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Many federal agencies play a role in the vaccine system. Visit these websites to get in-depth information about vaccine topics.
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) saves lives and protects America against 21st century health threats. Within ASPR, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) partners with the private sector to research and develop medical countermeasures — such as vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and devices — and purchase medical products for use in emergencies.
Learn more from the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) develops the vaccine schedules, monitors and responds to disease outbreaks, and does vaccine safety research.
Learn more from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Department of Defense (DoD) supports vaccination programs for people in the military and their families.
Learn more from the Department of Defense.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has resources for Veterans and their families, including information on vaccines and VA benefits.
Learn more from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a science-based regulatory agency that's responsible for protecting and enhancing public health by ensuring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. FDA ensures that vaccines undergo a rigorous and extensive development program to evaluate safety, purity, and potency. Only if a vaccine's benefits are found to outweigh its potential risks does the FDA license (approve) a vaccine, allowing it to be used by the public. To ensure continuing safety and effectiveness after approval, FDA oversees the production of vaccines and monitors vaccine safety.
Learn more from the Food and Drug Administration.
healthfinder.gov has tools and resources to help people access preventive services and develop healthy habits. healthfinder's vaccine topics provide information about vaccine-preventable diseases, and how and when to get vaccines.
Learn more from healthfinder.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) researches new vaccines and evaluates existing vaccines.
Learn more from the National Institutes of Health.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) may provide financial compensation (payment) to people found to be injured by certain vaccines.
Learn more from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy
The Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy oversees the National Vaccine Program which makes sure that all federal agencies that produce and regulate vaccines are working together. This work also includes the National Vaccine Plan — which sets goals for preventing diseases through vaccination.
Learn more from the National Vaccine Program.
Last Reviewed: January 2018


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Memorial Day Remembrance at the Veterans Memorial Park
Our fallen Veterans were honored during the annual Memorial Day Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2016, at the Veteran's Memorial Park in downtown Pensacola.
Hundreds of people joined in front of Wall South to honor those who gave their lives for their nation. The diverse crowd of uniformed men and women, Veterans, civilians, and children, gathered together to observe this meritorious holiday.
The ceremony began with the Pensacola Boy Scout Flag Retirement Ceremony. The Boy Scouts honorably retired numerous flags, one at a time, to express admiration and reverence for our nation's symbol of freedom. The guest speaker for the event, retired Marine Corps Colonel Tony Gain, spoke to a respectful crowd in front of Wall South. "For most of us," said Gain, "we only see the staggering numbers of souls on that wall. For those who survived, and the family members of those who did not, we see faces. We feel the pain that these numbers created. They were our friends, our fathers, husbands, wives, sons, and daughters. As someone said, 'there is no noble wars, just noble warriors.'"
Two attending organizations, the Vietnam/ Legacy Motorcycle Club and the Daughters of the American Revolution, placed gorgeous wreaths at Wall South. Marines then rendered a 21-gun salute that was followed by a Marine bugler playing Taps. The ceremony also honored John Ochs, the Memorial Park's treasurer, who recently passed away at the age of 69.
Mike Bates of WEBY Radio said in regards to the afternoon's observance, "With so many Americans too ignorant or too apathetic to observe
Memorial Day as anything more than a day off work, it is always heartwarming to see the Pensacola community honor our military and our nation."
The Veteran's Memorial Park Foundation would like to thank everyone who attended the ceremony to honor our fallen Heroes. We would also like to thank the organizations that helped make the service so phenomenal:
Colonel Tony Gain, USMC Ret. (Guest Speaker)
Bill Campbell, Vietnam Combat Veteran (Wall South Recital)
Boy Scouts of America (Flag Retirement Ceremony)
Creative Learning Academy (Essay Contest)
Boogie, Inc (Sponsored Event Audio)
Marines of MATSG-21 & 23 (Color Guard, Rifle Detail, Taps Bugler)
Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association (Ride in Support)
WEAR-TV (News Coverage)
Pensacola News Journal (News Coverage)
WUWF (News Coverage)
NAS Pensacola (Navy Choir)
WALMART Stores (Contest Prize)
Pensacola MESS Hall (Contest Prize)
We would also like to thank Mike Bates of 1330 WEBY for allowing us to use the presented photos.
To assist in our ongoing efforts to memorialize our beloved Veterans, please consider making a donation here: http://bit.ly/VMPFBFriend

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Referred to as a residuary gift, this is a percentage share of what is left after all other pecuniary gifts and testamentary expenses have been paid out.
Sometimes called a pecuniary gift, this is a specified amount.
This is an item specifically mentioned in your Will e.g. a particular antique, shares or property.
Your solicitor will provide the appropriate wording for your Will, but below are some suggested wordings for the two most popular types of gift.
Having suffered with Interstitial Lung Disease for over 20 years, Michelle recalls how being part of a world beating record changed her life.


A birthday is one of the most exciting times of the year for a child. Turn it into theme party? Then you're kid will go bezerk. The creative possibilities are endless, but then there's the food, games, and décor that come with your theme.


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Hopes and Fears est le premier album du groupe de pop britannique Keane, lancé à la fin printemps 2004. Il a dominé le palmarès britannique des albums dès sa sortie, et a reçu le statut double platine. Il est retourné au haut du palmarès après avoir emporté un Brit Award en février 2005. En France, il s'est vendu à  et a été certifié disque de platine.

Il inclut les singles Somewhere Only We Know, Everybody's Changing, Bedshaped et This Is The Last Time.

Les objets sur l'image du CD sont des marteaux de piano. On compte différentes couleurs variant selon la région : vert pour le Royaume-Uni, blanc pour les États-Unis et le Canada, bleu pour le Japon et brun pour les autres.

L'album tire son nom des paroles de la chanson Snowed Under, lorsqu'on entend Someone to understand your hopes and fears, chanson qui ne figure pas sur l'album mais sur le single Somewhere Only We Know et sur la version japonaise de l'album.

Liste des chansons
Toutes les pistes ont été écrites par Tom Chaplin,Tim Rice-Oxley et Richard Hughes, à moins d'indication contraire.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Album de Keane
Album musical sorti en 2004
Album publié par Island Records
Album publié par Interscope Records
Album numéro un au Royaume-Uni
Album certifié disque d'or en Italie
Album certifié disque de platine en Argentine
Album certifié disque d'or en Autriche
Album certifié disque de platine en Belgique
Album certifié disque de platine au Canada
Album certifié disque d'or au Danemark
Album certifié disque de platine en Espagne
Album certifié disque d'or aux États-Unis

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Pyromaniacs: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's the devil who changes with the times.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It's the devil who changes with the times.
The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "The Snare of the Fowler," a sermon preached Sunday Morning 29 March 1857 at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens.
he devil of five hundred years ago was a black and grimy thing, well pourtrayed in our old pictures of that evil spirit. He was a persecutor, who cast men into the furnace, and put them to death for serving Christ.
The devil of this day is a well-spoken gentleman: he does not persecute—he rather attempts to persuade and to beguile. He is not now the furious Romanist so much as the insinuating unbeliever, attempting to overturn our religion, whilst at the same time he pretends he would but make it more rational, and so more triumphant. He would only link worldliness with religion; and so he would really make religion void, under the cover of developing the great power of the gospel, and bringing out secrets which our forefathers had never discovered.
Sadly this is teh sin of Israel which is even in teh Church ~ the same.
Marriage to Canaan's idolatrious inhabitants destroyed them and placed them under a great curse which condemned many to eternal Hell; how much more for those in the household of God, where the Judgement of the LORD will begin?
Sad to say this is the mark of teh "evangelical" movement today which is even taking hold in so called Evangelcial reformed Churches.
Love with the world and it's ways is HATRED, TREASON and WAR against our King and Lord.
I love this short paragraph from Spurgeon!
So true, it sounds as if it was written during our modern days...what with mixing religion and worldliness in emergent churches and the mysticism and postmodernism that is infiltrating everywhere!
Charles Spurgeon knew about Rob Bell?


