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Q: How to use command line to stop application from another pc I have 32 clients are running on MS Windows XP numbered as GON1NU01 to GON1NU32.
I want to stop application from command line to stop all or selected clients  "App_Stop_All".
What command should I use to achieve this functionality?

A: taskkill can be used to kill processes on remote computers.

Ends one or more tasks or processes. Processes can be killed by process ID or image name.
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Combine that in a batch file with a For loop that goes through a list of computers and you should be good to go.
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The Best and Worst Airlines for Cheap Flights
Your favorite airline might not have the best deals around.
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Everyone wants to find cheap flights so they can save more money on their vacation, but searching discount travel sites can be a hassle.
To save you time and help you get the most bang for your buck, GOBankingRates set out to find the best and worst airlines for cheap flights. In this study, GOBankingRates compares the cheapest available round-trip flights for one person from Los Angeles (LAX) to New York (JFK or LaGuardia). Ticket prices were sourced directly from airline websites on August, 2019, for travel on Oct. 15, 2019, and Oct. 17, 2019.
Read on to see which airlines have the lowest fees and which are the least affordable.
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Most Expensive Airline: Southwest Airlines
Cost of Round-Trip Flight: starting at $569.70
Southwest Airlines prides itself on low prices, but it definitely isn't always the cheapest airline. Flying in and out of LaGuardia costs $281 and $205, respectively, bringing the total round-trip price to $569 with taxes and fees included. On the plus side, you can bring a carry-on bag, a personal item and up to two checked bags for free.
Southwest also offers a range of airline perks — such as complimentary beverages, free music and no change fee — so it's very possible to pay nothing beyond your ticket price. Southwest has an open seating policy, but you can purchase EarlyBird Check-In, starting at $15 each way to get to the front of the line.
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Expensive Airline: Sun Country Airlines
Cost of Round-Trip Flight: starting at $463
Sun Country Airlines is not one of the best airlines for cheap travel. Flying in and out of New York City on Sun Country Airlines costs $234 each way for a total of $468 round-trip. Checking a bag will cost you $25, but it's free to bring a carry-on and small personal item that meet required size and weight limits.
If you want any airline extras, prepare to pay. Food is available for purchase from $2-$10, and drinks cost $2-$7. You'll pay $1 for headsets, $5 for a pillow and blanket travel pack and $8 for a Sun Country Digital Entertainment Device, if available on your flight.
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Less Expensive Airline: JetBlue
Cost of Round-Trip Flight: $332
Plan your trip with JetBlue Airlines to fly to and from New York City for $167 each way, amounting to a total of $332. You can get a selection of complimentary snacks and drinks on your JetBlue flight. Alcoholic drinks cost $7-$9, and selections from the EatUp Café run $6-$12.
Checking a bag will cost you about $25, but you can bring one personal item and one carry-on bag aboard for free. DirectTV, SirusXM Radio and high-speed Internet are also complimentary for all passengers.
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Less Expensive Airline: Frontier Airlines
Flights start at $378 round-trip from LAX to LaGuardia, $189 each way.
You're allowed to bring one personal item for free, but other Frontier baggage fees vary by travel dates and time of purchase. For a trip from Los Angeles to New York, besides a personal bag, a carry-on bag costs $76 and your first checked bag is $34 when paid at booking. Prices can swell up to $60 each for both, so plan ahead. Do note, there are no TVs or Wi-Fi aboard Frontier planes, and all snacks and drinks must be purchased.
Less Expensive Airline: American Airlines
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently fined American Airlines $1 million for permitting "flights to remain on the tarmac for more than three hours for the domestic flights and more than four hours for the international
flights without providing passengers an opportunity to deplane". However, those who do book with the airline will enjoy cheap flights.
A round-trip flight from Los Angeles to New York costs just $322. Passengers are permitted to bring one carry-on bag and one personal item for free — except Basic Economy ticket holders, who can only bring a personal item — with a $30 checked bag fee.
Non-alcoholic beverages are complimentary, and meals are free on transcontinental flights, including LAX to JFK. There's also no charge for in-seat and wireless entertainment.
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Less Expensive Airline: Delta Air Lines
Plan to spend $304 on your round-trip Delta ticket, and don't book your flight until you're sure of the dates, as making changes to your itinerary will cost you the difference in fare and a service fee of $200 for domestic Delta-marketed flights. Do note that some tickets — including Basic Economy E fares — cannot be changed.
If you pack lightly, you can save on baggage fees, as Delta allows passengers to bring a carry-on bag and a personal item for free. Otherwise, plan to pay $25 for your first checked bag under 50 pounds and $35 for your second.
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Less Expensive Airline: Alaska Airlines
Flying to and from New York City costs only $149, amounting to a grand total of $296. You're allowed to bring one carry-on bag and one personal item for free, but checking a bag will cost you $30 for the first bag, $40 for the second and $100 for every bag after that.
Changes and cancellations are free when made at least 60 days prior to departure, but will cost $125 otherwise. Complimentary non-alcoholic beverages and snacks are provided, but you have to pay $6-$7 for beer, wine and cocktails — except on select flights — and $6-$8 for in-flight meals and snack boxes.
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Less Expensive Airline: United Airlines
United Airlines is one of the best carriers to find cheap flights. You can fly in and out of LaGuardia using the Basic Economy fare — the airlines' lowest-price ticket option — for $282. Basic Economy fares come with several restrictions, including no seat selection or upgrade, no flight changes or refunds and no full-size carry-on bags. You are allowed one small personal item.
Of course, United Airlines has experienced a handful of costly public relation scandals, like when a giant three-foot rabbit named Simon died in the airline's care. If these types of news stories bother you, you might want to book your trip with another airline.
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Cheapest Airline: Spirit Airlines
Though it's generally regarded as a budget carrier, booking travel with Spirit Airlines won't always save you money. Flying to and from LaGuardia Airport costs about $257.15.
One small laptop bag or purse flies free, but just about everything else will cost you. Standard fees for bringing a carry-on bag range from about $35 during booking to $65 at the gate. Checking a bag comes with standard rates of $30 during booking to $65 at the gate. You'll also pay $1-$50 to choose your seat, $1-$10 for snacks and $1-$15 for drinks.
Methodology: GOBankingRates compared the cheapest available round-trip flights departing at any time on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, and return at any time on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, from Los Angeles (LAX) to New York (JFK or LaGuardia). Flights were for one person. Both nonstop flights and flights with stops were considered. Prices were sourced directly from individual airline websites. The research was conducted on August 21, 2019.
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Laura is a writer with nearly 10 years of experience in marketing and personal finance. She is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in personal finance, higher education, legal matters and marketing. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Robert Morris University.
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New Delhi: The country has missed its targets across all major sectors such as power, coal, finished steel, roads, railways and petroleum despite the Centre's continued push, discloses government data.
An August review of the infrastructure sector performance for the April-August period, brought out by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, suggests that most sectors, barring refinery production, failed to meet targets.
"It is very difficult to assign particular reasons to targets not being reached, but this is the factual position. The causes for not meeting targets vary from sector to sector," says Pronab Sen, chief statistician of India. He insists that the targets set by the government were realistic and had been set in consonance with relevant project authorities.
Mint had reported on 13 August that at least half the infrastructure projects being executed by the government in vital areas such as atomic energy, railways, power, telecom and petroleum, have been delayed, resulting in a cost overrun of at least 10%.
According to the Flash Report on Central sector projects released by the same ministry, as of March, 234 out of 515 Central projects—each estimated to cost Rs100 crore and above—had been delayed from their expected date of commissioning.
The ministry presents these reports to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the cabinet secretary, besides informing respective ministries about the performance of projects related to them.
During April-August, highways regulator National Highways Authority of India widened and/or upgraded 990km of highways against the target of 1,014.17km.
"The problem faced by the highways sector is in respect of fresh awarding of tenders," said Nirmaljeet Singh, additional director general at the ministry of shipping and road transport. He, however, defended the sector's progress, saying: "There is a reasonable degree of progress in works that are under construction."
Experts also say infrastructure projects in some sectors, such as roads and airports, have been delayed due to a variety of reasons, including court cases over guidelines governing the tendering process. These delays, coupled with the current liquidity crisis, might make raising more money in the sector difficult.
Credit rating agency Crisil Ltd, an arm of ratings firm Standard and Poor's, in a recent report said $390 billion (Rs18.56 trillion) of investments in infrastructure in the next five years starting 2007-08 would be a more realistic target.
The government projects investments of around $500 billion over the same time period, of which at least 30% should come from the private sector. The infrastructure sector typically works on a 7:3 debt-equity ratio.
"Going by the government's projects, I don't see $45 billion of equity money appearing in this economy," said Jayant Desai, director (transactions advisory services) for Ernst and Young. "In the power and roads sectors, land acquisition is a major problem. Also, companies are reaching sectoral limits (limits capping bank lending to by sector) or group exposure limits." Desai added that there was "no way" the government would achieve its projected investment levels.
Refinery production remained the one bright spot.
"The overall refinery production during April-August 2008 at 67.77mt (million tonnes) was higher than the target for the period and the production for the corresponding period of the previous year by 7.3% and 4.8%, respectively," says the report.
However, according to the report, the production of crude oil during April-August at 14.02mt was 4.4% lower than the target. It was also 0.9% lower than the output for the corresponding period in 2007.
This was largely on account of lower-than-anticipated production by the Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd in Assam, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, as also by private players in the oil sector, the report said.
K.P. Narayana Kumar contributed to this story.


