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Real GDP growth in the G7 nations accelerated to 1.7% in the last quarter of 2016, driven by the most consistent growth rates across its members than at any other time in the past 20 years. According to PwC's latest Global Economy Watch report, monetary policy (particularly in Europe), fiscal policy and emerging imports are the three key forces behind the improved G7 economic activity.
"The recent synchronised pickup in activity in the G7 is welcome and we expect it to continue at least through the first part of 2017. However, productivity growth will be crucial to the UK and the G7 continuing to prosper. It's likely to be a central theme of the World Bank-IMF Spring meeting on building a more resilient and inclusive global economy.
PwC analysis shows G7 productivity growth rates have been around two thirds slower post-crisis compared to their historic trend growth rates. The UK has seen one the biggest slowdowns, from a 2.5% per annum average growth rate from 1971-2007 to 0.1% between 2008-2016.
"A mixture of bold structural reforms targeted at both the private and public sectors is needed to help bring about faster productivity growth.
"Typically, governments take on the task to push through economy-wide reforms, by driving large public investment projects or invest more in schooling.
PwC's real GDP growth projections for 2017 are 1.8% for the G7 and 1.6% for the UK.
The G7 consists of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK.
For more details, please see this month's Global Economy Watch at www.pwc.com/GEW or contact Tilly Parke: [email protected] / 020 7804 8761.


The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of "intelligent design," who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned. The intelligent design concept holds that life is so complex that it must have been created by a higher authority.
The board removed language suggesting that key evolutionary concepts are controversial and being challenged by new research, and approved a new definition of science that limits it to the search for natural explanations of what's observed in the universe, reports CBS Radio affiliate WIBW in Topeka. The new guidelines are the fifth set of science standards for Kansas public schools in eight years.
Also approved was a new definition of science, specifically limiting it to the search for natural explanations of what is observed in the universe.
"Those standards represent mainstream scientific consensus about both what science is and what evolution is," said Jack Krebs, a math and technology teacher who helped write the new guidelines. He is also president of Kansas Citizens for Science.
John Calvert, a retired attorney who helped found the Intelligent Design Network, said under the new standards, "students will be fed an answer which may be right or wrong" about questions like the origin of life.
"Who does that model put first?" he said. "The student, or those supplying the preordained 'natural explanation'?"
There have been debates or legal battles in several other states over evolution and the intelligent design argument, but none has inspired comedians' jokes or parodies like Kansas' ongoing battle has.
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" had a four-part "Evolution Schmevolution" series in 2005, and hearings that year drew journalists from Canada, France, Britain and Japan.


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Becoming healthier the Japanese way.
Japanese Exercises to Live Longer-If someone predicted that you wouldn't survive beyond 20, would you leave it to fate or would you try and be as healthy as you can? This Japanese engineer and the teacher never believed in giving up, and this resilience led him to some inventions which could change the way of life, for good.
Here Are The Japanese Exercises To Live Longer
Japanese Exercises to Live Longer
Katsuzo Nishi- an engineer and Aikido teacher learned a lot throughout his life. He is the chief technical engineer for the first ever subway project, and apart from that, he has studied health and medicine from all over the world. He kept experimented and worked throughout to ensure that his methods could help achieve a healthy body.
According to him, health depends on four important factors that should always be in harmony:
Skin condition
The limbs status
Psychological state
The Nishi Health System was found in 1927, but all its practices are still very known today. The six laws of the system include:
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Sleeping on a hard bud and round pillow(Kochin): Curved spines create issues with the internal organs as a lot of us spend a lot of time sleeping all our lives, and the posture should be correct at all times. Katsuzo says that a hard bed with a round pillow or roll is the best for digestive organs as well as the circulatory system. If you want to switch a roller than a pillow, wrap it within a few fabric layers to start as it is difficult for people to get acquainted with it quickly. Take the fabric away as you begin to get more comfortable.
Goldfish exercise ( Kingyo Undo): Lie down on your back with hands behind the head. Keep the legs flexed and perpendicular to the floor. Swing the hips horizontally from both sides, just like a swimming fish. Repeat this at 60 seconds intervals.
Circulation Improvisation ( Mokan Undo): Lie down on a hard flat surface and place a solid roller under the 3rd and 4th vertebrae of your neck. Raise the legs and hands into the air and release all tension. Shake your legs and arms for 1-minute each.
Join the sole and palms ( Gassyo-Gasseki): Lie on a hard flat surface with the hands and feet pressed together. Slid the feet and hands in a horizontal fashion ten times in a row. After finishing, rest with the feet and hands drawn inside for 2 minutes and then repeat the movement.
Core Pendulum (Hifuku Undo): Sit down on your knees. Swing the upper half of your body, centering the hips for 10 minutes. Pump your abdomen in an inclined position and when you are upright, shrink the abdomen.
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To increase strength within the body, it is essential to incorporate these exercises into our routine. The Nishi system follows exercise, proper diet, skin and psychological state. The work shows how every body part is connected to one another and how it is essential to work on all parts ourselves to stay healthy.


