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Based to the North of Spain, the province of La Rioja has a varied history involving a number of occupations. To most readers, however, the area is famed for the mouth-watering selection of wines that originate from the region, ensuring that La Rioja is as closely identified with the production of such bottled beverages as celebrated French territories such as Bordeaux and Champagne. There is much more to La Rioja than simple tasting tours around the wine county; read on to discover the many and varied experiences that any visitor can expect to enjoy.
The history of La Rioja dates back to the Roman Empire, and has been the site of a great many ownership disputes ever since. Following a Muslim invasion in the 8th Century, the province exchanged hands between British, French and – of course – Spanish occupation from the Medieval era right through until the 19th Century. Many monuments to these skirmishes still stand in the form of houses of worship. While the territory was declared an independent province in 1812, the name La Rioja has only been in place since 1980. Previously, the area was known as Logroño, which still acts as the Capital city to this day.
Language and Climate
La Rioja is still a part of the Iberian Peninsula, which ensures that it largely enjoys a Mediterranean climate, but visitors may be advised to prepare themselves for cooler temperatures on occasion. A strong and cold wind – known by the locals as the cierzo – tends to gust through the region during particular seasons, and has been known to reach velocities in excess of 60 miles per hour.
In terms of written and spoken language, La Rioja is very Spanish-centric. If you are unfamiliar with this tongue, it is strongly advisable to develop at least an intermediate understanding before making a visit. Despite the tourist attraction of La Rioja's Wine County this province does not boast a particularly international community of residents, so don't expect to be able to communicate freely unless you can hold your own in a Spanish-speaking conversation.
La Rioja is divided into ten major cities, the largest of which are Logroño, Calahorra, Arnedo and Haro. The former is the Capital city, the closest to Wine County, and certainly the liveliest part of the province when the sun goes down, offering plenty of bars and tapas restaurants. It's also the centre of the San Mateo festival if you happen to be visiting during September. Logroño is also the terminus and collection point of the VinoBus, La Rioja's only reliable public transportation service – more on that below.
Transport in La Rioja can be something of a contradiction; being a rural area it is strongly advisable to hire a car in order to make your way around freely, but obviously if you will looking to sample a number of different wines that will not be ideal. A tourist bus, named the VinoBus, operates at set times and dates to escort tourists around the many vineries in the province, but otherwise you may be best served by devising a rota of shared drivers when traveling with multiple people.
In terms of actually reaching La Rioja in the first place, Zaragoza is the closest airport, located around 90 miles from the province. The Logroño train station will take you into Wine County, and can be reached from both domestic and international locations.
Culture and Attractions
We're going to take it as read that a trip around a number of wineries and vineyards is high on the agenda of any visitor, and there are certainly no shortage of destinations all across the province to cater to this particular interest. Scattered across the various cities of La Rioja, the VinoBus will assist you in touring these destinations.
If you are traveling with younger people or teetotalers, however, there are plenty of other activities to pass the time. Logroño alone boasts five museums, while historical and theology enthusiasts will find plenty to enjoy in the numerous churches and cathedrals, many of which are of cultural significance. Tierra Rapaz is a zoo of sorts, which specialises in birds of prey, while parks are also located throughout all cities – many of which involve cycle paths and hiking trails. If you head to the nearby Ezcaray mountain range you'll even be able to indulge in a little skiing or snowboarding.
Alternatively, you could simply head to Calle San Juan or Calle del Laurel in downtown Logroño for an experience of La Rioja's nightlife – these streets will allow you to eat your fill of Tapas before dancing the night away.
Naturally you'll be enjoying liquid lunches throughout much of your stay in La Rioja, but any fine wine is best paired with a delicious meal. Tapas restaurants are plentiful, especially in downtown Logroño, but food is a sizable part of the province's culture.
Although chorizo sausage is largely omnipresent throughout Spain, Rioja is one of the only regions in which you will find a spicy variation, which plays a large role in the popular local dish Patatas Riojanas – essentially a potato-based stew that contains this peppery meat at it's heart. Lamb is also hugely popular in the form of Lechal; thinly sliced chops of the meat that are frequently cooked over a barbeque or slow-roasted.
Trout is also popular, with the local fishermen providing a steady freshly caught supply of this fish to diners and restaurants. Don't worry if you are a vegetarian, however, as fresh fruit and vegetables are also prominent on many La Rioja menus. Casseroles will be available in most eateries, and red peppers are something of a specialist delicacy – whether that's either as a common side dish or stuffed and served as a main course.
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Simon Friend, Mark Goucher, Howard Panter,Tulchin Bartner and Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
5 – 10 November 2018
Hugh Dennis as Maurice Rose and John Marquez as Ronald Bream Credit: Robert Day
The Messiah, written and directed by Patrick Barlow, is a pre-Christmas entertainment loosely based on the story of the Nativity. We are initially presented with a set of fallen Roman columns around which two actors perform a play on a shoestring budget and an operatic soprano with attitude delivers unaccompanied solos from Handel's Messiah and other sources.
Although Barlow suggests that the play "is really about two guys looking for some spiritual truth", this is well concealed in the familiar trope of an amateur theatre company with actors who don't know their lines and can't act and where everything that can go wrong does go wrong. This is a scenario that has been around for a long time, notably in the mechanical scenes of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Nativity story is modernised and de-mystified. All the familiar characters are there: God, the Angel Gabriel, Mary, Joseph, the Kings, the Shepherds, Herod. And additionally, for the birthing of Christ, an additional character from Call the Midwife.
Mary is a querulous and quarrelsome young bride, resentful that she is stuck at home all day hemming the temple curtain. "I was going to mention that," she tells Joseph after Gabriel has let him in on the secret of the Immaculate Conception.
Much of the action centres on the inadeqacies of the two actors, played by Hugh Dennis and John Marquez, and this is leavened by episodes of mime, slapstick and audience participation. The journey across the desert on camel-back is particularly amusing, as are the constant scene and costume changes. Herod's nose has a life of its own.
Dennis and Marquez are both experienced TV performers who work together well in a stage setting. For most of the time, Dennis is the straight man to Marquez's mercurial clown, whose facial expressiveness and contorted body language is a world away from his more restrained performance as PC Penhale in Doc Martin.
As the prima donna-ish Mrs Leonara Fflyte, Lesley Garrett provides a necessary relief from the comic action with her beautiful unaccompanied singing of familiar passages from The Messiah and elsewhere. When the opportunity presents itself, she demonstrates comic skills that equal those of the men.
This is not biting satire and should not cause offence. The play and production has a quality of innocence about it and in the end a seasonal message does come through of care, concern and even love for other people.
Reviewer: Velda Harris

