In May 2013, Android Studio was in early access preview stage from version 0.1. Its first stable version was released as version 1.0 in December 2014. It was designed specifically for Android development based on Jet Brain's IntelliJ IDEA. It is an intelligent Java IDE and excels in mobile, enterprise and web development with Java, Groovy, Scala and Kotlin; with all the modern and latest technologies and frameworks available.
Code templates that would help you in building common app features.
Rich layout editor and support for drag and drop theme editing.
Built-in support for Google Cloud Platform, that makes it easy to integrate Google Cloud messaging and App engine.
Google launched version 2.0 of its Android Studio in November 2015. The latest stable version 1.5.1 (Dec 2015) is available for download on Android developer site. As per recent updates from Android, Android Studio 2.0 Preview 6 is available at Canary channel. It contains bug fixes of Preview 5.
For beginners, you can update your current IDE to 2.0 preview (currently preview 5), but it is not recommended. Instead, you should keep two separate copies of IDEs.
Instant Run allows developers to build and deploy their apps both to emulator or to a physical device at once and then their code can be changed and can deploy it. It lets you to see quickly the changes running on the device or emulator. According to Google, builds are faster in the new version by atleast 2 -2.5 times.
Another promising feature is GPU profiler which allows optimisation of OpenGL ES (Open Graphics Library for Embedded Systems) code. It is a powerful tool that not only shows details about the GL State and Commands but also can record entire sessions and walk through Textures and GL Framebuffer as your app is running OpenGL ES Code.
Speed and Performance: The new Android Emulator now supports Symmetric Multi-Processing while emulating the latest Android 6.0 release. This results in significant I/O improvements in both ADB and emulator. This indicates faster performance while testing your app.
Usability and User Interface: It also includes a brand new user interface that makes it easy to use. Now no need to depend on command-line parameters to use Android Emulator. Now only a mouse click or a keyboard shortcut is enough for common tasks and emulator features.
It supports a flexible Gradle-based build system, app-signing capabilities and Built-in support for Google Cloud platform. This brings lot of control and flexibility to developers.
With the introduction of new experimental shrinker, you can get the shrinking benefit right in debug mode.
There is a huge improvement in adb push and pull as new protocol for it has been introduced.
App indexing is another new feature in this IDE. It basically allows users to access content from apps directly from Google's search engine.
Thus the Android Studio 2.0 has come up as an improved mobile-app ecosystem to keep up in the competition with the updates in Apple's development platform Swift. So the development tools for such platforms are becoming more feature-rich and more efficient for beginners as well as power users.
The Android development team of Krify is already working with the tools available with the latest versions and previews of Android Studio for efficient and competitive android app development.
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Q: How to get an Iron Golem Spawner in 1.13 I am trying to spawn in a spawner that spawns iron golems. I have tried and failed at changing the commands from previous versions to 1.13 because of the slight syntax change.
I tried to use the 1.10 command:
setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:mob_spawner 0 replace {SpawnData:{id:"VillagerGolem"}}

I tried:
setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:mob_spawner{SpawnData:{id:"VillagerGolem"}} replace

in 1.13
but that crashed the game.

A: You were very close.  You had the entity ID wrong.  The entity ID for the golem is villager_golem.  Capitalization and the underscore matter.
This command functions properly:
/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:mob_spawner{SpawnData:{id:"minecraft:villager_golem"}} replace

A: The above answer may have been right at that time, however, now in 1.13.2 the command for this is as follows:
/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:spawner{SpawnData:{id:"minecraft:iron_golem"}} replace

A: Unfortunately, on the current Minecraft version 1.13.2,
Microsoft has changed a few entity IDs.
So now this command looks like this:

/setblock ~ ~1 ~ minecraft:spawner{SpawnData:{id:"minecraft:iron_golem"}} replace

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Album Review of The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale by Eric Clapton.
I think we can probably conclude with some confidence that Eric Clapton's career is now very much in wind-down mode. Both the title and artwork for his last record, Old Sock, strongly suggested that he'd phoned it in, and the music contained therein did little to change that perception. His fiftieth anniversary tour last year was a sedate affair, if the Manchester show was anything to go by; at least half of it was acoustic, and a deeply unwelcome appearance by prolific self-publicist and occasional comedian Peter Kay was met merely with folded arms and tuts of disapproval, rather than the sort of anarchy it would likely have provoked during Clapton's heyday.
Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty and John Mayer play it too safe in this tribute to the late Oklahoma guitarist and songwriter In many ways, the lives and music of Eric Clapton and JJ Cale form a perfect study in contrasts. Eric Clapton has been famous for all of his adult life, and before he was even properly out of adolescence, enthusiastic fans began to scribble "Clapton is God" all over the London subway. It must have been a hell of a thing to try and live up to.
Early in Clapton's solo career, JJ Cale's influence was invaluable. Not only because two of Cale's songs, "After Midnight" — which he covered on his self-titled solo debut, four years after Cale first released a demo of the song — and "Cocaine" from 1977's Slowhand are among Clapton's most notable tracks, but also because Cale's laid-back Americana minimalism seemed to greatly impact Clapton's musical path. In July of 2014, in USA Today, Clapton spoke of Cale and the "very profound musical and philosophical effect he had on my life, through his music and the way he conducted himself as a singer, musician and player.
In the early Seventies, after the implosions of Cream and Blind Faith, Eric Clapton found profound influence in the California grooves of reclusive songwriter JJ Cale – who supplied Clapton with two of his biggest solo hits ("After Midnight" and "Cocaine"). Clapton repaid his debt to Cale once with their 2006 collaboration, The Road to Escondido, and he takes that idea a step further with this tribute album, conceived at Cale's funeral last year. Clapton's renditions can be a little too faithful: He nails Cale's throaty growl on "Cajun Moon," but the track fades out just as it might have opened up into a Dead-style jam; "Lies," sung with John Mayer, could have benefited from the charismatic delivery of a vet like Dr.
In a sense, nearly every album Eric Clapton recorded after 1970 has been a tribute to J.J. Cale. On that first solo album, Clapton cut a cover of Cale's "After Midnight" and while he was under the spell of Delaney Bramlett for that album, soon enough Slowhand began drifting toward the laconic shuffle that was Cale's stock in trade. Clapton never hesitated to credit Cale, dropping his name in interviews, turning "Cocaine" into a modern standard, even going so far as to record an entire duet album with the Oklahoma troubadour called The Road to Escondido in 2006.
Eric Clapton wasn't just the late JJ Cale's highest profile musical admirer, he was arguably responsible for keeping Cale financially stable and professionally active through his hit covers of Cale's "After Midnight" and "Cocaine. " Clapton also invited him to participate in his Crossroads Guitar Festival and most notably in 2006, recorded a collaborative album with both their names sharing headline status. So it comes as little surprise that Slowhand spearheaded this well-meaning tribute to Cale featuring other artists such as John Mayer, Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler and Derek Trucks who were both fans and influenced by Cale's lazy shuffle and subtle country, blues and jazz sensibilities.
Eric Clapton is a disciple fervent about sharing his influences, whether they be bluesman Robert Johnson or, in this case, JJ Cale, the creator of the easy-loping Tulsa Sound. Clapton had two '70s hits ("After Midnight" and "Cocaine") with tunes by Cale, who died last year; now, he goes all out to honor Cale's memory, recruiting Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler, Willie Nelson, and John Mayer to cover his songs. Clapton shares some of his most transcendent guitar playing in years, especially the slide-guitar peaks of "I'll Be There" and "I Got the Same Old Blues.
Eric Clapton calls his new album of J.J. Cale songs an appreciation rather than a tribute, and that word choice gets at the appealingly modest vibe of this record. In spite of cameos by heavy-hitting guitar guys like Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler and John Mayer, "The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale" -- which honors the roots-music cult hero who died a year ago this month -- dispenses with the grandstanding that bogs down most tribute albums (and indeed many Clapton albums); it sounds more like the product of an impromptu jam session.


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15 Research Studies by AER Scientists Cited in IPCC WG1 AR5 Report on Climate Change
By Ron Isaacs
When the U.N.'s IPCC released the WG-1 AR5 report, we were proud to see the breadth of research by AER scientists cited in the report. It's an indication that AER scientists have helped advance the scientific discourse about the Earth's climate by providing research covering a broad range of topics from the ocean depths to the top of the atmosphere.
15 peer-reviewed publications by AER scientists were cited in 7 of the 14 chapters in the WG-1 AR5 report and cover a broad range of topics from the ocean depths to the top of the atmosphere.
Climate modeling and simulations
Evaluations of climate model performance with respect to climate patterns such as El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation as well as water vapor in the upper tropospheric
Developing and validating aerosol and cloud models
Developing state-of-the-art datasets of ocean surface winds
Measuring and modeling regional variability in sea level
Evaluating the accuracy of ocean mass trends
Assessing sudden warming trends in the stratosphere
Retrieving information about size distributions of ice clouds from satellite measurements
Many of the global models that provided simulations of future climate for the WG-1 AR5 report use an AER-developed computer code to calculate accurately the radiative impact of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric constituents.
"For more than two decades, the atmospheric community has relied on AER scientists for expertise in the field of radiative transfer including the impact of increased greenhouse gases," said Robert Morris, Ph.D., AER vice president of Research and Development.
The cited research studies were sponsored by a broad cross section of federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Office of Naval Research. The audience for AER's scientific environmental expertise includes academic and government communities who look to AER for authoritative analysis of environmental trends past, present and future.
In addition to research, contributions by AER staff included peer review of portions of the IPCC WG1 AR5 report.