Warning – this recipe was a COMPLETE disaster! It was always going to happen at some point and I think I did well to make it to Challenge No. 34 before ending up with a dish only worthy of the bin. After such a successful week last week, I felt really disappointed that this went quite so wrong. But this blog is about my adventures in the kitchen, both the highs and the lows and so in this post, you can read about the disaster that was meant to be delicious sausage rolls.
So with my love of sausage rolls and the success of last week in mind, I got a little brave and searched for a recipe which included homemade pastry. This was quite difficult in itself but eventually I found this one with a homemade puff pastry.
The recipe starts by mixing the flour and salt together and then adding the water and lemon juice. I mixed this all together and then kneaded it into a rough dough to pop in the fridge for a couple of hours.
I then tried to roll the dough out to add in the butter. This is where it all went so wrong. I rolled the dough into a rectangle (or as close as possible!) and put the butter over the top 2 thirds of the dough. I folder the bottom third over the second third and flipped it over again. I then tried to roll it out and complete the turns as instructed by the recipe. However, the butter would just not incorporate into the dough and I ended up with a horrible buttery mess.
Dave gave me some encouragement and said to just carry on and see what happened. So I did.
I mixed the filling together and once the pastry had rested, tried to roll it out into a thin rectangle. I put in the sausage meat and folder over the pastry to seal it in. I brushed it with the beaten egg and popped it in the oven for 20 minutes.
The result was completely inedible and went into the bin after Dave and I confirmed it tasted as bad as it looked.
The pastry was bad, the filling was bad, everything was bad.
I have to admit that I think part of the problem was the recipe. I don't like to say this as perhaps I just did something wrong. But, I found it surprising that the recipe did not involve rubbing some of the butter into the dry ingredients before adding the water/lemon juice. Every other recipe I've looked at does this! It seems to be a pretty critical stage for making puff pastry and I think perhaps missing this step caused the problem with my sausage rolls.
Anyway, I'm not going to be deterred and I'm going to attempt to make these again in the future, albeit with a different recipe. I'll be sure to blog about the second (and hopefully more successful) sausage roll challenge.
Coming up next week, it's back to basics as I try to come up with the "Mother of all Milkshakes" for Challenge No. 35.
This entry was posted in Challenge 52 and tagged Baking, Challenge52, Disaster, Food by MyGastroAdventure. Bookmark the permalink.
It's refreshing to see a post about a recipe that didn't turn out as planned – at least you gave it a shot!


I located the MOOC Guide with an introduction written by Stephen Downes today. It is a very helpful potted history of MOOCs.
Section 13 of the MOOC Guide introduces the successful AI-Class run by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig at Stanford University.
I have signed up to participate in the MOOC titled "Connectivism, Networked Learning, and Connective Knowledge, 2012" with George Siemens and Stephen Downes acting in the roles of instructors.
As a blogger (however erratic I might be in this art) I was fascinated when George Siemens stated in an interview with Rick Schier that he (George) had been an active blogger since 2000 and had established his blog elearnspace in 2002. George explained that he recognized that blogging presented a completely different type of learning, a learning that was fundamentally connected in nature. Blogging provided him with the ability to share resources with others, to find one individual and use that individual as the node to find more individuals who were addressing particular subjects. The individual's blog became the starting point of George's learning, a connection, the golden thread that lead him into the maze of the web and guided him to the treasure of new knowledge. The process of blogging formed the connections that in turn opened doors to his new learning.
Oberon Onmura: Wave Fields. A rare moment of stillness amongst the moving cubes.
Anyone who has blogged for a while recognizes this process of joining up the dots to create a picture. The connections we make in blogging act on two levels. One is on the internal level, where we write and discover through writing that writing itself is a form of thinking. By writing and thinking we discover connections in our thoughts that we did not know were there lurking (un-named) in our heads. We then move to the external level where we are out in the space beyond ourselves, in the space we share with everything in existence (it is a conveniently vast and limitless space that accommodates all that we know and all that we don't know).
Blogging allows us as bloggers to literally embed connections (web links) in our writing and these links draw us out of the introspective space of writing and pull us into the external space shared with other writers. We can then in turn communicate with each other and build up layers of understanding through the connections we either simply find or that we consciously create. The act of embedding links gives us the power to connect to targeted locations out in cyberspace. Links allow our writing to take on a new dimension, embedded urls plumb our thoughts and take our readers directly to thought touch points.
Oberon Onmura: Wave Fields. The sea of cubes is in perpetual motion. Creating then breaking patterns.
By recognizing the multi-dimensional space of the web and seeing how we can creatively connect with nodes across the web we are drawing in space. (Connecting the dots.) These drawings render new understandings and the process of recognizing these new understandings show us the amazing commonalities underlying human thought, action and creation. At this point I see Connectivism standing up to be counted as a theory that can help us to see and then (once seen) navigate the new galaxy of knowledge brought to our awareness via today's technology.
Oberon Onmura: Wave Fields. A passage through the cubes is starting to shift and change.
Oberon Onmura's "Wave Fields" – an ever-changing landscape of cubes that create undulating waves of visual movement as they form, activate, and disintegrate.


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Cornwall Restaurant Alerts Public on Fake TripAdvisor Reviews Scam
The Porthminister Beach Cafe, located in St Ives, was recently presented with an opportunity to purchase a number of sham TripAdvisor reviews.
Mike Smith, the chef and co-owner alerted the press, saying he was offered to buy 840 "good" and positive reviews about his restaurant at the cost of £1 for each phoney critique in an email. He recounted that he had received similar scam packages offered by other organizations in the past.
Mr. Smith is using this situation and an opportunity to call out TripAdvisor to step up and handle the ongoing issue, by making it mandatory for customers to present their legitimate bills, as a source of proof of their visit.
Prior to his appearance on Fake Britain on BBC, his organization addressed the issue saying, "Whilst we welcome real feedback from real customers, we are speaking out against fraudulent paid-for reviews on the site after being offered the chance to purchase some ourselves."
TripAdvisor defends itself, insisting that it frequently combats against false paid reviews companies that plague its forum. In their statement, they say, "We are strongly against the buying or selling of fake reviews – known as paid review fraud. It is not only dishonest but also illegal in many countries. We are absolutely in support of this chef's complaints. We feel really passionately about the fight against paid review companies."
A travel and restaurant website focusing on reviews, TripAdvisor claims to have significantly invested in battling against this scam, having ended over 60 paid review companies in the last couple of years.
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Nathan Outlaw Celebrity Chef from Cornwall Picks his Top Three Fish