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Operator has key message for passengers, against intolerable and antisocial behaviour
Jonathan Metcalfe
Transdev Australasia has joined forces with Australian businesses, sporting bodies and NGO's to support the 'Racism. It Stops With Me' campaign.
The campaign was launched by Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner and is a key initiative of the Human Rights Commission's National Anti-Racism Strategy.
Taking part in the campaign is an opportunity for Transdev to take a stand against intolerance, discrimination and antisocial behaviour.
Transdev Australasia Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Metcalfe says the campaign is a commendable initiative which is particularly relevant to the passenger transport industry.
"Taking part in the campaign is an opportunity for Transdev to play an important role in modelling sound practices and, where appropriate, take affirmative action against intolerance and antisocial behaviour," he says.
"I'm excited that we'll be taking part and look forward to actively showing our support and promoting the campaign to our staff and our customers.'
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane is pleased Trandev is taking part in the campaign.
"So many incidents of racism occur on public transport, and they make our society less welcoming places.
"By taking a stand, Transdev will help send the message that none of us should have to put up with racism as we go about our business.
"Whether it's on a bus, train, tram, or ferry, racism is not acceptable."
The 'Racism. It Stops With Me' campaign will run until June 2015.


Maureen and I had a great time at the East Texas Baptist Camp meeting in Canton Texas this week. We had the pleasure of meeting two Pastors from the Philippines, Pastor Timothy Lingcoran (Eastside Baptist Church Malaybalay City) and Pastor Herson Villafuerte (Discipleship Bible Baptist Church Antipolo City).
Pastor Lingcoran and I spoke, he felt it was cost prohibitive for his church to have a website, and his wife was literally dying for some sort of Bible literature to use in the Sunday School and training.
I explained our ministry in detail, and he said he would love it if we could provide him with a website. We discussed options and he settled on the domain eastsidebc8700.com (8700 is their postal code). I spent some time creating a website and we shot emails back and forth. He provided me with information and pictures and I got a website up for Pastor Lingcoran. I will send him some login information on the website and when he gets back to the Philippines they will see if they can do some updating of the website and make some additions.
We also gave Pastor Timothy 100 Bible lessons to take back with him, as well as 300 Bible tracts for evangelism. It was a blessing to be able to help him.
We also sent 300 Bible tracts back with Pastor Villafuerte, and I will be following up with both of them to see if there is anything else we can do for them. Unfortunately, sending a large amount of Bible lessons to the Philippines is very expensive, we may see what they want to do, and post it in upcoming newsletters as a potential missions project for churches.
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Using technology to market the news
Monica Salvo
The Information Age has ushered in a whole new array of methods to market a reseller's business to its target audiences. Whether it is using the latest technology to communicate with potential customers, or turning to Internet communication strategies to serve the needs of the news media, a consistent
effort around the use of technology in its marketing efforts can bring positive results for a reseller's business.
The World Wide Web, having already changed the way businesses interact with their customers, has been freeing customers -for years now- from their traditionally passive role as receivers of marketing communications, giving them much greater control over the information search and acquisition process.
Customers have become active participants in the marketing process allowing businesses to reap the benefits of innovation in interactivity by being closer to the customer than ever before.
Rich media ads, for example, has allowed advertisers to take traditional media assets like video, audio, animation, and photos, and combine them into a multimedia branding experience that streams from an ad server to a publisher site, such as this publication's IT Business.ca web site.
What has made rich media advertising truly unique, and sets it apart from the GIF format, is its interactive nature. Instead of creating a one-way presentation like a television commercial, rich media ads invite the consumer to interact with the ad to gain additional information or insight into the advertiser's products or services
For marketing purposes, the use of rich media – whether streaming video, animation, Flash or audio – where a company can deliver a newsletter, for example, to an e-mail box and then draw the recipient's attention into the client's Web page, is emerging as a novel way of getting more attention. Web developers and banner ad creators may have been the first to jump onto the animation bandwagon, but today even public relations players are finding a way to utilize rich media, as well. From product pitches to invitation to media briefings, rich media's dramatic visual effects can certainly gain the attention of the most indifferent journalist.
But if resellers plan to include a rich media strategy into their marketing efforts, they must ensure it's the most prudent use — and that they're not just wasting viewers' bandwidth. The last thing companies want to do is to become too intrusive in their efforts to gain more exposure.
Electronic public relations, is another example that illustrates the use of technology in today's race to get mind-share among audiences. Electronic PR uses Internet technology to facilitate the exchange of influence between an organization's constituent parts and publics. While traditional media largely deal with passive audiences, Internet media deal with very active ones.
There are some important issues to understand before a company designs an electronic PR campaign. It must be recognized that when answering one person's question, a company may address a readership of 150,000 potential consumers. To be effective, companies using online communications must be comfortable within the online communities. Besides understanding the technology, they must understand the cultures, know how to handle flames (argumentative responses) and possess good damage control skills. The Net rumor mill is fast and furious. Messages must be correct and backed up by solid in-house support to offer immediate answers to inquiries.
The key difference between classical business to consumer communications and Net communications is how information is given to the consumer. Hype, sales pitches, and rehashes of stilted press releases don't cut it online. However ongoing availability to a company's publics and providing a genuine resource to appropriate stakeholders does. Bringing a company's message, in its own words, to its audiences is extremely successful in realizing communications goals.
Monica Salvo is an IT freelance public relations practitioner. Bringing with her a decade of experience, she has provided strategic communications direction and day-to-day management of public relations activities for key technology companies in Canada and abroad. Also, Monica was formerly a senior writer with Computer Dealer News and Computing Canada
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BATON ROUGE � Were it not for the ability to rally from healthy deficits, LSU would not have won the national championship a year ago.
That was true last weekend as well when the Tigers bounced back from an 11-point halftime deficit against Auburn.
LSU scored the winning touchdown on a Jarrett Lee-to-Brandon LaFell pass with slightly more than a minute left in its 26-21 win.
Coach Les Miles was confident at halftime that his team would once again respond successfully in the second half.
Lee, who replaced injured Andrew Hatch, guided LSU to three touchdowns and a field goal in the second half. Auburn also lost a 10-point lead last season against LSU. Florida, Alabama and BCS title game opponent Ohio State were the other teams who saw the Tigers rally from double-digit deficits.
�In that second half, it was not only the quarterback,� Miles said. �The intensity of our level of play was raised. The leaders on our team have been through tough times. They understand the games are going to be tight.
The win was LSU�s first at Auburn in 10 years.
Hatch, who led LSU to its only first half points on a Colt David field goal, suffered a mild concussion early in the third quarter and was unable to return.
On Monday, Miles said he expects Hatch to play Saturday against Mississippi State.
Miles indicated that he has been pleased with the progress of both quarterbacks. As far as Miles is concerned, the starter is not an issue.
�Our quarterback position has made progress,� Miles said. �They just haven�t had enough snaps yet to have seen all the progress. Both quarterbacks are going to play. So, it doesn�t make that much of a difference as to who is the starter.
Miles must prevent his team from a having a letdown against a Mississippi State team that has lost three of its first four games.
�We have to be ready to play,� Miles said. �The key is that we have to be ready to improve. This team is in a good position.


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Q: ElasticSearch Mapping Non Searchable Field Im new to elastic search.
In my users type in profiles index i have fields
properties : {
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In this index picture is just for storing/getting data and will never be used in doing any query but only will be retrieved with matched hits.
So how to create the mapping of picture ? What type,analyzer,fields should i use ?

A: Concepts:
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*How the data will be indexed