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Here's How To Ace A Vegas Bachelor Party
BY SAMANTHA LEAL
As a best man, planning a memorable, not too clichéd last hurrah for the groom can be kinda tough, and it isn't easy to find good bachelor party ideas that keep everyone in the party entertained all night. That said, there's no need to mess with what's tried and true—grab the boys, grab your bags, and head to Sin City. When it comes to the best bachelor party destinations, it's tough to beat the Las Vegas Strip. Looking for excellent Vegas bachelor party ideas? We've got the perfect plan outlined. Forget those lame Las Vegas bachelor party packages: this cribsheet lays out the worthwhile ways to eat, drink, explore, and more when you're rolling deep for the weekend. Just swing by one of MedMen's various Vegas area outposts to stock up on any and all cannabis bachelor party supplies to elevate the experience, and you're good to go!
First things first: weed is legal here, which automatically makes it one of the best things to do in Vegas. We're sort of partial, but the best dispensary in Las Vegas is MedMen. With locations Downtown and on the Strip, it's the perfect place to find the best pre-rolls and edibles.
The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and if you haven't been, now's the time. In fact, to celebrate, the resort's Celebrations Team (yes, that's a thing) has curated a bunch of experiences including one specifically for a bachelor party. These include a bar crawl through the Venetians' Cocktail Collective venues, including The Dorsey, Rosina, and Electra, or a Bourbon Tasting at Yardbird, paired with a four-course meal.
Or, opt for the ARIA Resort, located on The Strip and featuring over 400 rooms. But the most important digs for bachelor party-planning purposes are definitely the Sky Suites, which offer incredible views, a Sky Suites guest-only pool, personal concierge, and more. In other words: If you can swing it, by all means, go for it
Yardbird is a must for setting yourself up for success—whether you swing by for brunch or dinner. The Miami restaurant opened up the Vegas outpost in 2015 in (conveniently) The Venetian Resort, where you can get the popular restaurant's famous Chicken 'N' Watermelon 'N' Waffles, along with other amazing Southern dishes.
STK at the The Cosmopolitan promises great steak, a bustling bar, and an in-house DJ. Basically, it's the perfect setting to kick off a great night out. (Just make sure to make a reservation—you can easily do so on OpenTable.)
Another winning feast, when your crew is skewing towards Italian? You can't go wrong with Carbone. You just can't. And seeing as how you probably won't be getting into the original NYC location anytime soon, now's a good time than ever to make a reservation.
Beer Park—a rooftop bar at the Paris Hotel—is owned by Budweiser and features more than 100 beers (36 on tap), screens tuned in to every sport imaginable, DJs on the weekends for brunch, games, and communal tables. It's a great place to relax during the day or grab one last hang (and get the hair of the dog) before hitting the airport.
Kaos just opened at the newly-renovated Palms Casino and Resort, and features a DJ residency by Marshmello. It's 100,000-square-feet, has multiple levels, and it's basically the hottest place to be in town right now if you're angling for the full-fledged Vegas club adventure.
There are plenty of pool parties happening in Vegas, but for a good time head to Marquee at The Cosmopolitan, the Encore Beach Club at Wynn Las Vegas, or Tao Beach.
Not into the scene on the Strip? Head to Commonwealth, a favorite among many and a a 6,000-square-foot bar with a rooftop. Head to Fremont to check out Corduroy, a rock-n-roll neighborhood bar that features PBR and Schlitz, along with cocktails — including one called the Stag Party.
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Grab tickets to see the Vegas Golden Knights. The NHL team plays at the T-Mobile Arena, right on The Strip — an ideal pregame of sorts. (You'll be raring to go after singing "Viva Las Vegas" a couple times, promise.)
Ready for a thrill ride? The Las Vegas Motor Speedway lets you book a number of experiences—from riding along in a NASCAR stock car or Indy car or even taking the wheel of one yourself. You can also book through Dream Racing on the Inside Road Course or Exotics Racing on the Exotics Road Course and drive a Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, Aston Martin and more. Vroom, vroom...
Or, if the groom's into cigars, try the Davidoff Cigar Bar, which features cocktails and—you guessed it—fancy cigars.
Topgolf at the MGM Grand Casino is an "entertainment destination" that has 100+ climate-controlled hitting bays, VIP cabanas, five bars, two pools, and more. Make sure to reserve with plenty of notice.
Finally, head to Fremont to see some of downtown Las Vegas, while also making your way to the SlotZilla Zipline. There, you can do a traditional-style zipline (seated) at 77 feet up in the air, suspended over the Fremont Street Experience pedestrian promenade. Or you can do it Superman-style, 114 feet above ground level. Yes, all your superhero fantasies are about to come true, one zipline and bachelor party at a time.
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Sodium Fluoride Imaging in AAAs Provides a Picture of Future Risk
The PET/CET approach seems adept at identifying which AAAs are likely to grow, rupture, or require repair, researchers say.
In patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), identifying areas of sodium fluoride uptake on PET and CT can help pinpoint which regions in the aorta are likely to grow over time and which individuals are likely to one day have clinical consequences, according to early data on a novel approach.
Specifically, the SoFIA3 trial found that patients whose aneurysms were in the highest tertile of uptake saw their aneurysms grow more than twice as quickly as those in the lowest tertile and were nearly three times more likely to experience AAA rupture or require repair.
"This is the first study to demonstrate that an imaging biomarker of disease activity can add to the risk prediction of AAA and to suggest that this approach might refine clinical decisions regarding the need for surgery and improve patient outcomes," Rachael O. Forsythe, MD (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), and colleagues report in their paper published in the February 6, 2018, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Since AAAs that grow over time are vulnerable to rupture, which can often be fatal, patients with the condition typically are tracked with ultrasound. However, as Forsythe and colleagues point out, "AAA growth is nonlinear, unpredictable, and influenced by biomechanical processes that cannot be predicted by conventional anatomic imaging alone. Indeed, aneurysms not infrequently rupture below the current threshold (55 mm in diameter) for elective repair, and many patients with aneurysms with > 70 mm never experience rupture."
To meet this clinical need, the researchers looked into a possible early-warning system: sodium fluoride uptake on PET/CT, which has been shown in carotid and coronary atherosclerotic plaques to identify early microcalcification that occurs in response to inflammation. This biological activity, they say, may indicate which AAAs are likely to cause eventual harm.
If you can get at the process before it's going to manifest in something catastrophic in the future and intervene at that stage, you can apply that to many [diseases]. I think that's a very attractive prospect. Rachael O. Forsythe
