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package org.opentosca.types;

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;

public class AwsAPI implements ICloudProviderAPI
{

	@Override
	public String InstallVM(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String imageId, String typeId, String keypair) throws ParseException
	{
		JSONObject creds = null;
		JSONObject endspoints = null;
		String retParams = "";

		creds = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(credentials);
		endspoints = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(endpointsAPI);
		String os = AwsUtilities.Authorize(creds);

		retParams = AwsUtilities.CreateServer(os, endspoints,imageId,typeId,keypair);

		return retParams;
	}

	@Override
	public void StopVM(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String serverId)
	{
		try
		{
			JSONObject creds = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(credentials);
			JSONObject endspoints = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(endpointsAPI);
			String os = AwsUtilities.Authorize(creds);

			AwsUtilities.StopServer(os,endspoints,serverId);
		}
		catch (ParseException e)
		{
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void StartVM(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String serverId)
	{
		try
		{
			JSONObject creds = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(credentials);
			JSONObject endspoints = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(endpointsAPI);
			String os = AwsUtilities.Authorize(creds);

			AwsUtilities.StartServer(os,endspoints,serverId);
		}
		catch (ParseException e)
		{
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public void TerminateVM(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String serverId) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public String GetImage(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String imgName) throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String GetKeypair(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String keypair) throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public String GetFlavor(String credentials, String endpointsAPI,
			String minDisk, String minRAM) throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}
}


