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Russians Turn Their Attention to Albania for Summer Holidays
July 1, 2019July 1, 2019
TIRANA, July 1
Russian tourists in Albania, especially during the summer seasons, have always been present, but in recent years their number has increased dramatically, thanks to the Russian tourist agencies promoting the Balkan country in their packages. Also, to mention this summer season, there is a direct weekly charter from Moscow to Tirana from Ural Airlines, making it easier and saving time for the Russian tourists who choose Albania as their summer destination for their holidays.
Mark Savin
Mark Savin, a blogger, and photographer along with Larissa Akhaniva, are two tourists who have planned a five-day trip in Albania, going from north of the country to the south. Both of them are optimistic about their holidays in Albania, as a tourist destination, and their mission is to take insight from the terrain, in order to create packages to offer to the Russian market.
According to Mark Savin, some posts on his personal Instagram account (which has more than 21.000 followers) have received special attention, and to him, Albanian nature resembles a lot with Switzerland's landscape. He says that he has been in Switzerland for three months and has visited most of the country, and when he came to Albania he was surprised to find impressive mountains, especially the village of Valbona in Kukes County.
He says that Valbona has a small resemblance with Switzlerland's villages, whereas the lakes are very beautiful, and they remind him of an intertwine between Switzerland and Tunisia. He closes by saying that he cannot wait to explore the rest of Albania.
Mark Savin, blogger and photographer says that Valbona village in the north of the country has a small resemblance with Switzerland's villages
Larisa Akhaniva, a manager of Public Relations from the agency 'Tui Russia', says that the breathtaking nature and the hospitality of the locals are the two things that have left an impression on her. She underlines that Albania has all the potentials to develop tourism, but what needs to improve is the service.
Larisa Akhaniva
As a manager of PR, she has tried to promote Albania through her agency. Thanks to this short trip in Albania, Larissa with Mark Savin have visited many parts of the country, but because of the tight agenda, they would not be able to go to the very south, in Saranda city.
Because of her work, she travels a lot and Albania already has a special place in her heart. She tells that when we talk about Albania, the main thing is nature. Many countries, don't have the same natural assets, or the same rivers and mountains. When she was hiking in the mountains or sailing in the lakes, it was a marvelous experience.
And the second thing, that has left an impression on her, are the people. She confides that she has never met such friendly people and open-minded. According to her, the future of tourism is exactly in small countries, such as Albania, with identity, unique landscape and colors.
Source and Photo Credit/ Monitor
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UBIT "Parking Tax" Repeal Signed Into Law
A provision that levied a 21 percent federal tax on parking and transportation benefits provided by nonprofit organizations has been permanently repealed.
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed a bipartisan tax bill last week that includes the repeal of the unrelated business income tax (UBIT) on transportation and parking benefits that was estimated to have cost nonprofits an average of $12,000 a year, according to research by Independent Sector.
The bill is part of a larger spending package that had to be approved in order to keep the government running. The president signed the bill into law over the weekend.
The repeal of the tax has been a focus of lobbying efforts by AFP and the Charitable Giving Coalition over the past two years since the provision was enacted in late 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The bill also eliminates a two-tiered excise tax on foundation investments and set just a single rate of 1.39 percent. Under the existing law, foundation pay either two percent of their investments, or one percent if their charitable distributions exceed the average payout during the previous five years.
10 Dec 2020 AFP News

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» Texas creates anti-trafficking unit and increases inspections
Texas creates anti-trafficking unit and increases inspections
On behalf of Law Office of Osvaldo J. Morales III P.C. | Aug 31, 2020 | Criminal Defense
A number of business owners in Texas could find themselves facing potential allegations of forced labor or human trafficking. Because of an increase in awareness campaigns, social media discussions often center on undocumented immigrants working without pay. A newly created anti-trafficking unit and reporting system also focuses on the personal services industry.
Clients of legitimate nail salons or massage spas may attempt to question employees and discover clues of illicit activities. They could then email the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to report suspicions of wrongdoing. As noted by KVUE-TV, an agency official may begin an investigation based on concerns forwarded through the new system.
Reports of illicit activity could spark TDLR inspection
Businesses authorized to operate in Texas agree to allow local, state and federal officials to enter the premises on request. If the TDLR believes an establishment may have broken the law, it could result in an unannounced inspection.
Maintaining up-to-date licenses for the business and its employees may provide ample proof that the operation has no association with undocumented workers. Clearly displaying employees' licenses at their work stations could help demonstrate to a TLDR inspector that the business complies with the law.
Allegations of forced laborers may require a legal defense
The TDLR has trained employees to conduct investigations to uncover the possibility of forced laborers. Texas has also increased its funding to comply with the federal government's zero-tolerance initiatives for combating human trafficking.
Increased suspicions and the resulting investigations may lead to a business owner facing an allegation of human trafficking. To convict, however, a prosecutor must prove that an individual exploited a worker to perform labor at low wages or against his or her will.


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Die Bernal-Inseln sind eine Gruppe aus vier hauptsächlich schneebedeckten Inseln und einigen Rifffelsen im Archipel der Biscoe-Inseln vor der Loubet-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Im Crystal Sound liegen sie etwa 16 km östlich des südlichen Endes der Lavoisier-Insel.

Kartiert wurden sie anhand von Vermessungen, die der Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey zwischen 1958 und 1959 durchführte, sowie mittels Luftaufnahmen der US-amerikanischen Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). Das UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee benannte sie 1960 nach dem britischen Physiker John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), der 1933 gemeinsam mit Ralph Howard Fowler eine Abhandlung über die Kristallstruktur von Eis und die Lokalisation des Wasserstoffatoms verfasst hatte.

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 Bernal Islands auf geographic.org (englisch)

Inselgruppe (Südlicher Ozean)
Inselgruppe (Antarktika)
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Why do you need SCM when you don't have developers?
As your company grows, the developers who work for you will build more and more source code. They probably already use some form of source code management internally (if not, run away!) but you should always require them to use a source control system that is under your control.
Your contractor might disappear: are you ready to start from scratch and loose several months re-doing what was done before?
Deciding to switch to another contractor should be one of the rights that you can use without permission from the previous contractor.
Having one source control system for everyone will also help you make sure that the history, versions and branches of your projects are saved and always accessible.
To interact with a SCM system, every developer will get an account (a login and some form of identification). Initially, source code will be pushed by one of the developers and then all the others will pull it from the system.
When one of the developer does changes to the source code, she will push (or commit) the changes to the server where other developers will pull them. If a conflict arises between the work of two developers, the one who tries to push last will have to solve the conflice on her computer before pushing it.
If a version of the software is shipped, the current version of the source code will be tagged. This means that using the tag name, it will always be possible to go back to the exact source code that was used for this version.
When major works need to be done on a new version but the old version must also be maintained (which eventually happens to all software projects), a branch will be created for the new version. You can think of it as a copy of the project (like project-v2) except that branches keep the history of the files and let developers move fix from the old version to the new one (or vice-versa) easily. This is called a merge and at this point, you probably know more about SCM than you ever wished for!
How do you set-up SCM?
People who think developers do not like fashion should look at the world of SCM. There really are some trends that have evolved over the years. CVS was once the big kid in town, then Apacke Subversion took over and more recently, written and promoted by Linus Torvalds who uses it for the Linux kernel development, Git has became the most popular source code management tool. You might read online that it is a de-centralized source code management system which is true, but for our startup purpose, we will make sure that everyone pushes their changes to a central place.
Different companies have popped-up on the web that offers Git hosting for a small monthly fee. The two most famous are Github and Atlassian's BitBucket. They both offer a great web interface to manage your projects and users and will let you browse the source code and probably more important for you: the history messages (also called log) that developers write to detail their changes when they push something.
Bitbucket pricing is free for up to 5 users and an unlimited number of projects. After that, you have to pay: $10 for 10 users, $25 for 25 users, etc.
Github is only free if your project source code is public. To make it private, you will need to get an organization account and pay. Pricing starts at $7 for 5 repositories (you can think as one repository as being the same thing as one project), $12 for 10, $22 for 20, etc. They also offer "business" accounts ($25 for 10 repositories and up) which give you more flexibility in the management of permission and billing.
With both companies, you can start small and upgrade later. Bitbucket will let you start for free where you need to pay at least $7 a month with Github to keep your code private. The choice depends on your specific situation (number of projects, number of developers). My very own personal opinion today is that Github is more popular than Bitbucket and you will find more developers who know Github than Bitbucket.
The name of the primary account you will open, should be the name of your organization. Open it with a general email (like contact@mydomain.com or cto@mydomain.com). You will probably want to transfer this to someone else later and it should not be your personal email address.
Do not invite anyone to the account yet, you will create one repository per project and invite your developers to each project individually. You probably do not want all your developers to look at all your projects.
Invite yourself to your projects so that you can see what the interface looks like and checkout the source code on your computer.
Now that your account is set-up, invite your developers to their project. They will get an email asking them to signup with an existing account on the service or to create a new one. Of course this will be free for them. Github is so popular than any developer should be able to get it to work, there is tons of help available online, if they tell you that they can't use it, you should worry.
When they start pushing changes, go to the project pages in your web interface. You will see your project files popping up, as well as messages from your developers with every change.
Having an SCM is nice but it is useless if it is not used right. Here are a few rules you should enfore from most-basic to more advanced ideas.
When developers push or commit something, they should always write down in the 'message box' what they did and why. It can be as simple as this: "Changed the company logo" or more detailed: "fixing bug #42: the price of the basket is now the sum of the items".
Log messages will help you understand what are the pushes about, but more importantly, they will let other developers (today or in two years) understand why things were done like this.
Do not skimp on user-accounts by letting several people share the same account. You want to be able to know who has been writing what. Each developer needs a separate scm account.
Using SCM to share the source code is great but we also want to make sure that the source code is complete. The only way to check this is to have someone take the source code from SCM on a "clean computer" and build it.
If you dont know how to do this, I would strongly recommend getting some help to do that. It will only take a few hours to get stuff straightened out (and eventually documented) when you have developers working on the project available. If you do it in three months when the developers are on vacations, it might take a lot longer!
Arguably, this is harder to achieve but really is the best way to make sure that source control is complete: you should never ship something that is not coming directly from source control. Once again, the best way to do that is to download the source from SCM and compile it on another computer than the developer's.
Once you have pushed your new version of website or application, tag it into the source code management system.
SCM is one of the most essential tools of developers. Now that you have that set up, you should take a look at the issue trackers that are included in Github and Bitbucket plans. Tracking bugs efficiently is key when developing a project!


