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Plant-based omega-3 receives Plant Variety Protection in Europe and US
By Will Chu
07-Jun-2021 - Last updated on 04-Jun-2021 at 12:15 GMT
Related tags: ahiflower oil, omega 3, alpha linolenic acid
Natures Crops International has announced its omega-3 rich Ahiflower plant is now registered and protected under the European and US Plant Variety Protection (PVP) programs.
The move confirms the three varieties of Ahiflower (Buglossoides arvensis) as novel, distinct, uniform and stable and adds to the two varieties previously registered and protected across the UK, EU and US.
The certifications, administered by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) for the EU, grant intellectual property protection and provide the owner with exclusive rights.
"The agricultural innovation demonstrated in securing PVP certification has continued to advance, and what was previously viewed as a common weed is now a high-value specialty oilseed crop grown on thousands of acres by UK farmers," said Simon Meakin, Vice President of Agronomy and GM for UK operations of Natures Crops International.
"Ahiflower has gained significant attention as a scientifically-validated alternative to fish oil that is sustainably and regeneratively produced. Due to the value this tiny plant offers, we have a responsibility to protect it."
Ahiflower potential
In previous studies, Ahiflower has been found to offer the highest levels of non-GM omega-3 essential fatty acids among commercially available dietary plant oils,
The plant combines ALA (alpha linolenic acid) and high levels of stearidonic acid (SDA) as well as gamma linolenic acid (GLA), an omega-6 essential fatty acid.
Other fatty acids provided by Ahiflower includes oleic acid, an omega-9 fatty acid, to complement the overall healthy profile of this plant oil.
One issue highlighted with all plant-based omega-3 sources centres on the low conversion ratio of ALA, the main omega-3 in plant sources such as flax, chia and hemp, into eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).
3-20% conversion
Along with DHA, EPA is one of the two omega-3 fatty acids thought to be responsible for the array of health benefits attributed to omega-3 fatty acids. Most experts peg this conversion between 3% to as much as 20% for vegetarians.
The proportion of ALA converted to DHA is small. SDA, on the other hand, converts to EPA at ratio of 30% to 35%, and that direct consumption of SDA is far more efficient than consuming large amounts of ALA.
In a recent interview Andrew Hebard, founder, president and CEO of Natures Crops International, highlighted another study that demonstrated Ahiflower oil's capacity to increase live probiotic survival rate by up to two times when used as a functional carrier oil.
"Another reason Ahiflower oil is rising in use globally is because one can achieve significant daily omega-3 intake levels with minimal dosages. As a functional carrier oil, it adds tremendous value."
Brexit issues
In a February CPVO statement, holders of a Community Plant Variety right granted before the end of the Brexit transition period (31 December 2020) become holders of a plant variety right in the UK under UK law.
The CPVO have notified breeders that the plant variety rights granted by the CPVO as from 1 January 2021 do not cover the territory of the UK, including Northern Ireland.
In order to get Plant Variety Protection in the UK, breeders need to file a separate application to the relevant UK authorities.
"Brexit has placed many challenges on UK agriculture and farmers, and building a successful business around high value, low input crops like Ahiflower expands opportunities for growers and is good for the environment," said Hebard.
"Ahiflower is expected to become an increasingly important oilseed crop in the future, exclusively grown in the UK, using regenerative agricultural practices."
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With the Internet running out of IPv4 space, service providers and enterprise network operators need to manage the remaining inventory more closely than ever before, while they migrate to IPv6. 6connect makes managing these changes easy, scalable, and secure. With ProVision Suite, RIR (regional internet registry) and LIR (local internet registry) resource allocations are also integrated with the platform.
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Public institutions are an indispensable part of our daily lives and their architecture, the people within them and the demands on ideal lighting are as different as their purposes and focuses.
The lighting inside social institutions, schools, museums or even more general public spaces has a great influence on the wellbeing, motivation and performance of the people inside. However, lighting does more than just set the scene for communication, it also creates a specific atmosphere and highlights the quality and appearance of public spaces.
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United Methodist Church in Estonia () is a Methodist church organisation in Estonia. It is an independent church that belongs regionally to the Northern Europe Central Conference of the United Methodist Church and to the United Methodist Church Nordic and Baltic Episcopal Area. On the world level it is a member of the World Methodist Council.

Currently it has 26 congregations. It operates a theological seminary in Tallinn and a number of other ministries. Its official publication is the magazine Koduteel.

According to the 2011 census there were 1,098 Methodists in Estonia. According to the statistics from the Estonian Council of Churches, based on the numbers submitted by the member churches, there were 1,642 Methodists in 2012, served by 33 pastors and 1 deacon.

History

The first decades (1907–1940)

Methodist ministry in Estonia commenced in the first decade of the 20th century. In 1907, George A. Simons, an American of German descent, was named the superintendent of Finland and Russia with a seat in Saint Petersburg by bishop William Burt in Zürich. Estonia became part of Simmons' missionary area because it was part of the Russian Empire. The first missionary in Estonia was Vassili Täht, a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Saint Petersburg. On 9 June 1907 Vassili met his friend Karl Kuum, a brother in the Moravian Church, on the island of Saaremaa. They started to proclaim the Gospel together. This date is considered the beginning of the activities of the Methodist Church in Estonia. The first Methodist service in Estonia was held in merchant Mihkel Trey's home in Kuressaare, Saaremaa. The congregation of Kuressaare, the first one in Estonia, was officially established on 26 August 1910 when three men and two women were accepted into communion. On 28 October 1912 the first Methodist church building in Estonia was consecrated in Kuressaare.

The evangelisation outside the town of Kuressaare was carried out by Martin Prikask. In July 1910 the first branch of the Kuressaare congregation was established in the village of Reeküla, the next one in September 1910 in the village of Rahniku. From the island of Saaremaa the Methodist mission spread to the mainland where the first congregation was established by Karl Kuum in July 1912 in Tapa.

The wider spread of Methodism to various areas of Estonia began in 1918, approximately at the same time with Estonia gaining its independence. The first Methodist congregation in the capital, Tallinn, was established on 3 March 1922.  By 1 January 1940 the Methodist Church in Estonia constituted of 1,836 members in 14 congregations (Tallinn I and Tallinn II, Haapsalu, Tapa, Rakvere, Paide, Tartu, Viljandi, Pärnu, Narva, Avanduse, Kuressaare, Targu, and Paide). From 1920 to 1940 Methodists published a monthly magazine Kristlik Kaitsja and had their own publishing house of the same name. From 1935 to 1940 a second magazine, Koduteel, was published by congregations on the island of Saaremaa. Clergy was educated abroad, mostly in Germany. The church sent out its own missionaries among whom the most notable was Johannes Karlson, a missionary in South America.

As Methodism had spread in Estonia as part of the Russian mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), the local congregations continued to be affiliated with this oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States. They remained for over a decade part of the Russian missionary district of the MEC. The first attempt to form a separate church district for Estonia took place in 1921 when the first annual Methodist conference in Estonia took place and Martin Prikask was appointed the first local superintendent, however, the position was abolished a year later. The district was restored in 1928 with Prikask becoming again superintendent. After the changes in the Estonian law of religion the local Methodist organisation was registered in 1935 as an independent church under the name of Methodist Episcopal Church in Estonia (). The Methodist Church was given similar privileges to the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church. As according to the new law all churches had to be governed locally, superintendent Prikask was elected an acting bishop but was never consecrated as one, so the spiritual episcopal authority continued to be exercised by bishop Raymond J. Wade in Stockholm, Sweden.

Under occupations (1940–1991)

A few months before the Soviet occupation, on 25 February 1940 the General Meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Estonia adopted new statutes and a new name, Estonian Methodist Church (). In the first year of the Soviet occupation (1940–1941) several church members were repressed. Four Methodist pastors, including superintendent Martin Prikask, were arrested, deported and later executed.

