Laissez le poids des siècles et de l'histoire derrière vous et savourez cette expérience de la vie en mer Égée en suivant le chemin parcouru par les navigateurs d'antan. Commencez avec Athènes et son mélange dynamique d'antiquité et de modernité. Poursuivez avec les îles grecques et leur charme exquis. Ensuite, traversez la mer Rouge et la mer d'Arabie. Les journées en mer seront le moment idéal pour laisser aller ses pensées après avoir visité Petra et la Terre Sainte.
Spilling down from the pine-covered heights of Mt. Carmel, Haifa is a city with a vertiginous setting that has led to comparisons with San Francisco. The most striking landmark on the mountainside is the gleaming golden dome of the Baha'i Shrine, set amid utterly beautiful garden terraces. The city is the world center for the Baha'i faith, and its members provide informative walking tours of the flower-edged 100-acre spot, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. At the top of the hill you'll find some small but interesting museums, the larger hotels, and two major universities. At the bottom is the lovingly restored German Colony, a perfect area for strolling. Israel's largest port and third-largest city, Haifa was ruled for four centuries by the Ottomans and gradually spread its tendrils up the mountainside into a cosmopolitan city whose port served the entire Middle East. The climate is gentle, the beaches beautiful, and the locals friendly. Lire plus You won't see the religious garb of Jerusalem or the tattoos and piercings of Tel Aviv in this diverse but fairly conservative city. In fact, you can't always tell at a glance who is part of an Arab or Jewish Israeli family, or if someone is a more recent immigrant from the former Soviet Union. Israel's "city on the hill" is divided into three main levels, each crisscrossed by parks and gardens: the port down below; Hadar, a commercial area in the middle; and Merkaz Carmel (known as "the Merkaz"), with the posher hotels and many restaurants, on the crest of Mt. Carmel. Thanks to the beneficence of the Baha'is, you can enjoy a walking tour that takes you through the stunning terraces that lie like multicolored jewels from the crest of the city at Mt. Carmel to the German Colony below.
The port and town of Sharm-el-Sheikh lies near the southernmost tip of the Sinai Peninsula where the Straits of Tiran meet the Gulf of Aqaba. With its strategic position, the Sinai posed a desirable target for various rulers over the centuries. In recent times, the last battle for the Sinai was fought between Egypt and Israel from 1967 to 1979, ending with a peace treaty signed in Washington, D.C. Since the withdrawal of the Israelis, more and more Egyptians have settled in the Sinai, taking advantage of the booming tourist trade. However, vast interior regions are still sparsely populated. Many Bedouins have been affected by the advent of the 21st century, which is rapidly changing their age-old customs and nomadic lifestyle. As tourism and hotel projects continue to spring up along the Sinai coast, contact with Bedouins not involved in tourism is becoming increasingly rare. Lire plus Once their nomadic life kept them on the move with their tents; today many Bedouins cultivate grain, vegetables and dates in addition to catering to the tourists. Sharm-el-Sheikh was initially developed by the Israelis during the Sinai occupation. Na'ama Bay, a short drive from the port, has grown from virtually nothing into a sizeable resort since the early 1980s. Between the two towns, a string of hotels line a once-untouched coastline. Resort hotels offer great opportunities for swimming, snorkelling and scuba diving. Glass bottom boat trips are available for those preferring to view the exotic marine life of the Red Sea without getting their feet wet.
Oman's capital city is hemmed in on one side by spectacular jagged-peaked mountains and on the other by royal blue sea. The architecture is a traditional, sophisticated arabesque blend of white-washed, low-rise buildings surrounded by manicured palms, intricately designed domes set atop the minarets of the mosques, sand-colored villas, a surprising blend of modern art installations, like a giant incense burner that towers over the Corniche, and ancient forts set in the rocky hills. Though tradition abounds, from distinct, local cuisine to the widely worn national dress, the dishdasha, Muscat is a completely modern city, featuring opulent luxury hotels, international restaurants, excellent cellular and data service, sprawling shopping malls, pristine beaches, lively nightlife, world-class performing arts, and a highly educated population, most of whom speak English, Arabic, and often Hindi. Lire plus Muscat is the ideal base for exploring other areas of the country since many of the most desirable destinations are within a few hours' drive.
Dubai sits on a golden sandy coastline in the Arabian Gulf, where the warm azure waves of the sea meet the desert. A high-rise oasis, this city is a pleasure-dome surrounded by dunes; one of the most fashionable on the planet thanks to its ability to satisfy the needs of legions of demanding vacationers. Dubai is about having fun—and it's one big adult playground. Nature plays her part here, with year-round sunshine, gorgeous beaches, dramatic arid landscapes, and warm waters, but it's the man-made attractions that make Dubai so alluring. You can launch yourself into high-adrenaline desert adventures, diving and water sports, and some of the world's best golf courses. The 5-, 6-, and 7-star hotels offer the ultimate in luxury, and the party scene is hot. Shopping malls are the biggest in the world and are packed full of high-class merchandise. Lire plus And with hundreds of restaurants with cuisine from around the world, you can munch your way from Mexico to Malaysia. Dubai is an Arab country with a long history as a trading port. Traces of its traditional life, customs, and architecture can still be seen and explored, but today and tomorrow are much more important than yesterday. Almost every building in this metropolis is less than 20 years old and the most dramatic developments—groundbreaking megaprojects—have just been completed or are still under construction. The city is certainly unique. Islam is its anchor, but it has opened its doors to the rest of the world and has invited them in to work, rest, and play, which creates a truly international atmosphere. Unashamedly modern and materialistic, life here takes place at breakneck speed. The landscape is stark, the confidence is sky high, the can-do spirit is palpable, and the blingis in your face. Dubai produces strong reactions in people, but one thing is certain—love it or loathe it—you will not forget it. It is without a doubt, one of the world's true must-see destinations. Shisha: Smoke Without Fire. Emirati men love socializing, but as they don't drink alcohol they get together over coffee and shisha instead of a drink at the bar after work. The shisha, or hookah, is a smoking device, usually made of glass, that filters smoke through water before it reaches the smoker's mouth. Shisha tobaccos are aromatic and are often mixed with apple, cinnamon, or cherry, so their taste isn't as strong as other tobaccos. Smoking shisha is said to induce relaxation—but you'll have to decide if it's for you! Several distinct zones and quarters, each with its own purpose and atmosphere, make up the city of Dubai. The older districts around the mouth of Dubai Creek—Deira, Al-Rigga, and Bur Dubai—have developed over the last 150 years into a maze of narrow streets and alleyways that are often choked with traffic. However, the museums and attractions here are clustered close together, making this area the most walkable in the city. You'll need to cross the creek on the abra (boat) service, about seven or eight minutes long, to get from one bank to the other. To venture beyond this downtown core you'll need to take transportation. If you have time, buses are very cheap, new, and air-conditioned, and their routes pass by many major attractions. However, taxis are efficient, inexpensive, and metered, making them a more flexible option if you're only in Dubai for a short time and every minute counts. Sheikh Zayed Road is the multilane road that links old Dubai with the newer Dubai districts to the south—about 15 mi to the southernmost communities. It runs 3 mi inland from the ocean and parallel with the coastline. Every well-marked intersection off Sheikh Zayed Road leads to a different district—including Dubai Marina, Emirates Hills, and Knowledge City—as well as that area's major attractions. This road is the thoroughfare for most of the traffic traveling north and south, so it's always busy. By taxi, the trip from Deira to Dubai Marina takes about 45 minutes. Dubai doesn't use building numbers in its street addresses. People navigate by referencing major hotels, roads, intersections, or other well-known landmarks. Taxi drivers know how to reach all the main attractions, but if you're looking for something off the beaten path—say, a particular specialty store—find out which hotel, mall, or other geographical marker is close to your destination. Direct your driver to that location, so he knows the general area to which you want to go.


