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Q: How do I access my JSON data in Javascript from an ASP sub I need your help. How do I go about accessing my JSON data that my ASP sub has created and use it in a Javscript enviroment? My goal is to eventually use the JSON data to render a datatable. I unsure as to how to access the ASP variable JSON using javascript to manipulate the data later.
Here is the code that is working:
<%
    sub search

         Dim cn
         Dim rs
         Dim sSQL
         Dim JSON

        set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

        cn.Open "ConnectionString"

        sSQL = "SELECT * FROM tbl_offices"

        set rs = cn.Execute(sSQL)

        JSON = RStoJSON(rs)

        response.write(JSON)

        response.flush

        rs.Close
        set rs = nothing

        cn.close
        set cn = nothing

    end sub

    %>

I'd like to access the stored JSON data in my Dim JSON using JavaScript
<form name="GO" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="Search" class="input_txt_search" />
    <input type = "submit" name="GO" value="GO"/>
</form>

<%
    if Request.Form("GO") = "GO" then

        search

    End If
%>

A: You can output the JSON like this to be used in the html later:
response.write("<script>")
response.write("var obj = " & JSON)
response.write("</script>")


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TELFA – Our vision
What does TELFA offer
Associate TELFA
USLAW Network
Employment/Labour
Start-up and Innovation companies
This article aims to illustrate the introduction of a tax regime for the Start-up and innovation companies, provided by the Italian Government.
The concept of Innovative Start-up consists in companies, also not resident in Italy, which has formal and substantial requirements.
In particular, to be named as Innovative Start-up, the company has to assume the form of a capital company as: Ltd. (i.e. S.r.l.), Inc. (i.e. S.p.A.), Limited partnership (i.e S.a.p.a.), or a cooperative company.
The Start-up could be considered as innovative it has to own particular features, as following: first, it has to own the exclusive or predominant social object of the development, production and marketing of innovative products or services of high technological value; moreover has to own its head office in Italy or in an EU or EU country (European Economic Area) provided that it has a production site or a branch in Italy; has been constituted for no more than 60 months; the total value of the annual production of the company, starting from the second year, should not exceed 5 million euros; do not distribute profits for the entire duration of the scheme; do not arise from merging, splitting or divesting company / branch business.
The company, also, has to own at least one of the following features: it has to support R & D costs exceeding 15 percent of the higher value between cost and total value of production; it has to employ as employees or collaborators, by any means, alternatively: a person with a PhD degree or a PhD in a degree or more than 1/3 of his or her workforce, having a master's degree of at least 2/3 of its own strength work; it has to be an owner or custodian or licensor of at least one industrial property. The deed of incorporation for innovative start-ups may include the following features: the creation of categories of participation shares provided for specific rights, with the possibility of freely determining, within the limits imposed by law, the content of the different categories; the creation of lacking voting shares or voting rights which are not proportional to the share held by the shareholders or which confer voting rights limited to particular matters or subject to the occurrence of particular conditions; participation shares held in innovative start-ups in the form of limited liability companies may be the subject of public offering of financial products, including through fundraising portals (crowd-financing); innovative start-ups in the form of limited liability companies may, by way of derogation from the prohibition on carrying out their shareholdings, carry out operations in the form of incentive plans involving the allocation of allowances to employees, employees, directors and professionals; the memorandum of incorporation of innovative start-ups may include the issue of financial instruments of capital rights or of administrative rights with the exclusion of voting rights in respect of contributions made by members or third parties, whether or not services.
The measures described below are available to innovative start-up immediately after registration, for a maximum of 5 years since their date of incorporation.
The new procedure of incorporation presents several advantages. First of all, its usage is free-of-charge: no specific costs related to the establishment of the new enterprise are envisaged, implying a huge savings for innovative entrepreneurs as opposed to the standard procedure by notarial deed.
Unlike most companies, innovative start-ups and certified incubators are exempt from the payment of stamp duty and fees incurred due to the obligation of entering the Business Register, as well as from the payment of the annual fee usually owed to the Chambers of Commerce. In addition, as clarified in the Circular 16/E issued by the Italian Revenue Agency on 11 June 2014, the exemption from such fees could be interpreted as a general waiver, covering all the actions carried out by the innovative start-ups after the subscription to the company register, such as incentivized capital increases.
Another important benefit concerning the provision that innovative start-ups are not subjected to regulations concerning non-operational companies and companies registering systematic losses. Accordingly, in case they cannot get "appropriate" revenues, they are exempted from fiscal penalties applied to so-called "dummy companies", such as the computation of a minimum income and taxable base for corporate taxation purpose (IRAP).
In general, innovative start-ups comply with the regulations on fixed-term contracts as defined in Decree-Law 81/2015 (known as "Jobs Act"). Therefore, innovative start-ups can hire a staffer on a fixed-term contract for a maximum of 36 months. However, in derogation to Jobs Act's provisions, innovative start-ups can hire personnel through fixed-term contracts of any duration, even very short, which can be renewed as many times as wished. After 36 months, the contract can be renewed only once, for 12 months maximum, leading to an overall employment duration of 48 months. By the end of this 4-year period, the fixed-term contract is automatically converted into an open-ended one. Moreover, in exception to general regulation, innovative start-ups with more than 5 employees are not required to maintain a statutory ratio between fixed-term and active open-ended contracts.
In particular, salaries due to workers employed in innovative start-ups can have a variable component linked to efficiency or profit-ability of the company, the productivity of the employee or the team of employees, or to other objectives and parameters for output and performance as agreed upon by the parties, including through stock options and work-for-equity schemes. The main benefit deriving by the investment in an innovative star-up is a tax deduction of personal income tax (i.e. IRPEF) for the individuals who want to invest in a start-up of 40 per cent until one million Euro, for legal entities the benefit consists in a fiscal deduction on the taxable income for company tax purposes (i.e. IRES) equal to 40% of the amount invested, up to a maximum of € 1.8 million. Furthermore, again limited to 2019, the deduction on the taxable income for company tax purposes (i.e. IRES) is raised up to 50% for subjects (other than innovative start-ups) who acquire the entire share capital of an innovative start-up, on condition that it is maintained for at least 3 years. In this sense, another benefit is: in case the losses exceeding 1/3 of the share capital, it is possible to return the loss within this limit within the second subsequent year (rather than within the following year); in the event of a reduction in share capital below the legal minimum, it is possible to wait until the end of the following year to resolve the reduction of the capital and the simultaneous increase of the same to a figure not less than the legal minimum.
A fundamental condition to be admitted to the mentioned benefits is to the inscription in a special section of the Business Register made by the Italian Chamber of Commerce.
At last, for entrepreneurs in case they open a new start-up during the 2019 they could pay a small percentage of personal income tax (i.e. IRPEF), indeed, the taxable income would be just the 5% for five years. The conditions to apply the provision are:
the taxpayer has not exercised, in the three previous years, artistic activity, professional or business, also in an associated or family form;
the activity to be carried out does not constitute, in any way, a mere continuation of another activity previously carried out in the form of employment or self-employment, excluding the where this activity constitutes a mandatory period of practice for the purpose of the exercise art / profession;
if the activity is the continuation of an activity carried out by another person, the amount of revenue / compensation for the previous tax period is not greater to the revenue / compensation limits set for the flat rate scheme.
Written by Sergio SIRABELLA, Counsel & Luca TITTARELLI, associate
About Telfa
info@telfa.law
© 2022 TELFA - created by Adgensite Webmarketing

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The utilization of osmium tetroxide as an oxidant can provide a synthetic entry into lactam derivatives in the bisindole area. In complimentary investigations it was shown that iodine and air oxidation of a series of bisindole alkaloids can also provide some novel lactam derivatives. These substances are important for the purpose of biological evaluation as potential anti-tumor agents and, in particular, for information relating to structure-activity relationships in the clinically important vinblastine family of alkaloids.


As a Faith Formation team, their goal is to join together in supporting parents and anyone else who enters our church doors through each step of their faith journey to know, love and serve the Lord. Children need the structure of family and the support of their parish to ground them in their Faith Journey. Religious education volunteers help plan, organize and direct religious education for the congregation's family with school age children.
Volunteers prepare parents and godparents in the theological aspects of the Sacrament of Baptism. Their responsibilities include collecting information needed for Baptism, providing information to the parents, preparing Baptismal certificates and registering them with the parish. Ministers are encouraged to witness their faith, share their experiences in the faith and to provide guidance for choosing godparents.
"Can you not spend one hour with me?" Matt 26:40 Spend an hour with the Lord in our beautiful Adoration Chapel (located in our Parish Hall across from the Religious Ed Office). God longs for your company. Come, be still in His presence and hear what Our Lord has to say to you.
Assist Religious Ed Department and Retreat Team in preparations for retreat. This includes setting up the environment, preparing and serving meals, welcome Confirmation students and their parents and be available during the weekend if needed.
This is a faith sharing/study group who meet weekly to prepare for the following Sunday's Scripture readings. Father Bertrand is their spiritual director. Members prepare in advance, attend weekly meetings and have a desire to grow spiritually to be prepared for Sunday Mass.
Faith sharing and study group that come together to prepare for Sunday's readings and to read and study the Bible.
Safe Environment training is required for any volunteer at St. Anne's. They provide orientation for all employed and volunteer personnel who have contact with children, youth and vulnerable adults. Those that assist with training are responsible for making packets for the initial training and continuing education sessions, schedule training classes throughout the year and maintain files on all employees and volunteers.
Looking for interested individuals to share inspirational readings with each other. Our goal is to meet every few months and discuss our thoughts and joys about the selection.
This is a faith sharing group of teens that meet two to three times per month when there are few religious sharing opportunities available for them. Volunteers will help the teens prepare for Sunday's readings and share their Faith Journey with each other.


