SANDY ALOISI: To get an Opposition reaction, I'm joined now by the Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh. Andrew Leigh, good morning. Welcome to the program.
ANDREW LEIGH, SHADOW ASSISTANT TREASURER: G'day, Sandy. Great to be with you.
ALOISI: Well, the Coalition has forecast a surplus for next year. It's taken the Coalition some time to get here. But you've got to acknowledge this is good news for Australia.
LEIGH: This is a Coalition that promised in 2013 that they would never use the national credit card. Then after six years of using it, of doubling the total debt, they're now promising that if you vote for them again they'll finally put the national credit card back in the wallet. During that period, debt has risen so it's now nearly $15,000 for every Australian. That's the Coalition's record on debt.
ALOISI: If you think back though to Wayne Swan, a previous federal treasurer, you'll remember that he announced a series of surpluses that never eventuated.
LEIGH: Which is what's happening tonight. This is a projected surplus. The difference between Wayne Swan and Josh Frydenberg was Wayne Swan was staring down the biggest global crisis since the Great Depression. Josh Frydenberg has simply no excuse for the appalling way in which the Liberals have managed the nation's finances. I mean, they've got this surplus - a quarter of it is based on underspending on people with disabilities. You've seen a massive increase in corporate tax take, due in part to unexpected events such as the mine disaster in Brazil which drove demand for our iron ore exports.
The Canberra Times, 2 April 2019.
In the mid-1990s, researchers embarked on a massive clinical trial. Over 16,000 post-menopausal women volunteered to be randomly assigned to a treatment group, receiving hormone replacement therapy, or to a control group. Many had expected that the study would back the common view – basedon observational studies – that taking Estrogen plus Progestin was good for the health of these women.
Five years in, the trial's data and safety monitoring board stopped the study. Not only did the research show no protective impact of hormone replacement therapy, but it those receiving the treatment were significantly more likely to have health problems. When the results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2002, they had a seismic impact. Millions of women worldwide were taking the supplements. Thousands of GPs had to tell their patients: 'sorry, we were wrong'. Better evidence bruised a few egos, but it also saved lives.
SUBJECTS: Labor's Climate Change Action Plan, the Budget.
PATRICIA KARVELAS: Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and he joins us on Drive. Andrew Leigh, welcome.
ANDREW LEIGH, SHADOW ASSISTANT TREASURER: Thanks, Patricia. Glad to be with you.
KARVELAS: So the Coalition are already pitching this as a carbon tax. Do you accept that it is a price on carbon?
LEIGH: No, Patricia. I don't. This is extending Malcolm Turnbull's safeguards mechanism, which is a system that sets limits on a range of big industrial polluters. If they satisfy those limits, then that's well and good. They won't hear from the government again. What we're doing though is listening to business and improving that system by allowing firms to meet their targets by buying international permits.
Australia has some amazing little hotels. There are beachfront places where guests track sand into the lobby. We've got cosy bed and breakfasts off the beaten track. From Magnetic Island to Manly, there are a plethora of places where you can feel at home while enjoying a night away.
Over recent years, we've increasingly come to book those places through online travel platforms. They trade under a host of names — Expedia, Kayak, Hotels.com, Wotif, Priceline, Booking.com, Trivago and more — but they're really just two large firms, which together control 84% of the market. Both are multinationals, headquartered in places that seem chosen more for their tax advantages than their proximity to the accommodation sector.
The online booking duopoly has used its market power exactly the way an economics textbook would suggest. The commission hotels are charged isn't just a few per cent, as with a credit card, but can be up to 30%. That's right: just for linking up customers with accommodation providers, they're charging up to 30% of the bill. That leaves only 70% for the people who change the sheets, wash the towels, vacuum the carpets and run the reception.
SUBJECTS: The Budget, Labor's Climate Change Action Plan.
KIERAN GILBERT: Now the Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh. Ahead of the budget, Mr Leigh, thanks very much for your time.
ANDREW LEIGH, SHADOW ASSISTANT TREASURER: Pleasure.
GILBERT: Already the Government's come out saying this is a carbon tax. What do you say to their criticism, their critique already?
LEIGH: It's not. And if it were then their own policy would be a carbon tax. Kieran, this is simply an extension of a scheme put in place by Malcolm Turnbull. Business has told us that they are sick of the climate wars. They're sick of the bickering over climate and they want bipartisanship. Our view is the best way of achieving that is to extend the Turnbull Government's safeguard mechanism that applies to 0.01 per cent of companies, puts in place a pollution cap and is part of our commitment to seeing Australia meet our internationally agreed carbon targets. As you've said before, we're also taking advice from business to improve the scheme by giving firms access to international credits.
The Coalition has once again failed small business by failing to take proper action on unfair contract terms.
Despite their own review finding that the current provisions are not enough to protect small businesses from the big end of town, Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert can't even commit to making unfair contract terms illegal.
Weasel words offering options – which may or may not be implemented after further delays – are not enough.
FIONA PHILLIPS, LABOR CANDIDATE FOR GILMORE: Ok, I'd like to welcome everyone here today. I'm Fiona Phillips, Labor's Candidate for Gilmore. I'm here today with Senator Jenny McAllister, the Shadow Assistant Minister for Families and Communities and Dr Andrew Leigh, the Shadow Assistant Treasurer, but also the Shadow Minister for Charities.
Look, we are here today, we know that the Gilmore electorate - there's many people in the Gilmore electorate are doing it really, really tough and as Labor's candidate for Gilmore, for years and years, I have been listening to local stories. How people can't access financial counselling when in hardship. I have heard story after story, where people can't pay their bills. They can't afford to buy food and that is really increasing. So look, really, really pleased to have worked with the Labor team and today we've got a great announcement to basically increase funding for emergency relief and also to double the number of financial counsellors across Australia.
Con artist George Parker was 20 years old when he first sold the Brooklyn Bridge. The trick was to start by asking a passing tourist for help on the tollbooth of the newly opened bridge. When the tourist got interested in the economics, Parker professed not to be much interested in the big picture, and suggested that the passer-by might want to purchase the whole structure. Parker reputedly sold the Brooklyn Bridge many times over, at prices ranging from $50 to $50,000.


