How do I decide what the right garage door for me is?
It will depend on several factors. You have to consider the size and set up of your garage, with respect to the rest of your house. Budget is also of question. Finally, your preferences are also up for consideration. Ultimately, it depends on you, but the ones mentioned are the typical considerations.
Can I decide on the color and design of my garage door?
Yes, we would have standardized designs, but we also let our clients have a free hand in designing their own garage doors. You can choose a different color palette, or even design one according to your preferences and your personality. We will allow you be creative in the process.
Will my garage door be difficult to maintain after the initial set-up?
No. Our garage doors are designed to be of easy maintenance after the initial set up. You can do some of the simple maintenance tasks like cleaning and peeling off tasks yourself. But it is highly recommended that you seek professional help for more complex tasks to ensure you'll do them right.
I already have an existing garage door, can we tear it down and install a new one?
Yes, this can be done. It will still depend on how the door is attached to the garage and the house, but tearing down an existing door to build a new one is possible. You can better decide on how you want the new one to appear.
How much should be the budget for a standard garage door?
This really depends on the finished garage door you envision. It can depend on the size, features, design, among other things. It is important to set your own budget in deciding for your own garage door even before you contact a professional so he or she can work on that.
Can you customize garage doors?
Yes, customization should be alright. Depending on your requirements and our set standards, we should be able to work on customizing the garage door that you like. This can take longer than usual, but this should be expected, given the extra effort to match your garage door to your own requirements.
Can I reuse materials from an old garage door?
This can be done, provided that the materials retrieved are still safe and are still useable. We also believe in practicality and recycling, but it should be within the bounds of safety and reasonability. We can work together in deciding if a material can be reused and remodeled into the new one.
If I change my mind midway into construction, can I still change my garage door?
It depends on how far we are into the construction, and also the extent of the change you want to implement. While there is a possibility that we cannot change everything if we have already started construction, we can assure you that we will work with you to check what we can still do.
Can I leave all the decisions with you regarding how my garage door will look?
We can also do that, but we will still consult you every step of the way. We will discuss our choices after a careful study of your house and your requirements. We will still need your input, and we might still ask you for the final approval of our recommendation.
Would you have after-sale service?
Yes, definitely. Our service does not stop upon the installment of your new garage door. We can still work together in maintaining and upgrading your garage door. It can be an on-going consultation and/or collaboration between us so as to fully satisfy your needs and requirements for your garage door.


Linnet in Oriel: Stories from the Sea.
It is time to get back to celebrating the lovely things that life brings. So, I am stealing my title today from the peerless P.J. Harvey and her gorgeous album of 2000 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'.
We went to the sea and we brought back some treasure.
Oh that is interesting CT, I never heard of that before. You must be very sensitive to the negative ions perhaps?
Hi Jenny! Hope all is well with you. Loving the new (?) 'books are proof that magic exists' blog.


UPDATE: The full press release with track list is now after the jump.
Original post:After Tommy, there was Jimmy. He's the protagonist of Pete Townshend's rock opera Quadrophenia, first a 1973 2-LP studio album by The Who, then a 1979 film and most recently a 2009 musical. Never one for small ideas, Quadrophenia was Townshend's way of working out the relationship between the band and its fans while telling the story of a prototypical Mod Who fan. The album yielded some of The Who's most beloved songs: "The Real Me," "Love Reign O'er Me," "5:15." Now, after last year's super-deluxe box set of Live at Leeds, it appears that the story of a mod youth will be receiving a similarly expansive treatment scheduled for the pre-Christmas release rush from Universal. The auteur, composer, lyricist, writer and mercurial rock god hasn't been blogging much lately, but he just did so to confirm plans for the new box. As The Lifehouse Chronicles – Townshend's sprawling, fascinating boxed anthology of the aborted album that eventually morphed into Who's Next – attests, Townshend's musical concepts often are too big for anything but a lavish box set, so this project seems just right! UPDATE: It's been confirmed that the release date for the 4-CD/1-DVD Quadrophenia: The Director's Cut will be November 14 in the U.K. and a pre-order link is already active at Amazon U.K. here.
What can we expect? Perhaps most exciting is the promise of "mind-blowing" surround sound mixes of eight songs by Bob Pridden. Jon Astley, Townshend's preferred mastering engineer, is remastering the original vinyl mix as well as re-evaluating his 1996 remix. Townshend himself will contribute liner notes for a hardback book and has offered up 2 CDs of demos including songs that didn't make the final album. (Anyone familiar with Townshend's Scoop demos knows they will be in for a treat!) While the initial press release indicates that complete details will be revealed in the "coming months," mention is made of "previously unseen personal notes, photographs, memorabilia, and other exclusive material." Quadrophenia will also be available in double vinyl, 2-CD digi-pak and digital versions.
Hit the jump for the complete text of Pete's statement, and the full press release with the track list for all five discs!
In my recent interview with my friend Simon Garfield for INTELLIGENT LIFE, I professed some difficulty in my interaction with fans as I grow older. What is so wonderful about working on Quadrophenia is that back in 1970, all the way through to the recording in 1973, the primary challenge for me was to tell the story of the Who's fans and at the same time address the wayward creative needs of the band as individuals and artists. The Who, and Jimmy as a kind of model for one or all of our fans, really had developed a powerful symbiosis that deserved a project like Quadrophenia both to honour the mechanism and address why it started to fail almost a soon as it had begun.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A stunning 'Director's Cut' of the landmark 1973 album produced, authorized and overseen by Pete Townshend.
Considered by Pete Townshend himself to be the Who album that he is most proud of, 'Quadrophenia' is the last album in the Who back catalogue to be given the deluxe treatment and is perhaps the most deserving. After the 1971 album 'Who's Next', Pete Townshend returned to the 'rock-opera' concept, so dramatically realized through 'Tommy', with another ambitious double-album masterpiece. Based around the story of Jimmy – QUADROPHENIA tells the tale of a young mod and his struggle to come of age in the mid-1960s. The story also takes its influence from the band's early fans from the original mod era, and its themes of teenage angst and disaffection still resonate strongly today.
'Quadrophenia: The Director's Cut' will be the definitive version of the album and a must for any self-respecting fan of The Who and beyond.
Discs three and four – 25 demo tracks from Pete Townshend's studio archive giving a unique insight into the original vision for this remarkable body of work. Includes songs that were not included on the original album.
Disc five – 'The Quadrophenia 5.1 EP' – exclusive eight track DVD re-mixed for surround sound.
Deluxe 100-page, hard-back book featuring a brand new 13,000 word essay by Pete Townshend, shedding exclusive light on the period before and during the creation of the album, explaining some of the technical processes – the startling and progressive use of synthesisers as well as a revealing insight into the story of the album's central character – the mod Jimmy.
Also features Pete's in depth, track-by-track guide to the demos and revealing studio diary.
The stunning book also includes a treasure trove of previously unseen personal notes, photographs, handwritten lyrics and memorabilia from the period, all recently uncovered in Pete's archive.
The package also replicates the striking black and white imagery from the original vinyl LP photography and adds never-seen colour out-takes of the famous cover shot.
A replica 7″ vinyl single featuring hit single '5.15' b/w 'Water' in a picture sleeve.
Set of six facsimile memorabilia 'inserts' housed in a card envelope.
Limited edition, housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.
Oh, this one, THIS ONE, is so mine!!!
Both "most exciting" and most disappointing. What's with 8 tracks? Last time I counted there are 17 tracks. Thanks for making me wait another 40 years for the other 9 tracks in 5.1. This HURTS.
I will be purchasing the 2 LP set as soon as the pre-order link is up, THANK YOU WHO! Awaiting concert info for my THIRD QUADROPHENIA attendance when you come to the NYC area again- amazing show.
Throw in a SACD mix too?
Yep, no reason to purchase this until the whole 5.1 enchilada is available. Disappointing.
Folks, there's not going to be a 5.1 version of the entire album – some of the multitracks are missing, damaged or destroyed.
So how did they re-mix THE ENTIRE ALBUM in 1996?
Once upon a time, when Pete put out the Lifehouse Chronicles thru his own website, it cost about $90 including shipping from the UK. That was for six discs — but then again, it didn't include any music that was owned by Universal. Which is why I suspect Quad is going for $150. Begging the question: wouldn't it be nice to have the 2 CDs of demos available by themselves?