To define how the data will be stored, you use type.
To define how the data will be indexed (directly, after being analyzed, or, in your case, not indexed), you use index.
And if you want to define how the data is analyzed for the indexing, you have to use analyzer.
In your case:
You want to store string, but not to index them, so you use:
{
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Which gives you:
properties : {
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More info on the index field here:
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Jilin City is in the news again and not in a good way…
The Songhua gets sampled
The city of Jilin's tourism man must be tearing his hair out. His new tagline – "On the banks of the Songhua River" – looked like a good one, especially as Jilin already enjoys a reputation as the River City. The original tag dates back to a poem penned by the Kangxi Emperor on a visit to the town in 1682.
But Mr Tourism also has to deal with the city's more modern claim to fame – and it is a lot less touristy.
Jilin's less welcome legend – as the Chemical City – is one that is proving difficult to shake off. News this week of a possible chemical spill within the city's limits is not going to make it any easier.
We first mentioned the case in last week's issue. As we went to press, the local authorities were claiming that a mass hospitalisation of workers could only be explained as local hysteria.
But as of this week, the picture has changed. It seems that the workers may not have been imagining things after all, and a neighbouring chemical plant has been ordered to stop production while tests are carried out. This was according to a report that appeared briefly on the website of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, but which has since been removed.
Once they stop vomiting, locals may experience an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. In November 2005, explosions at the city's Jilin Petrochemicals plant led to seven deaths and the evacuation of thousands more. The explosions also forced an 80km benzene slick out into the Songhua River, although it took local officials 10 days to admit as much. By the time that they came clean, the slick was on its way downriver. Press interest was intense as the benzene headed into Heilongjiang province and past the city of Harbin, where there was panic buying of water and food in city supermarkets.
It then moved on into the River. Amur and across the border into the Russian Far East, briefly paralysing the city of Khabarovsk before finally disappearing into the Sea of Japan.
It was all sufficiently embarrassing for the State Council to order high-level provincial sackings and Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao ended up writing a letter of apology to the Russian government. Jilin – and its chemical industry – had been at the heart of a major international incident.
The irony is that, without the Songhua, the city would never have established its chemical reputation in the first place. Access to plentiful water (the city has 1.8 times the national average in per capita terms), proximity to mineral resources and a robust local electricity generating capacity have all combined to provide "unique conditions" for chemical production, reports the Southern Weekly.
So Jilin's 200-plus chemical companies – with their industrial chimneys, lumbering trucks and hard-hat employees – have become the city's "totems", says the Weekly. Not, perhaps, what the 'Tourism Jilin' team really wants to hear.
Jilin has tried to improve its reputation since the 2005 disaster. Smaller companies thought least inclined to invest in environmental safeguards are under pressure to close down. New projects that fail to meet environmental protection guidelines, or are forecast to require too much water from the Songhua, are also supposed to be blocked. Urban residents living closest to major production facilities have been re-housed and a major new industrial area to the "leeward side of the city" is now under construction.
But, unfortunately for the town, the 2005 explosions were not at decrepit minnow firms but in plant owned by CNPC Jilin, a state giant.
And local authorities have to balance better protection for the environment with economic growth imperatives. With chemical firms continuing to make up more than half the Jilin economy, the Chemical City is creating most of the jobs (and tax revenue).
So it looks like Mr Tourism has a lot more work to do.
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Officials say drawing by teen 'absolutely considered a threat'
A 13-year-old boy has been suspended for three days by an Arizona public school because he sketched a picture that resembled a gun, something school officials said they "absolutely" believed could pose a threat.
"My son is a very good boy," Paul Mosteller told the television station. "He doesn't get into trouble. There was nothing on the paper that would signify that it was a threat of any form."
The principal at Payne Junior High School kept the actual drawing, and officials with the Chandler Unified School District declined to release any information about the situation.
Mosteller said her son was just idly drawing pictures, and ended up with a fake laser.
"He was just basically doodling and not thinking a lot about it," she said. "We're not advocates for guns. We don't have guns in our home. We don't promote the use of guns. My son was just basically doodling on a piece of paper."
School officials who initially banned the student for five days lowered the penalty to three days after discussing the situation with the boy's father.
"I just can't believe that there wasn't another way to resolve this," Mosteller told the Associated Press. "He's so upset. The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good."
The drawing did not show blood or bullets. Nor did it show injuries or target anyone, the Mostellers said. It just resembled a gun.
Terry Locke, a spokesman for the district, told the AP the sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and threatening words or pictures are punishable.
However, the school failed to contact police, and failed to provide counseling or an evaluation for the student to determine if he intended it as a threat, officials said.
The student's father, Ben Mosteller, said school officials told him how serious they considered the situation, and discussed the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teens shot and killed 12 students and a teacher, and injured dozens more.