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Coming Home To Harlem
By Anna Kuchment On 8/12/01 at 8:00 PM EDT
It was the type of event Bill Clinton relishes. At his welcome-to-Harlem rally last week, the former president grooved with a group of sax players, reminisced about his boyhood, expounded on the troubles of the downtrodden and indulged in his favorite type of food: fried. He was in Harlem to open his postpresidential office among some of his most loyal supporters. "No, no, no, no, don't mess with Bill!" the crowd chanted, sporting Clinton buttons and waving cardboard fans with his likeness. "You supported me on the best days and on the darkest days," he told them. "I want to be a good neighbor in Harlem on the best days and the dark days."
It's unclear which mood Clinton will usher in. His supporters hope the ex-president will speed the area's economic recovery, on display all around his West 125th Street office with new chain stores, banks and pharmacies. Some are even calling it Harlem's "second renaissance," after the vibrant black cultural and civil-rights movement of the 1920s and '30s. But detractors say the term "renaissance" is a misnomer: this time around it's not about culture or ideology--it's all about money. "I don't know where people are coming from with this 'second renaissance'," says Murphy Heyliger, a Harlem native and owner of the boutique shop Harlemade. "Back in the '20s and '30s, when blacks were moving into Harlem, there was a sense of pride that you couldn't duplicate today. Many had moved from the South or the West Indies and there was a real opportunity to make something of themselves here in Harlem. What's happening now is, if black people are moving into Harlem, they're moving in to catch the deal."
And quite a deal it is. After decades of neglect, the neighborhood is making a comeback. Real-estate prices are soaring. Yuppies of both races, priced out of lower Manhattan, have been competing with locals for apartments and brownstones. Vie Williams, a vice president at the Corcoran Group, says home sales in the neighborhood increased fivefold between 1997 and 2000. Between 1994 and 2000 the cost of a townhouse doubled to $390,000, which is still a steal compared with what's available farther downtown. New residential buildings seem to be breaking ground everywhere, and scaffolding covers the facades of previously condemned brownstones. Earlier this summer the Renaissance, a new mixed-income, 240-apartment co-op on Lenox Avenue, was decorated with a large banner: bill: live here, walk to work. The Striver's Garden development project, including condos, townhouses and penthouses, will break ground in September. These are part of some 3,000 residential units that Harlem plans to open over the next three years. Terry Lane, president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, says Harlem's rate of home ownership has more than doubled in the past seven years.
Not everyone is happy about the real-estate boom. Growing numbers of whites are beginning to move in, and though their ranks are thin compared with the number of middle-class blacks buying property, they've spurred a small backlash. Some residents worry that gentrification will displace Harlem natives and turn the former jazz capital into another Upper West Side, with Banana Republic shops and take-out soul food. At Clinton's rally, a militant group of New Black Panthers carried signs that read CLINTON = GENTRIFICATION (the white takeover of black Harlem). Nearby, a man stood at a folding table with taped-up fliers that said rent is too damn high. Clinton, who chose Harlem for his new office only after a public outcry over his pricey first-choice location in midtown Manhattan, acknowledged his critics. "I'm glad property values are rising," he said. "But I don't want small businesses to be driven out because I'm moving in."
For all the worries, most Harlemites appreciate the new energy that recent arrivals have brought. Harlemade's Heyliger says the neighborhood has a "good vibe." Whatever their race, the people moving in are wealthier and better educated than their predecessors, he says. "You see people walking with an air of 'they've seen the world and now they want to be a part of Harlem'," he says. "And that goes for both blacks and whites."
Harlem's latest revitalization began in the 1990s, thanks in large part to America's economic boom. In 1994 the Clinton administration, together with Harlem Rep. Charles B. Rangel, initiated a chain of Federal Empowerment Zones that would grant funds to underprivileged communities for development projects. Harlem's Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone has been among the most successful, using low-interest loans and tax breaks to lure grocery shops, dry cleaners, video stores and, most famously, the Harlem USA megaplex, with a nine-screen movie theater financed by basketball star Magic Johnson.
The dining options keep getting better, too. Once home mostly to fluorescent, threadbare eateries, Harlem is welcoming "a wave of exciting new restaurants" (map), as this year's Zagat Restaurant Survey noted. Most, like Amy Ruth's, stick to traditional dishes like candied yams, barbecued ribs and fried chicken with waffles. Jimmy's Uptown, an upscale bistro that opened last year, fuses Southern American and French cooking. But guide co-founder Tim Zagat says people from outside Harlem aren't flocking to the establishments just yet. "It takes some education for people to go up and say, 'I'd like to go to a jazz brunch, or a soul-food dinner'," he says. "They need to know that no one's being shot in the streets."
Harlem is even experiencing something of a cultural revival. Spruced-up jazz clubs and galleries are showcasing a new generation of talent. The Studio Museum, which houses work by contemporary black artists, is adding gallery space and modernizing its facade. Since the landmark Lenox Lounge, where Billie Holiday crooned smokily in the 1940s, was renovated last year, weekend jazz fans have packed its Zebra Room. The Apollo Theater, where Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald used to perform, is closing soon for renovations and will reopen next spring with two theaters, one of which will host "Harlem Song," a new musical revue by Tony-award-winning director George C. Wolfe.
To be sure, Harlem has had a long road to recovery. Throughout much of the last century, the area has symbolized America's most intractable social problems: racial segregation, economic inequality, inadequate public schools, high crime and drug addiction. Most blocks still contend with vacant lots, condemned buildings, rat infestations and absent parents who let their children roam the streets until dawn. The average household income remains half the national average: about $23,000 a year. More than half the residents lack a high-school diploma and deaths from drug overdose are more than twice the citywide average.
Even so, the neighborhood has gotten so relatively safe and spiffy that tourists are crowding the streets--for better and worse. Local business owners complain that tourists rarely get off their buses long enough to spend any money. "It's like a drive-through safari," complains one. Some also note an imbalance between American and international visitors. A survey released in December by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone found that domestic visitors accounted for just 20 percent of all Harlem tourists, compared with 40 percent of Broadway audiences. "Unfortunately, with Americans there still seems to be a latent bias," says Neal Shoemaker, a lifelong Harlem resident and founder of Harlem Heritage Tours.
When tourists do disembark, it's often to attend a church service. Each Sunday morning, droves of visitors, overwhelmingly from Europe and Japan, jam churches to listen to Harlem's famed gospel choirs. Often, the tourists crowd out regular congregants, leaving them scrambling for seats. "Sometimes it keeps the spirit from getting real," says Heyliger. Sheila Bridges, the interior designer responsible for the clean, modern look of Clinton's new office, says, "I think people do resent it if you're passing a hymn book and someone else is passing a Michelin guide, concerned about what the next tourist attraction is going to be."
Whatever else happens, it's clear that Harlem will never be the same again. "It will be a whiter community," says historian David Levering Lewis. "And I think the African-Americans who move in will perhaps have no more real linkage to the past than many of the Europeans." Sure, it may be different. But like Bill Clinton playing the sax, it's still got its own brand of soul.

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The integrated marketing communications (IMC) major teaches students about the newly converging fields of advertising, public relations, sales promotion, and social/interactive marketing. Students learn how these specialized areas are combined into seamless communication programs for companies and their brands.
With new independent artists entering the music industry every day, the job of an A&R manager is more vital than ever.
Suzanna Slavin '13 is the A&R manager for Mom + Pop Music, an independent record label in New York City. She has multiple responsibilities, including scouting talent.
When signing artists, Slavin looks for factors such as Spotify streams, album sales, and unique lyrics.
Slavin was an integrated marketing communications major at Ithaca College, where she learned about advertising, public relations, marketing, and sales promotion.
"I took away so much from IC and my IMC major in the Park School," Slavin said. "But I think generally from all of my different classes, a sense of communication skills is key. I think it's important in any job, whether it's music, media, teaching, medical, etc. You could be in a job interview, an important client meeting, or working on a project with your coworkers, and clear and effective communication will get you far."


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How data analytics changed baseball and how it can change your business
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The rise of data analytics in baseball started with "Moneyball", or rather, the method made famous by "Moneyball". But if Billy Beane and the Oakland A's were the first pitch, we've now reached the seventh-inning stretch of a serious pitchers' duel.
Moneyball created a kind of data arms race among major league ball clubs.
It's not quite as relevant as the battle for the biggest ballpark bloody mary (current front-runners: Target Field and Miller Park, with an honorable mention to Tropicana Field for successfully combining hard-boiled eggs and doughnut holes in the same beverage. Seriously.), but probably more useful for team management.
The data and analytics at work behind the scenes of major league baseball have transformed the league, all the way from player selection during the offseason to defensive positioning within each inning of a single game.
Nowadays, if you're a fan of baseball, you're most likely a fan of statistics as well.
Once upon a time, all of a player's important stats could fit on the back of a baseball card. Now it seems like we're not satisfied until we know how many extra-base hits Aaron Judge gets during Tuesday's away games with his left shoe untied.
So, to whet your appetite, here are some impressive numbers showing just how much data impacts America's favorite pastime, courtesy of SportTechie:
"One baseball game is close to generating up to 1TB of data… for example, about 20 different pieces of data are recorded with every pitch, ranging from pitch velocity to the angle of the pitcher's arm. While generating that much data in one game may sound impressive, it's really only scratching the surface of big data's true potential, with some experts predicting advances will push data generation to as much as 7TB per game."
But how can some of these same tactics be useful outside the diamond, specifically in a retail sales environment?
Read on for five ways big data is revolutionizing retail. But first, the good news: none of these ideas will require storing 1TB of data per day.
Five ways big data is transforming retail
In baseball, companies like Amazon collect millions of data points for every game, all season. As mentioned above, approximately 20 different data points are collected for every single pitch, including arm angle, release point and exit velocity if the batter makes contact, to name just a few.
While relatively small by comparison, in-store technologies like modern POS systems, people counters and smart wifi collect a major assortment of data points that are ripe for analysis and operational improvement.
The thought of processing 1TB of raw data per game (then multiplied by 162 games per season, per team) makes my brain cry. Seriously, there's not enough nope in the world. That's why specialized computing systems like Pitchf/x and HITf/x were created: to analyze the massive amounts of data collected each game, and apply the findings in a way that maximizes team success.
Similarly, tools like the Flonomics Experience Manager collect retail data from many different sources, completing analysis both automatically and on-demand, and offers reports and forecasts to improve business performance.
Player management
This is the "Moneyball" discussion. Ever since Brad Pitt glammed up big data in baseball, teams across the league have used analytics to determine a player's worth in their current situation, and used those findings to determine whether that player is best suited for their current role, or whether they'd be better off playing somewhere else.
Similarly, big data in retail helps business owners determine if their players are truly knocking it out of the park, so to speak.
For example, people counting reports showing foot traffic data compared with sales figures can offer a better picture of salesperson effectiveness, or perhaps in need of reassignment or additional training.
The way visualization technology has changed baseball broadcasts was heavily showcased this year at the Home Run Derby. Using real-time bat speed, exit velocity, launch angle and ball tracking data, the broadcast team was able to construct some really impressive AR graphics and home run spray charts with the help of, unsurprisingly, video game rendering systems behind the smash hit Fortnite. In fact, the league took it a step further by offering an alternative broadcast dedicated to real-time stats and augmented reality displays.
To see the impact that AR has had in the retail space, look no further than applications like Ikea Place or the Wayfair app. These apps allows users to select a piece of furniture, then using their smartphone camera, superimpose that item into any space in their home to see how it will fit physically and aesthetically. Similar AR experiences are sprouting up at a surprising rate and are greatly improving consumer intelligence and buyer confidence.
Using data to predict fan/customer preferences
Unsurprisingly, any data that ball clubs and retail businesses can collect about customers will help to improve the fan experience.
Similarly, the more retailers know about customers and their preferences, the better we can cater to their needs and desires. For baseball organizations, fan preference data can help determine whether a 4pm weekday game start time is too early (it is.).
Likewise, customer-centered data can influence whether a store would benefit by opening an hour later each day (Also yes. More sleep is always the right answer).
How do you see big data changing the retail space? Let us know in the comments!