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ThunderVoice Hat Co. makes classic, artful hats and gives back to US native tribes
Jul 3, 2018 @ 10:00 am By Mallie Koczon
ThunderVoice Hat Co. hats are extremely artful – they carry that classic, western look, mixed with a modern and structural vibe.
The hats can be worn on almost any occasion, and I think that's what makes the brand so awesome. Started by a Navajo and Totonoc artist from Mexico, the brand is inspired by his native culture, he says. The artist believes strongly in working among cultures and the idea of "we," but he still makes sure to include other native artists (of all industries) in all of his galleries, shows, and online platforms.
Check out our exclusive interview below with the man behind these brilliants hats!
READ ALSO: Pop star, NAAZ, makes her music from her bedroom (yes, her bedroom)
What is the motivation behind your brand and the art of what you do?
A lot of my motivation comes from my culture. I am Navajo and Totonoc (from Mexico). I represent both sides of the border. Throughout the years, my people have gone through significant changes due to the removal and assimilation process. Since that time, its been a battle to salvage parts of our culture.
My father and mother played a significant roll in passing on to us wilderness survival and awareness skills. With that, came many parts of the foundation of my culture. I grew up most of my life in Nature; living off the land and teaching youth. So, my fashion and art are the outcome of this way of life. I learned to lived between two worlds. This created a new, contemporary blend of the ancient and modern.
What does ThunderVoice Hat Co. provide to the community?
Around 80% of the income generated within the US tribes is through the arts. Painting, basketry, pottery, jewelry, and textiles. For the past few years, I have started galleries, online platforms, and curated shows. Each time, I include the best artists in the native community.
I like to showcase what the new and old generations have to offer. It is beautiful. With the ZOHI Gallery experience, we had dances, spoken word, music performances, DJ's, and even a fashion show including the top native fashion designers from 5 different regions.
READ ALSO: Scott Lipps' gallery opening with Diesel proves that rock music never dies
Why is it so important that this generation finds our own solutions to the things that need fixing?
Over the past few years, I've attended and engaged with movements including Oak Flats, Standing Rock, and Bear's Ears. Emerging from the wilderness, I dove into the native community. I quickly found out how many tribes share the same story.
I realized that the most important aspect of awareness is creating and focusing on solutions, art had a way of reaching people with this message. To be able to work together no matter the color of your skin is what will truly make a difference.
What has working between cultures helped your team achieve?
Throughout my life, my parents accepted anyone of any culture. We loved and shared with them as if they were family. This helped me experience the basic truth of working together as "we."
READ ALSO: This creative 19-year-old proves that art and makeup aren't mutually exclusive
Lauren Schad, Lehi ThunderVoice Eagle, Redwolf Pope, Jennifer Younger
Marina Owens, Free Bear, Erica Elan
Erica Elan Ciganek and ThunderVoice Eagle
Jennifer's Copper and Silver
Gimme More Fashion
Whether you got what you wanted for Christmas or spent it alone with takeout and Netflix, people are banking on 2021 bringing new beginnings (or at least a year in which we can leave our houses without risking death). Perhaps you've got a 2021 resolution to actually start using those 10 pound weights you fought
Welcome to Ken's World
Sensual, sexual, luxurious, mysterious, authentic; the Afro-Cuban, West Philadelphia Native, Blk Ken declares that these are the five main ingredients that shape him. His intent as an artist is to use his music as a way to spread awareness to others to let them know it's alright to express themselves through any art form that
"Salt Flat Sessions" with LUVK
Dec 7, 2020 @ 6:00 am Shirley Reynozo
LUVK is a Black singer-songwriter who has pioneered her own unique fusion of pop/ alternative R&B and Rock & Roll— as if a hybrid of Post Malone, No Doubt, and Saint Jhn. This summer, the classically-trained artist teamed up with Fade To Mind founder Kingdom for "No More Same". LUVK has released an unplugged style three-part trilogy titled


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package com.amazonaws.services.kinesisfirehose.model.transform;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import com.amazonaws.services.kinesisfirehose.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.SimpleTypeJsonUnmarshallers.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.*;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken;
import static com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken.*;

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 * PutRecordBatchResult JSON Unmarshaller
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public class PutRecordBatchResultJsonUnmarshaller implements
        Unmarshaller<PutRecordBatchResult, JsonUnmarshallerContext> {

    public PutRecordBatchResult unmarshall(JsonUnmarshallerContext context)
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            instance = new PutRecordBatchResultJsonUnmarshaller();
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#ifndef __MACH__
#include <unistd.h>
#endif

#include "dns_service.h"
#include "dns_cache.h"
#include "dns_settings.h"

void shutdown_service() {
    context_t context = create_context();
    ERROR_LOG(&context, "Service is shutting down!");
    dns_service_stop();
    dns_cache_stop();
}

void signal_shutdown(int value) {
    context_t context = create_context();
    ERROR_LOG(&context, "Shutting down the service, signal: %d", value);
    shutdown_service();
    exit(value);
}

void signal_SIGPIPE(int value) {
    context_t context = create_context();
    ERROR_LOG(&context, "SIGPIPE failure: %d", value);
    shutdown_service();
    exit(value);
}

void dns_process_setup() {
    signal(SIGABRT, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGFPE, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGILL, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGINT, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGSEGV, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGTERM, signal_shutdown);
    signal(SIGPIPE, signal_SIGPIPE);
}

void usage(const char *program) {
    fprintf(stdout, "Version: %s\n", get_active_cache_version());
    fprintf(stdout, "Usage:     %s --port=PORT --resolvers=RESOLVERS --timeout_ms=TIMEOUT_IN_MS\n", program);
    fprintf(stdout, "Example:   %s --port=5300 --resolvers=/etc/resolv.dns_cache --timeout_ms=500 \n\n", program);
    fprintf(stdout, "DNS Active Cache is a high performance DNS cache intended for server environments.\n"
            "This is a simple active local DNS caching service, it NOT intended to be used as a desktop DNS cache.\n"
            "The issue we are trying to address has to do with Cloud Deployments(AWS).  The DNS style load balancing requires \n"
            "services to constantly query upstream DNS servers to discover what IP address they need \n"
            "to send requests to.  We were able to reduce our DNS requests to sub millisecond \n"
            "requests by having a local smart cache.\n\n"
            "Most servers only talk to a couple of upstream servers, so this service will allow you to configure \n"
            "how many 'cache entries' you need(see 'Configuration' below).\n\n"
            "This simple service will do the following:\n\n"
            "     1. When a DNS request comes in it will try to call the DSN servers defined in 'resolv.dns_cache'.\n\n"
            "     2. If a valid DNS entry is found, it will then store the entry into the local cache, see entries parameter.\n\n"
            "     3. A separate thread there after will keep refreshing the local DNS entries local cache.\n\n"
            "Thus after the first request, all future requests will be cached locally.\n");
    fprintf(stdout, "     port           port to listen on, the default is %d\n", dns_get_port());
    fprintf(stdout, "     resolvers      resolvers file containing a list of name-servers. default: %s\n",
            dns_get_resolvers_file());
    fprintf(stdout, "     timeout        Network time out in seconds.  Default: %ds\n",
            dns_get_socket_timeout());
    fprintf(stdout, "     interval       How often should the service scan the cache to find timed out entries. default: %ds\n",
            dns_get_cache_polling_interval());
    fprintf(stdout, "     entries        Max cache entries. default: %d\n", dns_get_cache_entries());
    fprintf(stdout, "     debug          Debug output.  default: %s\n", dns_get_debug_mode() ? "true" : "false");
    fprintf(stdout, "     log            General logging messages. default: %s\n", dns_get_log_mode() ? "true" : "false");
    fprintf(stdout, "     optimize       Optimize the use of ports by reusing them. default: %s\n",
            dns_get_optimize_mode() ? "true" : "false");
    fprintf(stdout,
            "     maxttl         Max TTL in seconds for DNS entries, if an upstream server returns a value high then "
                    "maxttl, the TTL will be set to maxttl.  default:  %ds\n", dns_get_max_ttl());
    fprintf(stdout, "     dbgport        Simple DEBUG port to dump diagnostics, support HTTP GET, [host]:[port], "
            "if zero then disabled.  default: %hu\n", debug_get_port());

    fprintf(stdout, "     daemon         Run as a daemon.  default: %s\n", dns_get_run_as_daemon() ? "true" : "false");
    fprintf(stdout, "     help           Get this help message\n");
}

bool is_valid_ip_address(char *ipAddress) {
    char str[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
    int result = inet_pton(AF_INET, ipAddress, str);

    if (result != 1){
        // maybe IPV6?
        result = inet_pton(AF_INET6, ipAddress, str);
    }

    return result == 1;
}

bool get_ip_address(char *line, char **ip_address) {
    if (NULL != line) {
        char *save_ptr = NULL;
        char *token = strtok_r(line, " \n", &save_ptr);

        if (token && strcmp(token, "nameserver") == 0) {
            token = strtok_r(save_ptr, " \n", &save_ptr);
            if (is_valid_ip_address(token)) {
                if (ip_address != NULL) {
                    *ip_address = malloc_string(strlen(token));
                    strcpy(*ip_address, token);
                }
                return true;
            }
        }
    }

    return false;
}

size_t resolvers_parse_ip_address(FILE *file, char **ip_addresses) {
    char *line = NULL;
    size_t len = 0;
    ssize_t read;
    size_t count = 0;

    while ((read = getline(&line, &len, file)) != -1) {
        if (read > 0) {
            if (line[0] == '#') {
                continue;
            }

            if (get_ip_address(line, (ip_addresses ? &ip_addresses[count] : NULL))) {
                count++;
            }
        }
    }
    if (line) {
        free(line);
    }

    return count;
}

char **resolvers_parse(const char *resolvers_file, size_t *count) {
    char **resolvers = NULL;

