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Mercedes CLA saloon - Reliability & safety
The Mercedes CLA received a five-star safety score from Euro NCAP
Reliability & safety - currently reading
Reliability & safety Rating
Mercedes CLA reliability won't be known until it has been in the hands of customers for at least a year. A strong safety result for the A-Class bodes well for the closely related CLA.
Mercedes CLA reliability
The CLA was redesigned from the ground up for 2019, so it'll be some time before any reliability issues are widely known. However, the CLA does feature a number of engines, gearboxes and features that are already proven within the Mercedes range. The manufacturer's 28th place (out of 30 brands) in our 2020 Driver Power survey is a cause for concern but the brand did at least score well for interior design and build quality. Owners also told us running costs and servicing were expensive and 16.5% of them reported a fault in the first year.
Independent body Euro NCAP has conducted a crash-test for the Mercedes CLA and awarded it a five-star result. It's particularly reassuring given the adult and child occupant scores were 96% and 91% respectively, while the mark for pedestrian safety was also a high 91%.
Key technologies like automatic emergency braking and lane-keeping assistance are all included as standard, while traffic-sign recognition comes with the AMG Line Premium Plus version. Augmented reality sat nav is also available, using a windscreen camera to show real images in the media display with superimposed directions.
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Matthias Megyeri (* 1973 in Stuttgart) ist ein deutscher Konzeptkünstler, Designer und Dozent mit ungarischen Wurzeln. Seine Arbeiten finden oft im öffentlichen Raum statt und verhandeln die Ästhetik von Sicherheit und deren Wirkung auf die Gesellschaft. Megyeri hat einen interdisziplinärem Ansatz von Gestaltung und Fotografie über Architektur und Skulptur. Seine Arbeiten sind unter anderem in den Sammlungen des Museum of Modern Art, New York und im Ludwig Muzeum in Budapest zu finden.

Werdegang
Ende der 1980er Jahre war Megyeri als Sprüher unter dem Namen MASEEE einer der Akteure der Stuttgarter Graffiti- und Hiphop-Szene aus der später die Kolchose wurde. Megyeri studierte von 1995 bis 2001 an der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe Visuelle Kommunikation bei Gunter Rambow (Politisches Plakat) und Kurt Weidemann. Danach hat er von 2001 bis 2003 Critical Design am Royal College of Art bei Ron Arad, Anthony Dunne und Noam Toran studiert. Für seine Masterarbeit entwickelte er die ersten Prototypen der Serie Sweet Dreams Security®. Aus diesem Projekt entstand die Sicherheitsfirma des gleichen Namens. Mergyeris Arbeiten bekamen internationale Medienaufmerksamkeit, und wurden in Museen und Institutionen weltweit gezeigt. Ende 2008 kehrte Matthias Megyeri anlässlich eines Stipendiums an der Akademie Schloss Solitude nach Stuttgart zurück. Seit 2011 arbeitet Megyeri als freischaffender Künstler mit Schwerpunkten Installation im öffentlichen Raum und Kunst am Bau. Ferner ist er als Dozent, Workshopleiter und Juror international tätig.

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Norovirus contamination in oysters
Kiyokuni Muroga, Keisuke G. Takahashi
AGR - Agricultural Bioscience
The acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus (Genus Norovirus of the Family Caliciviridae) is the most important non-bacterial gastroenteritis in the world, and this disease is often attributable to shellfish ingestion. Numerous studies have been made in various fields of science related to medicine and food/environmental hygiene, however, few investigations have been performed from the standpoints of shellfish biology and shellfish aquaculture in Japan. Based on reports on this problem made in various fields outside the fisheries science, this paper describes briefly the features of the disease and the causative agent previously called SRSV (small round-structured virus), transmission pathway involving shellfish ingestion, contamination of the virus in oysters, and two purification methods: depuration and relaying. Finally, the importance of studies on the virus-uptake mechanism of oysters and fate of the virus in oysters is discussed in order to establish a sanitary oyster aquaculture system and effective methods of depuration and relaying.
Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition)
https://doi.org/10.2331/suisan.71.535
Published - 2005 Jul
10.2331/suisan.71.535
Dive into the research topics of 'Norovirus contamination in oysters'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Oyster Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100%
Shellfish Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40%
Norovirus Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30%
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Muroga, K., & Takahashi, K. G. (2005). Norovirus contamination in oysters. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition), 71(4), 535-541. https://doi.org/10.2331/suisan.71.535
Norovirus contamination in oysters. / Muroga, Kiyokuni; Takahashi, Keisuke G.
In: Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition), Vol. 71, No. 4, 07.2005, p. 535-541.
Muroga, K & Takahashi, KG 2005, 'Norovirus contamination in oysters', Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition), vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 535-541. https://doi.org/10.2331/suisan.71.535
Muroga K, Takahashi KG. Norovirus contamination in oysters. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition). 2005 Jul;71(4):535-541. doi: 10.2331/suisan.71.535
Muroga, Kiyokuni ; Takahashi, Keisuke G. / Norovirus contamination in oysters. In: Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japanese Edition). 2005 ; Vol. 71, No. 4. pp. 535-541.
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Today is the birthday of ground-breaking nature photographer, Ansel Adams. To celebrate, consider finding out more about this artist/activist, and the environmental organization he loved the most, The Sierra Club. Adams is perhaps best known for his revelatory black and white studies of the majesty of Yosemite National Park. Nobody captures shadow and light like he did, and his photos have become the iconic gold standard for nature imagery.
Adams first connected with The Sierra Club in 1919, and later would serve on the organization's board of directors for 37 years. It is America's largest and most influential grassroots organization, and you want to be a part of their actions and activities. There are social activities and outdoor adventures for all ages and abilities, and definitely some in your area (check out your local Sierra Club activities here). In addition, the advocacy work of the organization on behalf of the environment has historically made great change in the way our nation uses and protects wild lands. Alternative energies, youth environmental education, protecting America's waters, habitat conservation, environmental law, global population, flora and fauna protection, climate change, responsible sporting and fishing, all of it is addressed by one or more of their huge array of projects and goals. Sign up for news alerts and updates to be involved and a champion for ecology. TAKE ACTION and take responsibility for Mother Earth–she's nice enough to let you stay here, after all we've done to piss her off.


So every so often I will try to impart a tid bit of wisdom I think others might find useful. Well for my first one I'm going to suggest something that I need to do more often it seems. Always read the manual first. I recently went to see some Camera tech's and felt a tad silly when I could have discovered my problem had I looked at my manual. Whether it's a new body, flash etc always read the manual first. I will be.
Too true my young man, might i be cheeky enough to ask what the silly boo boo was??
You may, I was playing with my new 17-55mm f2.8 and couldn't understand why it appeared a bit soft through the view finder but fine when I looked at the photographs in post. Turns out I'd knocked the Dioptric, so after putting it back it looked great. Completely forgot to look at it and if I'd checked the manual would have probably reminded me to check it!


Strike price is the specified price at which an option contract can be exercised. On a call option, the option holder can buy the security at the strike price; on a put option, the option holder can sell the security at the strike price. Strike price is also called exercise price, or grant price.


Spinning and weaving in Nagaland, a remote area in North East India where a number of tribes cohabitate and just recently opened to the tourism, is the exclusive monopoly of women.
The ancestral technique is demanding of terms of time and effort, but it is not equally rewarding as the cloth produced doesn't have a large market in Nagaland. The locals prefer machine-made cheaper fabrics, therefore the art of weaving using traditional methods is slowly dying, and selling their artisanal work becomes extremely difficult for them.
taking up on very low salary odd jobs, so viceous circle of poverty continues.
to this tribal Naga women.
We aim to give hope to this people by providing them with continuous employment on the art of weaving, and the possibility to support their families to a brighter future.
The handspun fabric they produce, will be used as raw material for a range of Miss monkey fashion products, home furnishings and accessories. The final product will be sold on this site, and part of the profits will be directed towards keeping the project going and increasing the number of tribal weavers to benefit from it.


Utilizes the natural powers of eucalyptus and menthol to clean stubborn mold, mildew and grime from grout lines and bathroom fixtures.
Just shake, spray, and wipe. Great for kitchens, bathrooms, tile & grout, terrazzo, granite, marble and stone. For heavy cleaning, let product soak, scrub, and wipe or wash away.