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Part One of Three
excerpted from Today's Research on Aging No. 37: Health and Working Past Traditional Retirement Ages
By 2030, when the last of the large baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1964) has reached their mid-60s, more than 21 percent of the U.S. population is projected to be age 65 or older—up from about 15 percent in 2016.
The greying of America increases the costs of public programs for older adults and shifts the balance between working people supporting those programs and retirees receiving benefits. The old-age support ratio—the number of working-age adults ages 18 to 64 for every adult age 65 or older—is on course to shrink dramatically from 4.1 in 2016 to 2.8 by 2030. To relieve this fiscal pressure, policymakers continue to discuss new financial incentives to encourage people to postpone retirement, such as further raising the eligibility age for Social Security (currently age 67 for those born after 1960) and Medicare (now age 65).
Working longer can reduce public spending and enable some older workers to enter retirement with more financial security. Estimates based on past health trends suggest that most U.S. older adults can work an extra two years before retiring.1 But a growing body of research suggests that baby boomers in their 50s and 60s are in poorer health—with more chronic disease and disability—than earlier generations at the same ages, potentially affecting their capacity to work longer.
Evidence of Worsening Health
Older adults ages 51 to 61 had a higher prevalence of six out of eight chronic conditions—including 37 percent higher diabetes prevalence—in 2004-2010 than their peers in 1992-1998, a 2016 study finds.2 Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez of the University of California-Los Angeles, Marsha Jiménez of Brown University, and S.V. Subramanian of Harvard University analyzed self-reported chronic disease in the 1990s and 2000s using data from the nationally representative U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Based on their findings, they argue that older adults nearing traditional retirement ages appear more burdened by health conditions than several decades ago.
In another recent study, a University of Southern California research team finds Americans are living longer with more disability. Eileen Crimmins, Yuan Zhang, and Yasuhiko Saito examined life expectancy trends and disability rates in the 40-year period from 1970 to 2010.3 They show that the average total lifespan increased for both men and women, but so did the proportion of time spent living with a disability. For people ages 65 and older, they identify a "compression of morbidity"—that is, a reduction in the proportion of life spent with disability. However, people in their prime working years (ages 20 to 64) experienced increases in the proportion of life spent with a disability. The researchers argue that there is "little evidence" of improvements in health "that would support increasing the age at retirement."
In addition, a 2012 study that synthesized the results of five nationally representative surveys finds increasing disability among those ages 55 to 64 between 2000 and 2008 (a group that included the oldest baby boomers).4 During the same period, disability levels continued to decline among the oldest Americans (ages 85 and older) and held steady among those ages 65 to 84.
Linda Martin of the RAND Corporation, and Robert Schoeni of the University of Michigan also document rising disability levels between 1997 and 2010 among middle-age and older Americans (ages 40 to 64).5 Their analysis, based on the nationally representative National Health Interview Survey data, identifies a link between increasing obesity and rising disability.
Martin and Schoeni take this line of research further, teaming up with HwaJung Choi of the University of Michigan for a 2016 study focusing on 55-to-69-year-olds using HRS data for 1998 to 2010.6 They find no improvement in levels of physical functioning and activity limitations during the period, and some evidence of worsening. They show that obese individuals face a greater likelihood of having physical limitations. Although baby boomers are less likely to smoke, have emphysema, or have heart attacks, they are more likely to be obese or have diabetes or high blood pressure than the previous generation at similar ages, they report.
Obesity is a risk factor for a variety of chronic conditions; it may also increase the likelihood of early retirement due to disability. Using HRS data, Francesco Renna and Nidhi Thakur of the University of Akron find that men and women under age 65 who were obese in 1992 were more likely to have a disability and retire early by 2002.7
"Obesity can largely impact labor market decisions directly through impairment of bodily functions and indirectly by being a risk factor for various diseases like hypertension, arthritis, etc.," they write. About two in five Americans (43 percent) in their 40s and 50s were obese in 2015-2016, and thus face an increased risk of retiring early because of a disability or poor health.8
Examining Health Trends by Generation
In a 2017 study, Choi and Schoeni examined trends in both physical limitations and cognitive impairment to compare the health of adults nearing retirement by generation.9 They find that adults in their late 50s today are in poorer health than their parents' generation was at the same age, even though the younger group will have to work longer to collect full Social Security benefits.
For this study, they used HRS and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data and divided older Americans into five groups based on the age at which they are eligible to collect full Social Security retirement benefits: those born in 1937 or earlier (age 65); those born 1938 to 1942 (between ages 65 and 66); those born 1943 to 1954 (age 66); those born 1955 to 1959 (between ages 66 and 67), and those born in 1960 to 1962 (age 67).
They find that the younger groups had higher shares of people who had at least one limitation on their ability to perform a basic daily living task by themselves, such walking across a room, dressing, bathing, eating, and transferring into or out of bed (see figure).
Also, they find that those born later tended to have higher rates of poor cognition, such as impaired memory and thinking ability, in their 50s compared with earlier generations at a similar age. Also, at age 50, people in the youngest group (born 1960 to 1962) were more likely to rate their own health as "fair" or "poor" than were people in the middle-three age groups when they were the same age, they report.
The researchers suggest that the increase of workers in their 50s and 60s who are in poor health will create significant challenges for them and their employers, including more people applying for Social Security disability payments. "Given the recent changes in health among the cohorts now approaching typical retirement age, further increases in the normal retirement age would place a substantial and disproportionate burden on these cohorts," they argue.
The health of Americans in their 50s and early 60s today will shape labor force participation rates among the older population in the future. Understanding and monitoring these trends will be key as policymakers consider incentives to work longer and plan for future increases in the cost of public programs for older people.
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Courtney Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David Wise, "Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages: Evidence From the United States," in Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, ed., David Wise (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Marsha Jiménez, and S.V. Subramanian, "Assessing Morbidity Compression in Two Cohorts From the Health and Retirement Study," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 70, no. 10 (2016): 1011-66.
Eileen Crimmins, Yuan Zhang, and Yasuhiko Saito, "Trends Over Four Decades in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the United States," American Journal of Public Health 106, no. 7 (2016): 1287-93.
Vicki Freedman et al., "Trends in Late-Life Activity Limitations in the United States: An Update From Five National Surveys," Demography 49, no. 4 (2012).
Linda G. Martin and Robert F. Schoeni, "Trends in Disability and Related Chronic Conditions Among the Forty-and-Over Population: 1997-2010," Disability and Health Journal 7, no. 1 (2014): S4-14.
HwaJung Choi, Robert Schoeni, and Linda G. Martin, "Are Functional and Activity Limitations Becoming More Prevalent among 55 to 69-Year-Olds in the United States?" PLoS One 11, no. 10 (2016): e0164565.
Francesco Renna and Nidhi Thakur, "Direct and Indirect Effects of Obesity on U.S. Labor Market Outcomes of Older Working Age Adults," Social Science & Medicine 71, no. 2 (2010): 405-13.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), "Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2015-2016" NCHS Data Brief, no. 288 (Oct. 2017).
HwaJung Choi and Robert Schoeni, "Health of Americans Who Must Work Longer to Reach Social Security Retirement Age," Health Affairs 36, no. 10 (2017): DOI 10.1377.
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War Stories: Ridge woman compiles Long Island veterans' memories
Mary Ann Fox of Ridge recently completed a 112-page book with the stories and photographs of 63 veterans in her community who served in the military between World War II and the Vietnam War. (Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.)
By Martin C. Evans martin.evans@newsday.com @martincevans May 23, 2019 7:00 PM
Last year, during a Memorial Day commemoration at a retirement community in Suffolk County, the commander of an American Legion post looked over the audience and delivered a wistful admonition.
Get to know the stories of friends and neighbors who served in World War II and the Korea and even Vietnam wars, he urged, because not all of them — mostly in their 80s and beyond — would be around when Memorial Day next rolled around.
Mary Ann Fox, who was in the audience, recalled casting her eyes about the room, scanning the faces of neighbors she had known for years and wondering about the stories they carried inside them.
Thomas Devine, left, Thomas Stuminski, center, and Marcus Martone at the April ceremony during which Mary Ann Fox's book, "Proudly We Served," was unveiled. Fox had 150 copies made, giving away most to veterans and some to area libraries. Credit: Newsday/Martin C. Evans
"He said we should appreciate them now because they are all moving on," Fox said. "At some point they all won't be here, and no one will know who they were, or the lives they lived."
And with that, she decided to try to collect as many of those stories as possible.
Her first interview was 11 days later, when she appeared at the door of Carl Schmidt, now 95, a quiet man who told her of his service aboard a Navy ship during the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in World War II.
Last month, with weeks to spare before her self-imposed one-year deadline, Fox completed a 112-page book containing his story and those of 62 others of her neighbors at Leisure Glen — a retirement community in Ridge — who served in the military between World War II and the Vietnam War. She had 150 copies of the book made; most have been given to the men she interviewed, a few have gone to local libraries.
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She distributed copies of her self-published book — a flag-adorned volume titled "Proudly We Served" — at an April 28 ceremony honoring the 63 veterans she interviewed. Two weeks ago, she shared her work during a presentation on veterans at the Albert G. Prodell Middle School in Ridge.
In ways, Fox's book is a reflection of the relatively large number of former military personnel — more than half them in their mid-60s or older — who live on Long Island. Suffolk County is home to more veterans — an estimated 60,000 — than any other New York county, according to census estimates; Nassau adds 42,600 more veterans. Ridge alone has more than 1,000 veterans among its 10,700 residents. Leisure Glen is believed to have more than 100 veterans living in its 646 households.
Self-imposed deadline
Thomas Devine, 92, said three of his relatives were also in uniform while he was a Navy radio operator aboard the USS Dade troop transport ship during the U.S. invasion of Okinawa. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Fox said her project was a simple one.
She would use her contacts in the community to get in touch with as many veterans as possible. She would collect their stories and publish them for posterity. She would do it within a year, in the hope that those who shared their memories with her would still be around when her work was done.
She began soliciting potential interviewees almost immediately, circulating a questionnaire among Leisure Glen's roughly 1,000 residents the day after last year's Memorial Day commemoration.
And to everyone who indicated they were willing, she would show up at their door armed with a pen and a yellow legal pad. She would scribble shared memories in longhand, then dash home to her kitchen table, where she transcribed her notes into a laptop computer.
Mary Ann Fox, left, shares her book, which the memories of Suffolk County veterans, with Joe Jareck, center rear, Tom Devine, right, and John Grady, seated. "It's 50 years since I came home, and this is the first time someone has tried to do this," Jareck said. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
"I really didn't know how this would go," she said. "I figured I'd see how many veterans I could reach, and who would want to talk to me and share their experiences."
"It was slow go at first, but suddenly word of mouth spread, and I was interviewing veterans almost weekly. What I thought would be relatively short interviews turned out into three-, four- and even five-hour interviews."
Stumped by military jargon, and minimally familiar with World War II, Fox recruited John Grady, a 93-year-old World War II veteran who lives a few streets over from hers, to do proofreading and fact-checking.
"She took a germ of an idea and, with patience and determination, it turned into this," Grady said of Fox, an energetic woman who for 22 years operated a Lake Grove travel agency that she founded in 1986. "And she did it while our voices are still here."
Andy Estrema, a Korean War veteran, with author Mary Ann Fox in April. Fox said her interview with Andy Estrema, 90, a former Marine Corps sergeant who was nearly killed during the Korean War's Battle of Chosin Reservoir, left her in tears. Credit: Newsday/Martin C. Evans
Walter Tracy, the commander of the American Legion post at Leisure Glen whose warning of the passing of older veterans helped inspire Fox's book, agreed. "It's nice that they are all being given this attention," he said.
Heroic depictions of soldiers in battle have been the stuff of movies, graphic novels, epic tales and historical literature beginning with Herodotus, whose description of the Greco-Persian Wars 2,500 years ago earned him recognition as the world's first historian.
But the men and women who come home from the battlefield often say little of their military service, usually in an effort to put behind them war's traumatic memories — the image of a wounded soldier stranded beyond reach in a kill zone, the desperate pounding of drowning sailors trapped in the hull of a capsized ship, the sobbing of a Marine facing amputation in a field hospital.
Such haunting memories can leave veterans reticent to tell friends, neighbors or even family members about their military service.
That certainly was true of Joseph Jareck, who lives near Fox at Leisure Glen. Jareck said he owes his promotion to Army sergeant during his 1965-67 Vietnam War service in part to the number of higher-ranking soldiers killed then.
He said after coming home from war, he had no stomach for talking about its traumatizing details. Instead, he buried his wartime memories beneath the task of building a career in the international textile business and raising a family. He said he mostly limited his conversations about his battlefield experiences to light stories about absurdities of military service.
Jareck, 73, told Newsday the most troubling memory he took home from Vietnam was that of a fellow soldier who had mistakenly pulled the pin from a hand grenade still clipped to his vest. Unable to free himself from the grenade, he doubled over to absorb the blast, hoping to spare others from the mistake that took his life.
"I don't like to live that past," he said grimly. "They are not good memories. Why would you want to put that burden on your children or your family?"
Those who did share memories often remain pained by them.
Thomas Devine, 92, said three of his relatives were also in uniform while he was a Navy radio operator aboard the USS Dade troop transport ship during the U.S. invasion of Okinawa. Of them, he was only sure of the whereabouts of his sister Alice Devine, who was serving in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), a Navy division created during World War II to free male personnel for sea duty.
But he worried about the safety of his father, who was serving on a Navy destroyer off the coasts of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy and who a generation earlier had served in World War I. During Devine's time at sea, he knew nothing of the fate of his brother, who had been drafted into Army in 1942.
He once confided to his wife, Irene, that it bothered him that he never knew what had become of the Marines — some of them still teenagers — that he put ashore at Okinawa. More than 12,000 American GIs never made it home from that six-week invasion of Japan's southernmost main island.
"It bothers him, because they were such beautiful young boys who he ate with, slept with, gambled with, and never saw again," she said. "He often wondered what happened to them, and how many of them survived."
Fox said her interview with Andy Estrema, 90, a former Marine Corps sergeant who was nearly killed during the Korean War's Battle of Chosin Reservoir, left her in tears.
Estrema, then 21 and stationed in Hawaii, was newly engaged and nearing the end of his enlistment during the spring of 1950.
But when Chinese soldiers poured over the border between North Korea and South Korea that June, Estrema put his marriage on hold and headed across the Pacific, still confident he would be home by Christmas.
His plans were shattered the week after Thanksgiving Day.
His unit — Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment — had set up a machine-gun post on a snow-covered hill in temperatures that had fallen below minus-30 degrees. He had taken off his boots in hopes of warming his feet in his sleeping bag. All was quiet at the Chosin Reservoir.
"Then suddenly, all hell broke loose," Estrema told Fox during an interview at his home that was transcribed for the book. He saw a fellow soldier shot in the head. Moments later, amid cold so brutally intense Estrema would later have toes amputated because of frostbite, he was shot.
"I realized it was serious," Estrema told Fox. "I felt the warm blood pouring from my wounds filling my trousers. It actually felt good to have this warm blood pouring down my back, down my backside to form a puddle in my crotch area."
Fox said at this point in her interview, she excused herself, retreated to a bathroom and wept.
Telling important stories
Fox took on the project despite having no close relatives who served in the military. Her father never joined the service. Nor did her late husband, George "Buddy" Fox, who taught physical education at Centereach High School, where their two children attended. Neither did their two children, who took up careers in business.
Fox said the only military relative she knows of was her uncle Edward Karpinski, who served in the Marines during World War II and who lived in Glen Cove until he died in the 1980s.
She said she knows so little of his military service; she never knew his rank or where he served.
"Back then, nobody talked about it," she said.
"That's one reason I knew other people wanted to know their family's history in military service," she said. "Because I didn't know enough about mine."
Jareck said his interviews with Fox did not include details of the horrors he encountered in Vietnam. But he was one of several interviewees who said they were honored that Fox took the time to learn a little bit about their military service.
"It's 50 years since I came home, and this is the first time someone has tried to do this," Jareck said. "You need someone as persistent as Mary Ann Fox was to get this off the ground," he said of her collection of biographies. "It went farther than I thought it would. And it's nice to be thanked after all these years."
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date:   2019-07-07
title: "Writing Micro Service in Scala"
categories:
    - Tutorials
excerpt: How to create HTTP REST end-points for use in a microservice application using the Scala language and Hexagonal Architecture.
tags:
    - Scala
    - Micro-Services
    - Hexagonal Architecture
    - Finagle
    - Docker
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# Overview

