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Extremists in UK Prisons Hold Their Own Sharia Trials
Published December 23rd, 2019 - 07:52 GMT
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In one account, he said a punishment beating was given to an inmate accused of disrespecting Islam by drinking alcohol.
Extremists in British prisons are holding their own Sharia trials, grooming young Muslim inmates and sharing banned books, it has been reported.
An ex-prisoner claimed he took part in punishment beatings and Sharia courts with a group of prisoners who pledged allegiance to Isis.
Last night security experts called for an urgent review into radicalisation in British jails.
The claims come after police watchdogs revealed they are to probe whether London Bridge killer Usman Khan should have been watched more closely after his release from jail.
Khan - who stabbed two people to death on a knife rampage - was freed halfway through his 16-year sentence for terrorism without the necessary Parole Board assessment of his threat to the public.
A former prisoner, who spoke to The Times, said he was recruited at HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, by a group which included a follower of the hate preacher Anjem Choudary and claimed that he had access to recordings of talks by the al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki.
The ex-prisoner, who is in his 20s and used the pseudonym Jack, said his former inmates have contacted him offering to help him travel to Syria.
The prisoner said he 'chose to leave that life' following his release. He sought spiritual help and remains a practicsing and peaceful Muslim.
Justice secretary Robert Buckland said the account was 'very concerning' but insisted that in the past four years 'a great deal of time, effort and investment has gone into bearing down on the malign effects of extremism behind bars'.
Professor Ian Acheson, who led a 2016 review of jail extremism, previously described Islamist extremism in jails as a 'growing problem' and outlined measures to counter it - which were met with resistance.
Prof Acheson said the prisoner's description of his experiences show prison and probation service 'is still not capable of managing a serious threat to our national security'.
He added: 'I'm disappointed that many of the recommendations I made in 2016 to robustly respond to this threat do not seem to have been adopted.
This implies a continuing serious failure of leadership and will to confront terrorism that I identified.
'I urge the government to return to these recommendations as a starting point to check on the reality of counter extremism capability. If the Prison Service is not equal to the task of managing this lethal and destructive risk it should be divested of that responsibility.'
This year there were reportedly 13,000 Muslim inmates in England and Wales, making up 16 per cent of the prison population - doubling from 8 per cent of prisoners in 2002.
Richard Walton, former head of Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command, said that Michael Gove's departure from the Ministry of Justice in 2016 had been 'extremely untimely'.
Mr Walton, a senior fellow at the Policy Exchange think tank, added: '[Mr Gove] was intent on fully implementing the Acheson review and addressing the problem of radicalisation in jails across the country.
'His successor [Liz Truss] did not treat this issue with the same urgency and appeared less keen on fully implementing the Acheson recommendations.
'The Ministry of Justice should now revisit the problem of prison radicalisation in light of the recent attack. A full, transparent review of prison radicalisation and the measures in place to address it is now needed.'
Mr Walton added: 'It is unsurprising that radicalisation continues to be a significant challenge, owing to the success in recent years of convicting high numbers of Islamist terrorists for plotting attacks in the UK and overseas.
'Regrettably, it is not uncommon for covert counterterrorism investigations to start within prisons - they provide a conducive environment for the most hardline convicted Islamists to plot and conspire.'
The Ministry of Justice was last night approached for comment.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
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Peruvian streetfood
In Lima, there is a true street food culture where food stands come out in the evenings to sell the most delicious street food. Nowadays, you find them all over Lima during the nights, but back in the days, the street stands were only found in unsafe areas with a lot of crime. The majority of Peruvian street food is Afro-Peruvian fusion. Being slaves, people were poor, and they did not have many ingredients, so they had to be very creative. For example, they marinated 'garbage' meat with herbs available. Street food is popular all over the country, but the street stand culture is most popular in Lima. Signature street food: anticuchos, arroz con leche, cassava croquets, picarones, sanguches, tamales and tequeños.
Top 7 of Peruvian street food
Street food is very popular and diverse in Peru. Different time slots during the day also mean different food stands. The following dishes are the most popular:
Anticuchos –grilled beef-heart skewers marinated in vinegar chilli and herbs and then grilled on coal grills. This dish goes back to the pre-Colombian era. During the colonial period in the 16th century, it evolved. The Spanish Conquistadores would slaughter cows and gave the offal, which they considered inferior and garbage, to their slaves. The slaves learned how to cook them, using different seasonings from the Spanish and the Andes region, transforming them into delicious morsels of meat. After the slaves were freed in 1874, they moved to the cities to start a new life, and the women started selling anticuchos in evenings on the streets. Today, everyone loves anticuchos. You can find them in anticucherias . Traditionally, anticuchos are made of beef-heart, you also can eat them with chicken, vegetarian or with squid. They are served with a boiled potato and bread.
Arroz con leche with Mazamorra Morada – Rice pudding with porridge made from the deep purple corn. Mazamorra Morada was my favourite dessert when I was a kid!
Papa rellena – potato croquet stuffed with meat, raisins, olives and a boiled egg. Also made of yuca or cassava.
Picarones – Peruvian doughnut made of sweet potato and squash that is deep-fried and served with chancaca (cane syrup). Traditionally, people eat picarones after eating anticuchos.
Sanguches – Sandwiches are very popular in Lima. The signature sandwiches are with sausages, pork rind, turkey, chicken, beef or vegetarian with avocado. They are served on round sandwiches with French fries, yuca, salsa criolla and a wide variety of (spicy) sauces. Salsa criolla is a cold relish, served with a lot of meat dishes, consisting of sliced onions, vinegar, tomato, red bell pepper, olive oil and cilantro.
Tamales – Steamed corn dumplings with meat, olives, chilli, topped with onions wrapped in a banana leaf.
Tequeños – Peruvian fresh cheese sticks. They originate from Venezuela but are very popular nowadays in Lima. In Peru, they use wonton dough, and are eaten with avocado.
Anticucherias
Anticuchos can be found on street food stalls, the anticucherias. In the evening the stalls come out, and the anticuchos are grilled on coal grills.
Cevicherias
Cevicherias are the equivalent of pizzeria's but then with only ceviches on the menu. In Peru, you mainly find them in the coastal area. Traditionally, most cevicherias are open for lunch, so the fish is being served right from the boat onto the plate.