due to a wrong prototype declaration, building uWSGI without SSL resulted in a compilation bug. The issue has been fixed.
Perl finally got full support for the Spooler subsystem. In 2.0 we added server support, in 2.0.1 we completed client support too.
this flag applies CLOSE_ON_EXEC socket flag on all of the server socket. Use it if you do not want you request-generated processes to inherit the server file descriptor.
An annoying problem with subscriptions is that the client does not know if it has been correctly subscribed to the server.
the notification subsystem is really generic. Expect more subsystem to use it in the future.
This is a Linux-only, epxerimental feature allowing you to spawn a daemon in a new pid namespace. This feature requires the master running as root.
The fastrouter and the http/https/spdy router now support "resubscription".
with this setup the fastrouter on 192.168.0.2 will have all of the records of 192.168.0.1 with the destination set to 192.168.0.1:3031.
it will register a monitor on "path" triggering the function "func" passing "data" as argument.
This two new options should make the config templating system complete for everyone.
They basically prepend and append 'blobs' to a config file.
Yeah, it sound a bit nonsense.
Note: ordering is important, –inject-before and –inject-after must be specified before the relevant config option.
Some Ruby/Rack middleware make a questionable check on SERVER_NAME/HTTP_HOST matching.
This flag allow the http router to map SERVER_NAME to HTTP_HOST automatically instead of instructing your uWSGI instances to do it.
The 'Ragnarok' is the Emperor phase executed when you ask him to shutdown.
Before 2.0.1, this procedure simply send KILL to vassals to brutally destroy them.
The new Ragnarok is way more benevolent, asking vassals to gracefully shutdown.