This article was also published on the site: [https://dzone.com/articles/a-small-micro-service-developed-in-scala-using-hex](https://dzone.com/articles/a-small-micro-service-developed-in-scala-using-hex).

**Scala** is a language that I have been using extensively in my work, but with the focus on Big Data using Spark for data processing.

Scala was in my playlist of languages that I wanted to delve into a bit more and not only experiments for the area of Big Data
using Spark, but to write a micro service using http and rest for studies.

The idea is to apply the concept of **Hexagonal Architecture** (ports and adapters). My micro-service is called a *Sparrow Account*,
and the source code is available in GitHub. I also did a similar experiment in using the Clojure language that you can see in GitHub.

  * https://github.com/edersoncorbari/sparrow-account
  * https://github.com/edersoncorbari/small-bank

Let's go to the requirements.

## 1. Micro-Service Requirements

Create a micro-service that checks and creates a hypothetical bank account.

It must comprise a HTTP Server with two endpoints:

  * One to insert a new monetary transaction, money in or out, for a given user;
  * One to return a user's current balance.

Requirements:

  * It must not be possible to withdraw money for a given user when they don't have enough balance;
  * You should take concurrency issues into consideration;
  * Store data in memory;
  * Designer partners and good coding practices:
  * Immutability;
  * Separation of concerns;
  * Unit and integration tests;
  * API design;
  * Error handling;
  * Language idiomatic use;
  * Use functional programming paradigm.

### Proposed Solution:

The architecture of the proposed solution follows the Hexagonal Architecture concept. The design is based on two books:

  * Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure
  * Scala Design Patterns

Example Diagram of a Hexagonal Architecture:

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Organization Application Package Diagram:

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### 1.1 Http Rest Server

To build a request and response Http Rest Server, Finagle-Finch was used:

  * https://twitter.github.io/finagle/
  * https://finagle.github.io/finch/

Piece of code where the server is used: src/main/scala/sparrow/account/ServerApp.scala

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def runServer(): Unit = {
  val app = Http
    .server
    .withLabel(serverConf.name)
    .withAdmissionControl.concurrencyLimit(
    maxConcurrentRequests = serverConf.maxConcurrentRequests,
    maxWaiters = serverConf.maxWaiters
  ).serve(s"${serverConf.host}:${serverConf.port}",
  (Routes.balanceAccount :+: Routes.fillAccount).toService)
  onExit {
    app.close()
  }
  Await.ready(app)
}
{%endhighlight%}

The EndPoints available on the server:

| Method   |  EndPoint    |  Example Parameter             |
|:--------:|:------------:|:------------------------------:|
| POST     | /account     | {"uuid":"1", "amount":100.50}  |
| GET      | /balance     | not required                   |

Piece of code of the routes with the EndPoints: src/main/scala/sparrow/account/ServerApp.scala

{%highlight scala%}
final val fillAccount: Endpoint[Account] =
  post("account" :: jsonBody[AccountFillRequest]) {req: AccountFillRequest =>
    for {
      r <- accountService.fillAccount(req.uuid, req.amount)
    } yield r match {
      case Right(a) => Ok(a)
      case Left(m) => BadRequest(m)
    }
  }
{%endhighlight%}

There are two EndPoints *fillAccount* that can create an account and deposit a value, as well as can withdraw using the negative value. And the
EndPoint *balanceAccount* to see the balance available to the user.

### 1.2 Transactional Memory and Concurrency Control

When we are talking about micro-service, we have to guarantee the atomicity of the code, so that no undue competition occurs. To control
concurrency the ScalaSTM was used.