"The radiotracer we've used and the PET/CT technique is something that's been used for 40 years, so we knew it was very safe," Forsythe told TCTMD. "It's readily available in centers that can do PET/CT and can manage the tracer. So, from the technology point of view, we're already there." While not every hospital has this technology, she added, "it's becoming more widespread."
Specific to AAA, the real-world use of the approach explored in SoFIA3 requires further study, but the potential benefit to patients is large, Forsythe said. "It's a disease process with very high mortality if left untreated, and if an aneurysm ruptures, the overall mortality is up to 90% and that includes people who get operated on."
The key question, she said, about measuring sodium fluoride uptake on PET/CT is: "Is it necessary over and above what we do?" Ultrasound is cheaper and doesn't involve any radiation, Forsythe observed. "But what our study has shown is that this technique adds value to assessing aneurysms beyond ultrasound."
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For the SoFIA3 trial, which included a prospective case-control study as well as a longitudinal cohort study, participants underwent PET/CT imaging to assess fluorine-18-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) uptake as well as abdominal ultrasound, CT angiography, and calcium scoring.
In the case-control study, 20 patients with AAA were matched to 20 control subjects based on age, sex, and smoking status. Uptake of 18F-NaF was higher in the AAAs than in the normal abdominal aortas of the controls (P = 0.023). Additionally, "histology and micro-PET-CT demonstrated that 18F-NaF uptake localized to areas of aneurysm disease and active calcification," the investigators report.
The longitudinal cohort study involved 72 patients with AAA who had a mean age of 73 years and a mean baseline aneurysm diameter of 48.8 mm. Within the AAAs of those individuals, 18F-NaF uptake was higher than in nonaneurysmal regions of the same aorta (P = 0.004).
Aneurysms in the highest tertile of 18F-NaF uptake expanded more quickly than those in the lowest quartile (median of 3.10 mm vs 1.24 mm per year; P = 0.008). Higher uptake predicted aneurysm growth independent of age, sex, baseline diameter, body mass index, blood pressure, smoking, renal function, and PAD (P = 0.042).
Over a follow-up period of 510 ± 196 days, 19 patients (26.4%) underwent aneurysm repair and three (4.2%) had ruptures, all of whom did not undergo repair and died. Patients in the highest versus lowest tertiles of uptake were more likely to need repair or experience rupture (15.3% vs 5.6%; log-rank P = 0.043). Among those who had AAA events, the time to the event was shorter in those with more 18F-NaF uptake. A doubling of 18F-NaF activity in the most-diseased AAA segment was linked to a more than doubled risk of AAA rupture or repair (adjusted HR 2.49; 95% CI 1.07-5.78).
Predicting the Disease Trajectory
Predictors that capture the trajectory of AAAs are "incompletely understood," agree editorialists Parmanand Singh, MD (NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY), and Jagat Narula, MD, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York).
"Anatomic imaging alone identifies relatively later stage pathology when overt structural dilation has already developed," they write. "Beyond anatomy, emphasis on precipitating functional processes such as aneurysm disease activity requires use of molecular imaging modalities. This approach has the potential to refine diagnosis, prognosis, and guide care by distinguishing structurally stable from unstable aneurysms."
While several studies have explored a "pathogenesis-oriented imaging approach" to AAA, Singh and Narula point out, the current proof-of-concept study stands out as the "first of its kind to use a molecular radioagent targeting dynamic calcium turnover in the setting of AAA, in a relatively large number of patients." Hybrid imaging, here PET/CT, is particularly powerful as it combines the strengths of "each individual modality and affords evaluation of molecular, pathophysiologic, and anatomic data," they add.
"The future path noninvasive molecular imaging of AAA is bright," the editorialists conclude, "and continued research with prospective clinical studies to translate imaging findings is integral to the integration of these powerful imaging tools into clinical practice guidelines."
Forsythe said it's not yet known exactly what degree of sodium fluoride uptake—a stand-in for biological activity—would indicate a need to intervene on an at-risk AAA. Larger, multicenter studies and eventually randomized controlled trials might answer this question, she added.
Beyond AAA, though, the technology's usefulness might extend to other specialties, Forsythe said. "The idea of being able to identify a biological process before the clinical sequela—if you can get at the process before it's going to manifest in something catastrophic in the future and intervene at that stage—you can apply that to many [diseases]. I think that's a very attractive prospect."
Forsythe RO, Dweck MR, McBride OMB, et al. 18F–sodium fluoride uptake in abdominal aortic aneurysms: the SoFIA3 Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71:513-523.
Singh P, Narula J. Molecular characterization of high-risk aortic aneurysms: imaging beyond anatomy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71:524-526.
Forsythe, Singh, and Narula report no relevant conflicts of interest.
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600 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity
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Some 600 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity, said the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), based in Addis Ababa.
The UNECA, which unveiled on Tuesday the findings of a study entitled "Energy Prices in Africa: Transition to Clean Energy for Africa's Industrialization", added that 900 million Africans do not have access to clean cooking fuel, noting that electricity access rates in 24 countries on the continent are below 50 percent.
"There is no way Africa will progress better if we do not invest adequately in energy and ensure affordable access for all," UNECA Executive Secretary Vera Songwe said, urging countries to ensure that prices reflect costs in the energy sector.
The study "laments the fact that Africa relies mainly on fossil fuels and biomes instead of diversifying its primary energy supply, given its plethora of resources (renewable and non-renewable)".
"Households use %86 of biofuels and waste energy for cooking, while the transport sector consumes %78 of oil. Natural gas is mainly used in the industrial sector," it points out.
"Access to cheap and clean energy is an essential component of Africa's transformation and industrialization," said Oliver Chinganya, Director of the African Centre for Statistics (ACS), who moderated a seminar dedicated to the presentation of this study.
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Q: printing buffer from ReceiveFrom terminates thread I have a thread in C# that broadcasts from a UDP socket every 1 second
on a different thread, I have this
 while (true)
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  if (m_UdpReceiveSocket.Poll(0, SelectMode.SelectRead))
  {
   EndPoint ep = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, s_BroadcastPort);
   byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