Yet another newbie. I feel there is no limit to my creativity. Some ideas come easier than others, but I try to keep going. I am so blessed to have my creative gift. Thank you God.
a new watercolor just finished! A Lily View!
A new oil painting this is Crane's Beach looking north, from the boardwalk.


Geoff Jamieson is a rare athlete, one who trains hard and who refuses to slow down despite age and injury. He's an elite athlete and deserves to be named a Legend of Jacob's Ladder.
On most Sunday mornings you can find Geoff climbing faster than everyone else. In fact he laps faster than most people dream is possible.
At around 57 you'd expect him to be slowing down. That's not the case. With monotonous regularity Geoff churns out 30 laps in around 90 minutes. Jacob's Ladder regulars know that doing 10 laps in 30 minutes is a significant milestone. Geoff does 3 of those back to back, rain, hail or shine. Quite simply he's a freak.
Geoff's work rate is phenomenal. 'Take it easy' just isn't in his vocabulary. From lap 1 right through to lap 30 he's quick. Really quick. He walks down at a steady clip, turns at the bottom, then swings his arms hard to maximise his momentum throughout the climb to the top. A minute and a half down, a minute and a half up. Lap after lap after lap.
In all the time I've watched Geoff in action I've never seen anyone beat him over 30 laps. I've seen people have a lash at him for 5 or 10 laps – I've done that myself – but I've never seen anyone start with him on lap 1 and stay with him to lap 30. Not once. He's that good.
And I've never seen Geoff wear a shirt. Looking at his physique I can't blame him. He has the physique of a twenty year-old, chiselled no doubt by years in the gym.
According to Greg Williams, Geoff is a gifted allround athlete and a top guy to boot. He was a top tennis player in Geraldton and a regular winner on the squash court. He played football until a knee injury forced his retirement. Wanting to maintain his connection with the game he went on to become an AFL umpire in the GNFL.
Professionally Geoff is a maths teacher and Head of Department at Trinity College. He's married with two adult children.
On any level Geoff Jamieson deserves to be named a Legend of Jacob's Ladder.
Over the past few years I've collected a fair amount of litter from the slopes of Jacob's Ladder. In the main it's plastic drink bottles.
When I first started picking them up I filled a couple of garbage bags. Since then I collect around a handful each week. There are others on The Ladder that do the same.
Taking these photos (click to enlarge) it struck me that each are a billboard for a big business. And those businesses don't care about the harm they're causing the environment so long as their brand is out there.
I propose charging drink manufacturers a branding fee if they want to place their brand on a container. It might be a modest fee of say 20 cents per drink. The alternative is simple. Use a standard size and generic branding.
If the drink manufacturer wanted to save the 20 cents they could sell their product in a standard size and shaped container. Imagine the cost saving there! All drink manufacturers could buy in bulk as all their drinks of a similar size – 33o ml, 600 ml, 1 litre, 2 litre – would come in exactly the same size and shaped plastic.
Branding would be done by all manufacturers using the same colour sticker with the same colour writing and the same type face. In other words, all drink labels would look exactly the same with only the letters and words changing.
Alternately they could pay the branding levy – which they'd no doubt pass on to the customer – or come up with some genuinely non-disposable alternative.
Will it happen? Probably not. But I'd vote for the person that had the guts to try.
Jacob's Ladder was again my playground last week. I managed 150 laps and a new PB for 15. There was a break in the hot weather on Friday and that brought a welcome cool change. It's so much nicer to be working hard when it's not hot.
Breaking things up was the start of my new photo of the week series. Yesterday I took the time to grab some pre-dawn photos of Jacob's shadows. In the coming weeks I'm hoping to capture some of the characters of Jacob's Ladder in a series I'm calling Legends of The Ladder. I hope to include people like Mark Bailey, Greg Williams, Tony Beard, Gavin, Adrienne and Toni, and a number of others who are on the ladder almost every day. I'll include a photo and a small story about what makes them so unique. Perhaps it's their style, what they wear or some of their previous Jacob's Ladder exploits. If you know someone you believe should be included as one of The Legends, let me know in the comments below.


Neurons - these aesthetic elementary microchips of the brain and their synapses change as they receive and transmit information. This enables us to learn and adapt to the complicated environment around us, have new ideas and create new "brain inspired" learning machines Art and Science. A deep understanding of a computing and learning system such as our own brain requires understanding the computational and plastic functions of its basic components - the nerve cells, their synapses and the specific networks that they form. Our laboratory utilizes detailed computer simulations (as part of the Blue Brain Project) and analytic results to tackle this challenge! In particular the challenge to understand the unique properties of Human cortical neurons and cortical networks.
bioRxiv preprint first posted online Nov. 9, 2018; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/464826.
Michael Doron, Giuseppe Chindemi, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram, Idan Segev, Timed Synaptic Inhibition Shapes NMDA Spikes, Influencing Local Dendritic Processing and Global I/O Properties of Cortical Neurons. Doron et al.
Yair Deitcher, Guy Eyal, Lida Kanari, Matthijs B. Verhoog, Guy Antoine Atenekeng Kahou, Huibert D. Mansvelder, Christiaan P.J. de Kock, and Idan Segev, Comprehensive Morpho-Electrotonic Analysis Shows 2 Distinct Classes of L2 and L3 Pyramidal Neurons in Human Temporal Cortex.
Guy Eyal, Matthijs B Verhoog, Guilherme Testa-Silva, Yair Deitcher, Johannes C Lodder, Ruth Benavides-Piccione, Juan Morales, Javier DeFelipe, Christiaan PJ de Kock, Huibert D Mansvelder, Idan Segev, Unique membrane properties and enhanced signal processing in human neocortical neurons. Eyal et al.
DeFelipe J., Douglas R. J., Hill S. L., Lein E. S., Martin K. A. C., Rockland K. S., Segev I., Shepherd G. M., Tamás G., Comments and General Discussion on "The Anatomical Problem Posed by Brain Complexity and Size: A Potential Solution"
Frontiers Neuroinform. 2016; 10: 17.
ELSC aims to develop a thriving interface between theory and experiments across levels - cognitive, biological, and computational neuroscience, paving the way to innovative discovery in brain research.


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The following pictures were taken during a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The weathered beach homes and rambling line of sand fences are an iconic representation of many which line coastal towns along our shores. A bit of color was added to each image to enhance the time worn structures and to help capture vivid memories of summertime's past.


Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (November 15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished German Field Marshals and commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps in World War II. He is also known by his nickname The Desert Fox (W�stenfuchs).
Rommel was born in Heidenheim, approximately 50 km from Ulm, in the state of W�rttemberg. The second son of a Protestant Headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen, Erwin Rommel the elder and Helene von Luz, a daughter of a prominent local dignitary. The couple also had three more children, two sons, Karl and Gerhard, and a daughter, Helene. Later recalling his childhood, Rommel wrote that "my early years passed very happily". At the age of 14 Rommel, with a friend, built a full-scale glider that flew, although not far. Young Erwin considered becoming an engineer, but on his father's insistence joined the local 124th W�rttemberg Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910, and was soon sent to the Officer Cadet School in Danzig.
There, in 1911, Rommel met his future wife, Lucie Mollin, whom he married in 1916. In 1928, they had a son, Manfred, later the mayor of Stuttgart. Scholars Bierman and Smith argue that Rommel also had an affair with Walburga Stemmer in 1912 and that relationship produced a daughter named Gertrud (1 p. 56). Graduating from school in November 1911, Rommel was commissioned as a Lieutenant January 1912.
During World War I, Rommel served in France, as well as on the Romanian and Italian fronts, during which time he was wounded three times and awarded the Iron Cross - First and Second Class. He also became the youngest recipient of Prussia's highest medal, the Pour le M�rite, which he received after fighting in the mountains of north-east Italy, specifically at the Battle of Longarone, and the capture of Mount Matajur and its defenders, numbering 150 Italian officers, 7000 men and 81 artillery guns.
After the war Rommel held battalion commands, and was instructor at the Dresden Infantry School (1929-1933) and the Potsdam War Academy (1935-1938). His war diaries, Infanterie greift an (Infantry Attacks), published in 1937, became a major textbook, which also attracted the attention of Adolf Hitler. In 1938, Rommel, now a colonel, was appointed commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt. He was removed after a short time, however, and placed in command of Adolf Hitler's personal protection battalion (F�hrer-Begleitbattalion). He was promoted again to Major General just prior to the invasion of Poland.
In 1940 he was given command of the 7th Panzer Division, later nicknamed the "Ghost Division" (for the speed and surprise it was consistently able to achieve), for Fall Gelb, the invasion of the west. He showed considerable skill in this operation, and in reward was appointed commander of the German troops, the 5th Light and later the 15th Panzer Division, which were sent to Libya in early 1941 to aid the defeated Italian troops, forming the Deutsches Afrika Korps. It was in Africa that Rommel achieved his greatest fame as a commander.
Rommel spent most of 1941 building his organization and re-forming the shattered Italian units, who had suffered a string of defeats at the hands of British Commonwealth forces under Major General Richard O'Connor. An offensive pushed the Allied forces back out of Libya, but it stalled a relatively short way into Egypt, and the important port of Tobruk, although surrounded, was still held by Allied forces under an Australian General, Leslie Morshead. The Allied Commander-in-Chief, General Archibald Wavell swapped commands with the British Commander-in-Chief India, General Claude Auchinleck. Auchinleck launched a major offensive to relieve Tobruk which eventually succeeded. However, when this offensive ran out of steam, Rommel struck.
In a classic blitzkrieg, Allied forces were comprehensively beaten. Within weeks they had been pushed back far into Egypt. Rommel's offensive was eventually stopped at the small railway town of El Alamein, just 60 miles from Cairo. The First Battle of El Alamein was lost by Rommel due to a combination of supply problems and improved Allied tactics. The Allies, with their backs against the wall, were very close to their supplies and had fresh troops on hand to reinforce their positions. Auchinleck's tactics of continually attacking the weaker Italian forces during the battle forced Rommel to use the Deutsches Afrika Korps in a "Fire Brigade" role and placed the initiative in Allied hands. Rommel tried again to break through the Allied lines during the Battle of Alam Halfa. He was decisively stopped by the newly arrived Allied commander, Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery; mainly due to the fact that the allies had devised a machine capable of deciphering German communications, thus alerting them to Rommel's battle plan prior to the battle. This was known as the "Ultra".
With Allied forces from Malta interdicting his supplies at sea, and the massive distances they had to cover in the desert, Rommel could not hold the El Alamein position forever. Still, it took a large set piece battle, the Second Battle of El Alamein, to force his troops back. After the defeat at El Alamein, despite urgings from Hitler and Mussolini, Rommel's forces did not again stand and fight until they had entered Tunisia. Even then, their first battle was not against the British Eighth Army, but against the U.S. II Corps. Rommel inflicted a sharp reversal on the American forces at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
Turning once again to face the British Commonwealth forces in the old French border defences of the Mareth Line, Rommel could only delay the inevitable. Ultra was a major factor that led to the defeat of his forces. He left Africa after falling sick, and the men of his former command eventually became prisoners of war.
Some say that Rommel's withdrawal of his army back to Tunisia against Hitler's dreams was a much greater success than his capture of Tobruk (in sharp contrast to the fate suffered by the German 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad under the command of Friedrich Paulus).
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel (center) discusses the upcoming Allied invasion of France with Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz and Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt.
Back in Germany, Rommel was for some time virtually "unemployed". However, when the tide of war shifted against Germany, Hitler made Rommel the commander of Army Group B, responsible for defending the French coast against a possible Allied invasion. After his battles in Africa, Rommel concluded that any offensive movements would be impossible due to the overwhelming Allied air superiority. He argued that the tank forces should be kept in small units as close to the front as possible, so they wouldn't have to move far and enmasse when the invasion started. He wanted the invasion stopped right on the beaches.
However his commander, Gerd von Rundstedt, felt that there was no way to stop the invasion near the beaches due to the equally overwhelming firepower of the Royal Navy. He felt the tanks should be formed into large units well inland near Paris, where they could allow the Allies to extend into France and then be cut off. When asked to pick a plan, Hitler then vacillated and placed them in the middle, far enough to be useless to Rommel, not far enough to watch the fight for von Rundstedt. Rommel's plan nearly came to fruition anyway.
During D-Day several tank units, notably the 12th SS Panzer Division (the elite Hitler Jugend) were near enough to the beaches and created serious havoc. The overwhelming Allied numbers and Hitler's refusal to unleash the tank forces in time made any success unlikely, however, and soon the beachhead was secure.
On July 17, 1944 his staff car was strafed by an RCAF Spitfire, and Rommel was hospitalized with major head injuries. In the meantime, after the failed July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler, Rommel was suspected of connections with the conspiracy. Bormann was certain of Rommel's involvement, Goebbels was not. The true extent of Rommel's knowledge of, or involvement with, the plot is still unclear. After the war, however, his wife maintained that Rommel had been against the plot as it was carried out. It has been stated that Rommel wanted to avoid giving future generations of Germans the perception that the war was lost because of a backstab, the infamous Dolchsto�legende, as it was commonly believed by some Germans following WWI. Instead, he favored a coup where Hitler would be taken alive and made to stand trial before the public. Due to Rommel's popularity with the German people, Hitler gave him an option to commit suicide with cyanide or face dishonour and retaliation against his family and staff. Rommel ended his own life on October 14, 1944, and was buried with full military honours.
After the war his diary was published as The Rommel Papers in which he confesses to murdering a French officer. Rommel is also remembered as close personal friend of Hitler. In his letters statements of admiration for National Socialism and aggression against Poland can be found.Statements can be found such as "The F�hrer knows what�s right for us", "What do you make of the events of September  Hitler�s speech? Isn�t it wonderful that we have such a man?�.
"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great General."
Theodor Werner was an officer who, during World War I, served under Rommel.
"Anybody who came under the spell of his personality turned into a real soldier. He seemed to know what the enemy were like and how they would react."
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A Nincs nő, nincs sírás Sub Bass Monster Félre az útból című albumának harmadik kislemezen kiadott dala. A dal a "női problémákat" és a házas életet mutatja be. A dalból készült egy remixelt változat is, mely az SBMX remixalbumon található meg.

Nincs nő, nincs sírás (Maxi-Single)
 Nincs nő, nincs sírás (AC-Balage dirty) – 4:00
 Nincs nő, nincs sírás (AC-Balage clean) – 3:59
 Nincs nő, nincs sírás (monstrumental) – 3:59
 Nincs nő, nincs sírás (original "2" clean) – 3:53
 Az alvilágnak nincs romantikája (albumverzió) – 4:23
 Rá se ránts! (bulista "llean" mix) – 3:59

Források
Sub Bass Monster - Nincs nő, nincs sírás (Discogs.com)

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package ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.config;

import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.binstore.IBinaryStorageSvc;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.binstore.MemoryBinaryStorageSvcImpl;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.config.r4.JpaR4Config;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.config.util.HapiEntityManagerFactoryUtil;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.model.dialect.HapiFhirH2Dialect;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.util.CircularQueueCaptureQueriesListener;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.util.CurrentThreadCaptureQueriesListener;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.interceptor.RequestValidatingInterceptor;
import ca.uhn.fhir.validation.ResultSeverityEnum;
import net.ttddyy.dsproxy.listener.SingleQueryCountHolder;
import net.ttddyy.dsproxy.listener.logging.SLF4JLogLevel;
import net.ttddyy.dsproxy.support.ProxyDataSourceBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource;
import org.hl7.fhir.common.hapi.validation.validator.FhirInstanceValidator;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
import org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean;

import javax.sql.DataSource;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;

@Configuration
@Import({
	JpaR4Config.class,
	HapiJpaConfig.class,
	TestJPAConfig.class,
	TestHibernateSearchAddInConfig.DefaultLuceneHeap.class
})
public class TestR4Config {

	private static final org.slf4j.Logger ourLog = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestR4Config.class);
	public static Integer ourMaxThreads;

	static {
		/*
		 * We use a randomized number of maximum threads in order to try
		 * and catch any potential deadlocks caused by database connection
		 * starvation
		 */
		if (ourMaxThreads == null) {
			ourMaxThreads = (int) (Math.random() * 6.0) + 3;

			if ("true".equals(System.getProperty("single_db_connection"))) {
				ourMaxThreads = 1;
			}
			if ("true".equals(System.getProperty("unlimited_db_connection"))) {
				ourMaxThreads = 100;
			}
		}
	}

	private Exception myLastStackTrace;

