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The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UWand Waterloo) is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff. The school is notable for being the first accredited university in North America to create a Faculty of Mathematics, and for having the largest co-op program in the world. The school is also known for having more company spin-offs than any other Canadian university, and as such, the university has been called the "Silicon Valley of the North". The enrollment for 2006 was 23,729 undergraduate and 3,013 graduate students, with 963 full-time faculty members and 2,167 staff. The school has approximately 130,000 alumni in 141 countries.
The University of Waterloo dates its history from the first classes, July 1, 1957. At that time it was Waterloo College Associate Faculties -- the name UW came in 1960. Waterloo College, founded 1911, is now Wilfrid Laurier University.
Principal founders included J. Gerald Hagey (founding president), Ira G. Needles (first chairman of the board of governors), and Rev. Cornelius Siegfried, who brought St. Jerome's College (founded 1865) into federation with UW.
The College of Optometry of Ontario became a part of the university (as the school of optometry) in 1967.
The main campus is located along University Avenue in Waterloo, Ontario on what was, until the 1960s, farmland. Since its creation, a considerable level of commercial and residential development has built up around the Waterloo campus, notably with many offices of high-tech firms.
The geographical coordinates of the main UW campus are 43°28′14″N, 80°32′50″W.
The School of Architecture was relocated to a former mill in Cambridge, Ontario, in 2004.
A new campus for the health sciences program is being built in Kitchener, Ontario and will include a satellite of McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.
Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
Balsillie School of International Affairs
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Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
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The University of Waterloo is one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities, with strong teaching and research programs in six faculties: Applied Health Sciences, Arts, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, and Science.
Four other institutions — St. Jerome's University, Conrad Grebel University College, Renison College, and St. Paul's United College — are federated or affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Located on the main Waterloo campus, these institutions share in the delivery and administration of academic programs and offer additional residential space for students.
Five respected professional schools are based in the faculties: Accounting and Finance, Architecture, Computer Science, Optometry, and Planning, with a sixth, the School of Pharmacy, that began admitting students in 2008. A program in software engineering is offered jointly by the faculties of Engineering and Mathematics. A program in nanotechnology engineering, a joint venture by the faculties of Engineering and Science, was launched in 2005.
University of Waterloo ranked 112th in the 2007 THES-QS World University Ranking
University of Waterloo ranked 113rd in the 2009 THES-QS World University Ranking
University of Waterloo ranked 145th in the 2010 QS World University Ranking
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The 'Lumpiness' Thesis Revisited: The Venues of Policy Work and the Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Canada
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 13-04
See all articles by Michael P. Howlett
Michael P. Howlett
Seck Tan
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Adam Wellstead
Andrea Migone
Simon Fraser University - Department of Political Science
Bryan Evans
Department of Politics and Public Administration - Ryerson University
This paper contributes to the understanding of analytical practices and tools employed by policy analysts involved in policy formulation and appraisal by examining data drawn from 15 surveys of federal, provincial and territorial government policy analysts in Canada conducted in 2009-2010, two surveys of NGO analysts conducted in 2010-2011 and two surveys of external policy consultants conducted in 2012-2013. Data from these surveys allow the exploration of several facets of the use of analytical tools ranging from more precise description of the frequency of use of specific kinds of tools and techniques in government as well as their distribution between permanent government officials and external policy analysts. As the paper shows, the frequency of use of major types of analytical techniques used in policy formulation is not the same between the three types of actors and also varies within government by Department and issue type. Nevertheless some general patterns in the use of policy appraisal tools in government can be discerned, with all groups employing process-related tools more frequently than 'substantive' tools related to the technical analysis of policy proposals.
Keywords: policy analysis, analytical tools, policy consultants, NGOs, policy venues
Howlett, Michael and Tan, Seck and Wellstead, Adam and Migone, Andrea and Evans, Bryan, The 'Lumpiness' Thesis Revisited: The Venues of Policy Work and the Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Canada (April 26, 2013). Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 13-04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2260028 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2260028
Michael Howlett (Contact Author)
Simon Fraser University ( email )
Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy ( email )
469C Bukit Timah Road
Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore, Singapore 259772
HOME PAGE: http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/faculty/seck-tan/
Michigan Technological University ( email )
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Simon Fraser University - Department of Political Science ( email )
HOME PAGE: http://www.sfu.ca/~amigone/
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They need to find out who supplies who?
I wonder what would happen if they pissed off all the upstream states?
I once spoke out, to a unproductive, management wimp, my question was, who would be more useful, the operators, that keep the water flowing, revenues coming in, answering the emergency hot line when the machine breaks down, so we can spend 36 hrs putting it back together, or you the guy that sleeps tight, gets lost in his own district, never worked his way through school, daddy paid, drinking expensive wine, working 36 hrs a week, whining because Queen of Rugmunchistan didn't get elected! Yep, wound up at the Dark side of the Moon, on the outside track, you said I could speak freely! WTH! M and M'S soon to replace us, Mexicans and Muslims.
Our Chinese masters will simply purchase all the blue coast areas. Problem solved.
Excellent points Ishmael. It makes one wonder what on earth the CALEXIT people are thinking about, eh? Nevertheless it's easy to divine what they ARE thinking: the CALEXIT people are arrogant and believe that the rest of America needs California more than California needs the rest of America. So they are threatening to leave the union if the rest of us don't impeach President Trump. In their minds the rest of us are supposed to be so horrified at the thought of California actually leaving us that we'll beg them to stay and do anything they want to keep them in the Union. Ah, not so much. The rest of us in fly-over-country have come to the conclusion that CA has made itself more of nuisance than an asset. So leave already! We'll probably have a better relationship with California when they are a separate country like Canada and Mexico, and less able to meddle in our affairs. As it is now half our movies and TV shows are being filmed in Canada. Do we need sunny California anymore? Plus as you point out Ishmael, CA is dependent on its neighboring states for basic commodities to make its economy function, commodities like water, electricity, and hay. All those electronic gadgets invented in Silicon Valley won't work without reliable electricity. The irony is that California DOES have the potential to become an economic powerhouse all by itself, in terms of natural resources, geographic location and human capital. However given the fact that the state is governed by dizzy Leftists, people who believe so many things that aren't true and do not work, AND it is importing so many people from Latin America, it is more likely that an independent California will become Venezuela than Singapore.


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Eduardo Israel Lamas Hernández (1995) es un deportista mexicano que compitió en triatlón. Ganó una medalla de bronce en el Campeonato Panamericano de Triatlón de 2014 en la prueba de relevo mixto.

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This document contains an audit and review of lessons learned reporting through 2nd Quarter 2012. This audit includes an evaluation of the changes made to the reporting process after the previous audit conducted in July 2011. At the 3rd Regional Steering Committee meeting, the Committee made changes in the data collection process for lessons learned in order to streamline data collection and analysis. The reporting template was revised to highlight more important information and the number of lessons required per quarter was lowered from 2-4 to 1-2; that way, more time and attention could be spent on producing higher quality reports that can be shared with the greater IWRM community.


The College Success Foundation was founded by Bob Craves (1942-2014) and Ann Ramsay-Jenkins in 2000 to serve a very vulnerable population, the underserved—those who might not otherwise get to college. Bob and Ann founded College Success Foundation to provide students with the inspiration, mentoring and financial supports they need to navigate their individual path to college completion. They believed, and so do we, in doing everything in our power to help our students persist and succeed.
With the guidance and inspiration of our distinguished board of directors, we strive to break the cycle of poverty through education. Our board members are leaders in academia, business and philanthropy and believe passionately that an education raises income, provides security, reduces unemployment and improves health outcomes.