   m_UdpReceiveSocket.ReceiveFrom(buffer, 0, 1024, SocketFlags.None, ref ep);

   Console.WriteLine("testing");
   Console.WriteLine( ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer) + "  " + ((IPEndPoint) ep).Address + ":" + ((IPEndPoint) ep).Port);
  }

  Thread.Sleep(1);
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If I comment out the second call to Console.WriteLine, everything works fine, the other thread broadcasts and this thread receives the information, but if I use the second Console.WriteLine (even without priting the EndPoint) then the thread quits without any exception the second time Console.WriteLine is called
thank you
problem solved, I just needed to take into consideration how much I receive before converting to string
as a side question why can't I see my packets in Wireshark ?

A: As for the sidenote. I believe my colleague had the same issue the other week. You will not see packets in Wireshark if your client is the same machine as the server.

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CoE Secretary General expresses his concern regarding the Polish media law
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The Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has written yesterday to Polish President Andrzej Duda expressing his concern regarding the legislative draft on public service broadcasting and its possible impact on the integrity and independence of public TV and radio in Poland.
The letter mentions the alert submitted to the Coe Platform for the Protection of Journalism by the European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ, IFJ) and other "prominent European journalist and freedom of expression associations" (AEJ, Article 19, CPJ, Index on Censorship, RSF).
Thorbjørn Jagland invites the Polish authorities to submit the draft law for assessment by the Council of Europe before the new act is signed, to ensure the provisions of the law are in line with the European Convention on Human Rights.
The CoE Secretary General was not the only one to react on Tuesday: the CoE Human rights commissioner Nils Muižnieks has also pleaded with Poland's President, not to sign the new media law.
"The law worryingly places public service media under direct government control by giving the latter the powers to appoint and dismiss the members of the supervisory and management boards of public service television and radio," said Muižnieks.
"These arrangements contradict Council of Europe standards which notably require that public service media remain independent of political or economic interference."
The Commissioner for Human Rights added: "Rushed through parliament last week, the law has also not benefited from the public debate which is required in a democratic society when considering such important changes in the field of media freedom."
I call on President of #Poland not to sign law on public service media governance and to uphold independence of public service TV and radio
— Nils Muiznieks (@CommissionerHR) January 5, 2016
Letter of the @coe Secretary General @TJagland to Polish President on the media law in Poland: https://t.co/d8ZzQM78ie
— CoE Media Freedom (@CoEMediaFreedom) January 6, 2016
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NCERT Solutions For Class 6 Geography Social Science Chapter 7 Our Country – India
NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Social Science Geography Chapter 7 Our Country – India contains answers to all the questions given in the exercise of the geography book. These solutions have been created on the basis of NCERT Book Guidelines. The solutions are prepared in simple language by our subject experts to help students in their exam preparation.
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Class 6 Geography (The Earth: Our Habitat) Chapter 7 Questions and Answers
Question 1: Answer the following questions briefly.
(a) Name the major physical divisions of India.
(b) India shares its land boundaries with seven countries. Name them.
(c) Which two major rivers fall into the Arabian Sea?
(d) Name the delta formed by the Ganga and the Brahmaputra.
(e) How many States and Union Territories are there in India? Which states have a common capital?
(f) Why do a large number of people live in the Northern plains?
(g) Why is Lakshadweep known as a coral island?
(a) The major physical divisions of India are:
Plateaus
(b) India shares its land boundaries with seven countries. Name them. The countries which India shares its boundaries are:
Palcistan
(c) The 2 major rivers that fall into the Arabian Sea are:
(d) The delta formed by the Ganga and the Brahmaputra is Sunderban Delta. It is the World's largest delta.
(e) There are 29 States and 7 Union Territories in India. Punjab and Haryana are the States that have a common Capital (Chandigarh). Also Telangana and Andhra Pradesh share common capital- Hyderabad- for a period of 10 years.
(f) The Northern Indian plains have been formed by the alluvial deposits laid down by rivers. These river plains provide fertile land for cultivation. This is why a large number of people live in the Northern plains.
(g) Lakshadweep is known as Coral island as this Island is made of corals. Corals are skeletons of tiny marine animals called Polyps. When the living polyps die, their skeletons are left. Other polyps grow on top of the hard skeleton which grows higher and higher, thus forming the coral islands.
Question 2: Tick the correct answers.
(a) The southernmost Himalayas are known as
(i) Shiwaliks
(ii) Himadri
(iii) Himachal
Answer: (i) Shiwaliks
(b) Sahyadris is also known as
(i) Aravali
(ii) Western Ghats
(iii) Himadri
Answer: (ii) Western Ghats
(c) The Palk Strait lies between the countries
(i) Sri Lanka and Maldives
(ii) India and Sri Lanka
(iii) India and Maldives
Answer: (ii) India and Sri Lanka
(d) The Indian islands in the Arabian Sea are known as
(i) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(ii) Lakshadweep Islands
(iii) Maldives
Answer: (ii) Lakshadweep Islands
(e) The oldest mountain range in India is the
(i) Aravali hills
(iii) Himalayas
Answer: (i) Aravali hills
Question 3: Fill in the blanks.
(a) India has an area of about ________
(b) The Greater Himalayas are also known as ________
(c) The largest state in India in terms of area is __________
(d) The river Narmada falls into the ______ Sea.
(e) The latitude that runs almost halfway through India is _______
(a) India has an area of about 3.28 million square Kilometer.
(b) The Greater Himalayas are also known as Himadri.
(c) The largest state in India in terms of area is Rajasthan.
(d) The river Narmada falls into the Arabian Sea.
(e) The latitude that runs almost halfway through India is Tropic of Cancer.


