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Mexico: An unsafe country for thousands of refugees fleeing violence in Central America
Мигранты в Приюте-72 показывают на карте свой путь через Мексику, на котором они подвергались насилию со стороны преступных группировок, мелких преступников и органов власти. Мексика, февраль 2018 г.
© Juan Carlos Tomasi
An unsafe country for thousands of refugees fleeing violence in Central America
Press Release20 June 2018
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move
Central American Migration
Migrants and refugees fleeing danger in Central America are trapped and exposed to more violence in Mexico due to ever tighter and more callous United States border control policies, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on World Refugee Day.
The violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador continues to force thousands of people to head north in search of refuge, even as the Trump administration imposes cruel practices intended to deter them from seeking asylum. Last week, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that people submitting claims related to domestic or gang violence will not qualify for asylum—a decision that effectively closes the door to many Central Americans fleeing for their lives. In recent weeks, authorities have stepped up criminal prosecutions of people attempting to cross the border, going so far as to forcibly separate children from their families.
Mexico is effectively becoming a final destination for thousands of vulnerable refugees and migrants, left exposed to further violence by criminal gangs who prey on them.
"We are seeing a population that is increasingly trapped in Mexico. They can't return to the countries they escaped from for fear of violence. And now they can't find safety in the US as the administration punishes those who try to cross the border with increasingly harsh and cruel measures," says Marc Bosch, MSF's Operations Manager for Latin America. "We are alarmed by the terrible policy of separating children from their parents. This is compounded by the recent US decision not to accept gang violence or sexual violence as the basis for asylum claims."
Initial talks between the US and Mexican governments in May considered the possibility of converting Mexico into a "safe third country". This would force asylum seekers to apply in Mexico, preventing them from reaching the US to demand refuge.
A man rests in a shelter after receiving foot care. Tenosique, Mexico, February 2018.
© Juan Carlos Tomasi/MSF
Mexico is not a safe country for people fleeing violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA)
More than 20,000 migrants or refugees are kidnapped in NTCA countries – Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador – every year, according official sources (CNDH). Sixty-eight per cent of the migrants and refugees interviewed by MSF in places along the transit route in Mexico had been exposed to violence. Nearly one-third of the women surveyed were sexually abused. Central American gangs are operating in the south of Mexico and are responsible of some of the attacks against migrants.
MSF medical data shows that a quarter of our medical consultations for migrants and refugees in Mexico are related to injuries from intentional violence. Ninety per cent of our mental health consultations are related to violence. Our patients are suffering from anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other conditions, which have severe consequences on their ability to function. Women, children, and members of the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer (LGBTQ) community are more vulnerable to certain types of violence and require specific protection measures that are not effectively in place in Mexico.
MSF medical, psychological and information activities at the shelter La 72, Mexico, 26 February 2018.
US and Mexico must meet its responsibilities towards populations fleeing violence
According to official figures from the United Nations Refugee Agency, 108,500 people from the NTCA applied for asylum in the US in 2017, while only 8,700 chose to carry out this process in Mexico. Staying in Mexico is not a viable alternative for many people who fear the violence of criminal organisations there. The deadlock is particularly brutal for minors, whether travelling alone or accompanied.
"Mexico should be able to guarantee protection, healthcare and safe passage to migrants and refugees," says Bosch. "The US also needs to fulfil its international responsibilities and recognise the status of asylum-seekers and refugees. The US continues to have an essential role play in addressing this humanitarian crisis."
In 2017, the scale of the crisis led MSF to publish a report: Forced to flee the Northern Triangle of Central America: A forgotten humanitarian crisis. The situation is now getting worse, causing greater suffering to a population that has been subjected to tremendous violence in their countries of origin and in their transit through Mexico. Now they must also endure an unprecedented level of institutional violence from the US, where they are not only prevented from claiming the protection they need but are facing additional threats. People seeking safety, and their children, are being detained under inhumane conditions and face the risk of deportation, in violation of the principle of non-refoulement.
No way to safety for people fleeing extreme violence in Central America's Northern Triangle
Press Release 12 May 2017
Forced to Flee Central America's Northern Triangle: A neglected humanitarian crisis pdf — 2.75 MB Download
MSF provides medical and mental health care to migrants and refugees from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador moving along the transit routes through Mexico. We work in migrant shelters and mobile clinics along the railway lines and in three locations on the migrant routes (in Tenosique, Coatzacoalcos and Reynosa). We also run a comprehensive care centre for victims of extreme violence in Mexico City. This centre opened in 2016 in response to the medical and humanitarian needs of people in transit.
"One in four patients we assist has experienced violence"
Project Update 24 Jul 2017
Guerrero under siege
Voices from the Field 28 May 2018
Project Update 24 July 2017


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After reading an article last week on IFB, 'SEO-friendly Basic Blogging Rules', I've been thinking about the impact of SEO on blogging, and how much bloggers really need to buy into it. Since the last month and a bit, my work life has been consumed with blogger research, and one of the main things I've been surprised to discover is how many great blogs are actually pretty difficult to find. But then is it more important to have poor SEO (and presumably remain on lower readerships) than to bastardise your writing with key word terms? Yes of course, if you're blogging then you are writing for an audience, so how far should you go to make sure that you're visible enough to get their attention?
SEO is one of those buzz terms that gets thrown about at the moment, and there's no doubt about how vital it is that bloggers know how to market themselves. It's not about creating a new identity for sole use online, or about turn your blog into a hub filled with paid links and sponsored posts. It's about being able to make yourself visible to a wider audience. Now there are all kinds of good and bad articles I've read over the last few years and most of which offer pretty sound advice, IFB for instance wrote a good article on SEO tips a couple of years ago. Similarly, Catherine from The Spring Blog wrote a nice post with some great SEO tips. And while it's great to be aware of all the ways you can make yourself visible (and by all means I think you should!), but if there's one thing that irks me about it all it's writing to a set of rules. Especially when the rules have little or nothing to do with writing.
To me, blogging started as an outlet to improve my writing rather than a means through which I could work on ticking boxes in order to climb up Google's page rankings. By no means did I start a blog in the hope of getting free things, or being paid to write anything… and certainly for the first three years of blogging I didn't receive any kind of privileges like that. What was (and still is) more important is developing my voice as a writer. I feel like it's more important for me to be posting content that I'm actually interested in than churning out posts at a ridiculous rate that are filled with key words and read as though they've been copy and pasted from a press release. Likewise, the blogs I read are much more concerned with creating compelling and engaging content, which is why I continue to read. And while I try to incorporate a few tips from good SEO articles, I'm more concerned with creating posts that people will actually want to read. There are relatively easy tweaks to make, such as amending my blog title to become more descriptive and paying more attention to properly naming images and files, but I try to avoid using SEO style titles on my posts because I think it can make them sound flat. How about you, have you made many adjustments to try to improve your blog's google ranking?
I never use SEO – I always read those articles and think 'yeah I should totally incorporate that' but then it just goes out my head. And similarly to you I read blogs where I engage with the tone and style of the writing – not ones where everything is written in a SEO friendly way, so I don't want to write my blog a way that I wouldn't want to read for the sheer sake of google rankings. I suppose if your blog is your career then this stuff is all very important because it equals revenue but my blog is and always will be my hobby, I don't think I'd love it as much as I do if I did it for a living!
For me content comes first. I read some amazing blogs that have 'bad SEO', but they still have a decent following and their blogs help their careers massively. If you write honestly and stay true then readers will find you and stay with you regardless of how high up you come in a google search!
p.s. I hope everything is going well with the new job back in blighty!
Titles of blog posts are the basic, and easiest way of making your blog better in terms of SEO. A good title is not only good for SEO but also good for someone reading, it gives them an idea of what the post is about.
It is not about good content vs SEO…In fact, if you speak to anyone who knows about SEO a large number will use the phrase "content is king". Quite self explanatory, having good content will lead to better SEO.


Welcome to the Art&Seek Spotlight. Every Thursday, here and on KERA FM, we'll explore the cultural creativity happening in North Texas. As it grows, this site, artandseek.org/spotlight, will eventually paint a collective portrait of our artistic community. Check out all the artists and artworks we've chronicled.
In the popular Netflix show, "13 Reasons Why," lead character Hannah Baker sends tapes to 13 of her classmates blaming them for her suicide. The show is marketed to teens, and it's received a lot of backlash for the way it paints mental illness and suicide.
Kristen Diou, a child therapist who works in Denton and lives in Arlington, says she's seen patients traumatized by the show.
So, she and her friend, Anna Zapata, a trauma therapist, decided to do something about it. They started a podcast called "Pop Culture Therapists" to explain how movies and shows portray mental illness.
But Diou says this show isn't the only problem. Pop culture gets a lot wrong when it comes to mental health.
Suicide accounts for over 20 percent of teen deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the therapists know that TV can often create a stigma around discussing mental health. While the podcast is entertaining, they also want to spark a dialogue about therapy.
Because media gets it wrong so often, they want their podcast to get it right. And they want it to sound natural.
They're targeting young adults in their 20s and 30s — like Hayley Franklin, a teacher in Bedford. She says the show's informal structure is a good way to start conversations about serious issues and make people more comfortable.
"I like that they're OK with laughing and cussing every once in a while and just discussing it as twentysomethings would discuss these things with their friends," Franklin said.
Diou says that's what she wants people to get out of their podcast: Therapy and counseling aren't scary.
Zapata wants to educate people about what mental illness really looks like.
"You don't get it unless you have symptoms like that or you're educated about symptoms like that," she said.
Above all, the pop culture therapists want you to know it's OK to talk about problems and seek out help when you need it.
Sakshi Venkatraman is an intern at KERA.