This study presents a technique to improve the reliability and the Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) of hardware task graphs running on reconfigurable computers. This tech- nique, which has been named Task Early-fetch, can be applied to a sequence of one or several applications, represented as task graphs. It consists in carrying out the reconfiguration of some tasks within the execution of the previous task graph, plus increasing the redundancy level of the early-fetched tasks. Experimental results on actual task graphs show the positive impacts of the proposed technique. Thus, without deteriorating the execution time (makespan), on average, a 114% MTTF improvement is achieved for no-fault-tolerant task graphs, and the improvement is more significant when applying to fault- tolerant task graphs. Finally, this paper presents a hardware implementation of a manager that applies these techniques at run-time and steers the execution of the running task graphs. It demonstrates that, with 0.03% consumption of FFs and LUTs and also 1.22% occupancy of BRAMs available on a Xilinx Virtex UltraScale XCVU095-2FFVA2104E FPGA, the required run-time computations can be carried out in negligible delays.


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Brentwood Home to School 2017-18
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Brentwood School Appoint CoachHire.com for Home to School Management
17 July 2017, Brentwood, Essex – Brentwood School have partnered with CoachHire.com to improve safety & greatly reduce congestion on their students' journeys to and from school by implementing the unique SchoolSafe technology.
From the start of the 2017/18 school term CoachHire.com will manage and supply six routes carrying 150 students from across Essex to and from the School. CoachHire.com will also begin implementing their SchoolSafe technology that securely tracks the service and records passengers boarding and alighting, giving parents & schools staff complete peace of mind that their children have boarded the service as expected.
The SchoolSafe apps have been designed in partnership with leading UK schools to meet their safeguarding requirements and enable: parents to see where the vehicles are and what time they're due at the stop; schools to see all vehicles at once with real-time tracking; and instant notifications for parents & school when children board the service.
Matthew Davis, Bursar at Brentwood School, sees the service providing great improvements to the congested school rush hours:
I witnessed CoachHire.com in operation at another school and was hugely impressed with it. I hope we will be able to achieve the same benefits to safeguarding and efficiency that the system offers as they clearly have.
Brentwood are looking to double the number of home to school routes over the coming terms in order to combat congestion and reduce the environmental impact of cars on the roads during the morning and evening peaks.
Following the successful commencement of managed transport services at North London Collegiate School in September 2016, CoachHire.com are looking to include a further 20 UK schools in the programme for the 2017/18 school year and are actively seeking schools with which to partner. Their SchoolSafe technology can be deployed on existing routes or as part of the fully-managed service, including risk assessments, service controllers and ongoing service improvements.
(Pictured: CoachHire.com Founder & MD, Mathew Hassell, at Brentwood School open day, July 2017)

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Point Grenville is a headland of Washington state. The point was named Punta de los Mártires ("Point of the Martyrs") during the 1775 expedition of Bruno de Heceta in response to an attack by the local Quinault Indians.
This site is sacred to the Quinault and was developed to host the 2013 Paddle to Quinault.

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Landforms of Grays Harbor County, Washington
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Full delivery life cycle. Disciplined agile delivery processes have life cycles which are serial in the large and iterative in the small. Minimally they have a release rhythm which recognizes the need for start up/inception activities, construction activities, and deployment/transition activities. Better yet, they include explicit phases as well. It is very important to note that these are not the traditional waterfall phases – requirements, analysis, design, and so on – but instead different "seasons" of a project. The point is that we need to look beyond agile software development and consider the full complexities of solution delivery. Adopting a full delivery life cycle, not just a construction life cycle, is arguably the "zeroth" agile scaling factor.
Evolutionary. Agile strategies are both iterative and incremental in nature. Iterative means that you are working in a non-serial manner, on any given day you may do some requirements analysis, some testing, some programming, some design, some more testing, and so on. Incremental means that you add new functionality and working code to the most recent build, until such time as the stakeholder determines there is enough value to release the product.
Regularly produces high quality solutions. Agilists are said to be quality focused. They prefer to test often and early, and the more disciplined ones even take a test-first approach where they will write a single test and the just enough production code to fulfill that test (then they iterate). Many agile developers have adopted the practice of refactoring, which is a technique where you make simple changes to your code or schema which improves its quality without changing its semantics. Adoption of these sorts of quality techniques seems to work – it appears that agile teams are more likely to deliver high quality systems than traditional teams (according to the DDJ 2008 Project Success survey). Within IBM we take it one step further and focus on consumability, which encompasses quality and other features such as ease of deployment and system performance. Furthermore, although some agile methods promote the concept of producing "potentially shippable software" on a regular basis, disciplined agile delivery teams produce solutions: a portion of which may be software, a portion of which may be hardware, and a portion of which will be the manner in which the system is used.
Cost effective and timely manner. Agile teams prefer to implement functionality in priority order [http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/prioritizedRequirements.htm], with the priority being defined by their stakeholders (or a representative thereof). Working in priority order enables agile teams to maximize the return on investment (ROI) because they are working on the high-value functionality as defined by their stakeholders, thereby increasing cost effectiveness. Agile teams also prefer to produce potentially shippable solutions each iteration (an iteration is a time-box, typically 2-4 weeks in length), enabling their stakeholders to determine when they wish to have a release delivered to them and thereby improving timeliness. Short iterations reduce the feedback cycle, improving the chance that agile teams will discover problems early (they "fail fast") and thereby enable them to address the problems when they're still reasonably inexpensive to do so. The DDJ 2008 Project Success survey found that agile teams are in fact more likely to deliver good ROI than traditional teams and more likely to deliver in a timely manner.
Value driven life cycle. One result of building a potentially shippable solution every iteration is that agile teams produce concrete value in a consistent and visible manner throughout the life cycle.
Risk and value driven life cycle. Core agile processes are very clear about the need to produce visible value in the form of working software on a regular basis throughout the life cycle. Disciplined agile delivery processes take it one step further and actively mitigate risk early in the life cycle – during project start up you should come to stakeholder concurrence regarding the project's scope, thereby reducing significant business risk, and prove the architecture by building a working skeleton of your system, thereby significantly reducing technical risk. They also help with transition to agile, allowing traditional funding models to use these milestones before moving to the finer grained iteration based funding that agile allows.
Highly collaborative. People build systems, and the primary determinant of success on a development project is the individuals and the way that they work together. Agile teams strive to work closely together and effectively as possible. This is a characteristic that applies to both engineers on the team, as well as their leadership.
Disciplined. Agile software development requires greater discipline on the part of practitioners that what is typically required by traditional approaches.
Self organizing. This means that the people who do the work also plan and estimate the work.
Self-organization within an appropriate governance framework. Self-organization leads to more realistic plans and estimates which are more acceptable to the people implementing them. At the same time these self-organizing teams must work within an appropriate governance framework which reflects the needs of their overall organizational environment. An "appropriate governance framework" explicitly enables disciplined agile delivery teams to effectively leverage a common infrastructure, to follow organizational conventions, and to work towards organizational goals. The point is that project teams, regardless of the delivery paradigm they are following, need to work within the governance framework of their organization. More importantly, effective governance programs should make it desirable to do so. Our experience is that traditional, command-and-control approaches to governance where senior management explicitly tells teams what to do and how to do it don't work very well with agile delivery teams. We've also found that lean development governance, an approach which is based on collaboration and enablement, is far more effective in practice. Good governance increases the chance that agile delivery teams will build systems which fit into your overall organizational environment, instead of yet another stand-alone system which increases your overall maintenance burden and data quality problems.
Active stakeholder participation. Agile teams work closely with their stakeholders, who include end users, managers of end users, the people paying for the project, enterprise architects, support staff, operations stuff, and many more. Within IBM we distinguish between four categories of stakeholder: principles/sponsors, partners (business partners and others), end users, and insiders These stakeholders, or their representatives (product owners in Scrum, or on-site customers in Extreme Programming, or a resident stakeholder in scaling situations), are expected to provide information and make decisions in a timely manner.
Changing needs of stakeholders. As a project progresses your stakeholders will gain a better understanding of what they want, particularly if you're showing them working software on a regular basis, and will change their "requirements" as a result. Changes in the business environment, or changes in organization priority, will also motivate changes to the requirements. There is a clear need for agile requirements change management [http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/changeManagement.htm] on modern IT projects.
Repeatable results. Stakeholders are rarely interested in how you delivered a solution but instead in what you delivered. In particular, they are often interested in having a solution which meets their actual needs, in spending their money wisely, in a high-quality solution, and in something which is delivered in a timely manner. In other words, they're interested in repeatable results, not repeatable processes.
Right amount of ceremony for the situation. Agile approaches minimize ceremony in favor of delivering concrete value in the form of working software, but that doesn't mean they do away with ceremony completely. Agile teams will still hold reviews, when it makes sense to do so. DDJ's 2008 Modeling and Documentation Survey found that agile teams will still produce deliverable documentation, such as operations manuals and user manuals, and furthermore are just as likely to do so as traditional teams. The DDJ September 2009 State of the IT Union survey found that the quality of the documentation delivered by agile teams was just as good as that delivered by traditional teams, although iterative teams (e.g. RUP teams) did better than both agile and traditional.