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Da Lat is a city of Lam Dong province. With the average height about 1500 meters above the sea level, Da Lat has a cool atmosphere, a perfect place for a vacation. Once famous with lots of beautiful scenery: The Valley of Love, Than Tho Lake (The Lake of Lament), Doi Thong Hai Mo ( The Pine hill with 2 Graves), Thac Voi (Elephant Falls),…, Da Lat nowaday somehow has lost its natural beauty, but still one of the most famous tourists destinations in Vietnam. The main attractions that you can't miss when visiting Da Lat are Xuan Huong lake, Lang Biang, Bao Dai Palace, Tran Le Xuan villas, Truc Lam Monastery, Tuyen Lam lake, Da Lat station,… Only 300 kilometers away from Sai Gon, Da Lat is a true paradise for tourist that wanted to escape from the heat of Southern Vietnam.
Airplane: From Ha Noi/ Ho Chi Minh City/ Da Nang to Lien Khuong Airport, Da Lat. Recommended airlines: Vietnam Airlines and Vietjetair. The ticket price ranging from 90,000 VND to 1.600.000 VND. Estimated travel time: 50 minutes – 1 hour 40 minutes.
Notes: From Lien Khuong Airport, you can take a bus to the city center with only 50.000 VND, or you can travel by taxi but with a higher cost: 300.000 VND/ turn. The bus will operate 24/7 and the last stop in Da Lat is Le Thi Hong Gam Street, near Da Lat Market. You should consult with the driver about the address of your hotel so that you can drop off as near as possible.
Bus: Phuong Trang and Thanh Buoi, both firms have many tours from Sai Gon to Da Lat, about 230.000 VND/ seat. This is the one-way ticket. All the buses will operate continuously (the estimated waiting time for each trip is 30 minutes- 1 hour).
Motorbike: 80.000 – 120.000 VND/ day.
Tandem bicycle: 20.000 VND/ hour. To rent a bike, you need your identity card.
Car: Over 1.000.000 VND / day ( from 8:00 to 17:00). Overtime is 100.000 VND/ hour.
Bus: There are many bus routes from the main bus station in the city center to any communes, provinces of Da Lat, Lam Dong. The bus fare is 4.000- 30.000 VND/ person, depends on the routes and where you get off.
A must-visit destination. Both markets sell many beautiful second- hand warm clothes, along with many specialties such as mulberry juice, artichoke tea, dried fruit, jam and lima bean.
The symbol of Da Lat tourism, the ideal time to visit the lake is in the early morning or dusk. There are many leisure activities for you to enjoy: pedalo, canoe or enjoying the lake on a rubble boat.
Elegance and beautiful, the palace is located on a hill over 1539 meters high.
Location: Trieu Viet Vuong street, 2,5 kilometers from Da Lat center.
Located at 2 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Street, 2 kilometers away from the city center. Tourist often visits the Flower Garden to admire and enjoy the beautiful flowers blooming year-round, as well as taking many lovely pictures.
The magnificent cathedral of the city, also the biggest one in Da Lat. True to its name ( con ga- rooster), there is a statue of a rooster on top of the bell tower. The cathedral is one of the most ancient and architectural works of France people.
Also known as Mai Anh cathedral, located on Ngo Quyen Street, 1 kilometer to the south-west of the city center. The cathedral was designed in the style of Europe 17th century, with a harmonious combination of the Western architecture and the ethnic minorities of the Central Highlands.
In Trai Mat, there are many interesting places to visit such as King Bao Dai villa, Trai Mat Market, especially Linh Phuoc Pagoda.
The most romantic and poetry destination you can't miss when visited Da Lat. Located 6 kilometers to the North- East of Da Lat center, tourist can enjoy the full view of the valley while standing on top of Vong Canh hill.
From the city center, travel north to Lac Duong, then take a left turn at the 7 kilometers milestone of Tung Lam, go for another 12 kilometers to reach Suoi Vang Valley. However, the true beauty lies along the road, that is why you should carry food and blankets with you to go on picnic wherever you like.
Located 12 kilometers to the north of the city center. When you reached the mountains, there are 2 choices for you: hiking or go by jeep. 1 jeep cost 180.000 VND / 6 person (if you go separately, each person costs 50.000 VND and must wait for 5 other people). It took only 15 minutes for the jeep to reach the top, but up to 1 hour and 30 minutes if you choose to hike. The road to the top is filled with pines and wildflower, but the view is absolutely breathtaking. You can also enjoy many grilled food here.
Located at the average height about 1500 meters above the sea level, 5 kilometers to the South of Da Lat center, on the road to Prenn pass. Here you can rent a boat to reach the small island in the lake. One round- trip cost 200.000 VND, so it is better to rent together with other tourists to save cost. However, you can still travel on foot to the island by yourself. When you reached the island, you can enjoy the bush meat ( remember to carry a blanket with you) and immerse in the peaceful atmosphere of the lake. You can even rent a hammock to rest at a cost of 7.000 VND/ hour.
Located on top of Phung Hoang mountain, above Tuyen Lam Lake, Truc Lam is the biggest monastery, as well as one of the most attractive tourist point in Da Lat. There is cable car service just opposite the monastery gate, which is the best way to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the city and many pine forests (50.000 VND/ round-trip).
Located at the beginning of Prenn pass, on route 20 from Sai Gon to Da Lat, 10 kilometers to the South of Da Lat center. Come to Prenn falls to admire the epicness but peaceful of the falls, as well as many vast pine hills. In here you can enjoy the local specialty: snakehead pottery ( 160.000 VND – 200.000 VND/ 4 people).
From Route 20, take a turn down to a 300 meters steep to reach a small valley, where you can see Datanla Falls stands pristinely. The Falls attracts tourist with its pure clean water that flows through 7 layers of stone into many giant rocks, altogether to create a majestic sight to behold.
Famous for its tea fields and vast area of wild sunflowers blooming every end of the year. From the city center, head straight toward Tran Hung Dao- Hung Vuong Street and follow the sign to Trai Mat, then ask the locals for the way to reach Xuan Truong village. Due to being located on the average height about 1650 meters above the sea level, the plantation has a cool atmosphere year- round, and is always open for free. So when you see the sign of Cau Dat factory, don't hesitate to step in.
Linh An pagoda located within Voi Falls, with many elaborately- carved Budha statues.
Located beneath D'Ran pass, Don Duong province. D'Ran town is famous for its bright yellow wild sunflower and gardens of persimmon, along with the local specialty: grilled sausage.
Located at Duc Trong province, 50 kilometers away from Da Lat. The falls is 40 meters high, stretches up to 7 levels and 100 meters wide, also it is the only falls in Lam Dong that organizes the Highlands festival in January yearly.
Located at Dambri ecotourism destinations, 18 kilometers to the North- East of Bao Loc city, 100 kilometers away from Da Lat and 200 away kilometers from Ho Chi Minh city, following route 20. Dambri is the highest falls in Lam Dong: more than 40 meters.
Located at Hill 45, 4 Village, Loc Thanh, 21 kilometers to the south of Bao Loc city. Linh Quy Phap An Pagoda is considered a paradise of Vietnam with many "sun gates", where you can immerse in breathtaking views, and become one with nature.
The price of a chicken hotpot is about 200.000 VND with half a chicken, 1 plate of noodle, 1 plate of mushroom, some bamboo shoots and a special leaf called "é".
Recommended place: Tao Ngo restaurant, 3/4 Street ( 2kilometers away from Xuan Huong lake).
The beef hotpot here is famous for its large, thick beef, not to mention the delicious tendon, tail, and the brisket point that make your stomach hunger for more. The price is very reasonable: 250.000 VND/ 4 person.
Recommended place: Ba Toan zone: A Ba Toa, Thanh Tam restaurant, also on Hoang Dieu Street.
A perfect combination of steam thin rice pancake and chicken organs, attracting many tourists that come to Da Lat. With a unique but delicious taste, this dish has pleased many customers over time.
Recommended place: Many restaurants, especially the one at 47 Tang Bac Ho Street, near Da Lat Market.
A mixed grilled ricepaper cost is about 21.000 VND, filled with egg, cheese, pate, beef jerky (or sausage), mayonnaise sauce. Grill rice paper has a wonderful smell, while still engulfing in smoke, that make you want to enjoy it as soon as possible.
Recommend place: Many small restaurants and pedlers along Bui Thi Xuan Street.
Grilled pork, served with fried rice paper, pickle and herbs. This dish has became popular in Da Lat. The main highlight is the special sauce made from liver, shrimp, and groundnut, which make the grilled sausage taste even more delicious.
Recommended place: Ba Hung restaurant, at 254 Phan Dinh Phung Street.
The best dish for breakfast, each bowl cost only 35.000 VND. Imagine starting a day with a delicious noodle bowl along with a cup of hot soy milk, you are fully prepared for a journey to Lang Biang.
Recommended place: Cong restaurant, at 1 Phu Dong Thien Vuong street.
True to its name, this dish is all about snail stuffed with finely chopped pork, added with some salad, and served with a special sauce. Each plate cost 50.000 VND.
Recommended place: A small restaurant at 33 Hai Ba Trung Street ( sometimes you have to wait for about 2-3 minutes ).
A bowl of cake soup, filled with grilled chicken, grilled fish, pork sausage, and meat. The thick noodle in the soup is made from traditional rice, making it tough but clear. This is suitable for Da Lat chill atmosphere due to its warmness and deliciousness.
Recommended place: Xuan An restaurant, at 15 Nha Chung Street.
Popular drinks of many locals here. Best served with other dishes. There are many more types of milk too, such as green bean milk, hot cocoa,… along with many sweet cakes and pastries.
Recommended place: Da Lat night market.
Popular with the youth, made from normal yogurt but with a little twist: cheese, making it has many tastes: sweet, savory, and a bit sour.
Recommended place: 48 Khe Sanh Street, 7.000 VND/ jar.
Nothing can warm your stomach after a long walk on Da lat street better than a bowl of chicken porridge.
Recommended place: Phan Boi Chau Street, Nguyen Cong Tru Street,… with the average price about 25.000 – 30.000 VND/ bowl.
Bread served with a bowl of Vietnamese meatball plus some onion. However, the taste isn't greasy at all, but very delicious.
Recommended place: Tran Nhat Duat – Hoang Dieu crossroad or near any school, market.
To reach this place, you must travel through many rocky roads, 25 kilometers away from Da Lat center, to the direction of Suoi Vang tourist site. Despite the difficultness , once you reach Ma Rung Lu Quan, you will be amazed by its beauty: lakes and trees, along with some wooden cottage, all fuse together into a mystical view, fascinate any tourist.
Located 3 kilometers away from the city center. To get there, follow 3/2 street to Sai Gon – Da Lat hotel, then take a left turn toward Cam Ly, lies before your very eyes are the most famous and ancient flower village in Da Lat. There are many vast flower fields, with different colors: from white, pink to red, guaranteed to make your picture look like a scene from a fairy tale.
Having an area of about 10 hectares full of cogon grass, Lac Duong hill, which is located in Da Sar commune, Lac Duong province, has become a popular tourist site and a perfect place for a photo, especially to people that have a passion for both photography and nature.
Located at Ta Nung commune, Lam Ha province (on the way from Da Lat to Voi Falls). Even though the garden is not as big as the one in Tay Bac, it can still makes any tourists who have seen it immediately fall in love with the buckwheat flower here, due to its white-pink color.
Became popular in 2016, Lam Vien Square fascinates tourists with its unique architecture, guarantee for many awesome freestyle pictures.
Many motel owners have designed and transformed their place into a unique homestay so that tourists can find a beautiful and unique place to rest and check-in.
With this updated list of service prices, nuong.ga hopes you will have more useful information to prepare for a wonderful vacation in Da Lat.
There are 2 types of ticket: 30.000 VND and 150.000 VND (the latter includes all services: take pictures with the horses, dressed up as a king,…).
100.000 VND/ adult- 40.000 VND/ children ( This included entrance ticket, enjoy all the views of the valley on a tram and discover natural beauty with pedalo).
Entrance tickets: 40.000 VND/ adult. Children under 1 meter accompanied by adults: free, above 1 meters: same as the adult ticket.
Teambuilding ticket: 90.000 VND/ person, from 8:00 to 17:00 ( allow to use the grass field, lake surface, river, forest that has been equipped with teambuilding game). Note: Only accept tourist group of at least 30 people.
Campfire ticket: 90.000 VND/ person, from 17:00 to 21:00. Note: Only accept tourist group of at least 30 people.
30.000 VND/ adult and 20.000 VND/ children. Jeep: 60.000 VND/ person and 400.000 VND/ jeep.
40.000 VND/ adult and 20.000 VND/ children.
50.000 VND/ adult and 30.000 VND/ children.
30.000 VND/ Adult and 15.000 VND/ children.
20.000 VND/ person ( sometimes free).
100.000 VND/ adult, 50.000 VND/ children under 1,2 meter, Free for children under 90 centimeters.
150.000 VND/ adult and 100.000 VND/ children. This includes entrance ticket, elevator ticket, Alpine Coaster ticket, all the remaining games in the Dambri tourist site.


John back in the North Pole chillaxing.
As we're going to post tomorrow, there's been a change in the established hamster order in the Professional Moron office. We'll reveal all tomorrow, until then we'd like our return blog post (we've not written anything for a while) to follow the unusually weird side of our lives we like to promote. You see, Mr. Wapojif recently acquired a fully grown male Walrus with which he has spent the last month bonding. Our Walrus, John, was being sold by a local farmer, whom mistakenly purchased the beast having believed it to be a deformed cow (the farmer was somewhat dim-witted). Mr. Wapojif's flat was not of sound size for the marine mammal, so he decided to keep John in the Professional Moron office for the time being.
John quickly settled into the office by demolishing much of our property in fits of macho rage. The creatures, famed for their violent, dogmatic assertion of their masculinity, are clearly not supposed to be maintained as pets. However, we're obstinate sorts here. We were eager to make the endeavour work whilst we sorted out a flight for John back to his native North Pole. Thankfully, last week John was successfully shipped back and, we've heard, is leading a happy life terrorising the beaches and ice flows of Antarctica with his foul temper. Bless. We have fond memories of his stay, however, and wax nostalgic in today's post about these most dramatic of mammals.
The cold, lifeless stare of the belligerent walrus. Truly terrifying.
John weighs in at some 1,900 kg (about 4,200lb) and was roughly 4.5 metres long (a 16 footer, effectively. On introducing his bulk to an eagerly awaiting Professional Moron office (whom set off party poppers and an air horn as way of greeting), John commenced an outraged, deafening set of bellows before rampaging across the office, smashing all of our computers, desks, and flattening Mr. Wapojif. The Walrus was eventually calmed by throwing several salmon in his direction, and we were thenceforth able to lead him into the property's garden and throw fish at him through one of our windows. It was decided to keep John in the garden from then on, as his habit of charging us on sight soon became terrifying.
I have noticed you appear to have a Walrus in your garden. It is of such immense girth I duly noted you are forced to keep the beast there at all times. I have been able to observe its behaviour from my bedroom window, as I am often too mortified to step into my garden for a closer look.
The community quickly noted your attempts to take the Walrus, whom we gathered is named John (based on your terrified repeated screaming of the name whenever it charged one of you), for a walk ended in complete mayhem. It has been noted John's complete destruction of several automobiles, a reasonable sized shed, and three caravans must be paid for by your company.
The beast's constant, manic braying at all hours of the day is of major concern. There are, however, other areas of concern. The walrus also has a habit of rampaging through my garden fence in a mating ritual whenever he sees me through my kitchen window. I know you are well aware of this as you keep attempting to rebuild the fence by breaking into my house to fix it from my side. Naturally this is as you do not wash to confront John. However, please note I would prefer it if you didn't keep axing down my front door in order to access my garden. You may simply ring my doorbell until John has vacated your property.
Please note furtherly, the police have been notified of this situation and we will be in further contact. We believe John belongs in his natural location and a petition, and charity campaign, has been launched to return him to the North Pole.
An elephant would add a touch of OOMPH to our suburb of Manchester.
After our experiences with John the Walrus, we've decided we'd like another exotic pet to liven up our dreary existences. We had a good long think about this the other day. What exactly would be the ideal beast? We thought a diminutive scorpion or two would be cool, or perhaps a giant ruddy big snake, or a giraffe, or perhaps even a great white shark. However, the shark would required something larger than our bath tub, which even the 25 stone Mr. Wapojif struggles to fit into.
So, we decided upon an elephant. We've seen Dumbo, right? We know how these creatures behave. They're friendly, funny, scared of mice, and (if you've seen The Simpsons) get on great with kids – so we can charge people to see the elephant and make a complete fortune. However, just this morning we received an extremely threatening letter from the Greater Manchester Police department warning us to desist in our disruptive behaviour. Whilst we're disappointed in this, our return to "normal" pets heralded the arrival of a new hamster. Check back tomorrow for further details. We can't be bothered writing more today.


