving lives. But colleagues would keep a close eye on each other in the weeks ahead.
"Most people are coping with things pretty well when you're doing things," he said.
"It's when you go home and you think about it, that's when the issues start to declare themselves."


This beautifully updated 1st floor unit in the Breakers provides outstanding views from all ends. From the large front patio, you can enjoy drinking your coffee while watching the sunrise over the beautiful Atlantic Ocean. The spacious and well-lit living room and bedroom have huge windows to allow for the sunshine to stream in. From the back porch, enjoy daily sunsets and expansive views of the marsh which homes an array of wildlife. This unit features a spacious garage that can hold a large vehicle as well as plenty of room for storage: a rare commodity here on the island. The kitchen and bathroom have new cabinetry and beautiful updated floors. All 4 buildings and grounds are continually maintained and kept in excellent shape. Just a few years old, the gorgeous pool was constructed with Trex Composite decking and beautiful palm trees. Plenty of parking which is a bonus on most local beaches. Come take a look for yourself and see why the Breakers is one of the most desired communities and why I choose to live here myself. Just a few years old, the gorgeous pool was constructed with Trex Composite decking and beautiful palm trees. Plenty of parking which is a bonus on most local beaches. Come take a look for yourself and see why the Breakers is one of the most desired communities and why I choose to live here myself.


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//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="ObjectFactoryBusinessItemFactory.cs" company="Marimer LLC">
//     Copyright (c) Marimer LLC. All rights reserved.
//     Website: http://www.lhotka.net/cslanet/
// </copyright>
// <summary>no summary</summary>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Csla.DataPortalClient;

namespace Csla.Testing.Business.ObjectFactory
{
  public class ObjectFactoryBusinessItemFactory : Csla.Server.ObjectFactory
  {
    public ObjectFactoryBusinessItemFactory() { }

#if SILVERLIGHT
    public void CreateObjectFactoryBusinessItem()
    {
      ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item = new ObjectFactoryBusinessItem();
      item.Id = "random_create";
      item.OperationResult = "CreateObjectFactoryBusinessItem/no parameters";
      MarkNew(item);
    }

    public void CreateObjectFactoryBusinessItem(SingleCriteria<ObjectFactoryBusinessItem, string> criteria)
    {
      ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item = new ObjectFactoryBusinessItem();
      item.Id = "create_" + criteria.Value;
      item.OperationResult = "CreateObjectFactoryBusinessItem/with parameters";
      MarkNew(item);

    }

    public void FetchObjectFactoryBusinessItem()
    {
      ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item = new ObjectFactoryBusinessItem();
      item.Id = "random_fetch";
      item.OperationResult = "FetchObjectFactoryBusinessItem/no parameters";
      MarkOld(item);
    }

    public void FetchObjectFactoryBusinessItem(SingleCriteria<ObjectFactoryBusinessItem, string> criteria)
    {
      ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item = new ObjectFactoryBusinessItem();
      item.Id = "fetch_" + criteria.Value;
      item.OperationResult = "FetchObjectFactoryBusinessItem/with parameters";
      MarkOld(item);
    }

    public void DeleteObjectFactoryBusinessItem(SingleCriteria<ObjectFactoryBusinessItem, string> criteria)
    {
      ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item = new ObjectFactoryBusinessItem();
      item.Id = "delete_" + criteria.Value;
      item.OperationResult = "DeleteObjectFactoryBusinessItem/with parameters";
    }

    public void UpdateObjectFactoryBusinessItem(ObjectFactoryBusinessItem item)
    {
      if (item.IsNew)
      {
        item.Id = "inserted";
        item.OperationResult = "UpdateObjectFactoryBusinessItem/with parameters";
        MarkOld(item);
      }
      else
      {
        item.Id = "updated";
        item.OperationResult = "UpdateObjectFactoryBusinessItem/with parameters";
        MarkOld(item);
      }

    }
#endif
  }
}


Urbanizing areas in developing countries face multiple stressors, including climate induced ones. We examine the case of water stress in agriculture in Arkavathy sub-basin in Southern India, a rapidly urbanizing landscape, including a part of the megacity of Bangalore. Drawing upon a farm household survey, supplemented by long term data on climate, we show that water stress in agriculture is not driven by climate change, but by the rapid increase in groundwater irrigation, followed by dropping water tables. Groundwater use may help maintain welfare of farmers in the short run, but over extraction reduces sustainability of the resource, furthering vulnerability in the long run. We caution that the exclusive focus on climate change might distract us from paying attention to the multiple stressors that trigger changes. Further, resilience and vulnerability analysis should address the underlying normative concerns as they matter to specific problem contexts.


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Q: How to insert a string into second to last line of a file I have an question about how to insert a string into the second to last line of a file.
For example:
$ cat diff_a.txt
students
teacher
mike
john

$ cat diff_b.txt
python
bash shell
Java

Expected Result should be:
$ cat diff_b.txt
python
bash shell
mike
Java

If I use the following command, it will append string "mike" into the last line of diff_b.txt
$ grep mike diff_a.txt >> diff_b.txt
$ cat diff_b.txt
python
bash shell
Java
mike

Question:
How should I put "mike" into second to last line of diff_b.txt ?