phenol chloroform, guanidinium thiocyanate, and cetyl-trimethyl-ammonium bromide) suitable for AFLP analysis are widely available. Because the PCR primers are not based on specific sequences, target DNA must be free from nucleic acids from other sources and hence, this method is problematic for analysis of microorganisms that cannot be grown in axenic culture or for target DNA that cannot be separated from DNA derived from extraneous sources.
provides a great deal of flexibility and ''tuning'' of the number of AFLP fragments generated. Theoretically, any restriction enzyme, alone or in combination, could be used to generate DNA profiles, irrespective of the complexity and utility required. However, rarely cutting enzymes will generate few fragments, thus reducing the probability for polymorphism detection, and frequently cutting enzymes are unlikely to generate fingerprints appropriate for interpretation.
Optimal restriction digestion is fundamental for correct AFLP patterns analysis, and the original methods used a combination of two enzymes with rare and frequent cutting sites. Hence, the fragments generated contain a frequent restriction site sequence at one end, plus a rare site sequence at the other. The rationale for this choice, particularly for functional analysis of genomes with very high complexity (e.g., for plant genomes), is that only fragments with combined rare and frequent restriction sites will be amplified, thus limiting the number of selective nucleotides in primers used for subsequent am-plifications. Alternative methods using only a single enzyme (sAFLP) are also available.
Because the adaptors are of known DNA sequence, subsequent PCR amplification of all DNA fragments can be achieved using primers that have exact complementarity with the adaptor sequences. Alternatively, the 3' ends of the PCR primers can include one or more additional ''selective'' nucleotides, thus allowing amplification of a subset of the adapted-restricted fragments; it is usually necessary to test primers with up to three selective nucleotides to obtain satisfactory patterns.
on agarose gel with ethidium bromide staining and UV transillumination/3-1 or by using fluorescently labeled primers through a polyacrylamide matrix in an automated sequencer.1-4-1 If comparisons of simple patterns of relatively low discrimination for small numbers of samples are required, these can be adequately achieved by visual inspection. However, once more complex AFLP patterns are analyzed together with the need for intralabora-tory and interlaboratory analysis, the application of bioinformatics is essential for analysis: the high repro-ducibility of AFLP supports the generation of electronic databases. A systematic review of final pattern analysis and its evaluation are outside the scope of this article; however, the fundamental aspects of DNA fingerprinting analysis as developed for other systems must be applied. In addition, the assessment of reproducibility (the repeatability of test results), typability (proportion of targets in a population that can be analyzed), and discrimination (number of different types identified) for each individual system must be evaluated, usually with a degree of empiricism.


Are you ready for a challenge? Escape room games are great fun. You have 60 minutes to complete a mission - can you beat the clock?
An 18 hole mini golf course with a Kaikoura theme. Set in a sheltered location away from the road. Fun for all ages and group sizes.
Crate Escape runs exciting escape room games in the middle of Christchurch. You and a group of friends are confined to a room, full of hidden clues, locks and puzzles for 60 minutes. Rated as one of the best in NZ & Aus.


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Q: Spring: How to get bean implementation dynamically? Let's say we have interface:
public interface IAuthentication { }

and two implementations:
public class LdapAuthentication implements IAuthentication {}

public class DbAuthentication implements IAuthentication {}

And finally we have a bean that is responsible for processing authentication. This bean should use one of the implementations shown above (based on configuration specified in for example db).
@Service
public class AuthenticationService {
    public boolean authenticate(...) {
        boolean useDb = ...;   //got from db
        //my problem here
        //how to get right implementation: either LdapAuthentication or DbAuthentication?
        IAuthentication auth = ...;
        return auth.authenticate(...);
    }
}

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How to get the right implementation?

A: If parameter value does not change:
@Service
public class AuthenticationService {

    private IAuthentication auth;

    @PostConstruct
    protected void init() {
        boolean useDb = ...;   //got from db
        this.auth = ...; //choose correct one
    }
    public boolean authenticate(...) {
        return auth.authenticate(...);
    }
}

If parameter is dynamic
@Service
public class AuthenticationService {

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationContext сontext;

    public boolean authenticate(...) {
        boolean useDb = ...;   //got from db
        IAuthentication auth = context.getBean(useDb ? DbAuthentication.class : LdapAuthentication.class);
        return auth.authenticate(...);
    }
}

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It's that time of year here in the Northern Hemisphere. Spring is coming. Rebirth! Renewal! Tho not my favourite season, I do love spring in all its mad glory. So many new things to photograph. This week I asked for submission on your interpretation of Rebirth. An excellent set of images.
My next curation will be May 21. I'll be looking for images from your most prolific series. Show me the work you are most proud of from an ongoing series you are working on. Do your worst, show me your best. Submit your image here.
Next week will be curated by Lucy Wainwright and the theme is XPRO. Send your cross-processed, your WrongSoup, your x-pro images yearning to be seen. You may submit your image here.
I'm Film photographer Marc Nagainis and am based in Ottawa, Canada. You can see more of my work on my website.