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As John Oliver once said, "Brillint!"
I'm just ravin' 'bout Poetry month.
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that's real 'ritin there, that is.
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Julie Johnson
Emilia Lancaster is the royal family's dirty little secret.
Born the illegitimate daughter of a duke, for twenty years she's lived as a commoner… despite the regal blood running through her veins. But when the entire royal family is killed in a deadly attack, the line of succession swiftly changes course. With her ailing father appointed king and no legitimate heirs in sight, Emilia is pulled from the shadows and thrust into a destiny she never wanted.
If this were a fairy tale, the palace would be paradise. In reality, with a father she barely knows on the throne, a deadly assassin still on the loose, and enemies around every gilded corridor corner — the callous, captivating Lord Carter Thorne chief among them — it feels more like a prison to Emilia. One filled with unattainable expectations, unfamiliar customs, and undesirable suitors.
They want her to behave like a good little girl.
They want her to put on her glittering crown and keep her mouth shut.
They're about to be disappointed.
She may have agreed to be their princess…
But she's no one's puppet.
♛
SILVER CROWN is a royal romance about an ordinary girl who inherits an extraordinary legacy. Filled with forbidden love, murderous plots, and machiavellian intrigue, it is recommended for mature readers only. It is the first book in the FORBIDDEN ROYALS TRILOGY.
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cconcus , 02/05/2019
Unwanted to Royalty
This book had me from the very beginning. Julie Johnson was able to leave me wanting so much more from this book/series. I will say that this was the first book of hers that I have read but if they all are like this in writing style it will not be the last.
Emilia is a strong willed, independent, and sassy women. Even though she is all of these things she is hiding something that many people could only dream of, royal blood running through her veins. Even though this is the case she wants nothing to do with anything royal. The only problem is when the royal family is no more, she is thrust into the royal life she never wanted. On top of this she has to deal with the other half of her father's family.
Carter Throne is every girls dream. He is dark, mysterious, and has many alpha aspects. Even though he is all of these things he does have a softer side that is shown a few times. Carter has a dark side that I would love to see more into and find out why he feels/acts the way he does.
Chloe is Carter's sister and Emilia's new step-sister. I absolutely loved her character. She is very carefree and kind of does whatever she wants and most of the time it is to go against what her mother wants.
Octavia is horrible. In the best way to describe her is she is a B***h of epic proportions!!!!
Overall, I loved this book and can't wait to read Torrid Throne. Julie's writing was in my opinion flawless in this book. The story flowed with many twists that keep me reading and wanting so much more. The ending left me with my mouth hanging open because I wasn't ready for it to end.
elbie143 , 02/05/2019
SO different than anything Julie has ever written before, but oh SO delicious 😍
Not your typical fairytale, rags to riches story, or romance! I devoured every word of this book, while dreading reaching the last page.
Definitely seeing some subtle changes in Julie's writing, changes that show growth especially in plot development.
More Books by Julie Johnson
The Monday Girl
Like Gravity
Not You It's Me
Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety
Developing Creativity and Curiosity Outdoors
Wbrew grawitacji
Golden Throne
Diamond Empire


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Abstract Interannual variations of Pacific North Equatorial Current (NEC) transport during eastern-Pacific El Ninos (EP-El Ninos) and central-Pacific El Ninos (CP-El Ninos) are investigated by composite analysis with European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast Ocean Analysis/Reanalysis System 3. During EP-El Nino, NEC transport shows significant positive anomalies from the developing to decay phases, with the largest anomalies around the mature phase. During CP-El Nino, however, the NEC transport only shows positive anomalies before the mature phase, with much weaker anomalies than those during EP-El Nino. The NEC transport variations are strongly associated with variations of the tropical gyre and wind forcing in the tropical North Pacific. During EP-El Nino, strong westerly wind anomalies and positive wind stress curl anomalies in the tropical North Pacific induce local upward Ekman pumping and westward-propagating upwelling Rossby waves in the ocean, lowering the sea surface height and generating a cyclonic gyre anomaly in the western tropical Pacific. During CP-El Nino, however, strength of the wind and associated Ekman pumping velocity are very weak. Negative sea surface height and cyclonic flow anomalies are slightly north of those during EP-El Nino.
GB/T 7714 Wu Guoli,Zhai Fangguo,Hu Dunxin. Interannual variations of North Equatorial Current transport in the Pacific Ocean during two types of El Nino[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY,2016,34(3):585-596.
APA Wu Guoli,Zhai Fangguo,&Hu Dunxin.(2016).Interannual variations of North Equatorial Current transport in the Pacific Ocean during two types of El Nino.CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY,34(3),585-596.
MLA Wu Guoli,et al."Interannual variations of North Equatorial Current transport in the Pacific Ocean during two types of El Nino".CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY 34.3(2016):585-596.


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Finnish vispo: Kokoomateos
Edited by Nico Vassilakis
Reijo Valta
During a future of poetry class, the professor used Guillaume Apollinaire, Vito Acconci, and Karri Kokko as examples of tomorrow's literature. That was in the 1980s, and I was very excited about learning these "new" techniques. In a couple of years, I used these techniques in my own writing. But in late 1980s I didn't find a place to publish, or anyone else working in the same way. So I forgot "new poetry." The future of poetry, at least for me, started in Finland about a decade ago. The Internet was the only way to publish, to find other poets and get feedback. Also, the poetry society Huutomerkki! was founded in my home town of Oulu, and it offered me the possibility to perform. This was a fascinating time, and I got drawn to poetry — to visual poetry. — Reijo Valta
Finnish visual poetry
vispo
Nico Vassilakis returns to Jacket2 with a new feature on the current state of visual poetry in Finland. "There's a stir going on, a textual free-for-all, a visible shift in how language is being handled in response to the machines in our lives," he notes. "In Finland, visual poetry, in some way, sprang up almost fully formed. There are few antecedents that point to its appearance, yet here it is. The fully mature mingle with the nascent and in so doing form a new constellation of visual poetries."
The ten poets included here — Cia Rinne, J. P. Sipilä, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Mari Laaksonen, Mikko Kuorinki, Reijo Valta, Sami Liuhto, Satu Kaikkonen, Tero Hannula, and Tiina Lehikoinen — reflect the potential of a close-knit Finnish scene, yet find diverse solutions to their own aesthetic dilemmas, producing "strong, flexible, and stunning work" in the process. In Vassilakis' estimation, they've created "a visual poetry platform from which future poets can embark on a Finnish vispo experience."
Featuring contributions from: Cia Rinne, J. P. Sipilä, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Mari Laaksonen, Mikko Kuorinki, Reijo Valta, Sami Liuhto, Satu Kaikkonen, Tero Hannula, and Tiina Lehikoinen.


Publication: November 27th 2013 by Faith Andrews .
But when Mia receives an invitation to her high school reunion, she finds herself abandoning the present for the oh-so alluring pull of the past. Although her heart still belongs to her husband, inescapable thoughts of her crush, Noah, resurface. And ten years later, Noah isn't afraid to make his move. When the build-up of fantasies and 'what ifs' comes to a head, sparks fly and it's Mia's turn to question if her marriage is everything she wants out of life. Searching for answers, Mia dives head first into dating Noah, falling further away from her husband and closer to her old flame.
When I saw this book, I wanted to read it to see where it would go. Who would she choose and why?! What are the consequences, etc…?
I won't tell you the ending. So, you can see for yourself. I will say that Mia had some tough decisions. They were both good men. But was she willing to throw her marriage and family away? Noah did like her and he wanted her too. But in the end someone is going to be hurt.
Sometimes, I wanted to slap Mia for being so stupid and not talking to Declan. And, she is no different than what Declan did, if not more, by dating Noah. Especially, after finding out exactly what Declan did and her response to him.
I loved their girls. There was one part where I was laughing so hard. Little kids can be so funny!
I thought Grace truly was a best friend. If everyone could have a friend like her!!
I thought the ending was rushed, like bam here is my decision without really seeing the two of them really talking. I guess the next book will show some of that.
Publication: January 25th 2014 by Faith Andrew.
Hopefully this is an international giveaway! Happy Easter!
I think I want to get 'Keep Me' by Faith, I really enjoyed 'Man of My Dreams' and I would love to win a gift card, thanks for the chance.
This book looks very good!! I love giftcards as giveaways. Thanks for the opportunity!!
I want to know who Mia will choose. A husband who cheated on her or her old high school flame. Story got me very interested.