  * https://nbronson.github.io/scala-stm/

Piece of code where atomicity is used: src/main/scala/sparrow/account/controller/AccountController.scala

{%highlight scala%}
override def fillAccount(uuid: String, amount: Double): Future[Either[AccountFillException, AccountTransaction]] = Future {
  if (accounts.get(uuid).isEmpty) createAccount(uuid, 0)

  accounts.get(uuid) match {
    case Some(transact) => {
      atomic {implicit tx =>
        transact() = AccountTransaction(transact().uuid, transact().amount + amount)

        displayOperationType(transact().uuid, transact().amount)

        if (amountIsNegative(transact().amount))
          transact() = AccountTransaction(transact().uuid, transact().amount - amount)

        Right(transact())
      }
    }
    case _ => Left(AccountFillException("Fill account not found."))
  }
}
{%endhighlight%}

### 1.3 Other Tools Used

Other tools used in the project are in the order below:

  * https://github.com/lightbend/config
  * http://www.scalatest.org/

### 1.4 Building the Project

To build the project can follow the instructions in the own repository of the git hub located here:

  * https://github.com/edersoncorbari/sparrow-account

## Conclusion

We saw in this short article how easy and simple it is to create a micro-service application using Scala language. It could
also have used other libraries such as the AKKA that I predict will soon make
an article about it.

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Q: How to run MapReduce tasks in Parallel with hadoop 2.x? I would like my map and reduce tasks to run in parallel. However, despite trying every trick in the bag, they are still running sequentially. I read from How to set the precise max number of concurrently running tasks per node in Hadoop 2.4.0 on Elastic MapReduce, that using the following formula, one can set the number of tasks running in parallel.
min (yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb / mapreduce.[map|reduce].memory.mb,
 yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores / mapreduce.[map|reduce].cpu.vcores)

However, I did that, as you can see from the yarn-site.xml and mapred-site.xml I am using below. But the tasks still run sequentially. Note that I am using the open source Apache Hadoop and not Cloudera. Would shifting to Cloudera solve the problem? Also note that my input files are big enough that dfs.block.size should also not be an issue.
yarn-site.xml
    <configuration>
    <property>
      <name>yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb</name>
      <value>131072</value>
    </property>
    <property>
      <name>yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores</name>
      <value>64</value>
    </property>
    </configuration>

mapred-site.xml
    <configuration>
    <property>
      <name>mapred.job.tracker</name>
      <value>localhost:9001</value>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>mapreduce.map.memory.mb</name>
      <value>16384</value>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb</name>
      <value>16384</value>
    </property>

    <property>
        <name>mapreduce.map.cpu.vcores</name>
        <value>8</value>
    </property>

    <property>
        <name>mapreduce.reduce.cpu.vcores</name>
        <value>8</value>
    </property>
    </configuration>

A: Container is the logical execution template reserved for the execution of Map/Reduce tasks on every node of the culster.
The yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb property tells the YARN resource manager to reserve that much of ram memory for all containers to be dispatched in the node to execute Map/Reduce tasks. This is the maximum upper bound of the memory will be reserved for every container.
But in you case, the free memory in the node is almost 11GB, and you have configured yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb to almost 128GB(131072) , mapreduce.map.memory.mb & mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb as 16GB . The required upper bound size for Map/Reduce containers is 16Gb wich is higher than 11GB of the free memory* . This could be a reason that you were allocated only one container in the node for execution.
We shall reduce the value of mapreduce.map.memory.mb , mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb properties than the value of free memory to get more than one container running in parallel.
Also see some ways to increase the free memory since its already more 90% of it used.
Hope this helps :) ..

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CSUN Receives Additional $6 Million for David Nazarian College of Business and Economics Campaign
Media Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler
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Celebrating the additional gifts to the Nazarian campaign are, from left, Charles Noski and his wife, Lisa, Paul Jennings and his wife, Adrienne, CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison, Angella and David Nazarian; Ken Floyd, Richard Schweitzer and Nazarian College Dean Kenneth Lord. Photo by Lee Choo.
California State University, Northridge President Dianne F. Harrison and visionary businessman and CSUN alumnus David Nazarian have announced an additional $6 million in gifts toward a $25 million fundraising campaign, launched this past spring with Nazarian's personal gift of $10 million to support his alma mater and the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics. This brings the total committed to date to $16 million.
Among the newest benefactors, all CSUN alumni, are retired Chief Financial Officer for Bank of America and AT&T Charles Noski and his wife, Lisa; Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of Public Communications Services Paul Jennings and his wife, Adrienne; retired Artissimo Holdings Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Ken Floyd and his wife, Ana; and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer for Aristotle Capital Management Richard Schweitzer and his wife, Julie.
Harrison hailed the new gifts as affirmation of the important role CSUN and the Nazarian College play in the region.
"All this is part of our ongoing elevation of the people, culture and economy of Los Angeles," she said. "We are rising at a faster pace than ever before, and central to that is the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics. The college's plans for the future have the potential to raise business education to a new level."
The new gifts were announced at a special event last night.
The campaign to support the Nazarian College, so named by the CSU Board of Trustees to honor Nazarian's commitment to the university and its students, began in March with a $10 million cash gift from Nazarian and his wife, Angella. Already among the top 10 largest business programs in the nation — with a diverse population that reflects the demographics of California — the Nazarian College will focus the new funding on expanding its resources and providing its students, faculty and alumni with access to an array of innovative educational programs and experiences.
Nazarian, known for his investing acumen, said it was important to invest in a strong public university.
"If there is one factor that I would say is a leading contributor to the health and progress of society, it would be the strength of the middle class," he said. "A large middle class lowers inequality and brings more stability to a society. Now, what is essential in creating opportunities for mobility in the middle class is education. When we talk about education, we're really discussing access to affordable and quality education — the type of education I found at CSUN."
"This is one of the biggest reasons why I wanted to invest in CSUN," he continued. "The student population of this school holds the key — CSUN serves more than 40,000 students every year, out of which 55 percent are female and close to 75 percent are either minorities or from varying ethnic backgrounds. As you can see, CSUN is counted as one of the most diverse campuses in the nation, where 49 percent of the students are also from low-income families. Yet, findings show that CSUN students exceed expectations in graduation rates and later in alumni earnings."
Nazarian's history as a visionary investor and business builder began with his active involvement in his family's early identification of the potential for wireless communication technology, which ultimately became part of Qualcomm Inc., one of the most successful corporations in the history of the telecommunications industry. Since then, Nazarian, who graduated from CSUN in 1982, has focused on investment opportunities that diversified his family's holdings, including real estate and the hotel industry.
Nazarian College Dean Kenneth Lord called the latest gifts "transformative."
"These gifts, and those from many others who have contributed to the college, are ensuring students' ascendency toward their future," Lord said. "Thanks to our donors' generosity and foresight, we are poised to make the changes that will transform the education business students receive, and influence how they will lead the world's economy."
Among the changes taking place in CSUN's business college are the addition of state-of-the-art hardware and software for the analysis and trading of equities, currencies and other tradable instruments, and upgrades to facilities and laboratories for consumer and focus-group research. A variety of other additions include enhanced career-education and professional development services.
The David Nazarian College of Business and Economics serves more than 6,000 undergraduates with a full range of business programs. The Nazarian College also offers a Master of Business Administration program and specialized Master of Science programs in accountancy and taxation. The college is recognized for excellence by multiple external organizations. Its accreditation by AACSB International places it among the top 5 percent of global business degree-granting institutions.
Ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the best part-time MBA programs for three consecutive years, the CSUN MBA stands second among the 23 universities in the California State University system. The college has been recognized in Princeton Review's list of Best Business Schools for the past seven years. Its recently launched undergraduate curriculum in financial planning immediately acquired national acclaim and has been cited over the past two years as one of the "great schools for future financial planners" by Financial Planning Magazine.
Serving more than 40,000 students each year, CSUN is one of the largest universities in the United States. CSUN ranks 16th in the country in awarding bachelor's degrees to underrepresented minority students, fifth nationally in awarding master's degrees to Hispanic students, and enrolls the largest number of deaf and hard-of-hearing students of any U.S. state university. CSUN's 171 academic programs and engaged centers enjoy international recognition for excellence. CSUN currently partners with more than 100 institutions of higher education in 22 countries around the globe and attracts the largest international student population of any U.S. master's-level institution. The university is recognized for the opportunities it provides students to climb up the social and economic ladder. CSUN was recently ranked as the fifth-best university in the country for enhancing the social mobility of its students, in a study by Payscale and College Net, and Money Magazine called CSUN one of the "Top Ten Best Values" in the country.
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There were intriguing similarities between last month's World Youth Day in Toronto and World Youth Day 1993 in Denver.
In both instances, the Pope's choice of city struck some as odd, for both Denver and Toronto pride themselves on their aggressive secularity: good living without God, so to speak. The U.S. hierarchy and its conference staff had not been very enthusiastic about WYD1993; the Canadian bishops' conference and its staff were not brimful of enthusiasm when the Pope chose Toronto as the site of WYD2002. Predictions of failure were widespread before WYD in Denver; a week before WYD2002, Toronto organizers and Vatican press briefers were already spinning excuses about an expected low turnout. In the run-up to WYD2002, as in the months before WYD1993, only Pope John Paul II seemed unfazed, confident that young people throughout the world would answer his call to witness to and celebrate their Catholic faith.
Guess who was right?
With apologies to "Field of Dreams" fans, the primary lesson of WYD2002 is, "If you preach it, they will come." Some three hundred fifty thousand young people came — the very people the Catholic left and much of the press insists are "alienated" by the "authoritarianism" of John Paul II and his "unbending" teaching on sexual morality. And they stunned secular Toronto by their good humor amidst a lack of creature comforts (my daughter and the teenage group she helped lead had a hose, not a shower, with which to bathe for a week), their enthusiasm, their courtesy, and, above all, their faith. As one Canadian friend said, after watching several hundred thousand teenagers and young adults walk the Way of the Cross through the sparkling downtown of Canada's largest city, "I can't believe this is happening in Toronto." The Pope believed it would happen. It did. If you preach it, they will come.
The crowd swelled to eight hundred thousand for the closing WYD Mass at Toronto's Downsview Park. Torrential rains and high winds buffeted the venue in the hours before Mass and as the Pope arrived; people laughed and sang. It was also instructive that the first spontaneous and sustained eruption of applause came when, in his homily, John Paul II issued an unsparing call for fidelity as the answer to the crisis of clergy sexual abuse and episcopal misgovernance. As I said on MSNBC during that stirring moment, the Pope was telling those present that they were the future of the Church — and they were accepting the charge.
WYD1993 had a profound impact on the Archdiocese of Denver, which is arguably the most vibrant metropolitan see in the U.S. today, and on the Church throughout the United States. One hopes the same thing happens in Toronto and throughout Canada. Many Canadian bishops have deeply internalized the secular high culture's claim that the Church and the faith are marginal to the real modern world. On this understanding, the Church is, at best, a kind of museum where good, multicultural Canadians are taught "tolerance."
John Paul II and the legions he drew to Toronto are living refutations of this theological and ecclesiastical defeatism. The Pope did not preach some vague "spirituality" of "tolerance;" the WYD pilgrims committed themselves to a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church. That, they understood, was the way to a fulfilled human life and to a profound respect for others.
Canada's high culture insists that serious commitment to a particular religious tradition is a prescription for bigotry. WYD2002 demonstrated that true tolerance — engaging differences with respect for the other — begins, in the Christian case, with the conviction that Jesus Christ reveals the meaning of human life.
WYD2002 should also have an impact in the U.S. Few bishops seemed to grasp that WYD could be both the answer and the antidote to the scandal-time of the last seven months. WYD was not aggressively promoted in many dioceses and the result was clear: perhaps 60,000 U.S. pilgrims. There should have been 60,000 from New York State alone.
"If you preach it, they will come:" that is what John Paul II believes, lives, and demonstrates. That is what the Church in Canada and the U.S, and especially Catholic leaders, must rediscover.
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A Win-Win Solution To The Provincial Council Dilemma In Sri Lanka
Dr. Yohan Heenatigala
On 29 July 1987, Indo-Sri Lanka Accord was signed between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene which stated the devolution of powers to the provinces. Hence on 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987 to establish provincial councils. The amendment aims at creating provincial councils in Sri Lanka and enable Sinhalese and Tamil as national languages while preserving English as the link language.(Wikipedia).
Establishment of Provincial Councils is outlined in CHAPTER XVII A of The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Page 122 – Revised Edition – 2015).
Looking back the Provincial Council system is an utter disaster. NOBODY is satisfied with it.
For the past three years or so, there were no PCs and nobody has missed them.
In spite of the "non-existent" PCs the cash disbursements for the year 2019 was
Rs. 203,525,201,150 – (Provincial Councils & Local Government Division –
Annual Performance Report for the year 2019 – Expenditure Head No : 155 – (Page 19),
In short, the Provincial Councils are a "white elephant."
There is a more efficient alternative.
Establish Provincial Councils with Members of Parliament elected at the General Election.
This will save the enormous amounts of money spent during a separate Provincial Council election.
The MPP will elect a leader among themselves who will be the "de-facto" Chief Minister of the province.
Alternatively, the Prime Minister can appoint a Cabinet Minister from the province as the "de-facto" Chief Minister.
Here is how the 9 Provincial Councils will look like.
ADVANTAGES TO THIS SYSTEM
1. All the members are locally elected Members of Parliament.
2. The Chief Minister will be a member of the Cabinet.
3. There will be no duplication of services between the central and provincial administration.
4. There will be ONLY ONE National standard, instead of many different provincial standards.
5. All governmental services will come under the National government. All the Provincial Council members are Members of Parliament, thus representing the Province whilst being lawmakers of the Nation.
6. And the savings to the treasury will be in hundreds of billions.
This will fulfill the objective of the 13th Ammendment.
A People in-between East and West
Luminous Lives by Rajiva Wijesinha