Picanterias
A traditional lunch restaurant where you can eat soup and a small main dish chosen from a week menu. You can predominantly find them in and around Arequipa and Cuzco. These used to be places in the countryside where field workers had their lunch, sitting on large tables with benches. Arequipa is the place where you still can find some traditional rustic picanterias.
Examples of dishes served are: shrimp soup, stuffed chilli, potato cake, guinea pig.
Sangucheria
These sandwich shops are very popular in Lima, they sell all kinds of sandwiches, sodas and fresh juices. People come and eat the sandwiches in the evenings or at night after going out. The most well-known sangucheria in Peru is La Lucha in Lima.
Fusion cuisine
The magic of the Peruvian cuisine lies in its constant ability for change and creation. It is characterised by the mixture of cultural flavours and customs from abroad and from the Peruvian regions. Moreover, because of the biodiversity there is a wide variety of ingredients: the Pacific Ocean, the Andes and the Amazon offer a wide range of products and flavours.
Creole cuisine
Many Inca dishes still are cooked just like centuries years ago, good examples are carapulca and pachamanca.
During the Spanish conquest starting in 1521, many culinary techniques and ingredients were introduced, such as olives, grapes, dairy products, beef, chicken, and rice. They brought Arab and Moorish influences and they brought African slaves, of whom many worked in the cuisines of the noble and the wealthy. Over the years the African influence proved essential to Peruvian culture, particularly regarding music and cuisine. They created the most wonderful dishes from poor discarded ingredients. This was an additional step to the Creole cuisine as we know it nowadays. Examples of signature dishes are: Anticuchos, Tacu Tacu, Papa a la Huancaina, Causa and, Ají de Gallina.
Chifa cuisine
In 1849, the first Chinese immigrants from the Canton region arrived in Peru, mainly to work in cotton and sugar-cane plantations and mines. They conserved their cultural identity and traditions and when their contracts expired many moved to the capitol city, In Lima, this was the foundation of Chinatown. Because of a lack of ingredients, the Chinese immigrants were unable to prepare their cuisine in the authentic way. So they started preparing their familiar dishes using Peruvian ingredients. In Lima they opened small shops introducing frying techniques and new ingredients. such as kion (ginger) and soy sauce. This cuisine they called the Chifa cuisine, meaning "to eat rice" in Mandarin. Examples of signature dishes are chaufa (fried rice dishes), lomo saltado (a stir fry dish), tallarin (noodles made with egg) and wonton soups.
Nikkei cuisine
In 1899, the ship 'Sakura Maru' arrived in Callao with the first Japanese immigrants to work on Peru's coastal plantations. The work was quite heavy so they moved to Lima to create new living opportunities. By that time, the people of Lima looked down on fish and seafood. Meat was in their perception more sophisticated. Around 195o the Japanese immigrants had eradicated this prejudice. In their restaurants they served fine fish and seafood dishes that became very popular. A culinary revolution began as they brought their cooking techniques, such as a unique way of cutting fish. They used those in combination with local ingredients as they could not get hold on Japanese ingredients, creating for example tiradito out of ceviche. Peru is after Brasil the second largest country in the world with Japanese immigrants. In Brasil the Japanese could get hold of their ingredients, so there was no reason for the birth of a fusion kitchen. Nowadays, this fusion kitchen 'Nikkei' is very popular all over the world. The most famous Nikkei pioneer cook is Nobuyuki Matsuhisa. Early seventies he stayed in Peru for a couple of years to discover the Peruvian Creole and Nikkei cuisine, after which he opened his first Matsuhisa restaurant in Beverly Hills. The Nikkei signature dish is tiradito.
After independence in 1821, a wave of French and Italian immigrants arrived in Peru among which my Dodero family. It took my great-granddad 2 years by boat to get to Callao in Peru. Most of the immigrants by that time where rich young single men who were looking for adventure and business. They brought their cuisines and provided an additional twist to the culinary melting pot. Most of the culinary influences from Italy came from Genoa as most where from that area. Economic crisis that occurred in Italy and the Italians were attracted to Peru initially by the guano of the islands, and also because they saw that Peru was a stable country. Many original Italian dishes have been 'creolised'. Pesto noodles used to be based on basil, vegetables, and pine nuts. The Creole version adds spinach, broad beans and walnuts Examples of signature dishes are: pasta a la Genovese, minestrone soup, red noodles prepared with tomato sauce, pizza and panettone.
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Orphanage director Dorcas Mbambu distributes candy to Ebola orphans at the House of Compassion for Children in Need in Butembo, Democratic Republic of Congo. August 26, 2021. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Djiress Baloki
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BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sep 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Since Ebola killed her parents in 2019, Congolese teenager Patience has done various jobs to provide for her three younger siblings, from warehouse work to washing clothes for neighbours.
Her mother's dream was for all of the children finish school, but the oldest three had to drop out and find work after their parents died during the Democratic Republic of Congo's 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak - the country's deadliest on record.
"Since our parents died, we don't miss any opportunities to make money," 16-year-old Patience said in the eastern city of Butembo, the epicentre of the Ebola crisis that infected 3,470 people and killed nearly 2,300 before it ended in June 2020.
Patience's 14-year-old sister and 12-year-old brother are also child labourers who carry sand and sell leeks at the market to cover the school fees for their youngest sister, aged seven.
"We try to eat only at night," said Patience, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. She earns about 30,000 Congolese francs ($15) a month, which allows her to buy cassava flour to make the one meal the four siblings share each day.
About 2,770 children in eastern Congo lost one or both parents to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, the United Nations estimates, and have ended up living with relatives, in orphanages, or even on the streets.
Traumatised and shunned due to discrimination around the disease, many children must work in order to eat, according to local advocates, who said efforts to care for and educate Ebola orphans were falling short due to a lack of funds and interest.
An Ebola orphan girl loads sand into a basin with her little brother in Butembo, Democratic Republic of Congo. August 26, 2021. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Djiress Baloki
Zawadi Bisomeko - head of the Solidarity of Women's Associations for the Protection of Women and Children - said her charity had received money to set up play areas and help the most vulnerable orphans go to school, but demanded more be done.
