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DeltaSport App Privacy Policy
Salmon Upstream, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (referred to in this Privacy Policy as "Salmon Upstream", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is part of the DeltaSport User Agreement, located at https://www.salmonupstream.com/deltasport-app-user-agreement/ (the "Agreement"). Except as otherwise defined herein, all terms used in this Privacy Policy have the meanings set forth in the Agreement. Please read this Privacy Policy and the Agreement carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding how we use your information.
1. Introduction. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect through your use of the DeltaSport Services (as defined in the Agreement), including the DeltaSport website located at https://www.salmonupstream.com/deltasport-app/ (the "DeltaSport Website") and the DeltaSport Apps, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and sharing that information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that other users of the DeltaSport Services collect about you through your use of the DeltaSport Services (such as information that you choose to make publicly available in your profile, posts, or comments).
2. Updates to Privacy Policy. As technology changes and as our business grows and develops, we may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be made and will become effective as described the Agreement.
3. Children Under Age 13. We are committed to protecting the privacy of children under the age of thirteen (13) years (each a "Child" and collectively, "Children"). Access to and use of the DeltaSport Services by Children is prohibited. The DeltaSport Services are not designed for or marketed to Children, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information (as defined below) from Children. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a Child, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a Child, please contact us.
4. Definitions. As used in this Privacy Policy:
4.1. "App Diagnostic Information" means information collected through your use of the DeltaSport Apps, including device state information, unique device identifiers, device hardware and operating system information, information relating to how the DeltaSport Apps function, and the Location Information of a device at the time one of the DeltaSport Apps malfunctions or crashes.
4.2. "App Installation Information" means information provided to us by Apple or Google when you purchase or download DeltaSport Apps, such as operating system version, device manufacturer and model, device name, country, language, wireless carrier name, and app version.
4.3. "Location Information" means global positioning system (GPS) coordinates, Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), iBeacon, or other geolocation information that can be used to identify the precise location of a person or device, but excluding Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
4.4. "Non-Personal Information" means information or content other than Personal Information, including, for example, aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information about our users and other information that does not identify any individual.
4.5. "Personal Information" (or "Personal Data") means personally-identifiable information (information relating to an individual that can be used to identify, locate, or contact that individual, alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information), such as: name, home or physical address, e-mail address, phone number, or personal characteristics (such as descriptions of physical appearance and photos of individuals), Location Information, and any Sensitive Information (as defined below), or any other information about an individual that we collect through the DeltaSport Services and maintain in personally identifiable form in combination with other personally-identifiable information.
4.6. "Sensitive Information" means Social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver's license numbers, bank account numbers, credit or debit card numbers, insurance policy numbers, login or authentication credentials (such as passwords and API keys) ("Login Credentials"), or other similar information.
5. Types of Information Collected.
5.1. Device and Activity Information. We may automatically collect information about you when you use the DeltaSport Services, such as the pages, materials, and features you access and use, the amount of data transferred, the links and buttons you click, the amount of time you spend interacting with the components of the DeltaSport Platform, and other information about your interactions with the DeltaSport Services, as well as certain standard information that your browser or device sends to every website or Internet server that you visit, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating environment (such as browser type and version, browser plugins installed, operating system version, regional and language settings, screen size and/or resolution, windows size, and page size), access dates and times, and referring websites. We may also collect diagnostic information, including without limitation App Diagnostic Information, device hardware and operating system information, and information relating to how the DeltaSport Platform and other aspects of the DeltaSport Services function on the device you use to access the DeltaSport Services. We may share such diagnostic information and other Non-Personal Information with our service providers to diagnose and improve the DeltaSport Platform and other aspects of the DeltaSport Services. The DeltaSport Platform may use cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, pixel gifs, HTML 5 local storage, and other technologies for a variety of purposes, such as saving and retrieving information about you, your visit, and your preferences and settings. We may use such technologies to share Non-Personal Information with third parties or to retrieve Non-Personal Information from third parties. At this time, the DeltaSport Website does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals sent to us by your browser.
5.2. Location Information. When you use the DeltaSport Platform, we may collect your Location Information in order to provide the DeltaSport Services to you. If you disable GPS or other location services on your devices, you may be unable to use certain features of the DeltaSport Services. Except for Location Information that may be part of the App Diagnostic Information shared with our developers in connection with fixing and improving the DeltaSport Apps, we do not share your Location Information with third parties.
5.3. App Installation Information. When you purchase or download DeltaSport Apps, Apple or Google may provide us information related to the device (or devices) used to purchase or download the DeltaSport Apps, such as operating system version, device manufacturer and model, device name, country, language, wireless carrier name, and app version.
5.4. Firebase. We may, from time to time, use Firebase, which is a third-party solution provided by Google, Inc. for facilitating the development of apps, distributing pre-release versions of apps, and analyzing information about apps when they crash. We may use Firebase to collect and analyze App Diagnostic Information, which helps us improve the DeltaSport Apps and identify and fix bugs. We may share App Diagnostic Information through Firebase, and the information provided through Firebase is subject to Google's policies. For more information, see the Privacy and Security in Firebase page (located at: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy). The DeltaSport Apps may contain a setting to allow you to turn off the collection of App Diagnostic Information. We respect and value your privacy, and we never combine the information collected through the use of Firebase with Personal Information.
5.5. Information You Provide. When you create and use a User Account, you may provide us with a wide variety of information, such as your name, photo, address, e-mail address, phone number, payment information, your search queries within the DeltaSport Services, messages you send us, and your User Content (as defined in the Agreement), and other types of information. We will store and use such information only in accordance with the Agreement and this Privacy Policy.
6. Use of Non-Personal Information. We may use Non-Personal Information (including, for example, aggregated information about our users or information that does not identify any individual) for any purposes whatsoever (including without limitation, advertising, marketing, enhancing, designing, or developing products and/or services, and research), and we may share Non-Personal Information with others, including our partners, affiliates, and our service providers.
7. Cookie Policy. We may use cookies and other similar technologies, such as HTML 5 local storage, to provide the DeltaSport Services.
7.1. Cookies and Local Storage. Cookies are small text files placed onto your device when you visit and interact with the DeltaSport Website. Local storage is a technology that allows a website or application to store information locally on your device. These technologies enable us to provide and enhance your experience using the DeltaSport Services.
7.2. How We Use Cookies and Local Storage. We use these technologies to provide the DeltaSport Services to you and to analyze and improve the DeltaSport Platform, and other aspects of the DeltaSport Services. Our uses generally fall into one of the following categories:
7.2.1. Essential Processes and Security: To enable essential functions of the DeltaSport Services, such as to facilitate logging you in to the DeltaSport Services, facilitating payments, protecting your security, and helping us fight spam, abuse, and violations of the Agreement.
7.2.2. Preferences: To remember information about your browser and your preferences.
7.2.3. Performance, Analytics, and Research: To help us understand and measure how you use the DeltaSport Services and to improve the DeltaSport Services.
7.3. Blocking and Removing Cookies. We are committed to protecting your privacy, as described in this Privacy Policy. Most browsers allow you to modify your settings to accept or deny all cookies or to request your permission each time a website attempts to place a cookie on your device, and most browsers allow you to delete cookies that have already been placed on your device. However, the DeltaSport Services will not function properly if you prevent the DeltaSport Services from placing cookies on your device.
8. Use of Personal Information.
8.1. How We Use Your Information. We will only store and use your Personal Information as is reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection with your use of the DeltaSport Services, including:
8.1.1. to contact you in connection with your use of the DeltaSport Services, including to respond to your inquiries;
8.1.2. for authentication and identification purposes;
8.1.3. to enable us to provide the DeltaSport Services;
8.1.4. to process your payments;
8.1.5. to provide you with notices about your User Account;
8.1.6. to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide such information to us;
8.1.7. in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
8.1.8. to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights;
8.1.9. to ensure your compliance with the Agreement and/or to investigate any potential breach of the Agreement;
8.1.10. to protect individuals, including children, our users, Team Members, Team Owners, League Owners, and other third parties; and
8.1.11. to protect our networks, data, software, or business interests.
8.2. How We Share Your Information. We are committed to protecting your privacy and we will not sell, lease, or disclose your Personal Information to any third party except as described in the Agreement and in this Privacy Policy. We may share with third parties any Personal Information that you choose to make publicly available through the DeltaSport Services (such as displaying your name in connection with your posts or messages). As described in Section 9 below, we do not share Personal Information with sponsors or advertisers without your consent. However, if you use a sponsor discount code displayed in the DeltaSport Platform or you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement displayed in the DeltaSport Platform, the sponsor or advertiser may assume that you are a DeltaSport user. In addition to using and disclosing your Personal Information in the manner described above and elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose your Personal Information:
8.2.1. to any person, entity, or organization which you consent for us to disclose your Personal Information to;
8.2.2. in the case of a user who requests to join a Team, to the applicable Team Owner and/or League Owner;
8.2.3. to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our users is among the assets transferred;
8.2.4. in the case of a minor, to such minor's parents or legal guardians (and to the individuals identified by the minor as his or her parents or legal guardians);
8.2.5. to any person, entity, or organization in order to facilitate the provision of the DeltaSport Services or the processing of payments, such as providing your name, contact information, transaction details, and Payment Information (as defined in the Agreement) to our third party payment processors (our "Payment Processors") when you make a payment;
8.2.6. to any of the DeltaSport Parties (as defined in the Agreement), our business partners, service providers, vendors, and agents who provide hosting services, technical support services, order processing services, Payment Processors, and as is necessary or appropriate in connection with the processing and fulfillment payments, or the operation, maintenance, and support of the DeltaSport Services;
8.2.7. to comply with any legal requirements, subpoenas, discovery requests, or court orders, to defend any legal or administrative proceedings, or as we believe in good faith is necessary to comply with any laws or legal requirements;
8.2.8. to any person as we believe is necessary or appropriate in an emergency situation, including without limitation, to prevent criminal activity, personal injury, or property damage;
8.2.9. to law enforcement, financial institutions, or other appropriate authorities in connection with any investigation of suspected criminal or fraudulent activity by any person or entity; and
8.2.10. if we believe it is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the DeltaSport Parties (as defined in the Agreement), children, our users, Team Owners, League Owners, customers, or other third parties (including, without limitation, to facilitate the enforcement of our rights under the Agreement).
9. Opt-In Sharing Features. We will not knowingly disclose your Personal Information to a third party if we know or have reason to believe that the third party will use your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes, unless you opt-in or otherwise expressly consent for such sharing.
10. Payment Information. We may, from time to time, use one or more third party Payment Processors to process payments made in connection with the DeltaSport Services. Your Payment Information (as defined in the Agreement) collected through the DeltaSport Services is stored locally within the DeltaSport Apps on your device and is transmitted directly to our Payment Processors and is not stored by us. You acknowledge and agree that the processing of payments is subject to the terms and privacy policies of our Payment Processors and that we are not responsible for any acts or omissions of our Payment Processors.
11. Security. We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, including the use of TLS to encrypt information you send through the DeltaSport Website. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for safeguarding your Login Credentials associated with your User Account and notifying us immediately if you suspect your Login Credentials for your User Account have been compromised. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the DeltaSport Services. The information you share in public areas may be accessed by any of our users. You are strongly cautioned to never share Sensitive Information with other users through the DeltaSport Services. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Despite our measures to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to or through the DeltaSport Services. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures of the DeltaSport Services or of our service providers, agents, or other third parties.
12. Third Party Sites. The DeltaSport Services may contain links to other websites that are operated by third parties, including the websites of Drivers. Once you have clicked on a link connecting you to such third party website, you will leave the DeltaSport Services and be taken to a website that we do not control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information (or other information) collected on a third party site. We suggest you read the privacy policy of the third party site before providing any Personal Information on such third party site. We are not responsible for any use by any person or entity of any information that you may provide while accessing or using any websites or services provided by a third party.
13. Access to and Change of Personal Information. You may contact us at any time to: (a) request the removal of the Personal Information you provided to us from our databases; and (b) update your Personal Information. However, certain information associated with your use of the DeltaSport Services, such as governmental authorizations and information about payments made in connection with the DeltaSport Services, may be retained permanently for legal, tax, and business reasons. In addition, because certain Personal Information may be necessary to provide the DeltaSport Services to you, you understand that the removal of that Personal Information may require us to delete your User Account. When your Personal Information or your User Content (as defined in the Agreement) is updated or deleted, copies of such information may remain in our backups.
14. Contacting Us. You may contact us with questions relating to this Privacy Policy by sending an e-mail to DeltaSportApp@gmail.com.