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Performance based work (in progress), Sardam: alternative literary readings festival.
"An Urn for Post-truth", mixed media. Art object. Commissioned by the Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche for the Luciano Benetton Collection – Imago Mundi.
"And this island: who knows it?", Fold-Out Map with Case, Collaboration w/ Stephan Takkides, Edition of 3.


Tomales cartoonist Kathryn LeMieux drew an enthusiastic crowd to Bodega Landmark Gallery in the town of Bodega Saturday when she opened a two-week exhibit of her surrealistic and often-whimsical oil paintings.
The final days are this Friday through Monday.
Not surprisingly, two of her favorite subjects — cows (such as Moonrise Over Tomales seen here, copyright K. LeMieux) and the California Mermaids — not only attracted the most attention but also the most buyers.
West Marin residents who read Feral West on The Bodega Bay Navigator website or read it for 10 years in The Point Reyes Light are familiar with two of her California Mermaids, Fera with her pet shark Fluffy, and Lana with her cigar and cocktail glass.
For this exhibit, Kathryn added some unfamiliar and even more voluptuous mermaids, rendering them in a painterly, rather than cartoon, style.
Although Mavis the cow was missing, Kathryn's paintings of cows jamming the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge (copyright K. LeMieux) and grazing around Point Reyes Station's old, brick Grandi Building were on display and selling.
Kathryn claims Mavis the cow is her alter ego in Feral West, but many of us, including her husband Don Armstrong, believe she's really a California Mermaid — as the photo below, which I took of her at the Marshall Store, would tend to confirm.
Kathryn, along with five other women cartoonists, also draws the nationally syndicated cartoon Six Chix for King Features. The strip formerly appeared in The Press Democrat and now appears on SFGate.com if you go to this link.
Other websites around the country also buy Six Chix from King Features, which has created a subscriber service "with perks," Kathryn noted. One of the perquisites is that readers who miss seeing the cartoon in print can have it delivered by email to their computer daily. In addition, they can call up past installments of the cartoon.
Since the cartoonists get a cut of what King Features sells, drawing for online readers is becoming an increasingly significant part of their income, Kathryn told me.
More Internet news: Horizon Cable, which provides television, FM radio, and Internet service to more than 1,200 homes and businesses in Point Reyes Station and Olema, Inverness and Inverness Park, Dillon Beach and Stinson Beach (as well as roughly 375 customers in Novato) has moved its headquarters from Novato to the Farm Bureau building in Point Reyes Station.
Like many other Horizon customers, I was without Internet service for extended periods last week, but the outages were not related to the move. Susan Daniels of Fairfax, who with her husband Kevin owns Horizon, on Tuesday told me Horizon is in the midst of a major upgrade. "Every active component in the system will be changed," she said, explaining this will increase the system's bandwidth. Along with this will come improved Internet service, high-definition television, and more channels, she added.
This being West Marin, however, not everything that recently interrupted Horizon's Internet service can be blamed on its being upgraded. On Monday night, a PG&E transformer exploded near the Red Barn in Point Reyes Station. Only a handful of nearby customers lost power, but one of them happened to be the Horizon cable system headquartered next door. It was down for several hours.
Indeed, there has always been a wild-west aspect to providing West Marin with a cable system. The original system, West Marin Cable, was created strictly to improve television reception. John Robbins, then of Inverness, began the system in 1983 and sold it to Kevin and Susan in 1991. John's was not an entirely conventional system.
Creating a viable cable system for such sparsely populated towns as West Marin's was daunting. Sometimes John had to string cable on power poles for more than a mile to reach just one ranch. In awkward locations, John had to string his cable on barbed-wire fences.
Horizon Cable office manager Andrea Clark fields the calls when customers need help. Her motherly manner makes it difficult for most of us, even when frustrated, to get annoyed with her. Owner Susan Daniels and system technician Jim Townsend standing behind behind Andrea say major improvements to Horizon's television and Internet services are being implemented now that the company has relocated its office to Point Reyes Station in the center of its service area.
John had been building the Stinson Beach part of his system when he sold West Marin Cable to Horizon. As it happened, county supervisors had issued John a cable franchise for Stinson Beach, but Seadrift subdivision developer Don Beacock had his own deal with Wonder Cable, which at the time served Bolinas.
Horizon had no sooner taken over the system when something like the Oklahoma Land Rush began on Seadrift Spit. Within the subdivision, cables had to be buried. Both Horizon and Wonder showed up with trenching equipment, and "it was a race for the spit," Susan recalled, with each company trying to lay claim to the land first. With two cable companies digging parallel trenches on opposite sides of Seadrift's roads, county supervisors intervened and ruled that Horizon's franchise for Stinson Beach was communitywide.
That sort of cable conflict, however, pales in comparison to what is currently happening in the former Soviet Republic of Estonia.
As Britain's Economist explains, "For a small, high-tech country such as Estonia, the Internet is vital. But for the past two weeks, Estonia's state websites (and some private ones) have been hit by 'denial of service' attacks, in which a target site is bombarded with so many bogus requests for information that it crashes.
"The Internet warfare broke out … amid a furious row between Estonia and Russia over the removal of a Soviet war monument from the centre of the capital, Tallinn, to a military cemetery.
The attack, which is sabotaging Estonia's Internet commerce, as well as government operations, was initially launched by computers traceable to the government of (Ras?)Putin (seen here in an Economist photo). But the assault has now been taken over by sympathetic supporters, some of whom plant viruses in other people's computers so that innocent users unknowingly help sabotage Estonian institutions.
The assault would be called an "act of war" if carried out with a missile instead with computers, one senior NATO official told The Economist. NATO and the US have rushed observers to Estonia to figure out how a country can fend off such an attack.
In the meantime, "the best defence is to have strong networks of servers in many countries," a Finnish expert is quoted as saying.
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Q: Are pictures of human faces linear in high dimensional space? As I understand it, PCA can pick out structure if the data is linear. Given that it works on pictures of human faces to produce so called eigenfaces, does this mean these pictures of human faces are linear in the high dimensional space? If so, why?

A: Essentially, yes.
Pictures of human faces are closely approximated by 9-dimensional linear subspaces under varying lighting conditions. The paper referenced below shows this under the assumptions that light reflects off of faces according to the Lambertian model and the fact that human faces can be approximated by a convex surface. The approximation is quite good, as the paper shows that the 9-dimensional model captures about 98% of the energy of the actual images. The "why" is the subject of the paper. It's been a while since I've read it, but if you have questions about the paper I can do my best to answer them.
Reference: R. Basri and D. Jacobs, "Lambertian reflection and linear subspaces" IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 3,pp. 218–233, 2003.