B&K Precision (www.bkprecision.com) has unveiled a dual channel oscilloscope that provides an unrivalled combination of value and performance, the 2534 Digital Storage Oscilloscopes. This 60 MHz oscilloscope offers a maximum sample rate of 400 MSa/s and record length of 4000 points for each channel.
The oscilloscope's analog style controls and auto measurement function makes it an easy-to-use device. With advanced features such as digital filtering, FFT function, delayed sweep/zoom, waveform recorder, 24 automatic measurements and mask testing, the oscilloscope offers users with powerful tools for easy debugging of circuits.
The oscilloscope features PC Software, which allows users to easily capture, save and analyze measurement results and waveforms. Unlike other comparable DSOs, the 2534 comes with two high performance 150 MHz passive probes, making it ideal for use in design and debug, education and training, and service and repair.
Its USB front panel host port allows users to conveniently connect the USB flash drive for easy storing and recall of waveform data (csy or binary), screen shots (bmp format) and setups. It also allows users to update the firmware of the oscilloscope.


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Biografia
Laureato a Princeton nel 1946 e alla Columbia Law School nel 1948, lavora come giudice di pace dal 1954 al 1960.

Eletto deputato al Congresso in rappresentanza del primo distretto di New York nel 1961, rimase in carica fino al 3 gennaio 1979; da quell'anno, fino al 1999, lavorò come opinionista per il Newhouse Newspapers.

Commissione di inchiesta della Camera
Diventa popolare a metà degli anni Settanta quando viene messo a capo di una commissione d'inchiesta chiamata ad investigare sull'operato della CIA negli ultimi 25 anni. Il rapporto finale viene bloccato dal Congresso, ma è comunque reso pubblico dalla rivista The Village Voice. La motivazione di tale censura va probabilmente ricercata nelle informazioni segrete e nei retroscena che vengono svelati in tale relazione.

Per quanto riguarda l'Italia, per esempio, viene riportata una lista di nomi di persone (politici, militari, banchieri, ecc.) che avrebbero ricevuto compensi dalla CIA per effettuare attività anti-comuniste in Italia.

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Rappresentanti statunitensi eletti dallo stato di New York
Politici del Partito Democratico (Stati Uniti d'America)


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Anna Golubkina, une sculptrice russe,
Golubkina, un cratère de Vénus nommé en son honneur.


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Justin Williams returns to Hurricanes — two years, $9 million
By Adam GretzJul 1, 2017, 12:47 PM EDT
The Carolina Hurricanes wanted to add some offense to their lineup this summer and they managed to do so by bringing back an old friend.
The team announced on Saturday that it has signed veteran forward Justin Williams to a two-year contract that will pay him $9 million.
"We said that we needed goal scoring and veteran leadership, and Justin will bring us both," said general manager Ron Francis in a team statement. "He believes in what we are doing here and is returning to Raleigh to help the Hurricanes take the next step."
Williams spent parts of five seasons with the Hurricanes between 2003-04 and 2008-09 and had some of his most productive seasons during that time, scoring more than 30 goals twice.
He also won the first of his three Stanley Cups with the Hurricanes during the 2005-06 season.
In the decade since Williams has been one of the NHL's best two-way wingers and has gained a reputation for being a clutch playoff performer. He is going to be 36 at the start of the 2017-18 season but he as he showed with the Capitals this past season he can still play like a legit top-six winger, scoring 24 goals and continuing to drive possession at an elite level.
The Hurricanes have missed the playoffs eight years in a row but have a promising young core of talent starting to emerge and are hoping that the addition of Scott Darling in net can solidify their biggest weakness in recent years — goaltending. With better goaltending and a solid veteran like Williams up front this could be a team to watch for this season.


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Build a museum that educates people on British Empire's murderous rule over India, says acclaimed author | Independent
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A world-renowned author is calling for museums in London and India to demonstrate Britain's role in reducing the country to one of the "poorest, illiterate and diseased places on earth".
Shashi Tharoor wants and "enduring reminder" to educate school children about how the British Empire killed millions, created famine and orchestrated a "divide and rule" campaign.
In an article for Al Jazeera, he said that India was one of the world's richest countries before British rule, producing 27 per cent of the world's gross domestic product in 1700.
Dr Shashi Tharoor tells the Oxford Union why Britain owes reparations
Britain reduced it "over two centuries of looting and exploitation, one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on Earth," added the 61-year-old MP, who chairs the Indian parliament's foreign affairs committee.
"An enduring reminder is needed, both for Indian schoolchildren to educate themselves and for British tourists to visit for their own enlightenment," he said. "As I say to young Indians: if you don't know where you have come from, how will you appreciate where you are going?"
The London-born author notes that there is no museum devoted to Britain's imperial conquest in India.
So the former United Nations secretary asked for the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata to be converted into a museum remembering the British Raj atrocities.
Five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire
Among the incidents that need documenting are the Amritsar massacre, which saw colonial soldiers kill between 379 and 1,000 people who were peacefully protesting against British rule.
Another 1,100 were injured in just 10 minutes, under the orders of Brigadier Reginald Dyer, who was later lauded a hero by the British public, which raised £26,000 for him as a thank you.
Mr Tharoor added that there was also no memorial for "the deaths of 35 million Indians in totally unnecessary famines caused by British policy, or the 'divide and rule' policy that culminated in the horrors of Partition in 1947 when the British made their shambolic and tragic Brexit from the subcontinent."
He said the "lack of such a museum is striking."
Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation during British rule.
Mr Tharoor also claimed that the Indian railway was a "colonial scam" designed to reap further British benefits.
"And at the end of it all, they went home to enjoy their retirements in damp little cottages with Indian names," he added.
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He also wrote how homosexuality is outlawed in India only because Britain suppressed the country's ancient Hindu texts, which he believes were more liberal.
India, the world's largest democracy, still allows Gay Pride marches in major cities however.
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Arend breaks 13-year drought in NHRA
October 7, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.
1 A lesser racer might have quit and "gone back to the cubicle."
But not Jeff Arend, the San Dimas resident who drives a Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. He ended a 13-year drought Monday in Memphis and, at the same time, gave his team a huge emotional lift.
"This is one of the best days of my life," Arend said after defeating Tony Pedregon in the finals of the Midsouth Finals. "To get this win for Scott and Connie and everyone at Kalitta Motorsports is amazing. It's surreal.
"To get the win was just incredible. Connie is the best owner to work for in drag racing. He's a racer's racer, and I can't explain what this win means to me and everyone on our DHL team who have struggled so hard to get this `Wally' for Connie and for Scott."
It was the first win for the team since Scott's death in a qualifying accident in June 2008. For the 72-year-old Connie Kalitta, the legendary "Bounty Hunter," it put a cap on his 50 years of NHRA competition.
"If you have to wait 13 years to get a win, there's nothing much better," said the 46-year-old Arend, in Richmond, Va., for a promotional stop before this weekend's event. "We were all happy, there were tears.
"A big weight was lifted off our shoulders."
For the first 15 stops on the circuit, Arend was winless, going through a series of tuneup changes in search for more speed and consistency. The problem was identified about the same time Aaron Brooks started spending more time with the team.
"We weren't that far off," Arend said, "we just needed a little help. Now it's looking good."
Arend was called in to drive after last year's tragedy. His calm demeanor has been a plus to a team dealing with the emotional issues.
"We're a good fit," he said. "We race hard and like to have a good time. It's a family-oriented operation, more than anyone I've ever been associated with, always upbeat.
"It's pretty awesome. It's nice to get a reward."
2 Next Wednesday in Charlotte, N.C., the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be announced. This much is known: the five selected will certainly be worthy of induction, but there will probably as as many questions as there will be praise.
Voters – representing drivers, owners, the sanctioning body and media – had a field of 25 to choose from. In reality, any of the 25 would make excellent choices. We don't have a vote, outside of participating in a fan vote, but our selections would include:
William France, NASCAR creator and founder;
Richard Petty, all-time win leader and current car-owner;
Dale Earnhardt, tied with Petty with seven championships;
Junior Johnson, who collected 182 wins as a driver and car owner;
Bill France Jr., at the helm during NASCAR's growth spurt.
The key question is why limit inductees to five? The first class should be representative of NASCAR's 62-year history. There's only one chance to lay a foundation.
At the rate of five per year, NASCAR will reach it's greatest 50 in 2019. This could have been the opportunity to recognize many for their achievements in the sport before they pass on.
Today's Sprint Cup Series cars are capable of exceeding 200 mph, a far greater speed than the Hall of Fame will achieve.
3 Any parent who has ever lost a child has a concern about that life being forgotten.
For Jon Medlen, who lost son Eric in a Funny Car test accident, and Connie Kalitta, whose son Scott lost his life in a qualifying crash, they know the sport has learned valuable lessons from those deaths.
Just ask Tim Wilkerson, whose young son Daniel smashed head-on into a retaining wall during a first-round run at the NHRA Midsouth Nationals on Monday. It looked far worse than the actual reality. A father and his team credit the safety advances after the Medlen and Kalitta crashes for making the difference.
"All the stuff we've done to these race cars from the loss of our last two friends probably saved my kid's life," said the elder Wilkerson. "I really can't say enough about all of John Force's people and the efforts he has gone through to make sure our cars are safer than they used to be."
Ironically, the younger Wilkerson did not attempt a qualifying run Saturday in an effort to save the only engine he had available.
"The good thing is the kid's OK and all the safety equipment on the car did its job," said the father.
And if a second testimonial is required, Bob Tasca III, Wilkerson's tech mate, had a problem in Charlotte two weeks ago and he also credited the safety lessons with saving his life after the bead lock sheered off the rim during his final qualifying run.
4 If it's racing you want to see, and don't care what day it is, the Southern California Fair at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds is your kind of place. For nine days, beginning Saturday, there will be a motorsports event of some type.
A ticket to the fair is all that is required to see everything from speedway motorcycles to the powerful 410 USAC/CRA Sprint Cars to RV Demolition Derby at Perris Auto Speedway.
On Saturday night, it's the California Lightning Sprint Cars at 1:30 p.m., followed by the USAC/CRA 410-cubic inch Sprint Cars. On Sunday, it's an off-road and Quad Freestyle daredevils at 1:30 and 7 p.m.
Monday, it's the 2009 Fair Truck and Tractor Pull, with the PASSCAR Street Stocks together with the Jet Car Meltdown on Tuesday.
Freestyle motocross takes over Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The Southern California Fair Speedway Motorcycle and Sidecar Championships, featuring Flyin' Mike Faria and Gary Hicks, are set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Friday and Saturday are dominated by Monster Truck events, 7:30 p.m. on Friday and shows at 1:30 and 7 p.m. on Saturday. The fair concludes Oct. 18 with the 17th Double Trouble Demolition Derby at 1:30 and 7 p.m., followed by the insane RV Demolition Derby.
5 David Gilliland, set to compete Sunday at Auto Club Speedway for TRG Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pepsi 500, will make his Orange Show Speedway debut.
Gilliland has raced throughout Southern California, but never at the San Bernardino banked and paved half-mile.
"I went there as a kid and watched my dad (Butch) once and went there and tested once just to shake a car down, but that was it," said Gilliland, whose served a crew chief for his father's NASCAR Winston West title in 1997.
Gilliland will drive Linny White's Late Model in the Twin 50s, a Chevrolet Monte Carlo being prepared by Luke Dodd with Jerry Dodd on hand for advice and moral support.
Ryan Daniel of Mentone is the division points leader by 18 over Kevin James of Yucaipa and 40 over John Mattie of Highland. Also on the card are Street Stocks, Vintage Midgets and Sprint cars of the Western Racing Association, Train races and drifting. …
Toyota Speedway in Irwindale will feature a 125-lap race for the SRL Touring series in addition to Legend Cars and S2 in their final points race, Classic Stocks and Bandoleros. Nick Joanides won the NASCAR Late Model title last week by 38 points over Tim Huddleston, operating with a $10,000 budget.