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Q: Tensorflow reads multi csv needs too much time I plan to read the feature data from multi csv files.
Each csv file has 150 columns, and the batch size is 256.
The time cost for just read 1000 iteration needs roughly 12s.
I feel the time cost for that should not be that much, any one here can have some suggestion?
def _parse_csv_row(*vals):
    features = tf.convert_to_tensor(vals[0:f_size * 5])
    class_label = tf.cast(vals[f_size * 5] + tf.convert_to_tensor(1.0, tf.float64), tf.int64)
    return features, class_label

def get_batch_data(name):
    root_path="g:\\market\\2018-11-12\\feature_{}\\".format(name)
    file_queue = list(map(lambda x: "{}{}".format(root_path, x), fnmatch.filter(os.listdir("g:\\market\\2018-11-12\\feature_{}\\".format(name)), "*.sz_result.csv")))
    record_defaults = [tf.float32] * f_size * 5 + [tf.float64]
    selected_cols = reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, [list(range(1 + x * 29, 1 + x * 29 + 9)) for x in range(0, 5)]) + [146]
    dataset = tf.contrib.data.CsvDataset(
        file_queue,
        record_defaults,
        buffer_size=1024 * 1024 * 10,
        header=True,
        na_value='0.0',
        select_cols=selected_cols)
    dataset = dataset.apply(tf.contrib.data.map_and_batch(
        map_func=_parse_csv_row, batch_size=train_config.BATCH_SIZE))
    dataset = dataset.prefetch(256 * 1024)
    dataset = dataset.repeat()

    dataset = dataset.shuffle(buffer_size=32)
    iterator = dataset.make_one_shot_iterator()
    feature_batch, label_batch = iterator.get_next()
    return feature_batch, label_batch

config = tf.ConfigProto()
config.gpu_options.allow_growth = True
with tf.Session(config=config) as sess:
    sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
    a, b = get_batch_data("train")
    start_time = time.time()
    for x in range(1000):
        v = sess.run([a,b])
    print(time.time() - start_time)

A: The line dataset = dataset.prefetch(256 * 1024). It's written after map_and_batch operation. That means that your are prefetching 256 * 1024 batches.  So, when your program tries to load 1st record, it actually first loads 256 * 1024 * 256 records. Probably your intention was to prefetch only 1024 batches. In real life it's enough to prefetch only one record.
I would put ds.prefetch(1) line as the last operation on the dataset. See Summary of Best Practices.
Also you allocate pretty big buffer for reading CSV file (buffer_size parameter). If your intention is to cache the whole csv file, you can use ds.cache() operation. Without parameters it caches contents in the memory. Put it before the ds.repeat() operation.

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Q: Updating Excel file How can I add new values to an uploaded application/vnd.ms-excel file in C#?
Can anybody help?

A: If you're using Excel 2007/2010 you can make use of Microsoft's added XML standard with various third party libraries.
I've used EPPlus in the past, but its license dictates if you release your project to the public you must release its source as well.
http://epplus.codeplex.com/
For that reason I've used ClosedXML to manipulate excel files (.xlsx and .xlsm). You open workbooks from a disk location, or from a filestream.
http://closedxml.codeplex.com/


Full title reads: "Weston-Super-Mare. 'May the luck be equal and the Best Team Win!'. The Springboks are here 29 husky players - with whom rugby is almost a religion!" Weston-Super-Mare, Avon. Members of the South African rugby team posing for cameras. Various members of the team are named. Various shots of the members of the squad playing a practice / training game.
Twickenham. Springboks Still Winning! Strong 'London XV' - of best players from SE Counties easily defeated by 30 pts to 3.
Twickenham - Springboks V. England - South Africans win thrilling Rugby International by 7pts. to nil!"
Ireland 3, Springboks 8 in a Rugby International. Lansdowne Road, Dublin, (Eire, Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland).
British Pathé news report showing the Springboks beating Scotland 44- nil in 1951.
Pathé news South Africa V England - International Rugby.


Hednesford Town go into Saturday's clash with Barrow still undefeated in their opening four games of the campaign with a more than sufficient ten point haul which leaves The Pitmen sitting pretty one place from the summit of The Skrill North.
Rob Smith's side have now gone, if you include last season's run-in, twenty matches without defeat but the manager, reflecting on the morale of the squad after Monday, was keen to stress that a defeat will eventually come and his squad must learn to deal with not winning every game.
Conference North level and Smith believes that Barrow are no different, despite their recent relegation from the Conference.
Hednesford's opponents on Saturday have certainly had some good times over recent seasons, becoming the first team to win the FA Trophy at both the new and old Wembley Stadium when they triumphed over Stevenage in 2010 and the Cumbrian outfit also possess FA Cup pedigree having played Middlesbrough and Sunderland in the Third Round Proper in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The Bluebirds last met The Pitmen the previous time Hednesford were at this level in 2005/6, gaining a win home and away although they have had a far from perfect start to their campaign this year, having played and lost to high-flying Altrincham and Brackley Town.
Team news wise, Rob Smith has a full squad to pick from, barring a fitness concern over Neil Harvey, and the manager has picked out the scoring form of his strikers as a positive ahead of the game: Elliott Durrell has plundered seven goals in his first four games and new signing Wayne Riley has bedded in well in new surroundings.
The Pitmen will need to be firing on all cylinders when Barrow come to Keys Park, bringing with them a usually vocal and loyal band of supporters, which, added to the superb support from the home terraces of recent weeks, promises to create a lively atmosphere throughout the game.
A twenty-first game undefeated for Hednesford would no doubt ratchet up the noise emanating from the Heath Hayes End another decibel or two come 5pm Saturday evening.