-Rachel Simpson, Texas Evening MBA Class of 2013 and Manager, Human Capital Consulting at Deloitte.
Go to company websites and talk to your network within different industries to gauge their requirements and preferences. Puja Ghelani, Texas MBA at DFW Class of 2018, said that reviewing requirements online solidified that she would take the GMAT, and gave her a target score. She topped that number and landed a job upon graduation with KPMG. "Coming from a non-traditional background, my GMAT and GPA acted almost as equalizers, to prove that I was capable and could quickly be trained to do the job," Puja said.
Regardless of which test you take, consider it part of the overall MBA investment. Challenging yourself in the testing environment will make you better prepared for what comes along the way during and after the program. Stay tuned for more in this series soon.


In our times this drama is interwoven with the life of the resident of the city. Anyone who lives in a modern city is, somehow, a "Citizen Kane", because they are forced to put their family in the background in relation to our professions. A "Citizen Kane" is also the woman who works outside the home and is forced to put her family in the back burner, for the sake of professional success.
Kane creates a financial empire, but he does not give it greater importance than his memory of "rosebud", the small sleigh, which he played with when he lived with his parents. In a few words, Kane is a man who gained everything and lost everything.
He is worthy of wonder, how such a man with such great abilities, could not look into his own soul, to see what made him suffer and to heal it. Perhaps his condition was precisely this "looking", his avoidance of looking into his soul.
The last shot of the film shows the cataloging of a number of objects in their packages, in a huge empty tower where lies the corpse of Citizen Kane, and where black smoke rises behind railings reminiscent of a prison.
Every person has in their soul a sacred space, a quality world, in which are placed persons who met their absolute needs, their father and mother. No one can remove them without incurably hurting their soul. This should be kept in the parents minds, that they should not place blame on each other when separating, causing incurable wounds to the souls of their children.


Awesome ice cream! The Waffle House special flavor (caramel, almonds) was so good. Waffle cone was great too. Line moves fast and service is friendly.
Loved the coffee I've cream. Not really a hidden gem just not right on the waterfront. Open maybe until midnight. Lots of places to sit and enjoy.
Had the waffins there which were waffle balls stuffed nutella absolutely delicious. Generous portions to share and homemade ice cream was perfect. Place to go on a hot summer day or evening. Highly recommended.
Nice, big menu and delicious food! We loved our waffles, and the exterior tables are really comfortable. Nice atmosphere!
Big variety of flavours. Nice spot at the edge of the old town of Naxos. A bit expensive for the quantity offered.
Waffle cones, good selection of flavors. €2.30 for single scoop on a waffle cone. Lots of outdoor seating to people watch. In a busy area of the town which is nice.


SimpleSong is an application which allows you to easily write songs for your Macintosh to sing. Songs written with SimpleSong can also be sung using any text-to-speech compatible application, such as SimpleText. This means that almost any Mac user can listen to the songs you've written.
· Send some singing e-mail!
· Add a synthetic "vocal" track to your electronic or accoustic music.
· Liven up a meeting or gathering with some unexpected vocal "talent".
· Apple's Speech Manager (part of system software) and "Macintalk 3" voices.


SumoSalad returns to the country where their idea for fast, healthy food originated from over a decade ago.
Currently under massive expansion in Australia and after their South American launch in Brazil last year, SumoSalad is now tossing their way into the United States. Master Franchisors Mat Yuriditsky and Scot Rogers (Danq Management Group, Inc) will lead the crusade for a healthier America by launching the brand at Simon Group's Torrance location, Del Amo Fashion Center. The mall is currently undergoing a $400 million dollar renovation, including the new Patio Cafes which will feature the flagship SumoSalad, set to open Monday, June 1st, 2015.
SumoSalad is a fast-casual restaurant that began the "Design Your Own" salad concept over a decade ago in Sydney, Australia. The idea came when co-founders Luke Baylis and James Miller headed off on an American adventure in their 20's. After quite a few too many super-sized meals the boys thought, "Why can't we find a filling meal that's also good for us?" Not long after landing back on Aussie soil, the first SumoSalad store opened in 2003. The menu has developed over the years with help from certified nutritionists and celebrity chef Pete Evans (My Kitchen Rules). Current offerings range from "Design Your Own" to Favorites like Surf n' Turf, Beef & Halloumi and The Man Salad, just to name a few. All are offered as a salad, wrap or bowl. The Express Deli, which will have 12-15 homemade dishes that rotate based on seasonality, will include plates such as Asian Greens, Tuna & Dill Penne, Thai Chicken Noodle and Pumpkin Cous Cous. Early risers can enjoy Breaky Bowls which have a warm chai and white quinoa base and have proven to be a top seller for franchisees. To maintain the brand's integrity, SumoSalad decided to partner with companies that have a more hands-on, boutique-type feel. Jones Pure Cane Soda will debut their first fountain drink dispenser in southern California. Also, Classy-Stache cold brewed coffee, Clover cold pressed juice and Beachy Cream Organic ice cream sandwiches and cookies (baked fresh in-house). It should also be noted that they only use free-range chicken, grass-fed beef and 90% of their sauces and dressings are organic.
With over 100 stores in Australia and 9 international locations throughout New Zealand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and South America, SumoSalad is now ready to break into the US market. "Our staff and franchise owners have worked tirelessly to ensure SumoSalad can offer nutritious, satisfying and convenient meals over the past 10 years, and I cannot wait to see what the next decade will bring," said Luke Baylis, CEO and Founder of SumoSalad.
The boys are also shopping a reality show surrounding the fish-out-water experience of starting your own business called Salad Kings. The sizzle reel can be seen at www.saladkings.info.