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Media captionNatalie Bennett says the government needed people "signed up to action".
The Green Party of England and Wales has called for a purge of government advisers and ministers who do not share its views on climate change.
Any senior adviser refusing to accept "the scientific consensus on climate change" should be sacked, it said.
Speaking on the BBC's Any Questions programme in June, the environment secretary said: "The climate's been going up and down" for centuries and pointed out that the earth's surface temperature "has not changed in the last 17 years".
He added: "The real question, that everyone is trying to address is: Is this influenced by man-made activity in recent years?
"There is almost certainly bound to be some influence by man-made activity but we have just got to be rational and make sure the measures we take to counter it do not actually cause more damage."
Ms Bennett said: "We need the whole government behind this. This is an emergency situation we're facing now. We need to take action. We need everyone signed up behind that."
Pressed on the issue, she agreed that even the chief veterinary officer should be removed if he didn't sign up to the view on climate change also taken by the Green Party.


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Home/All News/World Champion Gaultier comes through stern test to reach Hong Kong Quarters
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World Champion Gaultier comes through stern test to reach Hong Kong Quarters
Just one week after defeating a resurgent James Willstrop in the semi-finals of the 2015 World Championship en route to the title Gregory Gaultier was once again forced to produce some of his best squash to defeat the towering Englishman in the second round of the Men's Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open .
It took the Frenchman over 60 minutes to secure his place in the quarter-finals of the PSA World Series tournament, one of few titles to have eluded him during a glittering career, at the expense of Willstrop, who's shock victory over Mohamed Elshorbagy during the World Championship helped Gaultier to top the World Rankings this month.
The 32-year-old from Aix-en-Provence began impressively, utilising his pace and power to take advantage of a misfiring Willstrop. 'The Marksman' upped his game in the third as he began to find his range, firing in pinpoint shots from all areas of the court to reduce the deficit but Gaultier dug into his reserves to mount a huge challenge in the fourth game and his doggedness was rewarded when he sealed the match 11-7, 11-8, 3-11, 11-6.
"That was one of the toughest matches I could have had at this stage in a tournament and I really had to give my all," said Gaultier.
"He proved last week at the worlds that he can beat anyone so I knew I had to be sharp. I had to push myself mentally and physically especially in the fourth game when I gave everything in the tank to try and take control of the match away from him.
"I feel a little bit physically drained after winning the World Championship but mentally I'm still there. I struggled yesterday in the first round and today was a tough match as well but these kind of matches can help keep you sharp.
"Even if my body isn't 100 per cent, mentally I want to finish the year on a positive note. You can't be 100 per cent all year round but you can give your best on court each day and there are always solutions to problems so I'm going t be giving it my all this week."
Gaultier will line up against Australian Cameron Pilley, after he got the better of German Simon Rösner, for a place in the semi-finals while the man Gaultier lost to in the final of the 2014 edition of the Hong Kong Open, Elshorbagy, progressed to the last eight without breaking sweat after Indian Saurav Ghosal conceded their match due to injury.
In the women's draw English World No.2 Laura Massaro extended her current unbeaten streak on the PSA World Tour to 12 matches as she dispatched Egyptian challenger Heba El Torky 3-0.
Massaro has so far claimed back-to-back PSA World Series titles during the 2015/16 season, winning at the U.S. Open and Qatar Classic, and will be hoping to complete an impressive hat trick this week during the 30th staging of the Hong Kong Open but will face a stern challenge from her main title rivals Raneem El Welily, the World No.1, and Nicol David, the World No.3.
"I felt like the match was a bit scrappy at times today," said Massaro, who took 34 minutes to complete the 11-9, 11-5, 14-12 win.
"The rallies were short and there was not much rhythm. It was tough to get through it but I'm really happy to have got a 3-0 win in the end.
"Coming home after winning in Qatar I had a few days off but then my mind was back on training and it wasn't difficult to refocus on coming here to Hong Kong. I had a good two weeks at home which gave me plenty of time to get some good training in and I'm feeling good.
"This is a World Series event and as such carries a lot of emphasis – it's very important and I'm fully focused on doing as well here as I can and performing to my best. It's great to be in the quarters of another World Series tournament so hopefully I can perform an well again tomorrow."
Massaro will face Nouran Gohar in the last eight while El Welily made her way into the quarter-finals after commanding against Low Wee Wern, with the Malaysian conceding the match at the end of the second game.
El Welily will now face sharp shooting American Amanda Sobhy for a place in the semi-finals, where she could line up against Massaro in what could be a crucial match in the context of the world rankings with the victor of that potential bout almost guaranteed to hold the No.1 status come January 1st.
Second Round: 2015 Men's Hong Kong Open, PSA World Series:
[1] Mohamed Elshorbagy (EGY) bt Saurav Ghosal (IND) walkover
[8] Mathieu Castagnet (FRA) bt Daryl Selby (ENG) 11-8, 11-7, 7-11, 11-5 (66m)
[6] Omar Mosaad (EGY) bt [Q] Lucas Serme (FRA) 4-11, 11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 11-6 (81m)
[4] Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL) bt Chris Simpson (ENG) 12-10, 5-11, 11-8, 11-5 (64m)
[3] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) bt James Willstrop (ENG) 11-7, 11-8, 3-11, 11-6 (62m)
Cameron Pilley (AUS) bt [5] Simon Rösner (GER) 9-11, 11-5, 13-15, 11-7, 11-6 (87m)
[7] Tarek Momen (EGY) bt [Q] Tsz Fung Yip (HKG) 4-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-9 (46m)
[2] Nick Matthew (ENG) bt [Q] Zahed Mohamed (EGY) 15-13, 11-4, 11-5 (46m)
Second Round: 2015 Women's Hong Kong Open, PSA World Series:
[1] Raneem El Welily (EGY) bt [9] Low Wee Wern (MAS) 11-9, 11-3, 0-0 retired (14m)
[8] Amanda Sobhy (USA) bt [12] Jenny Duncalf (ENG) 11-8, 11-7, 11-8 (33m)
[6] Nouran Gohar (EGY) bt [13] Emily Whitlock (ENG) 11-6, 11-5, 11-9 (34m)
[3] Laura Massaro (ENG) bt [16] Heba El Torky (EGY) 11-9, 11-5, 14-12 (34m)
[4] Camille Serme (FRA) bt [14] Dipika Pallikal (IND) 7-11, 11-8, 11-3, 11-8 (45m)
[5] Omneya Abdel Kawy (EGY) bt [11] Rachael Grinham (AUS) 11-6, 11-7, 5-11, 9-11, 11-7 (39m)
Joelle King (NZL) bt [15] Joshna Chinappa (IND) 9-11, 11-8, 9-11, 12-10, 11-6 (64m)
[2] Nicol David (MAS) bt [10] Delia Arnold (MAS) 11-1, 11-4, 11-3 (20m)
Hosts Egypt Seeded To Reclaim Men's World Team Title
World Team Championship Postponed
Historic Night in Hong Kong as finalists celebrate momentous moments
Pilley stuns Gaultier in Hong Kong Quarters


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N4 Traditional foods
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One hundred years ago, the diet of people in our local area was probably much better and more varied than it is today. This is not because people had more money or time. It was partly because they used many traditional foods in their diet. They also processed their own foods. Today, people often buy staple foods that have been processed such as 'white' rice, 'white' bread and porridge. Processing removes the dark outer layer of grain, which contains a lot of vitamins and protein.
Most areas have traditional foods that people gather and eat. Examples of traditional foods that are nutritious include termites, grasshoppers, caterpillars, locusts, flying ants, wild birds and the leaves and roots of wild plants. These are often very high in protein and vitamins and help to improve the diet. Increasingly, however, people consider that these are of little value and place higher priority on more 'western' foods. Also, as people move to towns and cities, they are unable to gather such foods.
What kinds of traditional foods are eaten in our area?
How are these foods prepared and used?
Are there other kinds of traditional foods that are still available, but no longer eaten? What are the reasons for this?
Traditional foods are often only available for a very short time. For example, flying ants may appear on only a few days each year. How could these kinds of foods be preserved so they can be eaten at other times?


The Line Continuity Monitoring Unit (LCMU) is designed for use with the Kentec Sigma K11 fire alarm panels. Ensuring compliance with amendment 12.6.2.f of BS 5839: Pt 1: 2002, the LCMU may be fitted in place of the end of line resistor for each zone, and monitors for detector head removal. The LCMU is discreet in size and easy to install.
Please note: No more than 20 detection devices are permitted to be connected to the detection zone when using an LCMU device.
This is the technical data for the Kentec Line Continuity Monitoring Unit (LCMU).