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Jung and the Lost Gospels
Insights Into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library
by Hoeller, Stephan A.
The Lost Gospels refer to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library, both discovered in the 1940s. The Nag Hammadi Library consists of writings found by two peasants who unearthed clay jars in 1945 in upper Egypt. These did not appear in English for 32 years, because the right to publish was contended by scholars, politicians, and antique dealers. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in clay jars in Palestine by a goat herder in 1947, weathered similar storms. The first team of analysts were mostly Christian clergy, who weren't anxious to share material that frightened church leaders. As Dr. Hoeller shows, they rightly feared the documents would reveal information that might detract from unique claims of Christianity. Indeed, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Library both contradict and complement accepted tenets of the Old and New Testaments.
As to the connection with Jung, Dr. Hoeller states, Jung knew that the one and only tradition associated with Christianity that regarded the human psyche as the container of the divine-human encounter was that of the Gnostics of the the first three centuries of our era. For this reason he called for a renewed appreciation of this ancient tradition, and particularly for a return to the Gnostic sense of God as an inner directing and transforming presence. Dr. Hoeller goes on in his preface, His sympathetic insight into the myths, symbols, and metaphors of the Gnostics, whom by his own admission he regarded as long-lost friends, continues as the brightest beacon of our day...
Chapters include such topics as Saintly Rebels: The People of the Scrolls, The Dancing Savior: The Myth of the Gnostic Christ and The Secret Sayings of Jesus: The Gospel of Thomas. The book also includes a thorough notes section as well as an index.
Liturgical Works
by Davila, James R.
Among the invaluable manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are numerous fragments of liturgical texts pertaining to the ritual life of Jews living around the turn of the common era. These fascinating writings include prayers for annual festivals, a covenant renewal liturgy, a mystical liturgy for Sabbath sacrifices, a grace ceremony for mourners, daily and weekly prayers, liturgies of purification, and perhaps even a wedding ceremony. In this volume, the first to be published in the Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls series, James Davila introduces, translates, and provides a detailed exegesis of these important documents.
The book begins with a general introduction to the Qumran library and Jewish liturgical traditions. Davila then provides an introduction, translation, notes on the original Hebrew, and line-by-line commentary for each of the Qumran liturgical works. Davila's excellent translation work combines overlapping fragmentary manuscripts into a single, smoothly flowing text, and his commentary includes numerous fresh insights and observations on these writings. Giving full attention to parallel texts found in the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish and Christian writings through late antiquity, Davila firmly situates the Qumran liturgical works in their historical context in Second Temple Judaism and discusses their significance as background to the Jewish liturgy, Jewish mysticism, and Christian origins.
Shedding light on a period of Jewish history whose ritual life formerly lay almost entirely in darkness, this volume makes--and subsequent ECDSS volumes will make--a valuable contribution to our understanding of the biblical world.
The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran
The Essene Record of the Treasure of Akhenaten
by Feather, Robert
Introduces a radical new perspective on the historical foundations of monotheism, based on the enigma of the Copper Scroll of the Essenes.
- Confirms the link between ancient Judaism and the pharoah Akhenaten.
- Decodes the system of measurements encrypted on the Copper Scroll that has confounded scholars for over 50 years, leading to the identification of fabulous lost treasures.
- Points to a radical new understanding of the origins of monotheism.
The famous Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the oldest collection of Biblical documents ever discovered. Of the Dead Sea Scrolls, none has baffled experts more than the 2,000-year-old Copper Scroll, discovered in 1952 by a team of Bedouin led by Henri de Contenson of the Ecole Biblique in East Jerusalem. Appearing to be a list of buried treasure engraved on copper pieces, the Copper Scroll is considered to be the work of a secretive Jewish sect of devout Essenes, who lived by the Dead Sea around the time of Jesus. No one has been able to explain its meaning or discover any of the 64 locations where the Biblical treasures it lists were buried.
Robert Feather, combining his background as a metallurgist with his journalistic expertise, has unraveled the enigma of the Copper Scroll in a fascinating study that takes the reader on a journey from ancient Mesopotamia, through Canaan, into Egypt, and back to the shores of the Dead Sea. His exploration links the scroll to the ancient Egyptian king Akhenaten, confirming a long suspected influence of this pharaoh's religious beliefs on those of the Hebrews. The author's findings not only reveal the locations of most of the treasures listed on the Copper Scroll, but they also point to a radical new understanding of the origins of monotheism--the basis of the three great religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
The Pesharim and Qumran History
Chaos or Consensus?
by Charlesworth, James H.
Among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran are seventeen of the earliest known biblical commentaries, the "Pesharim." Since their discovery, researchers have been in intense debate over their true nature. In this fascinating volume James Charlesworth introduces the Pesharim to general readers and makes a signal contribution to our understanding of these invaluable ancient documents.
Ought these Jewish writings be viewed as historiography in the guise of biblical commentary, or are they simply examples of the way the Qumran community read and interpreted the Hebrew scriptures? Charlesworth takes the middle path in this debate, demonstrating that there are indeed important historical allusions in the Pesharim. In the course of the book, he provides a summary of the interpretive methods used in the Pesharim, isolates the historical allusions in them, and relates these allusions to a synopsis of Qumran history.
The volume also includes appendixes by Lidija Novakovic that explain exegetical terminology and cite scriptural quotations.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter?
by Kuhlken, Pam Fox
You know the Scrolls are important . . . but you don't really know why.
Sure, there are plenty of scholarly volumes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, full of indexes, footnotes, and jargon for those in the know. But what if you're not a specialist? What if you just want a basic understanding of what the Dead Sea Scrolls are, where they came from, and why they're so important? That's where this little book comes in.
David Noel Freedman and Pam Fox Kuhlken here offer an informed, inside look at these significant ancient texts. Full of humor and behind-the-scenes glimpses into research on the Scrolls, What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Do They Matter? is a fascinating, accessible guidebook -- perfect for any reader seeking a brief, quality introduction to this inscrutable subject.
Answers a gamut of questions from the general to the paranoid to the somewhat cynical -- for example:
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls all about?
Who wrote them, why, and in what languages?
Have the Scrolls changed our understanding of any passages in the Bible?
Who's hiding stolen fragments?
Do the Scrolls tell us when the world will end?
How has technology improved our ability to study the Scrolls?
How much would a Scroll fragment sell for on eBay today?
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The Search for the Secret of Qumran
by Golb, Norman
Since their discovery in the Qumran caves beginning in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the object of intense fascination and extreme controversy. Here Professor Norman Golb intensifies the debate over the scrolls' origins, arguing that they were not the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as other scholars have claimed, but written by different groups of Jews and the smuggled out of Jerusalem's libraries before the Roman seige of A.D 70.
Golb also unravels the mystery behind the scholarly monopoly that controlled the scrolls for many years, and discusses his role as a key player in the successful struggle to make the scrolls widely available to both scholars and students. And he pleads passionately for an academic politics and a renewed commitment to the search for the truth in scroll scholarship.


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Q: Is controller with more flash memory consume more energy I have this questionn. Is controller wirh more flash memory consume more enrgy power from controller with less flash memory from type and every other parameter is equal. The question is theoretical. I would ask the same for RAM?

A: Typically the higher density (capacity) memories are made with a smaller (ie 14nm) process, where the smaller you get, the more (DC) leakage current you get.  This is unused energy that leaks through the silicon.  This also depends on the physical size of the silicon die, and the number of die.  When memory die are stacked, the area is additive (DC power).  So an older 1MB flash die stacked 8 levels is much higher leakage current than 1 level 8MB die.
The larger consumer of energy is the voltage * current * frequency (AC) term.  This power consumption is around 75% on DRAM, but not sure what flash's ratio is, probably similar.
In terms of increasing power usually are idle, reads, column changes (DRAM), writes, refresh (DRAM), followed by erase (Flash).
Latest memories get very efficient when idle.  So the above 75% may currently be as high as 85% or more.  I haven't calculated or measured in a while, sorry.
SRAM only uses power per read or write.  Almost nothing the rest of the time.

A: Some clarifications:

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*dynamic power consumption  is proportional to <data change frequency> x <Capacitance> x <Voltage^2>, the C here stands for Capacitance, not Current. This is the dominant factor when you are performing a READ/WRITE/ERASE operation.

*Leakage power is proportional to the area or the logic/SRAM/FLASH. This is the dominant factor when logic/SRAM/FLASH are IDLE.

*communication with on chip SRAM is more power efficient than off-chip FLASH because you consume additional power in communication: the signal is driven through pad cells that typically operate at two to four times the voltage of standard logic. The capacitance of on board wires is several orders of magnitude higher than on-chip routing and the data needs to be copied several times to internal flops on the master and slave side of the FLASH interface to support the communication protocol and synchronize the signals. This means that SRAM access latency is lower than access to FLASH.

*besides being cheaper, systems with flash are also modular - the same chip can be used on several boards with different FLASH sizes.

*a FLASH block has a finite number of write/erase cycles it can support before it becomes unusable. Larger FLASH devices can spread write/erase operations over a larger set of memory blocks, resulting in longer effective lifetime and effective size.


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Q: Error while trying to unninstall a Windows service I successfully created a Windows service with C#. Sometimes, while trying to uninstall the service, an exception is thrown:
Message -
   The savedState dictionary contains inconsistent data and might have been corrupted
Type -
   ArgumentException
Source -
   System.Configuration.Install
TargetSite -
   Void Uninstall(System.Collections.IDictionary)
StackTrace -
   at System.Configuration.Install.Installer.Uninstall(IDictionary savedState)
   at System.Configuration.Install.Installer.Uninstall(IDictionary savedState)

The only way to uninstall that service is rebooting the system and trying again.


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New report calls for more 'earning and learning' in bid to cut youth unemployment
FE Week reporter
Tue 24th Jun 2014, 0.01
A report out today from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has called for more 'earning and learning' with the UK having experienced a fall in the number of young people combining work with learning.
Precarious Futures? Youth employment in an international context noted no other European state saw the same fall in the years leading to recession.
It calls on business, education and government to do more to give young people opportunities to 'earn and learn', noting that while youth unemployment in the UK is falling, countries with high numbers of young people who work while studying have lower levels of youth unemployment.
In Australia just under half (44 per cent) of 15 to 19-year-olds in education were on apprenticeships or had part-time jobs, and just 12 per cent of their 20 to 24-year-olds were not in education, employment or training (Neet).
By contrast, in the UK just 22 per cent of young people aged 15 to 19 were earning and learning — that is, combining part-time work with full-time education, or taking on an apprenticeship — and nearly one in five (19 per cent) of 20 to 24-year-olds were categorised as Neet.
Fiona Kendrick, chief and chairman of Nestlé UK and Ireland and a UKCES Commissioner, said: "The youth employment challenge we face in the UK is relatively unique compared to other countries. Too many young people aren't making a successful transition from education into work. They risk falling in and out of short-term jobs — or in some cases not entering the job market at all — and losing the opportunity to develop careers."
She added: "I want to call on employers to offer young people the opportunity to learn practical skills, understand how industry works, and gain experiences that are relevant for business."
The report also stated that the number of unemployed 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK had steadily fallen in recent years, but that the UK's youth unemployment rate was more than three times higher than the adult rate.
Employment Minister Esther McVey said: "Helping young people to get their foot in the door and build their careers is a major priority for this government. Young people have a huge amount of potential to offer future employers and just need the chance show what they are made of.
"With the number of young people in jobs going up and youth unemployment falling, we will continue to work with businesses to create opportunities for young people so they can get the skills and experience they need to secure their future."
Michael Davis, chief executive of the UKCES, said: "This report finds that the majority of employers are happy with their young recruits. Those who aren't happy say the main reason is lack of experience. Yet only 27 per cent of employers currently offer work experience.
"Small jobs make a big difference for young people. Opportunities to earn and learn — either through work experience, apprenticeships or part-time jobs — give young people the kind of experience that employers value."
For more coverage of the report, see the FE Week supplement What Employers Want, out today.
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Q: Flask DB emptying after pageload I have a Flask app which reads from a local database. Since it didn't have any data in it, I seeded it one time with the add_to_db method I wrote. When I checked the database a line after, it had the data.
However, when I removed the add_to_db line and reloaded the page, the database was empty. Essentially, the database clears itself after the page has loaded.
import sqlite3, datetime
from flask import Flask, request, session, g, redirect, url_for, \
     abort, render_template, flash
from contextlib import closing
# configuration
DATABASE = 'valids.db'
DEBUG = False
SECRET_KEY = 'development key'
USERNAME = 'admin'
PASSWORD = 'default'
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(__name__)
def connect_db():
    return sqlite3.connect(DATABASE)

def init_db():
    with closing(connect_db()) as db:
        with app.open_resource('schema.sql', mode='r') as f:
            db.cursor().executescript(f.read())
        db.commit()

def add_to_db(seq):
    g.db.execute("insert into emergencies (sequence, begin) values (?, ?);",(seq,datetime.datetime.now()))