"Funds have been limited ... without responding to the real needs of children who are suffering a lot," she said, adding that free education and counseling should be provided to all Ebola orphans, and training to teenagers to help them find work.
Patience said she had been called "the girl who lost her parents to Ebola" and rejected by friends, as charities and officials struggle to deal with the impact of such stigma.
"We have seen children wandering the streets because their aunts or uncles could not take them in due to fear," said Dibi Odile Mabanza, who is in charge of the gender, women, family, and children department of the Butembo town council.
"This is why most of them, despite their age, have become responsible for the household," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that hundreds of Ebola orphans in or around Butembo had been forced to work to eat and feed their siblings.
And as in many nations globally, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled a rise in child labour and hindered efforts to identify and help the most vulnerable children in Congo.
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At the House of Compassion for Children in Need - an orphanage in Butembo - its head Dorcas Mbambu said she cared for about a dozen Ebola orphans: some whose relatives could not be traced, others who were seen as disease carriers and abandoned.
"I consider these children as my own, I breastfed them with love, I gave them names," said the 49-year-old, herself an orphan who used to work as a nurse while running the orphanage.
Yet Mbambu said she was frustrated by a lack of support for the children affected by Ebola, and said the government should prioritise family reunification efforts and education for them.
"These children here are forgotten and abandoned by the government and charities," she added, saying that officials had not visited the orphanage to enquire about the Ebola orphans.
Asked about the provision of care for such orphans, social affairs officials in Butembo and its province of North Kivu said it was not their responsibility and referred questions to the nation's Ebola response team and U.N. children's fund (UNICEF).
The now-defunct response team could not be reached for comment, but its former head of communications - Damien Mumbere Luhavo - also referred questions to UNICEF.
UNICEF representative Medard Onobaiso said the agency had supported children affected by Ebola, with nurseries, nutrition for infants, and counseling, and managed to ensure most orphans were now living with extended family rather than in foster care.
Limited funding for local charities and a lack of government oversight had hindered sustained monitoring and care, he added.
"These partners ... if they don't have the funding, they slack off on follow-up in the community ... the government did not take ownership of these programs properly due to a lack of resources," said Onobaiso, UNICEF's chief field officer in Beni.
Orphanage director Dorcas Mbambu carries an orphan in her arms at the House of Compassion for Children in Need in Butembo, Democratic Republic of Congo. August 26, 2021. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Djiress Baloki
FAMILY RIFTS
For some families in Congo, taking in and caring for Ebola orphans has caused rifts and concerns over having enough to eat.
Francoise Masika, a mother of 10, took in seven nephews and nieces when her sister and brother-in-law died of Ebola in 2019.
"I had to take in these children - against my husband's will - because they are my blood and I couldn't leave them on the streets," the 38-year-old said.
Masika said she used to make some of the children help her do farming work in the conflict-hit Ituri province until attackers invaded the fields in 2020 and killed her neighbours.
Since then, Masika and her husband have been selling charcoal in Butembo to support their extended family, yet most of the children under her care have had to drop out of school.
"I can't even hope for the government to help me raise them because they don't know that they exist ... the state has forgotten there are children who have lost parents to Ebola."
One such child is 13-year-old Suzanne, who has been selling sugarcane in Butembo after school since January 2019 when her mother died of the disease.
Her father cannot care for her due to mental health issues while her relatives have refused to help because they believe - mistakenly - that she is receiving support from charities.
"If my mother was still alive, I would not be living the life I am living today," said Suzanne, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. She said she could only afford to eat one meal a day and felt like she had been abandoned.
"It hurts when I see my friends playing games and I can't (join) because I have to rush back (to sell) my goods in town."
This story is one in a series supported by UNICEF
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The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) raised its forecast last week for rig releases in Canada to 3,600 wells.
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Following the acquisition of Anegada Oil Corp., Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd. expects to spend $165 – $175 million for 2021, up from the previous estimate of $125 – $130 million.
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Paramount Resources Ltd. has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of its non-operated Birch asset in northeast British Columbia for total consideration of $77 million.
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Baytex Energy Corp. currently forecasts between $285 million and $315 million in exploration and development spending for full-year 2021, which is up 15 per cent from the previous guidance and reflects the company's stronger operational momentum and the strength in commodity prices, says management.
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Enerplus Increases Capital Spending Outlook
Following its asset acquisition in the Williston Basin announced this morning, Enerplus Corporation will increase its capital spending outlook for 2021.
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Despite Stronger Prices Holding Relatively Steady, Intermediate Producers Holding Course On 2021 Plans
Although commodity prices began improving in the latter half of 2020 and continued to hold relatively steady so far this year, the growth-versus-debt reduction plans of three western Canadian intermediate producers have not been altered, the 2021 Scotiabank-Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Energy Symposium heard Wednesday.
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Obsidian Plans $127-Million In Spending
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Crew Energy Inc. says it is the first Canadian energy producer to receive regulatory approval from the BC Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) for the installation and operation of a next-generation, spoolable surface pipeline for produced water transfer.
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Q: Android: Samsung Galaxy S II Navigation Bar being calculated I have an Android Samsung Galaxy S II device that I'm testing my app with.  In my app, I check whether the navigation bar is taking up any space on the screen using the following code:
Resources resources = context.getResources();
int resourceId = resources.getIdentifier("navigation_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
if (resourceId > 0) {
    return resources.getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
}
return 0;