word on the street is that Bojon NYC got its funk ON about right this past weekend, as downtown omar brown led the east coast contingent through a glorious night of revelry.
these cats have been throwing this party annually for the last six years, and from the looks of things the shiznit was feugo this go 'round.
multi-directional FUNK was the theme for the night, as team NYC brought the Funk-A-Delic Ball back to life for round 6. Even after many smooth years of Moving, Shaking and Freaking, The Crane Club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan is still the Funkiest spot in The Big Apple.
The crowd came correct with big hair, big game, and big attitude. This put the stone cold groove back in circulation with 6 inch platforms and 12 inch afro�s all throughout the joint. If you couldn�t find your funk space in this spot, you may need a transfusion from planet booty to bring out the heat next time.
�Til 2005, Funk All Y�all.
the real last samurai, sir arch a lot, the great irish prussian orthodox, was strong to represent the Bojon while mixing it up with the natives somewhere deep in Brazil along the Amazon.
double overhead and glassy. gotta love that.
so this weekend is the annual Bojon board meeting in steamboat, CO.
the round table sessions were set to kickouff on thursday afternoon, but i ran into a little snafu trying to catch my flight out of oakland this morning at 6am.
some poor exection in getting out of bed and some untimely traffic along the way led to a tardy arrival. apparently, getting to the airport 27 minutes before one's flight is not enough leeway in these terrorist-obsessed times.
physically, i could have crawled to the tarmac, stopped for coffee, and still made it before takeoff. however, my [suspicious] snowboard posed too great a security threat, and so i was told i'd have to take the next available flight.
ok, when's the next flight out?
and let's just say that the Delta agent was "customer service-challenged."
so off to the boat i will head on friday... a day late, but perhaps a day wiser.
lucky charms were a' plenty at Delicious Karma's Wish party for New Year's Eve. packed warehouse scene that was refreshing in its all-world positive vibe. killer decor, stiff cocktails, and the right amount of mystique for those dabbling in the dark arts.
here are a few shots from the evening. a bunch of other pictures are posted on a site called Eventvibe.


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Saatchi Gallery and HUAWEI present From Selfie to Self-Expression from 31st March – 30th May 2017
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Clockwise from top left: Rembrandt van Rijn Self-Portrait with Two Circles, Juno Calypso The Honeymoon Suite, Actor Benedict Cumberbatch jumps behind U2 at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #21.
Saatchi Gallery and HUAWEI, the world's number three smartphone brand, announce they have teamed up to present From Selfie to Self-Expression. Opening at the Saatchi Gallery on 31st March 2017, the show will be the world's first exhibition exploring the history of the selfie from the old masters to the present day, and will celebrate the truly creative potential of a form of expression often derided for its inanity.
From Selfie to Self-Expression will showcase key artworks, many of which feature interactive, digital and user-generated content, by artists as diverse as Christopher Baker, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Juno Calypso, Tracey Emin, Van Gogh, Mohau Modisakeng, Rembrandt, Cindy Sherman, Gavin Turk and Velazquez.
Showing alongside examples of many influential artists' work will be selfies that have quickly become icons of the digital era – from the beautiful and sublime to the mad, bad and downright dangerous.
The show will also highlight the emerging role of the smartphone as an artistic medium for self-expression through the commissioning ten exciting young British photographers to create new works using HUAWEI's new HUAWEI P10 dual lens smartphone co-engineered with Leica, as part of their artistic practice. Reprising the spirit and energy of the Young British Artist movement first launched 25 years ago; the works of these young British photographers will go on display in a gallery dedicated to world-class smartphone photography. In this gallery the focus will shift from Selfie to documenting the world around us as a contrasting form of Self-Expression.
The ten commissioned photographers are: Alma Haser, who merges collage and inventive paper-folding techniques with portraiture in her practice; Tom Hunter, who explores his local community in East London producing images that merge landscape, social commentary and art history.
Chris Levine, a pioneer of light photography, whose portrait of Queen Elizabeth II Lightness of Being has become a contemporary icon; Christopher Nunn, a Yorkshire-based photographer who documents life in in Ukraine; Laura Pannack, a London-based photographer renowned for her portraiture and social documentary artwork; Simon Roberts, whose work deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging.
Jonny Briggs, whose work explores his relationship with the constructed reality of the family; Emma Critchley, an artist who works underwater using photography, film, sound and installation to explore the human relationship with this psychological and environmental space; Hannah Starkey, who reconstructs scenes from everyday life using actors and carefully considered settings to produce images that have the concentrated stylisation of film and Matt Stuart, whose street photography shows an empathetic fascination with people and the way live their lives.
HUAWEI's partnership with the Saatchi Gallery is a demonstration of its commitment to growing its brand presence in the UK and support of creative expression through photography everywhere. It follows the launch last year of the game-changing HUAWEI P Series smartphones which reinvented smartphone photography with the world's first dual-lens camera co-engineered with iconic camera brand Leica.
The exhibition will open from 31st March – 30th May 2017 and take over one entire floor of the Saatchi Gallery.
The #SaatchiSelfie Competition
As part of the forthcoming From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition Saatchi Gallery and HUAWEI have joined forces to offer artists, photographers and enthusiasts around the globe a chance to show their most creative selfies internationally, and have their work exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, as part of the competition #SaatchiSelfie.
The judging panel, Tracey Emin, Idris Khan, Juergen Teller, Juno Calypso and Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst, will select a shortlist of ten from the 14000 selfies entered by the public. In addition to having their selfie showcased at the Saatchi Gallery the ten shortlisted winners will also receive HUAWEI's new HUAWEI P10 smartphone, and the overall winner will have an all expenses trip to join a Leica Photography Ambassador on an international photo shoot assignment. The overall winner of the #SaatchiSelfie Competition will be announced at the show's launch in London on 30th March 2017.
"We've received more than 14000 submissions from over 113 countries," said Nigel Hurst, CEO, Saatchi Gallery "We have been enormously impressed with the way many of the entries have approached the creative challenge we set, and lived up to the spirit of the exhibition that their work will be part of."
Nigel Hurst, CEO Saatchi Gallery
"In many ways, the selfie represents the epitome of contemporary culture's transition into a highly digitalised and technologically advanced age as mobile phone technology has caught up with the camera. We are thrilled to be collabourating with HUAWEI on From Selfie to Self-Expression. The exhibition will present a compelling insight into the history and creative potential of the selfie, while the #SaatchiSelfie competition provides a global platform for Self-Expression. Our commissioning of work by ten young British photographers completes the narrative and highlights the exciting potential of the very latest technology to encourage creativity."
Glory Zhang, CMO HUAWEI Consumer Business Group
"After a decade of smartphone photography, we have reached a tipping point. We are moving from documenting our engagement with the world through selfies to projecting our personalities on to the world through our creativity. The smartphone has become a tool of artistic expression. The Selfie Generation is becoming the Self Expression Generation as each of us seeks to explore and share our inner creativity through the one artistic tool to which we all have access; the Smartphone."
For any press-related enquiries please contact
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PRESS DAY: Thursday 30th March 2017,10am- 2pm rsvp: press@saatchigallery.com
From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition layout
Gallery 1: The self-portrait through art history - the Old Masters
Gallery 2: The self-portrait and selfie in modern art
Gallery 3: Hello world - a digital installation
Gallery 4: Iconic celebrity selfies of our time
Gallery 5: Selfies from beautiful and sublime to the mad bad and dangerous
Gallery 6: The selfie through the gaze of contemporary artists
Gallery 7: UGC and interactive artworks and #SaatchiSelfie competition
Gallery 8: Self-Expression – young British photographers create works using HUAWEI's new dual lens smartphone
Gallery 9: UGC "surveillance" gallery
About HUAWEI:
HUAWEI is a global technology brand and the world's third largest manufacturer of smartphones. In April 2016, HUAWEI reinvented smartphone photography with the launch of the P9 smartphone featuring a unique dual-lens camera co-engineered with the iconic brand, Leica Camera AG. Setting a new benchmark smartphone camera technology, the device enables more light and better clarity, to capture brilliant colour and striking black and white images in true Leica style.
HUAWEI believes in cultural technology: the fusing of technology and culture to deliver solutions to help people express themselves in a new way. Its brand motto is 'Make It Possible' and it shares values with people who pursue their dreams, who are visionary challengers, and who are proactive with a strong belief in striving to achieve their goals. HUAWEI is dedicated to bringing the latest technology to consumers and creating extraordinary experiences for people everywhere and will continue to do so through partnerships with likeminded innovative and creative brands such as Leica and Saatchi Gallery.
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About Saatchi Gallery:
The Saatchi Gallery was founded in 1985 with the aim of bringing contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible and make it accessible by providing an innovative platform for emerging artists to show their work. Over the last five years the Saatchi Gallery has hosted ten out of the top 15 most visited exhibitions in London, according to The Art Newspaper's survey of international museum attendance, and is also ranked amongst the world's top five most liked museums on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google+. Entry to all exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery is free. www.saatchigallery.com.
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Q: Connecting to NTLMv2 from Java\httpclient 3\linux I am using MAC and LINUX, java6 and apache http-client 3.1 to connect to sharepoint with NTLM auth.
I connect to ntlm using http://jcifs.samba.org/ and it worked fine until I had to connect to NTLMv2.
I tried this  http://devsac.blogspot.com/2010/10/supoprt-for-ntlmv2-with-apache.html
 but it doesnt work for me with NTLMv2,
Is there any way to make my httpclient 3.1 connect to NTLMv2 ? if not, is there a way to connect java to NTLMv2 without httpclient?
thanks

A: found an answer,
httpclient version 4.2.3 + supports NTLMv2 out of the box

A: I was able to connect to ntlm v2 using httpclient 3.1:
http://devsac.blogspot.com/2010/10/supoprt-for-ntlmv2-with-apache.html?showComment=1381849801529#c7263680121593236558
Btw - httpclient 4.x supports ntlm v2 out of the box.