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Can be presented up to 300 students at a time, please get in touch to discuss requirements if you have a larger group.
Can be from 45 minutes to an hour long.
Mo can offer a whole school assembly which can be from 45 minutes to an hour long and is very interactive. Mo reads a bit from the 'My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish' books and talk about the process of taking a book from idea to actual published copy. Mo follows this up with a bit of stand up about the incident in her childhood that inspired the book, which leads into a mass brainstorming session about idea sparking for books. The children get to share ideas, dress up as characters from the books and it all ends in a Zombie Fish Face Off. Lots of evil scientist Mwhaaa haaa haaa laughing all around but also some great story sparking and some insight into the way a book is written.
Mo can do a picture book storytelling session for Reception and nursery children. This works for with her picture book 'More People To Love Me' book which talks about how families come in all shapes and sizes.
Mo also offers a 30 minute session for Reception, Y1 and Y2 with her latest picture book, 'Romeosaurus and Juliet Rex' which includes songs (with a ukulele), dino dancing as well as feathered Shakespearian hats on dinosaurs. A bit of culture and a lot of fun.
Maximum 40 students per workshop.
Best suited to a classroom environment.
Mo can run a creative workshop in year groups or in class groups for Years 3 -6. In this creative writing session pupils make a story map that starts with creating a strong central character and spins a story out from there. They will work on methods for creating a story and then map out that story taking in the key points of Character, Plot and Setting. By the end of the session pupils will have a story map with sections of their story written and planned. There is plenty of opportunity for verbal input as well as drawing and writing.
Mo's'Drama in Writing workshop' explores the connections between acting, directing and writing. This workshop is very much an on your feet experience that combines Mo's experience of acting and writing. Children will not pick up a piece of paper in this workshop. Instead they would explore the creation of character and emotions on the page by acting and demonstrating those emotions. One of the most common notes given to new writers is, 'Show, don't tell.' This is also one of the most common notes given by directors to new actors. Mo and the students explore, through drama exercises, how to show emotion through action and how to convey intent through dialogue. They also touch on the concept of muscular memory, which is a technique that actors use to recreate certain moments again and again on stage. Mo will show how this is useful in plotting and planning the actions of your characters, when you are, in effect, directing them in a scene. Lastly, they look at the concept of 'hot-seating' their characters to get to know them as an actor would when they approach a role. This is incredibly useful in making characters seem three dimensional in your book.
This little girl's family is huge! The only way to show how huge would be to draw a family tree. With a step-mum, a step-dad, four brothers and sisters, and a whole lot of grandparents, her family tree has a lot of branches – and a lot of people to love her.
Mo O'Hara's warm and playful story will speak to any young child with an extended family. Accompanied by Ada Grey's charming illustrations, More People To Love Me is a gorgeous book which shows that families come in all shapes and sizes.
Two dinosaurs whose species are sworn enemies want to become friends in New York Times bestselling author Mo O'Hara's prehistoric spin on Shakespeare.
In this hilarious take on Shakespeare for children 4 to 8—with dinosaurs instead of people—Romeosaurus and Juliet Rex get along perfectly well until they realize that their families should be mortal enemies!
"Your family would eat mine," says Romeosaurus, who comes from a family of herbivores. Yes, it's true—Juliet Rex's family are carnivores, and Romeosaurus's family are plant-loving herbivores.
With two families up in arms (very short ones for Juliet Rex) the two friends run away, determined not to let family baggage determine who their friends should be.
With this funny take on the world's most cherished love story, Mo O'Hara transforms Shakespeare into a relatable and truly funny dinosaur romp for young readers. Coupled to perfection with Andrew Joyner's expressive and classic illustrations, this tale will get giggles while introducing the most beloved writer known to the world today.
Shakespeare's classic tragedy gets a comic retelling and a happy ending.
"Once upon a time, one hundred and fifty million years ago…." Romeosaurus' family (a mix of dino species) are herbivores, while Juliet Rex's (T. Rexes and a pterodactyl nurse) delight in eating meat. The two meet at a masked ball, quickly becoming friends, though the herbivores must make a quick escape after Romeo helps Auntie Gladys off the buffet table, where she's been trussed, with an apple in her mouth, and Mercutio-tops accidentally pokes Tybalt Rex with his horns. The balcony scene leads to a cementing of Romeo and Juliet's friendship, and the two leave notes for their loved ones and run off to the tar pits. Knowing what danger that poses, Nurse-a-Dactyl and Mercutio-tops fly to the rescue ("We should have let them be friends!"), and the foursome agree that carnivores and herbivores can be friends (not meals). But this happily-ever-after is marred by a looming final-page meteorite. Indeed, O'Hara sprinkles humorous references throughout that will fly over kids' heads, though parents will be in stitches: "Juliet Rex was waving her tiny arms in the air like she just didn't care…." Joyner's digital illustrations are a hoot. The dinos are dressed in Elizabethan finery (dino color and clothing color separating carnivores and herbivores, in addition to the former's pointy teeth), and their expressions are sure to evince giggles, most being over-the-top.
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Fiction Series for 7-11 Year Olds.
The 'My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish' Series has been translated into 11 languages so far and has sold over a million copies worldwide. It also made the New York Times Bestseller List!
Then, Frankie takes centre stage to rescue Tom's school play from Mark's evil plans.
When Tom rescued Frankie the goldfish from his older brother's evil science experiment by zapping him back to life with a battery, he never expected his pet to become a BIG FAT ZOMBIE GOLDFISH with incredible hypnotic powers . . . but he has to admit it's helpful, especially when they are thwarting his big brother's evil plans.
Dodging booby traps, avoiding evil possibly-mummified kittens, discovering the truth behind the ancient Egyptian Curse at the local museum . . . it's all in a night's work for a zombie goldfish!
Then, there's something fishy going on at sports day. Can Frankie help Pradeep and Tom to foil Mark's evil plans? Or will Mark and his pet vampire kitten, Fang, take home the gold?
New York Times-bestselling author Mo O'Hara delivers more laugh-out-loud fun in this illustrated chapter book series.
The name's Goldfish. Zombie Goldfish. Fishy mayhem abounds with two more fin-tastic stories from author Mo O'Hara featuring our favorite (New York Times-bestselling!) zombie goldfish.
In Live and Let Swim, a normal trip to the aquarium for Tom, Pradeep, and Sami suddenly turns into a death-defying race to save Frankie from being eaten by a hungry psychic octopus during their big brothers' latest evil plan.
Live and Let Swim by New York Times-bestselling author Mo O'Hara brings back all the kooky fun and humour you've come to expect from this irresistible chapter book series.
Fish-tory comes to life with two more fin-tastic stories featuring our favorite zombie goldfish Frankie from New York Times-bestselling author Mo O'Hara.
My FANGtastically Evil Vampire Pet, the epic spin-off of Mo O'Hara's New York Times bestselling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series features an aspiring evil scientist, paranormal pets, and plenty of hilarious summer camp shenanigans.
Currently only available in the US or through a US online supplier.
An interactive book, this book allows you to take centre stage in your own Zombie Goldfish adventure!
"Mo O'Hara's visit to St. Mary's CEP School was inspirational. Her personality shone out during a whole school assembly and with a combination of props, costumes, audience participation and her hysterical account of how she was inspired to write her Big Fat Zombie Goldfish stories, she held the attention of both pupils and staff alike. This was followed up with engaging Key Stage 2 writing workshops where the children explored their 'What ifs' to create amazing new stories. The whole experience was energizing and left the pupils with a buzz that continued weeks after her visit.
It was fascinating to hear how Mo had got into writing and what had inspired her to write the series. She brought along lots of props (Frankie and friends!) which made the whole session very interactive and hands on. The children in Books Aloud very much enjoyed the activities that Mo brought along for them to do, but also had lots of questions for Mo to answer which was lovely.


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Tesla's Autopilot system can "easily" be used to drive the automaker's vehicles without anyone behind the wheel, Consumer Reports said in a new demonstration. The magazine conducted the study on a test track after a widely publicized Tesla Model S crash in Texas on Saturday when two people were killed in a wreck that sparked an hours-long blaze. Local authorities said it appeared no one was in the driver's seat. The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have opened investigations into the incident. Tesla's Autopilot system enables automatic steering, accelerating and braking on roads with lanes, but it does not work in all situations. Tesla has said that drivers are supposed to keep their hands on the wheel at all times, ready to take over when the system is not able to perform.
"In our test, the system not only failed to make sure the driver was paying attention–it couldn't even tell if there was a driver there at all," Jake Fisher, senior director of auto testing at Consumer Reports, said in a statement.
It's not clear whether Autopilot was engaged in the latest Tesla crash. Tesla representatives have not responded to multiple requests seeking comment. On Monday, after reports about the crash circulated, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that "data logs recovered so far show Autopilot was not enabled". That could not be independently verified. Tesla vehicles are not capable of fully driving themselves.
"Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have," he said. But a study released in October by Duke University autonomous vehicle experts Benjamin Bauchwitz and M.L. Cummings found that in almost one-third of automated driving tests, Tesla "vehicles drove autonomously for nearly 30 seconds on extreme curves that lacked even a single lane marking."
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Supramolecular Bioconjugates for Protein and Small Drug Delivery.
Supramolecular conjugation techniques have been developed to produce novel nanosized systems by assembling materials with diverse physicochemical and biological features. These techniques have been adapted to obtain innovative bioconjugates to deliver drugs with poor biopharmaceutical properties and nano-devices with potential "theranostic" activity. Supramolecular drug delivery systems include polymer therapeutics such as drug–polymer bioconjugates, and colloidal carriers such as micelles, liposomes, polyplexes, and organic and inorganic nanoparticles. By virtue of their wide array of chemical composition and properties, polymers represent key elements for the construction of novel supramoelcular formulations. Polymer bioconjugation is a fledged technique for fabrication of protein–polymer conjugates. PEGylation, in particular, produces derivatives with enhanced pharmacokinetic, immunological, and stability properties as compared to the parent protein. Over the years, new methods have been set up to obtain site-directed polymer conjugation. In this review we report few grafting to and growing from PEGylation examples for the preparation of therapeutically effective protein bioconjugates. Supramolecular formulations with unique properties can be also obtained by assembling functional polymers, targeting agents, physicochemical modifiers, and biomodulators. These systems may be designed for disease tissue disposition and cell recognition/penetration. Cyclodextrins, for example, have been functionalized with polyethylene glycol and folic acid to produce tumor-targeted drug carriers. Interesting results have been obtained with this novel class of drug delivery systems. In addition, responsive polymers have been conjugated to gold nanoparticles to endow a new colloidal platform with triggerable cell disposition properties, which can be exploited either in biomedicine or diagnosis.
Titolo: Supramolecular Bioconjugates for Protein and Small Drug Delivery.
SALMASO, STEFANO
BERSANI, SARA
SCOMPARIN, ANNA
MASTROTTO, FRANCESCA
CALICETI, PAOLO
ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Abstract: Supramolecular conjugation techniques have been developed to produce novel nanosized systems by assembling materials with diverse physicochemical and biological features. These techniques have been adapted to obtain innovative bioconjugates to deliver drugs with poor biopharmaceutical properties and nano-devices with potential "theranostic" activity. Supramolecular drug delivery systems include polymer therapeutics such as drug–polymer bioconjugates, and colloidal carriers such as micelles, liposomes, polyplexes, and organic and inorganic nanoparticles. By virtue of their wide array of chemical composition and properties, polymers represent key elements for the construction of novel supramoelcular formulations. Polymer bioconjugation is a fledged technique for fabrication of protein–polymer conjugates. PEGylation, in particular, produces derivatives with enhanced pharmacokinetic, immunological, and stability properties as compared to the parent protein. Over the years, new methods have been set up to obtain site-directed polymer conjugation. In this review we report few grafting to and growing from PEGylation examples for the preparation of therapeutically effective protein bioconjugates. Supramolecular formulations with unique properties can be also obtained by assembling functional polymers, targeting agents, physicochemical modifiers, and biomodulators. These systems may be designed for disease tissue disposition and cell recognition/penetration. Cyclodextrins, for example, have been functionalized with polyethylene glycol and folic acid to produce tumor-targeted drug carriers. Interesting results have been obtained with this novel class of drug delivery systems. In addition, responsive polymers have been conjugated to gold nanoparticles to endow a new colloidal platform with triggerable cell disposition properties, which can be exploited either in biomedicine or diagnosis.