@app.before_request
def before_request():
    g.db = connect_db()

@app.teardown_request
def teardown_request(exception):
    db = getattr(g, 'db', None)
    if db is not None:
        db.close()

@app.route('/<seq>',methods=['GET'])
def show_entries(seq):
    print(list(g.db.execute('select * from emergencies')))

    add_to_db(seq)
    print(list(g.db.execute('select * from emergencies')))

    statement="select * from emergencies where sequence = '%s';"%seq
    cur = g.db.execute(statement).fetchall()
    if len(cur)>0:
        cur=cur[0]
    else:
        return render_template('notfound.html')
    if cur[3] is None:
        return render_template('house.html')
    else:
        return render_template('notfound.html')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

A: You need to commit your changes:
def add_to_db(seq):
    g.db.execute("insert into emergencies (sequence, begin) values (?, ?);",(seq,datetime.datetime.now()))
    g.db.commit()

or use the connection as a context manager to auto-commit on succes:
def add_to_db(seq):
    with g.db:
        g.db.execute("insert into emergencies (sequence, begin) values (?, ?);",(seq,datetime.datetime.now()))


A lovely cosy four bedroom apartment right on the main family pistes of Les Houches. The ideal place to get away from the crowds in Chamonix. From this apartment you can be the first on the slopes and can ski down to the ski school and main lift system straight out of your front door in the morning and then back in after a last run on empty pistes. 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a sauna shared with the other apartment in this chalet makes this a great place to stay on a budget.
The chalet is spread over three floors.
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Kitchen, dining room and living area with cosy TV corner with sky HD options and fireplace, access to the private decking.
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The bottom of the lift with ski school /rental shop/bakery is 5 mins drive and the centre of Les houches a further 5 mins drive.


Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd, Is Recruiting Eligible Semi Skilled Labour In Oman Project. So Interested People Can Apply For This Job Through Offline Mode Within The Given Time Period.
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Atlanta Falcons sign Younghoe Koo amid releasing Matt Bryant
Photos: Atlanta's new football team, the Legends, opens season Atlanta Legends kicker Younghoe Koo, right, kicks a 27-yard field goal out of the hold of Cameron Nizialek (9) during the first half of an Alliance of American Football game against the Orlando Apollos on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) (Phelan M. Ebenhack)
October 29, 2019 at 1:22 pm EDT
By Kevin Keneely
The Atlanta Falcons have released Matt Bryant, who had connected on just 9-of-14 field goal attempts this season, and have signed Younghoe Koo. Bryant had been the Falcons kicker, since 2009 and is the Falcons all-time leading scorer with 1,163 points, over 148 games.
Falcons agree to terms with K Younghoe Koo, release K Matt Bryant pic.twitter.com/CPw38ILUYl
— B/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) October 29, 2019
Koo attended Georgia Southern University, where he set the school's career field goal percentage record, connecting on 31-of-35 (88.6%) of his field goal's for the Eagles.
In his final season with the Eagles (2016-17), Koo became the first kicker in school history to be named a finalist for the Lou Groza Award and became the Eagles first FBS All-American after being named to Phil Steele's third-team. That season, he tied the school record with 19 made field goals, after connecting on 19-of-20 attempts, including 14-consecutive makes, which also tied the school record.
In 2019, Koo became the kicker for the Atlanta Legends, where he was perfect on his field goals, connecting on 14-of-14 attempts. Prior to joining the Legends, Koo appeared in four games for the Los Angeles Chargers, in 2017, where he went 3-for-6 on field goals and a perfect 9-for-9 on extra points.
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Bernhard Schuster, född 26 mars 1870 i Berlin, död där 13 januari 1934, var en tysk tonsättare och redaktör.

Schuster verkade som teaterkapellmästare och komponerade några operor förutom sånger och orkestermusik. Han är dock mest känd som utgivare av musiktidskriften "Die Musik", som startades 1901, upphörde under första världskriget, men återuppstod 1922. De flesta kända tyska och talrika utländska musikförfattare medverkade i "Die Musik".

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is this poll the source of the Independent's Hannah Baldock article?
CARACAS, Venezuela Aug. 19, 2004 — A U.S. firm's exit poll that said President Hugo Chavez would lose a recall referendum has landed in the center of a controversy following his resounding victory.
Any casual observer of the 2000 U.S. presidential elections knows exit polls can at times be unreliable. But the poll has become an issue here because the opposition, which mounted the drive to force the leftist leader from office, insists it shows the results from the vote itself were fraudulent. The opposition also claims electronic voting machines were rigged, but has provided no evidence.
Election officials banned publication or broadcast of any exit polls during the historic vote on whether to oust Chavez, a populist who has sought to help the poor and is reviled by the wealthy, who accuse him of stoking class divisions.
But results of the Penn, Schoen & Berland survey were sent out by fax and e-mail to media outlets and opposition offices more than four hours before polls closed. It predicted just the opposite of what happened, saying 59 percent had voted in favor of recalling Chavez.
Both Gaviria and former President Jimmy Carter, another election monitor, endorsed the vote, saying the results coincided with their own independent samplings.
Mark Penn, of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, said Wednesday he has limited knowledge of the exit poll. He said his partner, Doug Schoen, "believes there were more problems with the voting than with the exit poll."
Schoen could not immediately be reached, and another employee familiar with the poll declined to comment.
"We have to let the authorities do their investigation of the election," said Marcela Berland, with the firm. "It would be irresponsible to interfere with that."
Venezuelan Minister of Communications Jesse Chacon said it was a mistake for Sumate to be involved in the exit poll because it might have skewed the results.
"If you use an activist as a pollster, he will eventually begin to act like an activist," Chacon told The Associated Press.
Chris Sabatini, senior program officer for the National Endowment for Democracy, defended Sumate as "independent and impartial."
"Exit polls are notoriously unreliable," Sabatini said by telephone from Washington. "Just because they're off doesn't mean that the group that conducted them is partial to one side."
AP reporters Juan Pablo Toro in Caracas and Will Lester in Washington contributed to this report.


TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I saw and was staggered by a gem of an oil sketch painted by Cecilia Beaux. Seated Girl in a Long Black Dress (fig. 1) hung in one of the galleries at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I was a first year student. To this day it has remained an important impression. In its brevity, Beaux made a complete and graceful poem in oil. The student sensitive to the visual poetry of chiaroscuro could examine it and learn something about the Philadelphia School of painting.
It was that oil sketch, and the Thomas Eakins oil bozetti displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that prompted me to try and paint some sketches of my own. Oil sketches were the first consistent successes I achieved in oil painting. They provided a foundation for all my artwork in their immediacy and directness. Although my initial attraction to oil sketching was instinctual, its allure and historical significance have long been known. In 1767, Diderot asked "Why can a young student, incapable of doing even a mediocre picture, do a marvelous sketch? It is because the sketch is the product of enthusiasm and inspiration, while the picture is the product of labor, patience, lengthy study and consummate experience in art."
My first oil sketches were portraits, and for this pleasurable endeavor Beaux's work was an inspiration. I was able to examine her portrait sketches, as well as her finished oils, in the Academy's collection. This unique opportunity, outside of classes or instruction in oil sketching, revealed that the poetry in painting is rooted in the principles of craft and guided by inspiration. Portrait sketches led me to think about how one would approach the more difficult discipline of sustained portraits. Since that time, portrait painting has remained for me a satisfying way of speculating about human nature .
The Pennsylvania Academy has long offered classes in oil portraiture. This is one of the reasons for its reputation as the standard bearer of a traditionist approach which has attracted so many students, past and present, to come and study there. Yet for a good part of this century students in serious pursuit of training in portraiture have usually been dissuaded from it, both at the Academy and elsewhere. A bias toward modernism was prevalent in most art schools by the 1970s, but I did not expect to find it in the school where the Peales, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, Alice Barber, and Beaux, to name but a few, had developed a regional crucible for representationist work.
While a student, I remember requesting permission to copy a portrait in the collection. The then curator of the Academy asked me, "Why would you want to do that?" After I realized that his question was not a joke or a test of my worthiness to attempt such a task, I mumbled a vague response. I quoted the Academy's own catalogue about the importance of the collection for training students. He reluctantly signed my permission chit with a look of unpleasant bewilderment.
It was not much easier to find support for representationist portraiture among the faculty. Generally, one could expect well-intentioned but erroneous advice. The importance of black and white pigments on the palette was misunderstood. A student was counseled "don't use them" or "they are not really colors." Portraiture as a serious discipline was further hindered by suggestions such as "make it more than a portrait" (to which a student could cravenly reply, "but, sir, it is a portrait").
My first realization of the survival of a representationist approach at the Academy was in 1976, during a first year class. Arthur DeCosta, a senior instructor, was discussing the chromatic development of the portrait. His classes were primarily attempts to study and resolve in oil paint or charcoal the fall of light. The historic studios at the Broad and Cherry streets building, originally designed for this very experience, were no longer appreciated for, nor dedicated to, these ideas. DeCosta steadfastly encouraged students to investigate light -- even in the 1970s, when one was encouraged to contemplate nearly everything but that.
At one point he said, "Well, it would be easier to show you what I mean." He led the class up the staircase to the Academy's galleries. Two of the paintings he showed us were by Franklin Watkins and Daniel Garber, both of whom he noted had been Academy instructors of his in the 1940s. Both Watkins and Garber had been students of Cecilia Beaux and Thomas Anshutz, who in turn had been students during Eakins's time. This revelation was quite an important moment for the class. Academies, whether they are for painting, music, or soldiering, acknowledge the importance of legacy. In this way, they promote the maturation of the individual and the development of thought.
Illusionistic painting as practiced at the Academy since the beginning of the twentieth century has been derived from different experiences of representationist thought: Beaux, Eakins, Anshutz, Robert Vonnoh, or William Merritt Chase. Franklin Watkins noted that during his student years the majority of painting students wanted little to do with the aesthetic legacy of Eakins. Most desired to be, as Watkins was, part of Beaux's select studio. He recalled that Eakins's envious supporters rallied with the ditty, "Cecilia Beaux, oh don't you know, that ain't the way to paint!"
One of the loveliest Beaux paintings we saw that day, and one I would return to often, is A Little Girl (Fanny Travis Cochran) (fig. 2). The Academy is fortunate to possess, among its forty-one oil sketches by Beaux, a small palm-sized sketch for this portrait (fig. 3). In it, Beaux has made a matrix of all the elements of the finished image, and displayed in this one work the genius of her sketches. The completed portrait is a handsome and intelligent counter-argument to those who deny the importance of white on the palette. As with nearly all representationist imagery, this painting's effects are achieved with white. The complexity of the chromatic development of the white dress not only provides a foil to the yellow sash that encircles the girl's waste. It also provides a complementary setting to the exquisite moment of the light mass on the flesh and hands. Completing this is the grace note of the bouquet of pansies in her hands.
The Fanny Travis Cochran sketch, and others such as the sketches for Les derniers jours d'enfance (see Tappert, fig. 4), or Harold and Mildred Colton (see Yount, fig. 3), recall the unique quality that is found in nearly all representationist portraiture. As Baudelaire described it: "A portrait! What could be simpler and more complicated, more obvious and more profound?" A portrait "at its best should be a poem full of space and reverie."
At the Pennsylvania Academy the aesthetic tradition in painting -- which is of primary importance -- is about pictorial space. For the representationist painter the works of Cecilia Beaux display, one after another, gorgeous resolutions of pictorial space. She was tireless in her attempts to investigate the structural underpinnings of painting, mostly in portraiture. In her strongest and most successful work, the chiaroscuro is maintained. The light mass of the painting is secured as an illusionistic perception, primarily in tonality, but also in chromatic development and brush response. Singly or together, her paintings constitute a veritable school of painting.
The intelligence and charm of Beaux's work is evident in her manipulation of the medium. She penetrated the mystery of the surface of the oil painting, and by so doing she secured that crucial moment in illusionistic painting that engages, and then encourages the viewer to contemplate the subject matter. This effect illustrates an aspect of Beaux's skill: her employment of opaque passages to recall transparent effects, a technique particularly evident in the grand double portrait Mother and Daughter (see Toohey, fig. 9). The seemingly unimportant ground plane and background create not only a substantial chromatic and tonal ambience, but also a subtle spatial illusion. This most difficult effect begins with a neutral transparent wash, called an imprimatura, placed on linen that has been primed with a toned ground. Beaux probably began with a pearl-gray ground over which she brushed an imprimatura made from two complementary colors, e.g. burnt sienna (an earth orange) and ivory black (an earth blue). The next stage, done while the imprimatura was still wet, established the chiaroscuro of the entire painting, transparently. The neutral wash would have been "wiped out" with a rag down to the toned ground which represents the light mass. The shadow mass was realized where shimmering imprimatura still remained. The lustrous optical effect of the imprimatura was then established with the substance of paint.
The difficulty of this technique can be realized when one sees how few painters mastered it before their mature stage. Nearly all subsequent schools of painting achieved transparent effects -- if they bothered at all -- by transparent washes or stains.
Another important aspect of Beaux's work is that it promoted an interest in portraiture that was not camera-conditioned or camera-influenced. By this, I mean that her work is permeated by space. The divergence between the depiction of representationist pictorial space and that derived from the experience of photography occurred in the nineteenth century. This difference between classical pictorial space (images creating the illusion of depth), and non-classical pictorial space (images lacking the illusion of depth, specifically photographic depictions of space), has been the main aesthetic and intellectual impetus behind nearly all modern movements in the twentieth century. A painting inspired by the classical spatial illusion, viewed upside-down, retains its impression of space and all its volumetric elements. A camera-conditioned painting or photograph, viewed upside-down, cancels nearly all its illusion of space and volumetric elements, and becomes an assemblage of tonal and linear patterns. As Gore Vidal noted, "a photograph is . . . all busy flatness."
Over the years, as a student and now as a visiting lecturer and instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy, I have often stood in the galleries, or taken groups of students into the vaults, all the while amazed and delighted by the works of Cecilia Beaux. Her paintings continue to provide opportunities for enjoyment and study. The breadth and depth of the Academy's Beaux collection fulfills, subtly and wholly, one of the fundamental aims of the Academy: the edification of the student. It was, and is, a wonderful way to be drawn into an aesthetic.
1. Denis Diderot, Salons, ed. Jean Seznec and Jean Adhémar (Oxford, 1963), 241.
2. The author and other painters of the Philadelphia School prefer the term "representationist" to the often-pejorative "representational."
3. Charles Baudelaire, Art in Paris, 1845-1862 (London, 1965), 189.
5. In a 1919 photograph of Beaux at work on the portrait of Cardinal Mercier (Cecilia Beaux Papers, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art) this technique is visible. The portrait's hand reveals at this early stage the toned ground surrounded by transparent washes representing costume and background. In its finished state (National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.) the light mass of the hand has been painted in or "loaded" opaquely.
6. Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 (New York, 1982), 50.
PATRICK CONNORS is a painter who lives in Philadelphia. He has lectured and taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art.
Read more articles and essays concerning this institutional source by visiting the sub-index page for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Resource Library Magazine.


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Class MessagesStringBuilder

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gov.va.med.lom.foundation.util.MessagesStringBuilder

public class MessagesStringBuilder
extends java.lang.Object

Concatenates the resource bundle text of messages appended to
 this MessagesStringBuilder.
 Error and informational are messages are concatenated separatedly
 and can be requested separately.

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Constructor and Description

MessagesStringBuilder()

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Method and Description

MessagesStringBuilder
append(Message message,
      java.lang.Class clazz)

Append a single message.

MessagesStringBuilder
append(Messages messages,
      java.lang.Class clazz)

Append all messages.

void
appendErrorMessages(Messages messages,
                   java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only error messages.

void
appendInformationalMessages(Messages messages,
                           java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only informational messages.

void
appendWarningMessages(Messages messages,
                     java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only informational messages.

java.lang.String
getErrorString()

Concatenates all error messages appended to this MessagsStringBuilder
 into a single string.

java.lang.String
getInfoString()

Concatenates all informational messages appended to this
 MessagsStringBuilder into a single string.

java.lang.String
getWarningString()

Concatenates all warning messages appended to this
 MessagesStringBuilder into a single string.

java.lang.String
toString()

Convcatenates all error and informational messages appended to this
 MessagsStringBuilder into a single string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

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MessagesStringBuilder

public MessagesStringBuilder()

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append

public MessagesStringBuilder append(Messages messages,
                           java.lang.Class clazz)

Append all messages.

Parameters:

messages - The messages

clazz - The class used to search for the messages bundle

Returns:

This MessagsStringBuilder, such that append() calls can be
 concatenated.

append

public MessagesStringBuilder append(Message message,
                           java.lang.Class clazz)

Append a single message.

Parameters:

messages - The messages to get the informational messages from

clazz - The class used to search for the messages bundle

Returns:

This MessagsStringBuilder, such that append() calls can be
 concatenated.

appendInformationalMessages

public void appendInformationalMessages(Messages messages,
                               java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only informational messages.
 This can be used to e.g. create info log output.

Parameters:

messages - The messages to get the informational messages from

clazz - The class used to search for the messages bundle

appendWarningMessages

public void appendWarningMessages(Messages messages,
                         java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only informational messages.
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Parameters:

messages - The messages to get the informational messages from

clazz - The class used to search for the messages bundle

appendErrorMessages

public void appendErrorMessages(Messages messages,
                       java.lang.Class clazz)

Append only error messages.
 This can be used to e.g. create error log output.

Parameters:

messages - The messages to get the error messages from

clazz - The class used to search for the messages bundle

getErrorString

public java.lang.String getErrorString()

Concatenates all error messages appended to this MessagsStringBuilder
 into a single string.

