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Q: interacting with web services and android I want to make a request to a web services http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx and I cannot get a OK respond and got 400 bad request instead.
Here is my AsyncTask doInBackground
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
    String s=null;
    try {

        restclient client1 = new restclient("http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx");
        client1.AddParam("Celsius", "12");

        client1.AddHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8" );
        client1.AddHeader("SOAPAction", "http://tempuri.org/CelsiusToFahrenheit");

            client1.Execute(RequestMethod.POST);
            s = client1.getResponse();
            return s;
            } catch (Exception e) {

                e.printStackTrace();
            }

    return  s;
}

I have a class for client1 that I got from a post (cant find the link for that now)
public class restclient {

public enum RequestMethod {
    GET, POST
}

private ArrayList<NameValuePair> params;
private ArrayList<NameValuePair> headers;

private String url;

private int responseCode;
private String message;

private String response;

public String getResponse() {
    return response;
}

public String getErrorMessage() {
    return message;
}

public int getResponseCode() {
    return responseCode;
}

public restclient(String url) {
    this.url = url;
    params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
    headers = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
}

public void AddParam(String name, String value) {
    params.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value));
}

public void AddHeader(String name, String value) {
    headers.add(new BasicNameValuePair(name, value));
}

public void Execute(RequestMethod method) throws Exception {
    switch (method) {
    case GET: {
        // add parameters
        String combinedParams = "";
        if (!params.isEmpty()) {
            combinedParams += "?";
            for (NameValuePair p : params) {
                String paramString = p.getName() + "="
                        + URLEncoder.encode(p.getValue(), "UTF-8");
                if (combinedParams.length() > 1) {
                    combinedParams += "&" + paramString;
                } else {
                    combinedParams += paramString;
                }
            }
        }

        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url + combinedParams);

        // add headers
        for (NameValuePair h : headers) {
            request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue());
        }

        executeRequest(request, url);
        break;
    }
    case POST: {
        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);

        // add headers
        for (NameValuePair h : headers) {
            request.addHeader(h.getName(), h.getValue());
        }

        if (!params.isEmpty()) {
            request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, HTTP.UTF_8));
        }

        executeRequest(request, url);
        break;
    }
    }
}

private void executeRequest(HttpUriRequest request, String url) {
    HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

    HttpResponse httpResponse;

    try {
        httpResponse = client.execute(request);
        responseCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
        message = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase();

        HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();

        if (entity != null) {

            InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
            response = convertStreamToString(instream);

            // Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
            instream.close();
        }

    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String line = null;
    try {
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + "\n");
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        try {
            is.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

}
I've also included access for Internet
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  package="com.android.test"
  android:versionCode="1"
  android:versionName="1.0">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
   .....
</application>

I only get a bad request response when I tried to post. Do I need to use more parameters? I feel that the body is wrong, but I can't find a solution.

A: Are you sure that a POST is correct. When I do a GET for that URL in Chrome I get 200 OK. Maybe you should try changing to the following?
client1.Execute(RequestMethod.GET);

A: EDIT: I just saw your content-type header, have you tried "application/soap+xml"? Also, SOAP required POST I believe, GET will not work, so you're right to do POST.
EDIT2: That client class your using isn't going to work. You need to send a XML in the body of your POST request, wrapped in a SOAP XML wrapper. The XML needs to follow the structure of the WSDL for your endpoint. I would recommend using SOAP UI (link below) to figure out what the XML should look like. If you wanted to get fancy, you should create a class that will serialize to look exactly like the request the SOAP UI creates.
For SOAP services you can almost always access the WSDL by adding ?WSDL to the endpoint url:
http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?wsdl
If that doesn't work...
How to troubleshoot web services:

*

*Download and install SoapUi and get your SOAP request working by importing your WSDL and filling in required inputs

*Once your request is working install fiddler or some other proxy

*Change the URL of your request in SoapUI to localhost:8888 or whatever the name of your machine is and the port where your proxy is running (fiddler runs on 8888 by default).

*Make the same working request from SoapUI but to the new URL (localhost:8888 or whatever), the request will fail, but fiddler will have captured your request

*Now in your android code, change the URL of the SOAP request to localhost:8888 and make the request, this will also fail but fiddler will have captured your request

*Look at the two requests and compare them. Start by looking at the headers and then the SOAP wrapper/xml.

I've done exactly this a million times, it's a guaranteed method to find the difference between two requests. Good luck!

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Home › News & Publications › Before Humphrey-Hawkins Hearings, Fed Up Speaks Out for Full Employment, High Wages
02/11/2020	| Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
Before Humphrey-Hawkins Hearings, Fed Up Speaks Out for Full Employment, High Wages
WASHINGTON -- Today, ahead of the Humphrey-Hawkins Hearings on Capitol Hill, over a dozen activists with Fed Up spoke out for full employment and high wages. The activists, decked out in bright green shirts plastered with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's face, shared their stories of wage stagnation and income insecurity ahead of the House Financial Services committee hearing.
Photos from the event are available here.
During the speak out, Fed Up activists said the following:
Arthur Blair
"The Federal Reserve should represent all of the American people, not just the economic elite."
Jessica Moreno
"I am the daughter of immigrants. My mom raised my sister and me on a low wage warehouse job. Her wages did not grow in over ten years, just like many members of my community. Many more cannot secure a full time job with a living wage."
LaDon Love
"The federal reserve needs to focus on wage growth in their review. They need to take into account that wages are not going up. People are working multiple jobs and not making ends meet. To not focus on this problem is to do a disservice to our country."
Antonia Reynolds
"I have a 44 year old son who lives at home because he can't afford to live in the District of Columbia on his wages. The Federal Reserve must recognize that this is a reality for many Black and Brown communities."
Media Contact: Lia Weintraub, lweintraub@populardemocracy.org, 202-618-2482