    // Check to see if the file exists and
    // open the file and parse out the ip address.
    //
    FILE *file = fopen(resolvers_file, "r");

    if (NULL != file) {

        // Count the number of ip addresses
        //
        *count = resolvers_parse_ip_address(file, NULL);

        // Allocate the memory
        //
        resolvers = malloc_string_array(*count);

        // Rewind the file
        //
        rewind(file);

        // Parse it again.
        //
        resolvers_parse_ip_address(file, resolvers);

        // Close file
        //
        fclose(file);
    }

    return resolvers;
}

bool parse_arguments(context_t *context, int argc, char *argv[]) {

    static struct option long_options[] =
            {
                    {"log",       optional_argument, 0, 'l'},
                    {"port",      optional_argument, 0, 'p'},
                    {"resolvers", optional_argument, 0, 'r'},
                    {"timeout",   optional_argument, 0, 't'},
                    {"interval",  optional_argument, 0, 'v'},
                    {"entries",   optional_argument, 0, 'e'},
                    {"debug",     optional_argument, 0, 'd'},
                    {"bypass",    optional_argument, 0, 'b'},
                    {"optimize",  optional_argument, 0, 'o'},
                    {"maxttl",    optional_argument, 0, 'm'},
                    {"dbgport",   optional_argument, 0, 'g'},
                    {"daemon",    optional_argument, 0, 'D'},
                    {"help",      optional_argument, 0, '?'},
                    {0, 0,                           0, 0}
            };

    int option_index = 0;
    int c = 0;

    do {
        c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "?p:r:t:e:v:d:b:o:m:", long_options, &option_index);

        switch (c) {
            case -1:
                // Ignore this one.
                break;

            case 'l':
                dns_set_log_mode(strcmp(optarg, "true") == 0);
                INFO_LOG(context, "Enable Logging mode %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'p':
                dns_set_port((in_port_t) atoi(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "Port to use %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'r': {
                    char *resolvers_file = malloc_string(strlen(optarg));
                    strncpy(resolvers_file, optarg, strlen(optarg));
                    dns_set_resolvers_file(resolvers_file);

                    INFO_LOG(context, "Resolvers file %s", optarg);
                }
                break;

            case 't':
                dns_set_socket_timeout((unsigned int) atol(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "Network timeout %ss", optarg);
                break;

            case 'v':
                dns_set_cache_polling_interval((unsigned int) atol(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "DNS cache polling interval %ss", optarg);
                break;

            case 'e':
                dns_set_cache_entries((unsigned int) atol(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "Max cache entries %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'd':
                dns_set_debug_mode(strcmp(optarg, "true") == 0);
                INFO_LOG(context, "Enable debug mode %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'b':
                dns_set_bypass_mode(strcmp(optarg, "true") == 0);
                INFO_LOG(context, "Bypass cache, usefull for debugging %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'o':
                dns_set_optimize_mode(strcmp(optarg, "true") == 0);
                INFO_LOG(context, "Optimize socket %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'm':
                dns_set_max_ttl((unsigned int) atol(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "DNS Max TTL %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'g':
                debug_set_port((unsigned short) atol(optarg));
                INFO_LOG(context, "Debug Port %s", optarg);
                break;

            case 'D':
                dns_set_run_as_daemon(strcmp(optarg, "true") == 0);
                INFO_LOG(context, "Run as a daemon %s", optarg);
                break;

            case '?':
            default:
                usage("dns_active_cache");
                return false;
        }
    } while (c != -1);

    if (debug_get_port() == dns_get_port()) {
        ERROR_LOG(context, "Debug Port %hu must be differnt from DNS port %hu", debug_get_port(), dns_get_port());
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

void fork_process(context_t *context){
    if (dns_get_run_as_daemon()){
        // Create child process
        //
        pid_t process_id = fork();

        // Indication of fork() failure
        //
        if (process_id < 0)
        {
            ERROR_LOG(context, "Forking the process failed.");
            // Return failure in exit status
            exit(1);
        }

        // PARENT PROCESS. Need to kill it.
        //
        if (process_id > 0)
        {
            INFO_LOG(context, "Process ID of child process %d \n", process_id);

            // return success in exit status
            //
            exit(0);
        }

        // We need to reload the context... we are in the forked process.
        //
        *context = create_context();

        // Unmask the file mode
        //
        umask(0);

        //set new session
        //
        pid_t sid = setsid();
        if(sid < 0)
        {
            // Return failure
            exit(1);
        }

        // Daemon Process ID
        //
        dns_set_daemon_process_id(sid);

        // Change the current working directory to root.
        //
        chdir("/");

        // Close stdin. stdout and stderr
        //
        close(STDIN_FILENO);
        close(STDOUT_FILENO);
        close(STDERR_FILENO);

        // Setup base service
        //
        dns_process_setup();
    }
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    // Context for the transaction
    //
    context_t context = create_context();

    // Setup base service
    //
    dns_set_resolvers_file("/etc/resolv.dns_cache");

    int return_value = -1;

    // Parse the command line arguments.
    //
    if (parse_arguments(&context, argc, argv)) {

        // OK fork the process, DO NOT do too much before this call.
        // or else things could get weird.
        //
        fork_process(&context);

        // Create the log files...
        //
        create_logs();

        // Get the list of resolvers
        //
        size_t count = 0;
        dns_set_resolvers(resolvers_parse(dns_get_resolvers_file(), &count));
        dns_set_resolvers_count(count);

        if (dns_get_resolvers() != NULL) {
            // Setup the cache
            //
            if (dns_cache_init(&context) == 0) {
                // Log the version
                //
                INFO_LOG(&context, "Staring DNS Active Service version: %s", get_active_cache_version());

                // Start Processing Messages
                //
                return_value = dns_service_start(&context);
            }
            else {
                ERROR_LOG(&context, "Failed to start the service, unable to setup the service.");
            }
        }
        else {
            ERROR_LOG(&context, "Unable to find resolvers config file %s, please see --resolvers= options",
                      dns_get_resolvers_file());
        }
    }

    close_logs();