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Mthetheleli (MT) was one of six children, all struggling to live on their mother's income. His parents did not share the same values, and the tension made life difficult. The children suffered, and became undisciplined. Their community was constantly at war, forcing them to continually seek refuge. MT and his siblings scattered in their own direction. His mother pleaded with him to make the right choices, and not end up in prison. Sadly, he didn't comply, and began a downward spiral into a life of crime. Fast cars, fast choices, and young people perishing prematurely desensitised MT to this lifestyle.
Finally, his crimes caught up with him and MT ended up being sentenced to 45 years in prison.
While in Drakenstein Correctional Services (DCS) Facility after a violent battle between rival gangs, MT sensed a small voice warning him that unless he changed, it might be his blood that is spilt. In his room, he prayed a prayer and decided to change his life. The hardest part was informing the gang members, fearing they might seek revenge. It took courage but he was ready to become a better man.
He was given a prayer book which helped him pray more effectively as his life began to change. Inspirational people came alongside MT, faithfully nurturing him in his walk. While still feeling his past holding him back, and his future uncertain, MT met people from The Message Trust who were running programmes for prisoners.
Since his release from prison, The Message Trust has helped MT find accommodation, employment and provided ongoing mentorship and support. He is currently working with The Message Trust in their Gangstar Café social enterprise, overseeing all their merchandise and sharing his story of transformation with the public. MT also regularly mentors other young men in prison and gangs sharing a message of hope.
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James P. Cuda is an Associate Professor in the Entomology and Nematology Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and a consultant to the University's Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. His research deals with key elements of classical biological control of aquatic and terrestrial weeds, including foreign exploration, host specificity testing, and release/evaluation of promising natural enemies of exotic weeds that have invaded Florida and threaten the southeastern United States. He is a member of the SD-1034 regional project, "Biological Control of Arthropod Pests and Weeds" and is an extension specialist for biological control of insect pests and weeds in Florida. Cuda received his B.S. (1973) and M.S. (1976) degrees in zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a Ph.D. in entomology from Texas A&M University (1983). He was a Quarantine Officer in the Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station (1982-1983), and a postdoctoral research entomologist in biological weed control at the USDA's Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, Texas (1984-1987). From 1987 to 1990, Cuda was Director of the Plant Methods Development Program at the USDA's Biological Control Facility, Bozeman, Montana. He was appointed to the federal interagency Technical Advisory Group on the Introduction of Biological Control Agents of Weeds (1988-1990), and was a co-developer of the USDA's National Biological Control Institute. Cuda has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, given more than 90 presentations at international, national, regional and local conferences, and is on the editorial boards of two scientific journals. He is a member of the Entomological Society of America, International Weed Science Society, Weed Science Society of America and is past- Chair of WSSA's Biological Control Committee. Cuda also is member of the Florida Aquatic Plant Management Society, the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council, International Organization for Biological Control, Florida Entomological Society, Florida Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals, and the UF/IFAS Invasive Plant Working Group.