After a relative easing of restrictions on religious organisations during the German occupation (1941–1944) the religious life in Estonia became again subject to Soviet persecutions of religion. In the Stalinist era there were unsuccessful attempts to liquidate the Estonian Methodist Church and make the members to join the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Many congregations lost their buildings – in Tallinn one of the Methodist churches had been destroyed in a Soviet air raid in 1944 and the second church was taken over by the Soviet Army in 1950. The Methodist congregation in Tallinn had to move to a little church of the Seventh-day Adventists they continued to share until 2000. Some members of the Methodist clergy were further repressed, e.g. pastor of the Tallinn congregation Aleksander Kuum was arrested and deported in 1952.

Religious life in Estonia started to normalise after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. In 1960s contacts with Methodist organisations abroad became possible again. In 1961 the first episcopal visit after WWII took place when Norwegian bishop Odd Arthur Hagen visited Tallinn. In 1968 when the United Methodist Church was founded, superintendent Aleksander Kuum from Estonia was able to take part in the founding conference in Dallas. Since that time the Methodist Church in Estonia has been part of the Northern Europe Central Conference of the United Methodist Church. In 1971 Aleksander Kuum became also a member of the World Methodist Council Executive Committee. From 1972 onwards the visits of Northern European bishops to Estonia became regular events, taking place once or twice a year.

After regaining independence (1991–)

Three years after Estonia regained freedom from the Soviet regime, the United Methodist Church founded the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary for the purpose of training leaders for evangelism. The first class began with 54 students in August 1994. The seminary is now accredited as an institution of higher education in Estonia offering both one-year diploma certificate and a three-year degree programme in theology.

On 1 January 2007 the United Methodist Church in Estonia had 24 congregations and 4 ministry points with a total membership of 1,731.

Church government

Bishops

Since 1907 Estonian Methodists have operated under the spiritual rule of the following bishops:

1907–1912 William Burt
1912–1924 John Louis Nuelsen
1924–1925 Anton Bast
1925–1926 Ernest Gladstone Richardson
1926–1927 John Louis Nuelsen
1927–1928 Edgar Blake
1928–1946 Raymond J. Wade
1946–1953 August Theodor  Arvidson
1953–1970 Odd Arthur Hagen
1970–1989 Ole Edvard Borgen
1989–2001 Hans Växby
2001–2009 Øystein Olsen
2009– Christian Alsted

Superintendents
Since 1907 the Methodist Church in Estonia has been governed by the following superintendents:

1907–1921 George A. Simons
1921–1922 Martin Prikask
1922–1928 George A. Simons
1928 Otto Liebner
1928–1941 Martin Prikask
1941–1956 Martin Kuigre
1956–1962 Valdo Ojassoo
1962–1974 Aleksander Kuum
1974–1978 Hugo Oengo
1978–1979 Aleksander Kuum
1979–2005 Olav Pärnamets
2005–2018 Taavi Hollman
2018– Robert Tšerenkov

Congregations

The United Methodist Church in Estonia has altogether 26 congregations located in 10 different counties:

Harju County: Keila, Paldiski, Tallinn Estonian, Tallinn New Beginning, Tallinn Russian
Ida-Viru County: Jõhvi, Jõhvi Bethlehem, Kohtla-Järve Calvary, Narva, Sillamäe
Järva County: Paide
Lääne County: Haapsalu
Lääne-Viru County: Aseri, Kunda Bethany, Rakvere, Sakussaare, Tapa
Põlva County: Kärsa, Räpina
Pärnu County: Pärnu Agape
Saare County: Kuressaare, Reeküla
Tartu County: Tartu St Luke's
Võru County: Ruusmäe, Viitka, Võru Tree of Life

References

External links
 United Methodist Church in Estonia (in Estonian and Russian)

1907 establishments in Estonia
Christian organizations established in 1907
Protestantism in Estonia
Religious organizations based in Estonia
Methodist denominations
Members of the World Council of Churches

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The use of natural agents such as immune globulins or other products that are produced by the immune System of mammals has been the focus of intense research in recent times. The idea of providing passive immunity with immune globulin that is administered by injection is a well-defined medical intervention for the prevention of viral disease. A common example is the use of gamma globulin for the prevention of hepatitis A virus infection. Other products of the immune system that are candidates for use in medical treatment include interferon and molecules that can transfer "immune phenomena" from a donor to a recipient. An example of this latter process is the use of transfer factor (TF), an agent that can transfer cell-mediated immunity by the use of soluble factors that are produced by lymphocytes.
It is known that TF is contained within certain leukocyte fractions and such fractions have been used for the adoptive transfer of antigen-specific, cell-mediated immunity in animals and humans. 2,3 Antigen-specific TF can also be obtained from colostrum or milk that is secreted by the mammary gland of a mammal that has been exposed to a variety of environmental antigens. The idea that a fraction of colostrum contains TF that can be administered to transfer cell-mediated immunity is very intriguing given the widespread availability of colostrum of bovine origin and the establishment of techniques for the collection of concentrates of TF and its purification for use as a dietary supplement.
A body of literature has appeared over the past 10 years that suggests that immunoglobulins (IgG) of various types have the potential for the treatment or prevention of infectious diarrhea in human clinical trials. 4-5,6 Several studies have shown the protective effects of antibodies in cows milk against enteric infection in several different species of mammal. 7 The use of IgG in colostrum as an immunoprophylactic or therapeutic agent is a very important issue for the standardization of colostrum used in dietary supplements. For example, high temperature sterilized milk has little if any measurable IgG. 8 Companies that sell colostrum as a dietarv supplement are obligated to provide evidence of the presence of IgG in colostrums if they are suggesting that their supplement has immune protective or enhancing effects. Few companies that make colostrum have provided evidence that they have retained IgG in their products. Symbiotics, a corporation in Sedona, Arizona, has recently presented data on their product that was researched at the University of Osaga in New Zealand (Wyatt, D., personal communication).
Symbiotics has shown that the product that they market under the brand 'New Life Colostrum' contains measurable antibody activity against Candida albicans, Bacillus cereus, Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli (0157:H7), Haemophilus influenzae, Helicobacter pylori, Klebsietia pneumoniae, Listeria monocytogenes, Propionibacterium acnes, Streptacoccus agalactiae, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus pyogenes, Salmonella typhimuirum, and Yersinia enterocolitica. These microorganisms cause a vast array of serious infectious diseases which can be life threatening.
Of particular interest in the Symbiotics study is the antibody activity against Candida albicans (the organism at the basis of the "yeast connection") and the impressive activity against the bacteria that cause enteric infections. We cannot lose sight of important studies that show that bovine colostrum is capable of treating diarrhea in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, with the immunoglobulins found in bovine colostrum. 9 The focus of this article is primarily to discuss the implications of transfer factor, but these data show the potent and versatile potential of bovine colostrum in the treatment of disease. In the face of mounting concerns about resistance of pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics, natural therapies provide very interesting alternative and complementary treatment options. Other factors play a major role in the potential efficacy of colostrum and arguments prevail about the IgG content of various types of colostrum. The Symbiotics studies measured the immunoglobulin of G-type by ELISA, whereas other measurements have used different quantitative techniques. The antibacterial activity of any colostrum may not necessarily correlate with its immuno-lobulin content. With this in mind, researchers at Symbiotics have looked at the direct ability of the colostrum to inhibit the growth of various bacteria in culture and the results obtained overall mirror the observations of antibody activity against the various microorganisms.