I do this so I can set appropriate margins for other devices.  But for the Samsung Galaxy S II, the navigation bar is not actually on screen (there are a row of capacitive buttons below the screen).  However, when I calculate the navbarheight, I get a non-zero value (72).
Can someone explain to me why it is returning this value?

A: that's because the dimension resource navigation_bar_height exists regardless of device.
you have to check the device API level and if have hardware buttons using Build.VERSION.SDK_INT and hasPermanentMenuKey


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The following excerpts are from Dr. Larry Fisher's extensive 1988 interview with alto saxophonist and band leader Phil Woods [1931-2015] on the subject of Jazz saxophonist and composer-arranger Al Cohn [1925] who had just passed away that year.
It was conducted on the campus of East Stroudsburg University which is the home of the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection.
The full interview appears in the Summer/Fall 2020 issue of The Note Magazine and you can make a contribution in support of the Foundation that underwrites the magazine and the collection via this link.
Phil and Al are two of the universally recognized giants of the Jazz scene during the second half of the 20th century. In Phil's case, his contributions continued until his death in 2015. There's nothing like a Jazz musician who knows what he's talking about when it comes to describing what makes a cohort's approach to the music significant and special.
© - Dr. Larry Fisher/esu.edu, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
"LF: What can you tell me about Al's personality?
PW: Funny, funny, funny guy.
LF: Do you have any favorite stories about him?
PW: Well I have one I just heard. Somebody asked him if he played "Giant Steps" and he said, "yes but I use my own changes." If you're a musician and know "Giant Steps" it's god damn hysterical. A favorite one I like is: supposedly he was watching a baseball game in a bar and somebody said, "what's the score Al?" He said, "ten to one" and somebody said, "who's winning?" and Al said, "ten!" Ah, the famous one is when he was in Scandinavia. They have a beer in Denmark and it's very strong. A couple of those will knock your socks off. It's called Elephant Beer, and somebody said, "Al have you tried the Elephant Beer?" Al said, "No, I drink to forget!" I mean he was so fast.
LF: I find that many musicians that have great improvising skills with their horns are also very quick with their wit.
PW: You'd be surprised some of them don't have a sense of humor, but most of them do. Zoot was also very witty and very quick and very dry. Zoot was drier than Al. Al was always into jokes, I mean he always had a joke. But not so much after Zoot died. I remember Al said to me one time, "life isn't so funny any more," and I knew what he meant. But that didn't stop him from telling jokes.
LF: Do you think that those recordings he made with Zoot will be remembered more than any others?
PW: Oh yeah. "From A to Z" and those albums for anybody that knows their stuff. You're darn tootin. Or stuff that he did later, especially like the solo stuff he did with just Jimmy Rowles and Al playing. That's a beautiful album. Just the two of them playing for some of that. And that's the real salon chamber of music. There is nothing quite as good as those two guys together (Al and Zoot).
LF: What musicians do you think influenced Al more than anyone else?
PW: Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Louie Armstrong for sure. Not necessarily in that order. Also Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins, Prez, I think, would be the key, but not the sole influence. Al listened to everybody. Towards the end, a lot of Duke. He was really into Duke.
LF: Historians like to put labels on players. Would you say Al's style was more Swing or Be-Bop? How would you describe it?
PW: Oh he was Swing. He was close to, I mean just a little before Bop. It was a very modern Swing. He was right between Lester Young and Charlie Parker in which he utilized the best of the elements that fit for him. You've got to remember that Al had consummate harmonic sense. He was a fine pianist. He was very sophisticated. One of his songs, "Tain't NoUse," uses the beginning of Petrushka or was it Firebird? I forget, maybe I got my Stravinsky wrong but it's nice chromatic harmony. A direct quote from Stravinsky. He was extremely erudite in his approach to all the music. I think he went with a Lester Young swing but he adapted quickly to the new harmony in the extended altered chords. It was no big deal to Al to think that way, but as a musician he knew how to play changes, man.
LF: What made Al and Zoot's recordings so special to everyone?
PW: Oh because they were just so special. It was just a wonderful tandem team. They both had similar roots. Al perhaps had a stronger harmonic root, Zoot perhaps a stronger swinging root. Put them together and you had the best music possible improvised at that moment.
LF: Do you think they expressed their different personalities in their playing?
PW: I think everybody has a different personality. Al had his harmonic sophistication and Zoot his rhythmic sophistication. They both played hip changes and they both swung, but Al could play the piano and knew more about chords. Zoot had more of an instinctive rhythmical sense.
LF: Do you think their sense of humor came out in their playing?
PW: Well I roomed with both of them. They were both extremely funny.
LF: How would you show humor in playing?
PW: Any number of ways, by obscure quotes you would do on your horn which they would do sometimes accidentally. I remember on one New Year's Eve broadcast from the Half Note Zoot, instead of going into "Auld Lang Syne" went into "Happy Birthday" I was on tour with Zoot in Russia. I mean rooming with Zoot in Russia is truly amazing. Everybody said your rooms are going to be bugged and I looked at Zoot and I said they won't know what the hell we're talking about anyway.
LF: Many musicians have played the tenor saxophone. In your opinion is there anything specific that is unique about Al's playing or his approach to the instrument?
PW: Yeah, it was Al Cohn. Words can't describe it, his musical sound speaks for itself. The most important part of course is that all the great players have a distinctive sound. When you heard a tenor sax you simply said, "that's Al, that's Zoot, that's Lester, that's Ben Webster," that's what comes first. All of the swing and the harmony and all that comes later. First you got to have a distinctive sound otherwise it sounds like cookie cutter jazz like so many of the younger players. I mean they all sound the same. They use the same mouthpiece, the same reed, the same set up. Al had a sound, a distinctive sound.
LF: A beautiful, rich sound.
PW: Big, and when he got his new false teeth towards the end he was getting louder and higher. And he was practicing more and more. Steve Gilmore, my bass player lived close to Al. Al went out and bought a four-wheel drive with a little snow plow in front and he'd go over and he'd plow Steve out but he'd have his tenor in the back. And in return Steve would have to play like, "All The Things You Are" in the key of E. I mean when Al wanted to practice, he'd go by Steve's house and he'd play stanzas but he'd play them in any key possible. A Major, five sharps, 10 sharps, 15 sharps, whatever. That, to him, was working out. I guarantee it. That's no mean feat. But Gilmore told me that which I think is very interesting: "He would plow you out but you had to play in E with him!"
LF: Al was not as well known as Zoot Sims or some of the other tenor saxophonists of that time. Why?
PW: Perhaps because Zoot toured more. Zoot toured a lot for Norman Grantz and had a lot more exposure. He did more records under his
own name.
LF: You said before that Al didn't really tour that much was that because he liked to write more?
PW: Al wrote. Al liked to write. It wasn't a matter of writing but it was just a quicker way to make a buck. It was good money and he had a family to raise and all other responsibilities for a young family man and this kept him in New York and he was a New York guy. I mean who wants to go off on a bus when you have the best of both worlds: write all day and play all night which is a lot of time what he actually did."
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Cuomo budget offers 'stable' pension option
By JOAN GRALLA joan.gralla@newsday.com Updated January 22, 2013 10:23 PM
New York State municipalities could save money over the short term with lower pension contributions for a number of years under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's new budget plan, but the amount they kick in would have to increase in later years to make up for any shortfall.
To put a brake on soaring pension contributions, Cuomo would offer cash-poor counties, cities, towns and school districts the option of locking in a set pension contribution for a set period, sparing them from the volatility they now endure when the pension funds' investment returns outperform or underperform.
"These stable rate pension contributions will dramatically reduce near-term payments for employers, but will require higher than normal contributions in the latter years," Cuomo said in his budget plan.
The governor also proposed a way for fiscally distressed municipalities and schools to limit arbitrators from awarding public employees pay packages worth more than 2 percent of a contract if one of two conditions were met: their average full value property tax rate topped $6.57 per $1,000 or their reserves were below 5 percent of the general fund, according to budget documents.
Under this provision, Suffolk and Rockland counties would fall under this cap on arbitrators' awards, but Westchester, Putnam and Nassau counties would not, according to the Cuomo administration's analysis.
Cuomo said arbitrators need clear guidelines; they are now only required to consider a municipality's ability to pay, which is not defined. And "there is no piggy bank in Albany," he said.
Many municipalities and school districts around the state are struggling to pay their bills, for everything from infrastructure to payrolls, because of the slow economic recovery and the property tax cap that began in 2011.
Under the governor's new "stable" pension contribution option, rates in the new fiscal year that starts on April 1 would be 12 percent for the New York State Employees' Retirement System versus an expected 20.9 percent; 12.5 percent for the Teachers' Retirement System versus an expected 16.5 percent; and 18.5 percent versus an expected 28.9 percent for the Police and Fire Retirement System.
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Cuomo said his pension proposal was "fiscally neutral" for the state's retirement funds.
New York's approximately $150 billion pension funds for civil service and police and fire employees are about 90 percent funded, one of the nation's strongest.
Still, the Sunshine Review, a nonprofit group that advocates for state and local government transparency, said New York's "rapidly growing pensions costs are one of the most expensive mandates for local governments."
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Q: Where is my xfce in ubuntu11.10 I recently(now) installed xfce in ubuntu 11.10. I used:
sudo apt-get install xfce4