Message on the card inside reads: "Celebrating the bond of love between mothers and sons"
With this particular Willow Tree figurine, sculptor Susan Lordi says that she was thinking about the relationship between a mother and a son aged about nine or ten, that certain age when boys start fiercely asserting their independence and resisting hugs and kisses from their mothers. Yet, at the same time, secretly needing and wanting them. She wanted this sculpture to express that push and pull. Liking the touch but at the same time, pulling away.


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La Iglesia parroquial de San Bartolomé en Marcilla (Navarra, España) se encuentra en el centro de la localidad y es un templo de estilo neoclásico reconstruido sobre otra de antigua edificación a finales del siglo XVIII. La parroquia de San Bartolomé es el principal lugar de culto de los marcilleses.

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La torre, de ladrillo, es también reconstrucción de otra muy antigua, la cual había sufrido reparaciones en el 1773.

La Iglesia parroquial antigua, y de la que no queda vestigio, estaba junto a un antiguo monasterio regentado por una comunidad cisterciense (desde 1429 hasta 1774), y del que tampoco queda nada, ya que sobre él se construyó una gran casa palaciega conocida hasta hace poco como "La Casa del Portal", y desaparecida hoy día.

La iglesia parroquial fue en su origen dedicada a San Bartolomé, apóstol, y estaba servida por un cura vicario y dos beneficiados, todos en representación del Cabildo de Barbastro (Aragón). Los documentos más antiguos ya hablan de la existencia de la iglesia en el 1534. Y en 1578, otros documentos hablan de reparaciones y obras realizadas en dicha iglesia y en la que por vez primera figura como parroquia. Los primeros registros de bautizos son del 3 de junio de 1537. Cabe añadir que, apenas se erigiese la parroquia, viviesen los sacerdotes dedicados a su culto en casa distinta al monasterio, por lo que no es de extrañar que en 1686 aparezcan documentos mencionando reparaciones en la casa sacerdotal y restaurándola.

En su interior, moderno y funcional, mantiene unos retablos barrocos de los siglos XVII y XVIII, de escultura y pintura, así como dos tallas del siglo XVI (una Virgen con el Niño y un Crucificado) y una imagen gótica arcaizante, del siglo XIII, de la Virgen, que fue modificada durante la restauración. Destaca una espléndida vidriera en honor a la Virgen del Plú, en el óculo situado sobre el pórtico de entrada.

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Late last year, I stumbled across Ken Jennings' blog, which the renowned Jeopardy! champion fills with his musings about trivia, game shows, raising kids, the quirks of being a semi-celebrity, and pop culture. Mostly pop culture. Over time, I've learned a few surprising things about Jennings' taste. He likes classic alt-rock (everything from Television to Wilco), old super-hero comics, dopey TV and quality cinema (everything from Michael Powell to Jafar Panahi). In short: He's me, right down to the two children and affable demeanor. If we ever met–and I could prevent myself from asking him to loan me money–I think we'd be fast friends.
The first time I read The Catcher In The Rye, back in high school, I was especially struck by Holden Caulfield's description of his favorite kind of books: "What really knocks me out is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it." After reading The Catcher In The Rye, I felt that way about J.D. Salinger, until I later read about his prickly reclusiveness. (Maybe he became such a creep out of self-defense, to avoid friendly phone calls from melancholy adolescents.) So I try to keep Salinger in mind, every time I read about a famous person whose sensibility seems simpatico with mine.
It's actually pretty easy for me to remember The Salinger Paradox, given the fairly regular encounters I have with famous people, by phone, conducting interviews for this publication and elsewhere. Most of these celebs are reasonably nice, but rarely chummy. The major exceptions are movie actors, who've mastered the art of the schmooze. They chuckle easily, and seem to end every other sentence with, "Noel," and just generally make me, on the other end of the phone, feel like a very special person. I know it's an act, but I appreciate the effort.
Musicians are a lot trickier. There's one singer-songwriter in particular–well-known, but not a superstar–whom I've interviewed four times. The first time was early in his career, and we spent as much time talking about our respective personal lives as about his album. Later I heard rumors that he was kind of a careerist, inclined to cozy up to people in a position to help him out; but the second time I interviewed him, just a year later, he was still pleasantly chatty, even though his star was starting to rise. A year after that, after he'd started getting reviewed in all the national entertainment magazines, and had landed songs on TV and movie soundtracks, our third interview went much rockier. I tried to catch up on all the off-the-record personal stuff we used to talk about, and he gave me brusque, all-business replies. I didn't talk to him again until a few more years went by, and he'd reached a kind of "cult favorite" career plateau. Taking my cues from our previous conversation, I pretended no personal relationship, and asked him straightforward questions, which he answered kind of rotely. Then, when the interview was over, suddenly he brightened up and said, "So Noel, how's it going?"
Maybe that third interview was an aberration, and my lingering hurt feelings were responsible for that misfiring fourth one. Either way, it doesn't matter. I still like this guy's music, but I've learned from the whole experience not to take an interview personally, even when it goes well.
The problem is that these days, we live in a world of blogs and message boards, and a lot of us have "friends" that we've never actually met. So it's all the harder to shake that familiar fantasy, when you read a compelling interview with an artist whose work you like, that you and that artist have a lot in common, and could be pals. By and large, I'm not all that interested in meeting celebrities in a non-professional capacity, but I'm not so above-it-all that I don't think it's neat when I get to talk on the phone with people like Peter Falk or George Carlin. If nothing else, it certainly gives me something to talk about at dinner parties. ("Do you know who called me yesterday? Marlo Thomas!") And every now and then, the conversations go so well that for a moment I wish I were one of those journalist who gets to do interviews in person. ("Aaron Eckhardt and I are standing in the middle of his Montana ranch," etc.) Then, just maybe, after I turned my recorder off, we'd grab a beer and talk about movies, or bands we like, or our families. Then I'd really have an anecdote to dine out on.
All of which is a way of saying: Ken, if you're ever in Arkansas, give me a call.


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New blocks have been introduced in administration block.
Server entity has been modified to specify the number of child processes, so now it is possible to work with X3 web load balancer mode.
With the new Classic SOAP pools configuration entity, it is now possible to define number of pools to define maximum number of clients to avoid overload.
Flamegraph is used to analyze the calls in program by interrupting and analyzing the call stack every slice of time.
Log can be started either from classic page session or from Sage Enterprise Management Web (Syracuse) session.
Lot of events like database and code execution can be stored in Log File, depending on the log setup.
For Classic pages, the memory dump is a result of Heapdmp execution.
In update mode, the Batch server stops and restarts.
When no major upgrade applies, a historical folder validation is also supported.
To manage the corresponding parameter, an additional table is added in the main folder and its historical folder (ADOVALHIS), and also many modifications in the applicative upgrade scripts.
Direct call to ACTLSPE function is used for accessing.
Compares a dictionary where custom or vertical developments have been done and the standard dictionary (the root folder).
Sage supplies a list of warnings, errors, and critical errors that would happen when a standard patch is applied.
A first step to a "cloud certification".
added for volume management (storage area), additional navigation links have been.
Access codes are now present on the volume description.
Other rights like Read, Write, and Execute (list) are managed through the rights granted to the users on these access codes.