That, he said, was extreme and offensive. The family already has contacted the district's governing board about the incident.
The station said it checked the rules students must follow at school, and found there's nothing in a portion of the student handbook that addresses conduct to indicate the drawing of a weapon poses threat.
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These zero-tolerance rules mean youy need to check your mind at the school enterance… it's no wonder the kids ain't learning squat.
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Fifteen years ago when I was in middle school, I was taken out of class and sent to the school psychiatrist for a full evaluation on my psych profile when my english teacher reccomended me as being a threat to myself and others.
I drew a little (about the size of a postage stamp) picture of a smiley face with a bullet hole in its head with a handgun next to it.
I thought it was a whimsical statement reflecting the grade I knew my paper would get after I turned it in. Not that I had secret urges to kill.
Teachers can be massively paranoid, but wouldn't you be too if you had to be around hundreds of screaming hormone filled, easily influenced youth day in and day out that are all brainwashed from a lifetime of mind-numbing television, being packed full of ideas of what society is and how they should act based off of… reality TV… then there's the parents that are too busy with their own shit to pay attention to their kids and then they blame their children's behaviour on TV and video games.
Bullshit. Don't have kids if you can't care for them.
Ah, but I digress…
Hmm its funny how it looks like a god damn street with happy people walking along the sidewalks…i guess the failed attemt at an angle perspective made it look like a…a gun i guess.
i remember when we played cops and robbers cowboys and indians all involved the mighty finger pointing as a gun heck i remember when we used to bring squirt guns to school i understand you have to be careful but lets not let good times to remember be thrown out by being so uptight we cant enjoy the things that are suppossed to be fun like our school days !!!!!
It had little people on it for goodness sake
Synjyn
I guess 'hangman' is out now too, aye??
omg this school is retarted
and that little boy didnt do anyi\thing wrong
and the school just wanted attention.
so i dont think that little boy didnt do anything wrong he was simply being a kid and doodling because he was bored at school.
(like every other kid to ever attend school)
What a bunch of fear mongering idiots! That school want to see a threat…. try punishing my child for absolutely nothing and see how I react. It is not guns that is making this world a screwed up place to live… It is people like this that are so hell bent on enforcing their views of the world that they are willing to take down an innocent child to do it.
School administrators are worthless parasites. This apparently gave them something upon which to focus. It's pathetic that they weren't even aware of their own codes of conduct. Zero tolerance = zero intelligence. "Absolutely considered a threat" followed by a lecture on Columbine. I detect a wonderful coupling of both narcissism and paranoia. I'm sure all involved on the school end are "tolerant and intelligent" people. Yep. At the very least, an apology is warranted to the kid. What the hell can you draw in school that doesn't offend some fruit? Better not to draw and just sit in your seat and hope your continued existence doesn't offend somebody. Don't think, speak or in any way express yourself… it's for the best. Stupid never takes a day off.
Stupid is...
This is ridiculous. Some people are so legalistic they can't use the little brains that they have. We used to say shit like "I'm gonna kill you" and nobody thought twice about it. Now you can't even draw what looks like a crappy laser gun without some dumbass crapping themselves.
docmartin
I remember playing with an straightened/unbent paper clip in 5th grade. The teacher told me it could be considered a weapon!! That I can't have a paper clip, or I may be suspended. The teacher's name was Mr. Boonie, we quickly changed it to Mr. Goonie!
Looks like you would need to home-school your kids, look at the crappy school system!
If common sense was not so brainwashed out of the school administrators, etc. the outcome would be different.
They would also need to STOP watching 'Roadrunner' cartoons, and STOP making a wish list off that ACME catalog!
Rheaah
at 21:37 9 years ago
You could roll it up and make a pea shooter out of it. Or give somebody a nasty paper cut.
Johnno
It's time for sensible people to stand up to this crap. Everybody in that school district with a brain should pressure their school board to remove these imbeciles from their positions.
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In 2016 we undertook a pilot project "Integrating data rescue into the classroom" in collaboration with the Geography Department in Maynooth University. As part of a climate change course, undergraduate Geography students learnt about the importance of data rescue and earned credits by rescuing daily rainfall from images of the original records. The success of the project led to it being repeated in 2017. To date over 3,000 years of daily rainfall records (note that this does not mean a 3000-year time-series) have been rescued and are being used to create daily rainfall time-series dating back to the mid-19th century.
Some of the Met Éireann recipients of Réalta Award 2018.
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Nearly every Friday, I buy this delicious delicacy, challah – a braided bread made with eggs, flour, water, yeast and sugar generally served on the Sabbath and during Jewish holidays. Stopping by the Challah For Hunger booth is one of my favorite parts of the week.
After learning about the service group, I wanted to become more involved. I started doing whatever I could to help, including baking the bread and standing out on the UA Mall for the selling process. Walking into the flour-covered kitchen and seeing everyone's smiles always makes me feel welcome.
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Q: Should I pass __int128_t by reference or value? Question> What is the recommended way to pass __int128_t as a function parameter?
Thank you
#include <iostream>
bool CheckInt(const __int128_t& large_number)
{
    return large_number > 10000; // Just for Demo
}