Returns:

The string with all the messages.

getWarningString

public java.lang.String getWarningString()

Concatenates all warning messages appended to this
 MessagesStringBuilder into a single string.

Returns:

The string with all the messages.

getInfoString

public java.lang.String getInfoString()

Concatenates all informational messages appended to this
 MessagsStringBuilder into a single string.

Returns:

The string with all the messages.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Convcatenates all error and informational messages appended to this
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 The error and informational messages are separated by a newline.

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toString in class java.lang.Object

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Harvard vs. Stanford: Which Builds a Better Entrepreneur?
When you think of the world's best business schools, you inevitably think of two great rivals: Harvard and Stanford.
For decades, Harvard has long been known as the West Point of Capitalism, the breeding ground of the corporate elite, while Stanford has smartly used its Palo Alto location to serve as a highly productive incubator for Silicon Valley.
Harvard is hoping to change that simplified view of the rivalry.
The Harvard offensive kicks into full gear today with the publication of The Intelligent Entrepreneur, a book by author Bill Murphy Jr. on three successful Harvard MBAs from the Class of 1998 who turned down safe jobs at big companies to launch their own enterprises.
All of this has come at a time when the job market for MBAs continues to remain weak and more students have become interested in starting their own ventures. Moreover, many of the best and brightest MBA applicants, who often apply to both schools, have been choosing Stanford over Harvard when accepted by both schools, according to insiders. Generally, admits to both schools split roughly 50-50, but lately, Stanford is winning in six out of ten cases. One swing factor could be Stanford's reputation in entrepreneurship where it always ranks higher than Harvard in U.S. News & World Report surveys of deans and MBA directors. The latest survey, for example, has Stanford in second place, behind Babson College, and Harvard in fourth, behind MIT's Sloan School.
The vast majority of MBA students, of course, still rush head long into high-paying jobs in consulting and finance to help pay down their tuition debt. But professors at both schools say that more than half the graduates of Harvard and Stanford end up running their own companies within 10 years.
revenues and/or netted their founders more than $20 million in personal profit. They are Marla Malcolm Beck of bluemercury, a national retailer of cosmetics; Chris Michel, founder of Military.com and Affinity Labs, and Marc Cenedella, founder of TheLadders.com. Michel, who sold his company to Monster.com, is now one of nine entrepreneurs-in-residence at Harvard. At crucial points, writes Murphy, the Harvard network helped to provide smart advice, emotional support, encouragement, and sometimes even board members to each of them.
Of course, both schools can trot out long lists of alums who have achieved great wealth and fame. Among its famous entrepreneurs, Stanford counts Nike founder Phil Knight and Electronics Arts founder Trip Hawkins, along with the founders of Sun Microsystems, Trader Joe's, and Match.com, along with a slew of prominent venture capitalists from Vinod Khosia to Brook Byers of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (though Tom Perkins is a Harvard grad).
At Stanford, one of every four electives is in the discipline and 95% of the students take at least one course in entrepreneurship. Just down the street from Sand Hill Road, known for its concentration of venture capitalists, Stanford draws on many VCs and startup entrepreneurs as lecturers in its classrooms. Intel founder Andy Grove and ex-Cisco CEO John Morgridge are among dozens of well-known entrepreneurs who have taught at Stanford for years.
And while Stanford has long embraced the field, the history of entrepreneurship at Harvard is quite different. For many years, the school had so thoroughly defined itself as an academy for the corporate elite that it dismissed entrepreneurship as a subject unworthy of serious study. As an HBS account of its own history put it, an inclination toward entrepreneurship was seen as a "personality defect," and the typical entrepreneur was considered "a chronic malcontent." The big change occurred in the early 1980s under Howard Stevenson, a veteran HBS professor, who returned to campus at the invite of then Dean John McArthur to develop a full-fledged curriculum in the field. Even so, it took until 1997 when Harvard finally started its first business plan competition, only after prodding from students and over the objections of some faculty. Earlier this year, the competition drew a record 110 teams.
If Harvard lacks location, it makes up for it by throwing formidable resources at the field. The school has its own building devoted to the subject, the $25 million Arthur Rock Center, named after the HBS alum who invested in both Apple and Intel. Harvard boasts 35 faculty members who teach the discipline, the second largest faculty group at the school. All first-year MBAs at Harvard have a required course in entrepreneurship and can choose from nearly two dozen second-year electives on the topic–pretty much the same number of courses that Stanford offers. Harvard says its alums compose nearly 25% of the entire venture capital industry.
As a percentage, more Stanford grads (about 15%) are likely to either start companies or immediately work for startups than grads at Harvard. Indeed, nearly 10% of Stanford's graduating class launch companies right out of school, versus about 4% to 6% at Harvard—numbers that are significantly off the 1999 dot-com era boom in MBA startups. "In 1999, everybody and their brother was starting a company," says Wells.


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Meet The Titan
JCNC PR Dept, Proudly Present the 3rd meet of its -- Meet The Titan -- Series.
Invited Titan : Mr Praveen Jain
When :
Wednesday, Oct 23rd, 2013
Jain Center Of Northern California ,
722 S Main Street, Milpitas,CA
7:00PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP For -- Meet The Titan -- With Shri Mr Praveen Jain
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About Mr Praveen Jain
Dr. Parveen Jain is a seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur. Currently, he is Chief Executive Officer of RedSeal Networks, a network infrastructure security management company. Previously, he was founder and CEO of JovianDATA Inc., a big data and business analytics company (acquired by u in 2010). Prior to JovianData, Parveen held multiple senior executive roles at McAfee (world's largest dedicated information security company), serving first as a BU President, then as CMO/EVP of Corporate Strategy, and finally as EVP of Corporate Development, Global Business Development and Strategy. Prior to joining McAfee, Parveen was founder& CEO of IntruVert Networks, a pioneer in the intrusion detection market (acquired by McAfee in 2003).
Parveen is an active investor, advisor and board member of multiple start-ups in the Bay Area and India. He has nine granted and several pending patents and has authored 50+ business and professional papers. Parveen holds a B.S. in Physics from Delhi University, a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), an M/S. in Nuclear Engineering from University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Parveen is also a dedicated philanthropist and an advisor for a number of non-profit organizations. At the Jain Center of Northern California, he has served as Chairman, President and led the 6-year project to build the Jain Bhawan in Milpitas, California. For over 25 years, he has served Siddhachalam (Jain Teerth in New Jersey), where he is now a Trustee. In addition, he is a Founding Director of the Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, Board Member of the IISc Alumni Association, Trustee of American Foundation for the Blind, and Founding Advisor to South Asian Heart Center, ICC, among other organizations.
In his free time, Parveen enjoys traveling the world with his wife, solving Sudoku puzzles, attending sporting events with his sons and listening to his robust music collection.
Sunil S Ranka and Anuj Jain
VP & Co-VP PR