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HAWAII S BEST-SELLING Videotape is now a DVD! Video Rights Corporation has transformed its award-winning video, "Hawaii Magnificent Islands" into the new DVD format. This new disc includes a number of user-selectable features, such as either English or Japanese narration and, if desired, subtitles in English. There are also interactive menus, which give viewers the choice of watching the entire program from the beginning or simply jumping ahead to their favorite island. The greater resolution of the DVD format will enable viewers to better appreciate the outstanding visual and audio quality of "Hawaii Magnificent Islands".


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Le Projet Éole est un projet expérimental de centrale électrique éolienne à axe vertical, se trouvant à Cap-Chat, en Gaspésie, au Québec.

Ce projet constitue la plus grande centrale électrique éolienne à axe vertical jamais construite. Cependant, cette centrale ne fut pas en fonctionnement suffisamment longtemps pour passer du mode expérimental au statut de centrale électrique moderne.

Le projet est lancé par Hydro-Québec en 1984 et met en commun les ressources du Conseil National de Recherche Canada (CNRC) et de l'Institut de Recherche en Électricité du Québec (IREQ) afin de développer ces technologies au nord de l'Amérique. À la suite de restrictions dans ses budgets de recherche, l'éolienne est exploitée commercialement dès 1988 mais la centrale est mise à l'arrêt en 1992 à la suite d'un grand coup de vent imprévu qui a endommagé le roulement principal de l'appareil. Le bris est aussi probablement dû au poids énorme de cette structure. Le site est exploité depuis ce temps à des fins touristiques et présente le projet en tant que monument dédié au patrimoine technologique québécois et est également un centre d'interprétation sur l'énergie éolienne.