    return return_value;
}


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Home Eldredge ATL The Retro Fun of Westminster Inc. Toys
The Retro Fun of Westminster Inc. Toys
Kitsch niche
Betsy Riley
Today's third graders may turn up their noses at any toy that doesn't contain a microchip, but fortunately for Atlanta-based Westminster Inc., their parents have no such scruples. Apparently whoopee cushions and potato guns are timeless.
Cofounder Max Ker-Seymer calls his products "old-tech" rather than "low-tech." Mostly designed here and manufactured overseas, they range from puzzles and air hockey tables to remote-controlled flying spacemen. The biggest seller is eyeglasses made from a drinking straw.
Westminster's first hit was the Tumble Buggy. Ker-Seymer sold 1.7 million of the battery-operated flipping cars in its first two years, mostly by demonstrating the car in malls. Now a wholesale distributor, the firm caters to independent drug stores, airport shops, and museums—including Richards Variety Store in Atlanta and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ker-Seymer was recently surprised to spot one of his flashlights in a gift shop in Amman, Jordan. His firm now has thirty-five local employees, plus an office in Hong Kong.
There's no science to spotting a fun toy, says Ker-Seymer. "We are very fortunate in not having to answer to a focus group, as a lot of our items would be given the thumbs-down. Something like our Pull My Finger Pen would be one of the first to go!"
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The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies.
I've been following the reports about the enthusiastic reception that Professor Heinberg's talk about peak oil and industrial collapse have received in Eugene. Here's a related problem that I give in class: World oil reserves are 600 billion barrels, and we are using it at 20 billion barrels per year. How long until we run out? Please write down your answer before you read any more of this op-ed.
My students do the math and they tell me 30 years – maybe just 20, if we add growth in consumption and population. Good try, I tell them, but these numbers are from 1950. Hmm.
The idea of economic collapse from resource exhaustion used to be mainstream economics – a long time ago. In 1798, Thomas Malthus argued that population would soon outstrip food production, and that mass starvation would result. During the potato famine, English politicians used his economics as an excuse not to waste money on relief for the starving Irish. Stanley Jevons, in 1865, argued that England's industrial revolution would soon come to a halt because the country was using up its supply of coal. Actually, England still has plenty of coal, though not much use for it. As for the starving Irish, well, today 57% of them are now officially "overweight or obese." Whoops.
While this embarrassing failure to explain reality sent economists back to the drawing board, apparently it has left the peak oil cult untroubled – their forecasts of doom and gloom are just a recycled version of Malthus's logic, which treats humans as if we are mindless sheep, and which shows no understanding of markets or incentives.
The new model that economists came up with starts from sensible assumptions – business people aren't idiots, they want to make money, and consumers don't like to waste money. As more people use up an exhaustible resource like oil, the owners see the scarcity coming and they start demanding higher prices. This gives consumers an incentive to conserve, and oil companies incentives to find more oil. Companies that don't own oil start to develop alternative energy sources. Combine these effects, and scarcity tends to go away. Add in a little technical progress and prices will fall, not rise. Sure enough, measured by how many hours we have to work to pay for a barrel, the long trend of oil prices has been downward, except for a few short spikes during wars.
The list of alternatives to oil is very long. On the production side, there's solar energy, wind energy, nuclear/hydrogen energy, coal, tar sands, or just plain drilling more oil wells. On the consumption side, there's insulating your house, buying a small car, or riding your bike. (If you haven't ridden it since the last oil crisis, lube the brake cables first. I learned that one the hard way.) We don't use these substitutes much, yet, because they are still a bit more expensive or inconvenient than oil is. But they are still out there, waiting for us.
I don't understand why people continue to give predictions of resource exhaustion and economic collapse so much attention. The prior history of these predictions is simple – they have always been wrong. The theory they are built on is also simple – and also obviously wrong. But then I don't understand why people like reading Stephen King either. Is it possible that a nice simple story about imaginary scary things is just a fun distraction for the evening?
What scares me is that with all the attention they are devoting to oil scarcity and the coming collapse of civilization, Eugene and its politicians are getting distracted from working on the many things that markets don't reliably deliver – like health care access, affordable housing, transportation, good paying jobs, and education – and which we rely on good government to help provide.
I soon started getting angry emails about my claims, including one from a Portland businessman who accepted my offer to bet that the price of oil wouldn't go above $200 in real terms within the next 10 years. He backed out when he realized I was prepared to put $10K on it.
The price of sweet West Texas Intermediate, which was $78 at the time, briefly got up to $161 in 2008, but it's currently about $70. (All in 2018 dollars). So what are the predictions for future oil output and prices? If you're still asking that question, you didn't understand my op-ed.
So the takeaway I'm getting from this is never trust economists?
Only trust us when we tell you not to trust us.
Yes, Bill, you deserved to become a Full Professor! And it shows how the notion of "environmental" doesn't always suit people's agendas.
I've been reading about peak oil for decades, it never seems to happen. The U.S. was supposed to have declining oil production, there was the "energy crisis" (really dates me, doesn't it!), all of that stuff. Now, look at that graph of U.S. oil production! The U.S. is or soon will be the largest energy producer in the world, probably a net exporter (when you include all forms of energy, not just oil). No economist could have predicted fracking and all the other advances in oil technology.
There was also a time when nuclear power was going to take over the electricity industry. Not happening in the U.S.!
I love you Bernie, but if I knew the answer would I give it away free on the internet?
Bill, you are a professor, right? Which means you are a benefactor of humanity, right?
Peak OIl has always been a physically bad concept on the global level. Since about 2005 oil production global distribution has been refinery limited.
in any global data post 2005.
The Hubbert Peak was a local phenomena and of course new fields in the Bakken and North texas have lead to the uptick.
However, just like Alaska, the is at best a decade of crude in these new resources given our demand, which is about 22 MBD.
Hi Dog, I'm willing to put $50K down on a bet that the price for a barrel of WTI on July 18 2028 will be less than $70, in 2018 dollars. You in?
It's never too early to plan for my potential grandchildren's college tuition. 2048 it is. Please send me your contact info so we can draw up a contract.
He meant to bet that oil *wouldn't* go above $200 a barrel. I think that very well clears things up.
What ever happened to the idea of energy too cheap to measure? We have aging dams and sparkly new wind, wave, and solar (funded often by tax coffers *BETC) and are taking nuclear offline in many places.
I wonder what the world would look like with free energy.
BLS data shows electricity prices per KWH at 4.6 cents in 1978, 13.9 cents today.
Adjusted for inflation, 4.6 cents in 1978 would be 17 cents today. That's a 22% drop in real prices for electricity.
When you add in the vast improvements in energy efficiency since then (a 60-watt incandescent has been replaced by a 7-watt LED; a typical refrigerator is larger, better, and uses 1/4 of the electricity of the 1978 version per year), you get a drop in the price of electricity services of roughly an order of magnitude in just 40 years.