It downloads 22mb approx. files. Then i restarted my pc, it asked my password. I didn't type my password. I closed this window (I thought it may be a virus/hack).
After restart, there is no xfce. Again I tried:
sudo apt-get install xfce4

But no use. It says xfce4 with latest. installed already.
What do I need to do now?

A: *

*Log out

*Click on menu in display manager (a small star near username at login screen)

*Select XFCE

*Login

*Enjoy


Coming to a recent Cyberoam conference on Internet security, cyber security expert Raj Goel was able to approach compliance issues from two directions.
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A world-recognized expert on Internet security and how to secure online systems, Mr. Goel was invited to the Cyberoam conference because of his dual role in such systems.
"As a managed service provider, we provide and advise on security and technology issues. I am in the same shoes you wear. At the same time, I am a compliance expert and I know what it takes to secure a system and how to secure that system," he said.
The biggest issue, according to the media these days, is financial security. How can companies keep their records secure and away from hackers. Mr. Goel said this is indeed important, but an equal threat is out there and is not receiving nearly the same amount of attention. This threat also exposes companies to a lot more damage than just theft of credit card information.
"I am privileged to have spoken at both the Datto Partner Conference as well as the Cyberoam Partner conference, and I look forward to educating at other vendor conferences as well. MSPs cannot deliver effective security without our vendor partners, and I am heartened to see the investment Datto, Continuum and Cyberoam make in the MSP community".
Mr. Goel is available to speak worldwide Internet security conferences. He also moderates panel discussions and is available for media interviews on Internet security issues and security compliance.


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Nothing is as it first seems in this new collection of ten thrilling tales from author Max Florschutz. Magic intertwines with the ordinary in five new stories set in the Unusual universe, while in the world of Indrim steam and high fantasy intersect. Elsewhere, men struggle against the el Alaskan adventures. Haunted Hospitals. Something lurking under the kitchen ... stove?
Nothing is as it first seems in this new collection of ten thrilling tales from author Max Florschutz. Magic intertwines with the ordinary in five new stories set in the Unusual universe, while in the world of Indrim steam and high fantasy intersect. Elsewhere, men struggle against the elements in the last frontier, a reporter delves deep into the mysteries surrounding her city's heroic figure, and a young man heads off to war for his people.
Ten fantastic tales of wonder and excitement. It's nothing ordinary.
Flash Point: Life is tricky when you're a high school student. Doubly so when magic may be involved.
Monthly Retreat: Life changing events follow Alma in the wake of her trip to South America.
Kitchen Creature: Something's lurking under the kitchen ... Stove? Two college students square off against their new, Unusual, occupant.
The Graveyard: Come to Hawaii, take a break, tour the graveyards?
A Miner Haunting: In light of Jacob Rocke's latest adventure, he ends up in a hospital, sharing a room with a very unexpected—and dead—individual.
Ripper: Wrapped in the steam-fueled mists of the Empire's capital city, a serial killer moves against her next target.
Vacation: Come see Alaska! Get up close and personal with its myriad wildlife. Very close.
Workday: A young teen is dropped blind into a new summer job as a deckhand on a halibut boat.
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I had the opportunity to first get an early look at this wonderful collection a little while ago, and am overjoyed to see it coming out now in a few short days.
The couple Unusual stories in this collection continue to flesh out and explore the wonderful universe of Max's previous two published books, and left me wanting to dive even deeper into that universe. In addition to the Unusuals Max's first foray into the genre of the super hero is a great romp with wonderful twists and turns that manage I had the opportunity to first get an early look at this wonderful collection a little while ago, and am overjoyed to see it coming out now in a few short days.
The couple Unusual stories in this collection continue to flesh out and explore the wonderful universe of Max's previous two published books, and left me wanting to dive even deeper into that universe. In addition to the Unusuals Max's first foray into the genre of the super hero is a great romp with wonderful twists and turns that manages to stay fresh within a time old genre in a way I can't remember feeling since I first saw The Incredibles.
A nice assortment of stories with some being set in the author's "Unusual" universe. The one really dark story is interestingly dark. And there are some good slice of life stories in there, too. Not spoiling anything but, in one story, two men are treed by a bear. :) I'd read more from this author.
Max Florschutz was born and raised in the wilds of southeast Alaska, on a little island that boasted both a large, lumber-based economy and one of the highest rainfalls to ever not be desired by humanity. In 2004 he began attending college at Brigham Young University Provo, taking a two-year break to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Upon his return, he continued Max Florschutz was born and raised in the wilds of southeast Alaska, on a little island that boasted both a large, lumber-based economy and one of the highest rainfalls to ever not be desired by humanity. In 2004 he began attending college at Brigham Young University Provo, taking a two-year break to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Upon his return, he continued to attend BYU Provo and began to delve heavily into English courses (among other things), including creative writing classes taught by authors such as Brandon Sanderson. Transferring out to BYU Hawaii to keep a promise, Max finished his degree, graduating in 2011 with more credits than most students would know what to do with and a 3.96 GPA.