Les moulins éoliens à axe vertical

Les éoliennes à axe vertical, telles celles de type Darrieus qui composent le Projet Éole, sont très avantageuses car elles captent le vent de façon omnidirectionnelle. Elles peuvent ainsi pivoter tant qu'il vente, peu importe la direction du vent. Le générateur se situant à sa base, ce type d'éoliennes est plus économique, mais la nature de ce concept ne lui permet pas de démarrer par elle-même.

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8 Seriously Beautiful Photos Of Emerging Model, Lori Harvey
It's Wednesday right?
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Susanna Osborne, more affectionately known as Sukii, serves as an Associate Entertainment Editor for iOne Digital. The Spanish Harlem native got her start in blogging back in 2010 when she began covering Hip Hop's rising stars for GlobalGrind. Music (and entertainment at large) are spaces Sukii continues to focus on as a writer, but her pen game knows no bounds. Since starting at iOne Digital in 2014, the Spelman College alum has contributed to the majority of iOne brands, often venturing into controversial topics such as women's rights, sex, and race relations. Follow her on Instagram and stay tuned.	@KingSukii
Lori Harvey was a baddie before Meek Mill shouted her out on his critically acclaimed fourth studio album, Championships. But now, she's got all eyes on her.
One look at her Instagram page and you'll understand why the MMG rapper and criminal justice reform activist says he has Steve Harvey's step-daughter on his Christmas wish list. But, too bad for Meek, last we heard Lori was engaged to longtime boyfriend pro soccer player Memphis Depay—and we're pretty sure he isn't going anywhere, although we could be wrong since breakup rumors have been floating around for a while now.
In a 2017 interview with BET, Harvey said she ignored Depay for a year but he persisted after meeting the beauty at the beach:
"He called me for like a year straight and I would not answer the phone. He would send me flowers and I would be like, 'Thank you,' and that was it. I gave him no play and he did not understand. So then, one day, I don't even know why, I picked up the phone and was like, 'Fine what do you want?' and we just talked for hours, like all night. And then we started talking everyday." After their romance progressed, Depay asked Lori to visit him in Manchester. On her behalf, her parents refused the invitation, but in perhaps her only rebellious move ever, Lori went anyway."
And ever since, she's supposedly been head over heels in love with her future husband:
"It's like he just fell out of nowhere. He is just so perfect. Everything just happened so perfect. I honestly, genuinely feel like he was made for me. That's my other half. I love him so much. Like, he could not be more perfect for me. We are literally just the same," she said in the same interview.
Hit the flip for more spicy photos of our #WomanCrushWednesday. And Lori, you single or nah? The people want to know.
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1 GREGORY UNIVERSITY JUPEB FORM | REGISTRATION GUIDELINES.
2 What is GUU JUPEB?
3 GREGORY UNIVERSITY JUPEB REQUIREMENTS.
3.1 Duration of GUU JUPEB Programme.
4.1 LIST OF (JUPEB) COURSES OFFERED BY GREGORY UNIVERSITY.
GREGORY UNIVERSITY JUPEB FORM | REGISTRATION GUIDELINES.
GREGORY University JUPEB application form is out. This is to inform the general public and interested candidates that the management of the Gregory University Uturu (GUU) has announced the commencement of the sales of application form into her Joint University Preliminary Examinations Board programme for the 2017/2018 academic session.The Programme leads to the award of JUPEB Certificate which enables candidates gain direct admission into their respective second year degree programmes in Gregory University, Uturu and other JUPEB affiliated universities in Nigeria and abroad.
In this post, you will see details the following: GUU JUPEB FORM, APPLICATION PROCEDURES FOR GUU JUPEB,COST OF JUPEB AT GUU, GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL GUU JUPEB STUDENTS & OTHERS.
To be eligible for GUU JUPEB programme, candidates must possess minimum of 5 Credits at maximum of two sittings in at least 5 subjects (inclusive of English Language) relevant to the candidates desired course of study in the University.
Duration of GUU JUPEB Programme.
Pay the application fee of N10,000.00 only to: A/C No 4011247566 Fidelity Bank Plc A/C Name: Gregory University, Uturu. Thereafter, collect the registration form from the Registrar GUU for completion.
LIST OF (JUPEB) COURSES OFFERED BY GREGORY UNIVERSITY.
Below are the list of degree programmes of the Gregory university that JUPEB candidates can get admitted into after their programmes.
SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES: Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Insurance, International Relations, Political Science, Marketing, Mass Communication, Sociology, Industrial Relations & Personnel Management.
All JUPEB candidates for 2017/2018 are advised to register for 2018/2019 JAMB Direct entry, during the JUPEB programme.