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Q: Oracle Indexes and Partitioning I'm looking to confirm if you partition the partitioning of Oracle data will also have an affect to reduce the total amount of space used for indexing.
I figured if there are more tablespaces involved, the size of the index data to address that data should be reduced, producing a reduction of the size of the index greater than the reduction on the size of the data.
However, I cannot find anything to verify that.  Right now, I don't have a partitioning license and would like to use that as a minor part of its cost justification (although performance is the biggest one).

A: The total size of partioned indexes can be smaller the size of the whole index because the indexes might have less levels in their B-Trees.
If N is the number of rows and p the number of partitions, then the consumed index space can be approximated as:
Unpartitioned: N * [log N]
Partitioned: p * N/p * [log N/p] = N * [log N/p]
[] rounds up to the nearest integer

A: An index value contains the actual value and the ROWID which is always 10 Bytes.
I don't see any reason why an index on a partitioned table might be smaller than for a normal table - unless you use Partial Indexes for Partitioned Tables


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The Gospel of Joseph (Genesis 37-50)
by Justin Marple | Apr 29, 2018 | 2018 Sermons, Genesis Commentary, OT Torah Commentary, SERMONS, TEACHING | 0 comments
The text of the sermon preached this morning at MacAlpine Presbyterian Church is below. The sermon audio is available at this link here. You may also find my commentary on Genesis 37-50 helpful, which is available here. Nevertheless, there are new observations in this sermon and even a note about something I saw when talking with one of our visitors after church. Next Sunday we will explore Acts 1:1-11, although all of Acts 1 is helpful to read ahead of time. We will finish the series on Pentecost with Acts 2. The intervening Sunday is Mother's Day, on which we will look at other passages with the theme, "Who is my mother?"
Joseph interpreting the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer, by Benjamin Cuyp, ca. 1630
After Jesus rose from the dead, the disciples went through something like an intensive seminary course on the Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus told the two disciples headed down the road of doubt and disillusionment that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory and beginning with Moses and all the Prophets He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself (Luke 24:26-27). Indeed, He taught the eleven, plus those two disciples, and the rest of the disciples gathered with them that everything written about Him in the Torah of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. Then Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures and instead of citing a proof-text Jesus said that the sum of the teaching of the Hebrew Scriptures is that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem (Luke 24:44-47). As we will see next Sunday, Acts 1 suggests that this intensive course of study would continue within 40 days before Jesus ascended into heaven. Now many Christians probably think that Jesus took the disciples through the common proof-texts about the Lord Jesus Christ like a passage from Isaiah that speaks of a virgin birth or another passage describing the suffering servant. A proof-text is a verse that you can point to and say it proves what you are teaching. In this case, a proof-text would be any verse that is clearly about Christ Jesus. I'm sure they did have a class about Isaiah. But the problem with proof-texting what Jesus says the Hebrew Scriptures teach, is that you can't find a verse in the Old Testament, for example, that says that the Christ would rise from the dead on the third day. Jesus wasn't teaching the disciples to proof-text His death and resurrection and the proclamation of the gospel of forgiveness. Instead, He was teaching them how the basic pattern or plot of these stories point us forward to Him. He was teaching them the deep structures of the Gospel. Thus while there is no proof-text that says the Christ would rise from the dead on the third day there are plenty of passages where a type of the resurrection took place on the third day. Indeed, a common theme in the stories of God's anointed one—which in Greek is the word Christ—is that the anointed one suffered before entering his glory. Jesus taught the disciples to understand these deep structures in the Scriptures so that they would understand that it was absolutely necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into His glory and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. Let's take the story of Joseph in more depth as an example. We aren't going to see everything from Genesis 37 to 50 that is about the Lord Jesus Christ, but what we will see is some of the deep structure of these stories so that you will see how it points to the Lord Jesus Christ more clearly now than maybe you've ever seen before. I invite you to turn in your Bibles or grab a pew Bible and turn to Genesis 37. We won't be reading but a few verses here and there because of the length of this story.
First, let's look at how the deep structures of the story of Joseph teach us that the Christ must suffer these things.
In Genesis 37 we hear Joseph telling his brothers two dreams that revealed how they were all going to bow down to him but this led his brothers to plot his death. Joseph went out looking for his brothers who were pasturing their flocks, and Genesis 37:18 says, "They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him." Two verses later, "Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits." It is a story of death and burial. They were jealous of their brother who would rule over them, so they plotted his death. The eldest brother Reuben actually rescued Joseph from the rest of the murderous bunch by insisting that they throw Joseph into a pit in the wilderness but that they not take his life. Reuben was planning to rescue Joseph from the pit and take him back home. But when he returned, the rest of the brothers had decided to sell Joseph off into slavery at the suggestion of Judah—the Greek form of the name being Judas—and they sold him to the slavers for twenty shekels of silver. Those slavers took Joseph to Egypt and meanwhile Reuben sacrificed a scapegoat and dipped Joseph's robe of many colors in the blood so that their father would think that he had been devoured by a wild animal. Already as we unpack the story of Joseph I hope you are picking up on the deep structure that the brother who will reign over them had to suffer these things—even undergo a type of death. Skip a chapter to Genesis 39 and we read how even in his humiliation as a slave in Egypt Joseph was successful. We have the wisdom description of Genesis 39:3, "His master saw that YHWH was with him and that YHWH caused all that he did to succeed in his hands." So even in his humiliation, Joseph was exalted over the house of his master. Then in Genesis 39:7 we read that the master's wife wanted Joseph to sin with her—I think most of you know to what I am euphemistically referring—but Joseph refused to wrong his master and to sin against God. Nevertheless, she accused him of doing it anyway. The important point for the deep structure of the story is that Joseph was arrested and thrown into prison even though he was innocent of the crime. And even in the humiliation of prison, Joseph was exalted over the prisoners because YHWH was with him. Then in Genesis 40, Joseph interprets the dreams of two of those prisoners. He tells the one that in three days Pharaoh would lift up his head and restore him to his office of the royal cupbearer. He tells the other one that in three days Pharaoh would lift up his head from him and hang him on a tree. And on the third day, there was a feast and it happened exactly as Joseph said. But the chief cupbearer forgot Joseph so Joseph continued to languish in prison. Then when Pharaoh himself had a dream that needed interpreting the cupbearer remembered (something I've said before is a resurrection word) Joseph and we read in Genesis 41:14, "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit." It is no accident that the prison is called a pit. Joseph had experienced types of death and burial and now resurrected from the pit Joseph would enter his glory.
I couldn't help but point out some of the obvious and most fundamental deep structures of this passage that show us that it was necessary for Jesus Christ to suffer these things—but let me point out a few more amazing similarities. Did you notice that Joseph experienced these things two times – once by the Hebrew people and then again by the Gentiles? It was his own brothers who plotted his death and then put him into the pit and sold him off to Gentile slavers. They were jealous of their brother who would rule over them, so they plotted His death. And again, he would be tried and wrongly convicted by the Gentiles. Likewise, the chief priests and rulers of Israel plotted to kill Jesus Christ (on account of their jealousy of Him ruling over them) and then they arrested him and handed him over to the Gentiles. And again, Jesus Christ would be tried and wrongly convicted by the Gentiles. As I mentioned earlier, it was important in the story that Joseph was innocent. It was important because Jesus was innocent. Consider also how in both stories there is a Judah or Judas who betrays the Christ for pieces of silver – twenty shekels of silver for Joseph and thirty pieces of silver for Jesus. We could also find passages that say that the Lord was with Jesus, filled him with wisdom, and gave him favor (i.e., Luke 2:40) just as we read that even in his humiliation the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success. I hope that you are getting the idea. It isn't important that all of the details match up exactly. We are looking at the deep structures of these stories and seeing how it was necessary for Jesus Christ to suffer these things and then enter His glory. (We concluded the story of Joseph's humiliation with a glimpse of resurrection – the cupbearer remembered Joseph and Pharaoh quickly brought Joseph out of the pit. But the glory of Joseph didn't end there, which brings us to the next point…)