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Back in September 2012, HGST first announced their Helium Hard Drive Platform. The Helium drives began to ship the following year in November and as of last month, HGST has deployed over a million drives. We had previously reviewed the Ultrastar He6 6TB helium drive. Now HGST has taken their helium technology and expanded capacity even further with the Ultrastar Helium He8 8TB Enterprise Hard Drive. The He8 is available in either SAS 12Gb/s or SATA 6Gb/s interface. The drives offer a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, on disk buffer of 128MB and drive sustained throughput of 205MB/s.
As we stated previously, the drive is sealed and filled with helium to reduce friction. With fewer disturbances inside the drive, more platters can fit and less power is required. According to HGST, when comparing the He8 to a 6TB air drive you'll see 23% lower idle power and 44% better Watts/TB. Not only that, the newest helium drives bump the capacity up to 8TB (33% more than 6TB drives) and it has more use cases than Shingled Magnetic Recording drives. The main area of focus for He8 sales would be enterprise and datacenters where density and capacity are paramount and weighed against TCO.
The HGST Ultrastar Helium He8 8TB Enterprise Hard Drive comes with a 5-year warranty and has a street price of $600.
The Ultrastar He8 looks pretty much identical to the He6, the difference being the indication of a higher capacity and weighing slightly more. He8 is a hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD enabling HGST's 7Stac disk design to reach 8TB in capacity, making the industry's highest capacity PMR HDD with best-in-class TCO for cloud storage as well as massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk backup, and replicated or RAID environments. The front of the drives has a sticker with basic information on the drive, including the product name, capacity and HGST logo.
Because Helium is a sealed drive technology, the packaging of the drive is different. While most hard drives are components assembled inside a shell that is screwed together, the Helium drives have to be fused together to seal the helium in.
The He8 is much quieter than its air-filled brethren, it is as quiet as the He6. Besides being quieter the drive also uses substantially less power than the older 5-platter 7K4000.
Our condensed Enterprise Synthetic Workload Analysis includes one profiles designed to show peak random I/O from each device. This profile is designed to be used as a baseline comparable to cross-reference manufacturer claims of random transfer speeds.
In our 100% 4K random read and write test, the He8 top the charts in write performance with 314 IOPS well ahead of the other drives. On the flip side, the He8 came in last in read performance with only 136 IOPS, about a hundred under the next closest drive in performance.
Looking at average latency we again see the He8 as the top performer in write speeds with 814.66ms, and the worst performer, by far, in read speeds with 1,867.99ms.
With max latency, the He8 lost the top spot of write with a speed of 3,204.9ms, making it second to last, again the Seagate was the top performer at 1,709ms. And the He8 came in last by a large margin in read latency with a speed of 4,945ms. The top read speed was 3,903ms from the MG04SCA.
Standard deviation showed the He8 landing second in write speed with 163.85ms and third in read speed with 505.18ms.
Compared to the fixed 16 thread, 16 queue max workload we performed in the 100% 4k write test, our mixed workload profiles scale the performance across a wide range of thread/queue combinations. In these tests, we span workload intensity from 2 threads and 2 queue up to 16 threads and 16 queue. In throughput, the He8 struggled near the bottom of the pack. The other drives tested beat it out more or less throughout the test with the He6 dropping down below the He8 a few times. The He8 peaked at 203 IOPS.
In our average latency benchmark, the He8 started out near and then stayed at the bottom of the pack.
With max latency, there were times where the He8 had lower overall latencies but near the end it was again in last place.
In standard deviation, the He8 ran more in line with the Seagate and performed better than the He6 and the MG04SCA.
Our Enterprise Synthetic Workload 128K test is a large block sequential test that shows the highest sequential transfer speed for a platter drive. When looking at 128K performance of 100% write and 100% read activity, while the He8 wasn't the top performer, it did run about in line with the top performing drives. The He8 had read and write speeds of just under 202MB/s.
The HGST Ultrastar Helium He8 8TB Enterprise Hard Drive is a higher capacity HDD than their previous version. The He8 comes in both SAS and SATA interfaces, 7200 RPM spindle speeds, and a disk buffer of 128MB. HGST says that the He8 provides 33% more capacity, while using 23% lower idler power, and providing 44% better Watts/TB than 6TB air HDDs. Unlike SMR drives, the He8 can be used in most enterprise applications without the restrictions of SMR. In our initial review of the 6TB model we were hesitant to recommend the helium drives as the technology was relatively new. However HGST has now deployed more than million helium drives proving out their technology and has committed to using sealed drive technology exclusively for their capacity 3.5" line going forward.
Looking at performance, there aren't competitive 8TB drives to make an apple-to-apple comparison to (the Seagate Archive is an 8TB drive but uses SMR technology). Instead we compared the He8 to its 6TB sibling along with a 5TB and a 6TB enterprise HDD. The He8 performed well in our Application Performance Analysis coming in second in all the tests. In our synthetic workloads, the He8 had the highest write throughput on or 4k benchmarks with 314 IOPS and the lowest average latency with 814.66ms. In our 8k 70%Read/30%Write the He8 ran near the bottom of the pack even trailing its predecessor. In our large block 128k test we saw speeds of just under 202MB/s in both read and write which is about in line with what HGST claims. Overall its not a highest performer compared to others in the bulk storage tier but the trade off is that user gains 33% capacity as well as power advantages that the helium-filled sealed design offers.
In the end, the He8 again shows off HGST's design prowess when it somes to integrating leading-edge technology. This sealed platform is being further leveraged in a 10TB HDD, albeit in a host managed SMR form. Regardless, HGST gets to claim the crown of fastest 8TB drive on the market, and in use cases where capacity and performance reign supreme, the He8 will win over many, despite the pricing premium per TB. Even though it's not SMR, the drive still has limitations in deployment, none of which are its fault. RAID environments may still be challanging due to rebuild times and arrays that have large metadata tables to manage, probably won't immediately transition to these or any other high-capacity drives. But for those using storage stacks that can take advantage of the huge capacity bump and don't want to take the performance hit of the competing SMR drives, the He8 will should be an excellent driver with an eye toward more PB-scale deployments.
HGST Ultrastar Helium He8 Enterprise Hard Drive is an 8TB HDD that is available in both SAS and SATA interfaces. With the He8, users get a bump in capacity along with a drop in power consumption leading to a lower total cost of ownership and the fastest throughput at the 8TB capacity point.