Shell is offering liquefied natural gas at two TravelCenters of America truck fueling stations in Texas, located in Dallas and San Antonio.
Combined with a station in Baytown, Texas, Shell now has three LNG locations within the Texas Triangle, a region of heavy truck traffic where natural gas fuel proponents have been concentrating on building fueling infrastructure. Shell is continuing to assess the viability of LNG as a diesel alternative and plans to open additional lanes at TA locations as demand grows.
Shell has an agreement with TA to develop a network of LNG fueling stations for heavy-duty customers in the U.S. Earlier this year, Shell opened LNG lanes at TA refueling stations in Baytown, Texas, and Lafayette, La., meant to service trucks driving to the Port of Houston and traveling through Louisiana.
Shell opened its opened its first LNG operation in Calgary, Canada in 2013 and also operates a location in Edmonton. The company recently announced an incentive plan with GE Capital Canada for Canadian truck leasing customers looking to offset the costs of LNG trucks.


Abstract: The perceptions and perspectives of English as a second language (ESL) of teachers on internet-assisted language teaching in Nigeria are examined in this study. A total of 125 ESL teachers in Nigeria, particularly from secondary schools in Enugu State, were chosen as respondents. Questionnaire was used as an instrument for eliciting the respondents' opinions on the subject matter. The respondents were inquired to air their views on the extent to which internet-assisted language teaching has been explored in Nigeria, students' attitudes toward internet-assisted language learning, the success of internet-assisted language teaching in Nigeria, and the challenges faced by ESL teachers in Nigeria on internet-assisted language teaching. A quantitative method of data analysis was used to examine the information gathered from the respondents. The result of the analysis shows that internet-assisted language teaching, though not fully in practice in Nigerian secondary schools yet, is a good approach to teaching and learning ESL. Irrespective of its wider preference over the traditional method of teaching ESL, internet-assisted language teaching can make teachers and students lazy because they would hardly create imaginative ideas independently. It is also discovered that there are shortages of computer centers in Nigerian secondary schools; and a large number of teachers and students are still computer illiterates. For internet-assisted language teaching to gain a wider support and patronage in Nigeria secondary schools, computer centers with internet facilities should be established in all schools and colleges in the country.
Keywords: ESL teaching, internet-assisted language teaching, information communication technology, perception, perspective, Enugu state, Nigeria.


Parker is your average girl. She goes to high school, she goes out with boys, she loves sports. Softball to be exact. But when her life is turned upside down, she turns herself upside down. She quits softball, drops weight, and becomes a little friendly with the boys. Then, a new baseball coach steps into her life, and she's more than happy to add him to her kissing list. She thinks this is what she wants, but is it really?
I read Catching Jordan a while back and fell in love with Miranda's writing. You know I'm not big on contemporary at the moment, so I'm super picky about the stories I read. At the beginning of the book, I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this one, but it took me by surprise. Stealing Parker was a definite win for me.
I loved Parker as a character. She was real and personal from the very beginning. She could've been any girl from my high school or even college. I love when a character makes you sit up and pay attention and Parker was that for me. Sure, there were parts where I kind of wanted to strangle her a little, but that just makes her more human.
While I loved Parker, I was insta-love-beyond-all-love with Will! Seriously, the moment he stepped into the pages, I was a gonner. This boy was a gorgeous, smart, caring specimen of amazingness. His relationship with Parker and those around him was great. I got a feel for his character right off the bat, and I couldn't help but cheer him on in everything throughout the book.
Overall, I loved this book. The chemistry between the characters Miranda created was outstanding. The tension, the longing, the perfectly placed little phrases, all of that made the book just that much more. This high school is one I wish I could've gone to, just so I could meet all these fabulous people. I can't wait to see what Miranda has for us next! Stealing Parker comes out October 1, 2012! Get it, read it, love it!