This month, Sword Art Online fans will be treated to something special. Aniplex of America has just announced they will be hosting a special Sword Art Online "Watch and Win" contest on Adult Swim's Toonami™. Viewers will have the opportunity to win a wide variety of prizes including Sword Art Online Blu-ray sets and DVDs. Other prizes include Sword Art Online Weib Schwarz trial decks from Bushiroad. Three special grand prize winners will receive a brand new 3D Personal Viewer courtesy of Sony Electronics.
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The Family of Eliza Ann Cobb & John F. Amos
1. John F. AMOS was born on April 4, 1806 in Tennessee. He was the son of John Amos. He appeared on the census in 1840 in Polk County, Tennessee. This enumeration shows that in his household was 1 male less than 5 yrs of age; 1 male, 5-10 yrs of age; and 1 male, 30-40 yrs of age. Also there were 2 females under 5 yrs of age; 1 female, 20-30 yrs of age; and 1 female, 60-70 yrs of age. He died on March 22, 1892 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
He was married to Eliza Ann COBB (daughter of Robert COBB and Elizabeth LNU (COBB)) about 1833. This based on the birth date of the first child of this marriage. Eliza Ann COBB was born on March 21, 1816 in Tennessee. She died on February 2, 1908 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. John F. AMOS and Eliza Ann COBB had the following children:
2 i. Madison F. AMOS was born on February 18, 1834 in Tennessee. He died on July 19, 1862 in Virginia. During the War Between the States, he served in Company H, 21st Georgia Infantry Regiment. He enlisted from Dade County on 02 Jul 1862, with cousins Lafayette and Charles Robert Cobb. He died later that year from wounds received at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
3 ii. Eliza AMOS was born on December 10, 1836 in Tennessee. She died on June 4, 1918 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
+4 iii. Elbert Doron AMOS (born on September 27, 1837).
5 iv. Mary Amanda AMOS was born on May 6, 1841 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on January 17, 1922 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
6 v. Sarah AMOS was born on April 15, 1842 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on May 16, 1924 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
7 vi. Emily Elizabeth AMOS was born on May 3, 1851 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on August 13, 1933 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
8 vii. Isabel Sarah AMOS was born on July 14, 1852 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on September 15, 1934 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
9 viii. Julia AMOS was born on March 30, 1859 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on May 6, 1935 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
4. Elbert Doron AMOS was born on September 27, 1837 in Bradley County, Tennessee. He died on November 26, 1910 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
He was married to Sarah E. GUINN on July 5, 1865 in Dade County, Georgia. Sarah E. GUINN was born on August 24, 1843 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on November 23, 1926 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. Elbert Doron AMOS and Sarah E. GUINN had the following children:
10 i. John Collingsworth AMOS was born on November 3, 1866 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. He died on June 9, 1894 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
+11 ii. William Cicero AMOS (born on March 29, 1869).
12 iii. Flora Alice AMOS was born on September 13, 1870 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on September 19, 1915 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
13 iv. Sidney Burns AMOS was born on November 20, 1872 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. He died on March 13, 1953 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
14 v. Ella Ophelia AMOS was born on November 21, 1885 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia. She died on July 11, 1962 in Rising Fawn, Dade County, Georgia.
The descendants of Robert Cobb (Eliza's father)
The family of George Cobb (Eliza's brother)
The family of John Cobb (Eliza's brother)


This is a unique 9 ct. gold, coiled snake bracelet, circa 1950's. It has an engraved scale pattern and rubies set into the top of its head and tail, which is playfully curled up at the very end.
Each time we hand select a piece, we look for unique details. We found the multiple coils, the deep pink hue of the rubies, and the gold sliding "keeper" just too hard to resist.
Round in shape with multiple coils. The inside circumference is just over 7 1/4 inches and has some flexibility. It can be worn loosely like a bangle or in a more fitted fashion i.e. works well on a variety of wrists.
The bracelet is 9 ct gold with rubies and two green stone eyes that are possibly emeralds (too small to verify in setting).
Other mark's that are worn and difficult to clearly assess.
It is good to very good vintage condition. There are some slight surface scratches and minor signs of wear/age as one would expect of a vintage piece. There is one very slight (almost imperceptible) bend to one of the links.
If you are interested in reading more about the jewelry terms or decorative periods referenced throughout our site, visit our Resources section for additional information.
Find out how to care for your collection of antique and modern jewels: visit our Jewelry Care page to get advice on maintaining and storing your treasured pieces.
Vintage: Snake Bangle in 9ct Gold, Circa 1920's - the "Cleopatra Armlet"


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South-west Carpet Python
What's in a name...?
This handsome snake takes its name from the distinctive patterning on its skin which resembles an oriental carpet.
Description: The carpet python's colour varies from a greenish-brown to a blackish-brown and is marked with numerous irregular cream or yellow to pale brown blotches. The carpet python's belly is white to cream, sometimes marked with bold black blotches.
Diet: The carpet python is a carnivore and feeds on small mammals, birds and the occasional reptile.
In the wild: The South-west Carpet Python is mainly nocturnal but is sometimes seen basking in the sun and moving about during the day. The carpet python finds shelter in areas such as hollow tree limbs, rock crevices and even the burrows of other animals.
Like many other pythons, the South-west Carpet Python cares for its eggs and keeps them warm until they hatch. After the snakes emerge from the eggs, they are left to fend for themselves.
Threats: Habitat destruction is a major threat to the South-west Carpet Python, especially with large scale development on the Swan Coastal Plain. Bushfires and predation from feral cats and foxes has also contributed to its declining populations.
Female South-west Carpet Pythons can grow up to four times the size of males.
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No person shall cause, authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven upon any highway by any person who is not authorized hereunder or in violation of any of the provisions of this Act.


Welcome to Panagiotis Moschou to the DB ECR program!
Panagiotis Moschou obtained a Master degree and PhD in Plant Molecular Physiology and Biotechnology at the University of Crete (Greece) in Prof. Roubelakis-Angelakis lab. His work focused on the roles of polyamine oxidases in plant development, stress and cell fate. He did a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Peter Bozhkov at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala (Sweden), where he studied mechanisms by which plant cell polarity and fate are coupled by proteolysis. In 2016 he spent a year in the lab of Prof. Jonathan Jones (The Sainsbury Lab, UK) as a visiting researcher focusing on the development of new methods for studying proteolysis. At the same time, he started his lab in the Department of Plant Biology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as an Associate Professor. His lab is also affiliated with The Linnean Plant Science Center in Uppsala.
Panagiotis' lab research focuses on how catabolic processes steer plant physiology focusing mainly on proteolysis and RNA catabolism. Some of the questions that Panagiotis' lab aims to answer are the following. Which are the molecules produced by proteolysis and RNA processing and what is their function? Where in the cell these catabolic processes take place? How they evolved? What are the mechanistic principles by which they control important cellular functions? Can we employ these principles to design better crops?
Panagiotis' review on Phenotypic Novelty by CRISPR in plants is available to read for free on Science Direct.


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package at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.performance;

import io.hummer.util.Util;
import io.hummer.util.par.GlobalThreadPool;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.node.AggregatorNode;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.performance.AggregatorPerformanceInfo.InterAggregatorsDataRate;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.performance.AggregatorPerformanceInfo.StreamDataRate;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.proxy.AggregatorNodeProxy;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.aggr.request.AbstractInput.InputWrapper;

public class AggregatorPerformanceCollector extends Thread {

	private static final Logger logger = Util.getLogger(AggregatorPerformanceCollector.class);
	private final Map<AggregatorNode, AggregatorPerformanceInfo> performanceInfos = new HashMap<AggregatorNode, AggregatorPerformanceInfo>();
	private final List<AggregatorNode> activeAggrs = new LinkedList<AggregatorNode>();
	private boolean loop = false;
	private boolean detailed = false;
	private Util util = new Util();

	public AggregatorPerformanceCollector(boolean start) {
		this.loop = start;
		if(start)
			start();
	}
	public void addAggregator(AggregatorNode a) {
		if(!activeAggrs.contains(a))
			activeAggrs.add(a);
	}
	public boolean removeAggregator(AggregatorNode a) {
		return activeAggrs.remove(a);
	}
	public void addAllAggregators(List<AggregatorNode> list) {
		for(AggregatorNode a : list)
			if(!activeAggrs.contains(a))
				activeAggrs.add(a);
	}
	public boolean hasAggregator(AggregatorNode a) {
		return activeAggrs.contains(a);
	}
	public boolean hasResults() {
		return !performanceInfos.isEmpty();
	}

	public double getMaxCPU() {
		return max(getCPU(), 0);
	}
	public double getMaxMemory() {
		return max(getMemory(), 0);
	}
	public double getMinCPU() {
		return min(getCPU(), 0);
	}
	public double getMinMemory() {
		return min(getMemory(), 0);
	}

	public List<AggregatorNode> getActiveAggegators() {
		return activeAggrs;
	}

	private List<Double> getCPU() {
		List<Double> list = new LinkedList<Double>();
		synchronized (performanceInfos) {
			for(AggregatorPerformanceInfo i : performanceInfos.values())
				list.add(i.getCurrentUsedCPU());
		}
		return list;
	}
	private List<Double> getMemory() {
		List<Double> list = new LinkedList<Double>();
		synchronized (performanceInfos) {
			for(AggregatorPerformanceInfo i : performanceInfos.values())
				list.add(i.getUsedMemory());
		}
		return list;
	}

	public double getMemory(AggregatorNode a) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(a) == null)
			return -1;
		return performanceInfos.get(a).getUsedMemory();
	}
	public double getCPU(AggregatorNode a) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(a) == null)
			return -1;
		return performanceInfos.get(a).getCurrentUsedCPU();
	}
	public double getDataTransfer(AggregatorNode a) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(a) == null)
			return -1;
		double total = 0;
		List<StreamDataRate> list = performanceInfos.get(a).getStreamDataRate();
		for(StreamDataRate s : list)
			total += s.getDataRate();
		return total;
	}
	private List<Double> getDataTransfers() {
		List<Double> result = new LinkedList<Double>();
		for(AggregatorNode a : performanceInfos.keySet()) {
			double t = getDataTransfer(a);
			if(t > 0) result.add(t);
		}
		return result;
	}
	public double getMaxDataTransfer() {
		return max(getDataTransfers(), 0);
	}
	public double getMinDataTransfer() {
		return min(getDataTransfers(), 0);
	}
	private double max(List<Double> list, double dflt) {
		if(list.size() <= 0)
			return dflt;
		return Collections.max(list);
	}
	private double min(List<Double> list, double dflt) {
		if(list.size() <= 0)
			return dflt;
		return Collections.min(list);
	}
	public double getAvgDataTransfer() {
		return util.math.average(getDataTransfers());
	}
	public double getMaxMinusMinDataTransfer() {
		return getMaxDataTransfer() - getMinDataTransfer();
	}
	public double getDataTransfer() {
		double result = 0.0;
		for(Double t : getDataTransfers()) {
			result += t;
		}
		return result;
	}