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Woody Allen's career over the past two decades has been a mixed bag at best. For every Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight In Paris (both of which earned Academy Award recognition), there's been an Anything Else or a Scoop. It would seem though, that with Blue Jasmine, Allen has crafted a sharp, perceptive and deeply honest drama with a realistic sprinkling of humour that represents the ageing filmmaker at his most inspired.
Left dead broke after her husband (Alec Baldwin) is indicted for fraud, Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) travels across-country to stay with her adopted younger sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). Used to her lavish New York lifestyle, Jasmine struggles both physically and mentally to adjust to her more humble surroundings, to the point where she has to find employment as a dental assistant. Her luck hints at a change, however, when she meets rich widower Dwight (Peter Sarsgaard).
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Preheat the oven to 180C. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. Start by warming the milk with the lavender. Leave it to infuse while you make the cakes.
Stir together the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Next, whisk together the butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk and vanilla. Fold in the flour mixture to make a thick cake mixture.
Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the mixture onto the trays in 16 mounds. Bake for 15 mins until springy. Cool.
For the icing, beat together the remaining butter and the icing sugar.
Sieve the lavender infused milk to remove the flowers, then beat the lavender milk into the creamed butter and sugar.
Sandwich the whoopie pies with the icing, then drizzle with the melted chocolate and leave to set for a few moments, before devouring with a glass of dessert wine.


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package org.apache.phoenix.trace;

import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.ANNOTATION;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.DESCRIPTION;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.END;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.HOSTNAME;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.PARENT;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.SPAN;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.START;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.TAG;
import static org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo.TRACE;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.commons.configuration.SubsetConfiguration;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.AbstractMetric;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsRecord;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsSink;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsTag;
import org.apache.phoenix.metrics.MetricInfo;
import org.apache.phoenix.metrics.Metrics;
import org.apache.phoenix.query.QueryServices;
import org.apache.phoenix.query.QueryServicesOptions;
import org.apache.phoenix.trace.util.Tracing;
import org.apache.phoenix.util.QueryUtil;

import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import com.google.common.base.Joiner;

/**
 * Write the metrics to a phoenix table.
 * Generally, this class is instantiated via hadoop-metrics2 property files.
 * Specifically, you would create this class by adding the following to
 * by
 * This would actually be set as:
 * [prefix].sink.[some instance name].class=org.apache.phoenix.trace.PhoenixMetricsSink
 * , where <tt>prefix</tt> is either:
 *

 *
"phoenix", for the client

 *
"hbase", for the server

 *

 * and
 * <tt>some instance name</tt> is just any unique name, so properties can be differentiated if
 * there are multiple sinks of the same type created
 */
public class PhoenixMetricsSink implements MetricsSink {

    private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(PhoenixMetricsSink.class);

    private static final String VARIABLE_VALUE = "?";

    private static final Joiner COLUMN_JOIN = Joiner.on(".");
    static final String TAG_FAMILY = "tags";
    /**
     * Count of the number of tags we are storing for this row
     */
    static final String TAG_COUNT = COLUMN_JOIN.join(TAG_FAMILY, "count");

    static final String ANNOTATION_FAMILY = "annotations";
    static final String ANNOTATION_COUNT = COLUMN_JOIN.join(ANNOTATION_FAMILY, "count");

    /**
     * Join strings on a comma
     */
    private static final Joiner COMMAS = Joiner.on(',');

    private Connection conn;

    private String table;

    public PhoenixMetricsSink() {
        LOG.info("Writing tracing metrics to phoenix table");

    }

    @Override
    public void init(SubsetConfiguration config) {
        Metrics.markSinkInitialized();
        LOG.info("Phoenix tracing writer started");
    }

    /**
     * Initialize <tt>this</tt> only when we need it
     */
    private void lazyInitialize() {
        synchronized (this) {
            if (this.conn != null) {
                return;
            }
            try {
                // create the phoenix connection
                Properties props = new Properties();
                props.setProperty(QueryServices.TRACING_FREQ_ATTRIB,
                        Tracing.Frequency.NEVER.getKey());
                org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
                Connection conn = QueryUtil.getConnection(props, conf);
                // enable bulk loading when we have enough data
                conn.setAutoCommit(true);

                String tableName =
                        conf.get(QueryServices.TRACING_STATS_TABLE_NAME_ATTRIB,
                                QueryServicesOptions.DEFAULT_TRACING_STATS_TABLE_NAME);

                initializeInternal(conn, tableName);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
    }

    private void initializeInternal(Connection conn, String tableName) throws SQLException {
        this.conn = conn;

        // ensure that the target table already exists
        createTable(conn, tableName);
    }

    /**
     * Used for TESTING ONLY
     * Initialize the connection and setup the table to use the
     * {@link org.apache.phoenix.query.QueryServicesOptions#DEFAULT_TRACING_STATS_TABLE_NAME}
     *
     * @param conn to store for upserts and to create the table (if necessary)
     * @throws SQLException if any phoenix operation fails
     */
    @VisibleForTesting
    public void initForTesting(Connection conn) throws SQLException {
        initializeInternal(conn, QueryServicesOptions.DEFAULT_TRACING_STATS_TABLE_NAME);
    }

    /**
     * Create a stats table with the given name. Stores the name for use later when creating upsert
     * statements
     *
     * @param conn  connection to use when creating the table
     * @param table name of the table to create
     * @throws SQLException if any phoenix operations fails
     */
    private void createTable(Connection conn, String table) throws SQLException {
        // only primary-key columns can be marked non-null
        String ddl =
                "create table if not exists " + table + "( " +
                        TRACE.columnName + " bigint not null, " +
                        PARENT.columnName + " bigint not null, " +
                        SPAN.columnName + " bigint not null, " +
                        DESCRIPTION.columnName + " varchar, " +
                        START.columnName + " bigint, " +
                        END.columnName + " bigint, " +
                        HOSTNAME.columnName + " varchar, " +
                        TAG_COUNT + " smallint, " +
                        ANNOTATION_COUNT + " smallint" +
                        "  CONSTRAINT pk PRIMARY KEY (" + TRACE.columnName + ", "
                        + PARENT.columnName + ", " + SPAN.columnName + "))\n";
        PreparedStatement stmt = conn.prepareStatement(ddl);
        stmt.execute();
        this.table = table;
    }

    @Override
    public void flush() {
        try {
            this.conn.commit();
            this.conn.rollback();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            LOG.error("Failed to commit changes to table", e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Add a new metric record to be written.
     *
     * @param record
     */
    @Override
    public void putMetrics(MetricsRecord record) {
        // its not a tracing record, we are done. This could also be handled by filters, but safer
        // to do it here, in case it gets misconfigured
        if (!record.name().startsWith(TracingUtils.METRIC_SOURCE_KEY)) {
            return;
        }

        // don't initialize until we actually have something to write
        lazyInitialize();

        String stmt = "UPSERT INTO " + table + " (";
        // drop it into the queue of things that should be written
        List<String> keys = new ArrayList<String>();
        List<Object> values = new ArrayList<Object>();
        // we need to keep variable values in a separate set since they may have spaces, which
        // causes the parser to barf. Instead, we need to add them after the statement is prepared
        List<String> variableValues = new ArrayList<String>(record.tags().size());
        keys.add(TRACE.columnName);
        values.add(
                Long.parseLong(record.name().substring(TracingUtils.METRIC_SOURCE_KEY.length())));

        keys.add(DESCRIPTION.columnName);
        values.add(VARIABLE_VALUE);
        variableValues.add(record.description());

        // add each of the metrics
        for (AbstractMetric metric : record.metrics()) {
            // name of the metric is also the column name to which we write
            keys.add(MetricInfo.getColumnName(metric.name()));
            values.add(metric.value());
        }