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"While it's still fairly new and unstable relative to the gold standard, cryptocurrency is definitely gaining traction and will most certainly have more normalized uses in the next few years. Right now, in particular, it's increasing in popularity with the post-election market uncertainty. The key will be in making it easy for large-scale adoption (as with anything involving crypto) including developing safeguards and protections for buyers/investors. I expect that within two years, we'll be in a place where people can shove their money under the virtual mattress through cryptocurrency, and they'll know that wherever they go, that money will be there." – Sarah Granger, Author, and Speaker.
In September 2015, the establishment of the peer-reviewed academic journal Ledger (ISSN 2379-5980) was announced. It covers studies of cryptocurrencies and related technologies, and is published by the University of Pittsburgh.[231] The journal encourages authors to digitally sign a file hash of submitted papers, which will then be timestamped into the bitcoin blockchain. Authors are also asked to include a personal bitcoin address in the first page of their papers.[232][233]
"In 2 years from now, I believe cryptocurrencies will be gaining legitimacy as a protocol for business transactions, micropayments, and overtaking Western Union as the preferred remittance tool. Regarding business transactions – you'll see two paths: There will be financial businesses which use it for it's no fee, nearly-instant ability to move any amount of money around, and there will be those that utilize it for its blockchain technology. Blockchain technology provides the largest benefit with trustless auditing, single source of truth, smart contracts, and color coins."
In 1998, Wei Dai published a description of "b-money", characterized as an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system.[12] Shortly thereafter, Nick Szabo described bit gold.[13] Like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that would follow it, bit gold (not to be confused with the later gold-based exchange, BitGold) was described as an electronic currency system which required users to complete a proof of work function with solutions being cryptographically put together and published. A currency system based on a reusable proof of work was later created by Hal Finney who followed the work of Dai and Szabo.[citation needed]
Bitcoin is a digital currency, sometimes referred to as a cryptocurrency, best known as the world's first truly decentralized digital currency. Bitcoin is traded on a peer-to-peer basis with a distributed ledger called the Blockchain, and the Bitcoin exchange rate to the US Dollar and other major currencies is determined by supply and demand as with other global exchange rates. The traded value of Bitcoin has proven volatile through various booms and busts in demand. Ultimately, however, many see Bitcoin as a store of value against government-backed fiat currencies.
In September 2015, the establishment of the peer-reviewed academic journal Ledger (ISSN 2379-5980) was announced. It covers studies of cryptocurrencies and related technologies, and is published by the University of Pittsburgh.[231] The journal encourages authors to digitally sign a file hash of submitted papers, which will then be timestamped into the bitcoin blockchain. Authors are also asked to include a personal bitcoin address in the first page of their papers.[232][233]
1) Irreversible: After confirmation, a transaction can't be reversed. By nobody. And nobody means nobody. Not you, not your bank, not the president of the United States, not Satoshi, not your miner. Nobody. If you send money, you send it. Period. No one can help you, if you sent your funds to a scammer or if a hacker stole them from your computer. There is no safety net.
Ethereum was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin,[10] a programmer involved with Bitcoin Magazine, in late 2013 with a goal of building decentralized applications.[11][12] Buterin had argued that Bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. Failing to gain agreement, he proposed development of a new platform with a more general scripting language.[4]:88
Nigel Dodd argues in The Social Life of Bitcoin that the essence of the bitcoin ideology is to remove money from social, as well as governmental, control.[131] Dodd quotes a YouTube video, with Roger Ver, Jeff Berwick, Charlie Shrem, Andreas Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Trace Meyer and other proponents of bitcoin reading The Declaration of Bitcoin's Independence. The declaration includes a message of crypto-anarchism with the words: "Bitcoin is inherently anti-establishment, anti-system, and anti-state. Bitcoin undermines governments and disrupts institutions because bitcoin is fundamentally humanitarian."[131][130]
An official investigation into bitcoin traders was reported in May 2018.[177] The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into possible price manipulation, including the techniques of spoofing and wash trades.[178][179][180] Traders in the U.S., the U.K, South Korea, and possibly other countries are being investigated.[177] Brett Redfearn, head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets, had identified several manipulation techniques of concern in March 2018.
1) Controlled supply: Most cryptocurrencies limit the supply of the tokens. In Bitcoin, the supply decreases in time and will reach its final number sometime around the year 2140. All cryptocurrencies control the supply of the token by a schedule written in the code. This means the monetary supply of a cryptocurrency in every given moment in the future can roughly be calculated today. There is no surprise.
Though each bitcoin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed – only their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users' transactions private, it also lets them buy or sell anything without easily tracing it back to them. That's why it has become the currency of choice for people online buying drugs or other illicit activities.
Mining is a record-keeping service done through the use of computer processing power.[e] Miners keep the blockchain consistent, complete, and unalterable by repeatedly grouping newly broadcast transactions into a block, which is then broadcast to the network and verified by recipient nodes.[75] Each block contains a SHA-256 cryptographic hash of the previous block,[75] thus linking it to the previous block and giving the blockchain its name.[7]:ch. 7[75]
^ "Bitcoin: The Cryptoanarchists' Answer to Cash". IEEE Spectrum. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Around the same time, Nick Szabo, a computer scientist who now blogs about law and the history of money, was one of the first to imagine a new digital currency from the ground up. Although many consider his scheme, which he calls "bit gold", to be a precursor to Bitcoin
To realize digital cash you need a payment network with accounts, balances, and transaction. That's easy to understand. One major problem every payment network has to solve is to prevent the so-called double spending: to prevent that one entity spends the same amount twice. Usually, this is done by a central server who keeps record about the balances.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous in that the cryptocurrency within a wallet is not tied to people, but rather to one or more specific keys (or "addresses").[41] Thereby, bitcoin owners are not identifiable, but all transactions are publicly available in the blockchain. Still, cryptocurrency exchanges are often required by law to collect the personal information of their users.
The proof-of-work system, alongside the chaining of blocks, makes modifications of the blockchain extremely hard, as an attacker must modify all subsequent blocks in order for the modifications of one block to be accepted.[87] As new blocks are mined all the time, the difficulty of modifying a block increases as time passes and the number of subsequent blocks (also called confirmations of the given block) increases.[75]
Ethereum can also be used to build Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO). A DAO is fully autonomous, decentralized organization with no single leader. DAO's are run by programming code, on a collection of smart contracts written on the Ethereum blockchain. The code is designed to replace the rules and structure of a traditional organization, eliminating the need for people and centralized control. A DAO is owned by everyone who purchases tokens, but instead of each token equating to equity shares & ownership, tokens act as contributions that give people voting rights.