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Home Lifestyle Health & Fitness Higher levels of Omega-3 in blood can add 5 years to your...
Higher levels of Omega-3 in blood can add 5 years to your life; Study
Mon, 26 Jul, 2021 By Arya M Nair, Intern Reporter
Researchers have found that omega-3 levels in the blood are very good mortality risk predictors from any cause, according to a study involving the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), in collaboration with The Fatty Acid Research Institute in the United States and universities in Canada.
The data for the study, which was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, came from a long-term study group, the Framingham Offspring Cohort, which has been following people of the Massachusetts town since 1971.
Researchers discovered that omega-3 levels in blood erythrocytes (also known as red blood cells) are excellent indicators of mortality risk. Having higher amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids in the blood, as a result of routinely adding oily fish in the diet, enhances life expectancy by nearly five years.
"Being a regular smoker takes 4.7 years off your life expectancy, the same as you gain if you have high levels of omega-3 acids in your blood," said Dr. Aleix Sala-Vila, a postdoctoral researcher in the IMIM's Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group and author of the study.
The researchers analyzed data on blood fatty acid levels in 2,240 people over the age of 65 who were tracked for an average of eleven years. Beyond the already known factors, the goal was to validate which fatty acids work as good predictors of mortality.
According to the findings, four types of fatty acids, including omega-3, play the role. It's worth noting that two of them are saturated fatty acids, which have typically been linked to cardiovascular risk but, in this case, have been linked to a higher life expectancy.
These findings could aid in the customization of dietary recommendations for food intake depending on blood concentrations of various fatty acids.
"What we have found is not insignificant. It reinforces the idea that small changes in diet in the right direction can have a much more powerful effect than we think, and it is never too late or too early to make these changes," remarked Dr. Sala-Vila.
The researchers will now attempt to examine the same markers in a similar population of European heritage to see if the findings can be applied outside of the United States.
Related: Food rich in Omega-3 fatty acid could help reduce migraine; Study
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Ms. Arya M Nair, Intern Reporter at GCC Business News compiled and corroborated this article. She holds a Master's in Communication And Journalism.
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Perth and Kinross Matters: Take lesson from Bertha Park High and try social media detox
August 26 2019, 8.00pm
© Angus Findlay
The many student lockers which will keep their phones all day.
It's 1995 and there's a digital storm brewing on the horizon.
An unstoppable force that will upend society and cause irreparable damage to the institutions we hold dear. It will bring the music industry to its knees, completely alter the way we consume our news and TV, and jeopardise our high streets.
And we will welcome it with open arms.
Back in 1995, no one seemed to be aware of the massive, evolutionary changes the internet would have.
Back then, specialists in Silicon Valley were still suggesting that, one day, people will be able to print out their newspapers at home without having to walk to the shops.
Nearly a quarter of a century on, and we're still at an experimental phase without a clear idea of where technological advances will take us next.
The internet has become an ingrained part of our lives and it isn't going away any time soon.
And that's why, when it comes to social media, we should be taking a leaf out of Bertha Park High School's book.
Scotland's most technologically advanced school – the country's first brand new secondary this century – opened its doors last week, and revealed some simple, but revolutionary ideas about education in the modern age.
For example, there's no bell and no staff room. And pupils learn and study on iPads, rather than paper and pens.
But while it appears to embrace most aspects of 21st century living, students are also told to keep their mobile phones locked up throughout the day.
Headteacher Stuart Clyde said he hopes it will encourage more interaction between pupils during breaks and lunchtimes, and let them enjoy the benefits of a "social media detox".
It's a concept we should all get behind. Sites like Facebook and Twitter are a great way to keep in touch with family and friends, while staying abreast of news and gossip, but they can be an all-consuming and highly addictive distraction from real life.
Picking up a phone to go online can so easily become an unconscious action, and that can't be healthy.
Most of us would benefit from taking regular breaks from the endless social media squawk.
Locking our phones away – even for just a couple of hours a night – can give some much needed respite, while deleting apps will make it less tempting to jump on Facebook to check which cat videos you might have missed.
For all of the benefits and conveniences that our computers and smartphones offer, we have to keep check that we are controlling them, and not the other way around.
Bertha Park High School
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Ambre Concept: a hidden jewel
jeudi 1 December 2011
Why not give yourself a pleasurable treat with a visit to Ambre? You'll love savouring the original delights of this enchanting concept store situated in the centre of Cognac's pedestrian zone. We visited in the run up to Christmas...
Hunting for suitable Christmas gifts and seasonal decorations to make your French home alluring for the festive period can be stressful. Yet this needn't be the case if you take a few minutes to step into the narrow Rue du Palais in the historic centre of Cognac to discover Ambre Concept Store.
Characterised by its friendly, relaxed atmosphere, the boutique displays a huge range of original homeware, scented products, furniture and delicatessen spread over 350 square metres. Its popularity – which is rapidly spreading by word of mouth – is not only due to the store's conviviality and its elegant exhibits of 3000 different articles: there are also weekly deliveries of new items from the fifty suppliers, some of which have chosen Ambre as their exclusive French retail outlet.
Where else in Poitou-Charentes can you find Rococo chocolates and Oliviers & Co. truffle salt rubbing shoulders with Jellycat soft toys, Flamand furniture, Cavallini notebooks, Iosis cushions and Tadé soaps? It is this mix-and-match ambience that makes the store such a charming place to visit, and which allows clients to buy different decorative objects in the knowledge they'll harmonise in their own homes.
Scores of quality wares at under 10€ sit alongside Starck stereos and objets de curiosité, with plenty of catalogues for ordering specific goods. The owners – Australian Paul Mottershead and his French associate Olivier Guérin – are willing to give you advice, but they're also perfectly happy to let
you browse to your heart's content and simply enjoy the store.
Ambre's success is very much down to the refined taste of Paul and Olivier, who spent the months preceding the opening in November 2010 travelling to cities in Spain, Belgium, Italy and South Africa to source their stock. They still manage regular trips and are always present at international fairs such as Maison & Objet in Paris and Top Drawer in London. Paul and Olivier will also do their utmost to source any desirable items you may spot in a magazine.
The store was born from the encounter of two like minds, when Olivier and Paul met four years ago in London and decided to work for themselves in the Charente, where Olivier has family. Olivier had been in London for 25 years, running a language school for business executives, while Paul was managing the famous Clifton Nurseries in Maida Vale – the oldest running nursery in London. "It's a beautiful place, selling homeware as well as plants. It's hidden behind buildings and has a narrow entrance, rather like Ambre," says Olivier, who shares his love of architecture, interiors and gardens with Paul. "We both enjoy looking at shop window displays for ideas, and we go into the countryside to look for inspiration. In England, we belonged to the National Trust and would often visit gardens there."
"I like the romantic side of gardening," admits Paul. A qualified horticulturalist and garden designer, he spent 13 years gardening in Melbourne, Australia. "For me, the place where a garden is set is very important. I love the historical settings here." Paul's eye for context can be appreciated at Ambre, where the decked courtyard, overflowing with pot plants, is bordered by an original birch log wall, and a hanging garden of clematis and star jasmine sets off the central fountain.
The courtyard is just a tiny part of Ambre's six rooms, which underwent a thorough renovation under local architect Eric Daigre's hands. The style blends ancient with contemporary, with a hint of countryside and a few ethnic pieces, including Asiatides chinoiserie. The front room has red tile floors, bare stone walls and exposed beams, with modern gris cementite paintwork – an ideal backdrop for the tasteful selection of furniture on which a multitude of decorative items and fashion wares, such as Tampico handbags, are placed. "Our French clients think it looks English, but I think of it as French with an English twist," says Olivier, adding that once clients have found Ambre, they keep coming back.
Behind the front room lies the salon, housing a sofa and coffee table. This is the cosy area, lit by lamps and decorated with pictures and furnishings galore, including Chehoma delights. To the right you'll find children's gifts, such as the funky Déglingos toy animals.
Hidden behind this is the largest room, where you can wander through the home perfumes and bathroom products, featuring Savonnerie de Bormes, and into the tableware items. In this section, Swedish linen from Linum, Basque serviettes from Artiga and tableware from Côté Table are artfully exhibited, and lead naturally into the Epicerie Fine corner.
It took a year of negotiation to establish Ambre as an outlet for the wonderful Mariage Frères teas, hard to find elsewhere in Charente. And alongside these lies Maille's gastronomic range, found only here and in Maille's Paris shop.
Leading British products can be found too, including the Artisan du Chocolat range. "These are popular for their trendy packaging. The chocolates with sea-salted caramel inside are amazing," says Olivier, adding that Ambre is the unique outlet for Artisan Biscuits' products.
Finally, a modern staircase leads to L'Atelier, a showroom with original wooden floors displaying plants, seashells, picture frames, clocks and basketware in a workshop atmosphere.
Although it may seem tiny from the outside, you'll soon discover that Ambre is actually a gateway to a whole wonderful world of home decoration.
Ambre Concept Store, 10 rue du Palais, 16100 Cognac.
Tel: 05 45 36 54 21. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 7pm and seven days a week during December.
Rue du Palais is a narrow street leading off the pedestrianised Rue Aristide Briand, about 50m from the entrance to St Leger church, between Letuffe chocolate shop and Babylone clothes shop.
Ambre is 20m down rue du Palais on the right.
WORDS: TERESA HARDY PHOTOS: COURTESY OF AMBRE CONCEPT STORE
First published by Living Poitou-Charentes December 2012 © All rights reserved
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Whether you're a first-time car buyer or a seasoned veteran there's always the tough decision of deciding if you should go with a new or pre-owned vehicle for your next purchase. New cars have the latest style, tech features, low interest rates, and that much-loved new car smell but are they really the best choice for you and your budget? We're going to overview some used car wisdom and give you 4 great reasons to go pre-owned on your next car.
Let's get the obvious out of the way – in most cases you're going to save money to buy your car used and probably quite a bit of money at that. Once you buy a brand-new car and take it around the block it's no longer new and that value drops quickly. According to Consumer Reports your car new car on average will be worth 54% of the original purchase after just 3 years – that hurts!
The average cost of a used car is predictably well below that of a new car model and that's not the only space for savings. Logically you'll pay less taxes on a lower priced car and it's often more affordable to insure them as well. However, you should take note of the vehicle's mileage because the distance driven and the remaining warranty will likely impact your maintenance expenses.
With low manufacturer financing rates and longer terms available dealers are able to show you some very attractive monthly payments on a new car but don't forget to do the math. Even a lower rate can really add up over a 7 or 8 year financing term and the growth of certified pre-owned ( CPO ) programs has really narrowed the gap. Not only do banks offer aggressively low used car rates but certified used cars offer even lower rates still plus the added bonus of additional warranty coverage and extensive vehicle inspections. The new car advantage is really starting to fade with exceptional used car financing options available.
If you're thinking it might be a risk to buy a used car because it won't last long then you should do some research. According to several studies the average vehicle on the road today is over 10 years old and that numbers continues to rise as car manufacturers continue to improve their line-ups. Modern cars, trucks, and SUVs simply have a longer life-span than they used to and that's great news if you're in the market for a pre-owned vehicle.
There's a lot of things to like about the prospect of buying a brand-new car nobody else has driven yet but there's no doubt that pre-owned vehicles are the better value. Now that you've read our 4 smart reasons to buy a used car what will your next purchase be?