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Ocean Heros
OCEAN Hero Awards
Blue Flag, Green Flag, Heritage, Housing and Urban Renewal, Research, Research and Innovation, Science, Tourism, Transport, Water
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Speech by
MINISTER DAMIEN ENGLISH T.D.
Minister for Housing and urban Development
at the OCEAN Hero Awards
21st November 2017 at the Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 @ 13:00.
Michael John, Clean Coast volunteers, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
It is my very great pleasure to be invited here today to present the 2017 An Taisce's Ocean Hero Awards and I hope that you enjoyed the range of excellent and interesting contributions which were presented here this morning. Events like this provide a great opportunity to build networks and share experiences and most importantly, honour the invaluable contribution that Ireland's coastal communities have made towards conserving our spectacular coastline.
For an island nation with one of the largest maritime areas in the European Union, the importance of the sea to Ireland cannot be overstated. We deeply value our marine and coastal environments in all their beauty and diversity, but increasingly we are aware of the growing threats from human activities that face complex marine ecosystems some of which remain unknown to science.
In this context, litter accumulating in the marine environment is a significant environmental issue facing the World today. The exact quantity of litter, including plastic in the ocean and volumes entering the ocean from waste generated on land or lost or discarded at sea is unknown and is the subject on ongoing extensive national and international research. Estimates vary widely, but there is no doubt that it exists in vast quantities with undetermined impacts and that levels of marine litter are growing at an unacceptable rate.
My Department is committed to working, both nationally and internationally, with our EU and OSPAR partners and national stakeholders, to determine the key sources of marine litter, the pathways by which it can enter the marine environment and the harm it causes. This will inform the development of our national and international measures to address the problem.
Ireland is already implementing a suite of measures identified in our Marine Strategy Framework Directive Programme of Measures to address this issue. This will be reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis as new marine litter sources and pathways are identified. Ireland will also continue to identify ways of treating plastic waste as a resource.
Ireland also supports the aims of the Plastics Strategy in the Circular Economy which aims to address the challenges posed by plastics across the value chain and take into account the entire life cycle. The implementation of programmes such as the Circular Economy package will, I believe, be a key measure in reducing marine litter inputs in the future.
Because of the transboundary nature of the problem, Ireland continues to cooperate collaboratively with international partners to try and identify the extent and impact of the problem and to develop solutions to address the issue in tandem with our EU partners under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic.
It is important to note that the problem of marine litter is only one aspect of our marine environmental policy. We are also are working to ensure that :
Biodiversity is maintained
Non-indigenous species do not adversely alter the ecosystem
The population of commercial fish species is healthy
Elements of food webs ensure long-term abundance and reproduction
Eutrophication (the impacts of sewage and nutrients such as fertiliser leading to loss of oxygen in the water is minimised
Sea floor and seawaters are not altered in such a way as to harm ecosystems
Contaminants in seafood are below safe levels
Introduction of energy and underwater noise does not adversely affect the ecosystem
However, the problem of marine litter remains a particular focus for us at this time.
Raising public awareness and effecting societal change in environmental behaviour is very important when it comes to issues such as reducing marine litter. That is why my Department has a long-standing relationship with An Taisce and we are pleased to support initiatives administered by An Taisce, such as Clean Coasts and the Two Minute Beach Clean programmes. The recent Love Your Coast photography awards and similar projects represent just some of the many high profile and high value initiatives that An Taisce operates. These are tremendous vehicles for encouraging public participation and fostering a sense of environmental responsibility. They are considered exemplars in their field and worthy of support at home and replication abroad
It is also worth noting that exciting developments are ongoing in relation to the Green Schools module on marine environmental issues, especially litter. This is also administered by An Taisce and supported by my Department. It was piloted in a number of schools in 2016 and is currently being rolled out, on a nationwide basis, involving over 250 schools. I am convinced that this internationally ground breaking module will augment and dovetail with the current suite of green school offerings and will further educate the children of today and improve the environmental behaviours of tomorrow.
We regard these programmes as international best practice models and are keen to present them as such to our international partners in the EU and further afield. In recognition of this fact, the Government has committed to continue to support the Coast Care and Green Schools Global Citizenship Marine Environment programmes into the future. At the "Our Oceans" Conference in Malta in October, Irelandundertake to incorporate these initiatives among our formal measures to address the marine litter and environmental protection targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
But today is about you, the Coast Care groups, Businesses, Schools and individuals, who give of your time and energy to make the marine environment a better place. The contribution of local communities and community based enterprises cannot be overstated. Your efforts are crucial in achieving and maintaining the aesthetical appeal and the amenity and economic value of the coastal resource. The work of coast care groups is actually making a tangible difference to the quality of our coastal environment, removing nearly 200 tonnes of litter from our coast annually. As well as environmental benefits, this has tremendous social and economic benefits, not least for our tourist industry.
I understand that there are over 600 active Coast Care groups, involving 18,000 volunteers, and representing a quarter of a million hours are dotted around the Irish coast. Your tireless activities, augmented by environmentally focussed enterprises and schools are both civically admirable and environmentally beneficial, and are rightly being recognised here today.
Attaining Ocean Hero awards does not come easily. It requires a lot of commitment, a lot of effort and a lot of civic spirit, which makes the achievement all the more satisfactory and recipients here today should be justifiably proud of their achievements. These awards are a tremendous example of community school and business collaborations and local and individual pride harnessed for the improvement of the marine environment. I think that the recipients here today, in the various categories, should feel enormously fulfilled in achieving these hard-won and much-sought-after accolades.
We, as current custodians of the marine environment have a duty and a responsibility to pass on a resource to be sustainably developed and enjoyed by future generations. But there is no room for complacency and as a society, we need to redouble our efforts in identifying and implementing environmentally sustainable solutions to current and future environmental challenges.
So, in conclusion, I hope you had a thought-provoking and enlightening seminar and I hope that you had an opportunity to share information and experiences over lunch. I am confident that, with the help of marine conscious stakeholders, like yourselves, that we are well positioned to deal with the significant environmental issues ahead.
It only remains for me to congratulate all those who have been nominated and will receive awards here today. You deserve recognition for the trojan efforts that you have made to help improve the quality of the marine environment.
Go raibh maith agaibh agus comhghairdeas.
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The International Data Corporation (IDC), one of the world's leading market research firms, has dedicated a number of studies to the growing 3D printing industry, looking at the growth of the Chinese 3D printing market, the forecasted growth of global 3D printing spending, and more. Each study and report indicates that the 3D printer and printing industry is steadily on the rise. The IDC's latest report, which details the growth and expected growth of U.S. 3D printer shipments, further reinforces this notion.
The report, entitled U.S. 3D Printer Forecast, 2016-2020: New 3D Print/Additive Manufacturing Technologies Fuel Growth, indicates that 3D printer shipments within the United States grew nearly 20% from 2014 to 2015, and are expected grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 16% from now until 2020.
The IDC report also clearly breaks down which areas and types of 3D printing technology will grow most significantly in the coming years. For instance, low-cost 3D printing systems (under $1,000), which are dominantly FFF/FDM based, are expected to keep growing at a projected CAGR rate of over 12% through 2020. These low-cost printers, which are benefitting from the development of better 3D printing materials, are increasingly being used by individuals and even small scale businesses.
In terms of professional 3D printer systems, which operate with more precision and higher speeds than the aforementioned low-cost 3D printers, the IDC projects an even stronger growth at a CAGR rate of more than 20%. 3D printer shipments for the highest-end 3D printer market, which are predominantly jet or sintering/melting systems, are expected to increase at an "aggressive rate" through to the year 2020, as professional manufacturers and companies adopt them for larger-scale production and prototyping.
In terms of individual 3D printing technologies, the report states that over 75% of total 3D printer shipments in the U.S. in 2015 were FFF/FDM 3D printers, a percentage which is expected to drop to less than 60% by 2020. Stereolithography or SLA 3D printers, which currently make up 11% of total shipments, are expected to grow to over 20% within the next four years. Similarly, sintering/melting additive manufacturing technologies are projected to see dynamic growth through 2020, especially as the advanced technologies become more accessible with lower investment costs.
Mcor's Select Deposition Lamination (SDL), which additively manufactures objects out of paper material, is also expected to see an increase in shipments as their 3D printers have been given a lower price point. Of course, with the release of HP's latest jetting 3D printing system, it seems obvious that materials jetting will see dynamic growth over the next four years. Along with HP, market leaders like Stratasys are expected to boost the materials jetting shipments.


What is "Hybrid Inheritance" OOP's Concept in C++?
"Hybrid Inheritance" is a method where one or more types of inheritance are combined together and used.
In the above example the derived class "res" uses the function "put_num()". Here the "put_num()" function is derived first to class "marks". Then it is deriived and used in class "res". This is an example of "multilevel inheritance-OOP's concept". But the class "extra" is inherited a single time in the class "res", an example for "Single Inheritance". Since this code uses both "multilevel" and "single" inheritence it is an example of "Hybrid Inheritance".