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Jazz improve in the turnover department in win over Dallas but still have work to do
By Mike Sorensen @sorny8
Published: October 30, 2017 10:25 pm
Rick Bowmer, AP
Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio (3) passes the ball as Dallas Mavericks guard Dennis Smith Jr. (1) defends in the first half during an NBA basketball game Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
We've dealt with turnover issues before — we're just fixated on that right now, and hopefully that will go away. —Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder
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SALT LAKE CITY — Turnovers have been a big issue for the Utah Jazz this season. They came into Monday night's game ranked first in the league in turnovers per game (19.2) and were coming off consecutive games where they had 24 and 23 giveaways, respectively, against the Suns and Lakers.
Earlier in the day, coach Quin Snyder had talked at length about the turnover issue, describing the difference between certain turnovers and some of the reasons they've had so many, with new players playing a new system, etc.
"We've dealt with turnover issues before — we're just fixated on that right now, and hopefully that will go away," he continued. "When I say fixated, I don't mean in a bad way. (You need to) take those things seriously as a coach and figure it out."
Well the Jazz sort of figured it out in Monday night's game, turning the ball over just 14 times, but Snyder wasn't about to start doing cartwheels.
"It's like we've talked about, it's one game of seven, so I don't want to overreact, one way or another," he said. "We still have to be disciplined in how we handle the ball. It's a collective thing; it's not just one guy. It's something we need to keep emphasizing."
Point guard Ricky Rubio came into the game ranked fourth in the league with 4.7 turnovers per game, and he did better, with just three turnovers on the night.
"I'm learning a lot of new things and a lot of things in my mind, but, at the same time, I've got to control the ball more," he said. "When you have a turnover, it's no excuse, but, of course, having new teammates, new system, you're learning a lot. But like I said, we've got to get better, especially me and that's it."
FAVORS FOR THREE: Derrick Favors made his call, some eight hours earlier.
After the morning shootaround, he talked about how he's made 3-point shooting part of his repertoire and, even though he'd missed all six 3-point tries this season, he said, "One game they'll fall, probably this game."
Sure enough, just 59 seconds into the game, Favors squared up for a 3-pointer in the right corner and swished it.
He tried two more on the night and missed both, leaving him 1 for 9 on the season. But he's going to keep looking for 3-pointers, particularly in the corners.
"I'm just working on technique and working on my form, just getting comfortable out there, before practice, after practice shoot a lot, getting muscle memory and getting confidence in it," Favors said.
CHANGES: The NBA has made a few tweaks to its game this year, mostly to help the flow and time of the game.
Dallas coach Rick Carlisle, for one, likes all the changes.
"Everything's moving faster — games are moving faster with the new flow package, less timeouts, less time in between free throws, halftimes go quicker … so, for me, it's all moving the game in a good direction," Carlisle said. "There a lot of positives with it."
Carlisle also commented on the changes at Vivint Arena, without being asked.
"This building looks beautiful, by the way," he said. "The locker room — I don't even recognize it. They did a tremendous job."
JAZZ NOTES: Jonas Jerebko saw his first action as a Jazz player, getting in for the final 2:30 of the game and missed his only shot. … Three former Jazzmen played for the Mavs Monday night. Devin Harris (2010-12) scored 15 points, while Wesley Matthews (2009-10) scored eight points. Also, Jeff Withey, who played for the Jazz the past two seasons, got nice ovation when he came in with 2:30 left, and he got a rebound and missed his only shot. … The Jazz host Portland Wednesday night and Toronto Friday night before going to Houston for a game Sunday. Then, it's back home for four straight home games before a four-game road trip in the East.
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Judge Announces Skanska Barge Ruling
Recently, U.S. District Court Judge Lacey Collier ruled that contractor and design-build team Skanska USA was operating under maritime law when its construction barges broke lose from its Pensacola Bay Bridge project during Hurricane Sally in August of last year.
According to reports, the ruling could significantly limit Skanska's liability regarding the close to 1,000 businesses and commuters seeking damages.
Bridge vs. Barge
In anticipation that Hurricane Sally would make landfall some 200 miles west of Pensacola, Skanska hadn't planned to move its construction equipment but told Engineering News-Record that it had made all appropriate pre-storm preparations. However, when Hurricane Sally unexpectedly changed her course in the final hours of approaching land, it was too late to take additional action.
As a result, the Category 2 hurricane landed just 30 miles west of the Pensacola Bay Bridge (also known as the Three Mile Bridge) replacement project site, causing the dislodge of 27 barges, among other construction equipment.
One of the worst impacts, Pensacola News Journal wrote at the time, was a crane that passed under the Three Mile Bridge, smashing through the surface of the road from beneath, destroying the span. While the structure was closed immediately following the barge impact, it was reported that the bridge suffered a second impact the following day. Upon preliminary damage assessments, FDOT determined that at least five of the 105 spans were irreparable and would have to be reconstructed.
The Garcon Point Bridge was also affected by a dislodged barge and was also closed. While the Pensacola Bay bridge remained closed for repairs, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the suspension of tolls on Garcon Point until traffic was fully open on Pensacola.
A few days after an initial overview of the losses, inspectors discovered that damages to the Pensacola Bay Bridge were worse than previously expected. During a preliminary inspection, crews reported that:
FDOT divers inspected 202 underwater footings while top side inspection teams assessed 105 spans, 202 piers and 525 beams;
The number of spans requiring full replacement remained at five and FDOT identified an additional two that would require partial replacement; and
FDOT would have to replace a number of beams and is still determining the specific number needing replacement.
At the beginning of October, FDOT announced that demolition efforts on the damaged areas of the Pensacola Bay Bridge had begun, with focus on areas that need cleared for dive access to examine the final 22 footings below the waterline.
At the time, three of Skanska's barges remained on or under the structure and would have to be removed with great caution. In wake of the efforts taken to repair the structure, Skanska fabricated 25 beams, various piers and other replacement beams and piers at its offsite yard needed to begin repair efforts. The contractor also reached out to other facilities to assist in production.
Judge: Skanska was operating under maritime law during Sally, commuter case going to trial – Pensacola News Journal
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Providing a repair update at the beginning of December, Florida Rep. Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola) told the Pensacola News Journal that Skanska still had barges littered around the area, alongside crews accounting for safety, equipment, and fuel, which in turn is driving up enormous daily costs.
While Skanska did not attend the town hall, the company was since reported to have hired two subcontractors to initiate repairs on the bridge. In their efforts, the teams were sending divers to evaluate pilings and repair concrete, in addition to replacing entire spans of the bridge.
Regarding the cost of the additional repairs, Skanska or its insurance companies are slated to pay for the repairs directly. Although many sections of the structure are being repaired ahead of schedule, the company is motivated to complete the project as soon as possible as its reported to be "building at a loss."
The following month, numbers on the demolition and repair activities were updated to include:
Seven fully damaged spans removed;
Eight partially damaged spans removed;
16 damaged pedestrian path beams removed;
61 damaged I-beams removed, with eight replaced;
Four damaged trophy pieces removed; and
11 replacement piles driven.
Over the course of the work, FDOT continued to monitor Skanska's investigation with state and local authorities to determine if the line connecting the barge to the sea floor was severed, as another barge was also reported to break loose at the end of December.
In February, FDOT officials reported that the Pensacola Bay Bridge was scheduled to reopen in March, however the transportation structure would still have lane restrictions. Although temporary, the bridge plans to open one lane in each direction will be open for roughly the first mile and two lanes in each direction for the remining two miles.
Due to the impact on local businesses and tourism, it was decided that reconnecting the communities sooner than later would be the best option. However, Skanska has recently been delayed in its repair work due to inclement weather preventing the contractor from utilizing cranes, in addition to other obstacles.
Regardless, FDOT says it will continue to withhold $35,000 per day on the project until the full lanes are opened.
"We believe they are not providing what they're supposed to provide," said FDOT Secretary Kevin J. Thibault at the time. "The contract requires us to get a four-lane bridge and we don't have a four-lane bridge. Until we get that open and it's accepted by us, we withhold $35,000 a day, so that's the message we've given them."
By the end of March, officials announced that the Pensacola Bay Bridge was scheduled to reopen the week of Memorial Day.
Once a connection is restored between Pensacola and Gulf Breeze, Skanska is slated to remain working onsite through until January of 2022 to complete all improvements to the new bridge.
Building Cases and Liability Requests
Back in October, FDOT issued a letter of intent to Skanska USA seeking damages and lost toll-related revenue because of the toll suspension on the Garcon Point Bridge. However, according to Sen. Doug Broxson, lost toll revenue caused by emergency closures are usually paid out by the Florida Legislature. In terms of tolls revenue, Broxson added that the loss was a monthly difference of between $700,000 and $4 million.
Additionally, lawsuits regarding the construction company and affected local businesses were ongoing within the court system as well.
In five separate filings—each representing a different barge—Skanska requested in January that the U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Florida declare the company not liable "for any loss, injuries or damages" related to barge damage, including economic losses suffered by businesses from the closure of the new span of the bridge in an attempt to significantly reduce or eliminate its liability for damages experienced at the Pensacola Bay Bridge construction project, caused by its own barges during Hurricane Sally.
The separate filings sought to have the barges recognized as vessels protected under maritime law.
While a Skanska spokesperson told reporters at the time that the company doesn't comment on active or pending litigation, should the courts refuse the company's request, they've also submitted an alternate request, asking that the liability be limited to the dollar amount of its ownership in each vessel.
Skanska valued its barges to each cost between $125,000 and $550,000, totaling $1.43 million, and requested that they be divided pro rata between all those submitting valid claims within a certain time period to be determined by the court. A copy of a security bond equal to the value of each barge was included with each filing.
Maritime Jurisdiction, Next Steps
In a late July ruling, federal judge Collier ruled that Skanska was operating under maritime law when its barges broke loose from its Pensacola Bay Bridge project site during Hurricane Sally last summer. The decision reportedly keeps the case in federal court—a win for Skanska.
However, the judge deferred to rule if litigation for the nearly 1,000 claimants who suffered property damages from the barrages, as well as those who took on economic damages due to the bridge's closure for nine months.
The deferred ruling reportedly regarded the relevance of the Robins Dry Dock case, which is a precedent case that, if it applied, would limit the pool of potential plaintiffs to only those who suffered physical damage, such as those who had Skanska barges wash up on their property.
Because of this, the question if claimants can sue for physical and economic damages will remain until the outcome of the next trail, which slated to take place in September.
"That's really important because if we win that trial, we get out of federal court and can proceed in state court where a lot of those cases are pending," Sam Geisler, an attorney with Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, who is representing the claimants, told reporters.
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Botulinum toxin (commonly referred to as botox) is a medicinal product commonly used in the liquidation of wrinkles, treatment of excessive sweating, bruxism or migraine. The action of the toxin causes the inhibition of acetylcholine production responsible for the transmission of signals between neurons. As a consequence, there is a completely safe and reversible process of muscle weakness in the movement plate – the nerve endings do not send the neurotransmitter, while the muscles stop shrinking excessively. Therapy allows you to achieve optimal results when treating different types of wrinkles, such as crow's feet, lion's wrinkle, forehead wrinkles, smoker's lines, rabbit wrinkles and wrinkles under the eyes. Botox allows you to reduce excessive muscle tension, hence it is used to treat chronic migraine, in the jaws associated with excessive work of masseter muscles and allows to limit the work of sweat glands in people with hyperhidrosis in the armpits, hands and feet.
What does the botulinum toxin injection look like?
Injection of botulinum toxin is always preceded by consultation with aesthetic medicine doctor and thorough medical history, aimed at providing patients with maximum safety and exclusion of possible contraindications to the procedure. The doctor adjusts the appropriate dose of botulinum toxin to the needs of a particular patient, depending on individual circumstances. Then he introduces it with a microneedle to the muscles located just under the skin. The treatment is virtually painless, and most patients compare the injection to a quick mosquito bite. At the patient's request, we use an anesthetic cream with lidocaine applied to the skin several minutes before the performing the treatment.
The treatment lasts from 15 to 30 minutes.
The treatment is safe and minimally invasive, therefore it does not require a special recovery period. Normally the patient can immediately return to normal activity. It is necessary for 24 hours after the procedure not to take very high physical activity and you should not drink alcohol, and in 2 weeks it is better not to heat the area and do not use the sauna or solarium. Sometimes a small local swelling may occur, which lasts no longer than 2 hours. Very rarely after the treatment there is a bruise that heals in a few days.
New neuromuscular ends are formed within 4-12 months, therefore patients usually enjoy the obtained effect for about 4-6 months in the case of wrinkles, and the effect lasts even up to 9-12 months in the treatment of hyperhidrosis.
application or discontinuation during the week preceding treatment of medicines such as: D-penicillamine, cyclosporin, tubocurarin, pancuronium, galamine, succinylcholine, lincomycin, tetracycline, polymyxin, aminoquinolones, aminoglycosides.
The presented description of the procedure is of general character and does not constitute medical information. The basis for the treatment is always an individual medical consultation.