	public double getDataTransfer(AggregatorNode a, InputWrapper w) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(a) == null)
			return -1;
		double total = 0;
		List<StreamDataRate> list = performanceInfos.get(a).getStreamDataRate();
		for(StreamDataRate s : list) {
			try {
				if(s.getStream().equals(w)) {
					total += s.getDataRate();
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {
				logger.warn("Unable to compute aggregator performance (data transfer).", e);
			}
		}
		return total;
	}

	public double getDataFrequency(AggregatorNode a) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(a) == null)
			return -1;
		double total = 0;
		List<StreamDataRate> list = performanceInfos.get(a).getStreamDataRate();
		for(StreamDataRate s : list)
			total += s.getEventFreq();
		return total;
	}
	private List<Double> getDataFrequencies() {
		List<Double> result = new LinkedList<Double>();
		for(AggregatorNode a : performanceInfos.keySet()) {
			double t = getDataFrequency(a);
			if(t > 0) result.add(t);
		}
		return result;
	}
	public double getDataFrequency() {
		return util.math.sum(getDataFrequencies());
	}

	public double getInterAggregatorTransfer() {
		double sum = 0;
		for(AggregatorNode from : performanceInfos.keySet()) {
			for(AggregatorNode to : performanceInfos.keySet()) {
				double toAdd = getInterAggregatorTransfer(from, to);
				if(toAdd >= 0)
					sum += toAdd;
			}
		}
		return sum;
	}

	public double getInterAggregatorTransfer(AggregatorNode fromAggr,
			AggregatorNode toAggr) {
		if(performanceInfos.get(fromAggr) == null)
			return -1;
		double result = 0;
		for(InterAggregatorsDataRate r : performanceInfos.get(fromAggr).getInterAggregatorDataRate()) {
			if(fromAggr.getEPR().getAddress().equals(r.getAggregatorURL1()) &&
					toAggr.getEPR().getAddress().equals(r.getAggregatorURL2())) {
				result += r.getDataRate();
			}
		}
		return result;
	}

	public double getBufferMemory(AggregatorNode a) {
		AggregatorPerformanceInfo i = performanceInfos.get(a);
		double sum = 0;
		for(StreamDataRate r : i.getStreamDataRate()) {
			if(r.getBufferSize() != null)
				sum += r.getBufferSize();
		}
		return sum;
	}
	public double getBufferMemoryTotal() {
		double sum = 0;
		for(AggregatorNode a : performanceInfos.keySet()) {
			sum += getBufferMemory(a);
		}
		return sum;
	}

	public void setDetailed(boolean detailed) {
		this.detailed = detailed;
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		do {
			try {
				if(activeAggrs.size() > 0) {
					final List<Integer> list = new LinkedList<Integer>();
					for(int i = 0; i < activeAggrs.size(); i ++) {
						final AggregatorNode a = activeAggrs.get(i);
						Runnable r = new Runnable() {
							@Override
							public void run() {
								synchronized (list) {
									list.add(0, 0);
								}
								try {
									if(a != null) {
										AggregatorPerformanceInfo perf =
											new AggregatorNodeProxy(a).getPerformanceInfo(true, detailed);
										synchronized (performanceInfos) {
											performanceInfos.put(a, perf);
										}
									}
								} catch (Exception e) { logger.info("", e); }
								synchronized (list) {
									list.remove(0);
								}
							}
						};
						GlobalThreadPool.execute(r);
					}
					while(list.size() > 0)
						Thread.sleep(1000);
				}
				Thread.sleep(1000);
			} catch (Exception e) {
				logger.warn("Unexpected error.", e);
			}
		} while(loop);
	}
}

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Experience the new Dubai during this tour with a difference. Driving down Sheikh Zayed Road admire the glittering high rises en route to Souk Madinat Jumeirah, a beautiful recreation of an Arabian style market place. After a photo stop at the iconic Burj Al Arab your drive continues to Palm Jumeirah, a fully reclaimed, palm shaped island that is home to the magnificent Atlantis, The Palm. After a photo-stop, continue to Ski Dubai, the first indoor ski slope in the region, offering fresh snow all year around. Our final stop will be at the base of what is currently the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai. Here you have time to admire the Dubai Fountain, a spectacle of lights and sound and one of the world's largest performing fountains.
For a fabulous relaxing evening join our traditional Arabian dhow for an evening's cruise on the Creek. Enjoy a sumptuous feast of Arabic and International cuisine while gently gliding past illuminated souks, banks and palaces.
Discover the wonders of capital of the Emirates, known as the Arabian Jewel. Jebel Ali Port, the biggest man-made port in the world is one of the landmarks that we pass by on the way. On arrival, the first destination is the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world. We then continue to the Women's Handicraft Centre. Admire the skill and dexterity of local ladies making traditional handicrafts. Enjoy a magnificent view of the city by driving along the beautiful Corniche and make a photo-stop at the Breakwater. Later a journey to the past to explore the life before oil was discovered.
World's tallest building. A living wonder. Stunning work of art. Burj Khalifa is all that. In concept and execution, Burj Khalifa has no peer. The high point of any Khalifa experience is the view from At The Top, Burj Khalifa's observation deck. Located on level 124 of the world's tallest tower, this observatory is destined to be the highlight of any visit to the Middle East. Burj Khalifa has been designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that will include 30,000 homes, nine hotels such as the Burj Khalifa Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments, 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare (30-acre) man-made Burj Khalifa Lake.
Dubai Dolphinarium is the first fully air conditioned indoor Dolphinarium in the middle east located in dubai creek park.So now dolphines are in Dubai to get your full attention.just look when they zoom through pool,when they want hardly a ripple in the water .their skin & body has been studied extensively by military submarine designers .You can touch &feel their skin at Dubai Dolphinarium & make your own opinion about how they can be so watercopisetic.
Palm Jumeirah has everything you need to enjoy a wonderful holiday break. World famous hotel names, amazing tourist attractions, luxury fashion and shopping malls are starting to open up. Whether you just want to relax or immerse yourself in an exciting world of leisure and entertainment, this is a truly inspirational holiday destination. There's a wide range of daytime activities, including water sports, aquariums, theme parks and of course miles of beautiful beaches. And at night the bars, clubs and shows will offer plenty of fun and amusement. So why not come and explore the endless possibilities Palm Jumeirah has to offer you.
You will experience the desert as only a few have seen it-from a gently floating hot air balloon. Feel the cool dawn air as you float only a few metres above the red sand dunes, then be awestruck as the mesmerizing landscape unfolds below you. View the giant sand dunes, the moon-like landscape of the rugged Hajjar Mountains to the east, and the "21st century" sky line of Dubai to the west as you rise high into the immense blue of the desert sky.
Al Ain known as the Garden City is one of the oldest settlements in the region. It is a stunningly green city with an incredible number of public parks and numerous green houses. Al Ain is one of the agricultural cities of the Emirates and also a university town and the birth place of the President of the UAE. Our first visit on arrival to this oasis town is surrounded by red sand, Next is a trip to the quaint camel market where you have a good opportunity to observe these extraordinary "ships of desert". We continue the tour with a visit to the nearby oasis. The village is an exciting experience with its old forts, date palm groves and 2000-year-old irrigation system called Falaj, which are still in use. A buffet lunch will be offered then we proceed to Hili gardens, the excavation site of a tomb dating back 3000 B.C. and other archaeological discoveries.
See different landscape of the UAE in one day. This full day tour takes us away from the hustle and bustle of the city. We pass the lush green agriclutural area of Dhaid before reaching the Hajar Mountains where we stop at a local market where for example locally made pottery, fruits and carpets are sold at bargain prices. From Masafi we start our round trip on the East Coast. Driving through the mountains we will pass wadis large and small, which are dried out riverbeds formed during millenniums. As we reach the coastal area we will make a short trip to Omani territory as well. At Dibba we visit a local fish market with its abundant colorful catch. Driving along the coast through small fishing villages we will arrive to Badiya mosque the oldest one in the UAE. After a sumptuous lunch there is an opportunity to relax at the beach and have a refreshing swim. Passing the thriving port town of Fujairah will round off this exciting trip.
Be as vibrant as the waters of Dubai as you capture nature's beauty blended with man's ingenuity onboard our Daytime Cruise. This one-hour tour via traditional Dhow's allows you to take great photos and videos of the fabulous scenery that is visible on the banks of Dubai The Creek. Bask in the shimmering sun and relish the magic of this momentous sea fare as you are offered refreshments to quench your thirst and to give you the vigor for other tours as we head back to the City.
Heading towards mountain area with a memorable break of Hatta pools with an opportunity to dive into its turquoise cool waters. Passing wadis with the landscape of lush greenery surrounded by the peaks of impressive Hajar mountains. Then we continue towards the ancient fortress village of Hatta famous for its Portuguese fort from 16th century. After visiting the Heritage clay village featuring traditional houses built some 300 years ago and to the fort we will enjoy a lunch at the Hatta Fort Hotel. As Dubai's only mountain resort besides the peace and tranquility this resort also offers a variety of recreational acitivities.
With a backdrop of huge sand dunes, this trip is an unforgettable one for the fun seekers! This 4 hours trip initially takes us to the Hatta part, where e make a stop near the huge sand dunes dominating the scene. Here we experience the thrill of mono skiing down the high dunes, after which light refreshment and soft drinks will be served. Before returning to the city, guests can enjoy dune bashing and camel riding en route.
Enjoy the privacy and freedom of your own yacht. Charter a yacht for you and your group and bask in dubai's enticing waters. Perfect for a relaxing and peaceful escape, or an exhilarating and invigorating activity at sea.
Cruising around the 8th wonder of the world- Palm Island- one of the world's three largest man - made islands currently is being developed along Dubai's coast. The sheer cost, elegance and the size of this new development is unprecedented and mind-boggling Cruise beside the new construction of World Island, where the part of the planet in shapes, view of Burj Al Arab, Dubai Marina spectacular sky scrapers. Enjoy 2 hours cruising with luxurious boat and have refreshments on board. This will be a memorable trip for ever.
The ideal view of Dubai is... from the sky! The Helicopter takes off at Atlantis the Palm and flies over the Dubai Marine Beach Hotel, shows you the beautiful coastline until near the Burj Al Arab. Circling over Palm Island the project will be shown in its integrity and magnificence. On the way back a different aspect of the city will appear when flying over sheikh Zayed Road the skyline of the modern Dubai. The contrast of different styles of Dubai will be even clearer when overlooking the life over the creek before landing.
Musandam is the northern tip of the Sultanate of Oman near the Straits of Hormuz, where the mountains drop as vertical walls a thousands meters into the sea. A dhow trip into the Fjords of Musandam offers an insight into this fantastic landscape. The drive to Khasab, capital of Musandam, takes cica three hours by the panoramic coastal road that overlooks the Gulf of Arabia and the fjords. At 09.00 hours the traditional Omani dhow departs for a full day cruise to the spectacular Fjords of Musandam. Dhow cruising in the glittering clear fjords, where dolphins play. guarantees the ambience of peace and tranquility. During the cruise the dhow is anchored at the Famous telegraph Island where there is the possibility to swim and snorkel in the pleasant clear waters and the possibility to see dolphins along the way!