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Odisha: Miscreants loot gold jewellery from woman DSP at gunpoint in Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 26 (ANI): Two miscreants snatched a gold chain and other jewellery from a woman police officer at gunpoint in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. As per reports, the incident took place when DSP (Vigilance) Tanuja Mohanty was standing in front of her residence and the bike-borne miscreants looted gold ornaments, including chain, earrings, and bangles, from her at gunpoint and fled. Prasanna Das, the husband of the lady officer, while speaking to the ANI said, "Two men came on a bike. They enquired about an address from my wife, who was on the phone. After my wife replied saying she did not have any idea, they kept a gun on her head and started snatching her gold chain, bangles, and earrings. When I tried to come near to help her, they threatened to kill her and fled with the gold items." A case has been filed at the Kharavela Nagar police station, after which a manhunt has been launched to nab the miscreants. The cases of chain snatchings have been increasing in the city since the lockdown. Last week, the police arrested two chain-snatchers and recovered eight gold chains from them. (ANI)


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Final Approach
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It's a remake of an old Atari 2600 title which put you in the role of an Air Traffic Controller.
The original gave you direct control of several planes, which you needed to firstly get lined up with the runway, and then switch to a landing mode, where you controlled the landing in a very hands-on manner.
My version offers improved graphics, multiple levels, new obstactles, and mouse control.
Landing:
Once a plane is lined up with the runway, the GCA button will flash, and an air traffic controller will tell you that you are cleared to land.
Click the GCA button and you will enter the landing phase. Move the mouse up/down, and left/right to keep the plane on the indicated flightpath.
This takes practice, but it is very rewarding once you get the knack, so persevere. The tail of the plane should be just on the indicated flightpath
(both in the side and top views).
If you stay close enough to the flightpath for about 50% of the landing, and manage to land with your tail right at the edge of the runway, you should receive some points based on how closely you followed it. I think the maximum
points available for a landing is 50?
Simple as can be, just use the mouse to select and drag a new bearing for each plane.
You can use the cursor keys and space bar in lieu of the mouse, but no guarantee that it will be much fun.
You can either click, hold, drag the new heading, or,
click, release, click...either works.


Theme: Building strong institutions for equal and inclusive societies.
Briefing by Ms. Merekaje Lorna Nanjia, Secretary-General, South Sudan Democratic Engagement Monitoring and Observation Programme on United Nations peacekeeping operations: Women in peacekeeping at the 8508th meeting of the Security Council.
Ireland has participated in UN Peacekeeping since the 1950s. Today more than 400 Irish "Blue Helmets" serve in Lebanon. 3 peacekeepers describe their pride in serving their country and the United Nations.
Panel discussion organized by OECD and UNDP.


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Ducey proposes earned-income tax credit in $14B budget plan
By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press
Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey gives his state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Phoenix.
Ross D. Franklin - staff, AP
PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday proposed a tax credit for Arizona's low-income workers, the first time in his eight years of pushing tax cuts that he pitched a benefit targeted at the bottom end of the income spectrum.
In his final budget proposal before leaving office, Ducey proposed a $14.3 billion spending plan that includes more corporate tax cuts as well as a new earned-income tax credit for people who work but earn low wages.
Ducey projects the state will start the fiscal year on July 1 with $2 billion in the bank because revenue has far outpaced expectations when the prior budget was approved last summer. He targets much of his new proposed spending on infrastructure, such as building repairs at prisons and water projects.
The Republican governor pledged upon taking office in 2015 to cut taxes every year he's governor, and he's kept his word so far. But his prior tax cut proposals have either been narrowly targeted to a specific group — like an end to taxation of veterans' pensions — or have primarily benefited corporations and wealthy taxpayers.
His earned-income tax credit proposal would benefit 572,000 taxpayers with an average benefit of $128 per year, according to Ducey's aides. It would be open to taxpayers earning less than $50,000 a year, who would get 5% of the federal earned-income tax credit for which they qualify.
Anti-poverty advocates have credited the federal earned-income tax credit as a big boon to low-wage workers, providing a lump sum of cash at tax-filing time. It's generally enjoyed bipartisan support, with Democrats touting its benefits for the poor and Republicans promoting it as a reward for working.
Ducey set aside $58 million for a corporate tax cut but did not offer details. His aides said the exact plan would be worked out with lawmakers.
Ducey's proposal, up 11% from the current budget, is his opening pitch to lawmakers. He'll negotiate a final spending plan with Republican legislative leaders in the coming months.
Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios of Phoenix, the chamber's top Democrat, praised Ducey's earned-income tax credit proposal and his plan to increase payments to grandparents or other relatives raising children who would otherwise be in foster care. But she said the governor should not be giving corporations more tax cuts.
"This windfall will dry up, and we will at some point find ourselves, unfortunately, in a recession like we were in 2008," Rios said.
The governor's proposed education spending is welcome but falls far short of raising Arizona from near the bottom of states in per-pupil funding, she said.
Ducey also proposed giving raises to thousands of state workers, including troopers and correctional officers. He wants to cover the higher cost of transferring inmates to a private prison from a state-run facility in Florence, which he wants to close.
He proposed $50 million in new border spending, an unspecified portion of which to pay for a prison-style fence on private property at the border.
He also wants to spend $26 million to offer free tuition for graduates of an accelerated one-year training program for nurses at Creighton University's new campus near Downtown Phoenix.
Ducey's proposed new education spending includes nearly $120 million for two programs based on a school's performance as measured by an A-F letter grade. In general, better-performing schools — which tend to serve wealthier families — would be eligible for larger grants. He'd also spend $20 million on transportation programs for parents who don't send their child to their neighborhood school, a major boon for the school choice movement that Ducey has enthusiastically supported.
For higher education, he'd continue indefinitely $46 million in one-time funding approved last year for the state's three universities. That money has boosted engineering at Arizona State University, health, mining, space and defense at University of Arizona and health care at Northern Arizona University.
Among his other proposals, Ducey would deposit $425 million in the rainy day fund and make the first of three deposits toward a $1 billion water infrastructure fund, a major proposal from his state of the state address on Monday. While he suggested in that address building a plant to turn sea water into drinking water, his actual proposal is much more generic.
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Some in GOP begin testing party's lockstep loyalty to Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party, holding a rally in Arizona on Saturday in which he castigated anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, including the state's GOP governor, Doug Ducey.
Biden's news conference takes abrupt, lengthy turn
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first half of one of his rare news conferences as president, Joe Biden stuck to an organized plan, calling on reporters from a list in a binder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Biden backers 'not seeing the results' a year into his term
NEW YORK (AP) — Just over a year ago, millions of energized young people, women, voters of color and independents joined forces to send Joe Biden to the White House. But 12 months into his presidency, many describe a coalition in crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital for protecting democracy appeared headed for defeat as the Senate churned into debate Tuesday, a devastating setback enabled by President Joe Biden's own party as two holdout senators refuse to support rule changes to overcome a Republican filibuster.
Georgia mayor resigns day before fraud hearing in court
STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta mayor announced he's resigning from office Tuesday, a day before he was scheduled to appear before a federal judge on fraud charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights leaders say is vital to protecting democracy collapsed when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster after a raw, emotional debate.
Legal risks in sedition conspiracy case against Oath Keepers
The seditious conspiracy case against members and associates of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group marks the boldest attempt so far by the government to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol, but invoking the rarely used charge carries considerable risks.
Irvin, Aurora's 1st Black mayor, makes GOP bid for governor
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin joined the gubernatorial fray on Monday, entering the race as a Republican challenging incumbent Democrat J.B. Pritzker.