Because the Hearthwick® Flame candle is unique, it can occasionally display different burning characteristics than other candles. Here are a few simple steps to ensure the best burn every time!
Light the wick at one end and allow the flame to flow naturally across the wick. Make sure that the wax melts to the edge of the candle before extinguishing it-this may take between 30 to 60 minutes. Allowing the wax to pool will ensure the candle does not "tunnel" or leave wax on the sides of the vessel. The flame height may vary at times, and occasionally even appear to self-extinguish, but this is normal. Even if you are experiencing a "low" flame, it will continue to heat and the flame height should return. Note: The candle performs best when the candle remains lit for 3 to 4 hours.
Always place the candle on a flat, heat-resistant surface, and make sure to keep the candle away from children, pets, materials that can catch fire, and other heat sources.
To be safe, only move the candle once the flame is extinguished and the wax has cooled. Pouring or removing liquid wax from the vessel could cause the wick to extinguish or "drown" in the wax and affect the future burn quality of the candle.
Due to the nature of the wooden wicks, the wick is unlikely to need trimming. The only exceptions are when the flame exceeds 1 inch or the candle begins to smoke. If the flame is too high, carefully extinguish the candle, allow the wick and wax to cool, and trim the wick to 1/4 inch by gently breaking off the burned edges of the wick with a cloth or paper napkin. Remove and discard all wick trimmings before relighting the candle.
When there is approximately 1/4 inch of wax remaining, it' s time to stop using the candle. Extinguish the candle and recycle the vessel according to your local recycling center instructions.


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Chatham House published a new study last week examining the
implications of maritime choke points for the global energy market. The study, Maritime
Choke Points and the Global Energy System: Charting a Way Forward, is
timely considering tensions in the Persian Gulf where Iran has hinted at the
possibility of closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to recent threats
(economic and military) against its nuclear program.
study generally provides a great overview of the challenges associated with
seaborne oil transportation through several vulnerable straits and canals. For
those interested in understanding the nature of China's Strait of Malacca Dilemma, the
international waterway through which it receives approximately
65 percent of its oil imports, the report offers some useful insights. In particular,
the authors make an important distinction between the Straits of Hormuz and
Malacca, noting that, "Whereas
there are no alternative maritime routes to the Strait of Hormuz for oil
exports from the Persian Gulf, shipments through the Straits of Malacca and
Singapore could be re-routed, though at additional cost, through other
waterways such as the Lombok Strait." Such a distinction may seem
insignificant, but it could have an effect on China's strategic calculus over
what role it might decide to play in helping keep the Strait of Hormuz open in case
of a closure, including, perhaps, by supporting UN Security Council resolutions or other policies that may seem anathema to Beijing.
The report also reinforces the national security rationale
behind ratifying the Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS). According to the
authors, "The
UNCLOS bargain accepted twelve nautical miles as the maximum extent of a state's
territorial sea but, in order to ensure freedom of navigation through key
international straits, UNCLOS established a regime of 'transit passage' applicable
to 'straits used for international navigation'." What is more, the authors
note that "In
signing UNCLOS in December 1982, Iran claimed that the benefits of UNCLOS, such
as 'transit passage', did not apply to non-signatory states."
The United States would be on much firmer legal ground if it
were party to Law of the Sea. In addition, it stands to reason that the United
States would be able to deflate Iranian challenges to a U.S. right for "transit
passage" should it ever decide to close the Strait of Hormuz on the basis that
it does not recognize the right of non-party states to travel through the
strait – which is not inconceivable. There
will inevitably be those who argue that the United States does not need to
ratify the Law of the Sea treaty to ensure its access to the Strait of Hormuz.
However, to the extent that Law of the Sea provides the United States another
arrow in its quiver, and one that has its basis in accepted international law, there
is no downside to ratifying it.
The report concludes with a number of policy recommendations
aimed at reducing the vulnerability associated with these maritime choke
points, including developing more cooperative mechanisms between coast states
and reducing the dependence on seaborne energy shipments by investing in
overland energy infrastructure. However, the authors conclude that "The security
of maritime choke points ultimately rests on the observance of international
law, and on the willingness and capacity of interested members of the
international community to enforce it if necessary." Once again, the Law of
the Sea treaty seems increasingly important to protecting U.S. interests at
sea.


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Q: Bash basic scripting gives surreal error This exercise here at lab is driving me nuts!
Although it seems like a very easy task, I get errors and I really don't know where they come from.
Simple exercise:

*

*With a BASH script, read an input, check if it is only a series of numbers, and print something out concatenated with it.

To do the number matching I use a simple regular expression. The code should be something like this:
#!/bin/bash

echo "amount: "
read AMOUNT
REGEX="^[0-9]*$"
if [[ $AMOUNT =~ $REGEX ]]
then
    echo "amount (in $US) = "$AMOUNT
else
    echo "invalid amount, or input is not a number, quitting"
fi

But no matter how I look at it, it spams an error: "amount.sh: 11: [[: not found"
and even the professor is  astonished.
What am I doing wrong?
(Using BASH shell v4.1.5, with Ubuntu 10.04.)

A: General improvements:
#!/bin/bash

echo "amount: "
read AMOUNT
REGEX='^[0-9]+$'
if [[ "$AMOUNT" =~ $REGEX ]]
then
    echo "amount (in \$US) = $AMOUNT"
else
    echo "invalid amount, or input is not a number, quitting"
fi

Many small quoting problem windows closed. I assumed that you require input (no characters in AMOUNT would be an error).

A: I can't reproduce this on bash 3.2.39 (Ubuntu 8.04.01). You have a bug in your use of $US, but the [[ looks ok. I also tested with bash 4.1.10 (OpenSUSE 11).
It does not appear you have given us your entire script. It is complaining about line 11, but your script has the [[ on line 6.
Absurdly... make sure your [ is really the square bracket character and not some odd Unicode character that looks like a square bracket. You might just re-type the whole script given how short it is (or cut-and-paste it out of this question, as I did).
Do make sure you don't accidentally have Windows newlines (\r\n) on some of these lines. That can sometimes create problems like this (though I don't really believe this is the problem in this case).
For fun, switch to a single [ rather than [[. [ is actually an executable (/usr/bin/[). It probably won't handle the =~ operator, but you'd see if there were a change in behavior.