Qatar Airways had big expansion plans for Air Italy. To start Qatar Airways leased them some A330s, but soon the airline is supposed to be getting 787s from Qatar Airways as well, to further fuel their expansion.
Up until recently, the airline had announced that they'd serve six destinations in North America and three destinations in Asia, all from their hub in Milan.
As I covered yesterday, within weeks of launching the flights, Air Italy has already revealed that they'll be canceling flights to Bangkok, Delhi, and Mumbai, meaning that they're completely canceling flights to Asia.
This nonetheless left the airline with six longhaul routes to North America. Air Italy already flies to New York JFK and Miami, and over the past couple of months they've announced that they'll start flying to Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto, as of spring 2019. But even that isn't happening now.
Air Italy has canceled plans to operate their Milan to Chicago route, which was due to launch 3x weekly as of May 14, 2019. The airline hasn't given an explanation for the cancelation, though has zeroed out all the inventory on the route.
Like I said yesterday about Air Italy canceling all their flights to Asia, this is just plain embarrassing, and this airline is being run by amateur hour. You'd think that Qatar Airways would have learned from Etihad Airways' mistakes, as they invested in a bunch of unprofitable airlines and continued to run them in unsustainable ways.
However, at this point I can't help but believe that they didn't actually learn any of those lessons. In addition to the originally announced destinations of Miami and New York, the airline has announced service to seven additional destinations, and four of those have been canceled — one before launch, and three just weeks after launch.
They used to be the cheapest options out of New York and Miami but with the Basic Economy fares now available AA is the same if not slightly cheaper.
@Lucky – Unrealted, but the Oneworld announcement was that they are unveiling branded lounges!
Pure speculation, but you think politics has anything to do with this? Maybe Qatar gave in to the big 3 a little, and got concessions somewhere else whether for the airline or Qatar as a country in general?
I had a terrible experience with Air Italy last year on a series of flights and with customer service on phone & email. I booked soon after they announced schedule and before they began to unbundle fares. They lost my seat assignments & claimed I never had any, they kept me waiting for an hour on hold then hung up before I spoke to anyone & told me complete an online complaint form which was then ignored. I was surprised by your good review but I guess when everything goes okay they're okay. Amateur hour indeed.
So in all reality, what're we calling the over/under on how many more months AirItaly will actually be around? All these route cancellations must portend something bigger/worse down the road; it's not a matter of if, but when.
@Markus : ORD has a poor showing of international flights or foreign airlines ? in what sense ? for an interior airport, i'd say their foreign airline representation is definitely up to par.
I have Avios tickets on their LAX flight and I'm wondering what happens if they cancel that route…?
Toronto has been increased from 4 to 6 weekly prior to launch.
Declining GDP growth over two consecutive quarters (July to December 2018) has put Italy in recession – it's the third time the country has fallen into recession in a decade. You have to wonder how much this may have played into Air Italy becoming more cautious in their growth plans for 2019.
mark, me too and wondering the same… just about to put down non refundable money for the trip we've planned. wondering what our best options are. thoughts?


Kargil war hero Captain Saurabh Kalia's father Dr NK Kalia has approached the United Nations to get justice for his son who was captured, tortured mercilessly and then brutally killed by the Pakistani Army.
A petition has been filed in the UN by Dr NK Kalia, MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar and the Flags of Honour Foundation. The petitioners urged the United Nation Humans Rights Commission to ensure that a full and independent investigation in it.
The petition says that this is a clear case of a war crime. The petition is now with special rapporteur on torture at the Human Rights Council. If Dr Kalia's petition is admitted then the UNHR Commission could appoint various rapporteurs, who will be authorised to make inquiries. But they can't make inquiries without the consent of the state in question, in this case Pakistan and India.
The UN body may also talk to representatives of India and Pakistan to the UN. Depending on the initial investigation, the Government of Pakistan may be asked to respond. But Pakistan is likely to continue to deny its hand in the brutal killings.
Captain Kalia's family had also moved the Supreme Court asking it to order the Central Government to raise the matter with Pakistan at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). They were compelled to move the apex court after no action was taken for 13 years.
Captain Saurabh Kalia was the first Indian Army officer to observe and report large-scale intrusion of Pakistani Army and foreign mercenaries on the Indian side of LoC in Kargil. The Captain and his men were captured on May 15, 1999 and were in captivity for over 22 days. His body was later handed over to the Indian authorities on June 9, 1999 after they were tortured and their bodies mutilated. The autopsy report of the Captain and five other soldiers revealed extreme torture including cigarette burns, pierced ear drums with hot rods and chopped off limbs and private organs before finally shooting them dead.
The family wants that the torture of their son be declared a war crime and also want Pakistan to apologise.


A privately held Michigan based trucking company that operates in 48 states, Canada and Mexico was challenged to improve Department of Transportation safety rating. Targeted areas of improvement included: driver pre-trip and post-trip inspections, moving violations, turnover rate, and hours of service compliance. The trucking company contacted Boost Rewards to design and implement a rewards and recognition program concentrating on driver and equipment safety. Over 650 drivers comprised of company, owner-operator and spotter/switchers, with a combination of Less-Than-Truckload (LTL), Truckload (TL) and Expedited transportation services.
Client needed a recommendation that would define, identify and correct behavior for each individual driver group. Boost Rewards analyzed safety data, conducted driver surveys and held hours of Q&A with client to determine a list of behaviors that needed to be modified to strengthen positive work habits and diminish negative habits.
Six months later, a custom SMART (Safe, Motivated, Aware, Responsible, Trusted) Rewards driver recognition program was launched. Drivers are awarded points every month based on nationally published safety and compliance reports. For every error-free mile driven without a moving violation, safety violation, HOS or equipment violation, SMART Rewards points are awarded and drivers are then able to convert their SMART Rewards points to branded and non-branded merchandise.
Within the first 9 months of the SMART Rewards program launch, DOT safety scores improved and the client's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) safety rating was improved from "conditional" to "satisfactory". Driver turnover decreased to below 50% and an impressive 80%+ of all drivers have been awarded points on a repetitive basis and stay engaged in the program. Insurance costs and driver and equipment violation fees and fines have also been positively impacted.


I am a big fan of British TV Series. All Creatures Great and Small, Merlin, Lark Rise to Candleford, Pride and Prejudice, Road to Avonlea and more recent Mr. Selfridge, the Paradise and Downton Abbey.
Downton Abbey is a great series. I love the characters and the storyline and I can't wait to see the next season in October 2013.
The series is recorded at Highclere Castle, not too far from London and one day I would love to go there.
Here are some photos of the cast and several videos.


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Video: Is hemp the new superfood?
The cannabis plant – Cannabis sativa is cultivated to produce hemp and cannabis. The difference is the level of cannabinoids (chemical compounds) the plant produces.
Cannabis can be grown to produce different levels of psychoactive properties.
Hemp approved as a food source has less than 0.5% of the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. It doesn't make you high.
The hemp crop is incredibly versatile. It grows quickly and easily. Hemp is harnessed as seed, oil and fibre to produce a range of products.
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Since November 2017 it can now be sold as a food in Australia - Comes in an oil, as a seed, or as flour.
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Forums : Announcements : Beta testing!
This is our first day of beta testing! Scott's heroic efforts to get the new code version 2.0 operational are bearing fruit as I write this.
- and to the members of my research group who have shared my enthusiasm for this new venture and who continue to do wonderful work.
I look forward to the next stage in Cosmology@Home!
We'll do our best to help you make this project a success, during beta testing and into production.
And thank you for having a good staff and project.
Isn't this the kind of thing that should be on the front page news? The project news gets exported to many sites.
Message 3524 - Posted: 26 Oct 2007, 16:09:18 UTC - in response to Message 3511.
Your welcome. I will keep at least 2 of my cores out of my quad core crunching on this project for a long time.
Message 3634 - Posted: 28 Oct 2007, 16:55:21 UTC - in response to Message 3503.
Congratulations from a little cruncher !
We are planning to put up a "C@H in the News" page that lists the various media mentions we have been getting.
Message 3829 - Posted: 5 Nov 2007, 23:34:26 UTC - in response to Message 3828.
Thanks Ben for this update!
Message 3880 - Posted: 15 Nov 2007, 6:43:24 UTC - in response to Message 3503.
Hi, Ben! I am new here and enjoy crunching this project. How long do you expect the Beta stage to last before going into production mode?
By the way, all four of my projects are in astronomy/physics. This total includes Cosmology@home. That is where my interests are! In fact, I am looking forward to crunching two more astronomy projects in the near future when they become available.
Regarding the news about becoming a top 10 project----amazing. And this project is still very new. Outstanding accomplishment. A lot of the credit goes to you and your staff. The attention to our questions and issues is what makes this project enjoyable for me and I am sure to many others. Well done from someone who will be a long time cruncher for your project.
You may be interested in this new thread.
And now. I do what ?
Message 4417 - Posted: 8 Jan 2008, 1:47:11 UTC - in response to Message 4416.
Do you mean how do I contribute and do work?
The instructions are on the homepage under how to participate -download Boinc in the top of the left hand column.