Last week I was honored to be interview by Jamie Clark, Tessa Johnson and Michael Royall for their new podcast "The Staffroom" for Episode 2!
'The Staffroom' is created and produced by these Jamie who is an English teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator with international experience and now works at Corpus Christi College in Perth, Australia. Jamie has a passion for education research, teaching and learning and sharing innovative practice online via social media.
Michael is an Apple-certified English teacher at Corpus Christi College who has delivered professional learning sessions for staff. He is passionate about pedagogy and embedding technology into classroom practice.
Tessa is an innovative English teacher at Corpus Christi College who is always looking to further her practice. She has lead professional learning sessions for staff and has a keen interest in education research, learning technologies, and pastoral care.
The Staffroom is an education podcast created by teachers for teachers which takes a look into the world of pedagogy. Jamie describes it as follows "we meet expert educators far and wide to chat about teaching and learning and share the outstanding practice".
Pedagogy First, Technology Second – So many schools globally dump technology in classrooms and expect it to make a difference. Invest in pedagogy, people, and learning before tools and resources.
Is this going to add value to Student Learning? If the answer is No …… Get rid of it!
Connect, Engage, be authentic and purposeful in what you do and WHY you do it.
Virtual Reality is great, but Mixed Reality is even more exciting – real-world learning is almost a reality in every classroom!
Hashtags bring people together, tell a story and have potential to make a difference.
To find out about my favorite EdTech tools, how we make technology integration work at my school, PLN's and how they have changed my learning life forever plus much more download the podcast and listen today!
The podcast reaches a range of educators far and wide. From educational gurus and renowned experts to classroom practitioners keen on sharing their practice, 'The Staffroom' provides a platform to share and celebrate success and bring teachers all over the world closer together. The podcast is inspired by the Twitter teacher community and will work in close proximity to social media.
Some upcoming episodes include, 'Leadership', 'Making a Meaningful Impact with Research', 'Cognitive Psychology', 'Reducing Workload'. There are some exciting guests renowned on Twitter as influential educators and authors.


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package com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.sample;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat;

import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Distribute;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Driver;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.DriverCleanup;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.DriverContext;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.DriverInit;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.FileInput;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.FileOutput;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Grouping;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Hidden;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.JobInfo;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.JobInit;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.KeyValue;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.MapperInfo;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Partitioner;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.ReducerInfo;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.annotation.Sorter;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.event.ToolEvent;
import com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.event.ToolListener;

@Driver(value="sampleTool",
		description="A tool for testing and playing with annotations.",
		listener={com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.sample.AnnotatedTestTool.TestToolListener.class,
					com.conversantmedia.mapreduce.tool.sample.AnnotatedTestTool.TestToolListener2.class})
@Hidden
public class AnnotatedTestTool  {

	@DriverContext
	private TestToolContext context;

	@JobInfo(value = "Annotated Test  Job", numReducers = "10")
	@MapperInfo(TestMapper.class)
	@ReducerInfo(value=TestReducer.class, output=@KeyValue(key=Text.class, value=LongWritable.class))
	@FileInput(TextInputFormat.class)
	@FileOutput(TextOutputFormat.class)
	@Sorter(WritableComparator.class)
	@Grouping(WritableComparator.class)
	@Partitioner(TestPartitioner.class)
	private Job job;

	@DriverInit
	public void init() {
		// Can do extra stuff here now if we want...
		System.out.println("Context = " + this.context);
		System.out.println("Input path is: " + this.context.getInput());
		System.out.println("Output path is: " + this.context.getOutput());
		System.out.println("Archive path is: " + this.context.getArchive());
		System.out.println("My Property = " + this.context.getMyProperty());
	}

	@JobInit
	public void initJob() {
		System.out.println("Job = " + job);
	}

	@DriverCleanup
	public void cleanUp() {
		System.out.println("Cleaning up tool.");
	}

	@Distribute
	public String getMyStringResource() {
		return "Hello, World!";
	}

	public static class TestToolListener2 extends TestToolListener{	}

	public static class TestToolListener implements ToolListener<TestToolContext> {

		@Override
		public void onAfterInitCliOptions(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event,
				Options options) throws Exception {
			System.out.println("After CLI Initialization.");
		}

		@Override
		public void onAfterParseCli(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event, CommandLine line) throws Exception {
			System.out.println("After CLI Parsing.");
		}

		@Override
		public void onBeforeInitDriver(String id, ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event)
				throws Exception {
			System.out.println("Before Driver initialization: " + id + " -- " + event.getContext().getInput() + " -- " + event.getContext().getOutput());
		}

		@Override
		public void onBeforeInitJob(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event)
				throws Exception {
			System.out.println("Before Job initialization: " + event.getContext().getInput() + " -- " + event.getContext().getOutput());
		}

		@Override
		public void onBeforeMapReduceSubmit(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event)
				throws Exception {
			System.out.println("Before Submitting MR Job");
		}

		@Override
		public void onAfterMapReduceFinish(int retVal, ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event)
				throws Exception {
			System.out.println("onAfterMapReduceFinish");
		}

		@Override
		public void onBeforeExit(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event)
				throws Exception {
			System.out.println("onBeforeExit");
		}

		@Override
		public void onJobException(ToolEvent<TestToolContext> event,
				Exception e) throws Exception {
			System.out.println("onJobException");
		}

	}

	public static class TestMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, LongWritable> {

		@Override
		protected void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context)
				throws IOException, InterruptedException {
			super.map(key, value, context);
		}

	}

	public static class TestReducer extends Reducer<Text, LongWritable, Text, NullWritable> {
		@Override
		protected void reduce(Text key, Iterable<LongWritable> values,Context context)
				throws IOException, InterruptedException {
			super.reduce(key, values, context);
		}
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	public static class TestPartitioner extends org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Partitioner {

		@Override
		public int getPartition(Object key, Object value, int numPartitions) {
			return 0;
		}

	}
}

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msos.provide("apps.bootstrap2.controllers.pagination");
msos.require("ng.bootstrap.ui.pagination");

apps.bootstrap2.controllers.pagination.version = new msos.set_version(14, 8, 6);

angular.module(
    'apps.bootstrap2.controllers.pagination', []
).controller(
    'apps.bootstrap2.controllers.pagination.ctrl',
    [
        '$scope',
        function ($scope) {
            "use strict";

            $scope.totalItems = 64;
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Crater Lake National Park had a really tough winter in 2014-15.
In February, the Outdoor Society took our inaugural expedition to the region and were shocked at the little amount of snowfall. Usually, by February Crater Lake should see nearly 300 inches of snowfall. In February of 2015, it had nearly 100 inches. It was a pathetic snow year in the Pacific Northwest, and Crater Lake took a serious winter hit. Luckily, 2015 ended on a ridiculously high note for Oregon's only National Park. In the 31 days to end the year, Crater Lake received nearly 200 inches, nearly double of the entire winter of 2014-15.
Image via US National Weather Service Medford Oregon.
The image above looked nothing like that in February, or even in April when we took another trip to the park. The image above is of the lower visitor center, called the Steel Visitor Center. taken on December 31st, 2015, the image shows just how much snow has fallen this winter. When we took our trip in February, there was maybe a foot of snow around the building, all melting from the warm sun. This winter, the image looks drastically different, and people all over the region are excited. Hopefully, this winter's snow will stick around and the region can recover after a few extremely disappointing winters.
It is nice to see this winter breaking records of snowfall after such a terrible winter last year. The mountains of the west are recovering, and hopefully the trend continues. With each inch of snowpack we receive, we are that much closer to healthier rivers and streams, helping millions of salmon return to the waterways of the Pacific Northwest. The images of a snowy Crater Lake are not only beautiful and impressive, they are something to enjoy in person. If you haven't seen Crater Lake National Park, it is quite inspiring. Crater Lake is one of the fastest growing parks based on visitation numbers, and could break one million visitors for the first time ever in 2016.
Standing along the crater rim, it is easy to fall in love with the Oregon Cascades; the wilderness and natural beauty of Crater Lake is impossible to miss. Even during the drought of 2014-15, Crater Lake was absolutely stunning and worth every second spent driving there. I say this about every National park, but I strongly encourage you all to head to Crater Lake in 2016. While it might be packed in the summer days, taking an off season trip (with or without snow) is sure to leave you captivated by the majesty of the Oregon Cascades. See the highlights of a trip to Crater Lake National Park here.


Appsian - CISO Survival: Are You Protecting Your Sensitive Data?
CISO Survival: Are You Protecting Your Sensitive Data?
Do You Even Know What and Where It Is?
A war room, in this instance, is an immediate incident response step and is typically a dedicated conference room full of 'smart' people that is setup to lead identification and remediation activities around a suspected or confirmed security breach.
Once the firefighting was done and the immediate threat remediated, the team moved into forensics mode, where the questions moved from 'what happened?' to 'how did this happen?'.
That CISO is no longer employed by that travel company.
Presumably it is a position that leads the charge to ensure that the organization is adequately protecting all data that is proprietary and/or necessary to conduct business operations. That casts a pretty wide net.
But that net, in addition to proprietary business intellectual property, clearly includes customer, partner and employee data. The compromise of any of these can lead to major impacts to business operations.
A phishing attack yields the credentials of an application-level, high privileged user? Well, that application is essentially 'owned' by the bad guy. What kind of damage can they now do?
Even the compromise of lower level users can lead to a bad guy being able to escalate privileges and/or leap frog across other applications in the enterprise.
Aside from the potential for business disruption, the exposure and malicious use of sensitive data can lead to major financial losses and regulatory penalties for any organization.
Data awareness is a critical component of today's CISO responsibilities. Knowing where your sensitive data lives is key. Knowing the mechanisms of how it's accessed and managed is just as key.
In the current compliance environment, data privacy is a hot button that is shaping many of the new regulations around the digital economy. Whether it be GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act or the multitude of other mandates on how companies will be required to support data privacy, the anticipated responsibilities of the CISO are evolving well beyond having a handle on your network protection controls.
Application awareness is becoming a necessity. Understanding what applications are housing sensitive data; whether it be a legacy ERP system or a cutting-edge cloud application, will be an inventory a CISO will be expected to maintain.
Contact us to see how Appsian can help inventory and address your sensitive data exposure in ERP applications.