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11 "Desperate Housewives' Guest Stars You Totally Forgot About
By Anna Quintana
It's hard to believe it has been 15 years since we were introduced to the lovely ladies of Wisteria Lane. Now, seeing as it has been over a decade since the premiere of Desperate Housewives, it's understandable if you have forgotten a few of the friendly (and not so friendly) faces who stopped by the neighborhood.
From Castle star Nathan Fillion to iconic actress Carol Burnett, Desperate Housewives has had its share of impressive guest stars over the course of eight seasons. So, keep scrolling to a take a walk down (Wisteria) memory lane.
1. John Slattery (Victor Lang)
Source: ABC
John, best known for his role as Roger Sterling on Mad Men, appeared on Desperate Housewives in 2007 as the Mayor of Fairview and Gabrielle Marquez's (Eva Longoria) second husband. Unfortunately, during a fight with Gabrielle's ex Carlos, Victor is — spoiler alert!— impaled by a white picket from a fence and dies.
2. Laurie Metcalf (Carolyn Brisby)
Episodes: 4
During an episode titled "Bang," Carolyn Brisby (Laurie Metcalf) walks into the grocery store owned by her husband and starts shooting at him because he has been having an affair. Carolyn proceeds to hold all the shoppers hostage, including Lynette (Felicity Huffman) and Nora.
Fast forward, Carolyn kills Nora and after shooting Lynette in the arm, she is shot and killed by another shopper.
3. Lily Tomlin (Roberta Simonds)
Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie, 9 to 5) appeared in a handful of episodes as Roberta, Karen McCluskey's sister, who worked together to find out what Dave Williams was up to...
4. Neal McDonough (Dave Williams)
Turns out, Dave Williams' (played by Minority Report star Neal McDonough) real name was Dave Dash and he was trying to get revenge against Mike and Susan (Teri Hatcher), who killed his wife and daughter in a car accident.
5. Brian Austin Green (Keith Watson)
The Beverly Hills 90210 alum showed up on Wisteria Lane as Bree Van de Kamp's contractor and boyfriend. Ultimately, he made the decision to move to Florida to be closer to his son.
6. Marlee Matlin (Alisa Stevens)
Lynette has a very brief friendship with Alisa, a deaf mom she meets through their kids' school. After inviting Alisa over for dinner with her husband, Lynette soon discovers that he makes fun of Alisa, knowing she can't hear him. Lynette proceeds to confront her husband, which results in him leaving Alisa, who now must raise her daughter on her own.
We're still Team Lynette on this one though.
7. Valerie Harper (Claire Bremmer)
When Susan was in the hospital with kidney failure, she got a visit from her aunt Carol, played by the incomparable Valerie Harper.
8. Carol Burnett (Eleanor Mason)
Source: AB
The one and only Carol Burnett appeared on Desperate Housewives as Bree's uptight stepmother, Eleanor. However, her plan to take her grandson (and Bree's son), Andrew, back to Rhode Island failed.
9. Nathan Fillion (Dr. Adam Mayfair)
Before his role on the ABC series Castle, Nathan Fillion starred as Dr. Mayfair, who returned to Wisteria Lane after being sued by a patient for sexual assault.
10. Drea de Matteo (Angie Bolen)
Angie, her husband Nick, and her teenage son Danny moved into the neighborhood in Season 6 and quickly make enemies when Susan's daughter Julie is strangled shortly after and her son is blamed.
Turns out, Angie is in hiding from her ex, eco-terrorist Patrick Logan, and her "husband" is actually an FBI agent named Dominic she ran away with. In the end, Angie and Nick leave after killing Patrick, but her son Danny joins his girlfriend Ana in New York.
11. Scott Bakula (Trip Weston)
Trip Weston was Bree Van de Kamp's defense attorney after she was charged with the murder of Alejandro Perez, Gabrielle Solis' abusive stepfather.
Fast forward, and Bree and Trip are living happily ever after in Kentucky, where Bree becomes a state senator.
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Last weekend, we had the opportunity to attend the harvest party for Bedrock Wine Co. with some very dear friends. Set deep in a vineyard with white tents, strings of edison bulbs, freshly shucked oysters, and freely flowing wine, it was truly a magical experience.
The former chef from the Glen Ellen Star cooked an incredible meal, which we ate under the stars. His radicchio salad, lightly marinated with a not-too-rich-or-pungent blue cheese dressing, so that the leaves were slightly wilted, has been stuck in my mind since the first bite.
Although this salad is quite different from the one I just described, it was those wilted radicchio leaves that I needed to recreate. For warm radicchio, pancetta was an obvious addition and a lemon anchovy dressing adds a nice tang. For something crunchy, since my husband is allergic to nuts, I tried roasting chickpeas with paprika, and it was a success! A garnish of chives and parsley add a touch of freshness and color.
This salad would be perfect to serve as a light lunch or an exciting starter at a dinner party. Enjoy!!
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Dry the garbanzo beans thoroughly. Toss with oil, paprika, and salt. Spread evenly on the parchment, and roast for about 25 minutes. Let the beans cool completely on the baking sheet.
While the beans are cooking, blend all ingredients for the dressing until smooth and creamy.
Chop the radicchio into quarters, then at an angle, cut off the thick stem from each quarter. The leaves should now separate easily.
Cook the pancetta in a wide-rimmed pan on medium-high heat until crisp, then spoon onto a towel-lined plate. Remove all but about 1 tablespoon pancetta oil from the pan. Continuing on medium-high heat, add the radicchio leaves to the pan and cook for about 5 minutes, flipping frequently with tongs.
Once the leaves have wilted slightly, immediately divide among two bowls. Generously spoon dressing into each bowl, reserving leftovers. Sprinkle with pancetta, garbanzo beans, parsley, chives, and cheese. Serve right away.


I'm not sure we could ever repay you for what you've given us. We didn't want a simple wedding for one night in a ballroom… We asked you to bring 90 people to the jungle for a week and plan multiple parties and you said 'yeah, no problem!' You never let us feel stressed once and always made us feel like we were your only clients. There are wedding planners and then there are people who should be in government - and that's you!
Thank you so much for everything you did for our wedding. It was a great night, one we all will never forget. You're such a pro, nothing went wrong which is amazing. Thank you for being open and flexible and such a dream to work with. It was everything I wanted it to be. Thanks again.
I absolutely loved having Andrea as our wedding planner. 5 stars is simply not enough to describe how amazing she is. I met Andrea when she was a guest speaker at FIT, and after 5 minutes, I knew I had to have her plan my wedding. As soon as my husband proposed, Andrea was my first call. From our first meeting, I knew our wedding was in good hands. Her attention to detail, creativity and personal touch is hard to beat. She took the wedding I always dreamed of and made it a reality. Everyone couldn't believe how calm I was on the day of the wedding and it was all because of her. She made sure every detail was perfect, and on top of everything else she did for us, we came back to our bridal suite decorated in rose petals! I am so grateful - not only was our wedding beautiful, but I know I've made a friend for life.
You were the calm, cool, and super fabulous wedding planner I always dreamed I'd have. So many of my friends have stressed so much over planning their weddings themselves that they actually haven't enjoyed the process. So I was determined to enjoy creating the biggest event of my life – and so were you! You made planning my wedding SO EASY and SO FUN. From flowers to invitations to wedding party gifts, you helped me with all aspects of planning. Whenever I was lost for ideas, you always had a few creative things up your sleeve. You're incredibly organized and never once got flustered about anything. You always knew just what to say, how to listen, and kept everyone (including me) calm and happy. You seriously delivered and I'm so grateful – not only was my wedding magnificent, I know I've made a friend for life!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! From the minute I met you I knew I wouldn't have to worry about a thing. I asked your opinion about everything because I felt like you knew the vision I had in my head better than I even knew it. Turns out you did! Our wedding was spectacularly beautiful and more than I ever could have hoped for. Thank you for all of your kind words, encouragement, patience, and boundless creativity. We'll treasure the day that you created for us for the rest of our lives.
There aren't enough thank yous in the world to express how incredibly grateful I am for what you did for us! This was one of the most enchanting weekends of our lives. Your attention to detail and personal touches added to the magic and made the whole thing even that much more special. You created a world of total relaxation, fun, joy, and beauty for us. You're awesome, Andrea! Thank you from the deepest part of my heart.
You must really love what you do. There is no way someone can give as much as you do – your time, your ability to listen, your enthusiasm, your poise, your sense of humor – unless they are really passionate about it. You made the whole process more than pleasant – you made it fun and exciting! From beginning to end everything was so beautiful. Thank you can't even begin to express how we feel.
I'm not often at a loss for words, but every time I start to think about what to say to you I draw a blank because words can't express how wonderful everything was! Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts for everything you did for us. I'll miss our calls and meetings – you always had the perfect thing to say. Your dedication to what you do is inspiring and we're so grateful to have found you!
Before we met you we weren't sure where to start or if we could even have what we wanted, but you laid all those worries to rest. From the first time we met you we knew we were in strong, capable hands and that never changed. Thank you for guiding us through the entire process and most importantly making it enjoyable! Our wedding was simply amazing and because of you we were actually able to relax and truly experience it. You're an angel and we love you.
I love planning and organizing events and thought I had everything under control for my wedding, but once it got down to the bitter end, I don't know how I would have done it without the help of a wedding coordinator! No matter how prepared you are, there WILL be things that you will not be able to (or want to) deal with on your big day! Andrea went out of her way to get fully immersed in my wedding plans and truly understand the vision I had for my dream wedding. She thought of last minute things that I would have completely overlooked and took care of every little detail on my wedding day! I would have been running around like a crazy person trying to do everything that she did and instead I was able to relax and completely enjoy the day!