Second, let's look at how the deep structures of the story of Joseph teach us that after suffering these things the Christ must enter His glory.
Joseph not only got out of prison—a type of the resurrection itself—but Joseph would even rise to become the most powerful man in all of Egypt with only Pharaoh's throne making Pharaoh greater than Joseph (Genesis 41:40). It was the same pattern as we saw when Joseph was a slave in Egypt. He rose to become the most powerful man in the household and the only thing that his master had withheld from him was the master's wife. It was also the same pattern as we saw when Joseph was in jail for he rose to become the most powerful man in the jail. Now again Joseph rose to become the most powerful man in all of Egypt. But not only did Joseph become the most powerful man in all of Egypt, he even would see his brothers bow down to him when they came to Egypt looking for bread during a terrible famine. Moreover, we read in Genesis 47 that when the people of Egypt ran out of money to buy food they then gave Joseph all of their livestock and then when they ran out of livestock they sold themselves and their land for food. It didn't belong to Joseph – it belonged to Pharaoh – but Joseph was in charge of it all. Only the Egyptian priests were exempt because they depended on Pharaoh for a fixed salary. Thus his earlier enslavement is now answered by his enslaving all of the people of Egypt. Nevertheless, I mention these things because it shows you the extent to which Joseph was exalted. After all, it was necessary that he suffer these things and then enter his glory – and there is a relationship between the depths of his sufferings and then the heights of his glory. (We could explore how there were two prisoners mentioned in the story and there were two prisoners crucified next to Jesus, that the one after three days would be killed and the other after three days would be delivered from death just as one of the prisoners crucified with Jesus would see Him in Paradise and the other would not and Jesus would rise on the third day, how Joseph said, "remember me" and the other prisoner crucified with Jesus said, "remember me." [Speaking with someone after church I realized too that we might note that it was the baker who died (a baker of bread) and the cupbearer who lived – an image of the Lord's Supper.])
But again it is not as if the details of the story are somehow all going to find some kind of parallel in the story of Jesus Christ – it is the deep structure of the story that does. Jesus suffered unto death, even death on a cross, and then He rose from the dead and forty days later He would ascend into heaven. Jesus Christ is Lord. The Lord is risen! All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him. And all peoples—Jews and Gentiles—will bow to Him either now willingly or later forcibly. We might say that Joseph sat at the right hand of Pharaoh and Jesus at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. In any case, the point I'm making is that the extent of Jesus' humiliation was greater than it was for Joseph. After all, Jesus actually died—not just figuratively died—before entering His glory. But not only did Jesus actually die—He was crucified. Thus the extent of Jesus' exaltation was also greater than it was for Joseph. Nevertheless, the deep structure of both stories was that it was necessary to suffer these things and then enter into their glory. (You may have expected me to end on that high note, but there is a third deep structure that I want to highlight in the story of Joseph.)
Third, the deep structures of the story of Joseph teach us that repentance and forgiveness of sins must be proclaimed in the name of Jesus to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.
Interwoven in this story about Joseph is the theme of repentance and forgiveness of sins. Before we come to the heart of the matter, let me note that the first chapter that we skipped over today was Genesis 38 – the story of Judah and Tamar. I don't want to get distracted by the details of the story because then you might miss the deep structure point that I am trying to note here. But in any case, Judah slept with someone who he assumed was a prostitute and we see the first hints of his repentance when he admitted that she was more righteous than he was. Judah openly confessed that he was a sinner. But we haven't reached the climax of this deep structure yet. One thing I should probably note about the story of Joseph is that it is a chiasm—the beginning and ending answer each other, the second thing that happens in the story is answered by the second to last thing in the story and so forth until you reach the center of the passage. The center is Genesis 44-45. And it is in those chapters that we see a fully changed Judah. Whereas back in Genesis 37 Judah sold his half brother Joseph off into slavery for twenty shekels of silver, in Genesis 44 Judah would put himself into harm's way for Benjamin. While I won't get into all of the details of the story it is important to know that the eleven brothers did not recognize Joseph and Joseph devised a test where he planted something on his only full brother—the youngest of the twelve brothers—Benjamin. But the test revealed that Judah was a changed man. Judah willingly stepped up and offered himself in Benjamin's place. In the second half of this climax of the story the eleven brothers recognized Joseph and Joseph forgave their sins. He said, "And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life" (Gen 45:5). And later in the chapter we see Joseph kissed all of his brothers and wept upon them and after that his brothers talked with him. It is a story of repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. Then in the conclusion of the whole story in Genesis 50, we read, "When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, 'It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.' So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, 'Your father gave this command before he died: 'Say to Joseph, 'Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.' Joseph wept when they spoke to him. His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, 'Behold, we are your servants." But Joseph said to them, 'Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.' Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them" (Gen 50:15-21). In any case, the deep structure of this story is one where people of all nations were saved from starvation and forgiveness of sins began with the brothers of Israel. (Perhaps the most shocking thing about the story of Joseph is that it begins with the brothers sinning against Joseph and it ends with their complete forgiveness and the climax—the center—of the passage is not a type of Joseph's resurrection like the way that God remembered Noah was at the climax and center of the flood story—but instead the climax and center of the story of Joseph is two scenes showing repentance and forgiveness of sins.)
It isn't as if you will find a proof-text that says that when the Christ enters his glory then repentance and forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem, but we do find that the deep structure of the story of Joseph points us to how the proclamation of repentance and forgiveness of sins in the Lord Jesus Christ's name would be made to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. We aren't trying to make all of the details fit even though it is interesting that Jerusalem is a border city between the tribe of Benjamin and the tribe of Judah. The city is technically a part of the tribe of Benjamin but we know it became heavily identified with King David of the tribe of Judah when he made Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Yet the point is that the deep structures of the stories are the same. Both are stories of salvation for all nations and in both repentance and forgiveness of sins are proclaimed first to the brothers of Israel. Of course, we haven't exhausted this topic in the story of Joseph – but I think that we now can see it clearly enough that you can see even more as you continue to study this story and others. Don't be discouraged that you may not have noticed all these things before. I don't remember noticing some of these things before myself until studying these chapters for this sermon and many of the rest of the things I didn't see until others pointed them out to me. But such is the study of Scripture. The apostles had read these stories hundreds of times and yet until Jesus opened their minds to understand these stories the apostles had never before seen the deep structures of the stories that reveal that it was necessary that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem. This is the message that you can share with the world. After all, it is in this third point that we Gentiles far from Jerusalem enter the story of salvation. Thanks be to God. Amen.
Book Ten, Genesis 37:2-50:26
Book Three, Genesis 6:9-9:29
Sex and Marriage in Genesis
Book Eight, Genesis 25:19-35:29