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Quite by chance when doing some online research, I came across 2 photographs. One of a stained glass window, the other, an old photo of a shopfront, with workers standing outside (right). Above the shop was the business name Suess and Smith. Well, this more than piqued my curiosity and was very much worth pursuing further so I contacted the person who posted the photos, Theo Schaad. Theo's mother-in-law is the grand-daughter of Nicholas Smith whose name appears above the business in the photo.
The lion's share of information on the Suess & Smith business, family ancestry and lore were kindly provided by Theo.
The business was located at 2421 Western Avenue in Seattle and Theo remembers the buidling was covered in baking tins before it was torn down only a few years ago to make way for new apartments. Based on subsequent photos, stained glass windows were made on the premises, probably in large numbers given one particular photo of the mudding room where 4 people are seen mudding completed windows. While the main business appears to be in Stained Glass Windows, an additional photograph shows a lamp being constructed.
I had to believe there was some kind of connection with the well known Suess Ornamental Glass Company of Chicago, whether it be family or business connection or perhaps both. It wasn't until I discovered that one particular stained glass window hanging in the Seattle shop window was similar to one in the Suess window catalog of 1900 that both Theo Schaad and I became certain of some connection. Many questions came to mind, and over the course of our ongoing communications, many were answered, some still require answers.
The series of wonderful family photos were taken inside the Seattle business premises and I am able to post these here courtesy of Theo Schaad and Curtis Green.
Towards the latter part of the 19th century and early into the 20th, demand was great for all manner of stained glass windows and lighting products, business was brisk. Immigrant families were central to the success of many of these small companies, acting in every capacity right from craft worker to business owner. It is likely that there was close communication between these entities, and if not, there must have at least been some awareness. From ancestry research done by Theo Schaad, it appears that Nicholas Smith was born in 1872. Both Nicholas and his father, Nicholaus Schmidt were born in Chicago.
Nicholas Smith married Maria Friedl in 1892 in Chicago and a year later produced a son, Nicholas (Nick) Ludwig Smith. In the 1900 Chicago census, he is listed as Nicklaus Smith, profession is shown as glazier. At that time he and Maria lived with his in-laws John and Francis Friedl and his brother-in-law Adolph who is also shown to be a glasier. It is thought that this Adolph worked at the Suess & Smith shop in Seattle, but only for a short time. From the 1910 census in Seattle, Nicholas was listed as a Broker in a Mining Company. At the age of 86, Nicholas died in Seattle.
The Seattle Suess Family
What we currently refer to as the 'Seattle Suess family', started out in Chicago, as did the Smiths and Max Suess's family.
Theo Schaad's research shows John Baptist Suess being born in Waldkirchen, Bavaria, Germany in 1852, arriving in Chicago in 1873 at the age of 21.
John Baptist Suess married Mary Anna Kestner two years later. In 1875, they had a son John (Jack) Bernard Suess, born back in Waldkirchen, Germany. In 1884, another son was born, John Walter Suess. The 1920 lists his occupation as a glass worker.
By 1900 Jack Suess is listed in the Chicago census as a glass cutter. By 1902 he and his wife Bertha had a son, Walter J. Suess, born in Seattle Washington.
Interesting to note that as late as 1940, Walter J. Suess was listed in the US Census as being the owner of a glass business, so the business spanned several decades.
Nicholas Smith's partner Jack Suess died in Seattle in 1930.
The Suess and Smith families knew each other in Chicago as members of St. Michael Church attended by German immigrants and descendents. Although it is not yet confirmed that Jack and Nicholas already knew each other in Chicago, it would appear that the big event that brought Jack Suess and Nicholas Smith to the west was the lure of the Gold rush. The Foreign Language Press Survey translated the following article which was originally published in German during March of 1898.
"The Dusty Diamond Corporation, founded by A.H.C.Seeger, a former officer of the City fire dept. will start for the Klondike today, fully equipped with arms, and luggage. Fifty members comprise the organization and they intend to remain with the expedition for 18 months. As we reported previously, Captain Seeger and his associates have made extensive preparations for this venture. Besides provisions, tools, clothing and an ample supply of arms, the Company also has two small but strong steamboats which were built for the purpose in Chicago. The gold seekers will navigate the Yukon, starting from St.Michaels, and they intend to live in their ships as well as work there. One of their vessels is fitted out with excellent dredging machinery and with it, the members of the Dusty Diamond Company hope, to extract large quantities of gold from the tributeries of the Yukon river. The expedition is composed mostly of Germans or German descendants."
Wikipedia entries for these 2 boats differs as to where they were made, showing the 2 steamboats owned by The Dusty Diamond Corporation were named The C.H. Bradley, built in Ballard Washington, and The Dusty Diamond, built in St. Michael Alaska.
Theo Schaad had interviewed Jimmie Jean Pate Bowman, the daughter of the captain of the Dusty Diamond ship and she furnished him with a picture (left). Apparently, the ship was made for the Yukon River.
While we do not yet have a passenger manifest for the expedition, family lore believes that at least Nicholas Smith and Jack Suess were part of it. It is also known that Jack Suess's father, John Baptist Suess eventually migrated west but whether he accompanied Nicholas Smith and Jack Suess at this time is not yet known. Apparently, the trip went badly. It is believed that the men tried to reach The Dusty Diamond from Valdez but never made it. Some died and the rest suffered from starvation. Apparently, Jack and Nicholas were survivors and subsequently started the glass shop afterwards.
The Etched Glass Mirror
Another photo from this period includes an etched glass mirror. On the etched mirror is an inscription (below).
Nicholas Smith was known to be working at that company when he made the mirror. By oral history, it is thought that he exhibited the mirror at the Chicago World's Fair. According to a Google search, it was in 1893 and Nicholas would have been 21 years old. The Alaska Gold Rush was in 1898, so he would have promised the mirror to the Dusty Diamond several years later (could have been a payment?)
In addition to the photos taken of the Suess & Smith business, Theo Schaad sent a photo of a stained glass window that belonged to a deceased owner of the Frye Hotel in Seattle, Abie Label. He was a close friend of the family and he always stated that it had come from the Suess & Smith shop. Theo spoke with a cousin in his family, Curtis Green, also a direct descendent of Nicholas Smith. Curtis Green had permission to photograph the window by Suess & Smith in about 1980. Theo heard indirectly that the window was sold to a person who shipped it to Alaska. It may still be in a shipping container. The family is anxious to know its wherabouts. Contact me if you know about this window.
So, there is a still some research to do to. We welcome further information that you may have to offer, simply email me to get in touch.
One of the photos shows a lamp being made. We are left wondering if the company additionally created lighting and if so is there a catalog somewhere showing the designs offered.
From the 1910 census in Seattle, Nicholas was listed as a Broker in a Mining Company. We are assuming the Company was Dusty Diamond, but not substantiated. If this was his main job, both he and his son Nick may have played a lesser role in the glass business. Nick was 16 then, and in the 1920 Census, his Census occupation is unreadable.
I would like to thank Theo Schaad for sharing the substantial details of his ancestral background, invaluable images and ongoing research to resolve some of the outstanding questions about Suess and Smith.


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Q: Android Toolbar doesn't hide a title I can't hide a title in my Toolbar that I set as ActionBar.
Here my activity style:
<style name="Theme.Paper" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>

Layout:
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <data>
        <!-- some data -->
    </data>

    <android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.Paper.AppBarOverlay">

            <include
                android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
                layout="@layout/toolbar_spinner"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

</layout>

And Toolbar layout:
<layout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.Paper.Toolbar.PopupOverlay"
        app:theme="@style/Theme.Paper.Spinner.PopupOverlay">

        <Spinner
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_spinner"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.Paper.Spinner.PopupOverlay"/>

    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</layout>

Here a code is in the onCreate method:
mBinding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this, R.layout.activity_editor);
//Set ToolBar
setSupportActionBar(mBinding.toolbarLayout.toolbar);
//Up navigation
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();

if (actionBar != null) {
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); // Try to hide a title
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    actionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(VectorDrawable
       .getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_close_white_24dp));
}

But it doesn't work, a title still shows.
Where can a problem be?
ADDED
This is my debug screen:

As you can see my ActionBar is not null.