bool CheckInt2(__int128_t large_number)
{
    return large_number > 10000;
}

int main()
{
    __int128_t abc = 20000;
    std::cout<< CheckInt(abc) << std::endl;
    std::cout<< CheckInt2(abc) << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

A: Let's look at four scenarios.
These were compiled by gcc for an 64 bit x86 architecture, there should be similar results for different compilers.

*

*How the functions are compiled:

bool by_value(__int128 large_number) {
    return large_number > 10000;
}

bool by_reference(const __int128& large_number) {
    return large_number > 10000;
}

And we can see the x86 assembler output here https://godbolt.org/z/v9cM8xj35
by_value(__int128):
        mov     eax, 10000
        cmp     rax, rdi  # Use first 8 bytes
        mov     eax, 0
        sbb     rax, rsi  # Use second 8 bytes
        setl    al
        ret
by_reference(__int128 const&):
        mov     eax, 10000
        cmp     rax, QWORD PTR [rdi]    # Use first 8 bytes
        mov     eax, 0
        sbb     rax, QWORD PTR [rdi+8]  # Use second 8 bytes
        setl    al
        ret

The commented lines are the only lines that differ.
This is showing the calling convention of the platform: The first 8 bytes of arguments are stored in rdi, the second 8 bytes in rsi.
When you pass by value, large_number will be stored in these two registers, and can be used quickly and efficiently.
When you pass by reference, only one register is used to pass a pointer to the value (rdi), and to access the first 8 bytes the dereference QWORD PTR [rdi] is used, and the second 8 bytes with QWORD PTR [rdi+8] (some pointer arithmetic).
Passing by value will win out in most situations here. If you have a lot of arguments or local variables in your functions, the registers used to store large_number may "spill" onto the stack, so theoretically passing by value would need to do more work. But it would probably spill if there was a one-register pointer or a two-register 16-byte value, so there shouldn't be much difference in practice.

*Calling the function with an existing __int128 variable:

bool by_value(__int128);
bool by_reference(const __int128&);

extern __int128 x;

extern bool call_by_value() {
    return by_value(x);
}

extern bool call_by_reference() {
    return by_reference(x);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/7sT8b33Ez
call_by_value():
        mov     rdi, QWORD PTR x[rip]
        mov     rsi, QWORD PTR x[rip+8]
        jmp     by_value(__int128)
call_by_reference():
        mov     edi, OFFSET FLAT:x
        jmp     by_reference(__int128 const&)

It may look like more work needs to be done in the by-value case: To call by-reference, you only need to the address of x (OFFSET FLAT:x) into edi and call the function, whereas in the by-value case the value of x needs to be read into the two registers then the function can be called.
However, recall that by_reference will have to indirect through the pointer to use it. So the by reference is hiding the x[rip] and x[rip+8] inside the function, and there isn't much difference.