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using content::WebContents;

namespace {

const char kStringsJsFile[] = "strings.js";
const char kSyncPromoJsFile[] = "sync_promo.js";

const char kSyncPromoQueryKeyNextPage[] = "next_page";
const char kSyncPromoQueryKeySource[] = "source";

// The maximum number of times we want to show the sync promo at startup.
const int kSyncPromoShowAtStartupMaximum = 10;

// Checks we want to show the sync promo for the given brand.
bool AllowPromoAtStartupForCurrentBrand() {
  std::string brand;
  google_util::GetBrand(&brand);

  if (brand.empty())
    return true;

  if (google_util::IsInternetCafeBrandCode(brand))
    return false;

  // Enable for both organic and distribution.
  return true;
}

// The Web UI data source for the sync promo page.
class SyncPromoUIHTMLSource : public ChromeWebUIDataSource {
 public:
  explicit SyncPromoUIHTMLSource(content::WebUI* web_ui);

 private:
  ~SyncPromoUIHTMLSource() {}
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SyncPromoUIHTMLSource);
};

SyncPromoUIHTMLSource::SyncPromoUIHTMLSource(content::WebUI* web_ui)
    : ChromeWebUIDataSource(chrome::kChromeUISyncPromoHost) {
  DictionaryValue localized_strings;
  options2::CoreOptionsHandler::GetStaticLocalizedValues(&localized_strings);
  SyncSetupHandler::GetStaticLocalizedValues(&localized_strings, web_ui);
  AddLocalizedStrings(localized_strings);
}

}  // namespace

SyncPromoUI::SyncPromoUI(content::WebUI* web_ui) : WebUIController(web_ui) {
  SyncPromoHandler* handler = new SyncPromoHandler(
      g_browser_process->profile_manager());
  web_ui->AddMessageHandler(handler);

  // Set up the chrome://theme/ source.
  Profile* profile = Profile::FromWebUI(web_ui);
  ThemeSource* theme = new ThemeSource(profile);
  ChromeURLDataManager::AddDataSource(profile, theme);

  // Set up the sync promo source.
  SyncPromoUIHTMLSource* html_source = new SyncPromoUIHTMLSource(web_ui);
  html_source->set_json_path(kStringsJsFile);
  html_source->add_resource_path(kSyncPromoJsFile, IDR_SYNC_PROMO_JS);
  html_source->set_default_resource(IDR_SYNC_PROMO_HTML);
  html_source->set_use_json_js_format_v2();
  ChromeURLDataManager::AddDataSource(profile, html_source);

  sync_promo_trial::RecordUserShownPromo(web_ui);
}

// static
bool SyncPromoUI::HasShownPromoAtStartup(Profile* profile) {
  return profile->GetPrefs()->HasPrefPath(prefs::kSyncPromoStartupCount);
}

// static
bool SyncPromoUI::ShouldShowSyncPromo(Profile* profile) {
#if defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
  // There's no need to show the sync promo on cros since cros users are logged
  // into sync already.
  return false;
#endif

  // Honor the sync policies.
  if (!profile->GetOriginalProfile()->IsSyncAccessible())
    return false;

  // If the user is already signed into sync then don't show the promo.
  ProfileSyncService* service =
      ProfileSyncServiceFactory::GetInstance()->GetForProfile(
          profile->GetOriginalProfile());
  if (!service || service->HasSyncSetupCompleted())
    return false;

  // Default to allow the promo.
  return true;
}

// static
void SyncPromoUI::RegisterUserPrefs(PrefService* prefs) {
  prefs->RegisterIntegerPref(
      prefs::kSyncPromoStartupCount, 0, PrefService::UNSYNCABLE_PREF);
  prefs->RegisterBooleanPref(
      prefs::kSyncPromoUserSkipped, false, PrefService::UNSYNCABLE_PREF);
  prefs->RegisterBooleanPref(prefs::kSyncPromoShowOnFirstRunAllowed, true,
      PrefService::UNSYNCABLE_PREF);

  SyncPromoHandler::RegisterUserPrefs(prefs);
}

// static
bool SyncPromoUI::ShouldShowSyncPromoAtStartup(Profile* profile,
                                               bool is_new_profile) {
  DCHECK(profile);

  if (!ShouldShowSyncPromo(profile))
    return false;

  const CommandLine& command_line = *CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess();
  if (command_line.HasSwitch(switches::kNoFirstRun))
    is_new_profile = false;

  if (!is_new_profile) {
    if (!HasShownPromoAtStartup(profile))
      return false;
  }

  if (HasUserSkippedSyncPromo(profile))
    return false;

  // For Chinese users skip the sync promo.
  if (g_browser_process->GetApplicationLocale() == "zh-CN")
    return false;

  PrefService* prefs = profile->GetPrefs();
  int show_count = prefs->GetInteger(prefs::kSyncPromoStartupCount);
  if (show_count >= kSyncPromoShowAtStartupMaximum)
    return false;

  // This pref can be set in the master preferences file to allow or disallow
  // showing the sync promo at startup.
  if (prefs->HasPrefPath(prefs::kSyncPromoShowOnFirstRunAllowed))
    return prefs->GetBoolean(prefs::kSyncPromoShowOnFirstRunAllowed);

  // For now don't show the promo for some brands.
  if (!AllowPromoAtStartupForCurrentBrand())
    return false;

  // Default to show the promo for Google Chrome builds.
#if defined(GOOGLE_CHROME_BUILD)
  return true;
#else
  return false;
#endif
}

void SyncPromoUI::DidShowSyncPromoAtStartup(Profile* profile) {
  int show_count = profile->GetPrefs()->GetInteger(
      prefs::kSyncPromoStartupCount);
  show_count++;
  profile->GetPrefs()->SetInteger(prefs::kSyncPromoStartupCount, show_count);
}

bool SyncPromoUI::HasUserSkippedSyncPromo(Profile* profile) {
  return profile->GetPrefs()->GetBoolean(prefs::kSyncPromoUserSkipped);
}

void SyncPromoUI::SetUserSkippedSyncPromo(Profile* profile) {
  profile->GetPrefs()->SetBoolean(prefs::kSyncPromoUserSkipped, true);
}

// static
GURL SyncPromoUI::GetSyncPromoURL(const GURL& next_page, Source source) {
  DCHECK_NE(SOURCE_UNKNOWN, source);

  std::stringstream stream;
  stream << chrome::kChromeUISyncPromoURL << "?"
         << kSyncPromoQueryKeySource << "=" << static_cast<int>(source);

  if (!next_page.spec().empty()) {
    url_canon::RawCanonOutputT<char> output;
    url_util::EncodeURIComponent(
        next_page.spec().c_str(), next_page.spec().length(), &output);
    std::string escaped_spec(output.data(), output.length());
    stream << "&" << kSyncPromoQueryKeyNextPage << "=" << escaped_spec;
  }

  return GURL(stream.str());
}

// static
GURL SyncPromoUI::GetNextPageURLForSyncPromoURL(const GURL& url) {
  std::string value;
  if (chrome_common_net::GetValueForKeyInQuery(
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"The December 1980 issue of Byte Magazine contained the full TRS-80 BASIC source code of Pirate Adventure, written by Mr. Scott Adams and his wife Alexis". Scans of the articles.
Various "how to play arcade games" books; also includes Warren Robinett's history of 2600 Adventure, which is very interesting.
Information about early home computer software -- mostly IF or adventure-game related, mostly American. Includes scans of feelies, etc.
"You have arrived at the home of the game Multi-User Dungeon, or MUD, also known to former players on CompuServe as British Legends."
Some examples of interesting text-based games from Emily Short.