        // get the tags out so we can set them later (otherwise, need to be a single value)
        int annotationCount = 0;
        int tagCount = 0;
        for (MetricsTag tag : record.tags()) {
            if (tag.name().equals(ANNOTATION.traceName)) {
                addDynamicEntry(keys, values, variableValues, ANNOTATION_FAMILY, tag, ANNOTATION,
                        annotationCount);
                annotationCount++;
            } else if (tag.name().equals(TAG.traceName)) {
                addDynamicEntry(keys, values, variableValues, TAG_FAMILY, tag, TAG, tagCount);
                tagCount++;
            } else if (tag.name().equals(HOSTNAME.traceName)) {
                keys.add(HOSTNAME.columnName);
                values.add(VARIABLE_VALUE);
                variableValues.add(tag.value());
            } else if (tag.name().equals("Context")) {
                // ignored
            } else {
                LOG.error("Got an unexpected tag: " + tag);
            }
        }

        // add the tag count, now that we know it
        keys.add(TAG_COUNT);
        // ignore the hostname in the tags, if we know it
        values.add(tagCount);

        keys.add(ANNOTATION_COUNT);
        values.add(annotationCount);

        // compile the statement together
        stmt += COMMAS.join(keys);
        stmt += ") VALUES (" + COMMAS.join(values) + ")";

        if (LOG.isTraceEnabled()) {
            LOG.trace("Logging metrics to phoenix table via: " + stmt);
            LOG.trace("With tags: " + variableValues);
        }
        try {
            PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement(stmt);
            // add everything that wouldn't/may not parse
            int index = 1;
            for (String tag : variableValues) {
                ps.setString(index++, tag);
            }
            ps.execute();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            LOG.error("Could not write metric: \n" + record + " to prepared statement:\n" + stmt,
                    e);
        }
    }

    public static String getDynamicColumnName(String family, String column, int count) {
        return COLUMN_JOIN.join(family, column) + count;
    }

    private void addDynamicEntry(List<String> keys, List<Object> values,
            List<String> variableValues, String family, MetricsTag tag,
            MetricInfo metric, int count) {
        // <family><.dynColumn><count> <VARCHAR>
        keys.add(getDynamicColumnName(family, metric.columnName, count) + " VARCHAR");

        // build the annotation value
        String val = tag.description() + " - " + tag.value();
        values.add(VARIABLE_VALUE);
        variableValues.add(val);
    }

    @VisibleForTesting
    public void clearForTesting() throws SQLException {
        this.conn.rollback();
    }
}

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My personal love is creative writing. Literary, fantasy, historical. Random words litter endless notebooks in multiple drawers.
Some of my best include 'Black Crows' and 'Finland in Winter'.
My story 'Finland in Winter' was published in the ANU's 2003 anthology 'Liquid Paper'. It drew its inspiration from the Finnish film 'A Respectable Tragedy', and one poignant scene in which he remembers the idyllic summer when he spent a Finnish summer evening by the lake. I also spent many endless evenings by the lakes in Finland, and they are beautiful.


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Posted in Art & Culture Art & Culture | 12 March 2019
Let's be honest, who hasn't, at one point, played with the idea of getting a clipper out and just shaving their head? Many dream of doing it at least once in their lifetime, as a bucket list kind of thing. To quench their curiosity, or to do something that's kind of extreme but still safer than jumping out of an airplane. In honour of the one year anniversary of shaving my hair off, I reflect on this experience from my Eurasian cis female perspective.
I fondly remember sitting on a stool in the bathroom, patiently fighting through the semi-painful experience of my mother doing my hair before elementary school. She didn't offer much variety in hairstyles, it was either a ponytail or two pigtails; but they were always perfectly tight and neat. Hair symbolises many things, it carries sentimentality, and haircare can create a moment of bonding between parent and child. Hair, especially women's hair is treated as a prized possession, and why wouldn't it be — it takes time to grow, and energy and money to take care of.
Go to your local newsstand and take a look at essentially any magazine cover and the subject's hair is most likely flying voluminously in sexy artificial wind. Or a certain KJ-Klan having gained monstrous profits from their hyper-feminised and sexualised portrayals and endeavours including selling luscious hair extensions; or even the recognisable washing-hair-equals-sexual-pleasure shampoo commercial. A woman's hair is synonymous with her beauty, femininity, and sexuality, and thereby inherently subject to the male gaze and gendered power dynamics.
Imke: "Shaving my head was not only a conscious act to challenge society's still prevalent, violent binarisation of the sexes, but certainly also a successful attempt to balance out my inner self as well as my outer appearance."
Over the last couple of years pop culture saw a rise in femme bodies shaving their heads: Kate Hudson, Amandla Stenberg, Kristen Stewart to name a few. Actress and feminist Rose McGowan shared that she was sick of "long, glossy Kardashian-esque hair that says, 'fuck me, big boy'." And that she never quite grew comfortable with long hair because it made her feel like she had a plant on her head and a sex target on her back. In her memoirs I'll Never Write My Memoirs, the legend and icon that is Grace Jones explained "My shaved head made me look more abstract, less tied to a specific race or sex or tribe. I was black but not black; woman, but not woman; American, but Jamaican; African, but science fiction." Alternatively, Emma Gonzalez, the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor turned gun-control activist shaved her head simply because "It's Florida. Hair is just an extra sweater I'm forced to wear."
I thought long and hard about this decision; there were so many things to consider. Before cutting it all off, my hair was the longest it had ever been; I frequently received compliments and was often asked for hair advice. I was proud of my long, shiny hair, and it was definitely a source of my confidence. But then I started to be wary of it. I'm into makeup, I'm into fashion, and I express myself accordingly. My hair acted as the cherry on top of this sundae of conventional hyper-femininity, and it was just too sweet for me. I realised I didn't feel comfortable presenting myself in this traditional feminine way, that ticks certain boxes in order to be deemed conventionally attractive by the general public, or more significantly, men.
Sally: "I decided to shave my head because I believe that leaving your comfort zone even for a while can be beneficial. My hair, or lack thereof, ended up being very difficult for my family who kept telling me that 'hair is a woman's greatest jewellery.' Nevertheless, I still think of it as an empowering decision. Not being able to hide my face definitely increased my self acceptance."
I would be lying if I said I wasn't also worried about feeling ugly without it – I'm a woman so I should at least try to be beautiful, right? But I thought, even if I do find myself ugly, I will have no choice but to accept it and eventually learn to love it. I worried about whether my face was the right shape for short hair, or whether I'd be better off losing weight before shaving my head. You see, my hair had shielded me from these kinds of thoughts up until then and I was curious to get to know myself underneath my protective veil. Body positivity became an important factor, and as an extension to discovering my queerness, I liked the idea of not presenting traditionally female, and I guess, sticking it to the status quo, or whatever.
I called my mum to tell her about my intentions and she shrieked in shock and tried to persuade me not to do it. The thing is, my mother is Chinese and grew up under Mao's reign with traditional and strict notions of what a woman is and should be, and a culture that generally values conformity and fitting in over the expression of individuality. She did give me her blessing eventually — it was a reluctant and backhanded "Ok do what you want, you're the one that has to walk around like that" but it was a blessing nevertheless.
Jenny: "I had a bit of a Britney moment when I first shaved my head a few years ago. Now I keep shaving it because it's like shedding new skin for me. I feel like I can start fresh every time I shave my head."
I remember mentioning my plans of buzzing off my hair on my Instagram story, and immediately the replies started coming in. Interestingly, the opinions were mostly dividable by gender. My female and femme-presenting friends and peers were supportive and encouraging, whereas my male friends were almost unanimously against it and told me not to do it. I was initially put off by the fact that even my gay male friends were playing into this heteronormative narrative of telling me, a woman, how to look, in order to please their eyes, rather than take into account – and respect – all of my thoughts and reasonings. But it was the hair that broke the camel's back, and one day I decided to get the clippers out and just do it.
Yes, I had to get used to it at first, but I loved it from the second I saw myself in the mirror. Sometimes, especially in social situations, my fingers would automatically reach to my head, a nervous hair-around-finger twirl embedded in my muscle memory, but I'd find nothing to twirl. So I learnt to stop hiding behind my hair, and it actually ended up making me feel powerful and fearless.
photograph by Thai Hibbert
Elaine: "Shaving my head was the best thing I've ever done to myself. It allows me to fully embrace my masculine and feminine energies, and harness to my advantage. It gives me strength and confidence to express who I really am, albeit going against social norms and gendered expectations. I can only feel at ease and complete living life in my own terms."
My hair didn't just affect my appearance but also my behaviour. I'd strut down the street, and I'd still get cat-called, but noticeably less, which was a great bonus. And even when I did get harassed, I felt confident enough to look them in the eye and flip them off, whereas before I would have automatically played a subordinate female role, pretended not to have heard them, and just tried to disappear as quickly as possible with my head low.
Buzzing my hair off was hard because I loved feeling feminine and simultaneously hated feeling feminine as long as it meant that I played by patriarchal rules. But getting rid of it made me feel more in touch with myself and now I feel less inclined to have hair just because I should, or because I define my feminine beauty by it. Plus my mum ended up really liking it and asked me if she should try it too! One year later, here I am, slowly pushing hairs out of my scalp again. As for now, only time will tell whether I will keep growing it or shave it off again, but the great thing is that I'm no longer scared of being less of a 'woman' or 'ugly' without it.
Katharina Lina after buzzing her hair off in February 2018
Cover photograph Elaine Kwok by Thai Hibbert
Photographs Imke, Sally, Jenny
Cult Hair: Maisy. 'My hair for me is about expressing my queerness and my gender'
Maisy's 'Punk-esque, androgynous' style captured by INFRINGE
Cult Hair: Giselle. 'I would describe my hair as tough & brutal. Clean off the sides and back with a bit on top'
Giselle Messiah's 'tough, brutal style' shot by INFRINGE
Cult Hair: Alan. 'My hair keeps me feeling me'
Alan Goodman's 'Ska punk mash up' style captured by INFRINGE
Don't Mess With My Hair
Daniela Beltrán and OMG Salon celebrate colourful hair in a variety of shapes and patterns in this vibrant photo series
Cult Hair: Damara. 'My hair means freedom, racial expression, genderless aesthetic'
Cult Hair by INFRINGE. Dedicated to capturing London's unique and diverse hairstyles