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Issa-Boehner Letter Calls for Administration to Suspend Use of Inaccurate Jobs "Created or Saved" Numbers
WASHINGTON. D.C. – Ahead of next week's "jobs summit" the White House is hosting, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Vice President Joe Biden asking the Administration to "cease public use of the inaccurate jobs 'created or saved' metric."
"Following documented gross inaccuracies and confusion associated with counting of job claims, we ask that the Administration cease public use of the inaccurate jobs "created or saved" metric and instead focus efforts on lowering the unemployment rate as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics," Leader Boehner and Ranking Member Issa wrote.
On November 13, Ranking Member Darrell Issa of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent a letter to Earl Devaney, the Chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, asking if he could certify as "accurate and auditable" the job creation and retention claims made by the Obama Administration for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "stimulus"). Chairman Devaney responded, both in writing and at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that he could not.
"The inaccuracy of the job creation and retention claims posted on the Administration's website, http://www.recovery.gov, has not prevented Administration officials from touting this misleading and inaccurate number as evidence that the President's stimulus spending package is succeeding even as the unemployment rate continues to rise," wrote Boehner and Issa. The reality is that the metric of jobs 'created or saved' was invented by politicians, not economists – it cannot be verified as accurate."
Appearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last Thursday, Earl Devaney, the Chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, agreed with Issa's statement that we do not have the "ability to calculate the full time jobs equivalent."
Issa: Mr. Devaney, you're the most honest man I know. Without a whole lot of in between, shouldn't we be more conservative and say, 'Look, this is what the reports are. We're scrubbing it. This is a new system. It has its problems. We hope at least they're reporting the dollars right and we have no idea whether those people have the ability to calculate the full time jobs equivalent but we're going to get to the bottom of it. Wouldn't that be a fairer way to put it?"
Devaney: "I like that statement."
Issa: "Thank you Mr. Devaney."
Boehner and Issa have asked Biden to respond to their letter by December 1st, in advance of a jobs summit being held by the White House December 3rd.
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Healthy Systems
Seanad campaign
Children raised by same-sex couples – a review of the evidence
Children adopted by same sex couples – a review of the evidence
Governments doing their jobs are not 'nanny states'
The IEA, under the guise of the European Policy Information Centre, which operates from the IEA offices in London, has published the first Nanny State Index, described as 'a league table of the worst places in the European Union to eat, drink, smoke and vape'.
As you might expect, if you know the IEA, good (low scores) means unregulated, and bad (high scores) means regulated. The highest scores go to Finland, Sweden the UK, and Ireland, in that order. I'm quite proud of that. I believe that states have a role in protecting their citizens from the damage caused by unrestricted marketing of unhealthy behaviours and lifestyles. As many of the costs fall back on the state, there is a perfectly respectable economic argument for this as well.
There is a press campaign, so that journalists, and sub-editors, across Anglophone Europe at least, can cut and paste headlines. Oddly enough, for a project reportedly produced with six partners, and seven collaborators, in other countries, only one, the Visio Institute in Slovenia, now has a report of the index on their website that I can see.
Countries do well on this index by not regulating and not taxing alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, and soft-drinks. The details of the scoring are complex, but quite well explained on the site. The overall scores are plotted against life expectancy, on a page headed 'analysis', and no obvious correlation is shown. No statistics are shown either, and there is no account taken of wealth, the dominant factor in life expectancy, nor of changes over time. This isn't a very credible analysis. As for references, apparently real men 'don't need no stinking references'. Frank de Vocht has done a proper analysis of this, and finds a modest effect, of about five weeks of life per person for every one point increase in the alcohol and tobacco components of the index.
Moving on, what is all this about? EPICENTRE, the coordinating body for the initiative, provides no information on its funding on its own site. A spokesperson has confirmed that EPICENTRE, is 100% funded by the IEA. In turn, the IEA are coy about their funding, in fact a spokesperson today said they did not disclose the names of their private donors, and would neither confirm nor deny that they still received funding from the tobacco industry. It's known that they did in the past, and in an index of transparency for leading UK think tanks, the IEA comes out close to the bottom.
My belief, subject to refutation, is that the IEA acts to support the interests of those who pay for it, by arguing against regulation on health grounds. The price of accepting their advice would be many extra deaths, many ruined lives, and higher profits for their corporate funders. This would be another good example of private profits and public costs. I do not think we should pay this.
My own interests, as an academic, and an aspiring politician, are a matter of public record, I fail to see why the IEA should be allowed to hide its conflicts of interest behind a veil of obscurity.
Incidentally it is reported that the UK Charity Commission is now reviewing the IEA, specifically asking 'whether IEA is sufficiently transparent about the sources of funding for key political activities, and whether some of its controversial political activities are within its charitable objects', which I would commend.
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Remembering all the dead of 1916
The photograph below may baffle at first, because it is both familiar and unfamiliar. It is, of course, the First Dáil, meeting in the Mansion House in 1919, but it is not the usual photograph, reproduced many times since, it is one belonging to my late grandmother, Julia. Many of the faces will be familiar, deValera, sitting in centre of the front row, Arthur Griffith beside him, and many others. The man standing behind Dev, to the right as you look at it, in a natty coat with a velvet collar will not be so familiar, but it is my grandfather, Michael Staines.
Here's another photograph of him, from a few years earlier.
The uniform may look strange too, I believe it to be his Irish volunteers uniform. We don't know when this was taken, but it may well have been only a few weeks before the rising of Easter 1916.
It's now the vigil of Easter Sunday and in a few hours I will stand outside the GPO to commemorate his actions and those of the other, but of course the word matters – the other what? Heroes, terrorists, freedom-fighters, murderers, patriots, an endless spiral of antonyms, which may say more about the writers than the reality. The rising happened and I think it changed the path of our history both for good and for ill.
In 1916 my grandfather fought in the GPO. Among other actions he brought weapons, cut the telegraph lines, shot at people, raised a flag, and eventually carried the wounded James Conolly out. Three of his brothers fought with him. A fourth died fighting in the Royal Navy later in World War 1. In 2016, in a world he would hardly have recognized, I will stand and watch a parade go by. In many ways he contributed to the world I live in, as a fighter both in the War of Independence and the Civil War (Free State), as a TD, as the founder of the guards, as an alderman, and as a senator.
I think we need to remember what happened as truly as we can. When I went to Trinity in 1978, I found one item that intrigued me, tucked away on a wall insude the Nassau strret side of Trinity. It was a memorial plaque to a young man, a liitle older than I who had died there in 1916. Such plaques were and are common around Dublin. What made this one different was that this young man was a British soldier Pte. Arthur Smith a Hussar from Hexham. I felt then, and still feel that this was the right thing to do. Would my grandfather have approved? I have no idea, but he died sixty years ago.
There is an association, called the Relatives of 1916, who have taken umbrage at the proposal to list all of those who died in the Rising and afterwards in Glasnevin cemetery. Leaving aside the question of how this group can speak for all of us, without asking us first, I think they are wrong, just as the activists from Misneach who scribbled on John Redmond's banner in College Green were wrong.
No one owns the Easter rising. No one owns the dead. There were no first class and second class deaths in 1916, so let us remember them all equally.
Repeal the 8th?
I've been approached by two groups, the Pro-Life campaign, and the RepealEight campaign. Both requested me to indicate my views on the 8th amendment, specifically whether I am for it or against it, from the pro-life campaign, and whether I would support a referendum on the amendment, from RepealEight. This is a key issue for many people.
My own views, which may not be popular with either side, are not simple, in that I favour repealing the 8th amendment, but oppose unrestricted abortion. I do not claim that I am right, but this is where I am starting from.
Some background first. I'm a doctor, and started my working life as a paediatrician. I spent several years working in the Coombe hospital, mostly caring for very sick premature babies, and a range of babies with congenital anomalies and chromosomal problems. I'm a man, I've never been, and never will be pregnant, so I don't have that experience, but I have seen many mothers with critically ill and dying babies. I have a bit more experience than most people of both the tragedies and the joys of birth. I now work in public health, and a good deal of my recent work has been on intellectual disability, specifically my work with Special Olympics Ireland, and on autism.
In 1983, I was in my final year in medical school, when the 8th amendment was brought in. The purpose of this amendment was to prohibit any legislation regulating abortion in Ireland. Abortion, was, and is, illegal under the 1861 Offences against the Person Act. At the time, my father, a solicitor, and many other lawyers, including Alan Shatter, argued that the effect of the amendment would be to bring in a right to abortion, under the constitution. This subsequently turned out to be correct. Truthfully, I cannot now remember how I voted in 1983. I do remember watching SPUC in action, and later their trying to use the courts to muzzle people. At the time, I disliked them, – they did little to protect any child, born or unborn.
So, now, I think the 8th amendment was a bad idea. Abortion ought to be the subject of legislation, not an item in the constitution. Placing it in the constitution let the Oireacthas off the hook. There will be, almost certainly, be a vote to repeal it, and it will almost certainly fall. Both of these I support.
The hard question is what ought to replace it. At the moment, in the UK, abortion is available on demand. My view is that once a woman is pregnant there are two sets of rights involved – hers, and the baby's. I also believe that rights impose duties, both on individuals and on the wider society. If they do not, they are vacuous. I do not believe that any right, of anyone, trumps all others in every circumstance. Managing rights, and the conflict of rights, is hard. I also appreciate, very clearly, that I am not ever going to be in the situation of being pregnant and not wanting to be.