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Q: silverspoon vs. farady - rake searchkick:reindex CLASS=Mymodel gives NameError: uninitialized constant Patron::Error ... Patron::Session The simple call of
rake searchkick:reindex CLASS=Mymodel

evokes the following error:
Reindexing Mymodel...
/Users/lutz/.rbenv/versions/2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.12.0.1/lib/faraday/adapter/patron.rb:39: warning: constant Patron::TimeoutError is deprecated
/Users/lutz/.rbenv/versions/2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.12.0.1/lib/faraday/adapter/patron.rb:39: warning: toplevel constant TimeoutError referenced by Patron::TimeoutError
rake aborted!
NameError: uninitialized constant Patron::Error

NameError: uninitialized constant Patron::Session

Here is my 'bundle list' output:
Gems included by the bundle:
* actioncable (5.0.2)
* actionmailer (5.0.2)
* actionpack (5.0.2)
* actionview (5.0.2)
* active_model_serializers (0.10.5)
* activeadmin (1.0.0.pre5 d4473e9)
* activejob (5.0.2)
* activemodel (5.0.2)
* activerecord (5.0.2)
* activesupport (5.0.2)
* addressable (2.5.1)
* arbre (1.1.1)
* arel (7.1.4)
* autoprefixer-rails (6.7.7.2)
* aws-sdk (2.9.7)
* aws-sdk-core (2.9.7)
* aws-sdk-resources (2.9.7)
* aws-sigv4 (1.0.0)
* bcrypt (3.1.11)
* bindex (0.5.0)
* bootstrap-sass (3.3.7)
* bourbon (4.3.4)
* builder (3.2.3)
* bundler (1.13.6)
* byebug (9.0.6)
* callsite (0.0.11)
* case_transform (0.2)
* climate_control (0.1.0)
* cocaine (0.5.8)
* coffee-rails (4.2.1)
* coffee-script (2.4.1)
* coffee-script-source (1.12.2)
* concurrent-ruby (1.0.5)
* database_cleaner (1.5.3)
* devise (4.2.1)
* devise_invitable (1.7.2)
* diff-lcs (1.3)
* dotenv (2.2.0)
* elasticsearch (5.0.4)
* elasticsearch-api (5.0.4)
* elasticsearch-transport (5.0.4)
* erubis (2.7.0)
* exception_notification (4.2.1)
* excon (0.55.0)
* execjs (2.7.0)
* factory_girl (4.8.0)
* factory_girl_rails (4.8.0)
* faraday (0.12.0.1)
* ffaker (2.5.0)
* ffi (1.9.18)
* figaro (1.1.1)
* formtastic (3.1.5)
* formtastic_i18n (0.6.0)
* globalid (0.3.7)
* has_scope (0.7.0)
* hashie (3.5.5)
* heroku (3.99.1)
* heroku-api (0.4.2)
* i18n (0.8.1)
* inherited_resources (1.7.1 0839b07)
* jbuilder (2.6.3)
* jmespath (1.3.1)
* jquery-rails (4.3.1)
* jquery-ui-rails (6.0.1)
* json (1.8.6)
* jsonapi-renderer (0.1.2)
* kaminari (1.0.1)
* kaminari-actionview (1.0.1)
* kaminari-activerecord (1.0.1)
* kaminari-core (1.0.1)
* launchy (2.4.3)
* letter_opener (1.4.1)
* meta_request (0.4.0)
* method_source (0.8.2)
* mime-types (1.25.1)
* net-ssh (2.9.2)
* net-ssh-gateway (1.2.0)
* netrc (0.10.3)
* nio4r (2.0.0)
* nokogiri (1.7.1)
* orm_adapter (0.5.0)
* paperclip (5.1.0)
* pg (0.20.0)
* polyamorous (1.3.1)
* pr_geohash (1.0.0)
* public_suffix (2.0.5)
* puma (3.8.2)
* rack (2.0.1)
* rack-contrib (1.2.0)
* rack-test (0.6.3)
* rails (5.0.2)
* rails-dom-testing (2.0.2)
* rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3)
* railties (5.0.2)
* rake (12.0.0)
* ransack (1.8.2)
* rb-fsevent (0.9.8)
* rb-inotify (0.9.8)
* rdoc (4.3.0)
* responders (2.3.0)
* rest-client (1.6.8)
* rsolr (1.1.2)
* rspec-core (3.5.4)
* rspec-expectations (3.5.0)
* rspec-mocks (3.5.0)
* rspec-rails (3.5.2)
* rspec-support (3.5.0)
* rubyzip (1.1.7)
* sass (3.4.23)
* sass-rails (5.0.6)
* sdoc (0.4.2)
* searchkick (2.2.0)
* seed_dump (3.2.4)
* shoulda-matchers (3.1.1)
* spring (2.0.1)
* spring-watcher-listen (2.0.1)
* sprockets (3.7.1)
* sprockets-rails (3.2.0)
* sqlite3 (1.3.13)
* sunspot (2.2.7)
* sunspot_rails (2.2.7)
* sunspot_solr (2.2.7)
* thor (0.19.4)
* thread_safe (0.3.6)
* tilt (2.0.7)
* turbolinks (5.0.1)
* turbolinks-source (5.0.0)
* tzinfo (1.2.3)
* uglifier (3.2.0)
* warden (1.2.7)
* web-console (3.5.0)
* websocket-driver (0.6.5)
* websocket-extensions (0.1.2)

I'm on silverspoon (devise, bootstrap, activeadmin) and
OS-X 10.5.5 (Yosemite).
In the gem 'activeadmin' is also a Model named 'Patron' it is the Class for 'User' and 'Admin'. Could this interfere with the 'faraday' gem? How can I get rid of the error?
Thanks in advance.

A: As I suggested, the Class "Patron" from the silverspoon interfered with the Class "Patron" from faraday.
Setup a small "test" project and tried
rake searchkick:reindex CLASS=Mymodel

everything went fine.
Solution:
I renamed the Class 'patron.rb' in the models dir to 'customer.rb' and set the references in 'admin.rb' and 'user.rb' in the same dir from 'Patron' to 'Customer'.