	@Bean
	public CircularQueueCaptureQueriesListener captureQueriesListener() {
		return new CircularQueueCaptureQueriesListener();
	}

	@Bean
	public DataSource dataSource() {
		BasicDataSource retVal = new BasicDataSource() {

			@Override
			public Connection getConnection() {
				ConnectionWrapper retVal;
				try {
					retVal = new ConnectionWrapper(super.getConnection());
				} catch (Exception e) {
					ourLog.error("Exceeded maximum wait for connection (" + ourMaxThreads + " max)", e);
					logGetConnectionStackTrace();
					fail("Exceeded maximum wait for connection (" + ourMaxThreads + " max): " + e);
					retVal = null;
				}

				try {
					throw new Exception();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					myLastStackTrace = e;
				}

				return retVal;
			}

			private void logGetConnectionStackTrace() {
				StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
				b.append("Last connection request stack trace:");
				for (StackTraceElement next : myLastStackTrace.getStackTrace()) {
					b.append("\n   ");
					b.append(next.getClassName());
					b.append(".");
					b.append(next.getMethodName());
					b.append("(");
					b.append(next.getFileName());
					b.append(":");
					b.append(next.getLineNumber());
					b.append(")");
				}
				ourLog.info(b.toString());
			}

		};

		retVal.setDriver(new org.h2.Driver());
		retVal.setUrl("jdbc:h2:mem:testdb_r4");
		retVal.setMaxWaitMillis(30000);
		retVal.setUsername("");
		retVal.setPassword("");
		retVal.setMaxTotal(ourMaxThreads);

		SLF4JLogLevel level = SLF4JLogLevel.INFO;
		DataSource dataSource = ProxyDataSourceBuilder
			.create(retVal)
//			.logQueryBySlf4j(level)
			.logSlowQueryBySlf4j(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS, level)
			.beforeQuery(new BlockLargeNumbersOfParamsListener())
			.beforeQuery(new MandatoryTransactionListener())
			.afterQuery(captureQueriesListener())
			.afterQuery(new CurrentThreadCaptureQueriesListener())
			.countQuery(singleQueryCountHolder())
			.afterMethod(captureQueriesListener())
			.build();

		return dataSource;
	}

	@Bean
	public SingleQueryCountHolder singleQueryCountHolder() {
		return new SingleQueryCountHolder();
	}

	@Bean
	public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory(ConfigurableListableBeanFactory theConfigurableListableBeanFactory, FhirContext theFhirContext) {
		LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean retVal = HapiEntityManagerFactoryUtil.newEntityManagerFactory(theConfigurableListableBeanFactory, theFhirContext);
		retVal.setPersistenceUnitName("PU_HapiFhirJpaR4");
		retVal.setDataSource(dataSource());
		retVal.setJpaProperties(jpaProperties());
		return retVal;
	}

	@Autowired
	TestHibernateSearchAddInConfig.IHibernateSearchConfigurer hibernateSearchConfigurer;

	private Properties jpaProperties() {
		Properties extraProperties = new Properties();
		extraProperties.put("hibernate.format_sql", "false");
		extraProperties.put("hibernate.show_sql", "false");
		extraProperties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
		extraProperties.put("hibernate.dialect", HapiFhirH2Dialect.class.getName());

		hibernateSearchConfigurer.apply(extraProperties);

		ourLog.info("jpaProperties: {}", extraProperties);

		return extraProperties;
	}

	/**
	 * Bean which validates incoming requests
	 */
	@Bean
	@Lazy
	public RequestValidatingInterceptor requestValidatingInterceptor(FhirInstanceValidator theFhirInstanceValidator) {
		RequestValidatingInterceptor requestValidator = new RequestValidatingInterceptor();
		requestValidator.setFailOnSeverity(ResultSeverityEnum.ERROR);
		requestValidator.setAddResponseHeaderOnSeverity(null);
		requestValidator.setAddResponseOutcomeHeaderOnSeverity(ResultSeverityEnum.INFORMATION);
		requestValidator.addValidatorModule(theFhirInstanceValidator);

		return requestValidator;
	}

	@Bean
	public IBinaryStorageSvc binaryStorage() {
		return new MemoryBinaryStorageSvcImpl();
	}

	public static int getMaxThreads() {
		return ourMaxThreads;
	}

}


I drive an ordinary "manual" car, but this advice will be useful when I get a new one. Thank you!
I also don't have a driving licence, but in the future I'm planning of getting it and buying a car. Which one would be the best for a newbie like me? Automatic transmission or manual?
It's easy to understand and more relaxing to drive.
I drive an automatic car and I think it's a must buy for anyone, both for newbies and advanced drives. :) It's easy to understand and more relaxing to drive.


I've studied Tibetan Buddhism in all the lineages, working initially with Kagyu and Nyingma teachers, and, in the last twenty years, with Bon teachers.
In 1991, at the year of Tibet celebrations in New York City, teachers from all the Tibetan lineages, including the Dalai Lama were present. There were also Bon teachers, which was my first exposure to them. Bon preceded Buddhism coming to Tibet and this is largely why Tibetan Buddhism looks so different from most other forms.
Being Jewish, and never abandoning that identity, and then incorporating other teachings, I cannot take the view that there is one right way. I try to be inclusive and take the value of all traditions, including Christianity and Islam. This way one sees that there are different emphases in different traditions.
What kind of Jewish life did you have as a child?
There was an important pro-Jewish imprint on me in my childhood. We identified with Jewish people as special in our hearts and the specialness of being Jewish. The heroes and people we talked about were nearly all Jewish—the artists, musicians, politicians or whatever, were Jewish ones. My parents were very involved with Israel and my father was a very active Zionist, chairman of a West Coast Zionist organization. There was an emphasis on the heroism of the Jews in the '48 and subsequent wars. David Ben Gurion, Abba Eban, and other prominent Israelis were all heroes.
Later on, I've come to see it was a filter or attitude in my psyche. Many of those things I'm still disengaging from to this day. Over time I have opened to a larger pantheon of heroes.
Dark Retreats are meditation retreats of varying lengths experienced in complete darkness. Martin has written in depth about his own experiences of Dark Retreat in his book, Dawning of Clear Light – A Western Approach to Tibetan Dark Retreat Meditation, Hampton Roads Publications, 2003, and also Writing in the Dark, Dedicated Life Publications, 2009.
Martin Lowenthal, Ph.D. is the founder and spiritual director of the Dedicated Life Institute. The Institute makes the essence teachings and practices of spiritual work available in a western idiom. It incorporates many types of practices including mindfulness, breath and energetic work, tantric and Vajrayana practices from the Tibetan Buddhist, Bon, and Dzogchen traditions as well as from Taoism and Kaballah.
Senior Mentor, meditation teacher, pastoral counselor and author of numerous books including Blessings of the Creative Buddha, Buddha and the Art of Intimacy, Alchemy of the Soul, Dawning of Clear Light, Embrace Yes, and co-author of the book Opening the Heart of Compassion.
He has developed many workshops, courses, and retreats designed to clarify and transmit key principles and practices of the great spiritual traditions. His work reflects ongoing study with Buddhist teachers since 1970, numerous retreats including many isolation and dark retreats, and decades of teaching and coaching students. Formerly a professor at Boston College for 11 years, and having taught for Harvard University, Dr. Lowenthal currently teaches throughout the United States and internationally.


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Q: Is there a gdb command to finish a loop construct? In gdb, I have the finish command to easily finish execution of a function frame, often when walking through code in the debugger, after looking at a few iterations of a loop, I'd like to finish the loop and continue walking after it.  Presently, I do this by setting a break point on the first line after the loop and continue, however, it would be really handy if there was a simple gdb command to have the same effect of this but not require a break point to be set and later cleared.
Is there anyway in gdb to finish execution of the current loop being executed?

A:
Is there a gdb command to finish a loop construct?

Execute until on the last line of the loop, or until NNN where NNN is the last line of the loop.
(gdb) help until
Execute until the program reaches a source line greater than the current
or a specified location (same args as break command) within the current frame.

not require a break point to be set and later cleared.

Temporary breakpoints automatically clear themselves:
(gdb) help tbreak
Set a temporary breakpoint.
Like "break" except the breakpoint is only temporary,
so it will be deleted when hit.  Equivalent to "break" followed
by using "enable delete" on the breakpoint number.