*Calling the function with some constant value (or something that optimizes to it):

bool call_by_value() {
    __int128 abc = 20000;
    return by_value(abc);
}

bool call_by_reference() {
    __int128 abc = 20000;
    return by_reference(abc);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/6jhEWfh6a
call_by_value():
        mov     edi, 20000  # Stores 2000 into the first register
        xor     esi, esi    # Stores 0 into the second register
        jmp     by_value(__int128)
call_by_reference():
        sub     rsp, 24
        mov     rdi, rsp  # Store current stack pointer (which will point to abc)
        mov     QWORD PTR [rsp], 20000  # Store first 8 bytes on stack
        mov     QWORD PTR [rsp+8], 0    # Store second 8 bytes on the stack
        call    by_reference(__int128 const&)
        add     rsp, 24
        ret

Calling by reference needs to do a lot: The value has to be allocated onto the stack and then a pointer to it is passed to the function.
Calling by value can just stores the value into the two registers and calls the function.

*Calling the function with a runtime calculated prvalue (here the "calculation" is just a copy)

bool call_by_value() {
    return by_value(+x);
}

bool call_by_reference() {
    return by_reference(+x);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/vqdGEeGY9
call_by_value():
        mov     rdi, QWORD PTR x[rip]
        mov     rsi, QWORD PTR x[rip+8]
        jmp     by_value(__int128)
call_by_reference():
        sub     rsp, 24
        movdqa  xmm0, XMMWORD PTR x[rip]  # Store the value of x into a 16 byte register
        mov     rdi, rsp                  # Store current stack pointer
        movaps  XMMWORD PTR [rsp], xmm0   # Write 16 bytes to the stack pointer
        call    by_reference(__int128 const&)
        add     rsp, 24
        ret

So to pass the result of a calculation, in the by-value case the calculation can directly be done on registers. In the by-reference case, the value needs to be calculated and then stored on to the stack and then a pointer needs to be passed.

There is one more issue: When you have extern bool by_reference(const __int128&);, and you don't have whole program optimisation or link time optimization, the compiler can't know that passing to by_reference doesn't modify the value it is passed. After all, it could look like:
bool by_reference(const __int128& large_number) {
    const_cast<__int128&>(large_number) = 0;
}

This can disable some further optimizations.

All in all, it is better in most cases to pass by value. On other architectures, the default calling convention may be to pass 16 byte arguments on the stack, which would make both cases not too different.
Some people will say that you should only pass something the size of a pointer or smaller by value, and everything else should be passed by reference. However, this fails to account for how much faster registers are than the stack.
This was based on the analysis of the assembler, not on actual timings. You would probably have to call a function many, many times for this to make a difference.