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Colloquially known as Thana, Thane – a metropolitan city in the neighborhood of Mumbai, is one of the most populous urban areas in the world1. Lodha Group - a connoisseur of Real Estate, has laid its benchmark with the development of an estimated of 33.8 million sq ft. of prime real estate. Building some of the most desirable residences and property in Thane, the Lodha Group aims to deliver smart development with its unique and state-of-the-art new residential projects in Thane.
How has Thane Developed over the Years:
Thane also known as 'City of Lakes', is renowned for its vast and huge setups of industries and manufacturing units. Historically, a Maharashtrian stronghold, the development in Thane over the years with growing urbanization, led the region to establish cosmopolitan culture that perfectly blends the past with the present. Thane holds the position of being the first terminus of the railway journey which commenced from Mumbai in 1853. Fast Forward to 2018, Thane is of the busiest stations in India handling approximately 6 lakh passengers daily2. Regarded as the 16th most populated city3 in India, from a lavish lifestyle to ergonomic infrastructure, Thane offers everything a person would dream of to maintain a standard of living.
Thane has witnessed a transformational landscape from being a 'Satellite' city into now a burgeoning metro of Mumbai. The city as a whole and particularly new projects in Thane have outclassed many growing suburbs in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and is ranked as one of the best cities4 in India. Owing to its well-developed infrastructure, good connectivity to Mumbai and other areas, better availability of jobs with multiple companies established in the vicinity and presence of renowned educational institutions, Thane remains a good option for home buyers. The significant growth in the development of the region along with upcoming infrastructural upgrades that the city is poised to receive has worked in favor for new projects in Thane.
Potential of Thane
Infra Projects: With an integrated model of development implemented in Thane, the city offers amazing connectivity to both Western and Eastern suburbs of Mumbai along with connectivity options to Navi Mumbai. Owners of flats in Thane enjoy from good connectivity with the existing network of roadways that connects Mumbai with Thane, the Eastern Freeway, Ghodhbunder Road, NH-8, Thane-Belapur Road, Mumbai-Nashik Highway, SCLR and JVLR.
Along with the existing infrastructural landscape, the region is set to receive considerable upgrades in the next ten years that would be the key to upcoming projects in Thane. The key focus areas for development include provision for uninterrupted power supply, easing of traffic by developing flyovers/bridges, widening roads and establishing connectivity to other parts of Mumbai through metro corridor etc. The Thane Municipal Corporation aims at an all-round development of the city by increasing open spaces, road network, and providing civic amenities to the locals of the city. The scheme proposes a developmental path that will significantly improve the scope of commercial as well as residential projects in Thane.
Work Opportunities:
Thane enjoys the status of being a free district1 in Maharashtra that invites significant commercial activities in the area including small and medium enterprises, chemical zone, IT sector, and port-based activities. The sprawling Thane facility recently launched by Tata Consultancy Services houses 30,000 employees. It offers ease of access and good connectivity options to the emerging IT hub of Airoli. Further, multiple companies and manufacturing units set up at the Ghodbunder road enables the residents of Thane with ample work opportunities. With such business ecosystem already in place, Thane opens up multiple employment opportunities to its residents.
Quality education, an important factor, remains one of the primary concerns for every family. Thane houses over 60 different schools and over 5 distinguished engineering, law and medical colleges that offer quality education and a suitable learning environment for its residents. To name a few, Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Lodha World School, C.P. Goenka International School and Hiranandani Foundation School are some of the best educational institutions that offer quality education.
Social Opportunities:
When it comes to social opportunities, shopping, and entertainment, Thane offers one of the best infrastructures. From malls to nightclubs, Thane houses various developments with many activities for socializing, entertainment, hotels, and recreation to its residents. Surrounded by the Yeoor and Parsik hills, Thane is also well-known for its natural attractions and numerous beautiful lakes in the vicinity of the area, offering its residents with a perfect blend of modern as well as natural environment to live in.
Livability Quotient of Thane:
As per a recent survey conducted by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Thane ranked 6th2 on the livability quotient, out of 111 cities where the survey was conducted. With such high livability quotient, that outclasses multiple other growing suburbs in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Thane with a potential for amazing infrastructural growth offers a good lifestyle for its residents.
Property Trends in Thane
One of the most important factors that have spurred growth in the real estate of Thane, is the availability of land bank. A property in Thane benefits from both good growth prospects which in turn have attracted investors and real estate developers that are converting vast tracts of land, into well-facilitated commercial and residential property in Thane offering modern amenities. To put this in perspective, let's understand Thane property rates trends1 in some of the most popular areas of the city:
Locality Name
Price Range per sq.ft
Average Price per sq. ft.
857 - 1,41,015 / sqft
90,884.83 / sqft
Kolshet Road
Ghodbunder Road
1,039 - 1,16,923 / sqft
Majiwada
Dhokali
1,065 - 19,388 / sqft
2,667 - 7,407 / sqft
6,498.01 / sqft
Waghbil
Kolshet Road Thane West
Brahmand Thane West
14,529.5 / sqft
Vasant Vihar
Vartak Nagar
Thane East
Nilje Gaon
Prices are indicative. Subject to change.
Glimpses of New Residential Projects in Thane
Here are some of most desirable flats for sale in Thane developed by the Lodha Group:
Lodha Splendora:
A grand development spread within 15 acres of land that features over 85% of open spaces, Lodha Splendora offers king-size flats ranging from 2 & 3 BHK in Thane. These flats boast of a world-class way of life. Situated comfortably in a strategic location, the 2 BHK flat in Thane Splendora offer a grand lifestyle. With over 1000 species of exotic plants, flowers and trees, and beautifully landscaped gardens, Lodha Splendora brings you a step closer to 'Mother Nature'. With spectacular views, a grand clubhouse, wooden sun decks in the living room, and well-developed amenities, at Lodha Splendora you can enjoy every aspect of comfort and a contemporary lifestyle.
Amara:
An upcoming residential project offering 1 & 2 BHK flat in Thane, Lodha Amara will be your crowning glory that brings one of the finest living experiences. Featuring grand sun decks, sweeping views of rivers, a private forest, sacred garden Tree-house, and a world-class sports arena, Lodha Amara brings an extension to your lifestyle with a state-of-the-art clubhouse. Lodha Amara's 2 BHK Flat in Thane West occupies a pride of place with ample of greens that brings you a high quality living environment. Spread over 30 acres of land, Lodha Amara thoughtfully fulfills every dream of a luxurious life.
Lodha Sterling:
Lodha Sterling, a London-inspired, residential project from Lodha Group brings an opportunity to live the aristocratic life of London. Featuring super-sized residential flats ranging from 2 & 3 BHK in Thane West, Lodha Sterling provides one of the finest residences with interiors designed by Studio HBA, capacious spaces, grand open greens, exceptional ceiling heights, and an internationally acclaimed 30000+ sq. ft. clubhouse. Lodha Sterling also offers capacious 4 BHK units and Garden Residences, for the crème-de-la-crème of the society.
Upper Thane:
Integrated within a 150-acre forest estate, Upper Thane is a 14-acre central green lung, a defining element of the residential project. The 1, 2 and 3 BHK Thane residential units at Upper Thane truly define the finest contemporary lifestyle, bringing the timeless appeal of nature right at your doorstep, with all the luxuries of a resort marvelously woven into the landscape of the project. A 1 BHK in Thane at Upper Thane starts at an ultra low cost, while still offering a life of complete joy and fulfillment. From a grand clubhouse to a well-maintained swimming pool and a host of indoor and outdoor amenities, Upper Thane brings a wonderful life that begins at a place called 'Home'.
Luxuria Priva:
An awe-inspiring 29-storey residential project that integrates the finest interiors and global service alliances, Lodha Luxuria Priva is the epitome of the most coveted lifestyles of the Central Suburbs. With 2 & 3 BHK flat in Thane, Luxuria Priva offers the privileges of a private elevator and a host of world-class amenities. It brings the best of residences with the 2 BHK flat for sale in Thane.
Crown Thane:
Lodha presents Crown Thane – a new brand of truly affordable homes that will ensure that every hardworking family in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) can enjoy a life of no compromises, in a home that fills them with pride, at locations which ensure convenience and easy commutes. Jiyo Toh Aise!
Spread over beautiful 10# acres, with open green landscapes and world-class amenities, Crown Thane invites you to upgrade to a superior lifestyle. Part of a self-sufficient ecosystem, it comes with an ICSE school, shopping complex, wide roads and multimodal transport. Offering you a thriving ecosystem that ensures you live life with absolutely no compromises in smartly designed 1 BHK flat and 2 BHK flat in Majiwada Thane.
Mumbai Palava Thane Pune Hyderabad London
1BHK 2BHK 3BHK 4+BHK
Ready to move in, under-construction Ready-to-move-in Sold out Under construction
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Multiple Swimming Pool
Well-equipped gymnasium
Indoor Sports Court
Possession : Sep 2025
Typology: 2 BHK with Deck
Price: ₹ 1.25 Cr. (CV)
15 minutes from Viviana Mall
10 minutes from Dombivli (W) Station
200+ acre integrated township
OC received for Phase 1, Possessions started
Ready Cricket Ground and Football Field
The Nest-50,000 sq.ft. mega clubhouse
Possession : Under Construction
Typology: 2 BHKs with deck
Price: ₹ 61.9 Lacs+
Lodha Sterling
Possession : Ready-to-move-in
Typology: 2, 3, 4 BHK
Price: ₹ 1.49 Cr+
Lodha Splendora
20 minutes away from EEH & WEH.
King-sized residences
World-class amenities
Panoramic views of the Ulhas River & Yeoor hills
Typology: 2, 3 BHK
Casa Aurora
Typology: Spacious 3 BHKs
Price: ₹ 87 L+ (All-in*)
Possession : Nov 2021
Casa Zest
Typology: 1& 2 bed
Casa Aurelia
Price: Rs.54.99+ (All-in)*
Codename Rare Gem
Typology: 1 Bed
Price: ₹ 54.1 lacs +
Crown Thane
Possession : Dec 2023
Typology: 1, 2 and 2 Bed Large
Price: ₹ 51.99 Lacs
Crown GB Road
Typology: 1 BHK
Price: ₹42 Lacs +
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Lodha Casa Royale
Possession : Sold out
Casa Rio
Possession :
Typology: 1 BHK, 2 BHK, 3 BHK, Garden Units
Casa Rio Gold
Typology: 1 BHK, 2 BHK Garden Units
Lodha Aristo
Price: NA
Lodha Grandezza
Typology: 2 Bed, 3 Bed
Casa Bella Gold
Casa Greenwood
Typology: 1,2,3 BHK
Price: ₹ 67 Lacs+
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Why Use FBGs for Hydrophones & Geophones?
Why use FBG's for Hydrophones and Geophones?
Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) used in hydrophones and geophones are typically based on a highly sensitive interferometer design, optimized to be sensitive to changes in pressure caused by acoustic waves. The fiber is coiled around a mandrel (see Figure 1) which expands and contracts as a pressure wave passes across the mandrel, this in turn stretches the optical fiber coiled around the mandrel. By placing an FBG at each end of the mandrel, a Fabry-Perot interferometric cavity is created. This cavity results in a complex spectral response, which is highly sensitive to changes in the length of fiber between the FBGs. Fluctuations in the spectral response can be calibrated to the magnitude of the pressure wave and subsequently used as part of a hydrophone or geophone. By orienting three coils, with one in each of the X, Y, and Z axes, a vectorial response can be achieved to detect the direction as well as the magnitude of the acoustic wave. When combined with a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) system, it is possible to then locate the origin and time of an acoustic event.
Figure 1. Typical fiber optic hydrophone coil design
The FBGs are typically written into 80μm bend insensitive fibers where the reduced cladding diameter gives the fiber higher mechanical reliability when coiled. An additional benefit of the reduced cladding diameter is that the fiber is more elastic than a larger cladding diameter fiber, resisting the expansion of the mandrel less and therefore giving a higher sensitivity level to the hydrophone or geophone. FBGs can also be written into 50 μm bend insensitive fibers for even greater sensitivity levels.
As geophones are often installed at great depths within boreholes, hydrogen might be prevalent, which would cause optical attenuation in standard germanosilicate photosensitive fibers. To reduce the effects of hydrogen darkening on the fiber, Fibercore offer FBGs written into non-photosensitive pure silica core fibers which do not have germanium in the core. This allows geophone systems (and other FBG sensor systems) to be installed at greater depths whilst resisting the effects of hydrogen darkening.
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I don't see the harm in informing people and asking them to pray against it. "Prayer contest" would be an over-simplification, but Holy Tradition is clear that God moves us to pray so as to let us share in His dignity of causality, as sons. We oughtn't simply say "God's got it." On gab, I suggested Catholics pray a rosary at Midnight, lighting a votive or vigil lamp before the Theotokos' "Softener of Evil Hearts" icon, or an image of Ss. Benedict or Michael, invoking their intercession against maleficence. We know the importance of ritual and symbol.
Fair enough; I was less taking issue with evangelicals choosing to engage in prayer against evil (never a wrong or bad thing for Christians to do) than with their panicking mindset. You're certainly right that we do well to pray, in the face of evil; always a good thing to do.
Kek will protect us from the wiccan hordes!
Hahaha – be careful what you wish for. Remember, the "majority" voted for Hildebeast!
Yeah, really; what if their spell makes Trump turn into their biggest nightmare?
Hmm-m-m. for every witch casting at the president, there's a thousand Christians say, "In Jesus' Name, I break these spells and cast them back ten-fold on the one who sent them. I cast the demons and evil back ten-fold on the one who sent them, and bind it all there by the Blood of Jesus." Look to see fewer witches in the near future. If you think this is funny, then you must think it was funny that 1/3 of Jesus' ministry was like this 🙂 Go for broke. After decades of neolibs owning the country, we have nothing left but attack.
Hey, we should throw everything at them that we got, including spiritual warfare, too, whether prayer or whatever.
(: Better yet, lets send them back to Europe. And add a curse to their curses on them! Remember the poloc dueling pistol. Every finger they aim at Trump, three more aim back at them. God's will be done.
I'm not downloading on you. Cochran needs to study history, not urban legend. The Cursades started when? Medina was christian/Jewish city and every peron there was slaughtyered. Their remains were buried under the city plaza. Every city and state in the Middle East was Christianized, with the exception of two cities in Iraq, which were Buddhist–those were also slaughtered to the last child, even the livestock burned. All of N. Africa right into France was taken, but the French repelled them Still no Crusade. 10 million Christians stolen from the coast of Europe, untold number taken from Eastern Europe, slave raids right to Iceland (over 400 taken from there, ten years later, family found 1 still alive, the life was that harsh on Christians). The first crusade was to stop it from continuing, and the rest, as well. Do bad things happen in war? Of course. But nothing like Islam did in the name of greed, not God.
Which inquisition? there were two, secular and religious. Under the Bible, no one is persecuted for their religious beliefs and the catholics followed that. Secular court was vastly different, using torture and burnings as part of the mainstay–and it was usually people in rebellion against the government (see political lynchings, USA). Witchcraft was an accusation. In church matters, if found guilty, a confession and anointing was usually enough. Secular courts used Roman law, not the Bible to make determinations. Yes, I do know. Manuscript research and an editor, and have never been a Catholic. Blessed be the Lord Who trained these fingers for war… 🙂 Peace to you, and may the sword miss!
yeah, I get tired of it. I'm not a catholic, and not a protestant, but wind up defending against the atheists' little box of urban legends. So! My best to you, be blessed.
I'm Protestant, for my part, but ElectricAngel is Catholic; we're a pan-Christian-traditionalist blog.
(: I became a Christian at age 27! Non-Protestant, non-Catholic. The ancestors were taught by Messianic Jews brought into the colonies by the churches.
Which colonies? My mom is from the Caribbean.
13 original, Stars and Stripes, USA, or just spell it US. Which island in the Sea of the Carib? A bro left for the la Republica (Dominican) on the 3rd. I asked if he would take me, but i had to find a suitcase big enough to hold me and the dog. 🙂 Too expensive to go now, anyway. Me, I want to get home to Arizona. We have miles of beach, palm trees, tropical fruit, salt water, sun, just no ocean. For that, we go to the Redneck Riviera, Texas coast.
Trinidad? Ya mon? The closest I've come is Little Jamaica, NYC. Outside of Ft. Jackson, SC. An older half-brother is buying more property in Belize. Dad raised him 'white' because his mother is an Austrian. She (divorced, living in S. Carolina) tried to get him into things with the Cherokee, to have a base from there, but he never had much to do with them. Now he wants me to go with him to make cure the Mayans are cool with him building in their turf. Um, dang, man, no speak da lingo, yoi (no :). It's cool in Belize, but it rains there. (God BLESS Arizona!) I told him, find a nice Garifuna babe and settle in. A lot of good folks all over the Islands, good hearts there. Much nicer than Sou Californian where he is now. Much, much nicer than the cold hearts of Pennsylvania. Ya mon, dot she so nice. Be blessed, and your mother, as well, for raising you right.
I like the idea of a place with a culture that's a cross between Caribbean and Latin, but which is English-speaking (as well as Creole and Spanish) and has Mayan pyramids, too.
Also, a small country, so easy to get around and see all of.
Word is, stay away from the border with Guatemala. Every once in a while they get a burr up the unmentionable and invade Belize. Last time was '97, so their due again. Armed troops against little old ladies, Moskitos Indians, and of course the infamous Carib. Having been chased from the Yucatan to Guatemala, then to Belize by the Spanish, the Mayan were more than happy to lend a machete or two. How's your Kriol? Ya, mon!
Being of East Indian rather than African descent, I only know a little Creole / Patois.
I understand Pitcairn Islanders also speak mostly Elizabethan English, too.
Well, maybe King James English, or Georgian, I forget.