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The potential tax implications of divorce may soon lessen
by Law Office of Stuart E. Bruers | Jun 11, 2015 | Firm News, Property Division, Property Division |
One might naturally assume that there will be no further problems after the finalization of one's divorce. While this may often be the case, there are certain situations in which further discussion or cooperation may be necessary. There can be unforeseen tax implications when filing returns with the Franchise Tax Board, even if one thinks tax issues have been addressed in a divorce agreement. The California Senate recently voted, with unanimous approval, on a piece of legislation designed to uphold divorce agreements in relation to tax liabilities.
The California Franchise Tax Board currently does not have the authority to uphold the content of divorce agreements in relation to taxes. SB 526 is intended as a step toward streamlining government processes. At present, those who understood their tax liabilities to have been handled in legal divorce agreements may find that they need to return to court in order to enforce the arrangements. The only other alternative is to pay the amount demanded.
While it would appear that women form the majority of people affected by this situation, it is not dependent upon gender. Tax implications are related to earnings and assets, and either spouse may end up liable for taxes unexpectedly. When one considers that divorce may have been triggered by domestic violence, for example, it is unfair to expect a man or woman to have to revisit a violent marriage for tax purposes.
The next stage for the bill is the State Assembly. Until SB 526 is finalized, California residents may still require additional advice and guidance on tax liability after divorce. Those who are deemed to be absolved of the need to pay tax may still have options available to them in order to avoid unfair tax implications.
Source: rocklintoday.com, "California Tax Agency Closer to Honoring Divorce Agreements?", George Runner & Fiona Ma, June 3, 2015
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Exhibit A In The Perils Of Mass Transit
November 5, 2011 Lee Hurtado
I've written before about the whole concept of certification, the idea (put forth by Walker Percy in The Moviegoer) that some places only become real to us once we've seen them onscreen. And I'm hard pressed to think of a place for which that's more true than New York.
Of course I've never actually been there. But I can't be the only one who feels like he has, because I've seen it in so many films and shows, heard it in so many songs, read it in so many stories. In the best of those, the city becomes a living character in his own right.
Which brings me to a certain subway train…
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was released in 1974, the kind of year that also gave us The Conversation and The Godfather Part II (to name but two examples). And Joseph Sargent's thriller, adapted by Peter Stone from John Godey's novel, can stand with the best of that year, as a prototype for the modern action film (think of Speed as one of its descendants).
If you know the title, you know the plot. A band of thieves (their color-coded aliases a clear influence on Tarantino) takes that aforementioned train hostage, demanding payment of one million dollars in exchange for the lives of the passengers. As the authorities stall and bluff and try to out-think the hijackers, the character of the city is revealed in the characters we meet – hijackers and hostages, transit men, arguably even the train itself. There's a quality more felt than seen about the film, a sense that what happens in it could only happen in this city, at this time, with these people. And the film's so much stronger for it.
And as the film brings the city to life, its fantastic cast brings the citizens to life as well. As the leader of the hijackers, Robert Shaw is obviously brilliant (if you want a dictionary definition of range, watch this movie on a double-bill with his very next screen performance… in a film called Jaws), but the film's other actors are just as strong. And those actors include the likes of Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller, Doris Roberts, and Kenneth McMillan.
And then there's Walter Matthau, in the kind of performance that defined his career. There's nothing particularly flashy about his work – Matthau never stole a scene so much as he quietly took possession of it. But that was his gift. And the way he used it as Lt. Zachary Garber encompasses everything that was great about Walter Matthau.
If all it had was that cast, and Sargent's smart and steady direction, it would be enough. But it also has one of film's great scores, a nervy, jazzy turn by David Shire. And its last shot is one of the great endings in film history – not just the perfect coda to a fantastic thrill ride, but the perfect summary of a wonderful actor's career.
If you'd like to see it (for the first time or again), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is available for instant viewing on Netflix, on DVD, or on BluRay. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
So, once again, thanks for your time and support. Until the next post, "be seeing you…"
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Region's housing market finishes year in cooling zone
Toni Caushi
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The steep decline in residential real estate sales continued in December, with single-family homes and condo sales seeing new lows throughout the county, according to the Warren Group report for the month.
The 579 single-family homes sales completed last month marked a 32.3% decline in sales compared with December 2021, when 855 homes were sold.
Despite the significant decline, the median price of $390,000 for a single-family home showed an increase in the county, compared with December 2021, when the median price was 6.6% lower at $366,000.
The same was noted in the county in condo sales, with 163 sales showing a 32.1% decline, compared with the 240 condos sold during December 2021.
Although not by much, the median price for a condo unit of $311,000 was an uptick last month, compared with the median price of $291,703 for a condo during December 2021.
Tim Warren, CEO of The Warren Group, attributed the continued decline in sales to shrinking inventory and mortgage rates. The pattern has been noticeable even on a state level, with only 3,838 single-family home sales recorded in December – a 31.7% decline in sales compared with the 5,622 homes sold during December 2021.
"For the last few years, housing market activity has been so hot that inventory was unable to keep up – and our numbers reflect that," said Warren. "Add in economic uncertainties and the fact that mortgage rates are nearly double what they were a year ago, and you have the making for a cooling housing market."
The 87 single-family sales completed last month was a 33.6% decline in sales compared with the 131 home sales in December 2021.
Despite the decline in sales, the city saw an increase in the median price - with a price tag of $360,000 for last month and $340,000 for December 2021.
Condo sales did not see much interest last month, with 18 unit sales showing a great decline from the 44 sales completed in December 2021.
The sales were completed at a median price of $235,000 – a decrease from $238,500 during December 2021.
In December 2021, Fitchburg had 45 single-family home sales recorded at a median price of $310,000. Last month, sales dropped to 32 with a median price of $315,000.
The tight single-home inventory seems to have directed interest toward condos in Fitchburg last month, with eight units sold at $282,500, showing an increase in sales from the four sold during December 2021 at a median price of $292,500.
Although Shrewsbury was not an exception from the pattern, it showed a decline in sales less visibly so last month.
There were 31 sales completed at a median price of $500,000. During December 2021, there were 34 sales completed at a median price of $507,500.
Interest in condos also wavered in Shrewsbury last month, with eight units sold at a median price of $427,500, showing a significant decline in sales from the 13 recorded in December 2021, when the median price was $430,000.
Gardner continued the pattern in the county last month, with 26 single-family home sales completed at a median price of $284,000. This was a change from the 32 sales signed in December 2021, when the sales held a median price of $257,000.
Condo sales did not see much action last month in Gardner, with only three units sold at a median price of $209,000. Worth noting is the increase in price, which shot up by 13% compared with December 2021, when the median price for five units sold was $185,000.
YEARLONG NUMBERS
The pattern of real estate sales decline was a year-long pattern in the county, with 7,791 single-family home sales and 2,070 condo sales completed throughout the year.
These numbers were a decline when compared to 2021, when there were 8,917 single-family home sales and 2,282 condo sales completed.
The median price for a single-family home in the county burdened home buyers throughout the year compared with 2021, with a median of $405,000 for a single-family home representing a $30,000 increase – the year-long median price was $375,000 during 2021.
The same was true for condo sales during 2022, when the median price for a unit was $311,500 -- a 13.3% increase from the median price of $275,000 recorded in 2021.


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Q: Using context.write twice in map function of mapreduce In a simple map function, there are two input files. First file lines start with M, and second file lines start with N. the map function is:

public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            int m = 4, p = 4;
            String line = value.toString();
            // (M, i, j, Mij);
            String[] indicesAndValue = line.split(",");
            Text outputKey = new Text();
            Text outputValue = new Text();
            if (indicesAndValue[0].equals("M")) {
             //First file
                for (int k = 1; k <= p; k++) {
                    outputKey.set(indicesAndValue[1] + "," + k);
                    // outputKey.set(i,k);
                    outputValue.set(indicesAndValue[0] + ","
                            + indicesAndValue[2] + "," + indicesAndValue[3]);
                    // outputValue.set(M,j,Mij);
                    context.write(outputKey, outputValue);
                }
            } else {
             //Second file
                // (N, j, k, Njk);
                for (int k = 1; k <= m; k++) {
                    outputKey.set(k + "," + indicesAndValue[2]);
                    outputValue.set("N," + indicesAndValue[1] + ","
                            + indicesAndValue[3]);
                    context.write(outputKey, outputValue);
                }
            }
        }

Now, my two input files are same. So, I want to use just one input file, But I want to use context.write two times. After splitting a line, map it two times. When I changed codes as below, the reduce function produces no output!
Changed map function:

public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            Configuration conf = context.getConfiguration();
            int m = 4, p = 4;
            String line = value.toString();
            // (M, i, j, Mij);
            String[] indicesAndValue = line.split(",");
            Text outputKey = new Text();
            Text outputValue = new Text();
            //if (indicesAndValue[0].equals("M")) {
                for (int k = 1; k <= p; k++) {
                    outputKey.set(indicesAndValue[1] + "," + k);
                    // outputKey.set(i,k);
                    outputValue.set(indicesAndValue[0] + ","
                            + indicesAndValue[2] + "," + indicesAndValue[3]);
                    // outputValue.set(M,j,Mij);
                    context.write(outputKey, outputValue);
                    outputKey.set(k + "," + indicesAndValue[2]);
                    outputValue.set("N," + indicesAndValue[1] + ","
                            + indicesAndValue[3]);
                    context.write(outputKey, outputValue);
                }
        }

Reduce function:

public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<Text> values, Context context)
                throws IOException, InterruptedException {
            String[] value;
            String[] k;
            // key=(i,k),
            // Values = [(M/N,j,V/W),..]
            k = key.toString().split(",");
            HashMap<Integer, Integer> hashA = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
            HashMap<Integer, Integer> hashB = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
            int i = 0, j = 0;
             //check values
            for (Text val : values) {
                value = val.toString().split(",");
                if (value[0].equals("M")) {
                    hashA.put(Integer.parseInt(value[1]),
                            Integer.parseInt(value[2]));
                } else {
                    hashB.put(Integer.parseInt(value[1]),
                            Integer.parseInt(value[2]));
                }
            }
            //some codes to produce result value
            int n = 4, result = 101, m_ij , n_jk , t;
            for (int r = 1; r <= n; r++) {
                m_ij = hashA.containsKey(r) ? hashA.get(r) : 101;
                n_jk = hashB.containsKey(r) ? hashB.get(r) : 101;
                t = m_ij + n_jk;
             //finding minimum value
                result = result > t ? t : result;
            }
            context.write(null, new Text(key.toString() + ","+ Integer.toString(result)));
        }