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Q: Sliding Transformer model into longer sequence I have very long genome sequences where I have to do some classification stuff on top. What I want to try is to use a transformer to predict the next token from the 512 chunk sequence and slide this transformer to the whole sequence and use those to work on top of the whole sequence.
Let's say an example: Imagine I have a 250.000 token sequence, I should slide the transformer 488 times producing 488 tokens. Concatenate this output to obtain a summary array of the sequence and build a classifier on top of it.
I'm trying to find any examples that could guide me in this direction but I hardly can find any of them. Does someone think that's a good idea? Where could I look for some near examples of sliding a transformer/LSTM over a longer sequence?

Thank you very much, I'll appreciate everything!


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package org.apache.commons.javaflow.api;

import org.apache.commons.javaflow.core.Skip;
import org.apache.commons.javaflow.core.StackRecorder;

public final class InterceptorSupport {
    private InterceptorSupport() {}

    public static boolean isInstrumented(Object target) {
        if (null == target) {
            return false;
        } else {
            return isInstrumented(target.getClass());
        }
    }

    public static boolean isInstrumented(Class<?> targetClass) {
        if (null == targetClass) {
            return false;
        } else {
            return null != targetClass.getAnnotation(Skip.class);
        }
    }

    public static void beforeExecution(Object actualTarget) {
        // When restoring we should replace target on top of the stack (if any)
        // with the actual target (supplied as argument) from interceptor
        // to balance the effect of non-continuable interceptors call
        // There are might be no reference at all if interceptor is non-continuable
        StackRecorder stackRecorder = StackRecorder.get();
        if (null != stackRecorder && stackRecorder.isRestoring && stackRecorder.hasReference()) {
            stackRecorder.popReference();
            stackRecorder.pushReference(actualTarget);
        }
    }

    public static void afterExecution(Object proxiedTarget) {
        // When capturing we should replace target on top of the stack
        // with the proxied target (supplied as argument) expected by the caller
        // to balance the effect of non-continuable interceptors call
        StackRecorder stackRecorder = StackRecorder.get();
        if (null != stackRecorder && stackRecorder.isCapturing) {
            stackRecorder.popReference();
            stackRecorder.pushReference(proxiedTarget);
        }
    }
}


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The batters highlighted the second game as both teams combined for 43 hits over the seven innings. Lawrence Tech (26-8-1, 8-5-1) outhit Aquinas (24-14, 7-3), 27-16, led by Sarah Hige and Brittney Bult that went 4-for-6 from the plate. In addition, Hige and Bult paced the squad with four runs apiece. Kennedy Emmons registered a career-high five RBIs and her first two homers as a Blue Devil.
LTU took an early lead in the game with four runs in the first inning. Emmons got things started with a two-run homer. The Saints struck back in the bottom of the second inning with nine runs to claim the advantage. Bult scored Brittany Wieland off a single down the left field to cut the five-run deficit to four, just to see Aquinas stretch the lead with four runs in the bottom of the frame.
The Blue Devils added four runs in the fourth inning and six in the fifth, in which they reclaimed the lead with a single by Cherilyn Banas that drove in Andra Malburg. LTU scored six more runs in the sixth inning that included Emmon's second homer of the day, which drove in three runs. Aquinas scored three more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Alexa Cherney allowed no runs and no hits in the seventh inning to hold on to the 22-16 win.
Brittney Bult started on the mound and pitched for one and two-thirds innings in which she allowed eight runs – four earned - on six hits and two walks. Faith Barden pitched in relief of Bult for two-thirds of an inning striking out one of the seven batters she faced and giving up five runs on five hits. Sydney Schultz toed the rubber for two and two-third innings in which she surrendered three runs – one earned – on five hits and three walks. Schultz moved to 3-0 on the season.
Cherney pitched game one, allowing three runs on five hits and two walks. The Farmington Hills, Mich. native sat down three of the 24 batters she faced. Lawrence Tech outhit Aquinas, 9-5, paced by Malburg with two hits off three at-bats.
LTU opened the scoring in the first inning with an RBI double down the right field by Bult to drive in Hige. The Saints tied the game in the fourth inning and sealed the victory in the fifth with a two-run homer by Brooke Wila.
Lawrence Tech returns to the diamond on Saturday, April 13 against Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Ind. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. at the Warrior Park.


The media has been caught once again publishing faked war propaganda imagery to play up sympathy for an all out invasion of Syria.
In a page out of Orwell's 1984 the corporate media is now hailing the virtues of the alliance between al Qaeda, the Syrian Free Army and the West and is now declaring that Al-Qaeda is now our ally in fighting the terror.
At the same time, to drum up public support to overthrow President Assad in Syria thy have repeatedly been caught faking news stories.
Now they have been caught once again "faking the war" to play up sympathy for an all out invasion.
Austria's largest daily paper, Kronen Zeitung, with some 3 million readers daily, published this sympathetic photo, seemingly portraying a man carrying a baby and a woman in burka fleeing from some war-torn corner of Aleppo.
It didn't take long for the story to be used by corporate news outlets around the globe to push the false narrative of civilian executions being conducted by the Syrian Army, while at the same time ignoring videos showing NATO backed terrorists rounding up and executing families in Aleppo which is part of an apparent plan to stage a false flag massacre in Aleppo.
However, it was later exposed to be a Photoshop forgery, juxtaposing the people walking on a normal looking corner with that of a blown out city block ravaged by heavy damage.
The subjects were apparently taken from the previously-published file photo credited to the European Pressphoto Agency, as the publishing notes next to the image indicate. The revealing side by side comparison was first posted to Reddit.com.
Just to be clear, the family in the photograph is, in fact, in Syria; the original photo (on the right) came from the European Pressphoto Agency. But merely fleeing a city ravaged by guns and mortars apparently isn't quite dramatic enough on its own. The editors of the Krone—as it's commonly called—needed this baby to sing.
To be sure, the entire perception of the conflict in Syria has been (purposely) distorted in the media, including many blatant lies.
Remember the Syrian Danny hoax?
Advocating intervention, "Syrian Danny" was caught faking gun fire on CNN in order to portray heavy fighting that wasn't really going on in the background while he literally begged for Western-backed forces to enter Syria and overthrow Assad. Paul Joseph Watson described the hoax: While waiting to be connected, Danny says, "Well, let the gunfire sound then," before subsequently asking someone off camera, "Did you tell him to get the gunfire ready?" An explosion is heard soon after, but Danny doesn't even flinch. The following video demonstrates this amazing stunt, which correlated with numerous other exaggerated reports issued by propaganda-activist Danny.
Another hoax was revealed after the BBC falsely portrayed an Assad-led massacre of children in Houla, using a photo from dead children in Iraq to play up the scale of the atrocity, which was later found to be the work of the al Qaeda-led Free Syrian Army.
Obviously, these incredible lies and deceptions are not limited to the Syrian conflict, but have become a mainstay in this age of modern media. From the phony babies in incubators testimony to demonize Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf war, to the lies about WMDs in Iraq the next time around, false flag events to start most 20th Century wars, and so much more: these lies are not crafted to fool fact checkers, critics, historians or true investigative reporters, but to goad the general public into a wave of hysteria ensuring enough support to start a war and profit from the destruction.
Modern warfare is no longer limited to the physical assault. The age of modern media has long made propaganda an indispensable force to wage war by other means. Syria, like Libya, have been classic proxy wars, with the hidden hand of the United States and its western allies only partial obscured. That is, in the most general sectors of public knowledge, opinion and discussion about the Syrian conflict is saturated with the deliberately crafted lie demonizing the target and producing mass levels of knee-jerk support for the action.
But the truth is plainly laid as well, for anyone willing to face it.
IN YOUR FACE: AL QAEDA IS RUN FROM WASHINGTON D.C.
Take a look at some of the videos analyzed in this story. The Syrian rebels have been a killing spree. After all, they are al Qaeda forces, pursuing the radical goals of the jihadists in an even more radical partnership with the West. We've been lied to about who the good guys are in Syria (nobody in power wears a white hat in those parts). While the Assad regime is authoritarian and hardly supportable, the entire action is timed around policy based in Washington, D.C.
There is no avoiding the fact that while TSA expands across the public sector to catch imaginary terrorists and harass the public, the nation's military forces are NOT fighting al Qaeda overseas; we are currently giving them aid, comfort, and new claims to mideast power, as in Libya.
Even the casual reader of news is made plainly aware that the U.S. ran al Qaeda forces in Libya, and were openly allies, and then al Qaeda "rebel" forces were literally airlifted to Syria, and again allied openly with the west to topple Assad next, despite the double think mental power necessary to reconcile the contradiction of intentionally fueling America's enemy no. 1 in the enduring War on Terror. needed by the helped them establish a new stronghold, and Assad's Syria itself just another domino on what has been termed in official war/policy plans as the Path to Persia.
RT: Al-Qaeda and West in cahoots in Syria?
ALEXANDER HIGGINS: Syria Activists In Photos: Peaceful Protestors or Armed Terrorists?