Most of our Kansas trips include places to see and places to eat as separate locations, but this one particular spot in small town Kansas is perfect for both. A restaurant that serves history with your meal, what more could a Kansan touring the state want in an adventure? Let's check out this 2-in-1 destination.
Welcome to Trail Days Cafe & Museum, a cafe in historic Council Grove that strives to feed both mind and body.
The Rawlinson-Terwilliger Home, built along the Santa Fe trail in 1861, still mostly stands as part of today's structure. Though there have been expansions and renovations, they strive to keep the building as authentic as possible. Though it does help to fill it with photos and stories from historic figures.
The decor is antique, but in a way that makes you feel like you're dining at great-grandma's house, and everything feels just like home. Beautiful tablecloths, great smells from the kitchen, and family around you.
What isn't from the 1800s however, is their amazing food. Most meals here consist of country style comfort food options that you'd see at home or in your favorite local restaurant.
Some of their meals however, accompany the history retelling of the month, and reflect some of the cooking styles and food items those people would have eaten, like Volga-German foods or bison meat.
Come dine with friends and family anytime from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
You'll find Trail Days Cafe and Museum at 803 W Main St, Council Grove, Kansas.
Next time you're in the mood for some history, check out these historic photos from one of the worst floods Kansas has ever seen.


What would happen if a learning designer developed a prototype for the app? What emphasis would this have?
This story is about how an idea for improving workflow and job performance came out of the analysis and design for a new training course.
We could anticipate the potential performance benefits immediately.
More consistent rating of visual observations between technicians.
New technicians would develop experience more quickly.
Technicians from other areas could more readily 'stand-in' on a temporary basis, as the app would guide and support them in making valid observations.
The training course could be shorter and more tactical as it wouldn't be trying to front-load information.
A prototype was developed over a week. It included just enough complexity to make it useful as a presentation and communication driver with others in the business.
The commercial production of an app didn't go ahead but that wasn't an expected outcome. We experienced the power of a prototype in bringing people together to focus on building a solution. We also saw the potential for embedding performance support into the workflow, right inside the app that gets used to do the job, and how much this just seemed to make sense.
Oh, and the learning designer, that was the author. He's on a search looking for like minded others, to make some cool things happen.


A Follow Spot: Passion, Politics and Religion at Play in ISU's "Passion Play"
Passion, Politics and Religion at Play in ISU's "Passion Play"
There is a lot of passion in Sarah Ruhl's "Passion Play" on stage at ISU's Center for the Performing Arts. Not just The Passion of the Christ, which you might expect, but passion among actors, directors, crew, politicians, visitors, rivals, all surrounding how a village and its villagers -- in rural England under Elizabeth I, Oberammergau during Hitler's reign, and Spearfish, SD in the late 20th century -- put on a show about the last week in the life of Jesus Christ. There are lovers, friends, cousins, brothers, sisters, all struggling to find a way put on a play.
I love Ruhl's writing, and "Passion Play" is some of her best, at times poetic in the slightly warped way she does so well, at times funny or sad or moving or provocative, but always as elusive as it is intriguing. As Ruhl examines how people's lives relate to religion in terms of wanting guidance from above, trying hard not to waver, twisting piety for political or social gain, or wielding mighty weapons in the name of faith, she looks at the connection between religion and politics, as well as between religion and theater. There is, in fact, a lot about theater and the people who create it in this play. Ruhl is not above pointing out the foibles of theater people anymore than clergymen or kings.
These are big issues, and Ruhl gives each era and its characters a full act to tell their chapter of the story. At Illinois State, under the direction of Brandon Ray, the play is quite long. There's no getting around that. On opening night, it ran at about 4 hours and 15 minutes, right up there in "Gone With the Wind," "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Angels in America" territory. There were definitely times when the pace lapsed a little, when it seemed there were a few too many set pieces to move or costume changes or entrances or exits to wait for, but mostly, the time was well spent on the depth of Ruhl's vision, with some terrific character work from ISU's undergraduate actors and some absolutely beautiful stage pictures courtesy of scenic designer John C. Stark and lighting designer Julie Mack.
The script asks for stage magic, and in this "Passion Play," it absolutely gets it.
It also asks a lot of its actors, who play different people, albeit people who are cast in the same roles in each of the three Passion Plays within Ruhl's "Passion Play." Matt Bausone is especially good as three men slated to play Pontius Pilate. His first character is a physically twisted little fish-gutter who hates his cousin, the one who plays Jesus, the second is a confident Nazi soldier in love with the man playing Jesus, and the third is a man who goes off to Vietnam and comes back severely damaged by the experience, leaving his brother, who plays Jesus, safe at home. Bausone makes each Pontius different, but all three compelling, especially #3, making for a lovely, stirring final image to the play.
Jeff Kurysz is all three of the Jesus actors, one pious and distant, one timid and unsure, and the last a bit arrogant and selfish. I liked him best as the second one, the dutiful son and sweet lover who wants to do the right thing, but makes the absolute wrong choice in the chilling conclusion to Act II. His pompous actor in Act III has his moments, as well.
I also enjoyed Ashlyn Hughes' trio of crazy girls; they're called Village Idiot #1, Village Idiot #2 and Violet, but they function something like Shakespearean fools, and costume designer Tyler Wilson has even given her a clown-like motley outfit in Act III. Hughes is very effective as the little voice -- always the outsider -- who pops up out of nowhere at inconvenient times.
Clayton Joyner and Caitlin Boho are the two Marys in the piece (the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene) and they're both effective, especially in the Elizabethan section of the play, where they are given the most to do.
Others of note in the cast include Owais Ahmed as a cheery visiting Englishman writing a book about theater in the German section; Carlos Kmet doing a Leonardo turn as an Italian man who can make people fly in 1575; and David Fisch, whose Queen Elizabeth costume has to be seen to be believed and whose Ronald Reagan is a little too reminiscent of the real one for my taste.
Sarah Ruhl's "Passion Play" is not the Passion Play, but three small, human, flawed Passion Plays of its own. Yes, it asks a lot of its audience, and yes, I hope the cast and crew can find their way to trimming 20 minutes or so off its running time, but it's worth the wait and well worth your attention.
Cast: Matt Bausone, Jeff Kurysz, Clayton Joyner, Caitlin Boho, Owais Ahmed, Ashlyn Hughes, Keith Jackewicz, Frank Huber, Brody Murray, Carlos Kmet, David Fisch, Kyle McClevey, Nick Villareal-Lindmark, Deirdre McNulty, Kayla Stroner, Hisako Sugeta.
Remaining Performances: February 22, 23 and 24 at 7 pm; February 19 at 4 pm and February 25 at 4 pm.


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Q: How to add single quotes around multiple strings strings <- c("apple", "banana", "029")
> strings
[1] "apple"  "banana" "029"

I would like to add single quotes to each element in strings and separate the strings with ,. My desired output is this:
desired_strings <- "'apple','banana','029'"
> desired_strings
[1] "'apple','banana','029'"

My attempt:
a <- "'"
paste0(mapply(paste0, a, strings, a), ",")
[1] "'apple',"  "'banana'," "'029',"

However, this is not quite right.