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If you bring a new player to a game, you get 2,500 chips, to a maximum of 10,000 on any particular night.
Some venues (the actual bar or restaurant in which we play) may give additional chips ("patron chips") to customers who purchase meals. Purchase of a meal is not a requirement to play in our games, but of course we ask that you support the venue with your patronage. We are not renting space in their facility. It is the players support of the venues that makes this league possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Note that patron chips are not shown in the table because they are awarded by the venue, not by the league, Also, some regions may add their own chip incentives, which must be approved by the league.
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Stack sizes for late arrivals will reflect a 1,000 chip penalty for signing in during the first level, and a 3,000 penalty for signing in during the second blind level.
This is a courtesy that is extended to you on an occasional basis. Any player routinely arriving late may not be given a seat. Thank you for your understanding.
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Typically, a single-game venue will use blinds for a 3-1/2 hour game, but some will use the 4-hour schedule.
Two-game venues most often will use the 2-1/2 hour schedule.
If you have questions about what to expect, please ask your TD.
Additional levels, as needed, will be 6 minutes with the blinds doubling each level.
This schedule should ensure that the game ends withing three hours.
Additional levels, as needed, will be 10 minutes with the blinds doubling each level.


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Survey Says: Refine Your Paid Content Strategies
Author: Curtis Sparrer
How effective is paid content?
Marketers have been asking this question as media outlets and reporting staffs shrink. Paid outlets are becoming a reliable source to place single-message content with more frequency and more targeting. But will anyone read it?
My public relations agency Bospar teamed up with survey provider Propeller Insights to gain granularity into consumers' attitudes toward paid content on social media. Survey results of the 1,000 participants were sliced and diced in a variety of ways. This included gender, age and political identification, among other differentiators.
Overall, 43.9% of participants said they would read paid content if the subject was interesting, 13.7% noted they cannot tell the difference between paid and unpaid content, and 27.3% said they don't read paid content — period.
When asked how participants would respond if they saw a promoted story from a company or brand that they were not following, it got more interesting: 30.8% would read it if it cited a news story, 35.8% would review it if it was likely to teach them something, 31.9% would read it if a story was offering a sale, 25.4% would read it if there were exciting visuals, and 25.7% said no way.
Gender does not appear to be a differentiator, as 44.4% of males said they would read the content if the subject was interesting, while 44.5% of females felt the same way. Numbers of those who wouldn't read it were almost identical, at 27.9% and 25.8%, respectively — as were those who said they would or wouldn't read paid content by a company they did not currently follow.
The survey did find that age matters when it comes to engagement with paid content. The older a person is, the more likely they will not read this type of content. In fact, once past what can be characterized as the more compelling reasons to engage — e.g., an item that is newsworthy or clearly insightful — with age comes a disinclination to be drawn to paid content regardless of promotions, cool visuals or celebrity involvement.
Surprisingly, party affiliation registers as one of the biggest differentiators when it comes to engaging in paid content. Fifty percent of Democrats will read paid content if it is interesting, along with 39.8% of Republicans and 47.7% of independents. Whether this is just a statistical anomaly or not will be validated in future surveys.
When it comes to paid content from companies, consumers currently do not follow on social media, 36.9% of Democrats will read the content if a news story is cited, while only 31.3% of Republicans and 30.5% of independents will engage.
Political tribalism in the U.S., specifically, is an incredibly powerful differentiator. One needs to look no further than the survey of 1,177 voters, conducted by Quinnipiac University and cited in The Washington Post, on voters' views of the media coverage of President Trump. While the poll contains a series of interesting findings, maybe the most telling is the breakdown by party and age (and here, age and gender do matter) to the question of who is a more trusted source of information — the president or the news media.
The bottom line is that when it comes to getting consumers to interact with paid content, the most important factors, regardless of other personal attributes, are that the stories:
Are related to news
Hold out the potential to teach the reader something they did not already know
Are visually enticing
Are pegged to some type of reward
In case you were wondering, about 25% of people are not interested at all in paid content. However, for that other 75%, the rules of the road for engagement are not that dissimilar from those of unpaid content. The lesson to be gleaned is that anything interesting (content, context or visual) that holds the promise of increasing knowledge or access to a good deal attracts readers.
Furthermore, a survey by Interactive Advertising Bureau and Edelman found that "well done sponsored content can enhance the credibility of the site and the site's credibly can enhance the perceived credibility of the in-feed sponsored content."
The other big learning is that, while surveys can take time — and getting statistically valid results can be a challenge — you cannot really know something until you ask directly and with some degree of depth. Indeed, it is one of the reasons why we are bombarded with post-transaction customer satisfaction surveys and research firm calls.
Despite all this, what the surveys say really does matter. Based on our findings, paid content should be part of any comprehensive marketing communications plan.
This article first appeared in Forbes.
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// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.

#pragma once

#include <boost/utility/enable_if.hpp>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string>
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <map>
#include <set>
#include "container_interface.h"
#include "traits.h"

// Bond container interface on top of STL container classes

namespace bond
{

template <typename Key>
void ElementNotFoundException(const Key& key);

// is_string<std::basic_string<char, T, A> >
template<typename T, typename A> struct
is_string<std::basic_string<char, T, A> >
    : true_type {};

// is_wstring<std::basic_string<wchar_t, T, A> >
template<typename T, typename A> struct
is_wstring<std::basic_string<wchar_t, T, A> >
    : true_type {};

// is_string_type
template <typename T> struct
is_string_type
{
    typedef typename remove_const<T>::type U;

    static const bool value = is_string<U>::value
                           || is_wstring<U>::value;
};

// is_list_container<std::list<T, A> >
template <typename T, typename A> struct
is_list_container<std::list<T, A> >
    : true_type {};

// is_list_container<std::vector<T, A> >
template <typename T, typename A> struct
is_list_container<std::vector<T, A> >
    : true_type {};

// require_modify_element<std::vector<bool, A> >
template <typename A> struct
require_modify_element<std::vector<bool, A> >
    : true_type {};

// is_set_container<std::set<T, C, A> >
template <typename T, typename C, typename A> struct
is_set_container<std::set<T, C, A> >
    : true_type {};

// is_map_container<std::map<K, T, C, A> >
template <typename K, typename T, typename C, typename A> struct
is_map_container<std::map<K, T, C, A> >
    : true_type {};

// specialize element_type for map becuase map::value_type is pair<const K, T>
template <typename K, typename T, typename C, typename A> struct
element_type<std::map<K, T, C, A> >
{
    typedef typename std::pair<K, T> type;
};

// string_data
template<typename C, typename T, typename A>
inline
const C* string_data(const std::basic_string<C, T, A>& str)
{
    return str.data();
}

template<typename C, typename T, typename A>
inline
C* string_data(std::basic_string<C, T, A>& str)
{
    // C++11 disallows COW string implementation (see [string.require] 21.4.1)
    // however it was permitted in C++03. In order to support COW we can't
    // return data() here.
    static C c;
    return str.size() ? &*str.begin() : &c;
}

// string_length
template<typename C, typename T, typename A>
inline
uint32_t string_length(const std::basic_string<C, T, A>& str)
{
    return static_cast<uint32_t>(str.length());
}

// resize_string
template<typename C, typename T, typename A>
inline
void resize_string(std::basic_string<C, T, A>& str, uint32_t size)
{
    str.resize(size);
}

// container_size
template <typename T>
inline
uint32_t container_size(const T& list)
{
    return static_cast<uint32_t>(list.size());
}

template <typename T, typename Enable = void> struct
has_key_compare
    : false_type {};

template <typename T> struct
has_key_compare<T, typename boost::enable_if<is_class<typename T::key_compare> >::type>
    : true_type {};

// use_container_allocator_for_elements
template <typename T, typename Enable = void> struct
use_container_allocator_for_elements
    : false_type {};

#if defined(BOND_NO_CXX11_ALLOCATOR)

template <typename T> struct
use_container_allocator_for_elements<T, typename boost::enable_if<
    is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
            typename element_type<T>::type::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other> >::type>
{
    static const bool value = !is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
                                       std::allocator<int> >::value;
};

template <typename T> struct
use_container_allocator_for_elements<T, typename boost::enable_if_c<
    has_schema<typename element_type<T>::type>::value
 && !is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
             std::allocator<int> >::value>::type>
    : true_type {};