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La statua di Amenardis I (JE 3420) è un'antica statua egizia in alabastro calcareo raffigurante la "Divina Sposa di Amon" Amenardis I (Hatnefrumut Amonirdisi), sorella di Pianki, re kushita e faraone fondatore della XXV dinastia egizia.

Storia
Amenardis I (o Amenardis "la Vecchia", per distinguerla da Amenardis II) era figlia del sovrano kushita Kashta di Napata, attuale Gebel Barkal in Sudan.

A Napata si erano rifugiati, intorno al 950 a.C., i sacerdoti di Amon discendenti da Herihor ("Dinastia dei primi profeti di Amon") scacciati da Tebe dai faraoni libici della XXII dinastia: l'influenza dei fuggiaschi aveva dato vita a una società fortemente egizianizzata in senso tradizionalista e, soprattutto, religioso. Dopo che Pianki, successore di Kashta, ebbe conquistato l'Egitto e si fu insediato come faraone, fece in modo che la propria sorella Amenardis, principessa, fosse adottata come erede dalla "Divina Sposa di Amon" allora in carica, Shepenupet I (membro della precedente dinastia: figlia di re Osorkon III, i cui successori Takelot III e Rudamon furono costretti a riconoscere il potere nubiano), allo scopo di garantire ai sovrani nubiani il controllo dell'importante carica e dell'oracolo di Amon. Amenardis I occupò la propria influentissima carica nell'antica capitale Tebe, dove visse, e sua volta nominò propria erede Shepenupet II, di cui era zia per parte di padre.

Descrizione
Questa statua a grandezza naturale (la più celebrata fra quelle di Amenardis I) fu scoperta dall'egittologo francese Auguste Mariette nel 1858 in una piccola cappella all'interno del recinto di Montu a Karnak (e si ritiene sia stata d'ispirazione per il personaggio della principessa Amneris nell'Aida di Giuseppe Verdi, gli scenari della quale furono preparati da Mariette stesso).

La figura di Amenardis I, alta e solenne, richiama le rappresentazioni delle "Grandi spose reali" del Nuovo Regno, pur non riuscendo a superare uno stile monumentale piuttosto "freddo": indossa una pesante parrucca che ricade sulle spalle e sulla schiena, al centro della quale si trova un avvoltoio affiancato da due urei (distintivi delle personalità di rango regale(, mentre un diadema attorniato da molti urei sorreggeva, un tempo, una corona "hathorica" con corna di vacca e disco solare. I suoi orecchini sono simili a grandi borchie rotonde e indossa un lungo abito aderente, sofisticati bracciali e cavigliere, oltre a un pettorale con immagini di Amon e Mut finemente intagliate. La mano sinistra, portata al seno, stringe una sorta di curvo scettro a forma di fiore; la destra, distesa lungo il fianco, impugna un collare rituale menat. L'espressione ha un'aria grave e convenzionale. I cartigli di Amenardis I come "Divina Sposa di Amon", con i suoi nomi originali Hatnefrumut Amonirdisi-Merimut, sono incisi sul basamento che poggia su di un altro in basalto; inoltre l'iscrizione definisce la sacerdotessa "amata da Osiride Signore della vita" (Osiride Neb-Ankh), cioè il titolo con cui il dio Osiride era adorato nella cappella in cui fu scoperta la statua; il basamento inferiore contiene invocazioni ad Amon-Ra di Karnak, associato a Montu "Signore di Tebe". Due secoli dopo la realizzazione della statua, re Psammetico III fece cancellare i nomi di Kashta, padre di Amenardis I, e del fratello Shabaka, che regnò dopo l'altro fratello Pianki.

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Reperti archeologici dell'Egitto
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Q: Spring 20 - Validation rules that use "$UserRole.DeveloperName" are triggering when they should not After the Spring 20 release my validation rules that make use of the field "$UserRole.DeveloperName" are triggering when they should not.
I'm currently trying to create a case from a community (with a Customer Community User), through a flow, and I keep receiving the same error of FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION, because the field "$UserRole.DeveloperName" could not be accessed.
When I deactivate all the rules that make use of this field reference, the flow works right. I know that the problem is not the validation rules, because I've tested all the situations on last Friday (03/01) and it was working perfectly, and today (06/01) the org was updated, and nothing is working anymore.
Is anyone else facing the same issue? How to get through it? I need those validation rules, so keeping them deactivated is not really an option.

A: This could be an issue due to the Spring 20 Security update.
This is documented here
As per the update

Access to user roles is available for users with the View Roles and Role Hierarchy permission. Editing user roles is available for users with the Manage Roles permission.

So your rule might be breaking due to it.
One solution i can think of is you might need to switch to custom permissions due to this update if these permissions are not available for community users


Was it the best shot we have seen in golf this year, the stroke of genius that turns it all around for Tiger Woods? Or a momentary respite from the relative dross that characterised so much of his scrappy first round in the Dubai Desert Classic yesterday?
The basic facts are that Woods was outplayed by the two European heavyweights he had for company as world No 1 Lee Westwood and No 2 Martin Kaymer both shot 69s to the American's 71. A resurgent Rory McIlroy set the pace with a marvellous 65.
Woods was so far off this standard his main battle today looked as if it would be against the halfway cut rather than this continent's finest. Then came a moment at the 18th that will either prove a desert mirage or the moment that changes everything.
With 254 yards to go at this dangerous par five, where water lurks at the front to catch any mishit, Woods struck a threewood so pure it finished adjacent to the hole for a tap-in eagle. Talk about the healing power of a perfectly struck blow.
Normally, Tiger makes his way to the press with the joy of a condemned man. Here he was more like Tigger than Tiger in the manner he positively bounced over to greet us.
Woods was gracious enough to acknowledge that Westwood was the star performer of the Big Three. He was tied third at four under playing the last, only to run up a bogey to Tiger's eagle to give the difference between them a decidedly flattering look.
Dressed appropriately in red and white given that a couple of Manchester United legends - Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke - were among the spectators, Westwood's only bogey must have left him feeling like fans of the Old Trafford club when they were conceding last-minute goals earlier this season.
Yorke, who plays off a two handicap, wanted to talk about Tiger's limp. 'Do you see the way he is dragging his left foot?' he asked, walking down the eighth. 'Just getting old, man,' said Woods, later.
Cricketer Brian Lara, Yorke's best mate growing up, was also part of the gallery as the famous, the golfing devotees and the plain curious gathered to watch the three finest players on the planet.
For eight holes, Kaymer played golf with which Woods was once all too familiar. Cruising to three under, he lost his momentum owing to a terrible piece of luck as his ball cannoned off a hospitality unit on one side of the green at the ninth and into the water on the other. Naturally, Kaymer accepted his misfortune with equanimity.
Equally naturally, the same could not be said after Woods ballooned his drive at the eighth.
For a second or two it looked as if he would hold his thoughts in, but the effort proved too great. Out came an audible obscenity, followed swiftly by another. Standing just five yards away were a couple of kids. Like so many shots Tiger strikes these days, it simply is not good enough, is it?
Not that Woods was bothering himself with such thoughts last night. For the first time in a while he had ended a round with a bit of momentum and it will be fascinating to see if he can build upon it today.