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Chinese authorities have said that efforts to control the outbreak of a deadly Sars-like virus have reached a critical point as more than 100m Chinese prepare to board trains and aeroplanes to return home for the Lunar New Year.
The coronavirus has killed nine people and infected at least 440 in 13 provinces, Beijing said on Wednesday, nearly doubling the number of affected people from only a day earlier.
The disease is believed to have originated in a seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December but has since spread across the globe to Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and North America. US authorities confirmed the first case on American soil on Tuesday.
Human-to-human transmission of the virus was confirmed this week.
The outbreak was now at its most critical stage of prevention and control, China's National Health Commission said on Wednesday morning in Beijing, as the nation of more than 1.4bn people prepared to celebrate the lunar new year, often called the Spring Festival, which kicks off on Friday. The holiday over the next two weeks entails the largest mass movement of people in the world.
"During the spring festival travel season, there is greater movement of people, which increases the risk of spread and difficulty of prevention and control and we must not let down our guard and be highly vigilant." said Li Bin, vice-minister of China's Health Commission.
The outbreak has brought to mind China's Sars crisis in 2003, which was initially covered up by authorities. The outbreak killed 800 people as it spread around the region. Several officials lost their jobs in the wake of the Sars scandal.
This time around, officials in Beijing have signalled a high degree of urgency in controlling the outbreak of the coronavirus, even posting veiled threats against anyone seeking to conceal important information about the virus.
Several controls have already been put in place around the world to curb the spread of the virus.
In Wuhan, people with fevers and flu-like symptoms are being stopped from travelling at airports and train stations. US authorities are screening travellers at New York's JFK Airport, San Francisco International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport.
The Taiwanese government said on Wednesday that it would no longer admit tour groups from Wuhan and might broaden this ban to tour groups from other parts of China, depending on the spread of the disease.
The decision came after Taiwan reported its first confirmed case on Tuesday night, a Taiwanese woman who worked in Wuhan and returned home for a Lunar New Year holiday.
Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, on Wednesday urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) to stop ignoring her country, as the spread of the disease highlighted the need for global co-ordination in disease prevention. The WHO has refused to allow Taiwan to participate in the information-sharing process for the disease.
"The 23m Taiwanese people, just like other corners of the globe, can become the frontline in the prevention of infectious diseases anytime. I again appeal to the WHO not to exclude Taiwan for political reasons," Ms Tsai said.
She also urged China to share fully accurate and timely information about the disease with Taiwan.
Markets recovered slightly on Wednesday after falling a day earlier on concern over the outbreak. China's CSI 300 index was up 0.6 per cent while Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng climbed 1.1 per cent.
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The DEA's Contrived Kratom Crisis
The agency's ban on the pain-relieving leaf shows how arbitrary the government's pharmacological taboos are.
Jacob Sullum | 10.5.2016 12:01 AM
After the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced an "emergency" ban on kratom at the end of August, a spokesman for the agency said "our goal is to make sure this is available." The spokesman, Melvin Patterson, also told The Washington Post kratom does not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the law's most restrictive category, even though that is where the DEA had just put it.
Patterson added that kratom, which the DEA says has "no currently accepted medical use," is "at a point where it needs to be recognized as medicine." Confused? You're not alone. The DEA's ban on kratom, a pain-relieving leaf from Southeast Asia, shows how blithely and arbitrarily the government interferes with our freedom to control our own brains and bloodstreams.
Kratom, which acts as a stimulant or a sedative, depending on the dose, has been used for centuries in countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia to ease pain, boost work performance, and wean people from opiate addiction. In recent years the drug has gained a following in the United States, sold by online merchants and head shops as an herbal medicine, dietary supplement, or legal high.
That situation offended the DEA, which noted in the explanation of its ban that kratom had never been approved by the government for any use. If a psychoactive substance is not explicitly permitted, the DEA figures, it should be prohibited.
The agency apparently was surprised by the backlash against its kratom ban, which included angry phone calls to Capitol Hill, a demonstration near the White House, and letters from members of Congress. The DEA still intends to finalize the ban, although it did not take effect last Friday as expected.
Patterson, the DEA spokesman, said the reaction to the ban "was eye-opening for me personally." He added that "I want the kratom community to know that the DEA does hear them."
That attitude is quite a contrast to the deaf arrogance the DEA displayed when it announced that it was temporarily placing kratom in Schedule I, a classification that lasts at least two years and could become permanent. Declaring that a ban was necessary "to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety," the DEA summarily dismissed kratom's benefits while exaggerating its dangers.
The DEA describes all kratom use as "abuse." It was therefore easy for the agency to conclude that the plant has "a high potential for abuse," one of the criteria for Schedule I.
Since the DEA assumed there was no rational, morally acceptable reason to use kratom, it did not need to muster much evidence that the drug is intolerably dangerous. It claimed there have been "numerous deaths associated with kratom," by which it meant 30. In the whole world. Ever.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, alcohol causes about 88,000 deaths a year in this country, while 28,000 deaths were attributed to heroin and opioid painkillers in 2014. Kratom looks pretty benign by comparison.
Another point to keep in mind: "Deaths associated with kratom" are not necessarily caused by kratom. "Kratom is considered minimally toxic," noted a 2015 literature review in the International Journal of Legal Medicine. "Although death has been attributed to kratom use, there is no solid evidence that kratom was the sole contributor to an individual's death."
As further proof of kratom's dangers, the DEA noted that "U.S. poison centers received 660 calls related to kratom exposure" from 2010 through 2015, an average of 110 a year. By comparison, exposures involving analgesics accounted for nearly 300,000 calls in 2014, while antidepressants and antihistamines each accounted for more than 100,000.
As the DEA's contrived kratom crisis shows, there is little rhyme or reason to the government's pharmacological taboos, which are driven by unreasoning prejudice rather than science. The one overriding theme is that people cannot be trusted to weigh the risks and benefits of drugs for themselves.
© Copyright 2016 by Creators Syndicate Inc.
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Another Push for Lucrative Kampot Coastland to Remain Salt-Producing
Mech Dara
| Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:25 pm
Salt fields in Kampot province in August 2021. (Mech Dara/VOD)
Salt fields on lucrative Kampot coastland are being promised the backing of a new governmental working group to aid in competition against Thai and Vietnamese imports, but salt farmers are skeptical.
A sub-decree from May, released publicly this week, details the creation of an inter-ministerial committee to incentivize salt production.