Not only does every online casino on Earth offer a slots bonus, but these bonuses are for the most amount of money and carry the lowest wagering requirements. This makes sense, as not only are slots the most popular games in the casino, they also make the casino the most money.
Compared to table games such as roulette and blackjack, slots have a slightly higher casino edge. Although that edge may only be 2%-3%, that's enough to turn slots into a huge money-maker for the casino. Therefore, casinos are able to offer bonuses to slots players because they know that they have a much higher chance of getting that money right back.
Nothing more than just a way to spin the reels?
Plenty of people just want to play slots for fun and a slots bonus is nothing more than just a way spin the reels a little bit longer in the effort to hit the big jackpot. However, more disciplined players will find that if they choose the right slots bonus and do things the right way, they could actually turn their bonus into some real cash. Of course there is no sure-fire way to beat the bonus and walk away with cash every single time.
That being said, there are some things you can do in order to get the very most out of your bonus and give yourself a better than average chance at coming out ahead. You first need to choose a bonus with good terms and a low wagering requirement. A wagering requirement of 25x is good, 20x is better, and anything lower than that is a rare and beautiful thing. Bonuses that have low wagering requirements like this are usually 100%-200% bonuses, but no higher. Don't try to bite off more than you can chew; a 150% bonus is plenty.
You also want to make sure that the bonus is cashable, which means that when it is cleared the bonus money is able to be withdrawn. Most reasonable slot bonuses are, but always check before committing to a bonus. When you actually hit the slots and spin the reels, choose a low, safe bet amount to play with. It is tempting to want to bet more in order to clear than bonus faster, but that is a way to go broke in no time.
And when you finally do succeed and clear your bonus with money left, treat that as money on the house. Play with it until you hit a good-sized win and then withdraw your money before you play for too long and give it all back to the casino.


Jigsaw puzzle online of a bowl of eggs. The eggs have been whipped with a whisk until fluffy.
I would hate to get whipped for something I didn't do - unless it was something I was supposed to do. That's just a yolk, lest I be accused of being brutal.
Well don't let anyone egg you on if you think it's a mistake.
You'll end up shelling out lots of dough for a lawyer, and you may be beaten anyway.
So what was in the bowl, Carol?
Morning, Parson. Hope you had an eggciting day yesterday. I think we make good sparring partners.
I so enjoy your wordplay.
Boy, your parents ran some very high class parties, carol. My folks never had a party like that.
How old were you when your sister was graduating?
Where did you grow up and how many brothers and sisters do you have?
When my sister was graduating I was 16 and grew up in Minneapolis. I have an older sister and younger brother. Went to school with kids that were in the end credits of a tv show. My brother had just arrived at the street curb when they started shooting the scene. My sister went to school with the grand children that started Target. They owned about 14 department stores and a jewelry store. I went to school whose parents purchased a yearling colt for 750K. Where did you grew up Pixi? Was wondering how many brothers and sister you have as well. Grew up eating 4 bday cakes in a week.
I love everyone's funny stories and puns and then when I get a time to do them, I go to the puzzles, so I don't fall to pieces in the beginning.
I usually hit the "my conversations" part of the site before puzzling also. It just seems fitting.
Carol's apple, when they were shooting that scene outside your house, was it a Western? or were they just horsing around? I aim to go to Target soon.
Carol, I grew up in Levittown NY. I was 3 1/2 when we moved from my grandmother's house in Brooklyn. I was kept in her house or backyard which was always fenced, but when we moved I was allowed out on the sidewalk for the first time. I walked down the block and couldn't find our house again because they all looked alike to me so my mother put a chair in the driveway with a red scarf tied to it so I'd know which house was mine. I have one brother 7 years my junior. I walked to both my elementary and HS. My brother was bullied in HS and I was shunned. Nobody was especially rich but I was in a class of kids that were above average so there was a lot of homework and it was stressful.
PW - no they weren't shooting a western. The shot was taken a few blocks from our house. The opening scene is from our area as well. It was for the Mary Tyler Moore show - lived one block from the house in the opening scene and two blocks from the lake where she walks around.
Yes it's in Minneapolis. It's about 5-10 minutes from downtown. The opening scenes of the show I remember well.
Omg! Pixi I can't imagine being shunned. I was teased quite abit in school because of our last name and my size. I recently was going to do typing for a business owner. We were going to meet in public and I gave him a description of myself and he replies Oh a midget. No I'm just short. Then I thought this man is a business owner?
Yeah it was pretty awful.
Business owners can be the stupidest, crudest people. I think being small can throw a switch in the heads of folks that have a bit of latent bully in them so they just have to act out against us. I'm under 5 feet tall so.
True and recently dealt with a business owner and felt he was insensitive and stupid. He put an ad on a job board requesting typing and doing spread sheets for him. I responded and we were going to meet in public. He gave me a description of himself and I went omg! Then I told him my height - small person and he replies Oh a midget. Did I meet him for the work No!
My maternal grandmother was 4' 8" and my grandfather was 6' 7" tall. Unfortunately they both passed away when they were 52 in the early 1940's - within 6 months of each other. I am 5'3".
I just made a lemon meringue pie, it's still in the oven browning!
This is probably going to cover a nice lemon filling setting in a pie shell and then slightly browned in the oven. Yummy.
God bless all of you and I hope you enjoy that nice lemon pie.
I believe that is why you always add cream of tartar when you are whipping egg whites.
Never seen that before - is it just the whites that are whipped?
"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you."
"Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts."
Yes, it's just the whites that are whipped.
Beautiful quotes today Miss Aussie, especially the first one. Jake closed his final door and I never got to tell him how much I love my son.But God opened other doors for me so I can help others. Have a blessed day.
You can tell Jake even if he can't answer back audibly. My son helps us out when we get lost on the road. Just when we need help, something or someone either associated with him or similar to him comes and helps us. We got totally lost at night in Florida and a gas station with the same name as a convenience store he worked for in NY turned up and we got the directions we needed.
It happened again to me 2 days ago when I needed directions. A young man about his age and build took time to draw out the roads I needed. And he just overheard me asking the counter server who didn't have a clue.
Pixi, your story is truly lovely and very touching.
Thanks Trynfindit. I believe it although it could sound a bit nuts to unbelievers. We're believers here so I knew I could tell you all.
Pixi, I have many loved ones who have gone on and I am constantly running into things that remind me of them, Such as lighthouses that remind me of my mother, (She was born in MD.) or my son, such as music, or leather jackets,. or my grandmother whenever I see roses or smell her perfume. I think that God send reminders or human" angels" that remind us of them to help us in this journey we call life. I find your life happenings of your son touching and hopeful for all of us!
Thanks nlb - they all sound super delicious. Hugs.
Also used in Angel Cakes, Sponge Cake, Chiffon Cake & Fluffy White Frostings.
Thank you Olamae. We all need angelic help. Even Jesus did in the garden. I try to imagine what an actual angel might be like but can't so I'm glad God sends the human stand-ins to us. God bless and have a peaceful night.
Yes, it's just the egg whites that are whipped. I've used whipped egg whites in many dishes. Souffles, mousses and a cookie recipe. The top of the cookie is hard and the inside is moist like a brownie.
I would guess the egg whites are going to be 'folded gently" into another mixture to make it light and fluffy. I do that with Squash Chiffon Pie.
Jamp I've never in my life heard of 'Squash Chiffon Pie.' Is it a dessert or a side dish?
It's a dessert pie. It is made with a can of One Pie Squash, an envelope of plain gelatin and other ingredients. What makes it "chiffony" is the egg whites folded gently in. No baking --- just let it set in the fridge. I cheat and use a Pillsbury "unroll it"


Modern functionality meets fabulous retro style in this awesome clock radio. Styled like a 1950s automobile, this beauty features enough color and chrome to get your engine revved up and rolling each morning. Modern touches include Bluetooth connectivity, dual independent alarms, AM/FM radio and CD player and dynamic, full-range stereo speakers to bring your wake-up call in rich clarity. Wake up and rock out, sleepyhead!
Bought this radio as an early Christmas present for my husband and he really loves it. He is playing all of his Christmas music and more. It is very nice looking, very retro. I bought the red, It is beautiful. You will love it if you are thinking about it. CD player, clock, AM/FM radio, alarm with 2 timers. Very nice.
Absolutely LOVE. This radio is perfect. Very simple to set up. Love that it has blue tooth. Love the blue.
I just got mine and love it (red). I can't get AM stations in my office at work, but can get FM. So I have an FM station playing Christmas music...Everyone that comes into my office says they love my radio...you can't miss it.This is a treasure and adds much joy to my day !!!!!!! Of course it also is a CD player, but haven't brought my CD's yet.
I really like the red but I'm putting it in the Front room so got the black. Used it as soon as I got it. I have just got all new furniture for my downstairs and this looks great with it all. Sounds wonderful,, Great purchase.
I got this to play Christmas CDs on. It boy, it is so much more. A fantastic radio, and with the Bluetooth I can play my playlist from my phone or iPad. This is the best product I could have ever purchased. Love it. And its soooo cute.


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Q: AS3 Problem in loading external SWF into Loader I have main application that loads external swf's  through the Loader Component. But some swf's that are working well on their own don't load into the main app. When I tried to load one of that swf's from fla of main app it gave error that it's looking for some classes. By the name of this classes it looks like it were parts of loaded swf but as swf that is already compiled and working well why is it looking for this class when it's trying to be loaded by the main app?
I didn't find anything that would refer to this kind of issue. Any help will be highly appreciated.