There's no shortage of places to find a standout meal in Hong Kong. The plethora of possible dining spots can be a bit overwhelming if you've recently arrived in the city, so for a bit of guidance to the city's culinary scene, take a look at the following Hong Kong restaurant reviews from Business Traveller Asia-Pacific.
Celebrating its 45th anniversary next year, The Excelsior Hong Kong is one of the city's best-known hotels and its Cantonese restaurant Yee Tung Heen is similarly renowned, receiving a mention as a recommended restaurant in the Michelin Guide to Hong Kong & Macau 2015.
Travellers looking for a dim sum lunch won't be disappointed, with dumpling highlights including steamed rice roll with tiger prawn, kale and beetroot dumpling, and steamed twin gold fish dumplings. And with an à la carte menu that spans 14 pages, there are plenty of dishes to choose from.
See Business Traveller's review of Yee Tung Heen here.
Despite being located within the JW Marriott Hotel above Admiralty district's Pacific Place shopping mall, Flint Bar & Grill is more than just a standard hotel restaurant. New head chef Pieter Fitz-Dreyer is classically French trained, adding a distinct twist to the typical "bar and grill" concept, along with the many other dishes that fill out the menu.
Highlights include the Akaroa king salmon with oyster, charred cucumber and white balsamic, the Ahi tuna – prepared at the table and customised to each patron's preference – and lobster ravioli with creamy coconut sauce infused with Thai herbs.
See Business Traveller's review of Flint Bar & Grill here.
Another restaurant whose chef offers a fresh interpretation of a more commonplace menu, Bizou presents an organic, farm-to-table take on the traditional American brasserie tradition. Danish-born chef Magnus Hansson, who visits the restaurant each month, is himself a vegan, but the menu at Bizou is far from it.
Dishes such as the slow-braised boneless short ribs in red wine and the pan-seared Icelandic cod fillet with butter attest to this. That said, the menu is far from meat exclusive and includes sides such as fried lemon potatoes with chipotle aioli, baked purple yam, and starters that include fried camembert cheese with cloudberry preserves.
See Business Traveller's review of Bizou here.
Hugo's takes its name from a fictional Bavarian host, Hugo Ludwig Wilhelm von Cluckenstein, renowned for only serving guests the best food and wine. This character is reflected in both the décor and the food.
A suit of armour greets patrons as they enter the restaurant, and numerous antiques, chandeliers and traditional hors d'oeuvre trolleys add to the aesthetic.
Currently offering a new Swiss menu until the end of February that includes marinated veal cheek, Ruh venison, and melted Vacherin Mont d'Or cheese in a nut crust, Hugo's offers a decadent European menu that any newcomer to the city ought to give a try.
See Business Traveller's review of Hugo's here.
Much like its name suggests, Deng G, Chengdu Bistro & Baiju Bar offers a distinctly Sichuan-style dining experience, with the décor inspired by the bamboo forests of Chengdu and a menu that has chilli icons throughout to denote the spiciness of the dishes.
Crispy fish in spicy sauce under the "Sweet & Sour Taste" portion of the menu is a good place to start at Deng G, as are the "Yu Xiang" prawns. Finish up with baijiu in the downstairs Baijiu Bar area and you can't go wrong.
See Business Traveller's review of Deng G here.
Cobo House opened in March 2016 as part of a collaboration with Singapore-based chef Janice Wong, whose 2am:dessertbar has become a favourite in Singapore. Cobo House follows in the tradition of the dessert bar featuring artistic desserts and chocolates, including an expansive dessert degustation menu that pairs sweet offerings with teas and other beverages.
That said, Cobo House isn't all treats and no savoury, with its vegetarian somen noodles and slow-cooked pork belly well worth trying before filling up on the final course.
Although a little out of the way from Hong Kong's key business districts, Cobo House is easily accessible and well within reach of travellers staying just west of Central district in Sheung Wan or Sai Ying Pun.
See Business Traveller's review of Cobo House here.


The Competition package for the Audi RS3 8P consists of the intercooler upgrade kit EVO3 and the downpipe kit.
The intercooler kit for Audi RS3 8P EVO3 is a further development of the previously known EVO2 intercooler kit.
The high performance intercooler has the following core dimension (515mm x 367  mm x 95mm) and thus offers a 120% larger cooling surface and 142% more charge air volume compared to the original intercooler. The newly developed competition core granted the adjacent components, for example watercooler, sufficient airflow and is also very light. The end tanks of the intercooler are made ??of cast aluminium and have been optimized under flow analyses in the CAD system. With the help of additional air baffles, inside inlet, providing for a uniform filling of the intercooler. The result is excellent cooling properties with minimum back pressure. So this kit is just the right thing for racing. The intercooler and the original crossmember form a stable unit and weighs only 11.2 kg. It is mounted to the original mounting points and is easy to perform (1:1 exchange). Optimum cooling of the charged air with a clear increase in performance!
May not be approved for road use in your region.
The high performance intercooler has the following core dimension (515mm x 367  mm x 95mm) and thus offers a 120% larger cooling surface and 142% more charge air volume compared to the original intercooler. The newly developed competition core granted the adjacent components, for example watercooler, sufficient airflow and is also very light. The endtanks of the intercooler are made ??of cast aluminum and have been optimized under flow analyzes in the CAD system. With the help of additional air baffles, inside inlet, providing for a uniform filling of the intercooler. The result is excellent cooling properties with minimum back pressure. So this kit is just the right thing for racing. The intercooler and the original crossmember form a stable unit and weighs only 11.2 kg. It is mounted to the original mounting points and is easy to perform (1:1 exchange). Optimum cooling of the charged air with a clear increase in performance!


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Postcolonial Networks brings together scholars, activists, and leaders with the urgency of a movement to foster decolonized relationships, innovative scholarship, and social transformation.
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About Postcolonial Networks
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Joseph F. Duggan
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Postcolonial Networks seeks to influence the radical expansion of the way scholars and activists think about and practice postcoloniality. At Postcolonial Networks we are actively taking steps to dramatically increase the number and the kinds of people who are engaged with postcoloniality. We can no longer afford to let postcoloniality be the exclusive concern of a few elite scholars who compose the privileged field of postcolonial studies.
One of the reasons that the postcolonial field is so small is the accepted narrow definitional range of what counts as postcolonial and what does not. I see postcolonialism as a vastly complex and inclusive category that can potentially serve as the umbrella for many other related fields including but not limited to subaltern and indigenous studies.
I encountered postcolonialism long before I began to read my first expressly postcolonial theology and theory books. It is utterly too simplistic for us to continue to read only those books narrowly defined as postcolonial. I recommend the following books for a broad audience, and I commend them with particular zeal for those of you teaching courses that introduce postcolonial themes, agendas, and movements.
Power: A Radical View by Steven Lukes is an essential text for postcolonial readers. Power analysis is critical to the study of colonization, to understanding complex dynamics between colonizers and those colonized. Power analysis should be a sub-discipline of postcolonial studies in ways that complement postcolonial theories.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paula Freire is of course a liberation theory text closely linked to liberation theology. True, and postcolonial readers should cease to make harsh disciplinary boundaries between liberation theology and postcolonial theology. Scholars too easily draw severe lines between their narrative contributions and those of others. The praxis that Freire's theory of liberation brings to postcolonial studies cannot be easily dismissed and certainly not by the field of postcolonial studies, which has yet to deploy its own praxis. Freire's work forms the substantive basis of a recent book's theoretical architecture–Plantation Pedagogy: A Postcolonial and Global Perspective. Nonetheless, more substantial work is necessary as most postcolonial courses are delivered without an intentional postcolonial pedagogy.
The Rights of Others by Seyla Benhabib, who provocatively studies "deterritorialized politics," presents a non-colonial way of charting future courses. Benhabib writes, "We are like travelers navigating an unknown terrain with the help of old maps, drawn at a different time and in response to different needs. While the terrain we are traveling on, the world society of states, has changed, a normative map has not" (Benhabib, 2004, 6). "Our normative maps have not changed" is an understatement simply limited to cartographies but meaningful for every aspect of the broad study of oppressed, colonized, and marginalized peoples.
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People by Viviane K. Namaste and Disposable People by Kevin Bales poignantly capture the way people have been erased and disposed, helping us to imagine the complexities of invisibilities occasioned by colonization. Postcolonialism as a term has been appropriately and legitimately criticized for its lack of recognition of the way colonialism has continued. There has been pressure to drop the term "postcolonial," but at Postcolonial Networks we are reclaiming the term in ways that push the discipline to speak with greater integrity. My awareness of this kind of necessary self-critique began with Namaste's and Bales' works.
Namaste criticized queer theory for its silence on the marginalization of transsexuals. Namaste wrote, "this body of knowledge [queer theory] rarely considers the implications of an enforced sex/gender system for people who have defied it, who live outside of it, who have been killed because of it. Critics in queer theory write page after page on the inherent liberation of transgressing normative sex/gender codes, but they have nothing to say about the precarious position of the transsexual woman who is battered and who is unable to access a woman's shelter because she was not born a biological woman" (Namaste, 20000, 9-10). Namaste's sensitivity to who queer theorists have been silent about and thereby have silenced began to inform my lens about the way disciplines selectively speak about injustice. As the founder of Postcolonial Networks I envision all oppressions through a decolonial lens. Queer theories and theologies are crucial to the work of postcolonial theories and theologies. For the intersections of queer thought and postcolonial theory to be productive both disciplines need to speak with integrity and without bias.
Bales opened my eyes to the continuity of slavery on a global basis. While he acknowledged that slavery is illegal around the world, he nonetheless opens the eyes of his innocent readers to the compelling statistics and verbatim accounts from countries around the world that explose slavery's persistence. Like Namaste who revealed the oppression of transsexuals, Bales reveals concealed global slavery. "Slavery is a booming business and the number of slaves is increasing. People get rich by using slaves. And when they've finished with their slaves, they just throw these people away. This is the new slavery, which focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning people in the traditional sense of old slavery, but about controlling them completely. People become completely disposable tools for making money" (Bales, 1999, 4).
All of these books emphasize and analyze the invisibility of marginalized peoples that must be a foundational priority of all postcolonial scholars, activists, and religious leaders. Each of these books addresses a gap to which postcolonial studies needs to speak with integrity.
Lukes offers postcolonial studies a method of power analysis. His work cannot be engaged without many other power analysis books. It is urgent that postcolonial studies include a focus on power analysis.
Freire offers postcolonial studies praxis.
Benhabib offers postcolonial studies an emphasis on the rights of others in decolonized states in ways that draw up new postcolonial maps.
Namaste offers postcolonial studies a means for self-critique, eventually transforming its discipline by prioritizing who it has made invisible.
Bales offers postcolonial studies the challenge of seeing colonialism as ongoing in new forms that require new decolonizing tools.
What books initiated your postcolonial interests and commitments?
Joseph F. Duggan, PhD, is founder of Postcolonial Networks.
Jason Craige Harris2015-09-25T16:41:55+00:00November 9th, 2012|Archive blog, Founder's Blog|
About the Author: Jason Craige Harris
Jason Craige Harris is a third-year master's candidate in Black Religion in the African Diaspora and a Marquand merit scholar at Yale Divinity School, where he was recently awarded the Mary Cady Tew Prize for exceptional ability in history and ethics. He earned a bachelor's in religion and African-American studies from Wesleyan University and received the Giffin Prize for excellence in the Study of Religion, Spurrier Award for ethics, and an official citation for academic excellence issued by the 2009 Connecticut General Assembly. As a fellow at Wesleyan's Center for the Humanities and a recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Harris wrote a senior honors thesis analyzing theological anthropologies along political and racial fault lines in U.S. Evangelical history. His research and writing are principally concerned with black life, Christianity, (post)colonialism, violence, feminisms, critical social theory, and ultimately planetary flourishing. Concerns arising from the academic study of Africana religion, philosophy, and ethics particularly inform his inquiries. Through an interdisciplinary framework, he probes the systems of values that undergird dominant epistemological, rhetorical, cultural, and religious forms to determine to what extent, if at all, they conduce to robust conceptions of justice. With an eye toward contemporary social problems, he considers the religious strategies and visions that historically marginalized peoples have created to respond to conditions of living and being delimited by restrictive understandings of race, gender, religion, and nation. He is a general editor at the Journal of Postcolonial Networks, where, among other things, he helps to facilitate conversations on race and postcolonial/liberation theologies. As a Christian minister and budding public intellectual, Harris seeks and invites others into more holistic and attuned, less violent and constrained, ways of narrating the self and the divine. Areas of Interest and Research:
African American Religious Studies
Africana Philosophy African American Moral, Social, and Political Thought African American Intellectual History Liberation and Postcolonial (Christian) Thought
Philosophies of Liberation Contemporary Religious Thought Race, Gender, and American Christianities
Evangelicalisms and Pentecostalisms Histories of Race Discourse in the Americas (Christian) Social Ethics
Critical Social Theory/Social Philosophy Theories of Race, Gender, and Power Method and Theory in the Study of Religion He is deeply committed to a praxis in which dualities of mind/heart, mind/body, and emotions/thought are consistently challenged and replaced with integrated models of selfhood that cherish self-multiplicity - the point at which the postcolonial becomes self-consciously embodied. He also enjoy taking walks in the coolness of the day, singing, laughing, and writing poetically and theoretically on his lived experience, whatever helps to bring more beauty and justice into the world.
Interview with Brazilian liberation theologian Dr. Ruy Costa
Pamphletarian Theology
Borders Between San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico
Pamphletarian Theology with Cláudio Carvalhaes | Interview Melanie L. Harris
Review of Jeanne Choy Tate's Something Greater: Culture, Family, and Community as Living Story Pickwick Publications, 2013. Paperpack, $18.00.
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/ Vintages
/ 2021 vintage in Bourgogne: A close care throughout
2021 vintage in Bourgogne: A close care throughout
The 2021 vintage was a challenge for winegrowers right up until the very last day. From the frost in April, made worse by a very early start to the winegrowing season, right through to the September harvest, it was characterized by some brutal shifts in the weather. Winegrowers had to be extremely reactive and attentive. The only moment of respite came with flowering, which was ideal for fruit formation, and véraison, which was accompanied by sunshine from mid-August.
In the end, hard work was rewarded with success, low volumes aside.
Aside from the low yields due to frost, and hail in June in certain parts of the Mâconnais, the grapes were sorted meticulously, both in the vines and in the winery. The capricious weather in July and early August encouraged the development of pockets of disease, but these were fortunately contained thanks to the efforts of the winemakers and the return of dry weather later in August.
The general opinion is that the 2021 is an interesting vintage to work with because it requires great technical skill and vinification must be very precise. Although fermentation was rapid, one had to pay a great deal of attention to the extraction of tannins and color for the reds, and to the aromatic balance of the whites.
THE PROFILE OF THE WINES OF THE 2020 VINTAGE
The impression from the first tastings is that the musts have good aromatic potential and the sugar-acidity ratio suggests a style appreciated by fans of Bourgogne wines.
2021 vintage in Bourgogne