Recently I was out to lunch with some of my lady friends, and I rediscovered the Waldorf Salad.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper and then marinate it in ½ cup of the Rasberry Vinaigrette or Marinade and refrigerate. Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium high. Grill the chicken about 7 minutes on the first side and 6 minutes on the other side. Meanwhile whisk 1.5 TBS of mayo with the juice of ½ of a lemon, ½ cup of the Raspberry Vinaigrette or Marinade and then season with salt and pepper. Toss the vegetables with the "sauce" right before serving. You may want to not use all of the sauce. Cut the chicken on an angle. Pile up the Waldorf salad and then lie the chicken across the top and add another dash of s+p.
I started marinating the chicken fairly early, around six hours before dinner. I wanted the the chicken to be really tender, so after cutting off the fat, I pounded the breasts with a meat tenderizer. You don't have to do that, but tenderizing will also help the meat to absorb the marinade.
We cooked the chicken on the grill for about 20 minutes, and while that was going down, I prepared the rest of the ingredients. Instead of using cabbage, I used Boston Bibb lettuce, since lettuce is a more traditional Waldorf ingredient, and because, well, I just like Boston Bibb. I also cut up one Pink Lady apple and halved a cup of grapes.
Next I prepared the dressing, which is a mixture of raspberry dressing, lemon juice, and lite mayo. The recipe says something about olive oil mayo, but I am not sure what that is, and even so, I don't think I would buy a whole jar just for the 1.5 TBSP this recipe called for. At least not before the dish had been taste-tested.
Right before putting the chicken in, I put all the fresh ingredients together.
And the chicken went on top for a lovely presentation.
The salad was good, but I think it lacked something. Perhaps if we added celery, as you would in a traditional Waldorf, it would be better. Plus, if I did this again, I would definitely chill the chicken before putting it on the salad, because the hot and cold didn't go together at all. In fact, it kind of made the flavor of the chicken fight a bit for the attention of the taste buds with the rest of the salad. But overall, it was good.
Olive oil mayo is good! That's all we use now… it's made by Hellmans or Kraft or whoever makes mayo. Right next to the other stuff.
So glad you tried this! The cabbage and the green onions give this a crispy texture and a bit more flavor. If you want to leave those out, I agree that adding the celery would be a good substitute.
Thanks for the note. Yeah, I forgot about the onions, even though I did have them handy. It was a good salad. Thanks for the idea!!


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Reassurance policing is a model of policing that centers on signal crimes. Developed in the United Kingdom, reassurance policing aims to identify "signals", and involve the community in solving community-related problems (similar to the community policing model).

See also
Signal crime

References

Law enforcement
Criminology
Types of policing


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A Guide to Windermere and Grasmere; Abel Heywood's Series Of Penny Guide Books
London: The Hansard Publishing Union, 1890. Wraps. 20 numbered pages. 18 x 12 cm. Travel Guide - plus 24 pages, profusely illustrated advertisements for health pill, sanitariums, temperance hotels, etc. Fold out map attached. Paper wrappers printed in black and blue. Wrappers fragile and worn, 1 x 3 cm piece.....	More
[MARITIME] [WHALE-FISHERY] [BRAZIL]
1839. Loose_leaf. 27 X 22 cm. Register of costs for the ship Flora, commanded by Captain Daniel Fitch, sailing out of New London, Connecticut, while docked at a whale-fishery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Disbursements are recorded by ship agents to inform the ship owners of all the charges the.....	More
De Davila, Esta O.
[TRAVEL] [MEXICO] Paradise In Mexico; Morelos and Its Capital CUERNAVACA
Mexico: Editorial Cultura, 1937. 225 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Travel Guide. Cover and pages toned.	More
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Where Paris Dines; With Information about Restaurants of all kinds, costly and cheep, dignified and gay, known an little known: and how to enjoy them
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. JAY. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 322 pages. 20 x 13 cm. The "Airways" edition: Together with a discussion of French Wines and a Table of Vintages by a distinguished AMATEUR (a collaborator who prefers to remain anonymous). A yearly undertaking for the author, this.....	More


The Executive Committee will meet formally on a bi-monthly basis or as required.
The meetings are to be attended by the Managing Agent, Facilities Manager and the Executive Committee Members.
The Executive Committee are required to attend at least 85% of all meetings.
The Executive Committee are required to confirm their attendance or inability to attend an Executive Committee Meeting with the Chairperson and Managing Agent prior to the meeting to ensure a quorum is obtained.
The Executive Committee must comply with the "Code of Conduct" at all times.
The Executive Committee are expected to read all reports prior to meeting.
The Executive Committee are expected to participate in project work if and when resolved by the Executive Committee to do so.
The meetings will commence at 6.30pm and run for a maximum of 2 hours.
The Managing Agent will issue the agendas of the meeting.
The agendas of formal meetings will not exceed 20 motions.
The Facilities Manager will issue the Facilities Managers report, quotation reports and all supporting documentation to the Managing Agent prior to the meeting for inclusion in the agenda.
The Managing Agent will issue the minutes of the meeting.
All by-law breach compliance complaints/ correspondence are to be submitted to the Managing Agent in writing.
The Managing Agent will review the by-law breach compliance complaints/ correspondence and advise the author if additional supporting documentation or evidence of the by-law breach is required to be submitted.
The Managing Agent will provide the correspondence to the Executive Committee for consideration and instructions on a by-law breach letter or a friendly reminder notice (depending on the circumstances) being issued.
The new laws help to clarify what is a major defect, which is covered by a 6-year warranty. General defects that don't meet the 'major defect test' will continue to be covered by the standard 2-year warranty.
Major defects are defects that: are in a 'major element' of the building AND prevent all or part of the building from being lived in or used for its intended purpose OR threaten the collapse or destruction of the building or part of it. For disputes relating to defects, tribunals and courts need to consider rectification as the preferred outcome. Builders who seek to fix defects can't be unreasonably refused access to a property by the home owner.
To prevent rectification work being stalled, NSW Fair Trading Inspectors, through a Rectification Order, can oblige consumers to pay the builder any money owed under the contract. The definition of completion for strata buildings has changed so that completion occurs on the issue of an occupation certificate allowing the whole building to be used and occupied.
Licensees have a legal defence in proceedings for a breach of the statutory warranties if they reasonably relied on the written specialist advice of an independent professional engaged by the owner.


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#pragma once

#include <af/defines.h>
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <util.hpp>
#include <err_common.hpp>

#if defined(OS_WIN)
#include <Windows.h>
typedef HMODULE LibHandle;
#else
#include <dlfcn.h>
typedef void* LibHandle;
#endif

namespace unified
{

const int NUM_BACKENDS = 3;
const int NUM_ENV_VARS = 2;

#define UNIFIED_ERROR_LOAD_LIB()                                        \
    AF_RETURN_ERROR("Failed to load dynamic library. "                  \
                    "See http://www.arrayfire.com/docs/unifiedbackend.htm " \
                    "for instructions to set up environment for Unified backend.", \
                    AF_ERR_LOAD_LIB)

class AFSymbolManager {
    public:
        static AFSymbolManager& getInstance();

        ~AFSymbolManager();

        unsigned getBackendCount();

        int getAvailableBackends();

        af_err setBackend(af::Backend bnkd);

        af::Backend getActiveBackend() { return activeBackend; }

        template<typename... CalleeArgs>
        af_err call(const char* symbolName, CalleeArgs... args) {
            if (!activeHandle) {
                UNIFIED_ERROR_LOAD_LIB();
            }
            typedef af_err(*af_func)(CalleeArgs...);
            af_func funcHandle;
#if defined(OS_WIN)
            funcHandle = (af_func)GetProcAddress(activeHandle, symbolName);
#else
            funcHandle = (af_func)dlsym(activeHandle, symbolName);
#endif
            if (!funcHandle) {
                std::string str = "Failed to load symbol: ";
                str += symbolName;
                AF_RETURN_ERROR(str.c_str(),
                                AF_ERR_LOAD_SYM);
            }

            return funcHandle(args...);
        }

        LibHandle getHandle() { return activeHandle; }

    protected:
        AFSymbolManager();

        // Following two declarations are required to
        // avoid copying accidental copy/assignment
        // of instance returned by getInstance to other
        // variables
        AFSymbolManager(AFSymbolManager const&);
        void operator=(AFSymbolManager const&);

    private:

        LibHandle bkndHandles[NUM_BACKENDS];

        LibHandle activeHandle;
        LibHandle defaultHandle;
        unsigned numBackends;
        int backendsAvailable;
        af_backend activeBackend;
        af_backend defaultBackend;
};