Build memories, Christmas, connecting, Joy, Perfection?
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There are so many opportunities to connect with our kids at this time of year. Special food, special events, lights and color and magic all around. …As long as we don't work ourselves to the point of break-down or freak-out trying to make that "perfect" Christmas.
I remember a couple years ago, flipping out at my husband. He is normally a more than full-partner partner, but toward the end of the year, his work gets insane, and I'm lucky to see him for half an hour in the mornings, never mind dinner, and we're all usually asleep when he gets home at night. Nearly all the Christmas prep, then, falls to me.
He had made some comment – I've no idea what he said exactly – about my not stressing out, or why did I have to spend so much money at this time of year. I, close to the breaking point anyway what with doing my work and my home-work and his home-work and being solely responsible for all the preparations, gift buying, wrapping, cooking, etc., well, I flipped.
So, yeah, don't get to that point.
I know you, you high-expectations, high-achieving, want-it-to-be-great-Mamma. You will run yourself to the edge of crazy making beautiful Christmas for your family. Just don't run yourself over the edge, that's all I'm saying.
You see, there is no perfect. There are many and varied opportunities for magic, you don't have to touch them all to have a wonderful Christmas. Pick what matters to you and your family, do that, and then give yourself a break.
If the cards don't get out, that's okay. If you buy your cookies instead of making them, that's okay. If you skip the party to go sledding, that's fine too. Whatever works for you.
The point of Christmas is to be closer. It's about love and peace and joy. It's about remembering the guy who came to tell us that people are more important than stuff. To celebrate the light of the world coming into the darkness.
Be light, then. In heart and in home.


Enjoy a FREE Children and Adults Clothing and Toy Swap with PCC Sylvania Women's Resource Center!
Bring or drop off gently worn items (clothing, accessories, toys) and pick up 'new-to-you' pieces without spending money on new clothes! Nothing to bring? Come anyway!
You may drop off items at the Women's Resource Center starting Monday November 16th located at CC 268 (back of cafeteria at the PCC Sylvania Campus).


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UAE Golden Jubilee: Thumbay University Hospital offers free health packages for Emiratis
The Better Health 50 campaign will run from November 11 up to December 31
Maryam Ali Al Memary, CEO ,Citizen Affairs Office, Government of Ajman and Dr. Essam Soliman M. Atta ,Associate Director, Business Development & Medical Affairs Healthcare Division, Thumbay Group at the signing ceremony of the health campaign. Supplied photo
Published: Wed 10 Nov 2021, 11:50 PM
Thumbay University Hospital in Ajman has launched free of cost health packages to mark the UAE's golden jubilee. The initiative under the theme 'Better Health 50' will benefit 500 Emirati couples and run from November 11 up to December 31.
The health packages that cover doctor's consultation are designed to diagnose, monitor, and prevent health problems and help each citizen to lead healthier life. The diagnostic tests will be conducted at Thumbay Labs and will cover up to 73 body parameters such as hormonal profile, lipid profile, CBC, urea, blood sugar, bilirubin total, vitamins, calcium levels etc. Family members who wish to avail the packages will get a discount of 50 per cent.
"UAE's visionary leaders have enabled massive transformation of the country leading to economic growth in leaps and bounds. Healthcare sector has immensely benefitted with this growth. Everyone in the UAE has a chance to grow and fulfill their dreams. UAE leaders have always believed in reaching out and giving back to the society as a part of their culture. Through this initiative we are following the path of our leaders, this is our way of giving back to the citizens of this country who have been contributors in our growth over the years as well as promote health awareness amongst them," said Dr. Thumbay Moideen, founder president, Thumbay Group, while launching the campaign.
Appreciating the initiative, Citizens Affairs Office, Government of Ajman, said, "We are proud to partner with Thumbay University Hospital to offer healthcare benefits to our citizens on the occasion of golden jubilee celebrations. Through this initiative we acknowledge the contribution of our founding fathers and each and every citizen towards building this great nation."
For more details visit www.thumbayuniversityhospital.com or call 06 770 5555/056
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650 Raulstontown Rd is a $189,500, 1,973 square foot, 3 bedroom, 3.0 bath home on a 1.25 acre lot located in South Pittsburg, TN.
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The truth is, if you understand your prescription and have your existing rx glasses useful, it is actually quite simple to buy glasses online.
your current prescription. I keep mine in the health file in my own filing cabinet. If you can't find your prescription, visit wherever you last had your eye examined and request a duplicate. Your optician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist is required by law release a your eyewear prescription to you. You now need to make note of a few critical pieces of information from your prescription (see example above–click to enlarge). Among other information, you should see three columns on your prescription–sphere, cylinder, and axis.
Within the example prescription above, you will see the Pupillary Distance of the individual is 62. Jot down this amount also, it's the seventh of your seven critical numbers.
A somewhat less critical number is your temple span. If you're blessed, you'll also visit a temple duration and bridge size in your prescription. If not, don't sweat it, you can number it out yourself. The temple size describes the length of both bars that hook up the glasses to your ears. It is measured from where the 90-level curve from your zoom lens structure to the side bars (temples) begins to the very end of the temple, like the curve. It isn't measured from the flex point of the temples, because the "stub" between your flex point and zoom lens structure is not a standard size.
Now, remove some measuring tape (preferably the kind of tape used for fitted clothes and sewing, as it's very flexible) and assess an existing pair of glasses that fit pleasantly. An average temple period for men is 135mm or 145mm. For females, 130mm to 140mm is standard. If the tape only has inches, measure to the nearest eighth or sixteenth and multiply that number by 25.4 to obtain the measurement in millimeters. Temple lengths are generally available in 5mm increments, such as 130, 135, 140, 145, etc. For the most part online glasses stores, temple period is shown within the frame description and is also not customizable. Therefore, you need to discover a frame with a proper temple size. This sometimes varies if you are in a site focusing on designer spectacles, where you have the option to type your own temple size.
Actually, temple size is not a huge deal. I have one couple of spectacles with 135mm temples and another with 140mm temples. Both pairs fit pleasantly. If for some reason you can't think of a temple measurement, don't allow that stop you from making an eyewear purchase online. Instead, simply choose 140mm temples if you are a man and 135mm temples if you are a woman. It's likely that, this duration will fit comfortably.


For the past three years, ASTRO Gaming has been a proud partner of the Call of Duty® World League; powering their feature stations, main stage and the open bracket with our MixAmp Pro TR. Alongside the CWL, we continually strive to bring players and fans the best audio experience possible. Today, we are excited to announce an upgrade to our partnership as we introduce the official complete audio solution for the 2019 Call of Duty World League season, the ASTRO TR Main Stage Audio System.
Working closely with the Call of Duty World League over the course of the last two years, we've jointly defined competitive audio requirements and developed the ASTRO TR Main Stage Audio System as a design-focused solution meant to improve performance on all feature and main stages.
From our experience designing the ASTRO Tournament Ready line of products, including the A40 TR headset and MixAmp Pro TR, we understand the rigorous audio demands players have when competing in tournament environments. With the ASTRO TR Main Stage Audio System, game sound and voice chat is delivered within a noise isolating ecosystem meant to improve performance, comfort and team communications.
The ASTRO TR Main Stage System features 3 core components – a modified A40 TR headset, MixAmp Pro TR with tournament-specific EQ settings, and a high performance in-ear monitor as part of the required setup.
The modified A40 TR Headset features added sound isolation material to reinforce the A40 TR earcups, along with leather ear cushions and closed back Speaker Tags. Tweaking the clamping force on the headset itself ensures a better seal from the outside environment. The A40 TR headset also features a custom designed gooseneck microphone for improved communication in high intensity, high impact environments when clear comms are essential to winning. Easily adjustable, the mic holds its position firmly and has been designed to isolate player voice chat from background noise of fans and casters.
The MixAmp has been a core component at esports events for the last 10 years. The MixAmp Pro TR receives game sound from the PlayStation 4 console and renders it in Dolby Headphone Surround Sound, giving players hyper-accurate spatial awareness. The MixAmp Pro TR also features a daisy-chaining feature that connects each player directly, giving teams a crystal-clear personal voice network. The stream output on the MixAmp Pro TR is utilized to feed the combined team chat into the broadcast, enabling the ASTRO Listen-In segments. We also developed new EQ settings for the MixAmp Pro TR to work with our custom in-ear monitors which deliver game sounds for all players.
ASTRO developed a custom in-ear monitor for all players which works in close conjunction with the A40 TR headset and MixAmp Pro TR. Players wear the in-ear monitors under the A40 TR headset, with the A40 delivering white noise and sound isolation critical to competitive events, while the in-ear monitors deliver clear and accurate game sound tuned specifically for the Call of Duty soundscape. The in-ear monitors feature a balanced armature design which greatly exceeds the performance of typical earbuds.
The right gear improves gaming performance. Not only do players gain clarity in their audio cues, team communication is expanded and improved when needed most. An elevated performance delivers better results, which means a better game for everyone.
Our primary goal was to ensure pro players had high quality game and voice chat audio, while simultaneously providing sound isolation to keep outside interference with their game to a minimum. Comfort is nearly as important as audio quality: players who will be wearing headsets for an extended period of time rely on their gear withstanding long hours of play without impacting performance.
We also want to provide the best possible audio for viewers during the ASTRO Listen-Ins, and the noise isolating ecosystem featured in the ASTRO TR Main Stage System delivers the best spectator experience available.
Everything we do at ASTRO Gaming is focused on our goal to improve the sport of gaming. We are thrilled we are able to partner up with the Call of Duty World League to bring to players and fans the best possible gaming audio experience. The ASTRO TR Main Stage Audio System will be utilized at every Call of Duty World League event this season, starting with CWL Las Vegas on December 7, 2018.


Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process through which the skills of an individual can be assessed and recognized. Objective of this certification scheme is to enable a large number of youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. RPL mainly focuses on the individuals engaged in unregulated sectors.
RPL is a key element under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The scheme plans to impart skill based training to one crore people between 2016 – 2020 and RPL will account for 40 lakhs candidate whose prior experience and skills will be assessed and certified.
RPL is the most effective means of recognizing the existing knowledge, skills and experience of the existing workforce in the leather sector. It is estimated that between 2017-2022, a total of 2.39 additional jobs would be created in the leather industry. This includes 0.88 million full time employees in leather manufacturing, 0.77 million workers in micro enterprises, and 0.74 million in daily wage/self-employed workers such as cobblers.
Since a major part of the leather industry is unorganized and operates in the MSME sector, it's a challenge to provide job-specific training to the workforce. RPL provides a great opportunity for skill development of their workforce who would have learnt the skills on their own by following the 5-step process.
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The key objective of this project is to undertake RPL and certification of already employed workforce in the leather sector. The project aims to address a large unmet need of the industry as well as the workforce in the Leather industry. The project aspires to certify workforce with experience in various job roles to get certification aligned to various QP's and in turn make a difference in real income by enabling them to get paid according to their skill level.
A majority of workforce in the industry lacks formal training. However, many of them would have gained experience and trade know-how while at work. Our RPL facilitators have designed and use a proven framework to assess workers and identify skill gaps. Deployment of Recognition of Prior learning (RPL) by trainers ahead of the start of training is conducted to evaluate current skill levels of the learners and design the training plan. Before any training program is undertaken, it is critical to understand the current skill levels of workers. Most informal sector workers today have significant tacit knowledge that is not recognized. Our RPL assessment measures the current skill level of a worker. This allows us to assess their training needs and also sets a baseline for aligning wage level to skill level.
Through RPL assessment and certification, the candidates will be able to align existing competencies with the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) for better opportunities in employment and higher education. Besides creating an equitable system, RPL also helps them explore different options in skilling and upskilling to bridge the knowledge and skill gaps.
Cost effective and efficient method (time-wise), since there is no duplication of learning) to build the skill levels in the organization.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 2 March, 2005, 02:44 GMT
Rice turns up the heat on Syria
Ms Rice said Syria must withdraw troops from Lebanon
The US secretary of State has said Syria's involvement in the affairs of its neighbours in the Middle East is blocking change across the region.
Condoleezza Rice urged the country to take responsibility for its actions, warning it was endangering peace.
She accused Syria of standing in the way of Lebanese, Iraqi and Palestinian aspirations.
Meanwhile, Syria's president has said that troops could be withdrawn from Lebanon within the next few months.
"We are starting to see a picture of a Syria that really is a blockage to a different kind of Middle East," Ms Rice said.
Troop withdrawal
She called for fair elections in Lebanon, where the Syrian-backed government resigned on Monday following two weeks of protests in the capital, Beirut.
"When you think about what Syria is doing in Lebanon - you have Lebanese in the streets telling the Syrians to go home so that Lebanon can control its own future," she said.
SYRIAN INVOLVEMENT
Military intervention begins in 1976
30,000 troops in Lebanon during 1980s, currently 15,000
Syrian forces crucial in ending the Lebanese civil war in 1990 and maintaining peace
Calls for departure of the Syrians increase gradually with Israeli withdrawal in 2000
UN resolution calling for withdrawal of all foreign forces passed in Sept 2004
Q&A: Syria in Lebanon
She said the US would be applying pressure to Syria to withdraw both its military troops and security services from Lebanon.
The country's President, Bashar al-Assad, told Time magazine that troops could be withdrawn within the next few months.
But he stressed this would depend on the security situation in Lebanon and Syria's own security concerns being met.
"It [withdrawal] should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that," Mr Assad said in an interview published on the magazine's website on Tuesday.
"The security in Lebanon is much better than before. They have an army, they have a state, they have institutions," he said.
"The second thing, which is related to Syria, is that after withdrawing we have to protect our border. We need to talk about our borders, because when Israel invaded in 1982, they reached that point. It was very close to Damascus."
Ms Rice - speaking after talks in London aimed to show world support for the Palestinian Authority - called for Lebanon to be free from "contaminating influences".
She said there was "a long list of concerns about a Syria that is standing in the way of Lebanese, Iraqis, Palestinians and others in their aspirations for a better world".
"The territory of Syria [is] being used to support an insurgency in Iraq, that is clearly standing in the way of the Iraqi people, who voted overwhelmingly for that better life [...] and in the Palestinian Territories you have Syria continuing to support Palestinian rejectionist groups."
The Lebanese cabinet resigned on Monday, two weeks after the killing of the country's former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.
Both the outgoing government and the Syrian government have been accused of involvement in the 14 February assassination of Hariri - charges they deny.
The opposition in Lebanon is expected to decide later on Wednesday whether it will participate in talks with President Emile Lahoud before he chooses a new prime minister.
The opposition leader, Walid Jumblatt, has already called on President Lahoud to resign as well.
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The Best Way to Discover Puglia, Italy's Unspoiled Province
By Paul Greenberg
Photo by Michael George
Two friends thought they'd be done with bicycle travel by now. But Italy's best-kept secret can be very persuasive.
"Silvia!" My longtime friend David Gold shouted, dusting off his long-lost traveler's Italian, "Ho bisogno di un po' di van support."
"Sì, Davide, un momento!" Our cycling guide, Silvia Pasqualetti, replied from her boxy white minibus. After she pulled over to an escarpment that plunged off the heel of Italy into the turquoise Adriatic, she came running with a bag of nuts and chocolate. "Allora, Davide, what kind of van support do you need?"
"The thing is," David continued, "I...I have masculine genitalia...and the angle of this seat is...well...never mind." "No, no, Davide, please, tell me, what?"
"It's OK," David demurred, "I'm not planning on having any more children."
"Ma Davide no, no! You don't want to lose the option!"
That David and I would find ourselves here in Puglia with a personal guide attending to a bicycle seat's discomforts was highly unusual, given our previous modes of travel. In college we'd journeyed the length of India by third-class rail. As twentysomethings we'd cycled the width of Portugal holing up in cheapo pensiones, sometimes even sharing a lumpy bed and a ratty blanket. In our 30s we'd crossed Crete on old bikes that shed parts under a blazing summer sun. In spite of the inconveniences, our trips had provided some of our most authentic moments: times when we could explore the possibilities of our friendship together and hatch fantastic plans. While cycling along the Rio d'Ouro in Portugal, we'd designed a never-to-be-built port wine bar. In Greece, we'd created an imaginary language. In Kerala, we'd established rules for an experimental commune that would spare us a life of toil.
All this happened years earlier, before life interceded and whimsy withered into routine.
So when the opportunity arose to cycle through Puglia, arguably Italy's most unspoiled province, we jumped at it. We hadn't done a long ride since before our children were born, before David had abandoned an academic career in ancient Sanskrit and been buried in law and tech, and before I had traded in novel writing for journalism. Now, slowed down by college savings plans and tricky knees, we wanted to feel the open road. For the next week we would feel that road again, all alone together. Alone, that is, except for the van support.
Puglia is a place where roads have a tendency to end. Even the Romans brought the Appian Way only as far as Brindisi and then told their slaves to stop rolling boulders. "Lu sule, lu mare, lu ientu" goes the saying in one of the dozens of local dialects: the sun, the sea, the wind. These are the things that concern the Pugliese. These and an endlessly bountiful land. Imagine a terrain flat as Iowa's but girded by beautiful seas and worked not by agribusiness but by families growing dozens of grape varietals, 200 kinds of figs, and more olives than you can shake a branch at. This sleepy, end-of-the-road quality has been Puglia's defining characteristic well into the modern era.
I should mention now that my friend David was falling head over heels in love with Puglia with every passing kilometer. He loved the way the Pugliese baked whole olives into their bread and told you to watch out for the pit before biting in. His eyes welled up when he took in the orchards of 1,000-year-old olive trees spaced so elegantly amid carefully planted fields of fragrant fennel. He was charmed that often we were served a farm-fresh ricotta made from a first skimming of sheep's milk followed by a serving of a lighter cheese made from the second skimming, and that the Pugliese insisted the two cheeses were significantly different. He felt it sane and sound that meals began with an aperitivo and ended two hours later with a digestivo tinted pink with the blossoms of a wild laurel.
But I suspect what was really captivating David was the way Puglia was fitting into his ideas about democracy and the freedom he thought people needed to live worthwhile lives. My friend is a searcher of the highest order. He'd defended a PhD dissertation about Hindu pilgrimage a day after successfully sitting for the New York state bar exam. A few years later he created software for searching ancient philosophical texts. He'd taught himself biblical Hebrew, and in midlife he'd learned how to ride a unicycle. Now, as we traveled north from Otranto on two wheels, he laid out what he thought was wrong with the world and how the Pugliese needed to protect themselves against the global tourism onslaught to come.
"We use markets to set all kinds of priorities for us that markets can't possibly set properly. It's destroying us—making us sick and unhappy, and burning up the planet," he said as we passed a forager gathering wild chicory for his afternoon salad. "These fields of poppies and olive groves? Anyone can see they're a treasure to humanity. And because technology now allows it, we can give them their actual value democratically, so some corporation doesn't turn them into a resort."
We continued this line of conversation until we finished a 20-mile loop that brought us to a botanical reserve. Here we dismounted and approached a row of 12th-century signal towers the medieval Pugliese had built to warn of approaching Saracens.
I'd mentioned in passing to Silvia that we wanted to know more about the olives of Puglia. I'd read about a foreign disease that had infected the oldest trees, forcing their possible culling. As she would do throughout our trip, Silvia somehow made the right person appear. An agronomist named Giuseppe Bene met us at the reserve, ready to explain the complexities.
"A lot of people blame the disease on a bacteria that arrived on imported oleanders," Giuseppe told us as we hiked up toward one of the sand-colored towers, the fields below filigreed with walls of ancient fieldstones and blanketed in yellow flowers. "But really, it's a syndrome caused by many problems. For years, people have been leaving Puglia. The European Union keeps paying people to keep the olive trees even after they've left. Now what's happening is all the farmers' kids are in Milan doing office work. No one works the soil, no one trims the trees. And the trees lose their vitality. So when a disease comes along, it turns into an epidemic."
As we left the reserve and continued up the coast, David railed against the global economic forces that were disrupting the things that made Puglia so, well, Puglian.
"You see? This is exactly what I'm talking about," he said. "You have these people who should be farming olives in Puglia. But instead, they are working as software engineers in Milan. Do they want to be in Milan? No! They hate Milan. They hate software. Instead of tending olive trees they're programming video games for Milanese teenagers. They know it's stupid. Everyone knows it's stupid."
But not everyone is leaving Puglia. Again and again we heard that the Salento peninsula was rapidly becoming the place for a certain kind of entrepreneur to open a boutique hotel or start a restaurant.
Puglia being Puglia, though, things don't always work out as planned. On our third day, we cycled into the baroque masterwork of a town called Lecce and came upon a man who had tried to open a restaurant but ended up creating a museum. Luciano Faggiano met us at the door of the Museo Faggiano. A balding, cheerful man, he told us about the day that led to his bizarre situation.
"Ten years ago, when I bought this building, I noticed when I tried to flush the toilet, the water wouldn't go down. I realized I needed to connect the pipe to the sewer below." Here, Mr. Faggiano beckoned us downward to a passage. "I started digging, and before I knew it, I'd broken through."
What Mr. Faggiano discovered in his quest for a sewer was layer upon layer of civilizations below his would-be restaurant. Medieval, Roman, and then finally a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age Messapian layer concealed below a hole so small that he had to tie a rope around the waist of his 12-year-old son and lower him into the necropolis. After seven years of excavation, Mr. Faggiano was denied a license for his proposed restaurant, so he turned the entire project into a museum. The restaurateur had become an archaeologist.
That evening David, Silvia, and I took on our own excavation project as we dug our way through the layers of a fantastical 12-course tasting menu at La Sommita Hotel in the hilltop town of Ostuni. But neither foie gras balls dipped in chocolate, nor raw sea anemone, nor a black sponge made of the essence of squid ink could get Mr. Faggiano's project out of David's mind. "I mean, that was a real calling," he said, peering across the terrace of the 12th-century former monastery out to the plain and the sea 1,000 feet below.
"Listen," he continued, romanticizing Mr. Faggiano's struggles, "anyone in Lecce who started digging would have found one, two, maybe four civilizations. But most other people would have sealed it up and walked away. Mr. Faggiano, he felt that he had to do it. It was his fate." David stared off into the twilight.
This, I thought, was what I loved and had missed about my friend in our humdrum adult life back home. Not only to banter with him about a giant democratic makeover of society but also to discover with him the kind of saga Mr. Faggiano literally fell into. To imagine a life free of constraints, where you follow your passions and interests down to the very bottom.
Of course, not everyone has such selfless, dreamy plans for the Puglian renaissance as David attributed to Mr. Faggiano. This we learned when we came to our lodgings for the night at the end of day four. Rising out of the plain, the Borgo Egnazia seemed like any of the other manor farms the Pugliese call masseria. But on closer inspection, and with help from the Borgo's "local advisor," Elena, we learned it was a newly built simulation.
Whereas Mr. Faggiano had spent hundreds of hours of his life going deep in search of the real Puglia, the owners of the Borgo Egnazia had spent hundreds of millions of dollars going wide and shallow, creating a make-believe masseria that would appeal to the international tourism market. All of the lovely signifiers of Pugliese country life had been turned into ciphers. Romanesque jars upended and stuck in alcoves. Piles of old keys randomly hung on strings over rows of candles. Deluxe rooms chock-full of the latest conveniences the typical harried American family would "require," and a brochure of spa treatments that would help them "relax."
Rounding a corner, Elena showed us how the Borgo had created a replica of a Puglian village square with ersatz-ancient pumice stone streets. And when we encountered the Borgo's founder, a suave American-educated businessman, preparing to jet off to London, I asked what was the number one thing the mostly American guests of Borgo Egnazia wanted.
"Authenticity," he said without a hint of irony.
David and I returned to our room in our first gloomy mood. I expected him to say, "You see? This is what happens when you let American-style commerce boil away all the beautiful things!" But instead, he picked up the phone and rifled through the list of "wet" and "dry" options described in the florid spa brochure. "Hello, this is David Gold. I see you have many different body and facial treatments here, and I'm not sure exactly which to choose. Which one would you recommend?...What's that? What do I want?...Well, I would like, as you say here, 'to have a life-changing experience that I can bring home with me.'"
David was unable to schedule a transformative treatment, but we left the Borgo with our spirits undampened. This I chalk up to Silvia. On our last two days she guided us through the northern portion of the Puglian peninsula known as the Valle d'Itria, past conical trulli houses that, according to legend, had been built without mortar so that the original owners could disassemble them if tax inspectors arrived from Naples. She whisked us off to the Caseificio Notarnicola, a creamery where we watched the staff make the morning cheese and reveal exactly how that amazing creamy stuff gets into the center of Burrata.
When we'd had our fill of cheese, Silvia built back our appetites by guiding us 20 miles to Savelletri, to a restaurant called Pescheria 2 Mari, where a fisherman's two blue-eyed daughters prepared delectable platters of crudo, the fish brought in that morning from the nearby sea.
And as we pushed on along our final miles, the olive trees growing wider and older, the blood-red poppies more numerous and richer in color, the scent of honeysuckle and fennel building as spring bled into summer, the landscape shifted to another level of intensity, as if the chrominance had been turned up. I wanted to be a painter at that moment. To pass on this beauty to others. And it was then that I realized that this was precisely what Silvia had done. Driving back and forth across Puglia's beauty in advance of our trip, she had curated a selection of the best roads, free of bummers and blowouts. She'd done it with sequence, holding back her best work until act three, when it could come to us as the work of art that it was.
At a certain point I let my lighter road bike take me past David's hybrid and thought, "This is friendship"—the freedom to speed ahead, wave hi with a smile, knowing that you would catch up later and discuss things in greater detail, over a bottle of wine (or three) and a dinner that would last hours rather than minutes.
At the last of these many meals, in the seaside village of Monopoli, David and I realized that the week was coming to an end. In the Piazza Garibaldi we sat at a restaurant called La Dolce Vita and watched the square fill with locals chatting, embracing, spinning off to join other groups. It was then that I reminded David that 15 years ago, at the end of our last bike trip together, he'd fallen into a dark mood and predicted that we were even then already getting old, that we wouldn't be able to keep doing long bike rides like this, because our knees would be shot. I asked him now if he still felt this was the case.
"I feel great," David said, his eyes misting over once again. "I just loved it here. I loved Mr. Faggiano. And I loved Silvia. I loved the restaurant here, and I loved the restaurant there. I even loved the spa at the Borgo Egnazia. And I think we should just keep on doing this until we can't do it any more."
And with that we finished our meal and stretched our legs and headed off to scheme about our next trip.
>>Next: Plan Your Own Puglian (or Biking) Adventure