A: You can use sQuote() and then collapse to a single string with paste():
paste(sQuote(strings, q = FALSE), collapse = ",")

[1] "'apple','banana','029'"

A: Using sprintf.
toString(sprintf("'%s'", strings))
# [1] "'apple', 'banana', '029'"

or
paste(sprintf("'%s'", strings), collapse=",")
# [1] "'apple','banana','029'"


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Oil: payment of two billion dollars to foreign companies in April
March 4, 2016 Walter
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Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil blessing Fayyad said that Iraq will pay for foreign oil companies remaining arrears for 2015 in the amount of about two billion dollars in April next year and is expected to reach anagreement regarding the contracts by the middle of this year.
International companies such as BP and Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, Eni and Lukoil in the southern oil fields in Iraq and working under service contracts under which those get companies on the dollar fees fixed for additional quantities produced.
And imposed these agreements intense pressure over the treasures of Baghdad as government revenues fell due to tumbling prices oil what is going on Iraq , in talks with foreign companies to link the fees it collects for thedevelopment of fields crude prices.
the blessing is responsible for the source told Reuters operations in an interview in Basra , the oil – producing "average new agreement will help prevent inflate production costs and not to overburden the Iraq debt."
he stated that " among the ways to reduce costs for companies is to deliver drilling operations to the government of exploration companies or hiring workers local instead of foreign workers. "
he predicted a blessing that the increase in production from Iraq in 2016 to be" very modest "due to reduced investment budgets for foreign companies affected by the fall in oil prices.
He added that it was likely to reach an agreement with PetroChina, Exxon Mobil and other energy companies by the end of this year about investing in a project that aims to boost production of small foreign fields.
a typical "South integrated project , " which is estimated to cost billions of dollars to build oil pipelines and storage facilities the project to pump water from the Gulf to maintain pressure and enhance oil recovery.
and will contribute to investment companies in raising production from the fields of oil Artawi River bin Omar and construction of energy infrastructure, said a blessing that the scheduled use of revenues generated byincreased production from the two fields to repay investors dues.
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currently pumping project more than a million barrels of water per day and there are plans to increase production to three million barrels.
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he said a blessing , "we chose the right place for the port to export the new oil, which will ensure that we have thefull flexibility to export oil additional product" .
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Political sources: Biden asked Abadi stick to the process of cabinet reshuffle
Wrote: March 4, 2016
Political sources revealed that US Vice President Joe Biden asked the prime minister of Iraq during the telephone call made by him to stick to the ministerial change, in exchange for Washington's support until the full formation of the new government.
The sources told the New Arab newspaper, said Biden will visit Iraq, ahead of the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rohani, will meet the leaders of political blocs and pressed the accelerator towards the implementation of reforms in Iraq.
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Sadr calls for parliamentary parties shifting the government and replace it with technocrats
Baghdad balances News
Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr, on Friday, the government parties demanded the removal of the current government and come a government of technocrats, as urged foreign embassies to leave the Green Zone, stressing said that political Althelp corrupt does not deserve to stay and sit on the throne of Iraq, the more the chest unit letters.
Sadr said in a televised speech followed up / scales News / "We do not want power or assault on one of the demonstrations and that is not an infringement on one or to dislodge the party and come another party as equivalent," stressing the need "to heed the voice of the people."
He said al-Sadr should be "on foreign embassies to get out of the Green Zone," also stressed the need "to sit all parties to the dialogue table to dislodge the nightmare."
He added, he would also have to be "on the demonstrators not to attack and exposure of public funds and not Athlo ethic thieving politicians even Athlo morality of the great Iraqi people."
He asked "the parliamentary parties to dislodge the government of corruption and glorious government of technocrats", past on to say, "We do not want power or overtaking on one."
"We should not be corrupt political Althelp remain sited on the throne of Iraq."
A number of demonstrators began arriving to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad at the invitation of the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched near the Green Zone to demand anti-corruption and make the project a reformist my father called him.
It is said that al-Sadr has called on his supporters to demonstrate continued until the implementation of the government's reform of the project unleashed.
And Thousands of citizens and follow the Sadrist movement today in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, and then went in front of gate of the Green Zone.
Chanted thousands of demonstrators near the Green Zone and the fortified doors and barbed wire Babbat slogans "Yes, yes for Iraq both both to corruption."
The oldest Sadrist protesters, setting up a platform for execution in front of the gates of the Green Zone, an expression of them to cull all the spoilers.
The security forces stationed in the Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, distributing bottles of water on the demonstrators.
It is said that the supporters of the Sadrist movement may Tuado since early on Tahrir Square and the walls of the Green Zone in response to Sadr's call to demonstrate to demand accountability of the corrupt and the implementation of political reforms. It ended 29 / D 24
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Urgent Abadi calls on demonstrators to maintain the peaceful protests and a commitment to public order
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Prime Minister Haider al – Abadi called his sons demonstrators to maintain the peaceful protests and a commitment to public order and the protection of property to miss an opportunity to phishers.
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{Baghdad: Euphrates News} face of Prime Minister General Commander of the Armed Forces, Haider al-Abadi, the security forces to protect the peaceful demonstrations.
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Deputy: We have not received our salaries in two months
{Baghdad} Euphrates News revealed a member of the economic and investment commission parliamentary Najiba Najib, Friday, for the non-receipt of most members of the House of Representatives their salaries for two months.
She said Najib told {Euphrates News} today, " The salaries of deputies and Hamayatem the last two months , " noting the existence of an administrative problem about the discount rate.
She explained that "there is a difference between the federal government and the House of Representatives about the prescribed percentage reduction." The prime minister Haidar Abadi had called earlier to senior officials to reduce the salaries to achieve the principle of social solidarity. the member of the parliamentary finance committee Masood Haider stressed that " the cabinet 's decision to reduce the three presidencies salaries, ministers, officials, and passed by the House of Representatives applied by the government . " noting that he " has been reducing the proportion of 45 to 50% of the salaries of the three presidencies, and 40% of the salaries of ministers, either general managers, agents has been reduced to 35% of their salary." Over 1 h
Urgent .. Abadi: security forces are ready to address all armed manifestations
{Baghdad} Euphrates News confirmed the general commander of the armed forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the readiness of the security forces to address all armed manifestations outside the framework of the State; to prevent breaches exploited by terror followed .. .. h


At Service by Medallion, we have helped many of our clients transition from traditional, non-green cleaning programs to environmentally preferable cleaning products and procedures. The goal, of course, is to help ensure a healthier indoor environment.
However, many are now asking us to help them take the next step, moving beyond green cleaning to sustainability. Before we discuss this further, one thing facility managers should know is that green cleaning and sustainability are not the same.
Let us explain. When it comes to green cleaning, we are referring to the use of cleaning solutions, tools, and equipment that have a reduced impact on the user, building users, and the environment when compared to similar products used for the same purposes.
Sustainability, as it applies to professional cleaning, refers to the use of products and procedures that allow cleaning professionals to maintain facilities more efficiently, minimize waste, protect the environment as well as reduce water, fuel, and energy consumption.
Install auto-dilution systems. An auto-dilution system is designed to dilute cleaning chemicals with water more precisely, based on the cleaning needs at hand. When mixed manually, either the custodian uses too much chemical or not enough, neither of which promotes effective cleaning, making it potentially wasteful and costly.
Conduct a product audit. A product audit is designed to evaluate the solutions currently in use as to their effectiveness, costs, and impact on the environment. Depending on the results of the review, we may suggest transferring to cleaning solutions that may prove just as effective while reducing supply costs and protecting the environment. Also, we typically recommend ways to reduce the overall number of cleaning solutions used in the facility. This helps reduce waste; reduce the amount of fuel needed to transport cleaning solutions, which helps to minimize greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, and invariably, these steps help to reduce cleaning costs.
Purchase in bulk. We recommend that cleaning solutions be purchased in bulk. This means selecting products in larger quantities and larger sizes and doing away with purchasing products in gallon containers. Buying in bulk typically results in cost savings per unit and minimizes waste as well as packaging and fuel needs.
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Fredrik (Fritz) Hartvig Herman Wedel Jarlsberg, född den 7 juli 1855 i Kristiania, död den 27 juli 1942 i Lissabon, var en norsk diplomat.

Biografi
Wedel Jarlsberg blev 1879 juris kandidat och anställdes samma år som attaché i Paris, tjänstgjorde 1882-1884 i Utrikesdepartementet, blev legationssekreterare 1885 i Wien och 1886 i London samt var 1891-1897 envoyé i Madrid. Åren 1898-1905 var han bosatt på godset Palsgård i Jylland, medverkade vid unionsbrottet 1905 till upprättande av en fristående monarki och utrikesstyrelse i Norge samt var från 1906 norsk envoyé i Paris (till 1930, Madrid och Lissabon (till 1921).

År 1929 skänkte han egendomen Skaugum till det norska kronprinsparet Olav och Märtha.