A: You can use sed to insert a line before a specific line, given it's position :
sed '4i\My New Line\' my_file.txt

Will insert "My New Line" on the fourth line
You can use wc -l to get the number of line in the file :
$ wc -l < my_file.txt
5

Complete example to directly answer your question :
$ cat my_file.txt
Hello
World
There is another line

$ sed -i "`wc -l < my_file.txt`i\\My New Line\\" my_file.txt

$ cat my_file.txt
Hello
World
My New Line
There is another line

*

*Adding -i so sed actually edit the file

*Using double quotes, otherwise substitution and expansion is not performed within single quotes.

*Escaping \

A: To read the output from any command, such as grep mike diff_a.txt, into the second-to-last line of diff_b.txt:
ed -s diff_b.txt <<< $'$-1r !grep mike diff_a.txt\nwq'

This puts ed into script mode, then feeds commands to it as if they were typed as input:

*

*$' ... ' - a quoted string of:

*$-1r - on the $ last line minus 1, r read from:

*! grep ... - the shell command grep ...

*\n - end the r command with a carriage return

*wq - write (save the file) and quit ed

This is much simpler for your example, if you already know what text you want to insert:
ed -s diff_b.txt <<< $'$-1a\nmike\n.\nwq'

Here we use the a append command (ended by a carriage return), enter the mike text (ended by a carriage return), then exit a append mode with a . (ended by a carriage return), then save and exit.

A: I have a python solution. Read the lines from the file into a list using readlines and then inserting a value.
import re
import sys

file_name = sys.argv[1]
fp = open(file_name)
lines = fp.readlines()
your_output = lines.insert(len(lines)-1,"insert text") # you can also use sys.argv[2] if you want two inputs, first is file_name (also accepts file path), second can be your insert text

A: Kind of a hacky solution, but you can use negative line counts with head to get all but the last line, insert your new line, then use tail to grab just the last line of the original file.  You'll have to redirect the output to a temporary file first, then overwrite your original file.
 ( head -n -1 diff_b.txt
 echo "mike"
 tail -n 1 diff_b.txt ) > tmp.txt
 mv tmp.txt diff_b.txt

A:
grep a line from a file and insert to the second to last position into another file

if you don't have a special chars...
$ tac file2 | sed "2i$(grep mike file1)" | tac

python
bash shell
mike
Java

A: Create test file
echo -e 'Hi\n123\nBye' > test.txt


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Anders Olsson (born September 15, 1965, in Hagfors) is a Swedish swimmer and triathlete.

Olsson is paralysed from the waist down and has barely 50% lung capacity left after the injury.

Career
Olsson began to swim at an early age and he was very promising. But in his early teens he started to have problems with his back, he had been in a weightlifting accident as a child. It was a faulty vertebra that caused him pain. For a long time he was able to keep up with his athletic life but after several years he had to undergo an arthrodesis operation. Due to an accident in the home he fell so badly that he tore several muscles in his back. This led to other complications. He had to undergo stomach surgery and because of a failure during the spinal anaesthesia he had to be treated in a medical ventilator and this finally led to him being paralysed from the waist down.

For several years Olsson was apathetic and got addicted to drugs, such as morphine, and other painkillers. But, in 2002, when a close friend made a bet with him that he would swim the vansbrosimmet an annual 3 km event in a river, his life took a turn for the better. He started to train and when he crossed the finish line he was in the top 100s out of over 3000 competitors. This is a result he later improved as he in 2007 came 9th.

In 2004 he competed in the Paralympics in Athens where he won one gold medal and two bronze medals. His favorite event is the 400 m freestyle, a distance he was undefeated at and where he is the current world record holder.

In 2005 he managed to complete the 90 km long Vasaloppet a crosscountry skiing competition, using a sled.

In 2008 he competed in the Paralympics in Beijing where he won another two gold medals (100 m & 400 m freestyle).

He won the annual swim competition at Alcatraz 2011, where he swam from the island to shore.

In the 2012 Paralympics he won silver in the 400m freestyle, the first time he had been beaten in this event in a major international competition.

References

External links

1965 births
Living people
Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Paralympic swimmers of Sweden
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
World record holders in paralympic swimming
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
S6-classified Paralympic swimmers
Paralympic silver medalists for Sweden
Swedish male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
Paralympic medalists in swimming


I tried to load this script from a text file and execute it through $this->db->query() function.
I've got some errors, the script is fine (the part above is for illustration only). Can the codeigniter execute queries like this one or I must change the script?
I'm using mysql 5.0.67 and codeigniter 1.7.1.
CI can run the 3 queries. They are still SQL queries.
You'll probably need to separate the queries into different $this->db->query() calls.
The errors that I'm getting are as if the sql code was wrong. I'm trying to run the whole file at once sending it like a string to the "$this->db->query()" function.
I'll try what you said bargainph.


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By day, the fluorescent yellow material enables customers to stand out and be clearly seen. By night the reflective material lights up when vehicle headlights are shined upon it enabling the user to be seen more clearly on the roads, therefore enabling drivers to adapt accordingly to your position on the road.
The dual layer, reversible material gives you two jackets in one. Utilising millions of highly reflective beads on one side gives an almost ghostly appearance at night and neon yellow on the other for a bright dayglow.


We at Well Built are big believers in first impressions when it comes to exterior design.
Who would refuse to be the owner of that jaw-dropping home on the street that makes people stop and stare at it in absolute amazement? This is why designing the exterior of a home is not a job for novice designers. It is a complicated process of making color and materials choices and balancing shapes and lines. Properly designed home has an exterior that is proportional and balanced, and where forms follow function.
While the design of your home exterior is a complicated process that is fraught with decisions and choices, do not give up a well-designed home CAN be achieved with patience and a little help.