What about unwanted pregnancy? I said earlier that I disliked SPUC. This was because for all their rhetoric about protecting babies, they did little to support women who found pregnancy difficult. Women can and do find themselves in bad situations, often because of poverty, which are made much worse by pregnancy. For me, the right social response is to support the woman, not terminate the pregnancy. I accept that others disagree, but having cared for a baby born at 22 weeks, and seen her parents interacting with a child who was going to live for less than an hour, I believe strongly that babies have rights, both in-utero, and after delivery. As a country, we have obligations to vindicate these rights, but also to balance these with the rights of the mother. This may not be easy, but there is no guarantee that a serious rights based approach will be easy.
In other countries, many babies affected by congenital anomalies, and chromosomal anomalies are terminated, purely because of their condition. I am unalterably opposed to selective termination based on gender, race, anatomy, or chromosome count. I take a firm rights based approach to disability, and this includes a right to live. Please try to imagine what people with Down syndrome think of quasi-routine termination of babies with trisomy 21, or better yet, ask someone.
What about fatal foetal anomalies? By far the commonest of these is anencephaly. This is a condition in which the brain fails to form. Such babies miscarry, or die very shortly after birth, and are now usually diagnosed on the first routine ultrasound in pregnancy. I do not see any realistic objection to termination in such a case if that is the mother's choice. Other conditions are proposed, as 'fatal foetal anomalies', for example Edward's syndrome (trisomy 18) and Patau's syndrome (trisomy 13). Many children affected by these two disorders die within the first year of life, but some do not. I do not believe that these, and the many similar disorders, are in the same category as anencephaly.
Are there difficult cases? Of course. The tragic death of Savita Halappanavar is a good example. I said earlier that it is hard to balance the rights of mother and baby. This may show what can happen when you fail to do do the work of finding the correct balance (there were several distinct issues in her care, besides her pregnancy). For me, (bearing in mind that I am not an obstetrician), a reasonable treatment for a woman in her condition might have been a termination. What about another tragedy – a woman raped, and pregnant, as in the X case? I try not be a hypocrite. If my daughter were in that situation, I would ensure that, if she so chose, she could have a termination. I'm well-paid, well-educated, and well-connected. I would have no difficulty arranging for this. I don't see that I can argue that other women should be denied this.
I think we need comprehensive, but quite restrictive, legislation on abortion. I respect most of those who disagree with me, on both sides. I admire the courage of James Reilly and the Fine Gael/Labour government bringing in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. This Act is, literally, tied in knots by the constitution. It needs to be un-knotted. If the Oireachtas does not do it, I think the courts will, perhaps following the very recent judgement in Northern Ireland.
Evictions in Tyrrelstown
Listening to Morning Ireland this morning, and reading Kitty Holland's excellent article in the Irish Times made my blood boil. Briefly 60 or more families in Tyrrelstown are going to be legally evicted over the next four months by Goldman Sachs. The reason is that a Goldman Sachs linked investment fund, Beltany Property Finance, wishes to sell the houses. As many as 208 families in total may be evicted in this one estate. All of this is legal.
I'm no lawyer, but the relevant Act is the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. The relevant bit is Section 34 'Grounds for termination by landlord'. Under this landlords may terminate tenancies on several grounds. One, Ground 3 i the table in that section is this :-
'The landlord intends, within 3 months after the termination of the tenancy under this section, to enter into an enforceable agreement for the transfer to another, for full consideration, of the whole of his or her interest in the dwelling or the property containing the dwelling'.
I assume this is the basis for the termination of tenancies here (but again, I am no lawyer, so if you know better, let me know).
There is little rental property available in Dublin. This morning on Daft.ie there were 2 properties to rent in Tyrrelstown,and only 400 properties anywhere in Dublin at under €1,500 a month. The odds are that most of these families will have to move, and many will not be able to find accommodation at a price they can pay. The effect of these lawful actions will be to render a large number of families homeless.
The scandal of homelessness in Dublin has been obvious for three years. The roots go back a lot longer, to the crash, to a poor quality, and corrupt, planning system, to greedy and feckless developers, to the decision of local authorities not to bother with social housing, and to our appallingly lax laws on tenancy rights. The response from the Department of the Environment today, that the tenants should use the PRTB to delay eviction, is best described as embarrassing. Clearly the civil service, Minister Kelly, and the Department will continue to sit on their hands, and close their eyes tightly. It is time to act.
Although we have yet to form a Government, the Oireahctas is still there. If our politicians could focus on something other than Irish Water, and various combinations of coalitions, they could pass a quick amendment to the Act, giving tenants the right to continue a tenancy even if a property is sold. This is already the norm in commercial property here, and it is usual in residential property lettings in most other developed countries. Anyone up for this? It would be a very constructive way to commemorate 1916.
Politics, politicians, and political activism
There was a fascinating interview on the Marian Finucane show on RTE radio yesterday, with Gino Kenny, the newly elected People before Profit TD. Mr. Kenny, an interesting and thoughtful man, was asked how he felt about being a politician. He was quite clear in his response, he was not a politician, he was a political activist, and in any event he would never be a 'career politician'.
This made me think. I'm not, yet, an elected politician, although if my Seanad campaign succeeds, I hope to be. I usually describe myself as a doctor, an academic and an activist. Asked for more detail, I will say that I am both a political activist, as a Fine Gael supporter, and a trade union activist; and a social activist, as much of my research, and much of my work outside the academic world, is concerned with supporting people who are working to make their lives better.
Politicians are not especially trusted, although they may be more trusted than journalists, they are much less trusted than academics, or 'people like me'. Perhaps this is what Deputy Kenny is getting at when he rejects the label of politician, but embraces that of political activist.
Why am I an activist? I grew up in a politically aware and active family, and I was educated by the Jesuits. In both settings, there was a strong emphasis on doing what you could for your community and for others. My mother, Nuala, was very active on our community council, and my late father, Michael, was active in Fine Gael, working with the late Mark Clinton in particular.
I went to school in a fee-paying school, Belvedere, which backed onto the Hardwicke St flats in the North inner-city. No-one in my school could fail to notice the poverty, and the lack of opportunity, for those who grew up around us. Many people from the school, and the wider Jesuit community, notably Fr. Peter McVerry, were, and are, very involved in community work.
I'm a doctor, and I chose a branch of my profession, public health, which is centrally concerned with issues like poverty, justice, housing, diet, exercise, disability, social inequality, environmental justice, and access to education and healthcare. For me, moving into electoral politics, is a very logical continuation of my own work.
Why am I not running as a Fine Gael candidate? I support quite a lot of what the outgoing Government did, in particular, the necessary, and brutal cuts in expenditure, while maintaining social welfare rates, and the tax rises and the pension levy. I think salary cuts to high earning public servants, like myself, could have, and should have, been deeper.
I opposed two of their policies strongly, both publicly and privately. The first was their failure to deal with the housing crisis. NAMA should have been required to build some social housing. Tenants should have been given a right of tenure, even if a property is sold. This should still be done.
The second was the rise in child poverty. I'm not stupid. I was well aware that large cuts in public spending would hurt poorer people, more than wealthier people. I did not, and do not, believe that Ireland had any choice. Having just read Kevin Cardiff's book on the financial crisis I am more sure of that than before. However, I also believe that some more targeted measures, such as maintaining support for school assistants, breakfast clubs and the like, and some low-cost innovations, for example targeted support for childcare for those seeking to return to work, would have made a difference.
Why run as an Independent, and why not take a party whip? Simply, if I have the honour of being elected, in the TCD constituency, to the Seanad, I can be more effective as an independent. I can do a better job, both of representing Trinity, and of advocating for progressive change, outside a political party.
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Prince George wears pajamas to meet President Obama
Jenny Depper
The Obama's Evening With Prince William & Kate Middleton
Bedtime still applies, even when you're about to meet the President of the United States.
Prince George got a special meet-and-greet with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at Kensington Palace on Friday and since it was close to his bedtime, he sported a checkered blue set of pajamas, a bathrobe, and black royal slippers for his big introduction.
Prince George was shown in several intimate photos released by Kensington Palace greeting POTUS and FLOTUS after they stopped by the private residence to chat with his parents, Prince William and Kate Middleton ahead of the state dinner.
The Obamas, who gifted Prince George with a rocking horse when he was first born, got a chance to see the tiny tot in action on their special gift.
Prince George thanks @BarackObama for his rocking horse, given to him when he was born pic.twitter.com/xXIF8QeQvz
— The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (@KensingtonRoyal) April 22, 2016
The 2-year-old royal thanked the Obamas for their gift with a firm handshake and a knowing smile before he hopped on his pony and showed off his riding skills. In the photo, Kate can be seen clapping for George while POTUS got down on his level to cheer George on. Talk about getting the "royal treatment."
The President and First Lady definitely seemed charmed by the mini-prince. And who wouldn't be? It's not every day that you get to meet a future king in nothing but his blue-checkered PJs.
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"Annie! Annie, are you up yet? I'm taking the kids to school!"
Avery's voice carries well throughout the house and reminds me of home. I'm awake, but have yet to rise. I have to now.
First stop is the bathroom. I see to Mother Nature's necessities and then my own. In the mirror, a woman with average length hair in a boring colour stared back. Her eyes peer passively back at me, and her flawless skin doesn't reveal her age.
As I brush my hair and apply just enough makeup, I wonder if thinking of myself in the third person is normal. It's not important, unlike breakfast, which Avery's prepared for me.
I have enough time to say goodbye to my family. My two children, Summer and Jim, are good kids. They're well liked, and rarely spoken of. Sure, they could be smarter, or more attractive, but they're solid B students and that's what really matters.
My stalwart husband, Avery, is as average as his children. He tries to stay in shape but it's hard to fit it all in, between helping me with the kids, church responsibilities, and his job as an accountant. He has a car in the garage that doesn't run but he swears it will one day.
As for me, as far as most people are concerned I'm a meek, boring housewife. But it makes for a good cover as the neighbourhood's number one option for the dirt on Mr. Next Door. That's right, I'm Mrs. Body, the person behind the Busy Body Private Detective Services.