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ACLU Condemns Trump Administration's Restriction of Asylum Process for Migrants at Us-Mexico Border
By: James E. Garcia
Residents exit U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in El Paso, Texas on March 21, 2020. (Photo by PAUL RATJE/Agence France-Presse/AFP via Getty Images)
Claiming it is protecting the U.S. against COVID-19-related health risks, the Trump Administration is using a Centers for Diseases and Control warning to effectively ban all asylum requests at the Southwest border. The American Civil Liberties Union is condemning the administration's "indefinite extension of its order allowing for the deportation of thousands of migrants," including hundreds of children, in some cases without notifying parents.
"These now indefinite restrictions have nothing to do with curbing the spread of COVID-19," said Andrea Flores, deputy director of immigration policy for the ACLU, in a statement. "[Trump] is hellbent on exploiting a public health crisis to achieve his long-held goal of ending asylum at the border."
Flores and other critics of President Trump's immigration agenda say his administration is taking advantage of the pandemic to implement its hard-right stance against asylum seekers from Central American and other nations he regards as undesirable.
ProPublica reports that even as the U.S. responds to the coronavirus, "the U.S. government has aggressively begun to rush the deportations of some of the most vulnerable migrant children in its care to countries where they have been raped, beaten or had a parent killed."
Families Belong Together, a national coalition of immigrants rights organizations, has accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of trying to launch a "Family Separation 2.0" program, a reference to the Trump Administration's controversial and purportedly suspended policy of separating migrant children from their parents when families are detained at the border.
In early May, CBS News reported, "Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said migrants arriving at the Mexico border would immediately be returned to Mexico or Canada or quickly deported to their home countries," based on what he said were warnings issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Critics say the practice is illegal.
With Tens of Thousands Dead, Latin America Is the Hemisphere's New Coronavirus Pandemic Epicenter
The U.S. has banned flights from Brazil, which now has "the second-highest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the world," overtaking Russia for the No. 2 coronavirus hotspot in the world, the New York Times reports.
Like President Trump, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has largely ignored the warnings of health experts about COVID-19 and is now insisting the country reopen all businesses.
Brazil is rapidly approaching 400,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 25,000 deaths. A University of Washington study predicts Brazil's death toll from the virus could top 125,000 by August.
In Mexico, nearly 75,000 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed, along with more than 8,000 deaths. In a televised speech Sunday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said because of the coronavirus "a million jobs will be lost."
Elsewhere in Latin America, "Peru and Chile rank among the hardest-hit countries in the world in terms of infections per capita, around 1 in 300," according to the Times.
The World Health Organization is warning of the virus' rapid spread in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. And in Ecuador, where bodies have been found abandoned on the sidewalk, more than 37,000 cases of COVID-19 and some 3,200 deaths have been confirmed, according to the latest tally by John Hopkins University.
On Monday, more than 2,000 Ecuadorans marched to protest wage and job cuts tied to the government's response to COVID-19's rapid spread.
Julián Castro Says He'll Work to Boost Latino Voter Turnout
Former U.S. Housing Secretary Julián Castro has joined Voto Latino as a senior advisor to help get out the Latino vote in November's general election.
Voto Latino, led by Maria Teresa Kumar, has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee for president. Castro dropped out of the presidential race in early January, but has yet to endorse Biden.
"I wanted to join forces with an organization that has an unparalleled record of actually registering and mobilizing Latinos, particularly young Latinos," Castro told Politico, adding that he also plans to create a political action committee aimed at backing young, progressive candidates in battleground states.
An Interview with SOMOS Healthcare Co-Founder Henry Munoz III
In a wide-ranging podcast interview, Henry Muñoz, III talks to Vanguardia America's Editor & Publisher James E. Garcia about a new Latino Decisions survey commissioned by SOMOS, UnidosUS and MoveOn regarding the impact of COVID-19 on Latinos, Muñoz's approach to activism, his work as a member of the Democratic National Committee, and the prospects of former Vice President Joe Biden selecting a Latina running mate.
LULAC and Univision News to Host 'Together with Puerto Rico," a Virtual Town Hall
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will host a virtual town hall on how Puerto Rico has been impacted by COVID-19 and needed efforts to include funding for the island in the next congressional stimulus package. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m. E.T.
The panelists will be: LULAC National President Domingo Garcia; LULAC CEO Sindy Benavides; U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA, Puerto Rico Sen. Dr. Carlos J. Rodríguez Mateo; Puerto Rico House of Representatives Member At-Large José Enrique Meléndez; Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Jennifer González-Colón; Ponce Mayor María "Mayita" Meléndez; and retired Col. Michelle M. Hernández De Fraley.
LULAC's Communications Director David Cruz will moderate the discussion. Go to LULAC's website to register to watch the discussion.
Vanguardia America is a free weekly newsletter. To sign up, email Editor and Publisher James E. Garcia at vanguardianews@gmail.com.
Attorney: US Makes Concessions to Ease Asylum Restrictions
US Pulls Out of Settlement Talks in Family Separation Suits
AP Exclusive: DOJ Rescinds 'Zero Tolerance' Immigration Rule


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With English as its official language, Belize is truly a one-of-a-kind country in Central America. This incredible Caribbean island is not only packed with gloriously soft-sandy beaches that stretches for miles but is also brimming with a plethora of historical sites, a unique cultural legacy, luscious jungles and magnificent wildlife. Belize is high on tourist attraction with the ancient Mayan ruins that history buffs will love to visit, striking reefs that scuba divers would love to sink their teeth into and dense woods with exotic animals and birds that nature & wild-life enthusiasts would enjoy exploring.
Kick-start the tour by heading over to the Great Blue Hole that is number one on every tourist's itinerary who visit Belize, particularly divers. Renowned to be the most famous dive destination in Belize, the Great Blue Hole provides divers with excellent observations of limestone formations that molds its walls. This huge sinkhole under the water is close to the Lighthouse Reef that forms a perfect circle of deep blue water. Divers can drop by at the protected Belize Barrier Reef that is home to an amazing amount of marine life. They can swim with sharks and stingrays along.
Take a trip to Caye Caulker - a small tiny island in the Caribbean island and usually visited by high-speed water taxi or a small plane. Over the years, the island has turned into a major tourist hub due to its affordable rates, laid-back vibe and a plethora of restaurants and bars. Perched high on the Vaca Plateau, 500 meters (1650 ft) above sea level, Caracol is the biggest Maya site in Belize. The largest pyramid in Caracol is Canaa (Sky Place) and at 43 meters (143 ft), it is renowned to be the tallest man-made structure in all of Belize.
Renowned to be a popular Placencia in all of southern Belize, Placencia appears to have the best mainland beaches as well as some of the incredible offshore coral cayes. The stunning white-sand beaches combined with cheap accommodation makes it a top spot for tourists to flock into. History aficionados ought to visit Lamanai, an ancient Maya city. It is a Mesoamerican archaeological site whose excavations and restorations have focused on restoration of bigger structures such as High Temple, a 33 meter tall temple. Lamanai in Maya means 'submerged crocodile' and it is one of the few Mayan sites to preserve its original name.
Ambergris Caye is the biggest of the cluster of the islands in the northernmost waters of Belize. One can even stroll around the town of San Pedro, the only urbanized area in the island. Wild-life enthusiasts will be delighted to roam around Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. The reserve was set up in 1990 as the first wilderness sanctuary for the jaguar. Despite 60 of Belize's 700 jaguars living in the sanctuary,chances of glimpsing the animal are quite slim. However, one can view other wild-life such as bird-viewing and other animals.
Families with kids can head over to Belize Zoo, one of the finest zoos in the Americas. It gets visitors to view the native animals of Belize as well as other wild animals in enclosures that replicate their natural habitat. The island of Half Moon Caye has been wholly devoted to the conservation of birds.
When it comes to shopping, some of the best souvenirs to be bought are hand-made crafts and Jewellery from Ambergris Caye. But the most distinctive piece of item to be bought in Belize are drums created by the Garifuna. That is one of the few products that can truly be called Belizean.
As for cuisine, be sure to dig into a delicious meal of rice and beans - a Belizean staple and munch on tacos - corn or flour tortillas, served with shredded chicken, onions, cabbage and cilantro. Be sure to try out local beer, Belikin in any of the bars and clubs spruced around.
The stay options in Belize are abundant with the best luxury hotels, swanky apartments and cheap accommodations are available for the tourist to decide which kind to opt for depending on their budget and taste.
Belize experiences tropical climate. The best time to holiday in the island would be from November to mid-April during the dry season.