Monster Sprite Artist Needed for an Indie Game (RPG)!
I am the project manager of an upcoming RPG video game, coming out on the iOS and Android in late 2016 or early 2017. This is a commercial project and the game will be sold to others. We need exclusive rights to the artwork you produce for us; meaning we own it completely (you will still be in our credits as our Sprite Artist).
This project is being made with RPG Maker VM and the sprites will need to be side-view (think of Final Fantasy 6's battle system and sprites).
We want you to replicate the art style that you see on the left-side of the screen.
We currently are looking for a talented and dedicated sprite artist who can produce EXACTLY 250 unique monster/battle sprites for us. These sprites will be used as in-game enemies and bosses. We anticipate at least 25-50 of those sprites to be boss-sized sprites (more detailed and larger).
Because this project will take roughly 1 - 1.5 years to complete, we need someone dedicated enough to work with me every single week. Each week, I will give you new sprite ideas for you to work from. Each week you will be expected to create 2-5 sprites (with 2-3/week being the average). You will work at this pace because we need time to polish and refine our story. We can't just have 250 random enemies; we need 250 enemies that match our overall storyline. Therefore, we need an artist who will be able to develop a rapport with myself (the project manager) and make a few sprites each week when they are requested. You will have a lot of freedom to give me your own ideas.
This will continue until we hit the agreed-upon 250 sprites in total. At which point, you will have been completely reimbursed for your quote and the project agreement will be fulfilled. More work may or may not be wanted/needed at that point.
REIMBURSEMENT: You will be paid on a sprite-by-sprite basis.
Take whatever you quote and divide it by 250. That's how much you will get paid each time you complete a sprite. I will distribute payments every single week for the sprites you completed that particular week.
We will continue with this model of payment and product delivery until the 250 sprites are completed.
IE: If you bid $500 (our min budget), you'd be making $2/sprite. If you bid $2,500, you'd be making $10/sprite (our max budget).
We are looking for someone with similar artistic abilities to the examples below. Please do not bid if you do not have the capacity to generate detailed art like this: PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH SAMPLES/EXAMPLES WHEN YOU BID!
Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing your samples and hearing your proposals!


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Australia 17th January 2020
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Child arrested for striking elderly woman in face with butterknife in Palmerston
Updated January 13, 2020 09:45:02 Photo: Commander Tennosaar said investigations were ongoing and urged anyone with information about the matter to contact NT Police. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft) An 11-year-old girl has been arrested for…
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Updated November 23, 2019 21:34:44 Photo: A man, whose father died after being hit by a brick during Hong Kong protests, has called on witnesses to come forward. (AP: Kin Cheung) The son of an…
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Elderly man accused of murder in Vic
An elderly man accused of killing a woman needs to be seen by a mental health professional, a court has been told. Ernest Fluder, 83, has been charged with killing a woman at a Hadfield…