A: As you are using toolbar you can use:
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle("");


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Open Letter From UF Faculty to Move Spring Semester Online
UF faculty urges university administration to change its Spring 2021 plans and start the semester online, citing current and concerning COVID-19 statistics as well as UF's nationally renowned reputation as a leader in online education.
We're all turning 21 this year
By Kent Fuchs | Jan. 11
Goodbye Column: Don't let imposter syndrome stop you.
By Valentina Botero | Dec. 9
Goodbye column: I didn't know I was sentimental until I had to say goodbye
By Emily Felts | Dec. 8
Goodbye column: That's all, folks
By Kyle Wood | Dec. 7
Goodbye Column: This one is for my team
By Rosmery Izaguirre | Dec. 7
OPINION | COLUMNS
Goodbye Column: You can be a journalist
By Sophie Feinberg | Dec. 7
If there's anything this year has taught me, it's that journalism can be and should be for everyone.
The HyFlex farce
Your instructor will be so burdened preparing for two classes while being paid for one, that the quality of instruction and attention to individual student work will inevitably suffer.
Goodbye column: My biggest regret at UF
By Zachariah Chou | Dec. 7
With a culture of excellence and staff of the highest caliber, our newsroom is filled with people who you would want to surround yourself with in order to become the best version of yourself.
Open letter from UF faculty against the Spring plan
The reality is that our last-minute, improvised plan for undergraduate education at the University of Florida next semester will not provide the best, or even a sufficient, learning and teaching environment.
What life has been like as a COVID-19 contact tracer
By Emily Klann | Nov. 30
First-hand experience working as an epidemiologist and contact tracer during this pandemic has provided me with a unique perspective in that, while I fully appreciate and adhere to guidelines, I am also able to acknowledge and address the hesitancy and skepticism of others.
What does freedom mean during a pandemic?
By Daniel Acosta | Nov. 30
From the perspective of an outsider, the idea of following science as means to protect the general population possibly ending up in litigation or political blowback is absolutely ridiculous.
I lost my senses to COVID-19. Now I can't eat meat
By Gabriel Acosta | Nov. 26
It has been seven months since I was first admitted to the hospital, and in those seven months I have not had the joy of being able to smell. My sense of smell is completely gone. My sense of taste is so distorted that no foods taste the same as they did before I had COVID-19.
How to talk to someone considering suicide
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Thoughts of suicide are a human experience, not a sign of personal failure or flaw. Struggles with suicide need not be the end of the story and can be a signal that we need more support than we currently have.
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It appears that the Senate now finds hearing students' opinions too inconvenient and pesky, rather, they would like to exclude them from exercising their free speech altogether.
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John McIntyre - Livery Stable Operator
John McIntyre was born September 18, 1847 in Inverness, Scotland. He was the son of John McIntyre and Mary Ann Morrison.
The family emigrated to Canada about 1857. The 1861 Canada census records them living in Stratford in a one storey log house. The family members included John Sr. age 70 who is listed as a Labourer, his wife and six children: Donald, John, Catherine, Angus, Anne and Mary. The eldest daughter, Sarah McIntyre, had married John McPhee in Stratford on October 16, 1860.
At age 13, John was a corporal in the Number 1 Company of the Stratford Rifles at the time of the Fenian Raids. To the end of his days, he was proud of being awarded the Queen's Medal which was given to veterans for their service at that time.
The 1871 census records that John lived with his parents along with his brother and sisters although his eldest brother, Donald, appears to have moved out on his own. The census records that an 8-year old Donald and a 4-year old Annie McIntyre, likely John's niece and nephew, lived with the family.
By the 1881 census, John and his brother Angus are listed as merchants and they along with their niece and nephews live with their widowed sister, Sarah McPhee, and her three children.
On June 3, 1884, John McIntyre married twenty-six year old Mary Wingefelder, who was born February 27, 1860, the daughter of Anthony Wingefelder and Barbara Harmann. The family was of German origin who appeared to have emigrated to Canada in the late 1850s. In the 1861 Canada census Anthony is listed as a Miller in Nicholl Township in Wellington County. However, by 1881 the family had moved to Stratford where Anthony's occupation is recorded as a Machinist. For a time Mary's brothers ran a butcher shop in Stratford.
John and Mary had three children: John Angus (b. May 3, 1885); Maria (b. Oct. 31, 1891) who married Russell William Baker on May 10, 1911 in Stratford; and Barbara (b. June 8, 1898) who married a Morris Gay.
John purchased the property on Ontario Street in 1885 and during the summer of 1886 had the house at 279/281 Ontario Street built. At the time he was a Livery Stable Operator under the business name McIntyre/Wingefelder Livery. John lived at 281 Ontario for the rest of his life.
Throughout his career John had many occupations in addition to his livery business. He was a grocery merchant, and a flour and feed dealer. Restless in retirement he went back to work, in his late sixties, as a woodworker for the Stratford Chair Company.
John McIntyre died in Stratford on August 13, 1928.


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// Neccessary includes (platform dependent)
#ifdef _WIN32
	#include <winsock2.h>
#else
#endif

#define net_SystemMarker	(~0)
enum net_SystemMessages {
	net_NewConnection,
	net_ConnectionClosed,
	net_ClientList,
};

//////////////////////////// net_Sockets ////////////////////////////
//
class net_Sockets
{
	typedef map< UINT32, net_Client >		ClientList_t;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// INTERFACE
public:

	// System creation/destruction
	BOOL Create();
	void Destroy();

	// Start a server
	bool StartServer( char* pQueryResponse, DWORD dwQueryResponseSize );

	// Send and recieve data
	void SendRecv( bool* bQueried=NULL );

	// Send a query to a server (or a broadcast query if no IP is given)
	void QueryServer( const char* strIP=NULL );

	// End a QueryServer()
	void StopQuery();

	// Join a specified server
	bool JoinServer( UINT32 uiServerID );

	// Injects a client lising into the recv buffer (Marker=Sys Msg=2)
	void GetClientList();

	// Closes all connections
	void EndSession();

	// TEMP: Make reading+sending better
	net_RecvBuffer& Read() {return m_RecvBuffer;}
	net_SendBuffer& Write(){return m_SendBuffer;}

	// Query whether the network system is available
	bool IsNetworkAvailable() const {return m_NetworkAvailable;}

	// Query whether the netowrk system is acting as the server
	bool IsServer() const {return m_IsServer;}

	// Query whether the network is actively connected
	bool IsConnected() const {return m_Connected;}

	// Query the amount of active connections
	int ConnectionCount() const {return m_ConnectionCount;}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Data members
protected:

	// Flag indicating the availabiltiy of the network system
	bool			m_NetworkAvailable;

	// Flag indicating if this machine is acting as the server
	bool			m_IsServer;

	// The network is actively connected either as a client or a server
	bool			m_Connected;

	// The server has an active listen socket running
	bool			m_Listening;

	// Primary port for a server
	short			m_nTAPort;

	// List containing connected sockets
	ClientList_t	m_Connections;

	// Current amount of connections in m_Connections
	int				m_ConnectionCount;

	// Keep track of the next possible unique ID for a new connection
	UINT32			m_NextID;

	// Misc members needed for select() stuff
	fd_set			m_Selectables;
	SOCKET			m_fdMax;

	// Send/Recv buffers
	net_SendBuffer	m_SendBuffer;
	net_RecvBuffer	m_RecvBuffer;

	// Pre-Game server-query and listen members
	SOCKET			m_ListenSocket;
	SOCKET			m_QuerySocket;
	short			m_QueryPort;
	char*			m_QueryBuffer;
	DWORD			m_QueryBufferSize;
	char*			m_QueryResponse;
	DWORD			m_QueryResponseSize;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Utility
public:

	// send() data from the send buffer to the stream
	void SendData( net_Client& stream );

	// recv() data from the stream and place it in the recv buffer
	bool RecvData( net_Client& sender );

	bool NewPacket( net_Client& sender );

	// Remove an entry from m_Connections; generate 'client left' message
	void RemoveClient( UINT32 uiClientIndex );

	// Accept a new client into m_Connections; generate 'new client' message
	void AcceptNewClient();

	// Sets up the query and, if a server, the listen socket
	void SetupQuerySockets();

	// Something was sent to the query socket, handle it
	void HandleClientQuery();

	// Close and erase all entries in m_Connections
	static void CloseConnection( const ClientList_t::value_type& pair ) {CloseSocket(pair.second.Socket);}
	void CloseConnections() {for_each(m_Connections.begin(),m_Connections.end(),CloseConnection);m_Connections.clear();m_ConnectionCount=0;}

	// The name of close/closesocket is platform dependent
	static void CloseSocket( SOCKET s ) {
		#ifdef _WIN32
			closesocket( s );
		#else
			close( s );
		#endif
	}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Default Constructor/Deconstructor
public:
	net_Sockets();
	virtual ~net_Sockets();
/////////////////////////////////////////////////

}; // End class - net_Sockets
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#endif // !defined(_NET_SOCKETS_H_)

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