#else

template <typename T> struct
use_container_allocator_for_elements<T, typename boost::enable_if_c<
    std::uses_allocator<typename element_type<T>::type, typename T::allocator_type>::value>::type>
    : true_type {};

#endif

// make_element
template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::disable_if_c<use_container_allocator_for_elements<T>::value, typename element_type<T>::type>::type
make_element(T& /*container*/)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type();
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if_c<use_container_allocator_for_elements<T>::value
                         && !has_key_compare<typename element_type<T>::type>::value, typename element_type<T>::type>::type
make_element(T& container)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type(container.get_allocator());
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if_c<use_container_allocator_for_elements<T>::value
                         && has_key_compare<typename element_type<T>::type>::value, typename element_type<T>::type>::type
make_element(T& container)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type(typename element_type<T>::type::key_compare(), container.get_allocator());
}

// resize_list
template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::disable_if<use_container_allocator_for_elements<T> >::type
resize_list(T& list, uint32_t size)
{
    list.resize(size, make_element(list));
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if<use_container_allocator_for_elements<T> >::type
resize_list(T& list, uint32_t size)
{
    list.clear();
    list.resize(size, make_element(list));
}

// modify_element
template <typename A, typename F>
inline
void modify_element(std::vector<bool, A>&,
                    typename std::vector<bool, A>::reference element,
                    F deserialize)
{
    bool value;

    deserialize(value);
    element = value;
}

// clear_set
template <typename T, typename C, typename A>
inline
void clear_set(std::set<T, C, A>& set)
{
    set.clear();
}

// set_insert
template <typename T, typename C, typename A>
inline
void set_insert(std::set<T, C, A>& set, const T& item)
{
    set.insert(item);
}

// clear_map
template <typename K, typename T, typename C, typename A>
inline
void clear_map(std::map<K, T, C, A>& map)
{
    map.clear();
}

// use_map_allocator_for_keys
template <typename T, typename Enable = void> struct
use_map_allocator_for_keys
    : false_type {};

template <typename T> struct
use_map_allocator_for_keys
    <T, typename boost::enable_if<
        is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
                typename element_type<T>::type::first_type::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other> >::type>
{
    static const bool value = !is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
                                       std::allocator<int> >::value;
};

// make_key
template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::disable_if<use_map_allocator_for_keys<T>, typename element_type<T>::type::first_type>::type
make_key(T& /*map*/)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type::first_type();
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if<use_map_allocator_for_keys<T>, typename element_type<T>::type::first_type>::type
make_key(T& map)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type::first_type(map.get_allocator());
}

// use_map_allocator_for_values
template <typename T, typename Enable = void> struct
use_map_allocator_for_values
    : false_type {};

#if defined(BOND_NO_CXX11_ALLOCATOR)

template <typename T> struct
use_map_allocator_for_values<T, typename boost::enable_if<
    is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
            typename element_type<T>::type::second_type::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other> >::type>
{
    static const bool value = !is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
                                       std::allocator<int> >::value;
};

template <typename T> struct
use_map_allocator_for_values<T, typename boost::enable_if_c<
    has_schema<typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::value
 && !is_same<typename T::allocator_type::template rebind<int>::other,
             std::allocator<int> >::value>::type>
    : true_type {};

#else

template <typename T> struct
use_map_allocator_for_values<T, typename boost::enable_if_c<
    std::uses_allocator<typename element_type<T>::type::second_type,
    typename T::allocator_type>::value>::type>
    : true_type {};

#endif

// make_value
template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::disable_if_c<use_map_allocator_for_values<T>::value,
    typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::type
make_value(T& /*map*/)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type::second_type();
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if_c<use_map_allocator_for_values<T>::value
                         && !has_key_compare<typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::value,
    typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::type
make_value(T& map)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type::second_type(map.get_allocator());
}

template <typename T>
inline
typename boost::enable_if_c<use_map_allocator_for_values<T>::value
                         && has_key_compare<typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::value,
    typename element_type<T>::type::second_type>::type
make_value(T& map)
{
    return typename element_type<T>::type::second_type(typename element_type<T>::type::second_type::key_compare(), map.get_allocator());
}

// mapped_at
template <typename K, typename T, typename C, typename A>
inline
T& mapped_at(std::map<K, T, C, A>& map, const K& key)
{
    return map.insert(typename std::map<K, T, C, A>::value_type(key, make_value(map))).first->second;
}

template <typename K, typename T, typename C, typename A>
inline
const T& mapped_at(const std::map<K, T, C, A>& map, const K& key)
{
    typename std::map<K, T, C, A>::const_iterator it = map.find(key);

    if (it == map.end())
        ElementNotFoundException(key);

    return it->second;
}

// enumerators
template <typename T>
class const_enumerator
{
public:
    explicit const_enumerator(const T& list)
        : it(list.begin()),
          end(list.end())
    {}

    bool more() const
    {
        return it != end;
    }

    typename T::const_reference
    next()
    {
        return *(it++);
    }

private:
    typename T::const_iterator it, end;
};

template <typename A>
class const_enumerator<std::vector<bool, A> >
{
public:
    explicit const_enumerator(const std::vector<bool, A>& list)
        : it(list.begin()),
          end(list.end())
    {}

    bool more() const
    {
        return it != end;
    }

    bool next()
    {
        return *(it++);
    }

private:
    typename std::vector<bool, A>::const_iterator it, end;
};

template <typename T>
class enumerator
{
public:
    explicit enumerator(T& list)
        : it(list.begin()),
          end(list.end())
    {}

    bool more() const
    {
        return it != end;
    }

    typename T::reference
    next()
    {
        return *(it++);
    }

private:
    typename T::iterator it, end;
};

template <typename K, typename V>
std::map<V, K> reverse_map(const std::map<K, V>& map)
{
    std::map<V, K> reversed;

    for (typename std::map<K, V>::const_iterator it = map.begin(); it != map.end(); ++it)
        reversed[it->second] = it->first;

    return reversed;
}

}


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The challenges of the show, for a musical director, entail not only the physical task of playing the show each night—which Sampliner views as a good cardiovascular workout—but also reacting sensitively, even intuitively, to the singers/actors as they tell their parallel stories in song. Sampliner has never worked at the Long Wharf before but has worked with Brown on the latter's Honeymoon in Vegas adaptation, and feels that his grasp of Brown's music is important to the show's delicate dynamic.
Drawing on blues, jazz, rock'n'roll, and classical techniques—all the musical forms he and Brown share a love for—the show, Sampliner says, is "one I needed to do." Rehearsing with Edelstein, Clarke and Halpin, they have been asking lots of questions of the material, finding their unique way of bringing the show to life. "It's not so much a question of new layers that other productions haven't discovered, but asking 'what do you think this is about,'" finding their own answers to the questions that arise.
The play's structure is "a brilliant idea," Sampliner finds, with Cathy moving from her lowest point to her highest and Jamie following the opposite trajectory. "They sing together at the middle point between the two extremes," and each song offers its individual challenges, so that, for Sampliner, it's not a question of finding the show's highpoints, as each song has its highpoints and its rewards. "In so many ways," Sampliner says, "The Last Five Years is Brown's magnum opus," the kind of musical that has musical directors "champing at the bit" for a chance to perform it.
"At the meet-and-greet when rehearsals began, everyone asks one another what they do, and I like to say 'I'm the bus driver.'" Making sure the show gets where it needs to go and that all parts of this tuneful, challenging, funny, and moving show get there in concert is not unlike the task of steering an unwieldy vehicle to its proper destination, come what may.
Meanwhile, fans of musical theater and of Jason Robert Brown—currently enjoying a hit on Broadway with The Bridges of Madison County, and likened to Stephen Sondheim in his crowd-pleasing grasp of musical theater—should be lining up to take the ride.


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