SPUC today held a Clergy Information Day. Unfortunately, because of an urgent meeting I had to be late for this so I missed the first half of the morning lecture by Fr John Fleming. I could catch up with most of it from his notes and look forward to the published version when it is available from SPUC.
Fr Fleming was speaking about the rights of the unborn under international law, the pro-life battle at the UN and the nature of the early human embryo. As a lecture, it was certainly not "dumbed down". He presented some of the latest research on the biochemistry of the human embryo in relationship with the mother and then tied this in to the philosophical question of the status of the embryo, dealing with such hoary chestnuts as twinning and the differentiation of cells in the embryo.
It was a most helpful and informative presentation: intellectually challenging but well put together. I think that the sheer quality of these presentations has been the important factor in the growing popularity of the SPUC Clergy Information Days. One or two of the early ones were rather sparsely attended. Not today - the lecture room was full. It was amusing to find that four of us were there who had been at the Opus Dei Day of Recollection yesterday.
SPUC provided lunch for the clergy and then followed up with a lecture by John Smeaton, the National Director. He spoke particularly of the importance of taking the pro-life cause beyond Parliamentary concerns and working to change the minds and hearts of ordinary people. I had a chance to chat with John afterwards about preparations for our forthcoming APGL conference for clergy on 22 November at the London Oratory.