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Redwood Cliffs rehab staff compete in local Crossfit competition.
Redwood Cliffs rehab staff at Crossfit competition.
Many Redwood Cliffs drug rehab staff have started participating in Crossfit, so they competed at the recent Crossfit Affiliate Cup in Santa Cruz.
Narconon Redwood Cliffs is dedicated to getting addicts clean and sober through the most effective means available. On a daily basis, this means helping addicts detox from harmful drugs and work their way through life skills courses that can help them return to being a contributing member of society. Occasionally, however, another opportunity will present itself for both students and staff to take recovery to the next level. On these occasions, Redwood Cliffs staff leap at the chance to field even more ways to help addicts walk the road to recovery.
This recently took the form of Redwood Cliffs staff members participating in the 5th annual Crossfit Affiliate Cup in Santa Cruz, CA. This was a great way to show the center's dedication to fitness in general, but it is setting a great example for all those that want to live a healthy, drug-free life.
Crossfit Inc. is a corporation founded by Greg Glassman in 2000. Glassman started his first gym in Seattle, Washington, and the brand quickly expanded over the next few years. Today, there are about 7,000 Crossfit gyms around the world.
The workouts are a mix of classic weight training, gymnastics movements, running, cardio work and several other specialized routines. Every session runs about an hour, and the workouts are high-intensity. There is no standing around and chatting as one person does bench presses. You move quickly between routines in order to keep your blood pumping and your body making progress.
Crossfit exercises usually see quick changes to their fitness level and general health over the course of a month or two, and many opt to stick with the program long-term because of the huge benefits they see compared to other programs.
Another facet of Crossfit not seen in many other workout programs is the competitive aspect. Members of individual gyms engage in friendly competition by posting their scores of how they did each day. For example, they can compare scores of how fast they finished a timed workout or how much weight they were able to lift in a non-timed, weight-centric workout.
In addition to this friendly competition, Crossfitters can compete against the members of other gyms leading up to regional competitions. These operate like sporting events where competitors will engage in workouts that they only find out about hours before they are performed. Winners of these regional events can go on to compete at National competitions, as well. The winners are minor celebrities in the Crossfit world and applauded for their commitment to physical fitness.
Many Redwood Cliffs drug rehab staff have started participating in Crossfit, so they competed at the recent Crossfit Affiliate Cup in Santa Cruz. It was a fun-filled day with lots of food, music, and cheers for the incredible performances of all involved. They did a great job representing Narconon Redwood Cliffs, and they are showing just how dedicated the center is to helping addicts recover. Being healthy is a major part of this recovery, and daily exercise that leads to an overall healthy lifestyle. Good job, guys, you made us proud.
Narconon Redwood Cliffs offers long-term, residential drug rehabilitation and drug prevention services. It is located in Watsonville, California. For more information on Narconon, call 1-800-775-8750.


Fight Products is at the moment offering six different rubber training knives. They are realistic looking, have good weight, and are bendable to avoid injuries. Training with a rubber knife is a great way to practice knife fighting without getting injured. Metal and hard wood training knives are good training accessories, but they can easily cause bad injuries to your hands, ribs and eyes. Training with a rubber training knife lets you take it to a higher level without as much risk of injury. Order one for $7.00 or order two for $12.99 Here are some training exercises for rubber training knives.
Start off standing about five feet from your training partner. Switch off who gets the training knife so you can both practice offense and defense. Start slowly by practicing thrusts and slashes. Pick up the pace and intensity accordingly.
Next try both having rubber knives. This exercise will let both you and your training partner think about offense and defense at the same time.
This exercise can be done either standing up or on the ground. Both you and your partner should hold a training knife in your right hand while your left hand should be around your partner's right wrist. Try this exercise while switching which hand hold the rubber knife, and also while in different positions on the ground.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2007, Vancouver, BC – To watch World Cup Speed Skater and US National Team member, Sarah Lang, lace up her skates and loop the ice of Calgary's Oval, where she is an Olympic hopeful in training, it is difficult to imagine that this powerful and graceful 30-year-old elite athlete was diagnosed with a digestive disease just six months ago.
Over that summer, her symptoms steadily increased in severity, until one Friday night in September last year – when she was in too much pain – she headed to the emergency room at Foothills Hospital in Calgary. Hours later, a doctor admitted her to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) when her stomach vastly distended due to inflammation in her large intestine. During her five-day stay in the ICU, Sarah went through a lengthy series of tests, including a sigmoidoscopy. At discharge, the physician explained that she might have ulcerative colitis, however, confirming this diagnosis took another few months and a full colonoscopy.
Sarah says that the turning point in living with UC came just six weeks after leaving the hospital, on the night before the 2006/2007 World Cup trials. Possibly due to the stress of competing, she experienced a flare-up and only got two hours of sleep because of her symptoms. Sarah made it through the trials, but was in a great deal of pain.
Today, Sarah hopes that her story inspires other Canadians facing similar, potentially daunting news. In fact, she believes that her condition has changed her life for the better by challenging her to set priorities, and to remain focused on the important aspects of her very full and active life. Additionally, through her connection with The Canadian Society of Intestinal Research, she is keen to help motivate others living with this oftendebilitating disease, so that they too can enjoy complete and meaningful living.
As a world-class athlete, Sarah is familiar with physical and mental challenges, and applies many of her perseverance techniques to help reduce stress, her biggest personal symptom-trigger.
Sarah feels confident that she has developed a plan that works for today to manage and treat her ulcerative colitis. This includes a personal network of family and friends, a positive mental attitude, a supportive physician, and a commitment to educating others about this disease. She is also experimenting with subtle dietary changes to see what influence these actions might have on her overall health, and on how well she recovers from a flare-up.
For most ulcerative colitis patients, symptom management is critical to finding relief. Understanding symptom triggers, learning to adopt physical and mental behaviours that might lessen, delay, or prevent their onset, and finding treatment that works, all play into a successful approach. As UC experiences vary from patient to patient, it is vital for each patient to work closely with a doctor to form an ideal, individual management plan.
A strong, steady stride carries Sarah over the ice and into new arenas of life challenges, which include completion of her studies and ultimately setting out on her career path while not giving up on the dreams developing in Calgary's Olympic Oval.
CSIR thanks Procter & Gamble Health Care Canada for providing an unrestricted grant that helps make this campaign possible.


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India may resume international flights fully by Q1 2021
October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020 by Travelscapesonline
Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Civil Aviation said that he expected international flights from the country will be fully operational only by the first quarter of 2021. India had earlier extended the ban on regular, scheduled international air travel until October 31.
In a series of media interactions, said he anticipated that the number of domestic flights and passengers would reach pre-COVID-19 levels between the Diwali festival season next month and the New Year. "Domestic aviation is continuing on a steady growth trajectory. We should touch pre-COVID figures between Diwali and the New Year," he said.
Full resumption of international flights will depend on the virus situation in the country, Puri said and continued, "I cannot anticipate whether other countries will allow in people from India. We have gone ahead and made the best out of a very difficult situation, navigated through turbulence." Pending resumption of scheduled international air travel, India has air bubbles with 16 countries with a few more under negotiation. Air bubbles are temporary flying arrangements between two countries aimed at restarting commercial passenger services, suspended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Self portrait from kindergarten to now
During the course of this painting, she shared so many things with me. She told me things she's done well, and some things which made her feel shame. She told me some stories that at the time hurt her feelings, but now she could laugh as she told them. Like the time a girl on the bus told her she had a mustache, and the time her teacher told her the only person who would buy her paintings would be her grandma. She shared how the boy she had a crush on from third to fifth grade asked out her friend sitting next to her, and she ran from the cafeteria to her homeroom to cry. She shared so many gems she's picked up along the way. She told me about some guilt and sadness with certain relationships, but she said she's going to keep forgiving them and herself. Mostly, she's optimistic about who she is intrinsically. I couldn't help but notice how brave and hopeful she is in spite of everything. I thanked her for sharing and she thanked me for listening.


And so it is, just like you said it would be … A semillon from the Hunter Valley that is very good indeed. Tyrrell's Stevens Vineyard is a single vineyard wine, and serves to remind that I drink too little Hunter Valley semillon, a unique and underrated low alcohol style of wine that happens to age too. Too few wines of the Hunter Valley seem to make it much further south than Sydney.