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Geografia
Italia
 Vercelli – città del Piemonte
 Borgo Vercelli – comune della provincia di Vercelli

Persone
 Albino di Vercelli – vescovo cattolico e santo italiano
 Claudio Vercelli – storico italiano
 Eusebio di Vercelli – vescovo cattolico e santo italiano
 Francesco Vercelli – idrografo italiano
 Gino Vercelli – fumettista italiano
 Guglielmo da Vercelli – abate e santo italiano
 Leone di Vercelli – vescovo italiano
 Limenio di Vercelli – vescovo e santo italiano
 Luigi Vercelli – calciatore italiano

Altro
 Vercelli – cognome italiano
 Arcidiocesi di Vercelli
 Circondario di Vercelli
 Libro di Vercelli
 Provincia di Vercelli

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Main page » Products » Terminal » Increased security of data
Increased security of data in a Terminal application.
An application using DBF files.
Assuming that we use a shared file server for DBF storage, the following data damage happen the most often in the traditional architecture:
1. Inserting nonsense information (a random byte sequence) to a data table or an index. The reason for this may be a damaged workstation, a network card, switching on or off of the station while sending a message.
2. A disturbance of the DBF files consistency with the associated indexes. The reason - a connection break up between an application and a file server after the modification of DBF file and before updating all indexes. A connection break up usually stems from a network damage or disconnecting a workstation or a server form the network or from a damage or switching off of the station.
3. A disturbance of the logical consistency of data. Assuming that the program is written correctly, the consistency disturbance may be the result of a sudden abortion of a running program, which makes the ending of logically related operations impossible (a code part, which realizes dependent changes in data). A sudden abortion of a running program is usually a consequence of a connection abortion between an application and a file server ( the reasons like in point 2).
With the terminal work, the damage of type 1 cannot occur, as the application is not executed physically on a workstation but in DOS window of Windows NT system. Possible problems with a workstation will cause a terminal disconnection, or in the worst case, a distortion of the picture shown on a terminal.
Terminal software has been structured in such a way that executing an application cannot be stopped while the indexes are being updated, which eliminates the possibility of a consistency disturbance of indexes and DBF databases, even when a terminal is suddenly disconnected.
Because of the fact that with the work in terminal architecture data (DBF,NTX) and an application are on the same computer, a connection abortion between an application and the data is practically impossible on a working server. There is one issue left - a connection between an application and a terminal. By default, an application working in terminal mode ends its activity when it finds out that a connection with a terminal has been aborted. It may cause a disturbance of the logical consistency of data. In order to avoid such a possibility, a mechanism of "terminal transactions" has been introduced.
Using additional functions of Terminal package, a programmer can mark in xBase program code fragments which cannot be aborted (Listing 1). If a connection between a terminal and an application is aborted at the moment when the application is in the terminal transaction mode, the fact that there happened a disconnection will be ignored until the end of the transaction. The terminal transaction guarantees a complete execution of a marked application fragment. Correct inserting of terminal transactions to an application eliminates a possibility that a disturbance of the logical consistency of data may occur. Working in terminal architecture and using terminal transactions you can achieve a system stability and the level of data security normally unavailable in traditional installations with a file server.
The transmission between terminals and applications can be encrypted in order to keep the confidentiality of the sent information.
An application using SQL server via Mediator.
Here, apart from terminal transactions, we have access to the database transactions and to all the security mechanisms of SQL database. The level of protection is not worse than in applications written in modern SQL tools.


The wind is starting to come down a little bit and the sailors can now hope to get dry a bit. It has been very wet and quite cold for us in the last two days and many had troubles to sleep in this four to five meters waves.
We are now entering a stationary high pressure area and we can expect to slow down a lot. At least we will have dry feet and be able to work on the boat a bit.
Tell tramp his fleet is ready to sail from port.
Hope to see you all in Amsterdam.