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Home Privacy
by David Rutland February 1, 2021
You can't call yourself a cyberpunk if you accept that your every virtual and physical move is being watched, but you don't take any steps to change that fact. Actually, you can call yourself what you like. I'm not the word police. I'm just some guy on the internet.
Shut your Pi-Hole: Batten Down Your Privacy Hatches with This Raspberry Pi Adblocker
by David Rutland September 8, 2020
Does CyberPunks.com run adverts? I genuinely don't know.
I, along with millions of other internet dwellers, use adblocking software to ensure that my eyeballs aren't assaulted with exhortations to buy the latest piece of Apple or Sony crapware that's only marginally different from the previous model of Apple or Sony crapware you already own.
Are COVID-19 Tracking Apps a Precursor to an Anti-Privacy Dystopia?
by Shyam Bhardwa August 25, 2020
If dystopian literature warns of anything, it is this. Privacy is an incalculably precious freedom and we sacrifice it, even in direst need, at our own peril. As a whole, people have taken this to heart. We take our privacy seriously.
Cyberpunk Life Hacks Part 2: Truly Anonymous Internet
by Lord Bucket August 3, 2020
Today we'll be discussing anonymous internet & web browsing. First let's get the low-hanging fruit out of the way. If all you want is for your girlfriend or roommate not to find all that furry porn in your browser history, that's easy. Just delete both your history and your bookmarks, and call it a day.
American Internet Privacy Threatened as Key Section of Patriot Act Nears Reauthorization
by Laura Herbek May 14, 2020
The Senate has voted to restore broad government surveillance powers instilled by the Patriot Act, post-9/11 legislation written to help law enforcement detect and prevent terrorism. The USA Freedom Reauthorization Act reauthorizes expired programs from Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the section previously used to support large-scale collection of American phone records.
Cyberpunk Life Hacks — How To Receive Mail Anonymously
by Lord Bucket May 13, 2020
Privacy may be dead, but in this series we'll be examining various small ways to take back control of your life and secure your data, as well as how to generally subvert the organizations trying to control you. First step: anonymous mail.
Mass Surveillance Brought To You By COVID-19
by Lord Bucket May 3, 2020
As the COVID-19 lockdown hopefully approaches its end in the US, many have been left wondering how our long-term future will be impacted by recent events. With fresh memories of Chinese mass decontamination efforts and growing concern over the world economy having been generally flushed down the toilet, the internet has thankfully come to our rescue by releasing a whole slew of sexy virus memes and snuggleable Coronavirus-chan body pillows.
A Cyberpunk Catches COVID-19 Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Say "Yes" to Surveillance
by David Rutland April 14, 2020
I've recently come through a bout of Coronavirus. It was horrible. Imagine running a marathon and then going to a party where cigars are compulsory, the only drink on offer is 120 proof whisky, and the thermostat on the AC unit is broken – causing it to behave as if it's playing hopscotch across Mercury's terminator line. Add in some deeply disturbing dreams, and the morning after that party was my COVID-19 experience for two and a bit weeks. Your own experience, when it inevitably arrives, may be different.
The Ethical Labyrinth of Being a Small App Developer
by David Rutland December 22, 2019
Is your small app making money for someone else? There's no way to defend yourself beyond denying permissions to all but the most basic core functions
The Race To Secure Borders Is Creating A Worldwide Arms Race
by David Rutland November 16, 2019
Technology is allowing borders to become almost invisible, and more secure, without the need for additional walls or fences. But just because you can't see them, doesn't mean that they can't see you.


An installation by Korean American artist Michael Joo (b. 1966, Ithaca, N.Y.) will be exhibited in the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Pavilion this year as part of the museum's "Perspectives" contemporary art series. "Perspectives: Michael Joo," on view July 2, 2016–July 9, 2017, will explore the migration patterns of Korean red-crowned cranes. The monumental installation consists of a canvas—nearly 13 feet tall and 10 feet wide—and a hanging sculpture.
The subject of these two new artworks, created specifically for the Sackler, are endangered red-crowned cranes, which are significant in Korean culture. The cranes freely migrate through the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)—a pristine ecosystem of 160 miles of unoccupied territory between North and South Korea. Joo employs a combination of painting, sculpture, photography, digital scanning, printmaking and crane specimens in his investigation of the birds' movements.
"As a sculptor I have been preoccupied with spaces and the time it takes for us to move through them, how the things we bring to them—from ourselves, to our objects, to our intentions and perceptions of them—can expand, how we locate ourselves in the present," Joo said.
In the large canvas installation, Joo uses a silver-nitrate method common in his work. The piece is silvered using a chemical process derived from early photographic techniques. He uses three-dimensional ornithological scans from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he participated in a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship residency in 2012. The abstraction is a mirrored image of two collected crane carcasses, representing both their organic form and the geometric form of their storage container.
The sculpture portion of the installation consists of brass rods suspended from the Sackler Pavilion ceiling. The sculpture's linear patterns outline the satellite-tracked migration patterns of the red-crowned cranes across Korea and the DMZ. Each rod is dependent on the other for balance, and their lines represent freedom and the inescapability of instinct.
During the year that this installation is on view, the natural light from the windows will interact with the silvered canvas and the sculpture's lines. As natural light hits them, their appearance will change depending on the time of day and time of year.
A website and video documenting the artist's process will be available for both on-site and off-site visitors.
The Sackler Gallery's "Perspectives" series presents large-scale works by internationally renowned contemporary artists. Previous exhibitions have featured the works of Lara Baladi, Cai Guo-Qiang, Y.Z. Kami, Anish Kapoor, Chiharu Shiota, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Do-Ho Suh, Hale Tenger and Ai Weiwei, among others.
"Perspectives: Michael Joo" is organized by the Sackler Gallery and sponsored by Altria Group. Additional funding is provided by the Sackler's Endowment for Contemporary Asian Art.
Joo is a Korean American artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Joo represented South Korea at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 and was awarded the grand prize at the sixth Gwangju Biennale in 2006. In 2012, Joo was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, studying 3-D scanning and the relationship between art and technology.
The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and the adjacent Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., together comprise the nation's museum of Asian art. It contains one of the most important collections of Asian art in the world, featuring more than 40,000 objects ranging in time from the Neolithic to the present day, with especially fine groupings of Islamic art, Chinese jades, bronzes and paintings and the art of the ancient Near East. The galleries also contain important masterworks from Japan, ancient Egypt, South and Southeast Asia and Korea, as well as the Freer's noted collection of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler. The Freer, which will be closed during the exhibition, is scheduled to reopen in spring 2017 with modernized technology and infrastructure, refreshed gallery spaces and an enhanced Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium.