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Oldřich Hilmera (29. března 1891 Veltrusy – 6. října 1948 Praha) byl český sbormistr a hudební skladatel.

Život
Vystudoval střední školu v Rakovníku a učitelský ústav v Jičíně. Na pražské konzervatoři byl žákem Karla Boleslava Jiráka, Otakara Jeremiáše a v mistrovské škole pak Josefa Bohuslava Foerstera. Učil na učitelských ústavech v Praze a v Jičíně. Později se stal inspektorem středních škol a učitelských ústavů.

Zpíval v Pěveckém sdružení pražských učitelů pod vedením prof. Františka Spilky. V roce 1921 se stal sbormistrem pěveckého sdružení Křížkovský, se kterým podnikl zájezdy do řady evropských zemí a získal i mezinárodní ocenění. Od roku 1938 až do své smrti v roce 1948 byl sbormistrem Pražského pěveckého sboru Smetana.

Dílo

Komorní skladby
 Tři listy (klavír, 1922)
 Bagarela-Serenáda (violoncello, 1923)
 Smyčcový kvartet (1923)

Písně
 Smutná pohádka (1917)
 3 dětské písně (1920)
 Ze Slovácka (1922)

Sbory
 Jaro (dětský, 1930)
 Zahrajte mně muzikanti (dětský)
 Jasná noc (ženský, 1916)
 3 české písničky (mužský, 1922)
 Kůň vraný (mužský,1929)
 Laštovička (pět smíšených sborů, 1942)

Jiné vokální skladby
 Legenda Tritonova (kantáta, text Jaroslav Vrchlický, 1924)
 Oblaka (dvoudílná kantáta, 1928)
 Honza a slon (dětská opera, 1920)

Pedagogická díla
 Cvičebnice zpěvu pro školu měšťanskou
 Cvičebnice zpěvu pro 1. a 2. třídou středních škol (1932)
 Klíček, cvičebnice zpěvu a hudební nauky pro obecné školy (1937)

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Oldřich Hilmera: Cesta sbormistrova, Česká grafická Unie, Praha 1945. Svazek č. 22 z edice Věda všem.
 Československý hudební slovník I (A–L), 1963, SHV, Praha
 Libor Dobner: Oldřich Hilmera, Slánské listy, 11, 21

Externí odkazy

 Osobnosti Kralupska
 Pražský pěvecký sbor Smetana

Skladatelé klasické hudby
Skladatelé 20. století
Čeští hudební skladatelé
Čeští sbormistři
Narození 29. března
Narození v roce 1891
Narození ve Veltrusích
Úmrtí 6. října
Úmrtí v roce 1948
Úmrtí v Praze
Muži

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With papered-up windows and a handwritten sign hanging in the front door informing patrons that it's "closed forever," Brew BQ is off the streets for good.
The restaurant formerly occupying 150 SW Madison Avenue was a popular spot for barbecue, sandwiches, beer, and classic picnic fare, like scalloped potatoes and hush puppies, with a Pacific Northwestern twist.
The Madison Avenue property is owned by DFZ, LLC, according to Benton County property records. The property owners couldn't be reached for comment, but another restaurant is rumored to be moving into the former Brew BQ space. While Brew BQ will be missed, the prospect of new foods, and hopefully brews, is always exciting for the city of Corvallis.