A: It seems like you got an application domain collision. This can happen if you got conflicting class names in each SWF (e.g swf1 has a class named Main, swf2 has a class named Main as well).
To fix that, load the SWFs into a new application domain:
loader.load(new URLRequest("g.swf"), new LoaderContext(false, new ApplicationDomain(ApplicationDomain.currentDomain)));

If it's not that, you most likely have some code on the first frame of the movie that executes on initialisation of the SWF (See if you get Event.INIT before you get Event.COMPLETE).
This can be easily fixed by removing the code from the frame.

A: Just for checking I made fla file that contained only Loader component and code of loading:
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
addChild(loader);
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingFunc);
loader.load(new URLRequest("g.swf"));

function loadingFunc(event:Event):void{
    var li:LoaderInfo = event.target as LoaderInfo;
    var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(li.content)
}

This code is from the testing file.
But even this way it still looking for some class that seems to be one of external loaded swf.
The error is such:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
    at src::Dedo()
    at src::Main()
I have no such classes in my main app. So it could be only classes from external swf.


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Project Sakura Wars Looks Awesome in 20 Minutes of PS4 Gameplay Showing Waifus and Mecha Aplenty
Today, during a stage event hosted by Sega at Tokyo Game Show 2019, the publisher showcased a large chunk of gameplay of Project Sakura Wars.
Published on September 14, 2019 Giuseppe Nelva
Home » News » Project Sakura Wars Looks Awesome in 20 Minutes of PS4 Gameplay Showing Waifus and Mecha Aplenty
Today, during a stage event hosted by Sega at Tokyo Game Show 2019, the publisher showcased a large chunk of gameplay of Shin Sakura Taisen, which will be released in the west as Project Sakura Wars.
The demo is partly similar to what we saw a few days ago, being an unlimited build of the show floor demo (which I played, and it was awesome), but the player takes a different route and meets different heroines in the adventure part of the game.
We also get to take a better look at the battle part, in which which our hero is accompanied by Azami Mochizuki.
If you'd like to learn more about Project Sakura Wars, you can enjoy the beautiful anime opening cutscene, the latest trailers, the earlier gallery of screenshots, another gallery, the latest gameplay reveal, the previous one, and an earlier gallery of screenshots and art.
You can also check out some awesome artwork by main character designer Tite Kubo and the second batch of character sketches.
Incidentally, we recently heard that one of the sources of inspiration for the battle system is the opening animation of Sakura Wars 3, which you can watch here.
If you're unfamiliar with the Sakura Wars series, you should take a look at my dedicated article explaining what it's all about.
The game will launch in Japan exclusively for PS4 on December 12, and in the west in 2020.
Related Topics:Project Sakura Wars, ps4, sega, Shin Sakura Taisen
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Daniel Pearl, American journalist (born Oct. 10, 1963, Princeton, N.J.—died late January? 2002, Pakistan), went to work for The Wall Street Journal in 1990 and by 2000 had become the paper's South Asia bureau chief. On Jan. 23, 2002, thinking he was being taken to interview a radical Islamic leader, he was kidnapped in Karachi, and four days later an e-mailed photograph of him in chains and with a gun to his head was released. His death was confirmed on February 21 after a videotape showing his execution was received by American officials.


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Q: One word for seemingly convenient For the sentence: "I envy your seemingly convenient reason for X."
The "I envy" is genuine. The guy I was talking to makes trips. Let's say we both ride motorcycles, and I envied his seemingly convenient reason to travel to some place. I'd like one, but I need to work at finding places to ride my bike to. I didn't know whether he went to that place out of obligation or because he liked it. If the former, seems like it'd be in bad taste.

A: Possibly you mean knack, as defined by The Free Dictionary:

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*a skilful, ingenious, or resourceful way of doing something

*a particular talent or aptitude, esp an intuitive one

Examples (semi-made up):

I envy your knack for finding interesting places to travel to by
  motorcycle.
I envy your knack for arranging your life so that you can motorcycle to
  Yosemite Valley at least once a month.

A: If you suspect he didn't really need to take the ride, then I think pretext could work. From MW:

A purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak
  the real intention or state of affairs

A: 'Excuse' or 'Good Excuse'

I envy your good excuse for going on a motorbike trip.

A rather political example of this idiom from Chicago Tribune:

Trump needed a really good excuse to fire Comey; Comey gave it to him

The implication in the article is that the firing of the FBI director was both legitimate and convenient for the President.


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Q: Mixing build.sbt with project *.scala files: should all be unified in build.sbt? Using SBT 0.13.13, our build definition is inherited from an older project. Currently there are a build.sbt and some project/*.scala files. These scala files follow the same pattern. Here is an example:
import sbt._
import sbt.Keys._

object Docs {
  lazy val docTask = TaskKey[Unit]("docPackage", "Generate Scaladoc")

  lazy val settings = Seq(
    docTask := {
      val docs = (doc in Compile).value
      IO.copyDirectory(docs, new java.io.File("src/main/resources/myapp-scaladoc"), overwrite = true)
    },

    docTask := (docTask.dependsOn(doc in Compile)).value
  )
}

Appendix: .scala build definition says

In the previous versions of sbt, .scala was the only way to create
  multi-project build definition

Question: I suppose this mean the use of separate project/*.scala files is discouraged. If so, is it OK to move the code of these *.scala file and put them all in build.sbt?

A: There is little functional difference between having code in project/ and code in build.sbt.
The advantage to putting code in a .scala file in project/ is that all symbols in it are imported into the namespace of all build.sbt files in all subprojects of your build. This means that helper methods, constants, plugins, or other Scala code can live in a single location, but be called from anywhere.
Ultimately, whether to use this features comes down to whether you want shared items configured in a single location, or in multiple locations.
If you prefer to have your project settings configured entirely in separate build.sbt files in their subproject directories, putting shared settings in the project/ folder is the way to do that.
If you're OK with having shared settings configured in the root build.sbt file (or if you don't use any subproject build.sbt files), you can consolidate all of your shared configuration into it.