The Vietnamese pygmy dormouse is as blind as a bat—and it navigates just like one, too. Scientists have found that the small, nimble brown rodent (Typhlomys cinereus chapensis), native to Vietnam and parts of China, uses sound waves to get a grip on its environment. Measurements of the mice in the Moscow Zoo revealed that the species can't see objects because of a folded retina and a low number of neurons capable of collecting visual information, among other things. When researchers recorded the animals, they discovered they make ultrasonic noises similar to those used by some bat species, and videos showed they made the sounds at a much greater pulse rate when moving than while resting. These sound waves bounce off objects, allowing the rodent to sense its surroundings—an ability known as echolocation, or biological sonar. The find makes the dormouse the only tree-climbing mammal known to use ultrasonic echolocation, the team reports in Integrative Zoology . The authors suggest that an extinct ancestor of these dormice was likely a leaf bed–dwelling animal that lost the ability to see in the darkness in which it is active. As the animals began to move up into the trees over time, they likely developed the ultrasonic echolocation abilities to help them deal with a new acrobatic lifestyle. The discovery lends support to the idea that bats may have evolved echolocation before the ability to fly.


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Q: "hdfs dfs -du" vs "hdfs dfs -count", differences on expecting same results Why hdfs  dfs -du -s   and hdfs dfs -count -v (supposeed same bytes at CONTENT_SIZE field) are (near but) not the same values?

Example
# at user1@borderNode1
hdfs dfs -count -v  "hdfs://XYZ/apps/hive/warehouse/p_xx_db.db"
#   DIR_COUNT   FILE_COUNT       CONTENT_SIZE PATHNAME
#        9087      1610048    141186781009632 hdfs://XYZ/apps/hive/warehouse/p_xx_db.db
hdfs dfs -du -s  "hdfs://XYZ/apps/hive/warehouse/p_xx_db.db"
#141186781010380  hdfs://XYZ/apps/hive/warehouse/p_xx_db.db

The value 141186781009632 is not 141186781010380.
The difference 141186781010380-141186781009632=748 is less tham the blocksize (134217728 in the example)... so, perhaps, one is exact and other not, but I not see this kind of documentation on Hadoop.

PS: no clues here neither at guide,

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*hdfs dfs -count: "Count the number of ... bytes under the directory... output column CONTENT_SIZE".

*dfs -du: "Displays sizes files... contained in the given directory".

Guide say only that both are number of  bytes contained  under the directory.

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Q: Best Java Data Structure for Fast, Concurrent Insertions My use case is as follows: I have 10 threads simultaneously writing to one data structure. The order of the elements in the data structure does not matter. All the elements are unique. I will only be doing a read from this data structure only once at the very end.
What would be the fastest native Java data structure to suit this purpose? From my reading, it seems Collections.synchronizedList might be the go to option?

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I have 10 threads simultaneously writing to one data structure.

I think it would be best to use a separate data structure per thread. That way no synchronisation is needed between the threads, and it would be much more CPU cache friendly too.
At the end they could be joined.
As for the underlying structure: if the elements are fixed size, an array/verctor would be best. Joining them would only take a copy of the block of memory they occupy, depending on the implementation - but lists would always be slower.

A: There is no need for you to synchronize on a list as each of the thread can work on their local copy and at the end can join results from all the threads into one final list.
If am going to use JDK7 and above then I would use fork and join for the same where i would create simple List in each forked task and finally join it in the main list at the end in the join phase.
If am on JDK6 then i could use a CountDownLatch with count as 10. Each and every thread after writing to their individual list (passed to the thread from main controller thread) counts down the latch and in the main controller, once all threads are done, i would combine all the result into one.