The committee would be tasked with providing loans and seed funding for developing salt products, promoting the formation of co-operative communities for producers, and expanding the capacity of salt warehouses.
The letter, signed by Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth, additionally calls on the committee to study measures to prevent illegal salt imports.
Salt producers such as Long Im, who pulls salt from about 5 hectares of land in Kampot province, said they have struggled to compete with cheaper, better-quality imports from Thailand and Vietnam.
Im said labor shortages were also a challenge, as young people preferred to work in factories or elsewhere, leaving only old people to keep up the salt fields. In Cambodia, salt production is typically done by flooding fields with seawater, waiting for the water to evaporate and scraping up the remaining salt. However, Im said, producers are finding a hard time yielding enough salt to make the practice worth it.
"People continue to sell their salt farms," he explained, "since their harvest is not good, they want money to support their living."
Land on the coast can be worth hundreds of dollars per square meter, though the Industry Ministry since 2017 has tried to block the sales of salt flats in order to protect the industry.
Tong Khloeung, a fellow producer who harvests salt from a 40-hectare plot in Kampot province's Thoek Chhou district, said the local salt co-op community there dissolved a few years ago. Today, farmers sell their products independently, without company oversight.
Khloeung said he prefers the current arrangement over the previous model of pooled selling and revenue-sharing through the community.
Salt producers in his area had dealt with a labor shortage about two years ago, he said, but the onset of the pandemic helped resolve that issue by keeping workers closer to home, as opposed to moving to work in factories or as migrants in Thailand.
"Before Covid, workers had flooded to work in the factories. We had a shortage of labor so that some farmers could not grow a full salt farm," Khloeung said. "Now there are a lot of workers, since they cannot migrate [out of the country] and domestically they struggle to find jobs. During the salt season, they flood to work in the salt farms."
However, he explained some of the local salt farms have been bought out and left idle by their new owners. Khloeung said they did this to reduce salt supply and push the price of salt higher.
Some natural factors have colluded in reducing supply, but not necessarily helping in raising prices.
Khloeung said Cambodian production was hurt this year by rainy conditions, but that producers in Vietnam and Thailand were helped by drier weather.
He expected to see more salt entering the domestic market from those countries and said it's already difficult for Cambodian producers to compete on both price and quality.
The new inter-ministerial salt committee would be made up of 17 people and chaired by Hean Sahip, the Finance Ministry's secretary of state. Other members include Pich Sambath, the ministry's under-secretary of state, and Sun Seng Huot, an under-secretary of state with the Ministry of Industry. The rest would be drawn from the Ministry of Commerce and provincial authorities.
A Finance Ministry spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
When asked about the new committee to help producers, Khloeung said he'd heard of similar government measures in the past but had seen little in the way of actual help.
"We've heard of [such programs] when the community still existed but that work was not fruitful and now we've already split up — there was nothing, and this caused a slip-up for the community."
"Their policy is just saying [it] but never implementing it."
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N.I.E. To Conduct $6.5-Million Review of Chapter 1 Program
By James Hertling
Washington--The National Institute of Education is undertaking a $6.5-million, two-year study of the federal compensatory-education program, the first comprehensive examination of the program since it was altered in 1981 by the Reagan Administration.
The study, which is scheduled for completion in January 1987, was ordered by the Congress last November, primarily to assess the effect of the program changes under the Reagan Administration, according to Mary M. Kennedy, the director of the project. The study is called "A National Assessment of the ecia Chapter 1 Program."
Largest Precollegiate Program
Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, which serves economically and educationally disadvantaged students, is the largest federal precollegiate-education program. The Congress appropriated $3.7 billion to operate it in the current fiscal year.
Chapter 1 is less prescriptive than the previous law providing for compensatory education, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Critics had charged that Title I burdened states and school districts with excessive paperwork and that its myriad regulations constituted excessive federal intrusion into school districts' affairs.
Three Reports
According to a draft research plan prepared for recent Congressional briefings, nie will prepare three studies of Chapter 1. The first two will serve as the interim reports required by the Congress and will essentially rely on existing data, Ms. Kennedy said.
According to the draft outline, one report, due in January 1986, will examine the nature and extent of students' need for compensatory-education services. The other, due in July 1986, will analyze exemplary Chapter 1 programs and seek to detail the characteristics of Chapter 1's effectiveness, in part by looking at outcomes.
The prospective final product, due in January 1987, has been tentatively named "The Current Operation of the Program and the Prospects for Improvement." It will examine four major aspects of the compensatory-education program: the cost and contribution of program administration; targeting funds to schools and students; the processes for making decisions about program design; and the character and quality of services delivered to students.
Ms. Kennedy said the final draft of the project overview will be completed in two weeks.
In 1977, the nie completed a three-year, $15-million study of Title I, and in 1983, the Education Department's office of budget, planning, and evaluation released a similarly costly study of the compensatory-education program before the Reagan Administration. Ms. Kennedy said the new report will be longitudinal to the extent possible, using the data from previous studies and comparing findings.
Questions on Data
Norman Chachkin, deputy director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, whose Federal Education Project recently completed a study of the first year of Chapter 1 in 10 states, expressed some skepticism about the nie's ability to collect the data necessary for a comprehensive report.
The lawyers' report, completed late last month, notes that as a result of reduced reporting requirements in Chapter 1, less information is being collected at the state and local levels.
"As far as I'm aware, there's no real hard data being collected" on the Chapter 1 program, Mr. Chachkin said. "Unless they are proposing new data collection ..., they are going to have something that's very anecdotal."
But Ms. Kennedy said the new study would collect fresh data, down to the district and school levels in order to complete the comprehensive final report for the Congress due in January 1987.
First Year Reviewed
The study by the lawyers' committee, "The First Year of Chapter 1," found that "the greatest changes from Title I had resulted from reduced appropriations rather than the enactment of Chapter 1."
Federal support for Title I in 1979 was $3.2 billion; Chapter 1 funding for 1982-83 was reduced to about $3 billion, according to the report. It estimated that about one-half of all eligible students participated in Title I; after the cut, "no more than 30 to 40 percent of eligible students in need were being helped."
The 109-page report was based on interviews with state and local Chapter 1 officials and parents, and on their responses to a detailed questionnaire.
According to the study, one significant program change in the first year of Chapter 1 was the "significant reduction or complete elimination of parental involvement in at least a third" of the 27 districts studied.
The report called for increased federal monitoring of the program and updated regulations and guidance to ensure proper use of Chapter 1 funds at the state and local levels.