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Home FEATURED Barclays Bank of Kenya not closing down, says CEO
Barclays Bank of Kenya not closing down, says CEO
Barclays Bank of Kenya today clarified that it's not closing down nor exiting the Kenyan market, following reports that its majority shareholder – Barclays PLC – plans to get out of its Africa operations.
"Barclays Bank of Kenya is not shutting down and there are no plans at local, regional or group level to shut down our operations here," Barclays Kenya Chief Executive Jeremy Awori told Capital FM.
He said any decisions concerning the operations of Barclays Kenya can only be made by Barclays Africa Group Limited in consultation with other shareholders. According to the Financial Times, Barclays PLC has decided to exit its African operations to refocus the bank on its core United Kingdom and United States markets.
The bank has appointed a subcommittee to study how and when to sell its 62.3 percent stake in Barclays Africa, which is valued at Sh492 billion and attributed the reason for the exit as; Africa becoming a costly distraction owing to the devaluation of the South African Rand, and extra risks of corruption and misconduct in Africa which would tarnish the entire African operation if something was to go wrong.
Related >> Fears of major job losses as Barclays exits Africa
Barclays Africa Group Chief Executive Officer Maria Ramos says the bank will continue to offer a full and integrated range of products and services to more than 12 million customers in 12 countries across Africa urging customers to be confident in doing business with them.
"With an independent board and a separate listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange we are deeply rooted in Africa and remain firmly in control of our future," Ramos says.
Barclays Africa Group registered head office is in Johannesburg, South Africa and has majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (Barclays Bank Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia.
The Bank also has representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria. Barclays Bank PLC has operations in Egypt and Zimbabwe which are an integral part of Barclays Africa business and continue to be run by Barclays Africa operationally.
"We continue to be optimistic about our prospects in Africa, where we have a strong franchise with assets of over R1 trillion. We are deeply committed to the success of our continent. Our destiny is in Africa," Ramos added.
Barclays PLC will update the market on the shareholding in Barclays Africa Group Limited at the time of its 2015 full-year results announcement on March 1, 2016.
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OPEN SCREEN
House of Boys Premiere
Published by admin at 01:44 under Screening Room
Today is the Premiere of House of Boys by Jean-Claude Schlim.
The year is 1984. Frank is an 18-year-old boy, who has just 'come out'. He loves
dancing and new wave music and leads a superficial life partying and discovering his
sexuality. Frank's final exams are approaching and as he is not at all prepared, he
decides to leave for Amsterdam with his friend Rita. However, after a couple of weeks,
she heads off to the South of France, which leaves Frank on his own.
Frank manages to get a job as a dancer in the House of Boys, a gay cabaret/strip club.
There he meets Jake, an American dancer in his early 20's. They share a room together
and Frank is attracted to this good-looking, mature boy. However, his advances are
rejected as Jake has a girlfriend, Carol, who secretly sneaks in from time to time.
Madame, an astute businessman who stars in his own extravagant cabaret show on
Friday nights, owns the House of Boys and rules it together with Emma, a caring
After one of the shows, Jake has sex with an American customer in a private backroom,
which makes Frank jealous. Despite this, Frank and Jake's relationship doesn't suffer. In
fact they become really close friends after Jake dumps his girlfriend when she confesses
to having had an abortion, unbeknownst to Jake. After a concert night, Jake and Frank's
relationship deepens and they make love for the first time.
This newfound happiness is threatened when Jake falls ill. He is diagnosed with a new
disease officially called AIDS, but referred to as 'gay cancer'. Since this is bad for
business, Jake and Frank have to leave the House of Boys. Emma offers them her help
and a room in her apartment but Jake's illness only gets worse and he is checked into a
hospital. Here he is accommodated in the closed section of the infectious diseases unit.
During his long agony, Frank never moves from his friend's side, even though Jake is
now completely ravaged by a general Kaposi syndrome. Emma pays regular visits to the
boys. Frank still has an irrational hope that Jake will get better. He promises him that
they will visit Essaouira together, a place that Jake has always dreamed of visiting
because his idol, Jimmy Hendrix, once lived there. The very next day, Jake dies while
Frank is asleep on a chair next to him.
Frank and Carol then make a journey to Morocco where they throw Jake's ashes into the
sea from the old rampart walls of Essaouira. They feel happy in themselves and are able
to look optimistically to a hopeful future.
THE DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
S STATEMENT
'Talk About It', that has been the slogan launched by Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan and other
spokespeople through UNAIDS – sounding the alarm, that the battle against AIDS is far
from over.
Contributing to the prevention of AIDS can take many forms, but the fact is that cinema,
worldwide, has long since forgotten about AIDS. People have neglected AIDS as a
deadly disease. HOUSE OF BOYS will be in that sense a time document, that shows
terrifying images, as seen in the 'dark ages' of this epidemic; in order for new
generations to visualize the horror beyond description and thus hopefully awaken
consciousness and public awareness.
HOUSE OF BOYS will certainly be tragic, even though I might see it sometimes as a feel
good comedy with funny, witty and colourful characters, set up around a dramatic love
story. 'I don't want be a director, I want to simply make a good movie!' I consider making
a film to be teamwork, driven by a positive and creative input from cast and crew. I do
believe that our strength lies in a very powerful script and its classic, but timeless
approach of story telling.
Line producer:
LA NUIT MEDICIS (2007), THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (2004- Michael Radford),
AUTOBAHNRASER (2003 – Michael Keusch), THE EMPEROR'S WIFE (2002 – Julien
Vrebos), MOONLIGHT (2001 -Paula van der Oest), CQ (2000 – Roman Coppola),
CHRISTIE MALRY'S OWN- DOUBLE ENTRY (1999 – Paul Tickell), SHADOW OF A
VAMPIRE (1999 – Elias Merhige)
Producer or executive producer:
PERL ODER PICA (2006 – Pol Cruchten), SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE (1988 – Pol
Cruchten), SNIPER (1994 – Pol Cruchten), BLACK DJU (1995 – Pol Cruchten)
Production manager:
DANIELLE STEEL'S JEWELS (1992 – Robert Young), THREE SHAKE-A-LEG STEPS
TO HEAVEN (1993 – Andy Bausch), LORENZ IM LAND DER LÜGER (1995 – Jürgen
Brauer), AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS (1996 – Anthony Waller), BACK IN
TROUBLE (1997 – Andy Bausch), ABELTJE – THE FLYING LIFTBOY (1998 – Ben
Sombogaart), 81/2 WOMEN (1998 – Peter Greenaway), FORTESS 2 (1998 – Geoff
Murphy), WARBURG (1990 – Moshe Mizrahi), ABRACADABRA (1991 – Harry Cleven),
LE CHINOIS (1991 – Vittorio Sindoni), LA GUERRE BLANCHE (1991 – Pedro Maso sr.)
More Songs For life – Music inspired by the Screenplay of House of Boys
Director's office : Productions audiovisuelles 46, rue Schrobilgen L-2526 Luxembourg
Ph. +352 44 96 61 Mobile: +352 061 503 100
THE PRODUCER'S STATEMENT
A true love story of the 80's , where highlife and fashion extravagance had its highlights,
where music was outrageous and nightclubbing a new way of life.
This stylish set-up is the background of a deeply moving romance between two young
men. There is a common saying that there is no love without suffering. The beginning of
the AIDS epidemic sounded the end of the 80's and turned into a major tragedy for a lot
of people around the world.
The universal theme of love and tragedy, joy and suffering is far older than the movies.
In a classic melodramatic style, influenced by Douglas Sirk and Rainer Fassbinder – how
could it be different?
The director wants to bring to the screen a direct, heartbreaking, funny, crazy, sexy
One Response to "House of Boys Premiere"
# Pedro on 17 Nov 2009 at 10:58
Mais c'est bien, le résumé raconte déjà tout le film, alors plus besoin de payer 8 Euros pour aller au cinéma!
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Das  Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ)  Bildung wurde Anfang 2012 am Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation in Frankfurt am Main als Service eingerichtet,  um die  nachhaltige  Dokumentation  und  Archivierung  von  Daten  und  Instrumenten  der Bildungsforschung in systematischer Weise abzusichern. Damit wurde auf den Bedeutungszuwachs reagiert, den qualitative Forschungsansätze mit video- und audiogestützten sowie bildbasierten Methoden in der zurückliegenden Dekade erfahren haben. Das FDZ Bildung ist vom Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten als vertrauenswürdiger Dienstleister akkreditiert und ist Kernpartner im Verbund Forschungsdaten Bildung.

Aufgaben und Inhalte
Die im FDZ Bildung enthaltenen Forschungsdaten und Erhebungsinstrumente stammen aus Projekten der Bildungsforschung, insbesondere der Schulqualitätsforschung, die mit öffentlichen Mitteln finanziert werden. Das Angebot des Forschungsdatenzentrums fokussiert entsprechend dem festgestellten Desiderat insbesondere auf den Bereich der qualitativen Daten, d. h. auf audio-visuelle und auditive Daten und deren numerisch-textuelle Auswertungs- und Dokumentationsmaterialien. Enthaltene Datentypen sind v. a.:
 Videoaufzeichnungen z. B. von beobachteten Unterrichtssituationen und Interviews
 Audioaufnahmen von Interviews (z. B. mit Lehrkräften)
 Transkripte der Video- und Audioaufnahmen
 Narrative Beschreibungen des beobachteten Settings (z. B. Lektionsbeschreibungen zu videographierten Unterrichtslektionen)
 Kodierungen für videographierte Situationen (z. B. Übersichten in Form von tabellarischen Darstellungen des Ablaufs einer Unterrichtsstunde im zeitlichen Verlauf) als niedrig inferentes Beobachtungsinstrument.

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Blackhawks One Win from Stanley Cup Title
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The Chicago Blackhawks came out in Game 5 after losing two straight contests on the road to beat the Philadelphia Flyers and take a 3-2 series lead in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals. The Hawks exploded for three goals in the first period and never lost the lead.
Home ice has certainly been beneficial for the Blackhawks during the playoffs. They have lost there just three times throughout the post-season. Coming off a close overtime loss in Game 3 and a two goal loss in Game 4, the 'Hawks looked to retake control of the series at home.
Chicago was led by Dustin Byfuglien, who scored two goals and two assists in the 7-4 victory. He set up the last two goals of the period for the Blackhawks, and added the last goals in the second and third periods.
"Getting down there two games in their building, we had to come back with some fire and get on them and show them we weren't going to quit," Byfuglien said. "Right from the get-go we moved our feet and were physical."
Byfuglien had eight goals in the first three rounds of the playoffs, but hadn't scored in the last four games, stopped that streak Sunday. Teammate Patrick Kane also added a goal and assist, and praised his winger after the game.
"I think he got rid of us and started performing. That's all he needed," said Kane. "He was a force and had some big hits, one on [Chris] Pronger I think everyone remembers."
The line of Kane, Byfuglien, and Jonathan Toews was split up by Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville after they failed to perform in the finals like they had during the opening rounds of the playoffs. The players were willing to try anything to break up their poor performance.
"We had to change things up. We didn't really have time to sit and think about who we were playing with. It was kind of like the last second," Byfuglien said.
Now, the Blackhawks are one win away from reaching the pinnacle of professional hockey. They will try to take the cup from the Flyers at Philadelphia in Game 6.
NHL Sportsbooks have set the 'Hawks as the underdogs to close out the series at +110. The Flyers underdog line has been set at -130, and the over/under for total goals scored in the game is 5 1/2.


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Edinburgh is an excellent base for exploring Scotland. If you are considering taking long distance rail journeys from Edinburgh, it's best to book your tickets at least two weeks in advance to get the best possible fare.
Buying train tickets in advance also means your seat is reserved which is very handy on early morning or evening peak time trains. Avoid booking your train tickets through a foreign agent in order to get the cheapest fares possible.
Using local booking systems is very easy and convenient although choosing the right type of train ticket can be tricky. Tickets are not mailed out to you. You must collect them from the Waverley railway station in Edinburgh.
For short distance train journeys from Edinburgh you can buy your tickets on the day you travel from the Travel Centre at Waverley Station. If you're in a hurry, you can buy your ticket on the train as it leaves Edinburgh but remember that you don't benefit from any ticket discounts and you pay the full single fare. Paying two full fares is more expensive than a cheap return ticket.
If you're in Edinburgh for more than a couple of days then you might consider one or two short train trips to some local places. The villages and towns around Edinburgh are quite extraordinary and you'll get a chance to see the quiet side of modern Scottish life.
Tickets are not interchangeable, you cannot travel with Virgin Trains if you have a NXEC (which replaced GNER) ticket or vice versa.
You can normally take your bicycle on the train but you must make reservations for the cycle space. This is usually free of charge.
Frequent Intercity train services to and from Edinburgh are usually on time and delays may appear occasionally on the longer distance rail journeys. If you happen to miss one, however, you can always catch another one.