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The Magus Covenant is Book 1 in The Jotham Fletcher Mystery Thriller Series.
THE MAGUS COVENANT
The secret that will change the world
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS IN PERIL – UNLESS ONE MAN CAN UNCOVER THE TRUTH…
A long-forgotten sect, a deadly brotherhood, a billionaire who trades in relics and a race across Europe in pursuit of a killer.
Jotham Fletcher is in Rome to give a lecture about Simon Magus at the church where he fell to his death beside the Roman Forum. Magus was a cult leader mentioned in the Bible and his libertine sect disappeared by 400 AD.
But did it really die out?
A robed man is pushed from the bell tower of the church at midnight and Jotham becomes the prime suspect. His lover Antonella, an expert on ancient documents, has a shocking secret. Rumours fly about a papyrus scroll. A ruthless Catholic Brotherhood will stop at nothing in their hunt for a hidden sect. And a reclusive billionaire has the chance of a lifetime to get his revenge.
Jotham is kidnapped, tortured and on the run. He races from Italy to England to Sweden. But the body count continues to rise and so does the heat in this non-stop thriller that will leave you breathless.
FEATURING: a fast-paced and gripping plot, chase sequences, Italian police, mysterious historical events and an ending that you won't see coming.
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Every year they commemorated the grisly death. The Leader had made the annual pilgrimage for two thousand years.
The service was always conducted in secret, at midnight on the same date in the last month of autumn.
The two men sneaked into the church of Santa Francesca Romana, beside the Roman Forum, and climbed to the top of the campanile, the belltower that was built in the thirteenth century. It was added to a tenth century church that was built on top of an earlier chapel and, before that, a Roman temple. A great city never stays the same and now the building was dedicated to Saint Frances of Rome.
The current Leader wore a voluminous black robe and limped because of his arthritic knee, the inevitable consequence of being almost sixty. He was with Nathan, who looked like a nightclub bouncer: thickset, with crew cut hair and deathly white skin. Dressed, as always, in a cheap black suit.
They reached the top of the tower and looked out at the view of Rome. The tourists and locals had long since gone to bed or retreated somewhere warm and cosy, perhaps to an area where there were bars and restaurants. The two men felt as if they were alone, which is how they wanted it.
"I will recite some of the mantra," said Nathan. He had followed the mantra for twelve years and knew it all by heart. "Strive to reach the middle distance. A male female energy unites us all, for there is no difference between power and thought."
He did not understand the meaning, but they told him one day he would have the knowledge.
"Such a wonderful view of the Colosseum," said the Leader. "This is where he fell. Imagine it then, when all these ruins were intact."
"Why don't you climb up to the spire?"
"I'm not as young as I used to be. But I could try, with your help."
Nathan had more strength than most men. The older man gave a few moans and groans but five minutes later they were both on the small tiled roof. They held on tight to the two-metre cross in the centre. There was no alternative because the square, sloping roof was as slippery as ice.
"Incredible," said the Leader. "We have done it, Nathan, for another year. Now back down again. I think I'll need a stiff drink after this."
"Fly, fly like Simon Magus."
"What do you mean?" There was no fear in his voice, only a polite request for an explanation. He trusted Nathan – the poor, stupid young man who always gave him blind obedience.
Nathan picked up the Leader and hurled him into the air, over the side and into the darkness.
"Stop it, no!" he screamed, but there was no one to help him.
Nathan heard a dull thud and a groan that lasted for thirty seconds, one that told of immeasurable, unbearable pain.
And then there was silence.
Her phone buzzed at midnight and that woke him up. Everything about his life had changed overnight. The beautiful Italian woman in his bed was an extra bonus he had not expected. She said he was handsome. Said he was tall and his eyebrows were not too thick and his eyes were intense. He had straight teeth with a warm smile. Thank goodness for that. In his job he needed to smile all the time.
Jotham Fletcher paced the floor like a tiger trapped in a cage. There was just enough light for him to see the sumptuous interior of his hotel room in the St Regis Rome. There were paintings and frescoes on the wall, and the room was decorated in hues of blue, red and gold, with inlaid wooden furniture and a velvet armchair.
The visit to Rome was her suggestion and she had booked the accommodation. "It would be such a coup for you, Jotham," she said.
He thought that sounded like a great opportunity, and who knew where it might lead? Antonella Pavoni was brilliant and well respected. And she had been so helpful that he could not say no.
Two years ago, his faith was buried with his wife and baby, Jane and William. He tried to search for it but it would not come back. That was unfortunate, because Reverend Jotham Fletcher was an Anglican priest.
Right now, the parish in Australia where he worked as the rector seemed a million miles away. St John the Baptist Anglican Church was the oldest church in Canberra, the nation's capital city. Built of sandstone in 1845 with two lychgates and its own small graveyard, it was reminiscent of a little church in an English village.
"Jotham, you are all right, no?" asked Antonella.
He crawled back into bed and ran his fingers through her long, dark hair. "How could I not be all right, with you here?"
"Sorry to wake you up. That was a message from an old friend of mine in the UK. Iago is brilliant, but he never takes any notice of the time."
"I'll forgive him if he's a friend of yours."
"Remind me to teach you Italian. It's so much easier than English."
"I'll be free tomorrow afternoon," he said as he touched her lips with his fingertips.
"Benissimo. Excellent. And in the morning you'll be a star."
"You're a flatterer. I'll probably send everyone to sleep."
"They will love it. Honestly, mio caro."
"My Darling."
A knot tightened in his stomach. Those were the words he used whenever he spoke to Jane and he was not sure if he could say them to someone else. But perhaps he would not feel guilty if he said the words in another language. "Mio caro," he said, with a less-than-perfect accent.
"Excellent. But there is one major problem. To a lady you say mia cara."
"Mia cara."
"Bene. That is very good."
Jotham jogged five miles every morning to distract his mind. But tomorrow he wanted to stay with Antonella and then give his lecture at the church.


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I've never liked paying for breakfast that I might just as easily have made myself—except maybe at Curran's, where a fried egg and toast is so cheap that I consider the $1.99 a dishwashing fee. With good ingredients, even a middling cook like myself can turn out a restaurant-quality omelet. It takes about five minutes. And you don't even need to put on pants.
That's not to say that there aren't breakfast foods worth going out for, including dim sum, black-and-white pudding, and the new Harriet Brasserie's crawfish and grits, which is as novel a treat in south Minneapolis as being addressed as ma'am. The dish is the Bill Clinton of breakfasts: the down-home grit of coarse-ground corn, the sharp wit of vegetable fricassee, and the smooth social grace of ripe avocado, combined with the bad-boy spice of andouille sausage and coated in a runny-yolked egg's creamy drawl. It's fuel for hiking the Appalachian Trail. Or strolling Lake Harriet, at least.
Linden Hills became a bona-fide dining destination last year, drawing crowds from far beyond the neighborhood when the popular chef Steven Brown opened Tilia, his longtime-coming solo venture. Harriet may never achieve the buzz of its much-lauded neighbor, whose foodie fare has made hour-long waits common. But the two businesses seem more complementary than competitive, much like 112 Eatery and Saffron in the city's Warehouse District.
Harriet was launched by Alain Lenne and chef Fernando Silva, formerly of French Meadow Bakery who most recently helped open Eat Street Social and co-owns La Belle Crêpe on Nicollet Mall with Lenne. The menu includes French staples, but also has quite a bit of Latin influence: pork rillettes, quiche Lorraine, and Belgian waffles meet tostadas and ropa vieja, along with a few fusions, like mussels paired with sambal oelek, the Asian chili paste. The brasserie is a versatile place that's casual enough to bring the kids, yet elegant enough for a romantic tête-à-tête. It's both accessible and exciting: a neighborhood bistro that serves octopus with the head on.
The restaurant's staff seems in good sync, perhaps because it's stacked with family members, including Silva's wife, Lenne's ex-wife's step brother, and a married couple—manager Brie Roland and chef de cuisine Dustin Thompson, formerly of Tilia. (Several staffers work at both restaurants, actually.) The team shows good taste in curating the always-changing meat-and-cheese plate offerings (well-appointed with grilled bread, olives, marmalade, and pickled onions), as well as their wine and beer lists, which include everything from a $2.50 can of Wisconsin lager to a $22 bottle of Belgian sour ale. Sustainability is a priority for the kitchen staff, which often works with ingredients from local farms, including some grown on the restaurant's own plot of land in Lakeville.
Continuing a trend seen at several new neighborhood restaurants, Harriet's entrées tend to play a secondary role to the small plates. A duck-leg confit entrée, for example, featured a bird sourced from Wild Acres and cured in-house, but it lacked the expected intense salty succulence. My friends and I felt we might just as well have purchased the duck confit down the street at Clancey's.
The offerings change regularly, though, and another night I found a vegetarian entrée far more lively: two fried pheasant eggs paired with grilled asparagus, fingerling potatoes, and a mild, creamy kohlrabi purée that contrasted with a sharp ramp dressing. For the same $12 price, the grass-fed beef burger is an equally attractive carnivorous option. The juicy, well-seasoned patty is topped with bacon, cheddar, sautéed oyster mushroom, and truffle aioli. The shoestring-thin, skin-on French fries are something of a palate cleanser from all the umami.
The restaurant's best meals are those assembled from small plates. Start with the delightful coxinha (co-SHEE-na), a pair of Hershey's Kiss–shaped croquettes eaten on the streets of Brazil but uncommon around here. Break through their fried crust—the staff suggests eating them with your hands, as cutting coxinha is supposedly bad luck—to reveal a spicy mixture of potato, shredded chicken, and gooey cheese. The braised pork belly has a similar appeal, its richness tempered with smoke (it's cooked in a corn husk), soft grits, braised greens, and epazote (eh-pah-ZOH-tay), a medicinal, slightly bitter herb that's native to Latin America and grown on the restaurant's farm. The bison tartare takes a page from fusion-style sushi, contrasting the pure, smooth texture of the musky raw meat and egg with the rough char of grilled bread, creamy rémoulade, fresh herbs, and jalapeño bite. All three plates feel indulgent but not excessive.
Silva and Thompson are skilled at creating "synergy bites," layering tastes and textures in a way that feels composed and dignified—a mille-feuille, not a dog pile. Take the niçoise-esque salad, whose bevy of Asian substitutions leave it really nothing like the classic. Tuna is sesame-soy-cured, in the style of a Hawaiian poke; edamame replaces haricots verts; taro chips stand in for potato; and flying-fish roe represents the hard-boiled egg. It's an odd assembly—and certainly not for everyone. But I appreciated the ingenuity and look forward to ordering it again.
One of the things I love about dining at restaurants is discovering combinations that I would never have put together myself, such as tofu and yucca with pungent, salty black-bean paste; sweet red peppers; the mosquito sting of shishito peppers; and refreshing watercress. When I recognized the kitchen's constraints for the dish—it's vegan—I was even more impressed. I can't remember the last time I ate a more satisfying animal-free dish.
At Harriet, more is more, except when it comes to dessert, where the simplest choice is the most stunning. Deconstructed Key lime pie is fine, but the tres leches cake is ambrosia for the ages.
Harriet Brasserie's international bistro fare helps make downtown Linden Hills a bona-fide dining destination.
Rachel Hutton is a senior editor at Minnesota Monthly.