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"""Treadmill ZooKeeper helper functions.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

import fnmatch
import io
import logging
import json
import os
import pickle
import sys
import urllib

import kazoo
import kazoo.client
import kazoo.exceptions
import kazoo.security
from kazoo.protocol import states
import six

from treadmill import plugin_manager
from treadmill import utils
from treadmill import sysinfo
from treadmill import zknamespace as z

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

logging.getLogger('kazoo.client').setLevel(logging.WARNING)

# This is the maximum time the start will try to connect for, i.e. 30 sec
ZK_MAX_CONNECTION_START_TIMEOUT = 30

DEFAULT_ACL = True

def _is_valid_perm(perm):
    """Check string to be valid permission spec."""
    for char in perm:
        if char not in 'rwcda':
            return False
    return True

def _make_anonymous_acl(perm):
    """Constructs anonymous (world) acl."""
    if not perm:
        perm = 'r'

    assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
    return kazoo.security.make_acl(
        'world', 'anyone',
        read='r' in perm,
        write='w' in perm,
        create='c' in perm,
        delete='d' in perm,
        admin='a' in perm
    )

class ZkClient(kazoo.client.KazooClient):
    """Default ZkClient."""

    def create(self, path, value=None, acl=None, ephemeral=False,
               sequence=False, makepath=False):
        """Safe wrapper around kazoo.client.create"""
        if value is None:
            value = ''
        return super().create(
            path,
            value=value,
            acl=self.make_default_acl(acl),
            ephemeral=ephemeral,
            sequence=sequence,
            makepath=makepath
        )

    def ensure_path(self, path, acl=None):
        """Safe wrapper around kazoo.client.ensure_path"""
        return super().ensure_path(path, acl=self.make_default_acl(acl))

    def set_acls(self, path, acls, version=-1):
        """Safe wrapper around kazoo.client.set_acls"""
        return super().set_acls(
            path,
            self.make_default_acl(acls),
            version=version
        )

    def make_anonymous_acl(self, perm):
        """Constructs anonymous acl."""
        assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
        return _make_anonymous_acl(perm)

    def make_user_acl(self, user, perm):
        """Constructs an ACL based on user and permissions."""
        assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
        del user
        return _make_anonymous_acl(perm)

    def make_host_acl(self, host, perm):
        """Constructs an ACL based on user and permissions."""
        assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
        del host
        return _make_anonymous_acl(perm)

    def make_role_acl(self, role, perm):
        """Constructs a file based acl based on role.
        """
        assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
        del role
        return _make_anonymous_acl(perm)

    def make_self_acl(self, perm):
        """Constucts acl for the current user.

        If the user is root, use host principal.
        """
        assert _is_valid_perm(perm)
        if utils.is_root():
            return self.make_host_acl(sysinfo.hostname(), perm)

        user = utils.get_current_username()
        return self.make_user_acl(user, perm)

    def make_default_acl(self, acls):
        """Constructs a default Treadmill acl."""
        if not DEFAULT_ACL:
            return acls

        realacl = [
            self.make_role_acl('readers', 'r'),
            self.make_role_acl('admin', 'rwcda'),
            self.make_self_acl('rwcda'),
        ]
        if acls:
            realacl.extend(acls)
        return realacl

    def make_servers_acl(self):
        """Make servers acl."""
        return self.make_role_acl('servers', 'rwcda')

    def make_servers_del_acl(self):
        """Make acl that allow servers role to delete only."""
        return self.make_role_acl('servers', 'd')

def exit_on_lost(state):
    """Watch for connection events and exit if disconnected."""
    _LOGGER.debug('ZK connection state: %s', state)
    if state == states.KazooState.LOST:
        _LOGGER.info('Exiting on ZK connection lost.')
        utils.sys_exit(-1)

def exit_on_disconnect(state):
    """Watch for connection events and exit if disconnected."""
    _LOGGER.debug('ZK connection state: %s', state)
    if state != states.KazooState.CONNECTED:
        _LOGGER.info('Exiting on ZK connection lost.')
        utils.sys_exit(-1)

def exit_never(state):
    """Watch for connection state, never exit."""
    _LOGGER.debug('ZK connection state: %s', state)

def disconnect(zkclient):
    """Gracefully close Zookeeper connection."""
    _LOGGER.info('Closing zk connection.')
    zkclient.stop()
    zkclient.close()

def connect(zkurl, idpath=None, listener=None, max_tries=30,
            timeout=ZK_MAX_CONNECTION_START_TIMEOUT, chroot=None,
            session_timeout=None, **connargs):
    """Establish connection with Zk and return KazooClient.

    :param max_tries:
        the maximum number of retries when trying to connect to the the
        servers; default is 10.

    :param timeout:
        the maximum timeout while trying to connect, that wait this much time
        while try to keep connecting.