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St. Lucia at The Observatory North Park
April 16, 2015 Concert ReviewsFeaturedPhotosReviews
St. Lucia graced San Diego with their presence this past Monday night during #NoChella week at The Observatory North Park.
The show was an all ages, speckled both young and old, but this also meant that I was standing next to a 4-year-old wearing giant headphones, presumably to stop the destruction of her innocent eardrums. No lie.
RAC (originally Remix Artist Collective) opened the show, leading the torch for all future Kidz Bop CDs to come. Formed by André Allen Anjos since 2007, RAC is a solo indie-electronic project, remixing and reinventing the wheel of various rock, electronica and dance songs. They played their most popular tracks, "Cheap Sunglasses", "Let Go", "Hollywood" and "Say My Name (Odesza Remix)" yet… the crowd was swaying in an appathetic trance. RAC's stage presence was poppin', but unfortunately, the connection with the audience was not. The crowd wasn't into it —unless you were 16 and under. The 21+ members stayed back by the bars.
St. Lucia took the stage like veterans, oozing prolific energy and vibrance. They are based from Brooklyn, NY and are the solo project from Jean-Philip Grobler, a South African native. Accompanying him onstage were his bandmates and wife / keyboardist, Patti Beranek. "The Night Comes Again" came first, with "Closer Than This", "Wait For Love, "We Got It Wrong", and "All Eyes On You" following closely.
Jean-Philip took a moment to thank the crowd for being there. He said they had just played Coachella on the main stage and were overwhelmed by the audience, so it was nice to feel so intimate with a crowd, rather than a sea of faces in the distance, and began to play an unreleased track called, "Love Someone". Everyone grooving in a dreamlike state to the inspiring and heavy bass tune, snapping their fingers to the beat.
After the second half of their set, the band waved goodbye and started to exit, but the crowd wasn't having it. They slowly began to chant, "Don't go, don't go away" (a line from one of their popular songs, "We Got It Wrong"). After a solid minute of begging, the band reappeared and raised hell, playing crowd favorites: "Before The Dive", "September" and "Elevate".
If I could translate the night into digestible phrases, it would follow the crowd's chant, in addition with: "Jean-Philip and Patti, you guys have the best couple outfits on."
Photos By: Summer Luu
Review By: Kayli Stix
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Plug-in Hybrid technology looks to becoming closer to commercialization. Customized PT Cruisers with lithium-ion batteries can travel up to 150 miles on batteries alone, according to Hybrid Technologies.
The vehicles will be used by Paratransit to transport the elderly and disabled in Sacramento. I'm surprised that a non-profit organization would have the funds to purchase this cutting-edge technology, so perhaps a special state grant was involved.
So once we get to vehicles that can travel up to 300 miles, plug-in hybrids could become more cost competitive by either moving to a much smaller ICE and gas tank or going to pure electric and adding additional electric motors (although this may also require ultracapacitors to get the power on par with petroleum cars).