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Complete Description: State the grievance with explanatory or descriptive material. Convey facts in chronological order with names, dates, and places where appropriate.
If there were problems, I was not presented with the opportunity to correct them. The last (and only) performance evaluation I received from Ms. Smith was six months ago (attached) and was uniformly positive – note the overall rating of Satisfactory. Nor did Ms. Smith discuss any problems with me at that review.
After receiving the notice of nonreappointment, I met with Ms. Smith on Nov. 26, 2020, and asked her to explain why the reasons given for the termination in the notice of nonreappointment were never brought up in my performance evaluation. She stated that the complaints had occurred after the performance evaluation. I asked why she had stated that a discussion of these problems had taken place two months ago. My remembrance of that meeting was that we discussed some issues that could improve my performance, but not that there had been any complaints or any problems with my performance. She stated that we obviously had completely different impressions of what took place at that meeting. She then refused to answer any of myother questions, or continue the discussion. I attempted to meet with her about this again, but she refused to schedule a meeting.
I have been employed at the University for fifteen years, and for the last seven have been the Assistant Director of Handling. I am very good at what I do, as my history of performance evaluations will show.
Reinstatement in my position and withdrawal of the terminal contract.
An apology from my supervisor, Ms. Smith, for the hardship in my personal and professional life the termination has caused.
I am asking the Council of Academic Professionals to hear my grievance and investigate my termination. I know that a fair and equitable response from CAP will allow me to get my life back on track as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for your advice and help.


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Firstly fire is dangerous. We all know this, and our kids should know this, but teach them care and responsibility and you can also teach them a fantastic skill.
1.	Collect your kindling, middle size sticks and lastly logs.
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3.	Make a nice nest out of the kindling, use hay, straw and something really combustible like our Mighty Eagle Fireballs right in the center to really get the fire going.
4.	Hold the flint and striker against the kindling nest and strike hard into the middle of the ball. This is the hard bit and the point where your children will need the most encouragement. Using a flint and striker takes practice as you may need to press quite hard against the steel to get a spark. Keep practicing till you get it right. If the children are not quite strong enough, try holding the steel for them and get them to put all their weight behind running the blade down the edge of the steel. Watch fingers though!
5.	Once you get a good shower of sparks into the tinder, it should start to smolder. Blow hard right into the center of the ball and the fire nest should go up like crazy.
6.	Step back and start adding bigger and bigger fuel to the fire until you have a nice blaze going good enough to toast some marshmallows!


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Could Gold and Silver Prices Benefit from a Stock Market Setback?
Stock Market Setback; Will Gold/Silver Benefit?
The precious metals sold off last week along with most asset classes, as nervous investors fled to the U.S. dollar. Gold lost 1.1% and silver fell 1.9% for the week.
If there is a silver lining for metals investors, it is that gold held up better than equities. The S&P 500 lost 2.7% -- the worst week of trading in over two years.
Investors will be watching the equity markets closely this week to see if markets can stabilize and recover some important technical levels lost during last week's carnage. The bull market in stocks is getting a bit long in the tooth at 5-½ years, and the sudden increase in volatility is making more traders nervous.
Does a Sell-off in Stocks Also Mean Lower Gold and Silver Prices?
The 2008 financial crisis left very few asset classes unscathed. Investors sold stocks, real estate, and commodities and fled to the perceived safety of cash and U.S. Treasuries. Last week, investors followed a similar pattern.
Though it is too early to tell if we are witnessing the start of another major correction in share prices, it is not too early to analyze whether large-scale selling in the stock markets will be mirrored again by selling in the precious metals markets. It may, but we don't think anyone should count on it. There are some key differences between today and 2008.
The gold and silver markets are attempting to recover out of the third year of a cyclical bear market. Gold prices are 33% below the 2011 peak, and silver prices are down nearly 60%.
In 2008, precious metals traded in correlation with equity prices -- peaking in the spring and then selling off dramatically as the crisis unfolded. However, a strong year-end rally enabled gold to buck the trend of most other assets and finish 2008 with a small gain.
Speculative money poured into the gold and silver markets leading up to the 2011 highs, and it left just as quickly. Today, speculative long interest in precious metals is relatively scarce while the opposite is true in equity markets. Metals need this interest to return to fuel higher prices, but the good news for investors in physical metals is that there are fewer weak hands in the market willing to sell at the first whiff of bad news.
Fed bankers are also more likely to react swiftly given the lessons of 2008. We at Money Metals, and most of our customers, share a skeptical view of Fed policy. Though we hold the Fed responsible for creating the debt and real estate bubbles that exploded into crisis 6 years ago, it is important to remember no one at the Fed feels responsible for fostering market booms and busts.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen is openly critical of the central bank's response to the 2008 crisis; saying her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, printed too little money too late. It seems safe to say she will not sit idly by should stock prices fall precipitously. And gold and silver prices should outperform as investors see the Fed shift from tapering to accelerating stimulus.
Finally, the U.S. Dollar does not enjoy the same dominance that it did 6 years ago -- in large part because Fed officials so enthusiastically prescribe stimulus for virtually all economic woes. Several years of extraordinarily loose monetary policy in addition to foreign policy disputes with major trading partners such as Russia and China, and we have seen that the "almighty dollar" isn't so mighty.
China, Russia, and other BRIC nations have begun a policy of "de-dollarization" -- starting with agreements to buy energy without "petro-dollars." This shift could mean the dollar and U.S. Treasuries won't enjoy an exclusive safe-haven play if turmoil in the stock markets has investors running for cover. In fact, we may find the precious metals are big beneficiaries this time around.