A: gdb doesn't know where a loop ends so it can't do that. I think the best you can do is use the advance command with a location after the loop.


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Left to right: Bronze (Current) Iron (Current) Bronze (Modified) I modified the current textures for the updated Illyrian helmet as I noticed that the quality of the current bronze variant was not on par with the iron variant.
@stanislas69 @Alexandermb Also, do we already have updated Thracian type helmets? I believe a large porting of Greek units and other Hellenized factions use it for most of their infantry.
Thoughts on painted (player color) Illyrian helmets?
I have been reading the materials that you guys sent. I found this particular comment to be interesting. Attached was an image of the Macedonian Iron corselet from the Royal Tombs of Vergina.
True. I believe in this crusade..
I was hoping that this would be implemented for the game. Thank you. What comes to my mind is a very old game (Sudden Strike 2) that has appealing terrain visuals crafted through terrain and decal interrelation.
We do not have a mesh yet. Alexandermb mentioned that he wanted to add variety to the new mesh.
I am concerned regarding their clothing, I was assuming that they wore clothing in the Carthaginian manner since these soldiers were often referred to as, Libyan-Phoenicians. But if they will be fashioned in the North African manner, it will be similar to how Numidian nobles were interpreted in Europa Barbarorum II.
What is the URL to the your Facebook fan page?
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Enrollment, Absences, Lack of Engagement Top Challenges During COVID
New Online Telescope for Educators Brings Space Exploration to the Classroom
Edanz Debuts Scientific Writing and Collaboration Tool for Non-Native Speakers
By Joshua Bolkan
The Edanz Group has launched a beta version of a scientific writing and collaboration tool designed specifically for non-native English speakers, Author Path.
Currently available in English and Chinese, the new tool offers guidance in manuscript writing and journal selection, as well as tools for inviting participation from collaborators. The company plans to integrate a submission engine and other tools designed to help users overcome common writing and publishing challenges for researchers. Features of Author Path include:
Project management;
Outline development;
Writing and editing tools;
Examples specific to individual academic fields; and
Language editing.
Author Path is an outgrowth of the company's Journal Selector tool, which helps academic writers find appropriate publishers for their work, and its experience providing services to researchers for whom English is not a first language.
"The thinking behind both tools was how could we apply technology to overcome the challenges faced by ESL (English as a second language) authors in publishing their research findings in an environment that favored native English speaking scientists," said Edanz Founder Kerry Greer, in a prepared statement.
Research by the company found that, while native English speakers spend approximately 90-95 hours preparing manuscripts for publishing, non-native speakers spend an average of 200 hours. Greer claims that non-native speakers using a guided writing process can whittle that time down to just 50 hours.
More information is available at author-path.com.
Joshua Bolkan is contributing editor for Campus Technology, THE Journal and STEAM Universe. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Q&A with Bruce Schneier
Expert says security benefits must be weighed against tradeoffs
July 7, 2008 — 4:03pm
Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, computer security specialist and founder and chief technology officer of BT Counterpane, lives in Minneapolis. He spoke with Jonathan Gaw.
Q When a company or government entity has a security proposal, how should they evaluate that? What sort of principles should they be looking for to determine whether this is going to be an effective security solution?
A First, you have to understand that security is a tradeoff. Whether you give money, or time, or convenience, or civil liberties, or American servicemen's lives, you give something and you get some security in return. There's no such thing as absolute security: It's a continuum and it's a tradeoff.
The next question to ask is, is it worth it? You have to go through a security tradeoff, tease out what the risks are, how good the countermeasures are, what the costs are, and then decide "Is it worth it?"
Pulling it apart can take an emotional debate and make it more rational because it forces you to stop and think and not just jump to a conclusion because you know it's right, but figure out why it might be right.
Q A lot of security proposals make a tradeoff between security and privacy. Is it worth it?
A If security and privacy were opposites, we would have all run to the former East Germany because it was such a secure place to live. It doesn't work that way. The real debate is liberty vs. control. When people are afraid, they just want to feel better, and measures that don't do any good but make you feel better, people are going to support.
Q That's "security theater," your term for things that make us feel secure, but not actually secure. Are there times when security theater works?
A Yes. After Sept. 11, if you flew, the National Guard troops were at the airport with uniforms and big-looking guns. Those guns had no bullets, which was probably for the best. A little bit of security theater helped people fly.
Q Is that the primary thing that we need to overcome and cope with, our personal fear?
A I think there's a lot of fear from Sept. 11 that turned into a lot of bad policy. We undid 30 years of protections against government abuse for some misguided efforts to protect us from terrorists. Terrorists are extremely rare. Where is a credible terrorist? We have not caught one. So either we're completely incompetent, which I don't think is true, or they're just not out there, which I think is much more realistic.
Q Some argue that the terrorists only have to be right once, but we have to be right 100 percent of the time.
A "We have to be right all the time" is fearmongering. If you need to be right every time, you live in a police state, you have no freedoms and no liberties, and you don't want to live there.
Q So the risk of terrorism you see is being vastly overblown?
A It is overblown.
Q Even if we had a Sept. 11 every five years?
A Let's do the numbers. In 2001, the big year for terrorism, 40,000 people died in car crashes, 3,000 in terrorism attacks. So even if we had a Sept. 11 every month, we still wouldn't get to car crashes. ... We certainly should spend money on security against terrorism, but it doesn't mean dismantling everything that makes your society great.
Q How would you rate airport security in the United States?
A There were two, maybe three things that improved airport security since Sept. 11. The first one is reinforce the cockpit door. The second one is condition passengers to fight back. The third one, maybe, is sky marshals. Everything else is security theater. ... It's this silly game of defending against what the terrorists did last week. Take away guns and bombs, so they use box cutters. You confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their shoes. We screen shoes; they use liquids. We take away liquids; they're going to do something else. This is a stupid game.
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mjt@mjthomaslaw.com
Municipal Tax Title & Municipal Finance Law Services
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Matt Thomas has been providing municipalities with representation in various areas of Municipal Law since 1994. Matt currently serves as one of the Town Counsel for the Town of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts where he is providing legal services to the Board of Assessors, and has provided legal services relative to the development of a bike path on a former rail line and other various real estate matters.
Matt has previously provided legal services to municipalities relative to agricultural preservation and the negotiation of Payment in Lieu of Tax Agreements concerning solar energy facilities.
Matt also previously served as Development Counsel for the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1998 to 2002. During that time Matt:
Participated in the development and supervised implementation of City of New Bedford's Strategic Brownfields Showcase Redevelopment Policies;
Was principal draftsman of the City of New Bedford's Environmental Assessment Law;
Served as Chairman of the Mayor's Intermodal Task Force and was principal draftsman of City of New Bedford's Intermodal Transportation Policy;
Was principal draftsman of the City of New Bedford Eligibility Credit Program and contributing draftsman of the City of New Bedford Harbor Master Plan.
Matt also served as City Solicitor of the City of New Bedford from 2002 through 2005. During that time Matt:
Was the principal draftsman of plan for redevelopment of the New Bedford Railyard and the restoration of freight rail service to the City of New Bedford;
Participated in the development and implementation of policies that led to federal designation of New Bedford as a Portfield Pilot;
Served as principal negotiator with the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers and Commonwealth of Massachusetts regarding implementation of the State Enhanced Remedy by which maintenance dredging is being performed in New Bedford Harbor;
Served as principal negotiator with the EPA regrading implementation of Superfund Cleanup of New Bedford Harbor;
Was principal draftsman of City of New Bedford Mill Overlay Zoning Ordinances pursuant to which vacant mill properties in New Bedford have been developed into loft style apartments.
Matt is a member of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association.
Matt presents at BCAA Spring Meeting
Matt Presents at MAAO Winter/Spring Confrence
Happy Holidays 2018!
For over 25 years, Matthew J. Thomas, Esq. has been practicing law in the Greater New Bedford area based on two simple principles:
First, that a lawyer should help his clients understand the law and how it applies to them; and
Second, that the residents and businesses in the Greater New Bedford Area should be able to receive the highest quality legal services and zealous representation at a reasonable cost.
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Sandyhills is an area of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde and has fallen within the Shettleston ward of Glasgow City Council since 2007.