E-mails consist of more than just words. To send or receive a file with your e-mail, you send or receive an attachment. An attachment is a file that piggybacks onto an e-mail message.
Windows Mail lets you send files any of several ways. Start by composing a new message. But before clicking the Send button, drag and drop your file inside the message. Windows Mail tacks on the file, listing its name in the new Attach line beneath the mail's subject line, as shown in the following figure.
Use the Attach line to attach your file.
You can also right-click a file, choose Send To from the pop-up menu, and select Mail Recipient. Windows Mail opens a new e-mail for you with that file attached, waiting for you to choose a recipient.
Added a file you want to remove? Right-click its name and choose Remove.
You can e-mail just about any file, the only exception being size: E-mails larger than about 5MB tend to stick in the Internet's pipes rather than fly off to their recipient. To check a file's size, right-click its name or icon and choose Properties: The file's size appears among the fine print on the General tab.
Because digital files often surpass the 5MB limit, especially when you try to attach more than one, Windows Mail can help out by shrinking the photos. The photos still fit on your recipient's screen nicely, but they consume much less file space.
E-mail makes it easy to send files to friends around the world. They're so easy to send, in fact, that virus writers quickly picked up on the trend, creating viruses that spread themselves by mailing a copy of themselves to everybody in the recipient's address book. Never open an e-mail attachment that comes from someone you don't know.


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MASCOT RECORDS AND NINE SHRINES ANNOUNCE APRIL 26 GLOBAL RELEASE DATE FOR DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM RETRIBUTION THERAPY
Mascot Records and Nine Shrines have announced an April 26 global release date for the band's debut studio album RETRIBUTION THERAPY. Nine Shrines blend the most extreme elements of active-rock/metal-core with well-crafted, melodic songwriting. 2017's debut Misery EP (Mascot) with the single/video "King of Mercy" surpassed one million Spotify streams, while SiriusXM Octane kept the song in rotation for six weeks just because they liked it. Sharing the stage with Volbeat, Halestorm, Chimaira, Shinedown, All That Remains, and Nonpoint made waves nationwide, while building anticipcation for this debut across the globe.
This Cleveland quintet arose on the scene in 2014 from the ashes of aggressive 00's Ohio band pedigree: drummer Andrew Wetzel (Attack Attack!), bassist Devon Voisine and lead guitarist Andrew Baylis, (Life on Repeat), rhythm guitarist Even McKeever (Downplay), and singer Chris Parketny (Strangers to Wolves). Nine Shrines grew from their previous efforts to build something powerful: "My first band got put through the meat-grinder," Andrew admits. "It all went to hell, and I'd just turned 21. Everyone in this band had similar experiences. It's a huge learning curve. It wears on you, but you never know how things are gonna go. There's no way to know that in advance. With this band, there's a real sense of unity."
Nine Shrines approach their craft full-force and cut no corners. "Look at all the great bands from the late 90s early 00s era," Andrew offers. "Like Powerman 5000, everything about them was cool: the look, the sound, and the performance were all unique. We do our personal best to push the boundaries."
Retribution Therapy was produced by Dan Korneff (My Chemical Romance, I Prevail, Pierce The Veil, All that Remains, Papa Roach). The first single "Nimrod" features a ghoulish voodoo-doll-themed video directed by Scott Hansen (Sevendust, Motionless In White, A Day To Remember). Andrew enthuses over the final product: "Working with Dan was a best-case scenario. He cares as much or more than any of us. He's the "X factor" and he's behind us 110%. His level of excitement was so inspiring. He's so emotionally invested — everything we did, he wanted to make it more intense."
"He is all about not settling for just any sound or process that wasn't the very best we can possibly do. Unless the performance was incredible, he was not happy. Dan creates much of his own one-of-a-kind gear, like limiters and compressors, and soldering circuit-boards, to get that sound. He's a huge drum guy, and I think it shows — the mix was incredible."
2019 may be the year of Nine Shrines. The pent-up ferocity exorcized on Retribution Therapy feels ready to explode: "Writing these songs have been just as much therapy as it is an outlet for the kids listening," Chris concedes. "We approach these songs with a real sense of catharsis. This is a huge outlet for us to vent. Like onstage, something overtakes you."
"This is the only thing I wanna do and can do," Andrew concludes. "Our whole career, everything we've been doing for the last five years, has been building to this record. This is the best thing I've done musically in my life — literally everything has built up to this point. We wanna infect you, and we want you to celebrate the work we've done. I'm over the moon to get this motherfucker out."
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