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Sony hacking: were PlayStation servers used to spread stolen data?
Following the release of confidential documents and four unreleased films, as reported by We Live Security here, the bad news for Sony continued as it was reported that the company's own PlayStation servers were used to distribute the stolen data, The Independent reports.
Alan Martin	 3 Dec 2014 - 02:18PM
Following the release of confidential documents and four unreleased films, as reported by We Live Security here, the bad news for Sony continued as it was reported that the company's own PlayStation servers were used to distribute the stolen data, The Independent reports.
Following the release of confidential documents and four unreleased films, in the Sony hacking reported by We Live Security here, the bad news for the company continued as it was reported that the company's own PlayStation servers were used to distribute the stolen data, The Independent reports.
The Register claims that the file, weighing in at 27.78GB, was spread by 'more than 60 systems' seeding it through BitTorrent that appeared to be virtual servers from the Amazon EC2 cloud. However 'a number' of these servers also serve websites for Sony Computer Entertainment, with some of them having SSL certificates signed by the Japanese manufacturer.
Sony Computer Entertainment is supposed to be unrelated to Sony Pictures, which has led to some speculation that the hacking is more widespread than originally feared.
Security researcher Dan Tentler has a theory as to how the two subsidiaries servers could be connected. Speaking to Forbes he speculated: "A random guess? Sony is in the habit of releasing video games that are parallel to movies – like the Transformers franchise, for example. Perhaps the EC2 instances are actually shared in small part between the PlayStation Network and Sony Pictures for the promotion of the games, or transferring of image/creative assets, and someone at Sony Pictures had SSH keys for one or more of the instances, or perhaps login credentials. Think of it this way – if anyone in the organization had email correspondence with someone at the PlayStation Network and talked about keys or credentials or whatever, then the attackers would have access to that data."
It's possible that the files being shared by PlayStation Network is not indicative of the hackers having control of Sony's servers, but of an attempt by the company to catch thieves trying to steal their content. However, all these Sony related servers have now vanished as seeders from the BitTorrent file, so it seems plausible that the servers were indeed being used without the company's knowledge, as the fallout from the Sony hacking continues.


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From the readers: Vanished parks, Hookland & Garage Sale Finds
Continued thanks to everyone who reads Papergreat, as it barrels toward the five-year anniversary of its first post! Lots of great stuff from you to get to today...
Zita Spangler: From St. John's Reformed to Rolling Green Park: Deborah Hoover writes: "I remember being taken to the park every year for the Hoover family reunion, but I was too small and it was too long ago. I don't remember anything about the park itself other than it being there. I do remember that my cousin, who was three years older, got to ride the coaster. Not wanting to be left out I asked to be taken on as well. Only to be told I was too small. Maybe next year they said. Unfortunately there was no next year, the park was torn down that winter. Considering they parked 8,000 cars at Knoebels yesterday (from Dick Knoebel himself) they may have jumped the gun on tearing Rolling Green down."
Are your chickens ready for the autumn and winter? Etegami artist Dosankodebbie writes: "I love this post, and I had to send the link to my many happy chicken-raising friends. (They are happy people and their chickens are happy chickens.) Thanks!"
A label for Frostie Root Beer (a jailhouse-born beverage): Anonymous writes: "I haven't seen Frostie root beer in at least 40 years, thought it wasn't made any more, until today! Thanks to SHEETZ! Awesome root beer!"
And westgordon adds: "Frostie is available from Ingles supermarkets, based in Asheville, N.C., with over 200 stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Frostie.biz is company site but it is extremely poor."
Old postcard featuring Markleton Sanatorium in Somerset County, Pa.: In the previous "From the Readers" roundup, an anonymous reader wrote: "The building is not there, I'm trying to find the coordinates so I can visit myself. I know I'm close, but I can't tell where the building was."
One month later, I received this anonymous comment — I'm assuming it's the same person: "The old road is grown in and you will have to walk on a logging road to get to the flat. It is .5 miles south of the bridge. I have hunted through the ruins of the building and only have [found] a few bricks and the foundation of the building. I live in the area and there is nothing to be found. Sorry for the bad news but I was interested when I walked across the building so I asked around and found information on this."
Advertisement for 1924 silent-movie version of Peter Pan: Mom writes: "Thurl Ravenscroft was also the original voice of Tony the Tiger ... and he was Grrrrrrrrreat!!!!"
Two more ghostly vintage titles from Scholastic: Regarding Arrow Book of Ghost Stories, Linda Chenoweth Harlow, who is one of our best fans on Facebook, writes: "I have this!!!! I got it in elementary school. ... I'm 64 now."
Cheerful Card Company can help you earn extra money for the holidays: The memories keep pouring in! Bob Lunsford writes: "I am almost 69 and remember selling them for several years in my early and pre-teen years. I enjoyed selling them and enjoyed the money although I never sold 100 boxes in a year."
And John Everett writes: "I earned the money to buy my first bicycle this way. I think I had saved $19.50, the guy wanted $25 but my dad talked to his dad and I got it for $22.50 and my dad loaned me the $3. Schwinn Stingray, about 1971. It was a good experience, and I probably wouldn't have gotten a bike for Christmas as a neighbor kid had bonked his head on the pavement (no helmets then)."
Scholastic Fest: #11, Nine Witch Tales: Jane writes: "I had this book! I loved picking out books from Scholastic."
Hookland Q&A feedback
Papergreat drew many readers for "Questions, answers & mysteries with Hookland's David Southwell" last month [Part 1, Part 2]. Most of the comments and reactions came via Twitter. Here, for posterity, are a few of them:
@HooklandGuide @Papergreat Just read to the end and had one of those WHEN YOU SEE IT moments, little snapping noises from inside my hat
— Kay Orchison (@kayorchison) October 20, 2015
@HooklandGuide @Papergreat Thanks for these interviews by the way. I wasn't so sure what Hookland was about, but now I feel enlightened :)
— Marion Grace Woolley (@AuthorMGW) October 21, 2015
@HooklandGuide @Papergreat @TheatreSean @adamsimonx @TreasaNeil got to say Hookland has been my dreamscape for many a year...#wishiwasthere
— mike fuge (@mike_fuge) October 23, 2015
I am dizzy with the possibilities. So many ways to interact with Hookland as a writer and gamer. https://t.co/pv82pk9R8b
— Hi from Heather (@mensan98th) November 8, 2015
Tom from Garage Sale Finds
On November 2, Tom from the awesome Garage Sale Finds website [http://garagesalin.blogspot.com/] was kind enough to take the time to comment on numerous Papergreat posts.
My recommendation for your free time this weekend is to take a deep dive into his website, which he's been operating since 2010. It's full of fascinating and nostalgic posts, and well worth your time if you enjoy history, ephemera, collectibles and the forgotten bits of history that end in cardboard boxes marked "25¢." Some of the great posts I've worked my way through so far include Unsung, Easley Street and Mott Ramsey.
Here's a roundup of the comments Tom left on Papergreat:
Run, little boys, run! Run from the Pumpkin Man! "I think the most horrifying thing about this postcard is that the two boys have no qualms about trampling their mate, leaving him behind as a sacrifice."
Sit in the chair, hold the cat, and I'll take your picture: "Somehow, I missed out on checking on your blog this entire season. I'm catching up now. It's amazing what detail you could get with these old b&w pictures."
Movie and TV moments lodged in The Twilight Zone of your mind: "You might try searching for the plot line at kindertrauma.com or submit your own 'kindertrauma' and someone may very well recognize these movies." [Note: I have taken Tom's advice and there will be a dramatic update in the next week or so!]
Two more ghostly vintage titles from Scholastic: "I had that Arrow Book of Ghost Stories when I was a kid. The funny thing is, it had pen marks on the cover too. I also had '13 Ghostly Tales' which is another Scholastic collection in the same vein." [Here's one of the Garage Sale Finds posts on Scholastic books.]
The Three Investigators #1: The Secret of Terror Castle: "I had a brief fling with 'The 3 Investigators' around 6th grade. For some reason, the series never caught on with me. But I did love those end papers. I'm sure that's what made me pick up the book in the first place. The promise of ghosts in a graveyard had great allure."
Vintage Halloween postcard: Running away from the ghosts: "I've never seen a ghost, but I once heard noises that were completely unexplainable."
The Kitsch Bitsch serves up silly and creepy content for Halloween: "That top picture may be the creepiest thing I've seen this entire Halloween season."
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Asians Are Less Creative Than Westerners
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Compare and contrast two main sociological theories of crime and deviance.
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According to the federal government in Baghdad, following a major advance on Kurdish-held territories, Iraqi forces were able to capture the governorate building in the centre of Kirkuk city.
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Q: rules precedence in bison Here is the grammar rules:
ProcessExpression :  EventExpression "->" ProcessExpression

                    | ProcessName ;

Please can you tell me how can I tell to bison that the first rule has the highest precedence than the second one?
I have tried:
%nonassoc PROC

%right "->"

ProcessExpression :  EventExpression "->" ProcessExpression

                    | ProcessName % prec PROC;

But without any result.
Thank you.