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Novel Rulings on Expert Testimony
By Stephen McConnell on May 24, 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." We know it's hackneyed to pull out the Tale of Two Cities quote, but it does seem to describe what's happened over the last few weeks when it comes to expert testimony. A couple of weeks ago in the Trasylol litigation the court did a heroic job in excluding testimony from plaintiff repeat expert Parisian. A week or so later we got the abominable opinion in the Gadolinium MDL, where the court cut back on defense expert testimony right and left (and wrong and wronger) while pretty much permitting plaintiff experts to run roughshod over the entire 700 series of the Fed. R. Evid. (We know lawyers who were on the winning side in one case and the losing side in the other. They now have to puzzle through how to argue for appealability in one but not the other.)
More recently we saw some expert admissibility rulings in a Neurontin suicide case, Smith v. Pfizer, Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47698 (M.D. Tenn. May 14, 2010). The rulings addressed objections to expert statements on the eve of trial. These objections were lodged after the time for Daubert challenges or motions in limine, so the court was free to punt on several issues … which it did. But it also issued a number of rulings worth reviewing. (By the way, it appears that the case settled a couple of days after the court's rulings. Coincidence?)
Here are some of the more interesting rulings:
– The expert's own clinical experience
We love having our experts talk about their own clinical experience because they are so familiar with it, it humanizes the experts in the eyes of the jury, and, let's face it, it's a lot harder for the other side to cross-examine on it. The Smith court was generally receptive to testimony about clinical experience, but excluded one defense expert's statement that he had never seen anything in any of his patients suggesting that Neurontin caused depression or suicidal thoughts. The court concluded that such testimony was more prejudicial than probative. Smith, 2010 U.S. Dist LEXIS 47698, *11. Really? If it's true, it's true. How is that prejudicial? It's like the criminal defense lawyer objection we used to hear: "Objection, your Honor; prejudicial – tends to show guilt." Here, such testimony tends to show lack of causation and should have been admissible.
– Foreign regulatory rulings
Here it was the defendant that wanted one of its experts to testify that Neurontin had been approved in some European countries for treatment of general neuropathic pain. The court excluded such testimony because it was tangential and would be prejudicial "without testimony regarding the standards employed by those European regulatory agencies." Smith, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47698, *8. We have dealt with this issue before, and thus have no comment on the rightness or wrongness of the ruling in the Smith case, but we note that in most cases it is the plaintiffs who seek to introduce foreign regulatory events (e.g., another country insisted on a stronger warning, or refused to approve the drug at all) so the court's ruling excluding foreign regulatory actions will end up being a useful precedent for many of our cases.
– Narration of company documents
Both sides employed experts who bolstered their opinions by describing company documents. Plaintiffs seemed more ambitious in this area, and were playing the usual gambit of using their experts as document delivery devices. They pick out a couple of documents that sound bad and then say something like, "Jeepers, that's Bad! And I'm an expert on Bad." The Smith court generally decided that narration of company documents was permissible to the extent needed to supply "context." Smith, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47698, *31. What was "context" and what was hooey presumably would have been sorted out at trial. Many of the rulings in this category related to plaintiff's expert Cheryl Blume, who was typically overbroad, aggressive, and purporting to be omniscient in her proposed statements. The court excluded her "improper state-of-mind testimony" about how certain documents reflected the company's true intent. Based on our experience, that would excise a big chunk of her testimony. The court also forbade Blume from engaging in some astonishing bits of over-the-top advocacy such as "So, don't believe the defendants if they claim that they ever warned for 'suicide' during Mr. Smith's life." Id., *37. Now that's prejudicial testimony. Of course, the problem with experts such as Blume is that they'll find ways to load their testimony with these types of goodies no matter what the court rules. What made the Trasylol ruling so brilliant was the court's recognition of this fact regarding Parisian. But such a ruling takes experience, insight, and guts.
– Litigation-created chart
Plaintiff's attorneys put together a couple of charts and then put those charts in Blume's proposed testimony. One problem: Blume played no part in creating those charts and "admitted that she had not verified the work and is incapable of verifying the work." Accordingly, the court excluded Blume's testimony on those charts. Id., *34-36.
– 61 homers
One of plaintiff's experts was Ronald Maris, a psychiatry professor. (On our own, we learned that he has a website called Suicideexpert.com. We are not making that up.) Dr. Maris proposed to inform the jury that, for liability, "[a]ll that is required is that Neurontin was one of the causes of Richard Smith's suicide, not the only cause. It was a necessary, but not sufficient condition for his suicide." Id., *22. That's right: plaintiff's expert basically wished to instruct the jury on legal causation, which is a no-no . Thanks very much for the offer, says the court, but "[i]t is the job of the court, not an expert witness, to instruct the jury regarding the applicable law." Id. If courts applied this simple, irrefutable concept more diligently, so much of what plaintiff experts endeavor to say regarding adequacy of warnings or appropriateness of marketing would simply vanish. Oh, and the court would not let Dr. Maris say that he was "distantly related to the baseball player" – with or without an asterisk. Id., *20.
The rulings in the Smith case are a mixed bag. Some of that is a function of the last-minute nature of the objections and rulings. But there's more good than bad in this mixed bag. And, in fact, expert rulings in general in drug and device litigation are a mixed bag. There's not a whole lot of consistency out there on expert testimony. As courts acquire more experience with expert issues in drug and device cases, and perhaps more importantly, with the plaintiff experts who play the same old games, maybe the rulings will start to coalesce around some core of common sense.
To quote the last line of another novel, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Tags: Expert Witnesses


Is there a way to set a OpenFileHyperlinkInfo in an editor document? I have only found highlighting in the API for Document, but no linking.
I would like to implement a plugin which helps to analyze logfiles.
TH> Is there a way to set a OpenFileHyperlinkInfo in an editor document?
TH> I would like to implement a plugin which helps to analyze logfiles.
Thanks Dmitry, in the meanwhile I have found a way around: Thanks to Alexej for his HyperLink plugin. As I understand I should be able to register mouse listeners for the editor and can use this in conjunction with highlighting to get my action.


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Q: How to get checkout form data for logged in and guest customers in magento 2 I need to get checkout form data before placing order, but I am only getting  default shipping address below is the code snippet I tried:

\Magento\Checkout\Model\Session

$customerId = $this->_customerSession->getCustomer()->getId();
$customerInfo = $this->customerFactory->create()->load($customerId);
$customerAddress = $customerInfo->getDefaultShippiingAddress();

getshipiingAddress() method returning null
I want to get form data for logged in and guest customer both.