The area is bordered by Shettleston to the west, Barrachnie (part of Baillieston) to the east, Mount Vernon to the south-east and Tollcross to the south-west; it is separated from Springboig to the north-west and Barlanark to the north-east by the North Clyde Line railway. A golf course bearing the Sandyhills name forms much of the southern boundary.

History
The pattern of urban growth in the area has led to an irregular tract of land being referred as Sandyhills today. It was originally a small settlement beside the Tollcross Burn, on the road (now the A89) east from the village of Shettleston in Lanarkshire, and took its name from the extensive country estate of the same name located to the south; both features are clearly marked as Sandyhills on William Roy's Military Map of Scotland (1755).

The wider area became known for mining in the 19th century, with two pits in the immediate area (part of the Mount Vernon Colliery) sited where Blackford Road and Crownhall Place are today. The coal was exhausted by the turn of the 20th century, but Sandyhills survived on the periphery of Shettleston, where several other industries became established leading to its growth in size and importance. Among the oldest buildings in the area are a set of row cottages and the adjacent tenement block containing the 'Gables' public house, and a terrace of sandstone houses on the opposite side of the road.

Railways provided links in and out of the area for workers and industry, with Mount Vernon North the closest station between the 1880s and the 1950s. Sandyhills Church is located in this area, with the original premises dating from 1900 replaced in the mid 1980s. Shettleston was one of several outlying areas which became part of Glasgow in 1912; however the older part of Sandyhills remained in Lanarkshire (along with Mount Vernon, Baillieston, Springboig, Carmyle, Fullarton and Foxley) and would remain in the Bothwell constituency until all were absorbed by Glasgow in a reorganisation under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

The southern part of the Sandyhills House estate (which was part of the 1912 transfer to Glasgow) had been converted to a golf course in 1905, and in the early 1930s a housing scheme was constructed on the north-west part of the estate, essentially being a continuation of the contemporary and near-identical 'garden suburb' development south of Shettleston Road which extended to Ardgay Street at the Tollcross Burn. Centred around Amulree Street, this suburban area has changed little since it was built and is where Sandyhills Bowling Club (1930) and Sandyhills Post Office are located. These streets are separated from the Tollcross district to the south by a recreation and parkland area, previously a quarry and the Glasgow Corporation's factory producing foamslag - a housebuilding material derived from steelworks slag (demolished 1981). This park's grass football pitch, used by several local teams, was subjected to vandalism on several occasions in the 2010s.

The city's need for new accommodation in less space accelerated after World War II, with the remainder of the Sandyhills House estate, including the mansion itself (dating from 1853), converted to housing using two vastly different approaches: 205 temporary and quickly-built prefab dwellings, and four 22-storey tower blocks containing 528 apartments, which upon their completion in 1968 became a landmark for the area. Since the demolition of the Derby Street flats at Hilltown, Dundee in 2013 and the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers and Red Road Flats in Glasgow two years later, the -high Sandyhills blocks in Balbeggie Street and Strowan Street have held a distinction as the tallest inhabitable buildings in Scotland eastwards of those in Springburn (Martello Court in Edinburgh is 2 metres shorter).

Nowadays managed by Glasgow Housing Association which oversaw a refurbishment and recladding in light blue in the late 2000s, soon followed by another reclad in white due to dampness problems which resulted, the towers far outlasted the prefabs which were replaced by a landscaped park at the base of the towers and some permanent houses closer to the older part of the neighbourhood on the main road.

From the late 1970s onward, much change happened to Sandyhills' low-rise housing stock as part of the wider GEAR (Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal) project.  Both the Glasgow Corporation-managed housing and the SSHA estate (known locally as the "steel estate" - owing to the buildings being constructed using the Atholl steel system) were substantially refurbished.  Properties were re-wired, re-plumbed and coal fires were replaced with gas central heating, and in the case of the steel estate - externally re-rendered.  In 1990, the site of the former "prefabs" at the foot of the Sandyhills House tower blocks was redeveloped with brand new social housing - these were among the last properties to be planned by the SSHA prior to its dissolution into Scottish Homes.

The Lizzy Lodge was a pub situated between the tower blocks and the golf course in an isolated late 19th century sandstone villa; the business was earmarked for closure in the late 2000s due to the economic downturn, with the building destroyed entirely a few years later.

The construction of the 'Farmington' private housing development north of the main road (on the site of Sandyhills Farm, and the path of the old railway line to North Mount Vernon which had since been removed) in the late 1980s was the most recent major stage in the growth of the area. In 2012, the police beat covering Farmington had one of the lowest crime rates in Glasgow.

Economy and transport

Although most local industry has long since ceased, there is still an industrial estate in the east of Shettleston (once a rope works), adjacent to a hypermarket (once an iron works specialising in machinery for the textile industry) which provide employment opportunities, along with many small businesses operating in that district and Tollcross; the largest building in the area by floor space is located towards Baillieston: a  storage and distribution facility, built on the site of an old chemical works which produced tar.

Sandyhills is also within commuting distance of central Glasgow via public transport - although the North Mount Vernon station and line have gone, there are four stations in different directions within a mile ( and  on the North Clyde Line, and  and  on the Whifflet Line). Shettleston Road and Tollcross Road are both bus corridors with frequent services towards the city centre via Parkhead.

There are four schools in close proximity to Sandyhills: Wellshot Primary and St Paul's Primary to the south-west towards Tollcross Park, Eastmuir School (for children with special educational needs) to the north at Barlanark, and Eastbank Primary on Shettleston Road, directly beside St Paul's RC Church (affiliated to the school of the same name). Wellshot, based in an imposing 1900s building that is something of a historic landmark in the area is a feeder for Eastbank Academy in Shettleston along with Eastbank Primary, while St Paul's is linked to St Andrew's Secondary.

See also
Glasgow tower blocks

References

Areas of Glasgow


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New Music: The CrossRhodes (Raheem DeVaughn & Wes Felton) – Footprints on the Moon
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New Music: Usher – Champions
Just recently, Usher announced that his new album "Hard II Love" is set to come out September 16th. He's also released the new single "Missin U" to go with it. Along with his own project, Usher is in the new…
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Just days after announcing a release date for his upcoming album, Usher gives us the newest single "Missin U". The new song, which is produced by Da Intern, mixes some current sounds with old school R&B. The new album, which…
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Singapore enlists grounded air crew for virus prevention service
07 April, 2020, 03:10 pm
Last modified: 07 April, 2020, 03:14 pm
As part of wide-ranging virus relief measures, Singapore is co-funding a large share of workers' wages in the hard-hit aviation sector
FILE PHOTO: Singapore Airlines planes are pictured on the tarmac at Changi Airport, Singapore March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
Pilot Jonathan Lau knows the importance of maintaining safe distance in the skies. Now he is dishing out that advice on the ground, making sure people stay apart to help curb coronavirus infections in Singapore.
Since starting unpaid leave from airline Jetstar Asia, which temporarily suspended flights last month because of travel bans, Lau spends his days handing out pamphlets and chatting with locals as a government virus awareness "ambassador".
Jetstar Asia, the Singapore-based unit of Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd, is one of several aviation companies that have teamed up with the government to help funnel temporarily idle workers into much-needed public roles.
"In our field we are seen as leaders," Lau said. "When we perform our roles as ambassadors, we can lead by educating the public about safe distancing."
To try to stem a sharp rise in cases, Singapore on Tuesday entered the first day of a monthlong partial lockdown. It has advised residents to stay home, not socialise and maintain a metre from one another if they have to go out for essential activities.
Staff from flag carrier Singapore Airlines and aviation services provider SATS Ltd are also being deployed into roles such as contact tracers and other administrative jobs in hospitals, according to local media reports.
As part of wide-ranging virus relief measures, Singapore is co-funding a large share of workers' wages in the hard-hit aviation sector.
Authorities said on Monday they would station some of these ambassadors along with enforcement officers in public housing estates to discourage people from hanging out in public spaces.
Cabin crew Aaron Yew and Jackie Kin, who have a combined flying experience of over 35 years, also immediately signed up when they received an email from Jetstar about alternate jobs. They have been teaching restaurants about measures to combat the disease.
"It's easy for us break the ice and to start talking to them. This is something we built over the years," Yew said.
Their new temporary roles come as airlines globally are dealing with unprecedented challenges, including salary cuts and job losses.
"At this difficult time if you are still being able to do a job, it's a relief," Yew said.
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Runoff from wildfire could damage many Pima County homes
Cañada del Oro Wash at Edwin Road on July 15, 2020 (Pima County)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Many Pima County homes and businesses could face flood damage in the wake of the latest large wildfire in the Tucson area, according to authorities.
The lightning-caused Bighorn Fire started June 5 and charred about 187 square miles in and near the Santa Catalina Mountains before it was fully contained on July 23.
The Arizona Daily Star reports close to 1,000 homes and businesses lying along a number of washes could be flooded during a 100-year storm. That's more than double the 431 landowners in those areas who got letters from the county in late June telling them their homes could be flooded during a big storm.
A county Regional Flood Control District hydrologist told the Star the risk to Tucson residents from monsoon flooding due to the wildfire could last up to five years because of the way the blaze altered the watershed.
It typically takes watersheds two to five years to recover from such severe burns.
County flood control officials used computer models to help calculate the risks to homes and businesses downhill of the fire.
They found 982 buildings facing flood risks including 834 in unincorporated areas of Pima County, 109 in Oro Valley, 38 in Tucson and one in Marana.
Monsoon storm breaks 103-day dry streak for the Valley
Rain returned to the Valley thanks to a monsoon storm on the afternoon of July 24.
NWS: Tornado reported in rural area near Kingman, Arizona
The National Weather Service has reported that a tornado has landed east of Kingman.
Flooding a danger during monsoon season for many Arizona residents
With rain and stormy weather on July 23, Arizona is officially in monsoon season, and fire officials say that can mean dangerous conditions for many Arizona residents.
Monsoon storm brought blowing dust, rain to parts of the Valley and flooding in Tucson
A storm on July 23 brought rain to a number of areas in the Northeast Valley and the West Valley.