    """
    client_id = None
    if idpath:
        if os.path.exists(idpath):
            with io.open(idpath, 'rb') as idfile:
                client_id = pickle.load(idfile)

    zkclient = connect_native(
        zkurl,
        client_id=client_id,
        listener=listener,
        timeout=timeout, max_tries=max_tries,
        chroot=chroot,
        session_timeout=session_timeout,
        **connargs
    )

    if idpath:
        client_id = zkclient.client_id
        with io.open(idpath, 'wb') as idfile:
            pickle.dump(client_id, idfile)

    return zkclient

def connect_native(zkurl, client_id=None, listener=None, max_tries=30,
                   timeout=ZK_MAX_CONNECTION_START_TIMEOUT, chroot=None,
                   session_timeout=None, **connargs):
    """Establish connection with Zk and return KazooClient.
    """
    _LOGGER.debug('Connecting to %s', zkurl)
    parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(zkurl)

    # Load handler for the scheme. Special handling of "zookeeper" scheme,
    # allow default if it not specified in the entry points.
    try:
        zkclient_cls = plugin_manager.load(
            'treadmill.zookeeper.client',
            str(parsed.scheme)
        )
    except KeyError:
        _LOGGER.debug('Unable to load scheme: %s', parsed.scheme)
        if parsed.scheme == 'zookeeper':
            zkclient_cls = ZkClient
        else:
            _LOGGER.critical(
                'Unable to load zkclient for scheme: %s', parsed.scheme
            )
            raise

    hosts = parsed.netloc
    chroot = parsed.path

    zk_retry = {
        'delay': 0.2,
        'backoff': 2,
        'max_jitter': 0.2,
        'max_delay': 1,
        'max_tries': max_tries,
        'ignore_expire': False,
    }
    connargs.update({
        'client_id': client_id,
        'auth_data': [],
        'connection_retry': zk_retry,
        'command_retry': zk_retry,
        'hosts': hosts,
    })

    if session_timeout is not None:
        connargs['timeout'] = session_timeout

    _LOGGER.debug(
        'Connecting to zookeeper: [%s:%s]: %r',
        zkclient_cls.__module__,
        zkclient_cls.__name__,
        connargs
    )
    zkclient = zkclient_cls(**connargs)
    if listener is None:
        listener = exit_on_disconnect

    zkclient.add_listener(listener)

    # This will CLOSE the connection and throw a time-out exception after
    # trying max_tries
    zkclient.start(timeout=timeout)
    if chroot:
        acl = zkclient.make_default_acl(None)
        path = []
        chroot_components = chroot.split('/')
        while chroot_components:
            path.append(chroot_components.pop(0))
            if len(path) > 1:
                component = '/'.join(path)
                if not zkclient.exists(component):
                    # TODO: need to compare acls if component exists.
                    try:
                        zkclient.create(component, b'', makepath=True, acl=acl)
                    except kazoo.exceptions.KazooException:
                        _LOGGER.exception('chroot %s does not exist.', chroot)
                        raise

        zkclient.chroot = chroot

    return zkclient

class SequenceNodeWatch:
    """Sequential nodes watcher which keeps track of last node seen."""

    def __init__(self, zkclient, func, delim, pattern, include_data):
        self.zkclient = zkclient
        self.func = func
        self.last = None
        self.delim = delim
        self.pattern = pattern
        self.include_data = include_data

    def nodes(self, children):
        """Yield previously unseen node."""
        if self.pattern:
            children = [node for node in children
                        if node.startswith(self.pattern)]

        seq_children = [(node[node.rfind(self.delim) + 1:], node)
                        for node in children if node.rfind(self.delim) > 0]

        # Sort nodes by seq #
        for seq, node in sorted(seq_children):
            if self.last is None or seq > self.last:
                self.last = seq
                yield node

    def invoke_callback(self, path, node):
        """Invokes callback for each new node."""
        try:
            fullpath = z.join_zookeeper_path(path, node)
            data = None
            stat = None
            if self.include_data:
                data, stat = self.zkclient.get(fullpath)
            self.func(fullpath, data, stat)
        except Exception:  # pylint: disable=W0703
            _LOGGER.critical('Unexpected error: %s', sys.exc_info()[0])

    def on_child(self, event):
        """The watch function."""
        if event.type == 'CHILD':
            children = self.zkclient.get_children(event.path, self.on_child)
            for node in self.nodes(children):
                self.invoke_callback(event.path, node)

def watch_sequence(zkclient, path, func, delim='-', pattern=None,
                   include_data=False):
    """Watch sequential nodes under path, invoke function with new nodes.

    When started, will invoke callback func with the list of sequence nodes,
    remembering the last node.

    For each node added, callback will be invoked only with newly added nodes.

    Delimiter is used to identify the sequence number of the node name, which
    can be anything. Optionally will filter nodes to start with given patter.
    """
    watcher = SequenceNodeWatch(zkclient, func, delim, pattern, include_data)

    def on_create(event):
        """Callback invoked when node is created."""
        assert event.path == path
        children = zkclient.get_children(path, watcher.on_child)
        for node in watcher.nodes(children):
            watcher.invoke_callback(path, node)

    if zkclient.exists(path, on_create):
        children = zkclient.get_children(path, watcher.on_child)
        for node in watcher.nodes(children):
            watcher.invoke_callback(path, node)

def _payload(data):
    """Converts payload to serialized bytes.
    """
    payload = b''
    if data is not None:
        if isinstance(data, bytes):
            payload = data
        elif isinstance(data, six.string_types) and hasattr(data, 'encode'):
            payload = data.encode()
        else:
            payload = json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True).encode()
    return payload

def create(zkclient, path, data=None, acl=None, sequence=False,
           default_acl=True, ephemeral=False):
    """Serialize data into Zk node, fail if node exists."""
    payload = _payload(data)
    if default_acl:
        realacl = zkclient.make_default_acl(acl)
    else:
        realacl = acl

    return zkclient.create(path, payload, makepath=True, acl=realacl,
                           sequence=sequence, ephemeral=ephemeral)

def put(zkclient, path, data=None, acl=None, sequence=False, default_acl=True,
        ephemeral=False, check_content=False):
    """Serialize data into Zk node, converting data to json.

    Default acl is set to admin:all, anonymous:readonly. These acls are
    appended to any addidional acls provided in the argument.
    """
    payload = _payload(data)

    # Default acl assumes world readable data, safe to log the payload. If
    # default acl is not specified, do not log the payload as it may be
    # private.
    if default_acl:
        realacl = zkclient.make_default_acl(acl)
        _LOGGER.debug('put (default_acl=%s): %s acl=%s seq=%s', default_acl,
                      path, realacl, sequence)
    else:
        realacl = acl
        _LOGGER.debug('put %s *** acl=%s seq=%s', path, realacl, sequence)

    try:
        return zkclient.create(path, payload, makepath=True, acl=realacl,
                               sequence=sequence, ephemeral=ephemeral)
    except kazoo.client.NodeExistsError:
        # This will never happen for sequence node, so requestor knows the
        # path.
        #
        # If there is not change, return None to indicate update was not done.
        if check_content:
            current, _metadata = zkclient.get(path)
            if current == payload:
                _LOGGER.debug('%s is up to date', path)
                return None

        zkclient.set(path, payload)
        _LOGGER.debug('Setting ACL on %s to %r', path, realacl)
        zkclient.set_acls(path, realacl)
        return path

def update(zkclient, path, data, check_content=False):
    """Set data into Zk node, converting data to json."""
    _LOGGER.debug('update %s', path)

    payload = _payload(data)
    if check_content:
        current, _metadata = zkclient.get(path)
        if current == payload:
            return None

    zkclient.set(path, payload)
    return path

def get(zkclient, path, watcher=None, strict=True):
    """Read content of Zookeeper node and return json parsed object."""
    data, _metadata = get_with_metadata(zkclient, path, watcher=watcher,
                                        strict=strict)
    return data

def get_with_metadata(zkclient, path, watcher=None, strict=True):
    """Read content of Zookeeper node and return json parsed object."""

    # Import yaml in the function scope, to stress that it should be decoed
    # once all legacy clients are upgraded.
    #
    # For now, this code provides backward compatibility with values stored
    # in YAML.
    from treadmill import yamlwrapper as yaml

    data, metadata = zkclient.get(path, watch=watcher)

    result = None
    if data is not None:
        try:
            result = json.loads(data.decode())
        except ValueError:
            try:
                result = yaml.load(data)
            except yaml.YAMLError:
                if strict:
                    raise
                result = data

    return result, metadata

def get_default(zkclient, path, watcher=None, strict=True, default=None):
    """Read content of Zookeeper node, return default value if does not exist.
    """
    try:
        return get(zkclient, path, watcher=watcher, strict=strict)
    except kazoo.client.NoNodeError:
        return default

def get_children_count(zkclient, path, exc_safe=True):
    """Gets the node children count."""
    try:
        _data, metadata = zkclient.get(path)
        return metadata.children_count
    except kazoo.client.NoNodeError:
        if exc_safe:
            return 0
        else:
            raise

def ensure_exists(zkclient, path, acl=None, sequence=False, data=None):
    """Creates path with correct ACL if path does not exist.