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Revenge Shopping vs Sustainability: Fashion Can't Have Both #174
This week, the dissonance between Earth Day marketing and a Roaring 2020s-style resurgence in consumption made clear that fashion's sustainability pledges and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
Stores reopened in England last week to queuing crowds, which propelled the likes of Primark to record sales. In the US, retailers are on a hiring binge in anticipation of a major bounce back, while a strong rebound in demand in China continues to underpin the market.
Some brands are already reaping the benefits. LVMH saw sales from its fashion division jump 37 percent in the first quarter over pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while revenue at Hermès jumped 33 percent. Anna Wintour was among the latest to predict a "Roaring Twenties" in an interview with The Financial Times this week, citing "lines around the block" at reopened Gucci and Dior stores in London.
Whether demand will stay this high remains to be seen, but one thing is increasingly clear: fashion's sustainability promises and its growth ambitions are on a collision course.
The amount of product the industry churns out already generates millions of tons of excess every year, so much so that even pre-pandemic, only 60 percent of garments were sold at full price. This is both a symptom and cause of the current culture of overconsumption in fashion, and it feeds into practically every environmental challenge the industry faces, from the emissions its factories spew out to the polluting chemicals used in dyeing and processing materials and the corrosive fallout the whole system has on nature.
Sustainability marketing in many cases is feeding the issue, putting an eco-friendly wrapper on a call for consumers to buy more. From a marketing perspective, it's a heady mix of feel-good factors: the high of a new purchase coupled with the high of a good deed done. Less so for the planet. There is no consuming our way out of this crisis.
To be sure, some brands focused this week's Earth Day messaging around things they are actually doing to address sustainability issues, rather than just the products they are selling. And shifting consumers towards items and labels that are making strides to tackle fashion's environmental impact will surely play a part in any solution, a powerful incentive for the industry as a whole to engage with the matter.
But at the same time, the underlying goal is still to sell more things. The data was published in a trends report that highlighted products that had sold particularly well over the last year, including Prada's Re-Nylon collection of recycled nylon products and sustainability-focused brands like Veja. It also promoted other brands and products that could help consumers get their high-fashion hit while ostensibly lowering the negative impact on people and the planet.
Farfetch didn't disclose what proportion of the overall value of the products sold on its platform fell into this category. The company's gross merchandise value, a common metric of sales for e-commerce businesses, surged 49 percent last year to hit $3 billion.
Long-term, Farfetch has committed to only stock products it deems more sustainable by 2030 and currently rates one in 10 products on its platform as such. "Sustainability is going to be a major part of what we do and what the industry does in the coming years," Farfetch said in a statement.
But even as more brands promote products they claim are better for the planet, the industry is moving far too slowly to tackle the deeper issue, according to the BoF Sustainability Index. As Pierre Mallevays noted in his column for BoF this month, "there is a deep tension between what is good for the world and what is good for shareholders."
It's a knotty problem made even knottier by the financial pain the industry has endured over the last year. And it's clear that no amount of marketing will solve this.
Already, scrutiny of exaggerated sustainability claims is mounting. In the US, a group of sustainability-focused brands and advocates have banded together to sign a letter they plan to send to the Federal Trade Commission asking it to review the guidelines governing such marketing.
Regulation may help tamp down on greenwashing, but actually fixing the industry's challenges will require long-term commitment and investment in new technologies, cultural shifts to encourage consumers to re-use and recycle their clothes and new business models that ensure clothes are priced according to their true cost and the financial health of brands is not wholly depending on ever-growing consumption.
One thing is certain: buying a new pair of jeans to mark Earth Day won't change anything. Quite the opposite.


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Meta-hemoglobinemia, também conhecida por "meta-Hb", é uma desordem caracterizada pela presença de um nível mais alto do que o normal de meta-hemoglobina no sangue. A meta-hemoglobina é uma forma de hemoglobina que não se liga ao oxigênio. Quando sua concentração é elevada nas hemácias pode ocorrer uma anemia funcional e hipoxia em tecido. Normalmente os níveis de meta-hemoglobina são <1%, quando medido pelo teste de co-oximetria. Níveis elevados de meta-hemoglobina no sangue são causados quando os mecanismos que protegem contra o stress oxidativo no interior das hemácias são desarmados e o oxigênio carregado de íon ferroso (Fe2+)]] do grupo hemo da molécula de hemoglobina é oxidado para o estado férrico (Fe3+)]]. Isto converte a hemoglobina em meta-hemoglobina, uma forma que não liga-se ao oxigênio da hemoglobina que une-se a uma molécula de água ao invés do oxigênio. A formação espontânea da meta-hemoglobina é normalmente neutralizada por sistemas de proteção enzimáticas: NADH meta-hemoglobina reductase (citocromo-b5 reductase) (principal condutor), NADPH meta-hemoglobina reductase (menor condutor) e em menor extensão o ácido ascórbico e sistemas de enzimas glutatione.

Este excesso de meta-hemoglobina acontece quando o ferro do heme é oxidado  Fe3+, a uma velocidade superior do que a redução do ferro para Fe2+. Esta situação pode acontecer devido à presença de algumas substâncias tóxicas ou devido a deficiências enzimáticas congénitas.Os principais agentes tóxicos são: 4-dimetilaminofenol, anilina, benzocaína, cloratos, clorobenzeno, cloroquina, cobre, cromatos, dapsona fenazopiridina, desinfetantes, fenacetina, giz de cera vermelho, guaiacol, hidralazina, lidocaína, metoclopramida, naftaleno, nitratos, nitritos, nitrobenzeno, nitrofenol, nitroglicerina, nitroprussiato de sódio, paracetamol, peróxido de hidrogênio, piperazina, prilocaína, primaquina, produtos de combustão, quinina, quinona, resorcinol, sulfonamida, sulfanilamida, tintas de tecido, triclorocarbanalida e vitamina K sintética. Uma das manifestações da meta-hemoglobinemia, é o aparecimento da cianose.

Quando há a desnaturação da hemoglobina por oxidação e a meta-hemoglobina redutase não consegue neutralizar as substâncias oxidativas ocorre formação do corpúsculo de Heinz, levando a hemólise.

Uma das consequências dessa oxidação é não ter mais a forma disponível do ferro (ferrosa), daí não há disponibilidade para síntese da hemoglobina e das hemácias. (Pode levar à quadro de anemia)
Isso acontece em ruminantes por intoxicação por nitrato/nitrito vindo de adubos mal incorporados, ou também por se alimentarem de Brachiaria radicans, rica em nitrato.

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Safety is of prime importance with fencing kit. The Club provides high quality kit, which is certified, and It is checked and replaced regularly to maintain its safety. As you (or your child) fences more regularly and knows they will continue, you/they are still welcome to use club kit. We can change kit as required if bigger sizes are needed etc. We will check kit regulary for wear or damage.
The exception to providing all kit, is fencing breeches. We are committed to having everyone wearing breeches for all club sessions and so we are asking everyone to provide their own. Very reasonable options are detailed below. As kids grow out of them there should be plenty of scope for swapping, and passing on etc.
There are some items that are worth thinking of having as your own and suggestions of the order to look at gradually building up your kit are below. We would strongly advise speaking to Phil Hibbert about this first as he can take advantage of the Club's discount and also to advise on what would be best to choose and when.
1. Glove - Your own glove can fit better and there are some better options to go for.
2. Breeches - Fencing breeches are now expected to be worn for all forms of fencing and our club is committed to having everyone fencing in breeches in all our club sessions.
Options for good value breeches are given below. Sizing charts can be found on the websites or you can compare with club members breeches at club.
Other options include electric jackets and bodywires, which are the one area of kit there may be shortages of at Club sessions, and fencing bags.
The Club strives to make club kit available to everyone at all times and so no one is required to have their own kit.
You can view fencing kit at the Leon Paul website, but please discuss any kit you are thinking of purchasing with Phil.