A: I found solution for this and posting here to help otheres:
            $objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
            $cart = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Checkout\Model\Cart');

            $billingAddress = $cart->getQuote()->getBillingAddress();
            echo '
'; print_r($billingAddress->getData()); echo '
';

            $shippingAddress = $cart->getQuote()->getShippingAddress();
            echo '
'; print_r($shippingAddress->getData()); echo '
';

A: You can get cart data using checkout session class.
Use this code in your class:
/**
 * @var \Magento\Checkout\Model\Session
 */
protected $_checkoutSession;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Checkout\Model\Session $checkoutSession
)
{
    $this->_checkoutSession = $checkoutSession;

}

And following code to get quote data.
$this->_checkoutSession->getQuote(); // get quote data
$this->_checkoutSession->getQuote()->getShippingAddress(); //get shipping address

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Last week when my family and I were coming up with the various tips that my grandma used for Vick's VapoRub, one of my Aunt's had mentioned Witch Hazel. I had never heard of it before but it sure sparked a lot of memories for my family. After a little research on my part, I discovered that Witch Hazel (funny name) is a flowering plant that grows in North America. It's also referred to as Winterbloom. In early America, the twigs of the Witch Hazel were used as divining rods to locate water, which influenced the "Witch" part of its name. The plants extract was used by American Indians for medicinal purposes and that same extract is used today in many healthcare products.
1. Swollen Eyes – dab a little Witch Hazel on cotton balls and place them on your closed eyes for 10 minutes.
2. Itching – to reduce itching from poison ivy, chicken pox insect bites, psoriasis, eczema and even an itchy scalp. Apply witch hazel to the areas.
3. Swelling – to reduce, apply witch hazel topically to the area.
4. Burns – to soothe, gently dab on burns to help reduce pain and prevent peeling (ex. sun burn, cooking burns).
5. Diaper Rash – use a cotton ball to dab on their bottoms to relieve pain and heal the rash.
6. Hemorrhoid Treatment – dab on external hemorrhoids to tighten the skin and reduce itching.
7. Bruises – apply to bruises a few times a day to speed up healing time.
8. Acne and Blemishes – gently dab on problem area to reduce inflammation. Can be used daily to control breakouts.
9. Cuts – to clean, dab on small cuts to reduce the risk of infection and speed up the healing.
10. Varicose Veins – to tighten the veins and reduce pain and selling wrap legs in clothes soaked in Witch Hazel.
We're not exactly sure where a lot of grandma's tips came from, but with this one we're pretty sure that they came from my great grandma. My mom remembers my great grandma always having Witch Hazel in the medicine cabinet.
My favorite on this list has to be the one for the swollen eyes. Not because I have swollen eyes but because of a story my mom told me about it. When she was little and would cry and get upset her grandmother would send her to the bathroom to wash her face and brush her hair. When my mother would return her grandmother would have her lay down and would place Witch Hazel cotton balls on her eyes. The reason this means so much to me is because this is something that my mother did for us as kids, minus the Witch Hazel cotton balls. It's nice to know that the small things that sometimes go unnoticed are part of your families legacy.
Witch Hazels can be found at most drugstores near the rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide.
Witch Hazel (1) image adapted from itsnature.org and Witch Hazel (2) image adapted from etsy-odpeacock under Google Labeled for Reuse Search.
** If, by some small miracle, you worked at Amway in Ada, MI and were the person my mother loaned the notebook to, please contact me. The notebook is a small (approx 6×9), black, 3-ring binder, and contains hand drawn patterns (teddy bear), recipes, tips and tricks. It would mean so much to my family to have it back.
I have loved reading this series – it brings back so many memories. I always keep a bottle of witch hazel in the refrigerator. It is so delightful when you get overheated to soak a cotton ball with it and rubbed over your skin.
Awesome list Robin! Where do you buy Witch Hazel??
What a great post! I'd love for you to share this or any of your great ideas at the link party going on now (and every Saturday through Tuesday) at 'Or so she says …' Hope to see you there!
Thank you for sharing this at my party. I knew some of these, but not all. I used witch hazel as a kid more often. I'll have to buy some to have on hand. I pinned this.
I love witch hazel. It's so versatile, and has been my go-to summer astringent for decades now!
OH my gosh, I totally forgot about Witch Hazel. My mom ALWAYS had a bottle of it in the house. This post took me way back!
I love witch hazel … much better than rubbing alcohol when using directly on the skin!
I haven't seen witch hazel in years.I had forgotten how simply wonderful it is. Hmmm wonder what it would do for wrinkles??
Stopping by from the link up and am now your newest follower. I would love for you to stop by my blog and follow along.
I just bought a bottle of Witch Hazel so these tips are much appreciated. New follower, saw you at Dear Creatives Inspiration Spotlight.
Interesting! Thanks for linking up!
I want to thank you so much for sharing these with us. My aunt has been battling a fungal infection under a toenail and is unable to take the prescribed medication. I told her about the Vicks and it works. I remember many of these things from my grandmother when I read yours. Regena in TN.
I like hearing about the old fashioned remedies!
I have a question. How did you get the buttons under "This post has been linked on:" to line up so neatly in rows??? I would love to know! Thanks.
I use both daily for all kinds of things!
Pretty cool! I use it everyday as my toner!! Love this stuff!
I'm loving your series. I have heard of witch hazel but really didn't know where it came from and what it was used for. Thanks for the information and for linking up at Transformed Tuesday.
Wonderful, informative post. I remember my mother having it around when I was little, and I may just go out and get a bottle myself!
I LOVE Witch Hazel! Hi! I found you on Sunday Social and love your blog. I am your newest follower and was hoping that you'd pop on by my neck o' the woods, stay a while, and follow back!
Very helpful ideas for later!
I've heard before that witch hazel is good, but have never heard of the uses, so thanks for posting this. Thanks for linking up at Romance on a dime!!
I love witch hazel! Thanks for sharing!
I have always known about Witch Hazel but never really knew what it was used for. Love the story about your mom. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
That is a beautiful plant & I had never seen or heard of it until your post. Thanks for sharing & linking up @ DearCreatives.com Hope your having a great week!
Ahh, that is the secret to varicose veins! I've enjoyed your posts on these WWII remedies 🙂 Thank you for sharing at Rustic Restorations Weekend!
You always have the most amazing posts!! I learned so much. Thank you for sharing at A Bouquet of Talent. Look forward to your awesome tips each week. Have a wonderful weekend.
Witch hazel is great! I use it on my eyebrows after I get them waxed. My skin is so sensitive that the skin around my eyes used to be red for days after a wax. Not so with witch hazel! It was also used on me when I had laser hair removal…the ladies would soak paper towels in it and then freeze them in baggies to soothe skin after treatments. Clever!
This was an amazing thing to have after my last baby, but I didn't know there were so many uses for it!! Thanks for the tips!!
I was really surprised how many there were when we were putting the list together. I wish I had known about the one for diaper rash when my kids were little.
It's become a favorite of mine too. We just started using it for my sons acne and it's doing a great job of clearing up his skin.
I have used witch hazel, but did not know that it is from a flowering plant. thank you for the information.


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// other use a manually generated config.h; in any case just define
// HAVE_CONFIG_H to include the custom config.h file.
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif

/** If set to 1, profiling code will be included in the application. When you
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/** There are three modes for handling asserts in OGRE:
0 - STANDARD - Standard asserts in debug builds, nothing in release builds
1 - RELEASE_EXCEPTIONS - Standard asserts in debug builds, exceptions in release builds
2 - EXCEPTIONS - Exceptions in debug builds, exceptions in release builds
*/
#define OGRE_ASSERT_MODE 0

/** If set to >0, OGRE will always 'think' that the graphics card only has the
    number of texture units specified. Very useful for testing multipass fallback.
*/
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/** If set to 1, Real is typedef'ed to double. Otherwise, Real is typedef'ed
    to float. Setting this allows you to perform mathematical operations in the
	CPU (Quaternion, Vector3 etc) with more precision, but bear in mind that the
	GPU still operates in single-precision mode.
*/
#ifndef OGRE_DOUBLE_PRECISION
#define OGRE_DOUBLE_PRECISION 0
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*/
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*/
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*/
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*/
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#define OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR_STD 1
#define OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR_NED 2			 // you need to have nedmalloc on your path for this
#define OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR_USER 3

#ifndef OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR
#  define OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR OGRE_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR_NED
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#ifndef OGRE_MEMORY_TRACKER_DEBUG_MODE
#  define OGRE_MEMORY_TRACKER_DEBUG_MODE 0
#endif

#ifndef OGRE_MEMORY_TRACKER_RELEASE_MODE
#  define OGRE_MEMORY_TRACKER_RELEASE_MODE 0
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*/
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OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT = 0
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OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT = 1
	Thread support for background loading, by both loading and constructing resources
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	The places where threading is available are clearly
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*/
#ifndef OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT
#define OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT 0
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#if OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT != 0 && OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT != 1 && OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT != 2
#define OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT 1
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WARNING: Use only when you want to provide your own image loading code via codecs.
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it if you choose
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WARNING: Use only when you want to provide your own image loading code via codecs.
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