A: For resolving reduce/reduce conflicts, bison gives rules precedence in the order they are in the source file, so by being first, the first rule has higher precedence.  But that is apparently not what you want, or you wouldn't be asking this question.
Using %nonassoc/%right gives precedences to tokens for resolving shift/reduce conflicts.  In this case what matters is the precedence of a token to shift to the precedence of a rule to be reduced.  There's only one rule involved (though other rules may exist partially parsed in the current state), so it makes no sense to talk about one rule having higher or lower precedence than another in this situation.
So what is it you're trying to do?  What exactly is going wrong?  Are EventExpression and ProcessName somewhat similar so they have conflicts?  You give no information about what those rules are...

A: I think, you can apply what you have written, only when there is a left recursion. So try something like this.
%nonassoc PROC
%left EVENT

ProcessExpression :  EventExpression "->" ProcessExpression %prec EVENT

                    | ProcessName % prec PROC;

Thanks,
Gokul.


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At Emberall we use [rails_admin](https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin) as an easy way to administer data in our backend. It's convenient because it gives us a visual way to edit data and fix customer issues that any employee can use without having to learn SQL.

A minor inconvenience that we've run into is the necessity of doing time zone calculations in our heads as part of normal usage. Our servers are set to the "America/Los_Angeles" timezone, but we have employees in several timezones (and I'm currently based out of London!). When a customer calls in saying that their recorder isn't syncing, it's very helpful to be able to look at our data and see when the last successful sync was.

To avoid having to mentally translate that timestamp into the current timezone, I've configured our admin interface to show the server's local time as part of the rails_admin header. To add this to your own configuration, just add the following to your rails_admin initializer.

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  }
end
```


Anyone who's seen the Matrix remembers the infamous, Red pill or Blue pill scene which signifies the choice to see with emotion or to see with logic, right brained or left brained.
The main idea of Bernay, is to convey an emotional response through a picture or idea, so that masses would associate that picture or idea with that emotion. It's very simple idea, yet highly effective, and used today in nearly all advertisement commercials including pharmaceutical drugs, military recruitment, and alcohol.
In a system that is controlled by emotion, your emotions directly correlate to the the masses, friend or enemy. Never mind if that guy just got cheated on, or if that girl just lost a relative, negative emotions mean to these people: there is danger.
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CHICAGO, IL -- The 51st edition of NeoCon, held from June 10 to 12, 2019 at The Mart in Chicago, IL, was a resounding success, further establishing itself as the premier, global platform for connecting, learning and conducting business in the commercial interiors industry. This year's event was marked by robust attendance and a palpable energy that coursed throughout the show, as the commercial A&D community immersed themselves in everything design.
The NeoCon Plaza, an experiential outdoor environment sponsored and outfitted by Haworth and Haworth Collection, as well as by Sunbrella Contract and Econyl by Aquafil, was a hit with attendees who used it to connect, collaborate, relax, recharge, unwind and enjoy the outdoors. A direct example of the movement of incorporating the outdoors into the workplace, the space -- which was designed by Gensler Chicago in collaboration with Forward Fruit Branded
Environments -- was just one of many amenity-filled features show-goers enjoyed. A captivating educational program, headlined by keynote presenters, Robin Standefer, Stephen Alesch, Ilse Crawford and Liz Ogbu, in addition to new designer-led tours of notable Chicago spaces, dynamic installations and can't-miss industry gatherings, rounded out the 51st edition.
Byron Morton, vice president of leasing for NeoCon, said, "The success of any given built project lies in how effective, useful, enjoyable and healthy it is for those who occupy the space. Applying that measure of success to NeoCon 2019, I think it's fair to say it was a strong, vibrant edition. Whether it was connecting with colleagues outdoors in the NeoCon Plaza, taking in the powerful keynote presentations and seminar offerings, or exploring the many floors of showroom and exhibitor spaces, innovations and activations, the design world was treated to an inspirational and productive experience."
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"Tarkett's NeoCon 2019 will be remembered by very robust traffic throughout the show's three days," said Chris Stulpin, CCO for Tarkett North America. "We met with numerous workplace customers, as well as key end-users from across all segments. Design firms were very well represented from a diverse geography, and our strategic channel partners came out in droves. We were thrilled with attendance and even more excited by the overwhelmingly positive response to our products from both existing customers and new relationships."
"We had high expectations for NeoCon this year, as we significantly promoted our expanded presence at the show, along with all of the new product families we'd be previewing," said Kurt James, marketing director for Claridge Products. "So we were ready for heavy booth traffic, but the volume, consistency and quality of attendees truly exceeded our expectations. I would say this year's show was outstanding for us on all levels. We knocked it out of the park."
"We are extremely happy about the overall experience at NeoCon," said Samu Hallfors, CEO and founder of Framery. "Our stands captured a lot of attention and traffic and we had plenty of really good meetings and interactions throughout the fair. Our latest innovations were very well received, and people can't wait to get their hands on them in the fall. Naturally it's also always nice to be recognized with awards both for the booth and our innovations."
"This year's show was historic -- full of excitement, launches and conversations that showcase the huge potential of the commercial industry to continue breaking ground with innovative solutions," said Jeff Collum, president and CEO of Teknoflor. "There was vibrancy around HMTX's presence and a feeling of power and promise around our Teknoflor brand."
"Our first NeoCon marked a significant milestone for Luxxbox as we continue to expand into the North American market, providing holistic acoustic solutions to designers around the world," said Jason Bird, founder and creative director at Luxxbox. "NeoCon presented the opportunity to meet with existing and new clients, and launch new lines including our Waffle Discs and Leaves. We're thrilled with the recognition our products received in the various awards programs, including Best of NeoCon, The HiP Awards, and Product Innovations Awards for Blade and Linea acoustic lights, some of our most progressive solutions to date."
"We had a terrific Neocon 2019," said David Crimmins, vice president of sales and marketing for Allermuir | Senator. "We felt a strong increase in traffic compared to prior years, driven primarily by award winning product introductions like Kin, our new showroom in The Mart and overall strong macroeconomic conditions. We found customers engaged, inspired and actively seeking products with inspired design and immediate availability."
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