Often at Tyro, we've thrown a tester into a team with developers with little structure. The testers and their teams are encouraged to make their own process. I'm tempted to call this free range testing (hence the title of the blog), it's like letting the tester roam free to see what happens.
We acknowledge that there are no best practices, testers use the context of their team and their risk radars to drive their testing efforts. Testers have different interests, skills and risk radars and this feeds into their unique way of testing. We also acknowledge that testing is a team effort, the tester is a positive influence in their teams testing approach/culture.
This was also stressful, my first 3 months felt like I was drowning and many testers sympathise with this feeling. There is the information overload of working in a new company, often a new industry for most new testers and there is also the stress of trying to figure out how to add value to the team/company. The lack of structure compounds the "sink or swim" feeling. Around this time, I was struggling with a nerve injury and a relapse of depression.
We've tried different approaches to ease that stress, some testers may spend a week or two getting familiar with the context of Tyro before being dropped into a team, we now mimic part of the Developers on boarding process too. I've recently been pairing for a few half day sessions with a new tester to help them get on board; to help navigate the language, tech and business context. I also get to expose this new tester to my attempts at influencing the testing approach within my team. fresh meat, mwuhahaha.
We have moved from having the test team being outside the engineering practice, isolated and a gatekeeper to being embedded within the engineering practice; where the tester is the champion of testing for their team. We couldn't have done this change without Anne-Marie.
enthusiastically supports, defends or fights for a person, belief, right or principle.
Each tester is a champion of testing by becoming a champion for testing. By the value of work that is undertaken and the value added to their delivery team, a tester can very quickly increase their credibility. As an oft-times lone tester amongst developers, the credibility card should not be underestimated nor discounted. Increasing credibility and value can help a tester champion (that is to say enthusiastically support, defend or fight) the idea that testing is important and vital to modern software development.
"… a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual tester to continually optimise the value of her work by treating test-related learning, test design, test execution, and test result interpretation as mutually supportive activities that run in parallel throughout the project." (Kaner, 2006).
At Tyro, the encouragement is for testers use their personal freedom to continually optimise the value of her work or in other words, become context driven. The context allows the tester to optimise their approach to testing in both an individual sense (for example exploratory testing, using scripts, tools, test cases, scenarios or whatever may be useful) and in a team sense (for example test strategies, processes, developer tests, team quality and so forth). By so doing, the Tyro tester champions testing by the valued added work that they do.
In a larger sense, a Tyro tester is also encouraged to contribute amongst the tribe(s) and Engineering as a whole. This may be achieved by the work done in different guilds or being involved in different initiatives. A tester may also deliver compelling tech talks which in turn help increase their standing within the engineering community. This helps fuel a testers sphere of influence and thereby championing testing.
Sometimes though a tester may need to be more forthright in their approach with the team by advocating for quality or taking lead in different initiatives. A example of this was the Java de-serialisation issue whereby Marina (as a member of the security cabal) and working alongside developers, took the lead in making sure that the various team areas this issue touched was tested by the appropriate tester. In this sense, the test team championed testing together with the work by the developers and helped provide a Tyro solution.
So why would this be considered championing testing? Unlike some places, Tyro gives people the opportunity to really use the skills that they have acquired and to be able to use them in a way helps the engineering aspects of Tyro to grow. Most often, Tyro will turn a typical corporate blame game sessions into meaningful and value learning sessions and this, alongside, the test work performed by testers, makes for a wonderful opportunity to showcase (or in other words champion) the value a tester can bring to a Tyro world that is predominately developer focused. Thanks to this and the guidance given at a test practice level, champions of testing is encouraged and ultimately allows a Tyro tester to produce their, valued approached to their team (aka free range testing).
In this regard, it has to be acknowledged that champions also included senior management who encouraged and led the idea that testing is absolute to helping good development to flourish. With the drive and encouragement from the top, Tyro has a culture of advocating quality and of the tester producing the best work that they can.
In most companies that I've worked in (well, the larger ones anyway), there has often been a marked dependency on formality and ceremony. In one large 200+ tester shop, the formality that was determined by the development model, the high degree of separation from developers and over reliance on a large, expensive test management tool (as well as leadership from a mostly non-test, very conservative senior management group) meant that formality was the valued 'value' for that testing practice. Along with the formality, the ceremony required to either elicit requirements (as in elicit the requirements NOT stated in the functional specifications or test the words that were written) or present the screeds of artifacts that had to be producedto satisfy the development model, often meant that testers were relegated to writing and template filling as opposed to actual testing. I saw first hand the efforts put into creating documents outweighing the efforts put into actual test activity. As one of two senior managers who had relevant testing experience, the ability to make significant changes was hampered by the culture of the environment.
When i compare this with the culture at Tyro, it is like comparing night and day. The testing culture within Tyro lends itself the other way – towards freedom and responsibility. Now that is not to say that its chaos – from it. A culture of freedom and responsibility still requires guidance, process, frameworks if you will. The greater the freedom someone has, the greater the discipline that is required. This is essential in the current testing climate at Tyro whereby the testers have the freedom to determine the best approach to testing that will add value to their teams. Thankfully, we are not bound by some archaic, test management tool driven process but rather by what approach will best suit. In this regard, it was absolutely vital that the overarching culture allowed this happen otherwise great testers may not have had the opportunity to flourish.
Tyro has a culture of trust. I imagine this is one of those things that is easy to say but hard to live. There is no one asking me to justify my work. It's up to me to create my own testing process with my team. Each tester has to come up with their own testing process. This can be stressful because it feels like no one is providing any guidelines or approach. The lack of formal structure is nerve wracking because that structure in a previous context use to be a comfort. That structure helped me to understand where I stood. I had to figure that out on my own at Tyro. We trust everyone to make their best effort with the information they had at hand, we don't blame people when things go wrong but everyone does jump on board when trying to fix something.
Tyro is a unique environment. It is a disruptor in the marketplace and it is an innovator on the testing front. Whilst most banks favour, formality, and heavy weight process and artifact based testing, Tyro aims to produce the best work available through activity. Working alongside developers, questioning the product, looking for leanness and efficiency, adding value and bringing a context driven approach to testing. It has not been an easy road. It has taken alot of encouragement (via coaching) to produce good testers (and in some cases, outstanding testers) with the courage to create, innovate and articulate their own methods.


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Whatever Happened To lonelygirl15?
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Something tells me you'll forgive me for breaking in here. But hey, campsite rules, right?
Did you think that because they were quiet this was over? Isn't that when you're supposed to worry, when the guys in suits and symbols disappear all at once? They didn't go anywhere, kids. You did. The world doesn't just freeze when you close your eyes.
I know, you've got a lot of questions. Questions deserve answers. It's the only thing that satisfies them and I have many. But are you here, or am I talking to myself? I guess you could say I'm the lonely girl, now.
Sorry. Bad joke.
But if I'm going to stick my neck out, I have to know that it's worth it. That you're here, that you're still resisting. That you're ready to fight and put it all on the line. Maybe then we might see more of each other.
And if you do show up, I promise, soon enough, we'll have plenty to talk about. But for now... this should keep you occupied.
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XIAOMI MI 8 YOUTH RELEASED IN NEPAL!
Xiaomi Mi 8 Youth was launched in Nepal on 25th September 2018. It was an awaiting smartphone for the Xiaomi users. Xiaomi is now a well-known Chinese Mobile brands in the world and owned a reputation in a small period of time. This phone comes with an Android 8.1 ( Oreo ) operating system. It comes with a dual sim ( GSM and GSM ). It is powered by Octa-Core ( 2×2.2 GHz 360 Gold and 6×1.7 GHz kryo 360 Silver). This phone was considered to be one of the most awaited phones in the Nepalese market. The price of this phone is estimated to be around Rs.30,000 ($293).
Xiaomi MI 8 Youth weighs about 169 grams and 7.5mm of thickness. The phone comes with 6.26 ( 15.9 cm ) touchscreen display and a screen resolution of 1080 x 2280 pixels. Xiaomi nowadays has been producing iPhone X lookalike design smartphones such as MI 8, MI 8 SE and Xiaomi MI mix 2s. There is no bigger difference in the design on the phone in this range. It comes with a Snapdragon 710 SOC. The dual camera at the back is placed horizontally which is build shiny and smooth. It has a rear-facing fingerprint sensor with a traditional round shape. Next, to the rear camera, there is an LED flashlight.
The 24 MP front camera and 3350 mAh battery capacity are the best features of this phone. The Xiaomi MI 8 YOUTH edition comes with a rear camera 12 MP (f/1.9) and 5 MP (f/1.9) primary camera and a 24 MP front camera. It also supports 4K video recording and 4G volte and comes with a 3.0 fast charging feature. This phone features a 19:9 display with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 SoC. The MI 8 Youth comes with 4GB,6GB, and 8GB RAM and 32GB,64GB and 128GB storage options. It features Android 8.1(OREO) operating system and Adreno 512 GPU. The phone comes with the regular connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, and 4G, and 3.5mm headphone jack. The MI 8 Youth includes face unlock, fingerprint, proximity, accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope.
Xiaomi MI 8 Youth seems to be a reasonable phone when compared to other Android smartphones. The price of this smartphone was estimated about $293 in the USA, CNY 1399 in CHINA, RS. 14890 in India and is estimated to be around RS. 30000. This smartphone is available in three colors i.e Midnight Black, Sunset Gold, and Aurora Blue.
Colors Available Midnight Black, Sunset Gold, and Aurora Blue.