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Norska diplomater under 1800-talet
Norska diplomater under 1900-talet
Diplomater från Oslo
Födda 1855
Avlidna 1942
Män
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The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection (1999)
by S Savage, A Collins, E Hoffman, J Snell, T Anderson
Venue: in: Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM'99
A Case for End System Multicast
by Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao, Srinivasan Seshan, Hui Zhang - in Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics , 2000
"... Abstract — The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, more than a decade after its initial proposal, IP Multicast is still plagued with concerns pertaining to scalability, network management, deployment and suppor ..."
Abstract — The conventional wisdom has been that IP is the natural protocol layer for implementing multicast related functionality. However, more than a decade after its initial proposal, IP Multicast is still plagued with concerns pertaining to scalability, network management, deployment and support for higher layer functionality such as error, flow and congestion control. In this paper, we explore an alternative architecture that we term End System Multicast, where end systems implement all multicast related functionality including membership management and packet replication. This shifting of multicast support from routers to end systems has the potential to address most problems associated with IP Multicast. However, the key concern is the performance penalty associated with such a model. In particular, End System Multicast introduces duplicate packets on physical links and incurs larger end-to-end delays than IP Multicast. In this paper, we study these performance concerns in the context of the Narada protocol. In Narada, end systems selforganize into an overlay structure using a fully distributed protocol. Further, end systems attempt to optimize the efficiency of the overlay by adapting to network dynamics and by considering application level performance. We present details of Narada and evaluate it using both simulation and Internet experiments. Our results indicate that the performance penalties are low both from the application and the network perspectives. We believe the potential benefits of transferring multicast functionality from end systems to routers significantly outweigh the performance penalty incurred. I.
Resilient Overlay Networks
by David Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris , 2001
"... A Resilient Overlay Network (RON) is an architecture that allows distributed Internet applications to detect and recover from path outages and periods of degraded performance within several seconds, improving over today's wide-area routing protocols that take at least several minutes to recover. A R ..."
A Resilient Overlay Network (RON) is an architecture that allows distributed Internet applications to detect and recover from path outages and periods of degraded performance within several seconds, improving over today's wide-area routing protocols that take at least several minutes to recover. A RON is an application-layer overlay on top of the existing Internet routing substrate. The RON nodes monitor the functioning and quality of the Internet paths among themselves, and use this information to decide whether to route packets directly over the Internet or by way of other RON nodes, optimizing application-specific routing metrics. Results from two sets of measurements of a working RON deployed at sites scattered across the Internet demonstrate the benefits of our architecture. For instance, over a 64-hour sampling period in March 2001 across a twelve-node RON, there were 32 significant outages, each lasting over thirty minutes, over the 132 measured paths. RON's routing mechanism was able to detect, recover, and route around all of them, in less than twenty seconds on average, showing that its methods for fault detection and recovery work well at discovering alternate paths in the Internet. Furthermore, RON was able to improve the loss rate, latency, or throughput perceived by data transfers; for example, about 5 % of the transfers doubled their TCP throughput and 5 % of our transfers saw their loss probability reduced by 0.05. We found that forwarding packets via at most one intermediate RON node is sufficient to overcome faults and improve performance in most cases. These improvements, particularly in the area of fault detection and recovery, demonstrate the benefits of moving some of the control over routing into the hands of end-systems.
... own data collected at various times between 1995 and 1999, that path selection in the wide-area Internet is suboptimal from the standpoint of end-to-end latency, packet loss rate, and TCP throughput =-=[23]-=-. This study showed the potential longterm benefits of "detouring" packets via a third node by comparingthe long-term average properties of detoured paths against Internetchosen paths. 2.2 Network-la...
A blueprint for introducing disruptive technology into the internet
by Larry Peterson, Tom Anderson, David Culler, Timothy Roscoe , 2002
"... This paper argues that a new class of geographically distributed network services is emerging, and that the most effective way to design, evaluate, and deploy these services is by using an overlay-based testbed. Unlike conventional network testbeds, however, we advocate an approach that supports bot ..."
This paper argues that a new class of geographically distributed network services is emerging, and that the most effective way to design, evaluate, and deploy these services is by using an overlay-based testbed. Unlike conventional network testbeds, however, we advocate an approach that supports both researchers that want to develop new services, and clients that want to use them. This dual use, in turn, suggests four design principles that are not widely supported in existing testbeds: services should be able to run continuously and access a slice of the overlay's resources, control over resources should be distributed, overlay management services should be unbundled and run in their own slices, and APIs should be designed to promote application development. We believe a testbed that supports these design principles will facilitate the emergence of a new service-oriented network architecture. Towards this end, the paper also briefly describes PlanetLab, an overlay network being designed with these four principles in mind.
On Inferring Autonomous System Relationships in the Internet
by Lixin Gao - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2000
...etween A and C and between C and B. For example, the delay between A and B is independent of the total delay between A and C and between C and B. This has been observed by several measurement studies =-=[10, 11]-=-. Therefore, the connectivity (at either the AS or the router level) alone does not fully characterize the structural properties of the Internet. We propose an augmented AS graph representation to cap...
Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet using an Overlay Multicast Architecture
by Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao, Srinivasan Seshan, Hui Zhang - In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM , 2001
...t routing. It has been observed that Internet routing is sub-optimal and there often exists alternate paths between end system that have better bandwidth and latency properties than the default paths =-=[12]-=-. Third, the Random scheme is sub-optimal in bandwidth. On average, the worstperforming machine with the Random scheme (rank 1) gets a mean bandwidth of about 600 Kbps. Further, the performance of Ran...
Informed content delivery across adaptive overlay networks
by John W. Byers, Jeffrey Considine, Michael Mitzenmacher, Stanislav Rost - In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM , 2002
"... Abstract—Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful and highly flexible method for delivering content. We study how to optimize throughput of large transfers across richly connected, adaptive overlay networks, focusing on the potential of collaborative transfers between peers to supplement ongoing ..."
Abstract—Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful and highly flexible method for delivering content. We study how to optimize throughput of large transfers across richly connected, adaptive overlay networks, focusing on the potential of collaborative transfers between peers to supplement ongoing downloads. First, we make the case for an erasure-resilient encoding of the content. Using the digital fountain encoding approach, end hosts can efficiently reconstruct the original content of size from a subset of any symbols drawn from a large universe of encoding symbols. Such an approach affords reliability and a substantial degree of application-level flexibility, as it seamlessly accommodates connection migration and parallel transfers while providing resilience to packet loss. However, since the sets of encoding symbols acquired by peers during downloads may overlap substantially, care must be taken to enable them to collaborate effectively. Our main contribution is a collection of useful algorithmic tools for efficient summarization and approximate reconciliation of sets of symbols between pairs of collaborating peers, all of which keep message complexity and computation to a minimum. Through simulations and experiments on a prototype implementation, we demonstrate the performance benefits of our informed content-delivery mechanisms and how they complement existing overlay network architectures. Index Terms—Bloom filter, content delivery, digital fountain, erasure code, min-wise sketch, overlay, peer-to-peer, reconciliation. I.
... same network path. Second, unlike IP multicast trees, overlays may flexibly adapt to changing network conditions. For example, overlays may reroute around congested or unstable areas of the Internet =-=[2, 27]-=-. And third, endsystems are now explicitly required to cooperate. This latter point is crucial and forms the essence of the motivation for our work: given that end-systems are required to collaborate ...
Network Topology Generators: Degree-Based vs. Structural
by Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Ramesh Govindan, Sugih Jamin, Scott Shenker , 2002
"... Following the long-held belief that the Internet is hierarchical, the network topology generators most widely used by the Internet research community, Transit-Stub and Tiers, create networks with a deliberately hierarchical structure. However, in 1999 a seminal paper by Faloutsos et al. revealed tha ..."
Following the long-held belief that the Internet is hierarchical, the network topology generators most widely used by the Internet research community, Transit-Stub and Tiers, create networks with a deliberately hierarchical structure. However, in 1999 a seminal paper by Faloutsos et al. revealed that the Internet's degree distribution is a power-law. Because the degree distributions produced by the Transit-Stub and Tiers generators are not power-laws, the research community has largely dismissed them as inadequate and proposed new network generators that attempt to generate graphs with power-law degree distributions.
...hey also only reflect the topology and do not contain any information about the speed of the links. We do, however, approximately model an aspect of reality that has been shown to impact path lengths =-=[43, 38]-=- in Internet topologies—policy routing. To measure the properties of the Internet graphs and the generated graphs, we use a set of three topology metrics described in Section 3.2. These metrics are in...
Towards an Accurate AS-Level Traceroute Tool
by Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Mao Jennifer, Rexford Jia, Wang Randy, H. Katz , 2003
"... Traceroute is widely used to detect routing problems, characterize end-to-end paths, and discover the Internet topology. Providing an accurate list of the Autonomous Systems (ASes) along the forwarding path would make traceroute even more valuable to researchers and network operators. However, conve ..."
Traceroute is widely used to detect routing problems, characterize end-to-end paths, and discover the Internet topology. Providing an accurate list of the Autonomous Systems (ASes) along the forwarding path would make traceroute even more valuable to researchers and network operators. However, conventional approaches to mapping traceroute hops to AS numbers are not accurate enough. Address registries are often incomplete and out-of-date. BGP routing tables provide a better IP-to-AS mapping, though this approach has significant limitations as well. Based on our extensive measurements, about 10% of the traceroute paths have one or more hops that do not map to a unique AS number, and around 15% of the traceroute AS paths have an AS loop. In addition, some traceroute AS paths have extra or missing AS hops due to Internet eXchange Points, sibling ASes managed by the same institution, and ASes that do not advertise routes to their infrastructure. Using the BGP tables as a starting point, we propose techniques for improving the IP-to-AS mapping as an important step toward an AS-level traceroute tool. Our algorithms draw on analysis of traceroute probes, reverse DNS lookups, BGP routing tables, and BGP update messages collected from multiple locations. We also discuss how the improved IP-to-AS mapping allows us to home in on cases where the BGP and traceroute AS paths differ for legitimate reasons.
Meridian: A Lightweight Network Location Service without Virtual Coordinates
by Bernard Wong, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Emin Gün Sirer - In SIGCOMM , 2005
"... This paper introduces a lightweight, scalable and accurate framework, called Meridian, for performing node selection based on network location. The framework consists of an overlay network structured around multi-resolution rings, query routing with direct measurements, and gossip protocols for diss ..."
This paper introduces a lightweight, scalable and accurate framework, called Meridian, for performing node selection based on network location. The framework consists of an overlay network structured around multi-resolution rings, query routing with direct measurements, and gossip protocols for dissemination. We show how this framework can be used to address three commonly encountered problems, namely, closest node discovery, central leader election, and locating nodes that satisfy target latency constraints in large-scale distributed systems without having to compute absolute coordinates. We show analytically that the framework is scalable with logarithmic convergence when Internet latencies are modeled as a growthconstrained metric, a low-dimensional Euclidean metric, or a metric of low doubling dimension. Large scale simulations, based on latency measurements from 6.25 million node-pairs as well as an implementation deployed on PlanetLab show that the framework is accurate and effective.
Improving the reliability of Internet paths with one-hop source routing
by Krishna P. Gummadi, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy, David Wetherall - In OSDI , 2004
"... Recent work has focused on increasing availability in the face of Internet path failures. To date, proposed solutions have relied on complex routing and pathmonitoring schemes, trading scalability for availability among a relatively small set of hosts. This paper proposes a simple, scalable approach ..."
Recent work has focused on increasing availability in the face of Internet path failures. To date, proposed solutions have relied on complex routing and pathmonitoring schemes, trading scalability for availability among a relatively small set of hosts. This paper proposes a simple, scalable approach to recover from Internet path failures. Our contributions are threefold. First, we conduct a broad measurement study of Internet path failures on a collection of 3,153 Internet destinations consisting of popular Web servers, broadband hosts, and randomly selected nodes. We monitored these destinations from 67 PlanetLab vantage points over a period of seven days, and found availabilities ranging from 99.6 % for servers to 94.4 % for broadband hosts. When failures do occur, many appear too close to the destination (e.g., last-hop and end-host failures) to be mitigated through alternative routing techniques of any kind. Second, we show that for the failures that can be addressed through routing, a simple, scalable technique, called one-hop source routing, can achieve close to the maximum benefit available with very low overhead. When a path failure occurs, our scheme attempts to recover from it by routing indirectly through a small set of randomly chosen intermediaries. Third, we implemented and deployed a prototype onehop source routing infrastructure on PlanetLab. Over a three day period, we repeatedly fetched documents from 982 popular Internet Web servers and used one-hop source routing to attempt to route around the failures we observed. Our results show that our prototype successfully recovered from 56 % of network failures. However, we also found a large number of server failures that cannot be addressed through alternative routing. Our research demonstrates that one-hop source routing is easy to implement, adds negligible overhead, and achieves close to the maximum benefit available to indirect routing schemes, without the need for path monitoring, history, or a-priori knowledge of any kind. 1
...ng. To answer the second question, we use our measurement results to show that when an alternative path exists, that path can be exploited through extremely simple means. Inspired by the Detour study =-=[21]-=- and RON [2], we explore the use of a technique we call one-hop source routing. When a communication failure occurs, the source attempts to reach the destination indirectly through a small set of inte...