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Meet the 'Funny People' from Showmax's new stand-up comedy special
Streaming / 3 April 2019, 12:49pm / Kevin Kriedemann
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If laughter is the best medicine, then "Funny People Africa" is just what the doctor ordered for South Africa at a time when Eskom is making us all feel sick and tired.
"Funny People Africa," is a six-part stand-up comedy series featuring 18 comedians from five African countries discussing life, love and chickens...
Here are five of our favourites:
Eddie Kadi
Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but raised in London, Kadi was named Best Comedy Newcomer at The Black Entertainment Comedy Awards in 2006. Since then he's sold out the O2 Arena in London, been a presenter on BBC 1Xtra, and appeared on QI, among other achievements. Last year, the BBC hailed Eddie as a "global king of comedy" and asked "Could he be the funniest man in Africa?" Watch him on Funny People Africa and let us know how you'd answer…
Robby Collins
Once a lanky, long-limbed actor on the Durban theatre circuit, Robby is now an award-winning comic, loved for his ability to find the funny in otherwise painful experiences. A 2018 Comics' Choice Comic of the Year nominee, Robby has opened for everyone from Dave Chappelle to Trevor Noah. In 2014, he won the Standard Bank Ovation Award at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival for his first one-man show, "That Bushman's Crazy," and in 2016 and 2017 he was invited to perform at the world's biggest comedy festival, Just for Laughs, in Montreal, Canada. He was also part of the International Emmy-nominated writing team on "Late Nite News With Loyiso Gola".
Glen Biderman-Pam
Glen Biderman-Pam is often the sidekick, whether he's Rael Rosen, the groom's best man and business partner in "Tali's Wedding Diary;" the barman in #WTFTUMI; or the in-studio comedian in "Larger Than Life with Jason Goliath". So it's great to see him centre stage in Funny People Africa, finding the humour in white guilt and showing why he's a regular nominee at the Comics' Choice Awards.
Carl Joshua Ncube
Carl was nominated as the Comics' Choice Pan African Comic Of The Year for the last two years in a row. To quote Comedy Central Africa, "Carl Joshua Ncube has to be the funniest comedian Zimbabwe's ever produced." Carl's been featured as "the new face of Zimbabwean comedy" on CNN African Voices and has performed in 15 countries on four continents.
Dillan Oliphant
Straight out of Eldorado Park, Dillan won Newcomer Of The Year at the Comic's Choice Awards in 2012. Having opened for Trevor Noah and featured on the International Emmy-nominated "Late Nite News With Loyiso Gola," Dillan has built his brand on deadpan one-liners that make you not only laugh but think as well.
The impressive lineup also includes Richelieu Beaunoir, 2016 Comedy Central Roast Battle Champion of South Africa; 2017 Comics' Choice Intermediate winner Ebenhaezer Dibakwane; 2016 Standard Bank Ovation Award winner Tyson Ngubeni; 2016 Comics' Choice Breakthough Comic Prins; Q Dube, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Comedian award at Zimbabwe's National Arts Merit Awards; and 2015 JokeNation winner Ola, a British comic of Nigerian descent. South Africa's Dylan Skews, Kate Pinchuck, Nicholas Goliath, and Stella Dlangalala complete the lineup with Zambia's Lolo Malumo and Zimbabwe's George Kuda and Long John.
Filmed at Goliath & Goliath Melrose Arch over two nights in early February 2019, "Funny People Africa" is produced by Mannequin Pictures, a SAFTA-winning production company responsible for comedy specials like Trevor Noah's "Daywalker" and "The Live Series" with Barry Hilton, Donovan Goliath and Marc Lottering.


Insights from a recent expat survey reveal the new emerging expat destinations.
The recent Insider Survey conducted by expat forum Internations has again provided a fascinating insight into how migrants around the world really feel about their new home. While well known destinations such as Australia, USA and Spain are still extremely popular, the report reveals several surprising new hotspots that expats rate well across the board from work and money to family life and overall happiness. From hidden gems in Latin America, to Scandinavian treasures, here's our look at some of the new expat hotspot destinations for anyone wanting to follow the cool kids abroad.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the survey is Ecuador's extremely strong rating placing it firmly at the top of the list. While still relatively unknown, Ecuador is certain to attract more and more expats as it performs well across the board with 91% saying they are satisfied with their new home.
You could be better off both financially and emotionally as the country ranked highest in terms of personal happiness and personal finance. It even boasts the shortest average working week in the world with a very manageable 34.4 hours a week.
With all that free time to look forward to, it is reassuring to know that over 80% of those surveyed said they found it very easy to settle and make friends in Ecuador, so you'll soon be enjoying an exciting new social life.
This small, unassuming European country secured second place largely due to its extremely strong performance in the 'working abroad' category. In terms of prospects, security and job satisfaction, Luxembourg is the perfect location to advance your career.
Not only is it second only to Norway for job security, but an incredibly high 76% of respondents reported excellent job satisfaction making Luxembourg a top destination for a safe and rewarding career.
The country is also an exciting, welcoming place to live as an immigrant, with around 9 out of 10 saying they were satisfied with expat life. This is partly due to Luxembourg's safe reputation, excellent infrastructure and healthcare system. Luxembourg also boasts one of the strongest economies in Europe, a fact recognised by 95% of those surveyed who rated the economy positively.
Mexico confidently strides into the top three, largely due to it's extremely high rating for 'ease of settling in'. An astounding 91% say there are satisfied with expat life and Mexico also comes top for friendliness. Mexico is clearly a place people build a happy social life, coming in the top five for both ease of finding friends and feeling welcome.
The cost of living is another key advantage identified by the poll, partly due to the relatively low cost of housing. The warm, sunny climate and general friendliness all help to push Mexico into the top four countries for personal happiness. With so much going for it, it is unsurprising that almost half of all expats in Mexico want to stay forever.
As the highest rated country for quality of life, Switzerland is attracting increasing numbers of ambitious expats looking for a better standard of living. Switzerland's transport and healthcare networks are amongst the best in the world, a fact clearly appreciated by those surveyed. Safety is also central to this high quality of life with over 80% rating the country as both safe and peaceful.
Most respondents moved to Switzerland for their career, a step which most find universally positive. 77% are happy with their personal financial situation and salaries are well above the global average making the average expat better off in Switzerland.
When it comes to matters of the heart, the Philippines is the stand-out winner across the board. Not only does it the have the highest proportion of harmonious couples of all the countries listed, but there are also more expats in a relationship with a local than anywhere else. The high ranking for both friendliness and ease of finding friends clearly helps its romantic reputation.
For those wanting to follow both their head and their heart, the Philippines is also in the top five for personal finance, thanks in no small part to the low cost of living and availability and price of childcare. This winning combination keeps the expat population smiling, placing it second overall for personal happiness.
Costa Rica is a beautiful, yet little known country with relatively few immigrants, but this is sure to change as people discover this hidden expat paradise. The survey reveals that it is one of the easiest places in the world for new arrivals to settle in with expats placing it in the top ten for personal happiness, friendliness and health, safety and well being.
The country is also an enjoyable place to work, second only to Norway for work-life balance. At just over 36 hours, Costa Rica has one of the shortest working weeks of all countries surveyed. It is, therefore, unsurprising that the vast majority of expats surveyed stated that they are satisfied with both work and family life in Costa Rica.
As the fourth largest economy in the world, Germany is increasingly a popular choice for expats looking to advance their career. Third overall in the working abroad category, it boasts exceptional job security and job satisfaction.
Expat life in Germany is not, however, all work and no play. The country ranks fifth overall for family life, scoring well for education and health safety and wellbeing. Germany also benefits from an outstanding healthcare system with 80% rating medical care as excellent. The world-class transport infrastructure also makes Germany an easy place to navigate, a fact recognised and enjoyed by most expats.
Norway comfortably takes the top spot for 'working abroad' with it's winning combination of job security, fair working hours and good work-life balance. The basis for this happy, productive workforce is undoubtedly Norway's strong economy, rated positively by 93% of expats surveyed.
Norway has the most secure workforce of any country in the survey, coming top overall for job security. This job safety does not, however, come at the cost of a happy home life. The short working week of just 37 hours is just one of the factors that help Norway take first place for work-life balance.
Family life is also viewed positively by the vast majority of expats living in Norway, placing it 7th for family well being with 92% of all respondents rating the country positively for child health and wellbeing. It also scores well for the cost and availability of childcare.
If Norway is all about work, Colombia is where expats go to play. The survey reveals that expats here are happy, sociable and have a wide group of friends. Colombia came 3rd for personal happiness, demonstrating again how immigrants in Latin America seem particularly contented with expat life.
The country is seen as one of the friendliest overall, with expats boasting more local friends than any other country in the study. A large number of expats even find romance in Colombia as it ranks second only to the Philippines for the number of expats in a relationship with a local.
If this has inspired your next step abroad, don't forget we can help make your move overseas as stress-free as possible. Whether it's a new expat hotspot destination, or an established favourite, we can get you there with our comprehensive moving services.


The Indulgent Escape Choice Voucher gives you the chance to choose the perfect luxury hotel break to suit you. With a range of one and two night breaks at a variety of gorgeous 4-Star and 5-Star hotels across the UK to choose from, you'll be spoiled for choice. Each of these superb properties has been specially selected for its luxurious accommodation, fantastic facilities and quality service so whichever venue you choose you're sure to enjoy your break together in complete comfort.
On purchasing this experience you will be issued with a voucher valid for ten months for two people. You will then be free to select from a range of one and two night hotel breaks and redeem your voucher.
This voucher is valid for two people for a one or two night stay at their choice of hotel, from those participating. This voucher may not be used at any other hotel. The voucher is valid for 10 months. This voucher is only valid on stays between September 1st and May 1st at the following hotels; Yorkshire Hotel, The Ballachulish Hotel, The Isle of Glencoe Hotel and The Oban Hotel. All dates are subject to availability.


Valuation Office overturns previous appeal decision at Upper Tribunal.
October 13th , 2014 Peter Fry, Asscoiate, Valuation In May 2013 the Government quietly made some ground breaking changes to the Planning System.
October 7, 201 Mark Jennings, Partner, Business Space Commercial property consultancy Vail Williams has welcomed back a former employee to its Heathrow office where he has become the company's newest Partner.