Habitat is a project from Chef that provides you a reasonably simple way to build, package, and configure your application.
"Habitat is an integrated solution to building, running, and maintaining your application throughout its lifetime. It builds your application and its services into immutable artifacts with declarative dependencies, and then provides automatic rebuilds of your application and its services as your application code and dependencies have upstream updates." - Habitat Getting Started Guide.
One of Habitat's core features is that its Supervisor creates a gossip based cluster for managing configuration and state of your applications. Kubernetes also provides similar functionality this ability with the user defined Kubernetes manifests and the Kubernetes APIs. Initially it may seem odd that you would skip using Kubernetes to provide this functionality, however it does provide a way to have a universal system for your application management.
Personally I'm still on the fence about how useful it is to have this extra abstraction for application lifecycle management on top of what Kubernetes already offers, but I don't discount it as something that could be useful in a lot of organizations.
Documentation for running Habitat built applications on Kubernetes is scant and feels fairly incomplete so I figured I would spend some time to work it out and come up with something myself.
Of course the first thing I had to do was decide on an application to build to demonstrate it. Initially I was going to use the basic tutorial app from the Habitat getting started tutorial, but instead decided I should write a very lightweight golang app to reduce the dependencies required to build and run it.
After writing this simplest of applications I realized I had inadvertently created a way to run the Habitat Supervisor effectively standalone which would also allow me to bootstrap a Habitat Gossip Cluster that other applications can join as needed.
Next I had to get my Habitat environment set up. I was able to follow the Habitat Tutorial and figure out how to build this Golang app instead of a Ruby app. This was fairly straight forward and was some edits to a plan.sh file and a few hooks.
Performing the Build and exporting the .hart file to a Docker image was fairly easy after I stumbled my way through hab setup and getting a key etc working (the documentation for this could be improved to provide a more delightful experience).
My next step was to test it using Docker to make sure the app started and cluster formed etc. This mean writing a simple docker-compose.yaml file to launch three containers and tell them how to connect to eachother with links. and then launch the containers and check that the exposed Habitat Supervisor API is accessible.
Note: you can see the habitat supervisors running the health check at the end once the containers are running.
Now that I had the Supervisor as a standalone image it was time to put together the appropriate Kubernetes manifest. To do so I had to do some research on the various Kubernetes resources and how they'd help me achieve my goal.
After some experimentation I decided that it made sense to use the StatefulSet resource for to run the supervisor in and run two services, the first being a headless service (meaning it is internal only) for the gossip protocol and the second being a regular service (with external access possible) for the API. Using a StatefulSet gave me predictable pod names and starts up the replicas in order which makes it much easier for the gossip protocol to work.
Initially I was using a single service for both the gossip and API ports but I wanted the Gossip to be internal only, but allow access (if needed) to the API. Creating two services gives me the ability to do both of those things. A headless service also has the benefit of creating a predictable KubeDNS entry for both the service and each pod which can come in handy.
Another interesting thing I discovered is that Kubernetes doesn't publish the service DNS until at least one pod is running. This created a chicken-and-egg issue if I tried to use a readinessProbe for the hab api as habitat wouldn't start until DNS was ready and DNS wouldn't be created as it was waiting for a success from the probe. Thankfully there is an alpha feature that you can enable with an annotation service.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerate-unready-endpoints: "true" that allows you to use DNS before the pods are ready.
Use the Habitat cluster created here as a permanent Habitat cluster and have your applications join and leave that cluster as they come up.
Swap out the use of paulczar/habsup image with your own image and adjust the ports and other values accordingly and have it run as a self contained cluster.
Gossip cluster bootstrap relies on an ordered startup with --peer ip-or-dns-of-first. Habitat should support a Kuberenetes based discovery which would ask the Kubernetes API to provide the peer details to join.
The API should come online with an approriate health status before the cluster is created. This would allow the use of a readinessProbe and avoid the problem I suggested earlier.
Habitat should consider a mode that uses the Kubernetes APIs and the contents of the Manifest to configure itself rather than forming the gossip cluster.


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Malta Articles
The Island of Malta, by Ana
Malta Information
The Republic of Malta is an island nation in southern Europe. It consists of an archipelago in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy. These strategically located islands have been ruled and fought over by various powers over the centuries.
Malta has been inhabited since around 5200 BC and a significant prehistoric civilisation existed on the islands prior to the arrival of the Phoenicians who named the main island Malat, meaning safe haven. The islands later came under the control first of Carthage (400 BC) and then of Rome, before being conquered by Arabs in A.D. 870, who would greatly influence local culture, notably in the Maltese language. In 1127 they were finally replaced by the Sicilian Normans, after which Malta became Christian again. After this time, the Maltese Nobility was created; it dates back to the Norman Conquest in A.D. 1090. The Nobility is still around today. 32 titles are still used by the Maltese, the eldest still in use being: Barons of Djar il Bniet and Buqana.
In 1530 the islands were given to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, who had been driven out of Rhodes by the Ottoman Empire. This militant monastic order, now known as the "Knights of Malta", withstood a siege by the Ottoman Turks in 1565, after which they increased the fortifications, particularly in the city of Valletta. Their reign ended when Napoleon conquered the islands in 1798. The British then took the islands in 1800.
In 1814, as part of the Treaty of Paris, Malta officially became a part of the British Empire and was used as a shipping waystation and fleet headquarters until the mid 1930s. Malta played an important role during World War II, owing to its proximity to Axis shipping lanes, and its people's bravery led to the awarding of the George Cross now seen on its flag. After the war, Maltese independence was granted on September 21, 1964. Under its 1964 constitution, Malta initially retained Queen Elizabeth II as sovereign of Malta and a Governor-General exercised executive authority on her behalf, but on December 13, 1974, Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth, with the President as head of state. It joined the European Union on May 1, 2004.
The President is elected by the Maltese parliament, who appoints as Prime Minister the leader of the party with a majority of seats in the unicameral House of Representatives, known in Maltese as Kamra tar-Rappreżentanti.
The president also nominally appoints, upon recommendation of the prime minister, the individual ministers to head each of the government departments. This cabinet is selected from among the members of the House of Representatives. This body consists of between 65 and 69 members elected on the basis of proportional representation. Elections must be held at least every 5 years. Candidates for any vacancies are determined by the majority of votes obtained by a candidate during the previous elections.
Since 1993, Malta has been subdivided into 68 local councils or localities. These form the most basic form of local government. There are no intermediate levels between local government and national government. The following lists the councils for the two main islands:
Malta comprises an archipelago in the central Mediterranean Sea, some 93 km south of Sicily. Only the three largest islands Malta Island (Malta), Gozo (Għawdex), and Comino (Kemmuna) are inhabited. Numerous bays along the indented coastline of the islands provide good harbours, whereas the landscape of the densely populated islands themselves is characterised by low hills with terraced fields. The highest point is the Ta'Dmejrek on Malta Island at 253 m.
The local climate is a Mediterranean temperate clime, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. Effectively there are only two seasons, which makes the islands attractive for tourists.
Malta's major resources are limestone, a favourable geographic location, and a productive labour force. Malta produces only about 20% of its food needs, has limited freshwater supplies, and has no domestic energy sources. The economy is dependent on foreign trade (serving as a freight transshipment point), manufacturing (especially electronics and textiles), and tourism.
Malta has privatised state-controlled firms and liberalised markets in order to prepare for membership in the European Union, which it joined on May 1, 2004. Malta and Tunisia are currently discussing the commercial exploitation of the continental shelf between their countries, particularly for oil exploration.
Malta is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with about 1,250 inhabitants per square kilometre. The population is mostly composed of the descendants of Phoenician, Italian, Spanish and British peoples. Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of British nationals, a group centred around Sliema and the surrounding suburbs.
Roman Catholicism is established by law as the official religion of Malta; however, full liberty of conscience and freedom of worship is guaranteed, and a number of faiths have places of worship on the island. An estimated 98% of the population are Roman Catholic. Malta has two official languages: Maltese (a Semitic language) and English, but Italian is also widely understood, mainly due to Italian media reaching Malta.


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I'm sure that if you're anything like us, you love great websites. Although, as great as a website is, there's always room for improvement. Knowing how and what to improve, however, isn't always easy.
Different teams in your business will have differing opinions on what's the best step, so who's right? It's simple - none of them! It's your site visitors who hold the answer to the best website design.
The psychology behind sales is fascinating. A colour, a trigger word, an image - a small change can make a real difference to your conversion rate and help with future design decisions. It's unique to your audience, your industry and your product. No one can give you that answer other than your customers themselves.
You can't ask people - people rarely consciously know why they do things. Observing real behaviour is the only way to make a true decision.
You can't try different designs 2 weeks in a row - there are too many variables that might skew your test and give you false results.
This is a case of science meets art and your designs must be based on evidence above belief to make real improvements.
We're busy enough without briefing multiple creatives for every page. Concentrate on the areas that help you to achieve your goals, such as increasing the number of subscribers to your newsletter or improving sales of accessories.
Unless you're an online grocer, beware of testing apples against oranges. Try to keep the elements you are testing simple - if it's the colour you're interested in, keep the text and shape of the button the same or you may not know what has been successful.
How do you split test pages?
Kentico has an in-built split testing module for A/B and multivariate testing. You simply create 2 versions of the page with the key difference you want to test, set some parameters and wait. Kentico will randomly assign the different designs to your visitors, measure which gets the most engagement and report it back to you.
With a click of a button, your best performing page becomes permanent and you can be sure of your decision.
For PetsOnline the newsletter sign up is top of the agenda. Conversion from the newsletter itself is amazing, but it's also a key factor in capturing contact details for their personalisation and automation strategy.
Within the PetsOnline office there has been much debate over where the newsletter sign up box should be placed on the page.
There's only one way to find out - in true X-Factor fashion - put it to a public vote. PetsOnline create version A of the homepage with the sign up button at the top, and version B with it at the bottom and set Kentico to randomly show the different versions to new visitors.
After 2 weeks, PetsOnline can see from their analytics that Option A has a conversion rate of 7.5%, while Option B has a conversion rate of 12%, making it the better option. They click to keep Option B so that all site visitors now see the same thing.
A new debate springs up as to whether it would stand out more in red… time to test again!
That sounds great, but it must be complicated to implement, right?
Wrong! With Kentico, you can implement A/B testing in 5 minutes. Simply create a variant on the page you want to optimise and then launch the test. Using Kentico enables you to target particular visitor segments, such as age, to see if certain users react differently. You can also limit traffic to avoid a negative response. Kentico's analytics features will then clearly demonstrate the winning page.
To truly harness Kentico, and turn your website in to a sales and marketing powerhouse, remember to set up other modules like content personalisation, marketing automation and email marketing, to make sure the right customers are getting the right content at the right time from your newly optimised website.