    If the path does not exist, creates the path with proper acl.

    If the path already exists, does not touch the content, but makes sure the
    acl is correct.
    """
    realacl = zkclient.make_default_acl(acl)
    try:
        # new node has default empty data
        newdata = _payload(data)
        return zkclient.create(path, newdata, makepath=True, acl=realacl,
                               sequence=sequence)
    except kazoo.client.NodeExistsError:
        # if data not provided, we keep original data pristine
        if data is not None:
            newdata = _payload(data)
            zkclient.set(path, newdata)

        zkclient.set_acls(path, realacl)
        return path

def ensure_deleted(zkclient, path, recursive=True):
    """Deletes the node if it exists."""
    try:
        _LOGGER.debug('Deleting %s', path)
        if recursive:
            for child in zkclient.get_children(path):
                ensure_deleted(zkclient, z.join_zookeeper_path(path, child))

        zkclient.delete(path)
    except kazoo.client.NoNodeError:
        _LOGGER.debug('Node %s does not exist.', path)

def exists(zk_client, zk_path, timeout=60):
    """wrapping the zk exists function with timeout"""
    node_created_event = zk_client.handler.event_object()

    def node_watch(event):
        """watch for node creation"""
        if event.type == kazoo.protocol.states.EventType.CREATED:
            node_created_event.set()

    if not zk_client.exists(zk_path, watch=node_watch):
        return node_created_event.wait(timeout)
    return True

def list_match(zkclient, path, pattern, watcher=None):
    """Get a list of nodes matching pattern."""
    children = zkclient.get_children(path, watch=watcher)

    return [node for node in children if fnmatch.fnmatch(node, pattern)]

def wait(zk_client, zk_path, wait_exists, timeout=None):
    """Wait for node to be in a given state."""
    node_created_event = zk_client.handler.event_object()

    def node_watch(event):
        """watch for node events."""
        _LOGGER.debug('Got event: %r', event)
        created = (event.type == kazoo.protocol.states.EventType.CREATED)
        deleted = (event.type == kazoo.protocol.states.EventType.DELETED)
        if (wait_exists and created) or (not wait_exists and deleted):
            node_created_event.set()

    if wait_exists == bool(zk_client.exists(zk_path, watch=node_watch)):
        return True
    else:
        _LOGGER.debug('Will wait for timeout: %r', timeout)
        return node_created_event.wait(timeout)

def with_retry(func, *args, **kwargs):
    """Calls function with retry."""
    zk_retry = kazoo.retry.KazooRetry(ignore_expire=False, max_tries=5)
    return zk_retry(func, *args, **kwargs)

def make_lock(zkclient, path):
    """Make lock."""
    _LOGGER.debug('Creating lock on: %s', path)
    zkclient.ensure_path(path)
    zkclient.add_listener(exit_on_disconnect)
    me = '%s.%d' % (sysinfo.hostname(), os.getpid())
    return zkclient.Lock(path, me)


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7 Interesting Facts You Didn't Know About Okinawa
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Today, the Okinawan islands are renown for their beach resorts and relaxed island living. The word 'Okinawa' means 'rope in the open ocean' in Japanese, referring to the way the islands form a chain along the China Sea from Kagoshima to Taiwan.
The islands were not always known by this name, however - long ago, these lands were a sovereign nation of traders with a advantageous position between China, Japan and other Asian nations. Here are some surprising facts about Okinawa Prefecture to get you ready for your trip to these beautiful islands.
Okinawa is Made of Coral
Okinawa Contains Japan's Shortest River
Karate is an Okinawan Export
Okinawa was the Ryukyu Kingdom Until 1872
36% of Okinawa's Land is Protected
75% of US Military Bases are in Okinawa
Okinawan Salt is in the Guinness Book of World Records
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Okinawa is a haven for divers, snorkelers and undersea explorers. The waters surrounding the islands are home to an abundance of coral reefs, natural sea caves and marine life. The beaches of Okinawa and most of the islands are mainly made up of various types of coral, which break up under the sea and are washed up on shore with the tide.
One type of coral, known as foraminifer shell, is particular famous for creating Okinawa's 'star sand' beaches. When this coral dies, the tiny pointed shells gather on the shore, creating beaches of star-shaped sand.
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The Shiokawa or 'Salt River' of Okinawa's Motobu Peninsula is the shortest river in Japan at 300 meters in length, and one of just a few salt water rivers in the world. Fed by the ocean itself, the river is short but wide in some places, and home to variety of ocean plants, creating a unique inland ecosystem. Surrounded by mature, subtropical forest and solid cliffs, the Shiokawa is a designated National Treasure of Japan and an interesting stop on a tour of Motobu.
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Karate, one of the most well-known styles of martial arts in the world, developed in Okinawa (then known as the Ryukyu Kingdom) as a hybrid between traditional Chinese and Ryukyuan hand-to-hand combat techniques. This form of unarmed combat became widespread during the 1400s and 1600s, as most ordinary citizens were banned from obtaining weapons.
Karate was not introduced to mainland Japan until the early 1900s, when it began to gain popularity as an extracurricular among university students. Karate's debut as an Olympic Sport is planned for 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics.
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During the Heian Period (794-1185) of mainland Japan, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a prosperous sovereign nation of merchants, artisans, fishers and farmers, maintaining close political ties with China and other countries in southeast Asia. During the Edo Period, the Shimazu Clan of Kagoshima Prefecture (then Satsuma Province) invaded the islands, and the kingdom was forced to pay tribute to the Japanese shogunate while still maintaining a tributary relationship with China.
It was not until 1892 that the Meiji Government officially annexed the islands by force, absorbing them into Japan's political map as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879.
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Okinawa is also an important refuge for sea turtles, which return to the beaches each year to lay their eggs. Fittingly, large portions of the total land area have been designated as national, quasi-national or prefectural protected parks. People are able to visit the parks for activities such as bird-watching, diving, hiking, snorkeling, kayaking and other low-impact activities.
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Hi, I am here to share and hopefully help people that like me had/have sever to high PTSD. Something horrible happened to someone i loved more then anything in the world in front of me and it resulted in his death.
I wanted to die, i was in so much emotional pain and i did not know how to process the trauma or the grief. It consumed my mind, i couldnt stop the racing thoughts, i was having severe panic attacks, i developed IBS-D. I was always in fear, I was always thinking everyone around me is going to die. I felt like i couldn't breath.
Anytime I was a passenger in a motor vehicle, i immediately would start sweating, turn white, i couldn't breath full blown panic attack and irritable bowl syndrome would kick in and i would have full blown diarrhea. the IBS got so bad that I couldn't leave my house, i was so afraid all the time. I couldn't be around people.
Anytime I was around people I would have fear, even faces look distorted at times and I would immediately get diarrhea because my fight or flight response wasn't working properly. It got to a point where I wouldn't leave my house at all. I started doing EMDR therapy and we pushed the trauma too soon and my panic attacks got out of control completely. I would fall over sweating, breathing into a bag.
I couldn't sleep. Every time I would try to fall asleep, I would get a panic attack, woken up by super racing heart rate and the anxiety was so drastic that I would hear a sound in my head and I was terrified. I remember the wind blowing outside the window and i was so scared, i was crying in the corner of my room in fear.
I was already diagnosed with an anxiety disorder before the trauma, however i had a really good corporate job, I was extremely successful and my life was on track. This was a plot twist i did not see coming. My PTSD got so bad that i almost got hospitalized because of it. I couldnt sleep, i kept hearing sounds because my brain couldnt decipher them.
I thought i was developing schizophrenia, I wasnt I was just having sever PSTD. I was diagnosed with severe to high PTSD. I have done yoga for 13 years of my life and i remember my mom driving me to the yoga studio and as i would ger there i just couldnt go into class I would having a panic attack before i even step into the studio. Complete fear around people none stop.
I thought i would be disabled for the rest of my life. I am naturally a very driven person, so i searched online for months trying to find a way to put my mind back together. This is when i found Neurofeedback. It has saved my life. I have been doing neurofeedback for 4 months and I never get panic attacks, I got my social life back, I go out with friends, I am not afraid in a room full of people, i am starting a new job, i am not having any more nightmares, my ibs is much better under control. I never have suicidal thoughts anymore and i am truly happy again. So if you are struggling from PTSD/anxiety/depression/addictions/add/adhd/memory issues, please look into Neurofeedback.
I know there are so many of us out there silently suffering so i wanted to share in the hopes that this can help you get your life back. I am happy to help and answer any questions about my recovery process. I am still in treatment and I am excited to see how much better i am going to get and if i can cure my IBS-D completely with this as well. As I mentioned before I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder before the trauma, since i have been doing neurofeedback, my anxiety has been much lower then ever before (even lower then before the trauma). Please note that since neurofeedback, I never take anxiety medication anymore. I consider myself one of the lucky ones since i found this treatment and i really hope it will help you too.
I'm sorry for what you experienced.
It's great that you have found a way to manage your symptoms.And since there's no cure for PTSD and the most we can do is learn to manage it I hope you continue to do as well as you are.And should you get triggered by something in the future,which usually happens with PTSD,at least now you know what helps you.
Thanks for sharing,I am Googling it right now.
I am glad this approach works well in managing your PTSD.
And I'm glad to hear your improvement!!
Welcome to Psych Central Forums.
Thank you so much for sharing. I am so sorry you went through that such a horrible trauma! I can't imagine having gone through what you went through. You are so strong! I am so happy that you shared what has worked for you. As you know, suffering from trauma seems like an endless battle and hope of ever reclaiming some sort of normalcy fades quickly. I look to fellow sufferers like yourself who have done the work and found some sort of calm and resiliency admidst the storm.
I will look into neurofeedback. I have actually never looked into it before.
Thank you for your success story. I will be researching.
I tried Neurofeedback - but it actually ended up triggering me. I always feel vulnerable going to someone new for any kind of treatment. Lack of communication is a trigger for me, and also not being able to do something right is a trigger for me. Well, I was really confused about how I was supposed to "perform" the neurofeedback, for lack of a better term. When I went to the neurofeedback sessions, depending on who was running it, they would give me conflicting info on what I was supposed to do. At one point I was told to envision myself doing something that was a trigger for me, but that I was doing it with ease. This caused me to be more stressed. They also had me sitting in a chair with my back towards the door and I couldn't tell if someone was entering the room - not a great set up for someone with PTSD. Sometimes there would noises in the hallway that would startle me too. Even though my attempts at neurofeedback were not a success, I believe it was due to flaws in how it was administered to me.
All of that to just ask you, How exactly is neurofeedback supposed to work? How did you "do" it? Any insights you have might be useful if I decide to do it again.
Some interesting things that they did tell me was that my brain waves looked like either a pot head or someone heavily into meditation, like a monk. While I was meditating at the time, I was nowhere near at the level of a monk and I was not smoking pot. It felt like the guy was accusing me of hiding my supposed use of marijuana. Also, I feel asleep a couple times. They are supposed to jiggle the door knob if they see from your brain waves that you are alseep. However, in my case, it did not show up on the system. They said I did not produce the theta waves that are characteristic of sleep. I never figured out what that meant.
Thank you for offering an option to help cure this horrible normal human fight or flight reaction. It affects my relationships mostly. Has anyone else tried Neurofeedback? Since there are conflicting results obtained I am curious how many it has helped.