// Helper functions to ensure all the input arrays are on the active backend
bool checkArray(af_backend activeBackend, af_array a);
bool checkArrays(af_backend activeBackend);

template<typename T, typename... Args>
bool checkArrays(af_backend activeBackend, T a, Args... arg)
{
    return checkArray(activeBackend, a) && checkArrays(activeBackend, arg...);
}

} // namespace unified

// Macro to check af_array as inputs. The arguments to this macro should be
// only input af_arrays. Not outputs or other types.
#define CHECK_ARRAYS(...) do {                                          \
        af_backend backendId = unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().getActiveBackend(); \
        if(!unified::checkArrays(backendId, __VA_ARGS__))               \
            AF_RETURN_ERROR("Input array does not belong to current backend", \
                            AF_ERR_ARR_BKND_MISMATCH);                  \
    } while(0)

#if defined(OS_WIN)
#define CALL(...) unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().call(__FUNCTION__, __VA_ARGS__)
#define CALL_NO_PARAMS() unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().call(__FUNCTION__)
#else
#define CALL(...) unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().call(__func__, __VA_ARGS__)
#define CALL_NO_PARAMS() unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().call(__func__)
#endif

#if defined(OS_WIN)
#define LOAD_SYMBOL() GetProcAddress(unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().getHandle(), __FUNCTION__)
#else
#define LOAD_SYMBOL() dlsym(unified::AFSymbolManager::getInstance().getHandle(), __func__)
#endif

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: How do I populate a popup button with AppleScript? I've found this snippet of code in various place around the 'net:
tell window 1
  tell menu of popup button 1
    delete every menu item
    repeat with catListItem in catList
      make new menu item at end of menu items with properties {title:catListItem}
    end repeat
  end tell
end tell

When I use it in my AppDelegate script in a Cocoa-AppleScript Application, Xcode gives me an error: *t2t_AppDelegate.applescript:25: error: Expected end of line but found identifier. (-2741)* (Line 25 is "tell menu...")
I'm not sure what I'm missing that would allow me to dynamically populate the popup button with a list of terms (catList) that I'm drawing from another application. Any suggestions?

A: Unless you are running something earlier than Snow Leopard, It looks like you are using AppleScript Studio terminology (which was deprecated in Snow Leopard).  Using the current AppleScriptObjC framework, the user interface items are referenced via outlet properties, for example:
property myPopUp : missing value

From the Interface Editor, this property is connected to your popup button, which allows you to use it with various methods in the NSPopupButton class and its parents, such as addItemsWithTitles.  Once everything is defined and connected, you would use something like:
set catList to {"next item", "another item", "Items added"}
myPopUp's addItemsWithTitles_(catList)


text:
Q: Classes of functions which are not almost divisible by a part of the Euler phi function Given, $f$ and $g$ as functions with domain and range in the integers, we will
write $S(f,g)$ to be the set of $n$ such that $f(n)|g(n)$. We will write $f^2$ to just be $f(n)^2$.
We will say that $f$ almost divides $g$, which we will write as $f|_A g$ if $S(f,g)$ has natural density 1. For example, due to a result of  Bateman, Erdos, Pomerance and Straus, that $\tau(n) |_A \sigma(n)$, but that it is not true that $\tau(n)^2 |_A \sigma(n)$. Here $\tau(n)$ is the number of divisors of $n$, and $\sigma(n)$ is the sum of the divisors of $n$. (They do not use this language, and in fact show the stronger result the set of $n$ where $\tau^2(n)|\sigma(n)$ has density $\frac{1}{2}$).
Let $F$ be the set of multiplicative functions from $\mathbb{Z}^+$ to  $\mathbb{Z}^+$. Then almost division is a partial order on $F$.
Proof: Reflexivity and transitivity are easy The only difficulty is to show that if $f |_A g$ and $g |_A f$ then $f=g.$ To see this, note that this means that on a set of density 1, $f(n)|g(n)$ and on a set of density 1, $g(n)|f(n)$. So on a set of density one, $f(n)=g(n)$. So if $f \neq g$, then there is some prime power $p^a$ such that $f(p^a) \neq g(p^a)$. But then for any $m$, where $f(m)=g(m)$, on a set of and  $(m,p)=1$, we have  $f(mp^a)=f(m)f(p^a) \neq g(m)g(p^a) = g(mp^a)$, and $m$ satisfying this have density $\frac{p-1}{p}$, which is a contradiction.
We also have that for any function $f$ with domain and range in the non-zero integers, there is a completely multiplicative function $c$ such that $f |_A c$. To see this, note that almost all positive integers have a prime factor which is at least $n^\frac{1}{2\log \log n}$. (Tighter bounds come immediately from the Hardy-Ramanujan theorem for $\omega(n)$ but we do not need them here.) So let $c(n)$ be defined by being completely multiplicative and for any given prime $p$, set $c(p) = f(1)f(2)... f(\lceil e^{e^p} \rceil)$.
We'll say that a function $f$ strongly fails to divide $g$, if the set of $n$, where $f(n)|g(n)$ has density zero. This is in some sense the opposite of being almost divisible. Examples here are how $n$ strongly fails to divide $\sigma(n)$, and $\phi$ strongly fails to divide $n$.
We'll say that a multiplicative function $f(n)$ is polynomial-controlled if for any $a$ there is a polynomial $Q_a(x)$ such that for all primes $p$, $f(p^a)=Q_a(p)$. Notice that the choice of polynomial is allowed to depend on $a$, but is then otherwise the same. Most classical multiplicative functions are polynomial-controlled, including $\tau$, $\sigma$, $\mu$, $\phi$, and $\psi$.  We'll say that a positive multiplicative function is positively polynomial-controlled if it is polynomial-controlled and for any $a$, the coefficients of the corresponding $Q_a(x)$ are non-negative. For example, $\sigma(n)$ is positively polynomial controlled because $\sigma(p^a) = 1+p+p^2 \cdots + p^a$. But $\phi(n)$ is not positively polynomial controlled because $\phi(p^a)= p^a - p^{a-1}$.
Let $\beta(n)$ be the multiplicative function given by $\beta(p^a) = p-1$ for all $a$ and primes $p$. Notice that $\beta$ is polynomial-controlled but not positively polynomial controlled.
Question Is it true that if $f$ is a multiplicative function which is positively polynomial-controlled, then $\beta$ strongly fails to divide $f$?


Felicia asked a question about one of the guys in the last set of pink 1x1s. And you are right, Felicia! He is from the Flintstones. That is Mr. Slate (Fred's boss)!
My page in a pink & green themed deco. I taped this one. I've never taped over a collage in a deco even if it is a taped-deco that I'm working in. But this one has a lot of work in it already that is totally taped, and has been put together in a way (folded in upon itself) that if I hadn't taped my piece it would more than likely get ruined before it went much further.
My page in an orange & brown themed deco.
And, finally, this is my page in an unthemed deco.
I've just finished another set of 1x1s for a swap and will post a photo once they arrive at their destination. I have one spread and the back cover left on the altered star-shaped board book that I'm working on.
I've decided to take the month off from swapping and spend some time on what I have going on here at the moment. So I hope to finish the board book this month. As well as the April (and possibly May) spreads in my altered calendar. Then I have the Pinocchio 1x1s under way, as well as the red-themed collages I started on the boards from those kids' books I've been mentioning. Then, if that's not enough I have a huge pile of decos I can dive into. Plus I would like to make some more decos for myself. I've worked in a ton of decos for other people but only sent a handful out in the world myself.
There was a time when I worked on one collage at a time. But I need to have several things on the go these days. I get all obsessed with something when a frenzy of creativity hits me, then it fizzles out and I move onto something else. Then I'll find the spark again and go back to something I set aside for a while. Variety is the spice of life!