Harleen Khorana working her magic behind the Kala Kendar counter.
Hop To It Production's Producer/Director Nina Beveridge and Producer/Sound Recordist/Editor Paul Hart along with Cinematographer Bongo Kolycius have had a busy year filming the Village of Dreams documentary in Toronto's Gerrard India Bazaar. Now Paul and Nina are busy editing the film, to be aired in the summer of 2017 on TVO as a part of TVO's Canada 150 programming strand.
2016 was a great summer of filming in Toronto's Gerrard India Bazaar!
The Village of Dreams team led by Hop To It partner and director Nina Beveridge had a memorable summer filming in Toronto's Gerrard India Bazaar. We are grateful for the cooperation we had from everyone in the Bazaar and in particular from our main characters and their families.
Sumaiyah Shah gives her sister Aysha a beautiful henna tattoo for her birthday at Forever Young Beauty Salon.
For almost 40 years South Asian culture has been the economic engine for businesses in the Gerrard India Bazaar (formerly known as "Little India"). Our goal was to explore the spirit of entrepreneurialism there, focusing on the first generation of Canadian-born South Asians and how they balance being Canadian and at the same time retain their cultural heritage. Our film follows several families who own and operate the businesses in the Bazaar, seen from the perspective of the children whose parents came to Canada in the 70's and 80's, worked hard and established roots.
Harleen Khorana works her charm on a customer at Kaka Kendar.
We filmed with Chandan Singh & family (Chandan Fashion), Gulshan Allibhai & family (Lahore Tikka House), Sumaiyah Shah & family (Forever Young Beauty Salon), Harleen Khorana & family (Kala Kendar), Ronak and Raju Diwan (Baldev Paan), Ameet Ram & family (Regency Restaurant), Ritesh Das & ensemble (Toronto Table Ensemble), Hubert Dmello and staff (Udupi Palace), Neelu Sabarwhal & family (Moti Mahal) and the Multani family (Milan Saree Emporium).
Some of the scenes we filmed included a spectacular fashion show, beautiful bridal decor in the making, a bridal make-over, sizzling kitchen scenes, lots of retail shop activity, paan making, festival crowds and lots of bazaar activity, a wine and cheese tasting, and most importantly, gatherings with family and friends. We filmed a number of scenes at many other businesses in the Bazaar not mentioned above, both South Asian and non-South Asian. Over the next year, leading up to Canada's 150th birthday, we will be creating a series of mini-documentaries for our YouTube channel and website community. All the businesses that we filmed will be represented online.
We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone in the Bazaar who helped us and filmed with us throughout 2016.


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By Cooper, William
Cooper, a former U.S. Naval intelligence briefing team member, offers this lucid, rational work that reveals secrets kept guarded by the American government since the 1940s, including the presence of UFOs, the facts behind the J.F.K. assassination, and more. ...
Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs.
Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television.
In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had seen plans for back in the early 1970s. Bill correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from top secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over seventeen years of research.
...Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in Top Secret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the Secret Government and UFOs. Bill is a lucid, rational and powerful speaker who intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television. In 1988 Bill decided to ""talk"" due to events then taking place worldwide, events which he had seen plans for back in the early '70s. Since Bill has been ""talking,"" he has correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from Top Secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over 17 years of thorough research. ""Bill Cooper is the world's leading expert on UFOs."" -- Billy Goodman, KVEG, Las Vegas. ""The onlt man in America who has all the pieces to the puzzle that has troubled so many for so long."" -- Anthony Hilder, Radio Free America ""William Cooper may be one of America's greatest heros, and this story may be the biggest story in the history of the world."" -- Mills Crenshaw, KTALK, Salt Lake City. ""Like it or not, everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man or the most horrible enslavement that you can imagine. Be active or abdicate, the future is in your hands."" -- William Cooper, October 24, 1989.
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Q: react-native, these properties are not compatible with android: autoCorrect and secureTextEntry These two properties of TextInput are not compatible with android:

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*autoCorrect

*secureTextEntry
I run into following error while I have autoCorrect:

Error while updating property 'autoCorrect' of a view managed by: AndroidTextInput

I run into following error while I have secureTextEntry:

Error while updating property 'password' of a view managed by: AndroidTextInput

Does anyone know how to deal with this?
here is my code:
<Text style={styles.text}>{text.Email}</Text>
            <View style={styles.inputRow}>
              <Image style={externalStyles.styles.iconImage} resizeMode="contain" source={externalImags.Images.emailIcon} />
              <TextInput
                style={styles.textInput}
                onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({email: text})}
                value={this.state.email}
                keyboardType="email-address"
                placeholder={text.email}
                autoCorrect="false"
                clearButtonMode="always"/>
            </View>

            <Text style={styles.text}>{text.Password}</Text>
            <View style={styles.inputRow}>
              <Image style={externalStyles.styles.iconImage} resizeMode="contain" source={externalImags.Images.passwordIon} />
              <TextInput
                style={styles.textInput}
                onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({password: text})}
                value={this.state.password}
                keyboardType="default"
                placeholder={text.password}
                autoCorrect="false"
                secureTextEntry="ture"
                clearButtonMode="always"/>
            </View>

A: You should be using autoCorrect={false}

A: Here is your problem.
autoCorrect="false"  will work on iOS, but not Android.
It needs to be autoCorrect={"false"}  for Android.
I've found React-Native iOS forgiving with some "bad habit syntax", Android is not.
You should be using autoCorrect={'false'} for both.  Always put props in {}