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Q: invalid default value (mysql 5.7) for timestamp field EDIT:
When updating an existing database from mysql 5.6 and executing:
UPDATE phppos_register_log SET shift_end = '2015-01-01 00:00:00' WHERE shift_end = '0000-00-00 00:00:00';
This produces:
#1292 - Incorrect datetime value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00' for column 'shift_end' at row 1
#1067 - Invalid default value for 'shift_start'

This worked in mysql <=5.7. I couldn't find any documentation about this...What is the issue with this?
CREATE TABLE `phppos_register_log` (
      `register_log_id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
      `employee_id_open` int(10) NOT NULL,
      `employee_id_close` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
      `register_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
      `shift_start` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
      `shift_end` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
      `open_amount` decimal(23,10) NOT NULL,
      `close_amount` decimal(23,10) NOT NULL,
      `cash_sales_amount` decimal(23,10) NOT NULL,
      `total_cash_additions` decimal(23,10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.0000000000',
      `total_cash_subtractions` decimal(23,10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.0000000000',
      `notes` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
      `deleted` int(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
      PRIMARY KEY (`register_log_id`),
      KEY `phppos_register_log_ibfk_1` (`employee_id_open`),
      KEY `phppos_register_log_ibfk_2` (`register_id`),
      KEY `phppos_register_log_ibfk_3` (`employee_id_close`),
      CONSTRAINT `phppos_register_log_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`employee_id_open`) REFERENCES `phppos_employees` (`person_id`),
      CONSTRAINT `phppos_register_log_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`register_id`) REFERENCES `phppos_registers` (`register_id`),
      CONSTRAINT `phppos_register_log_ibfk_3` FOREIGN KEY (`employee_id_close`) REFERENCES `phppos_employees` (`person_id`)
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

A: since mysql 5.7, SQL_MODE default value is strict, please view this page:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9192027/invalid-default-value-for-create-date-timestamp-field


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Attaching Logs

SITE_NAME ping endpoints accept HTTP HEAD, GET and POST request methods.

When using HTTP POST, you can include an arbitrary payload in the request body.
If the request body looks like a UTF-8 string, SITE_NAME will log the
first 10 kilobytes (10 000 bytes) of the request body, so that you can inspect
it later.

Logging Command Output

In this example, we run certbot renew, capture its output (both the stdout
and stderr streams), and submit the captured output to SITE_NAME:

#!/bin/sh

m=$(/usr/bin/certbot renew 2>&1)
curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 --data-raw "$m" PING_URL

In Combination with the /fail and /{exit-status} Endpoints

We can extend the previous example and signal either success or failure
depending on the exit code:

#!/bin/sh

m=$(/usr/bin/certbot renew 2>&1)
curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 --data-raw "$m" PING_URL/$?

Using Runitor

Runitor is a third party utility that runs the
supplied command, captures its output and reports to SITE_NAME.
It also measures the execution time and retries HTTP requests on transient errors.
Best of all, the syntax is simple and clean:

runitor -uuid your-uuid-here -- /usr/bin/certbot renew

Handling More Than 10KB of Logs

While SITE_NAME can store a small amount of logs in a pinch, it is not specifically
designed for that. If you run into the issue of logs getting cut off, consider
the following options:

See if the logs can be made less verbose. For example, if you have a batch job
that outputs a line of text per item processed, perhaps it can output a summary with
the totals instead.

If the important content is usually at the end, submit the last 10KB instead
of the first. Here is an example that submits the last 10KB of dmesg output:

#!/bin/sh

m=$(dmesg | tail --bytes=10000)
curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 --data-raw "$m" PING_URL

Finally, if it is critical to capture the entire log output,
consider using a dedicated log aggregation service for capturing the logs.


I decided to create a TRF inspired Discord server. I imagine a few of you are gamers and may have accounts already. If not, it's a fun avenue to set up a text chat, video/voice chat, and host listening parties.
I thought this was going to be some kind of dark poetry thread, or a nihilistic cry for help, or the 5th part of a 10 part series on depression.
Sounds like a step up from the ol' TRF Rabb.it roundtable/listening nights. Have a PS4 now so I wonder if the gamer part of it is relevant to me.


The Crestview Police Department established a Police Chaplain Program in 2008. Currently, the program consists of five volunteer chaplains: The Revs. Mark Broadhead, Paul Mixon, Jr., Geoff Prows, Bob Smith and Harry Tomlin.
The Chaplain Program was created to provide spiritual guidance and non-therapeutic counseling to all members of the police department (both sworn and civilian staff) and their families in times of need. It is not intended that the chaplains replace an individual's personal spiritual advisor; however, because of their experience and special training, the chaplains have a fairly firm grasp of the challenges that most law enforcement members face. They are able to offer insights and assistance unique to law enforcement personnel.
The Crestview Police Department's chaplains strive to provide an ecumenical presence, spiritual guidance, non-therapeutic counseling, comfort in time of crisis, informational seminars, and parties in support of the law enforcement community. They are also occasionally called upon to lend assistance to victims of crime and tragedy in the community and often accompany and assist officers tasked with making death notifications, or aid persons of the community when a loved one dies unexpectedly.