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Jättekolibri (Patagona gigas) är en fågelart i familjen kolibrier och placeras som ensam art i släktet Patagona.

Kännetecken
Jättekolibri är som namnet antyder en mycket stor kolibri, störst av alla i familjen. Den adulta fågeln har en längd på 20–22 centimeter och når en vikt på 18–20 gram. Till utseendet skiljer den sig från många andra kolibrier då den är en ganska diskret fågel. Fjäderdräkten är gråbrunaktig på ovansidan, rödbrunaktig på undersidan och undergumpen är ljusare vitaktig. Hanen och honan liknar varandra, förutom att hanen har en varmare rödbrun färg på undersidan av kroppen och mer utbredd ljus färg på undergumpen än honan.

Utbredning och levnadsmiljö
Fågeln förekommer i Anderna och utbredningsområdet sträcker sig från Colombia genom Ecuador, Peru, Chile och Bolivia till norra Argentina. Den delas in i två underarter med följande utbredning:
 Patagona gigas peruviana – Anderna från sydvästra Colombia till norra Chile och nordvästra Argentina
 Patagona gigas gigas – centrala och södra Chile till västcentrala Argentina

Dess habitat är öppna till halvöppna torra områden, som buskmarker och glest trädbevuxna dalar och sluttningar.

Status och hot
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde och en stor population med stabil utveckling och som inte tros vara utsatt för något substantiellt hot. Utifrån dessa kriterier kategoriserar internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN arten som livskraftig (LC). Världspopulationen har inte uppskattats men den beskrivs som ovanlig.

Referenser

Noter

Källor
 Schou, Per (red.). (2007) Djur: illustrerad guide till världens djurliv, Globe Förlaget,

Externa länkar

 Bilder och filmer på Internet Bird Collection
 Läten på xeno-canto.org

Kolibrier
Fåglar i neotropiska regionen


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Argentina: Fernandez probed for personal use of planes
By Associated PressThe Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A federal judge in Argentina has launched an investigation into former President Cristina Fernandez.
Judge Claudio Bonadio said Thursday that Fernandez committed embezzlement "by taking advantage of the presidential plane fleet" while she was president from 2007 to 2015 and while she was a lawmaker during the 2003-2007 presidency of her late husband Nestor Kirchner.
She was accused of using presidential airplanes to transport furniture, a bed, clothing, newspapers and even a hair stylist to her homes in the country's south.
Fernandez has immunity from arrest, which she gained after being elected to the Senate.
Bonadio says that testimony by pilots shows that Fernandez and Kirchner regularly used the presidential fleet to get newspapers delivered from Buenos Aires to the cities of Rio Gallegos and El Calafate.
Fernandez denies wrongdoing.


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Q: perforce connect history of two different files I have a problem, in a refactoring attempt I have copied files from one place to another and added them in my scm (perforce). When I was done and everything was working I deleted the old (moved) files.
Can I connect the file histories with each other? The best would be to se the "move" like it should have been done..
Thankful for any help!

A: Suppose your original file is //source/old/file.c#5 and you moved it to //source/new/file.c, then deleted the old file in revision //source/old/file.c#6. You need to integrate from the old file to the new file, using the -i flag so Perforce will allow you to integrate between two files that it doesn't otherwise know of an integration history:
p4 integrate -i //source/old/file.c#5 //source/new/file.c

then resolve the files. Normally while integrating you'll want to accept a merged version of the file, but in this case you're mostly interested in letting Perforce know you already did the integration, so you can use -ay to "accept yours", discarding the old version of the file:
p4 resolve -ay //source/new/file.c

then submit the revision.
(Ideally you would have integrated first, then made any changes, and submitted everything, but this way the files will be linked in Perforce's integration history.)

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