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Organizations and Clubs in Oxford New York
Promote Oxford Now
P.O. Box 11, Oxford, NY 13830
Mary El Emerson--Membership Chairman
E-mail address: PON@OxfordNY.com
Mission--PON is an organization within the community of Oxford that seeks to promote the Oxford business community, to recognize and maintain its historic nature and to respect its hometown character and culture.
Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of May and November at 7:00 p.m., with additional meetings scheduled when necessary. Attendance at meetings, held at Six On the Square, is welcomed.
Membership is offered in 2 levels to meet the needs of members. Level 1, Basic Membership: $50.00; and Level 2, Enhanced Membership: $70.00.
More information about membership and an online membership form found here.
Membership fees, which go toward member's brochure and website inclusion, generate income which is used to help better Oxford. Tee shirt sales also aid in funding hanging baskets, holiday decorations, and other projects that PON is involved in. The "Riverwalk Project" is one such topic. To read more about PON, its history, goals, and accomplishments click here.
"Friends of Promote Oxford Now- Partners in Our Community" are an important part of the organization. Their input and participation are greatly appreciated, and attendance at meetings is welcomed. Donations may be made at any level and sent to the above address.
Fort Hill American Legion Post #0376
17 South Washington Avenue
Oxford, NY 13830
E-Mail: Amerlegion@stny.rr.com
The American Legion is a not-for-profit organization, and the world's largest veterans' organization. It was instrumental in the creation of the Veterans Administration and is universally recognized as the originator of the GI Bill of Rights. The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide. We provide the community with a place to go for Sunday breakfast. We help the community & school with scholarships and funds for their projects.
To learn more about the Oxford American Legion, Post 376, visit:
http://www.oxfordlegion.com
To learn more about the American Legion, visit: http://www.legion.org/
Village of Oxford Fire Department Auxiliary
Connie L. Rowlison
PO Box 570, 20 Main Street
Oxford, NY 13830-0570
Email: finchconnie@yahoo.com
The Oxford Fire Dept. Auxiliary is dedicated to supporting the activities and members of the Oxford Fire Department. The Auxiliary will help to foster good will, sociability and friendship among and between the Fire Department and residents of Oxford.
The Oxford Garden Club
C/o Jeanne Cline - President
The Oxford Garden Club is a not-for-profit club organized in 1959, and Federated in 1973.
They are a member of the Federated Garden Clubs of NYS, Inc., 6th District, and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. of the Central Atlantic Region.
Mission--To stimulate the creation of private gardens and to work towards the beautification of our homes and community.
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Grange Patrons of Husbandry Oxford Grange #894
Barbara Lawton
master@chenangogrange.org
4760 State Hwy 12, Oxford, NY 13830
http://oxford.chenangogrange.org/
The Grange is a community service-oriented, agricultural fraternity. They help support several community organizations, including the Oxford Academy Band, Drama Club, and Pumpkin Shell. During the Christmas season, they participate in the Oxford Community Christmas Baskets program, as well as supplying many of the delicious homemade cookies for the Oxford Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony. The Grange also recognizes and honors an outstanding member of of the community with their Citizen Of The Year award.
Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, and they take place in the Church Hall of the United Church of Oxford on Fort Hill Park.
New members are always welcome.
Fellowship after meetings with refreshments.
Secretary: Barb A. Lawton;
Treasurer: Edward J. Lawton;
President: Thomas A. Lawton
Oxford Historical Society & The Oxford Historical Museum
1 Depot Street (mailing: P.O. Box 57), Oxford, NY 13830
The Museum will be open each Thursday from May 6th through October 7th, 2004, from 1:00 - 3:00 pm.
The Museum is closed during the winter months, but arrangements can be made for special visitations by calling ahead. For details/information call: Fred Lanfear- (607) 843-9446.
Oxford Lions Club
Oxford, NY 13830.
2014-15 President: Loren Rademacher
lorenrad@frontiernet.net
Since 1917, Lions clubs have offered people the opportunity to give something back to their communities. From involving members in projects as local as cleaning up an area park or as far-reaching as bringing sight to the world's blind, Lions clubs have always embraced those committed to building a brighter future for their community.
Visit our website for upcoming events, members list, and for more information: http://www.oxfordlions.org
For more information about the International Lions Club visit: http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/index.php
Aim: To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.
E-Mail: Oxfordlions@yahoo.com
Meetings: Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Fred's Inn, Route 12, south of Norwich, at 7:00 pm
Oxford Masonic Lodge
Jim Hemstrought Jr.
136 Haven Road
Part of the worldwide fraternity of Freemasons, the oldest and largest fraternity in the world. The aims of our fraternity are friendship, morality and brotherly love. Oxford Lodge contributes over $3,000.00 each year to various youth and children's programs in the Village and Town.
Oxford Rod and Gun Club
Address: P.O. Box 181, 214 Ingraham Road, Oxford, NY 13830
The Oxford Rod & Gun Club, founded in 1963, is located on Ingraham Road in Oxford, New York. Today it serves 139 members. We offer a wide range of activities throughout the year such as a Clambake, Trap Shoots, Slug Shoots and Archery. The club also offers facility rentals for weddings, anniversaries, dances, and the like.
Oxford Rotary Club
About the Rotary: The Rotary Club is a not-for-profit organization, to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
more info here...
Joseph Jefferson Literary Society
The Joseph Jefferson Literary Society is the 1st literary club in Oxford, NY, organized in the fall of 1891.
4458 State Hwy. Rte. 12
The Travelers Book Club meets once-a-month, on the last Monday of the month, at 7:30pm. Each member signs up to be a hostess or give a book review. Book categories/topics are the choice of the program presentor. A yearly schedule is handed out at the September social.
East Side Literary Club
History: This Literary Club was one of the three original book clubs in Oxford, organized in 1905. It had 12 members back then, and today it has 9 members. The early book clubs were formed as a place for women to get together, socialize, and discuss current issues. Today, the club serves not only that function, but it also serves as a great way for women to learn about a variety of books while at the same time promoting literacy.
Motto: Think--Resolve--Act
*4-H Clubs*
Oxford Youth Sports Group
Oxford Senior Center
at the Fire Hall
Jeanne Walsh--(607) 843-6889
Pam Robb--(607) 843-7105
The Oxford Senior Center is open to anyone sixty years and older, living within the Oxford township, who would like to get out and have a delicious hot meal, in the company of others, in a warm and friendly atmosphere.


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Check out the 545 awesome costume submissions from the 2017 contest and find out who the winners were.
A big round of applause 👏 to the winners of the 2017 costume contest. Although it was very hard to decide who the winners were, Lumiere brought home the 1st place prize. Spawn came in second and Sully won the third overall prize. But they weren't the only winners. Check out our many other winners from different categories like scariest costume, best couples costume, and more.
Rita Repulsa – New and Old Mash Up!
Thanks again to everyone who submitted their incredibly creative costumes for the 2017 Halloween Costume Contest. Join us again at Costume Wall for an even bigger and better Halloween Costume Contest in 2018! It's not too early to start planning your costume submission now. We can't wait to see you in 2018!


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Cleehill is a village in south Shropshire, England. It is sometimes written as Clee Hill Village (including the road sign entering the village) to avoid confusion. It lies in the civil parish of Caynham. The market towns of Ludlow and Cleobury Mortimer are both  distant, Ludlow to the west and Cleobury to the east.

It lies on the slope of Titterstone Clee Hill and, lying between  and  above sea level, it is one of the highest settlements in the county.

Amenities
The village has Shropshire's highest school (the Clee Hill Community Primary School).

Cleehill has a pub (the Golden Cross), a small convenience store and post office, a fish and chips take-a-way and a bakery with a cafe. Until it closed in 2015, Shropshire's highest public house, at , was The Kremlin (previously the Craven Arms), located on the upper slopes of the village.

There is a public car park by the A4117, which affords a considerable view over the Teme valley below and further into the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. At the car park is a toposcope and other information boards. There are also public conveniences.

Transport
The A4117 runs through the village and there is a cattle grid stretching over this major thoroughfare due to the road running across common land. The road reaches an elevation of  as it passes Titterstone Clee Hill just to the east of the village, and is often affected by snow in winter. The B4214 road to Tenbury Wells starts at a junction with the A4117 in the village.

The 292 bus service (Ludlow-Cleobury-Bewdley-Kidderminster) calls at Cleehill, providing a regular service Monday to Saturday.

Sport
The village has a football club called Clee Hill United, who play their home games at Knowle Sports Ground, the highest venue in the Mercian Regional Football League at an elevation of .

Climate
Although Cleehill has an oceanic climate like the rest of the U.K., it is slightly different to surrounding areas in certain months of the year and snowfall is more common in winter because of the high elevation.

Compared with the nearest Met Office weather station of Shobdon, Cleehill has colder maximum temperatures year-round, however minimum temperatures are warmer every month of the year except March and April, probably because of the reduced amount of sunshine the village receives compared to nearby areas.

Sunshine amounts are suppressed compared with nearby areas; Cleehill receives less sunshine than Shobdon in every month of the year except January.

Cleehill is also drier than surrounding areas with the exception of the months of April–July, when the village receives more rainfall. Precipitation tends to be heavier than in Shobdon, reflected in the reduced number of rainy days.

See also
Knowbury
Angelbank
Clee Hills#Terminology

References

External links

Villages in Shropshire
Mountain passes of England
Extremities of Shropshire
Mountains and hills of the United Kingdom with toposcopes

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