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Environmental Philosophy For Kids
Posted on January 1, 2019 by Christine Crosby in Book Reviews, What Grandparents need to know
The Lorax – Teaching children philosophy
By Dr. Seuss, Random House
The Lorax has gone. But where did he go? The only things left are a sign in the road, and a sour smelling wind filled with nasty old crows. So where is the Lorax? Where did he go? The Once-ler can tell you, for only he knows. What happened here once in this place that's now rotten? For the Once-ler remembers, knows how bad things have gotten, and of a wonderful world that's now nearly forgotten. UNLESS… All hope is not lost, for the Once-ler indeed, has in his Lerkim just one special seed, and with hope and some love, and with you and with me, could take this small seed and bring the world back to speed?
Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion
By Jayme Johnson
Once-ler
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss is a light-hearted but cautionary tale with a critically important message. If we do not collectively take responsibility for the stewardship of the environment, then our own world will soon be like the one that the Lorax left behind. Left to the devices of greed-based business interests, the resources of our world are being consumed at an abominable rate. And soon, they will all be gone. So while the Once-ler did eventually see the error of his greedy ways, it was already close to too late for his world.
One underlying message contained within the Lorax that is a good source of philosophical discussion is the idea of the interconnectedness of the things that live in an ecosystem. The ecosystem within the story completely falls apart when just one thing is taken away. As more and more of the Truffula trees get cut down, the area becomes less and less capable of supporting the multitude of other species all relying on the trees, and each other. So by removing the trees, things go completely out of balance. From a philosophical perspective, interesting questions may raised about what it means for things to be interdependent like they are in an ecosystem.
Truffula trees
Viewed from one perspective, the different species in an ecosystem are like parts of a delicate, but efficiently functioning whole. But what is this thing called "an ecosystem" that other things are parts of? What is its nature as a sort of entity in itself? If one views the ecosystem as an independent entity, this raises all sorts of ethical question about what our social responsibilities are to our own ecosystem, and to the earth as one big interconnected ecosystem.
Answers to many of the questions about our social responsibility to the ecosystem seem currently to be driven by the notion of sustainability. In the Lorax it is not so much that the Once-ler has cut down a tree that upsets the Lorax, this just draws his attention. What initially upsets him is his discovery of the greedy intentions that the Once-ler has for the Fluff, and the realization that this greed would lead to disaster for his home. The idea of sustainability can be connected to the story when one raises the question of whether the Once-ler could have done things to keep the area healthy and able to continue flourishing. For example, had the Once-ler thought it through more carefully he would have realized that if he always replaced the trees that he took to harvest, there would always be enough trees both for him, and for the creatures dependent upon the tress for their survival. Again, important ethical questions can be raised here about what the Once-er's responsibility to his surrounding ecosystem was, and whether there may have been a sustainable way to co-exist with all of the other parts of the ecosystem, without disrupting the balance, and hence its ability to function.
So far the discussion has been geared to the idea of social responsibility, but we can also ask about what the nature of social responsibility itself is. Of particular importance is coming to an understanding about the relationship between this abstract idea of social responsibility, and the concrete responsibilities that we as individuals have both to each other, and to our ecosystem. As the problem is presented in the Lorax, the Once-ler's unchecked greed leads to resource depletion to the point of near extinction. So it is clear that the Once-ler has fallen short on his social responsibilities. But what could "we" have done to stop him? Did we have an obligation to prevent him from ruining things for everyone? It would seem so, but how, and who should stand up? Whose job is it to make sure "the Once-lers" out there in the real world are stopped? This problem is an example of the problem of collective action. We have a responsibility, but who are we? In the Lorax the implication is that we all have an individual responsibility to preserve the ecosystem. Hence, the last seed is handed to the narrator.
One final interesting philosophical topic that gets raised in the Lorax might be called the intrinsic value argument for environmental preservation. After realizing the mistakes he has made, and in his final address to the narrator (i.e. us), the Once-ler declares that while he once thought that Thneeds were what everybody needs it was actually Truffula Trees that everyone really needs. This weight of this declaration is carried by a tacitly made distinction in kinds of things we value. Some things we value because they provide us some kind of external good, which leads to some other good. For example, we earn money to get other things, not for the sake of the money itself. Other things we value for their own sake.
The joy of listening to a favorite song, for example, seems to be of value to us simply because of what it is, and not what it can get us. So some things, like money, we value because they have extrinsic worth, and other things, like happiness, we value for its intrinsic worth. The Once-ler's declaration that the trees are what everyone really needs can be read as a claim that the Trees have a value all of there own. Also, and perhaps more importantly, the bringing back of the trees is a means to restoring the balance to the ecosystem. Why should we value a balanced functioning ecosystem? The Once-ler's realization is that the ecosystem has intrinsic worth, and that a healthy, well-functioning ecosystem is a good in and of itself.
Questions for Philosophical Discussion
When the Lorax first appears to speak on behalf of the tress, the Once-ler claims he is doing no harm by cutting down Truffula Trees to make Thneeds.
Was it harmful when the Once-ler cut down the first tree? If so, who, or what did it harm?
What does it mean to do something harmful? How can you tell things that are harmful from things that are not? Is it harmful to cut down just one tree?
Why do the Lorax and the Once-ler disagree on this? Who do you agree with?
The Lorax claims that it was harmful for the Once-ler to cut down the tree. Are trees the kinds of things that can be harmed? Can anything not be harmed?
The Lorax tells the Once-ler that his idea for Thneeds makes him sound crazy with greed. What is greed? How can you tell if a person is greedy?
Is the Once-ler greedy? Why do you think so?
Is being greedy harmful? Is it ever not harmful to be greedy? Is the Once-ler's greediness harmful?
The Lorax also tries to speak for the Brown Bar-ba-loots, the Swomee Swans, and the Humming Fish. The Once-ler ignores the Lorax and continues quickly expanding his business, cutting down more and more trees at a faster and faster clip…
The Once-ler's business making and selling Thneeds is very successful. Is the Once-ler's success a good thing? Why or why not? What might make it good? What might make it bad?
Now that the Once-ler is cutting down lots of trees, is this harmful? Why is cutting down one tree ok, but cutting down many trees harmful?
What happens to the Brown Bar-ba-loots? Why does this happen? Did cutting down the trees harm the Bar-ba-loots?
Why does the Once-ler keep expanding his business after the Brown Bar-ba-loots leave? Why does the Once-ler think that everyone needs Thneeds? Is he right?
Why do the Swomee-Swans leave? How about the Humming Fish? What happened to their habitats? Why doesn't the Once-ler care about what is happening around him?
How are the problems for the Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans, and Humming Fish all related to the Once-ler cutting down Truffula Trees? Can the same thing happen in real life?
Why do you think the Once-ler keeps expanding more and more anyway? Is what the Once-ler doing morally wrong? Why? Is it morally wrong when these same things happen in real life?
When the Once-ler realizes what has happened, it seems like it is already too late
What happens to the Once-ler's factory once all the Truffula Trees are gone?
What is the world around the factory like? Describe the details. Is this a nice place to be?
Could the Once-ler have prevented this from happening?
Do you think that there could have been a way for the Once-ler to make Thneeds, without causing harm? Why or why not?
Do you think that if the Once-ler was not greedy, that he would have tried harder to be less harmful?
Once the Lorax leaves, and the Once-ler is alone, he discovers a message on a pile of small stones.
Why does the Lorax leave the word "UNLESS" on a pile of rocks? What does "unless" mean?
The Once-ler says that he didn't mean to cause the harm he caused. Does not meaning to cause harm make you less responsible? How do you take responsibility for the things you have harmed? # Do we ever have a responsibility to repair the harm someone else has caused? Why or why not?
Do you think that if we take the seed and follow the Once-ler's new advice that the Lorax and his friends will come back?
In the beginning of the story, the Once-ler claims that everyone needs Thneeds, but at the end he claims that what everyone really needs is Truffula trees. Why does he change his mind? What is different about the value of trees and the value of Thneeds? What makes trees more valuable?
When a pipeline threatened national forests, a federal court invoked Dr. Seuss
By Nicole Chavez, CNN December 16, 2018
(CNN) Forget about the Truffula trees. The Lorax is now saving real-life forests.
A panel of federal judges in Virginia cited the beloved Dr. Seuss character to block the construction of an underground gas pipeline that would cross two national forests and a portion of the Appalachian Trail.
"We trust the United States Forest Service to 'speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues,'" the panel's ruling states, citing Seuss' orange environmental ambassador.
The decision, issued last week by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, says the US Forest Service failed to preserve national forest resources when it authorized the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
The underground natural gas pipeline is being built by Dominion Energy, a Virginia power company, and would stretch 604.5 miles across West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.
The Forest Service initially had concerns because the developers would build through a total of 21 miles of Virginia's George Washington and Monongahela National Forests and a right of way across the Appalachian Trail but the agency ended up approving the permit.
In its ruling, the court says the decision was "particularly informed by the Forest Service's serious environmental concerns that were suddenly, and mysteriously, assuaged in time to meet a private pipeline company's deadlines."
The Southern Environmental Law Center, one of the groups that filed an appeal to stop the construction in the forests, said the Forest Service "failed to take a hard look at environmental impacts of the project."
"The George Washington National Forest, Monongahela National Forest and the Appalachian Trail are national treasures. The Administration was far too eager to trade them away for a pipeline conceived to deliver profit to its developers, not gas to consumers," said Patrick Hunter, the center's attorney. "This pipeline is unnecessary and asking fracked gas customers to pay developers to blast this boondoggle through our public lands only adds insult to injury."
"The Lorax," an environmental fable about the titular creature and his fight to save the exploited Truffula trees, was published in 1971.
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