Mile Post Cafe, or Mile Post Bike and Cafe as it is sometimes known, is a small cafe and bike shop near Kayabacho. It is situated right on the Sumida River and the location couldn't be nicer. Right next to a nice bridge and close enough to see the Shuto Expressway, it is a great place to relax and enjoy a pint and a nice meal too.
Getting to the Mile Post Cafe is not so easy. It is right on the Sumida River, but between Kayabacho and Monzennakacho Stations. The best way there is to go from Kayabacho. If you head out Exit 4A, just walk straight until you get to the Sumida River and turn left. It is at the end of the street on your right. The shop isn't very inviting at first but once you head up to the second floor, where the cafe is, you realize it isn't a scary place.
I believe the cafe is run by the same people who run Spice Diner, a curry shop in Akasaka. The reason I went to this cafe is because they have 10 different craft beers on tap. They change them from time to time and the cafe food for lunch is reasonable. The beer is only 500 yen for a small glass in the afternoon. The selection is pretty wide ranging so you are sure to get something that you'd like. The only problem is that the menu is in Japanese only, so you had better be good with your Japanese. Some names are in English but it depends more on the company that made the beer. Some companies prefer to have an English name while others prefer Japanese names for their beer.
The food at Mile Post was not bad, but it wasn't extraordinary either. I felt that the food could have been a bit better. I felt that the food was freshly made at the start of the lunch hour but I was there at the end of the lunch service. I got the curry lunch special and while the curry was good, the rice was a little sticky, in a bad way. It started off nicely but started to stick together and feel clumpy. Perhaps they need to improve their cooking technique as the quality of the ingredients looked fresh. The papadum that was included was actually better than the rice and I wish I had more of that.
Mile Post has one very annoying feature for their cafe. Unlike most restaurants that I visit, I wasn't allowed to keep my menu, at least not on the surface. After I ordered, they took the menu away. It isn't a big problem but when it comes to a cafe like this, I think it is best to keep the menu there. I can understand why they take the menu away, because the menu is just pieces of paper on a clipboard. The paper is easily damaged and if they need it to last for a week or so, they will want to try to keep them for as long as possible. I felt that this was bad as I wanted to know what I was drinking and if I wanted to order something different, I would want to peruse the menu. It is a small thing that should be changed but I don't see that happening there. It isn't a bad thing either, just something I don't agree with.
Mile Post Bike and Cafe is a great place to go for a nice sunny afternoon. The view of the Sumida River is great and I would gladly go back again. Unfortunately, due to the location, I doubt I will be going there often. If I lived on the Tozai Line, I would probably go more often. It is just not convenient to go there from my home so I'll just have to make do with the other beer cafes in Tokyo.
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I used to go to Kayabacho quite often but never really got to know the area near the river. Is it behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange? Looks like it has a pretty good view of the river.
That area isn't really behind the TSE. It is down the Nihonbashi River, at the mouth of the Nihonbashi River at the Sumida River. In fact, the view is of the Sumida River.


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