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November 25, 2010 • 3:48 am 0
A Weekend in Xi'an
On our recent trip to Xi'an, I was exposed to the last frontier of China. On the outskirts of Xi'an around Qingyun Ma's Jade Valley Winery, small clusters of dilapidated houses and a vast, green patchwork of farmland covered the landscape. I was in agruarian China, right at the cusp before development. Next to the clusters, I could see the construction of a new school and a small town center starting to take form. This experience of being away from the city was a relief, but for the people who lived there, this was their everyday life. For cityfolk like me, anything beyond the city that I did was a spectacle, or even absurd.
In Henri Lefebvre's Everyday and Everdayness, he sees the world destroying diversity and working towards uniformity. He stated that "Every complex 'whole' from the smallest tool to the greatest works of art and learning, therefore possessed a symbolic value linking them to meaning at its most vast: to divinity and humanity, power and wisdom, good and evil, happiness and misery, the perrennial and the ephemeral. These immense values were themselves mutable according to historical circumstance, to social classes, to rulers and mentors. Each object was thus linked to some 'style' and therefore, as a work, contained while masking the larger functions and structures which were integral parts of its form." However, because the "functional elements was itself disengaged, rationaled, then industrially produced, and finally imposed by constraint and persuasion: that is to pay, by means of advertising and by powerful economic and political lobbies" these everyday items have lost their "essence." We have been numbed by society to not see differences and be curious about the world.
Our class had to take cars to visit Dean Ma's father's house and one mode of transport was in the back of a pickup truck. Riding on the back of a pickup truck in America is different than riding it in the Xi'an countryside even if the pickup trucks were the same. With my conditioned mode of thinking, I have rationalized that its dangerous and the police would not hesitate to issue me a ticket for such ridiculous behavior. But in Xi'an, I wanted to ride the back of the pickup truck because there were no such thing as rules to govern me. I was responsible for my own injuries because it was my decision to ride in the back of the pickup truck. For the people living in the Xi'an countryside, people ride in the back of trucks all the time. Society has conditioned me to think that riding anywhere besides the passenger seats is considered unsophisticated and dangerous. Most of my classmates and I WANTED to sit in the back of the pickup truck because we could break free from society's constraints and enjoy the Xi'an countryside in an absurd, but memorable way. Our bickering to ride in THAT pickup truck in THAT setting subconsciously justified our appreciation and desire to experience the everyday.
This event reminded me of the film Weekend because it extremitized the everyday by making it completely ridiculous and because of its absurdity, thus making events more memorable. One particular scene filmed a traffic jam with cars set ablaze and dead bodies sprawled, but some people have casually parked their cars having a picnic, or running around. At the time, I was thoroughly confused and thinking "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON", but those emotions and thoughts jolted me out of my complacent mindset of what a movie should be. But does the absurdity of the everyday imply that it's impossible to occur? I would argue that it is more improbable than impossible that the absurdities occur, especially in a desensitized world today. But when noticed, they give me a jolt of excitement that I immediately want others to also see.
Back in the city, I visited Xi'an's city wall. The width of the wall was wide enough for charriots to pass through, and now as a tourist attraction, visitors can ride a bicycle along it. After recently watching Beijing Bicycle, this strange coincidence came full circle. In the movie, the bicycle becomes takes on a character because the movie shows it being more than it is. For one character, the bicycle is a dream to have, enjoy, be cool and to attract a girlfriend. The other character values the bicycle because it is his way of making a living delivering packages. Both become attached to the bicycle that stir a range of emotions like sadness, courage, fear, and worry. The bicycle transcends its normal meaning of transporting a person from point A to B.
Seeing the Beijing Bicycle and Weekend helped me understand that I was not just riding a bicycle. I was riding it on a relic and ancient artifact of the city. I was seeing the roofscape of the buildings inside the city wall. I was seeing the new skyscapers just outside of the city wall. Riding a bicycle on the street would not have given me this same experience [nonetheless riding a bicycle in a country that doesn't give the pedestrian the right of way is another expierence]. The meaning of this bicycle went beyond just riding it, but all the other sights that came about after I started pedaling.
I am ashamed of the fact that I have been numbed by society and blinded to see the excitement and beauty around the city. Now that I notice that simple things that occur in the city as part of the everday experience, the city is not just a place where I inhabit. It is a larger, living organism that has varying scales of activity that my curiosity allows me to see.
Filed under: America, beijing bicycle, China, conditioning, Desensitize, everyday, experience, society, transcend, weekend, Xi'an
Sex, Love, & Money
My previous blog touched upon relationship of Henri Lefebvre's writing on the everydayness and the Hong Kong Kar Wai Wong film, Fallen Angels. While Fallen Angels subtly mocked the everyday drudgery by following the life of a contract killer, director Kar Wai Wong challenged the notion and interpretation of Lefebvre's everydayness, but in a typically subtle way. The French film, Weekend, on the other hand, challenges Lefebvre's everydayness to the extreme, and perhaps the only way, in order to critique the point that previously noneveryday activities must be taken to the extreme in order to maintain their noneveryday status. No longer does violence, sex, and money stir the mental activities of the general public. The public views these acts on the evening news on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, resulting in a level of desensitization. The film seeks to overcome this desensitized notion by showing the pseudo-noneveryday activities that Lefebvre labeled as counteracting the everydayness, such as violence, sex, and money. Not only are these activities carried out to the extreme by the films characters, but are shown over and over again, often in different forms and in great detail.
The film follows the lives of a couple, and in an early scene, the woman sits upon a desk in her underwear, chronicling and detailing to her lover a sexual encounter she had with a woman and her husband. Without ever showing a visual manifestation of her story, the woman describes, in detail how and when the man and woman touched her and how it made her feel. However, not once during her telling did she give the slightest hint that there was any emotional connection involved. She told the tale in such a lifeless, matter-of-fact manner that the viewer could interpret it as something that might happen all the time for the character.
The main plot throughout the entire film is how the couple is attempting to lay claim to the large inheritance of her parents. They are eagerly awaiting their death, even going to the length of poisoning her father's food every Saturday in order to speed up his demise. The couple displays a cutthroat attitude in their quest to get their hands on this fortune, eventually leading to the brutal stabbing of the mother when the couple discovers that they aren't going to get an equal share after the father dies. Even this is treated in a nonchalant way. Which leads to the largest purveyor of the noneverydayness in the film.
Violence.
There is one telling sequence in the film that takes place on a country road, where the constant sounds of yelling and car-horns can be heard while the couple attempts to navigate through a traffic jam of overturned cars and angry people mobbing their convertible as they pass by. The striking aspect of this long, continual camera shot is that none of the people who are bearing witness to the overturned cars and dead bodies strewn alongside of the road take notice, or seem to care. There are children throwing toy balls around and adults playing board games on the road. This critical depiction of the way that the majority of society views violence today is fairly accurate. They see it all around them whenever they surf the Internet, watch television and films, or read the newspaper. Perhaps the singular factor that makes all of the violence in the sequence outlandish is the fact that it is in the countryside, not the city. Urban areas are notorious havens for crime and homicide, which begs the question, why show all of this violence in a non-urban setting? Maybe it is to shed light on the fact that murder does not have to be in the city for it to be overlooked. Or perhaps it is because the countryside is not tainted like the countryside. If the rural-scape is tainted, what is left?
After viewing this film, there begins to be a blurring of what we consider the everydayness and the same applies to the noneverydayness. It is also something that can largely be applicable to urban life, which is the focus of the writing Aesthetic + Urbanism. Robert A.M. Stern declares in his piece "urbanism is about human life." I agree completely with Mr. Stern's statement, that urbanism should focus on "what the good city is" and "what is the good life that we as architects should advocate." I think this type of attitude should be brought to the forefront in a society where violence occurs an unimaginable scale everyday and yet the public is still numb to it. Perhaps this is where architects can lend a helping hand and provide a vision to help create a reality where acts like those in the Weekend are truly considered acts of the noneverydayness, which is definitely not what they are now.
Filed under: aesthetics + urbanism, Desensitize, everydayness, fallen angels, Henri Lefebvre, Hong Kong, Kar Wai Wong, sex love and money, Uncategorized, violence, weekend


You might be glad that Valentine's Day is over, so you don't have to see anymore of my cards, but I have four more to show you, and then that is it until next year...well, except for Tim's 12 Tags of 2012 monthly challenge Valentine tag, but that is for next week!!! These four tags are the ones I made for my own family this year (thought you might like to see the fam), and simultaneously for Our Creative Corner's color challenge theme of "black and white with a splash of another color", hosted by Tui Nathan. Through your hat in, and create something that follows the color challenge and link up. You can visit the other OCC designer's gorgeous creations as well, and drop them a comment. They would so appreciate that.
I am also submitting this to Grungy Monday's challenge of "a Tim style Valentine", and the Sunday Stamper's challenge of "love".
The black tag was first misted with Perfect Pearls, and then stamped with Tim's Love Definition image in Silver StazOn. The sentiment was also stamped with the silver. Red velvet fabric is backing the sentiment, and then backed again with a white doily. Flourishes, rhinestones, an accoutrement button, lace (paper and foil), and wire adorn the tag.
These are the kid's Valentines. I love these stickers from Tim's Seasonal Salvage Sticker Book. The initials are backed by a white doily that I cut out and misted with Forever Red Perfect Pearl Mist.
These are wonderful Anita, you do those colours better than anyone else! I loved seeing the photo of you and your lovely family too!
It is hard to get out of the "Love" mode, when they keep pulling us back in! Love the family photo and all of your tags are as sweet as can be. Enjoy the weekend!
Anita, these are darling and such a touch of nostalgia for me-- love Tim's paper with valentines that I received in elementary school! Great job with these!
The are fabulous, Anita! And your family is beautiful!! Have a fab weekend!!
Stunning design and gorgeous tags. It's a beautiful colours combination.
First what a beautiful family you have, I can see you are very proud of them.
Now to your little Tags, Hubby's is just gorgeous, I like the subtleness of the Black, and your Scroll is an element that always looks so effective on Tags.
Your mini ones are just delightful, putting the initial on each one makes it their own, is this a tradition in your House? I hope they are all saved as they are special and would be wonderful keepsakes to look at in years to come.
What a lovely family, Anita! And your tags are just fab. Love all the tags, especially Hubby's giant one!
Oh I love these retro style Valentines - it's so wonderful how how make them for your children. And the one for your DH is wonderful -great b/w with a pop piece!! Love that Tim stamp and the cute heart rhinestones. Super work on this week's OCC challenge and so cool that you shared your family photo and tradition with us.
Hope you'l be over the crud soon!
what a great collection of Valentines tags! Love them! How unique and very personal.
What a wonderful array of Valentines ... love your detailing and your styling is super!
beautiful family. Your tags are beautiful as always.