Description: From Banpresto. This 6 1/4" figure of Sailor Moon is part of the Girls Memory series of figures celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon! Collect and display with the other figures in this collector series (each sold separately). Base Included.


While most of the political leaders have upped efforts to keep their parties and agendas relevant in the fast-paced, vibrant and vivacious `aamchi' Mumbai, it seems that it is actually the younger lot that is driving the point across to the electorate these civic elections.
Dispelling the popular impression that young citizens are indifferent to elections, many fresh-from-college volunteers, BPO employees, MBA mandarins and executives can be seen working for various parties and rubbing shoulders with school dropouts and slum dwellers, seeking votes from `tai', `kaka' and `bhidus'. The BMC polls are scheduled for February 21.
For instance, the 50-year-old Shiv Sena, who's patriarch Bal Thackeray stirred the imagination of the city's angry and jobless Marathis in the 1970s with his anti-establishment cartoons, has come to bank on Aaditya Thackeray as its modern, suave face. The nattily-dressed Yuva Sena chief heads a team that is choc-abloc with fresh faces like the soft-spoken pilot Abhijit Adsul and actor Aadesh Bandekar, among others.
"I am in the Sena chiefly because of Aaditya-ji. I like the way he takes up issues close to Mumbai's heart," said youngster Omkar Lad from Dahisar. "It's nice to work for a party that has a young leader," added the MBA student who campaigns for Sheetal Mukesh Mhatre, a Sena candidate from ward number 7 in Dahisar.
Seated next to Lad was Siddesh Dhavalikar, the 20-something Sainik scribbling slogans on his mobile to be messaged to the ward's young voters. It is little wonder that Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has revamped his team. Veterans such as Manohar Joshi and Liladhar Dake have taken a backseat to make way for relatively young functionaries such as Anil Parab and Anil Desai--the latter known as Mr Ageless, notwithstanding his salt-and-pepper mop. The BJP too is all set to shed its flab and acquire a come-hither look to take on the Sena. "For long, the Mumbai BJP had to make do with middle-aged workers, mostly from the mercantile community. They all looked well-fed--a rotund frame and the `paan-parag' chewing types. This was in sharp contrast with the lean, mean look of a Shiv Sainik. However, this time around, Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar made it a point to hand-pick young workers to handle the poll machinery, " said a BJP functionary.
For instance, Niranjan Shetty , a res taurateur-turned-politico may be 40, but his colleagues at Vasant Smriti, the Mumbai BJP headquarters, say he brims with the energy of a rugby player.
The BJP has projected CM Devendra Fadnavis as the party's poster-boy for the Mumbai civic polls. "Devendra-ji is young and has an array of ideas to take Mumbai on the path of development. I am much impressed with his makeover plan for Mumbai like the Metro, Wi-Fi connectivity across the city and the trans-harbour link project," said Satish Tiwari, secretary, the BJP's Sewri unit.
Not to be outdone, the Mumbai Cong ress too is tapping the young quotient.The party is gaining a measure of comfort from the fact that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has come into his own in Uttar Pradesh after inking a poll pact with Samajwadi Party .
Young workers are quite upbeat following Gandhi's retort to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's `raincoat' jibe at former PM Manmohan Singh, said a Congress functionary. Gandhi had said Modi likes to peep into people's bathrooms, but has done very little for the welfare of the poor.
"You will soon find Rahulji take on Modi in a big way. Just wait for the UP poll results.Rahul-ji and Akhilesh-ji will sweep the elections," declared Dhananjay Khatpe, a Congress activist from Prabhadevi. The son of a textile mill worker, Khatpe keeps close contacts with youngsters as head of the Mumbai Congress' employment cell.
Raj Thackeray's MNS may be passing through a rough patch but his charisma strikes a chord among his green-behindthe-ears followers. Said Karan Menon, "Rajsaheb speaks straight from the heart and his appeal is aimed at young citizens. He has his finger on the pulse of the GenNext." Menon (27) handles the poll apparatus in ward number 14 for party nominee Nisha Gujar.
Politicians too are keeping the youngsters in good books. "Young students are smart, and have a flair for catchy one-liners. They are best to handle the social media," said Congress activist Amit Naik.


Cabarrus County periodically experiences localized flooding in areas bordered by rivers and creeks. Residents and property owners are encouraged to become familiar with those areas most prone to flooding and to take steps now to prepare for a flood emergency to help protect lives and property.
Flooding events often cause some roads and bridges in Cabarrus County to become impassable. Flooding also can occasionally lead to the evacuation of some structures, such as homes, businesses, barns, and other buildings.
Cabarrus County participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Because of participation in the Community Rating System (CRS), property owners in Cabarrus County are eligible to purchase discounted flood insurance from NFIP. Participation in NFIP also makes available federal financial assistance to property owners for the permanent repair or reconstruction of insurable buildings damaged as a result of flooding.
Learn more about Cabarrus County's NFIP status in the Community Status Book.


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Q: Android get top level module details in base module in android project I have two different app in one android project, as they both use similar components. One is client app and other is admin app. I also have an base module which constis of common util classes, ui components and other shared code.
Let say App1, App2 and BaseModule. Now I want to access BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE of App1 or App2 depending on which app is build, in base module. How to access it. Do I need some gradle script to transfer current app version_code to base mode?
I am trying to use shared preferances to share version code. But is there any to use it like BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE


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