Despite the difficulties experienced by some mobility scooter users while trying to use the nations network train services, other public transport sectors are looking to improve their service for passengers with disabilities.
For the first time ever, mobility scooter users are going to be able to travel aboard buses and trams as part of a new trial being introduced by transport bosses.
Disability organisations and charities have long been campaigning for a change to allow disabled people to have equal rights regarding the use of public transport. Fortunately, Transport for Edinburgh listened to the concerns being voiced, and are introducing a trial on not only on their bus services, but also on their trams too.
Up until now, mobility scooters have not been allowed on board due to the obvious challenges of manoeuvring them on and off vehicles. The potential risk of accidents and injury to fellow travellers was too great to be allowed, especially during peak times with crowded vehicles.
Disability campaigners were outraged to learn that scooters were not to be allowed on the city's new tram system when they first started running last year. They called the decision 'outright discrimination', and was deemed as humiliating for the city's many scooter users.
However, the concerns of disabled passengers were raised at the Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams board meeting, held in July this year. It was agreed that the company will facilitate a trial to include both the bus and tram service, a paper is now being drawn up, and the implementation of the trial will be delegated by the respective transport boards.
Obviously, the health and safety concerns of all passengers must be considered, and Edinburgh Trams are currently discussing the technical issues with vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure engineers, in partnership with the city council.
Lothian Buses are also paying close attention to the Confederation of Passenger Transport guidelines regarding the carriage of mobility scooters aboard buses, and are taking into consideration any difficulties that scooter users face while using public transport services in general.
Campaigners may be glad that transport bosses are taking their issues seriously, but if the trial proves successful, it could mean a ground-breaking move has been taken for the rights of disabled passengers in other parts of the country too.
In an ideal world, no disabled person should be discriminated against while assessing public transport services. If this trial proves successful, it could mean the adoption of new industry standard guidelines for catering for disabled mobility scooter users.
Logistically, it is anticipated that allowing mobility scooters aboard trams will prove easier that for buses. There is more space available aboard trams that can allow for greater manoeuvrability.
Further details of the trial will be discussed at a meeting scheduled for October. Transport bosses are keen to improve their transport provision across all of their services, but they are aware that buses and trams are very different in structure, so careful consideration will be given to the practicalities of each form of transport when drawing up a final plan.
Other issues that will need to be considered is for mobility scooter access during peak commuting times where buses and trams may already be full to capacity. Mobility scooters come in a wide range of sizes, so it will be difficult to cater for every type of scooter on buses that are already packed with passengers.
Space allocation for mobility scooters aboard both trams and buses is also another tricky area. We have to remember that a mobility scooter user wanting to travel into the city to go shopping will undoubtedly need to return home carrying any number of shopping bags, which can add to the difficulty of accessibility, and for passengers to easily move past scooters that are positioned near the door.
There may also be additional issues with mobility scooter users with limited ability to manoeuvre safely on and off public transport using a confined allocated space.
There may also be concerns voiced by non disabled passengers who may be worried that allowing extra time for mobility scooters to use the services will result in the service slowing down. This could impact negatively on traffic congestion, as well as potentially causing passengers to be late for work, and possibly miss other timed appointments.
There could also be difficulties with deciding who gets priority for an allocated space when there is both a wheelchair user and a mobility scooter user vying for the same spot.
Most buses already in operation across the city have provision for wheelchair users. However the access ramps used by wheelchair users will probably not be sufficient for use by anyone driving a mobility scooter on board. There is a weight restriction on access ramps, and it is thought that an average mobility scooter would already be close to, if not over the maximum weight allowance without the added weight of the scooter user.
Wheelchair allocated spaces on public transport would also be considered as too small to accommodate the much large size of mobility scooters aboard buses and trams, so this will also need to be addressed before the trial begins.


This is La Pompadour an ode to great-great-grandmother Granny.
Granny owned La Pompadour, a unique boutique in The Hague in the roaring 30's. She traveled to Paris to attend fashion shows and brought French haute couture to Holland.
So was the underwear she sold; exclusive silk and lace pieces collected on her journeys.
Lace is typically characterized by its patterns. An expert can recognize from which country and region a piece of lace comes from.
Thus we've created our very own Les Culottes lace. Zoom in and find flowers made from our LC logo and surfboard leaves, Moroccan inspired palm leaves and tiles from our one year road-trip. The exact shells and stones found on the many walks and let's see if you can find the hidden pearl?


I started working at LNK as a volunteer in 2014, because I have a passion for working with children/ young people and believe that anyone can achieve their ambitions once they know what it is they wanted to do. I was a youth worker apprentice, helping organise events, promoting the work of the charity through social media and assisting with day-to-day duties to support the young people.
I came back to LNK in January 2017 to work full-time as a Youth Mentor/ Roadshow Co-ordinator, which I contribute to all aspects of the Lives Not Knives's school roadshows that is place into primary school in Croydon to teach the awareness of the consequences of knife crime and youth crime to young people. I work with young people, who have been identified as being at risk of becoming NEET (not in Education, Employment or Training) and provide them with the skills and knowledge they need to do well, and support the young people into post 16 provision e.g. college, apprenticeship or employment.
Working with LNK, the organisation has been fortunate providing great opportunities, such as achieving my Youth Work qualification and getting involved in great fundraising events, climbing mount Snowdon and . I chose to work with LNK because I wanted to help within my community to make it a better environment to help the growth of young people to succeed from alternative education provision backgrounds. Working with LNK, I have learned more about my community and how we can work together to create a better future and about myself as a person, developing my personal skills.


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The Powell & Pressburger Pages
Dedicated to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and all the other people, both actors and technicians who helped them make those wonderful films.
A lot of the documents have been sent to me or have come from other web sites. The name of the web site is given where known. If I have unintentionally included an image or document that is copyrighted or that I shouldn't have done then please email me and I'll remove it.
I make no money from this site, it's purely for the love of the films.
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Music from the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1941-1951
Artist: Various OST
Title: "The Red Shoes"
Cat No: CD41-002 (22 tracks)
Released: 1st July 2002
Barcode: 5 019148 632931
The Red Shoes is a 74 minute collection of rare original soundtrack recordings from the classic films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Archers) made between 1941 and 1951. Those featured include:
49th Parallel (1941) Ralph Vaughn Williams
A Matter of Life & Death (1946) Allan Gray
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Allan Gray
A Canterbury Tale (1944) Allan Gray / JS Bach
Black Narcissus (1947) Brian Easdale
The Red Shoes (1948) Brian Easdale
Gone to Earth (1950) Brian Easdale
The Small Back Room (1949) Brian Easdale
Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Jacques Offenbach
As well as digitally restored original soundtrack music by the undervalued Gray and Easdale, this carefully researched CD also features a number of rare associated recordings, including John Gielgud's reading of An Airman's Letter to his Mother (1941), the lively quickstep Commando Patrol from Col. Blimp and A Canterbury Tale, and a superlative rendering of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, recorded by Albert Schweitzer in London in 1935, also featured in A Canterbury Tale.
The booklet features detailed notes on the films and their accompanying scores, as well as biographies of Allan Gray and Brian Easdale. The CD is a must for all with an interest in vintage film soundtracks and British light/orchestral music, as well as the dazzling vision of Michael Powell and his musical collaborators.
For more information contact James Nice on tel/fax 01362 861009 or on e-mail at jnice@ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk
Ordering details are also available at www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/cd41mo.html
Full list of Tracks:
1. Archers Ident (arrow hitting target) 0.04
49th Parallel
2. Prelude 3.10
3. Epilogue 4.16
4. Prelude / This is the Universe 5.03
5. The Waiting Room / Washed Ashore 1.33
6. Prelude / Stairway to Heaven (piano progression) 4.08
An Airman's Letter to his Mother
7. Narrated by Sir John Gielgud 3.08
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
9. War Starts at Midnight 1.47
10. Commando Patrol 2.42
A Canterbury Tale
11. Prelude 2.14
12. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 8.48
14. Ballet Music 12.47
15. Prologue 1.47
16. Composed Sequence 5.25
Gone to Earth
18. The Tryst 2.38
19. The Hunt 1.07
The Small Back Room
21. Epilogue 0.52
Tales of Hoffmann
22. Orchestra Tuning 2.58
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I created a sales order for a material of 100,000. At the point of putting my billing plan, i put in a sum of 10,000 as down payment and when i want to put in the final invoice payment based on the date category, the system still calculates the total sum instead of the remaining balance. Please Is this suppose to be or not?
please, I don't understand a detail: are you working on the billing plan in the Sales Order, or your issue is during the invoice creation?
100 for the final invoice.
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Grandi calls for peace in Ethiopia, stresses 'there is no military solution'
High Commissioner for Refugees visits eastern Sudan to bring focus to the situation of nearly 48,000 Ethiopians who have fled Tigray.
By Catherine Wachiaya in Um Rakuba camp, Sudan | 25 August 2021 | Español | Français | عربي
High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi speaks with an Ethiopian refugee boy in Sudan's Um Rakuba camp. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno
Hailu Mehari crossed into Sudan last November with his wife and their two children, leaving behind raging conflict across Ethiopia's Tigray region.
The 65-year-old father of four met UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, who visited eastern Sudan, where close to 48,000 Ethiopian refugees live in two camps, Um Rakuba and Tunaydbah.
Grandi met Hailu in Um Rakuba where he spoke with him and several refugees including young men and women, children, people living with disabilities and the elderly. They raised various issues, ranging from access to proper health care, shelter and food.
"We lost our home, our farm, everything. I am not showing all my emotions as it is still so painful," said Hailu, who owned large swathes of farmland and left them unharvested after violence broke out.
"I am grateful for everything I have received in Sudan."
Hailu added that he was glad to have made it out safely.
"It's difficult here but I am very happy to be alive. I am grateful for everything I have received in Sudan," he said.
UNHCR High Commissioner meets Ethiopian refugees in eastern Sudan, urges for peace in Ethiopia (Mary Theru, producer / Arnold Temple, videographer, editor)
Grandi noted that the situation is very challenging and added that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is working closely with the government of Sudan and other aid agencies to improve services.
"Conditions in the camp are fragile as in any humanitarian situation but they have improved. We've seen services such as education, food distributions and healthcare being offered to the refugees," he said.
Ethiopian refugee Hailu Mehari sits with his family outside their shelter in Um Rakuba refugee camp in eastern Sudan. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno
He commended the government and the people of Sudan for their continued hospitality towards refugees, despite hosting more than 1 million other refugees and grappling with a displacement crisis of over 2.5 million internally displaced Sudanese, amid growing economic challenges.
"It's not that they don't have problems in other parts of the country so it's really something that the international community needs to appreciate more," he said.
"There is no military solution to this problem."
The High Commissioner was joined by the Norwegian Minister of International Development, Dag-Inge Ulstein.
"The host communities here are such a good example for the rest of the world. They are very warm and have welcomed refugees openly," the Minister said.
He appreciated efforts by aid agencies in responding to refugees' needs.
"The UN agencies and UNHCR are really doing a tremendous job setting up this site in such a short time while also building trust with the local communities," he added.
See also: UNHCR's Grandi urges greater support for Sudan and South Sudan
Hailu and his wife Tsige are also struggling to cope with being separated from their older children who remained behind in Tigray.
"I miss my other children and I still get emotional," said Tsige. "This week when I thought about them, I became very stressed and had stomach pains. I'm even struggling to talk about it now."
Hailu added that they last communicated with his older brother and his children in June but haven't heard from them since.
"I hope and pray for their safety," he said, adding that although they lost everything, they appreciate making it to Sudan.
Grandi noted that many of the refugees he spoke to would like to return home but only if there is peace. He reiterated that "there is no military solution to this problem" and the only way to restore peace in Ethiopia is through diplomatic negotiation and political talks.
"That's the only way to create conducive conditions for the thousands of people hosted in Sudan, to be able to go back voluntarily, in safety and dignity,' he said.
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He went from this to teeth in less than 2 hours!
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This patient from Ansonia chose IV sedation. When he woke up, he had new teeth!
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