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Bell has called many races
SOUTHSIDER VOICE PHOTO BY AL STILLEY Howdy Bell says calling the Indianapolis 500 from Turn 2 is the scariest place to do so.
By Al Stilley
Senior staff writer
Radio announcer Howdy Bell will be trackside Sunday for his 55th consecutive Indianapolis 500.
A popular Southsider, Bell has lived west of Greenwood since 1984. He called his first 500 as a rookie on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network, which was headed by the voice of Sid Collins.
For 41 years Bell called from Turn 2, the pits and later from the booth by giving listeners valuable rundowns of the positions of all drivers at certain segments.
"We are so blessed to be a part of this event," Bell said last week in the IMS Media Center. "It has been a wonderful experience. It just draws you to it. As I look back on my career it seems somewhat amazing that I was studying at Butler to be a pharmacist and I've been a part of this event for 55 years running."
Bell's path to the 500 probably would not have happened had he not switched from majoring in pharmacy to broadcasting at Butler, where classes were taught there by the late Tom Carnegie, the revered voice of the 500. The Butler connection at the Speedway in the 1960s was strong.
Bell had moved from WSVL-AM in Shelbyville to WIBC-AM to replace morning show co-host Mike Ahern, who was on leave for six months of military duty in 1962. Radio network anchor Sid Collins called upon Bell also to take Ahern's place on the 500 broadcast team.
He was originally stationed off Turn 2 before the suites were built. Seeking a more comfortable vantage point atop the suites, Collins was first refused permission by grounds superintendent Clarence Cagle but was then given the OK by IMS President Tony Hulman to broadcast from atop the building.
Bell's only fear came during threatening weather because the platform was near two high flag poles.
Bell moved into the main broadcast booth after Bob Jenkins took over for Lou Palmer to do the race rundowns. He also called the 500 from the infield hospital and the pits.
Turn 2 remains as his favorite, but it's the most scary place to call the race.
"Graham Hill, driving the wedge-shaped turbine, spun and came to within 6 to 8 feet of our location behind the wall," recalled Bell, who also had a great but terrifying view of Tom Sneva's horrendous race day crash in 1975 after going atop Eldon Rasmussen's car.
"The car broke in half and Sneva's seat had been pushed forward. I thought he was going to fry, but he climbed from the car. His crash was a testimony to all the safety that was built into the race cars then."
Bell also remembers the 1964 race and the fiery front-stretch tragedy that took the lives of Eddie Sachs and Dave McDonald.
"We went off the air for two hours while they cleaned up the track," Bell said. "Sid's obituary was eloquent in remembering Eddie. He was very close to Eddie, but he had nothing prepared ahead of time."
Bell is familiar to Southsiders and has been a guest speaker on many occasions to talk about the Indianapolis 500, the Indianapolis Indians and exploring why people say the things they do.
He is a layman volunteer car pastor through Vineyard Church in Greenwood and has officiated at weddings and funerals.
As a teen Bell worked at his family's drugstore at 13th and Illinois streets. He graduated from Shortridge High School and became more interested in auto racing. He later sold peanuts at the track in 1952 and made $3 for the entire day.
He has four children and eight grandchildren. Three of his children are Center Grove High School graduates.
For the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, Bell will be in the Media Center as a standby for the radio broadcast.
Dave Chanley
I was a neighbor with Howdy back when he was in Jeffersonville, IN. Would love to hear from him is he would be interested in contacting me.
My e-mail is above, my cell is 812 987-2197
doug everett
What absolutely wonderful memories. "back to you in turn 2 howdy" this 76 year old NEVER has a memorial day without fondly remembering that line. Good luck and god speed Mr Bell.


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Q: Noether charge for Lorentz Transformation in terms of creation / annihilation operators I am trying to compute the conserved charge for a continuous Lorentz symmetry for a real scalar field in terms of creation / annihilation operators. So I have,
$$\mathcal{L} = \frac{1}{2} \partial_{\mu} \phi \partial^{\mu}\phi - \frac{1}{2}m^2 \phi^2$$
Following a similar argument as What conservation law corresponds to Lorentz boosts?, I am able to show that, the conserved charge is,
$$M^{\mu \nu} = \int \left( x^{\mu} T^{0 \nu} - x^{\nu} T^{0 \mu} \right) \mathrm{d}^3x$$
However, I need to express this in terms of creation and anhilation operators. So I started by writing down the terms for my stress-energy tensor.
For this problem, we are writing the Lorentz Transformation as :
$$\Lambda^{\mu}_{\nu} = \delta^{\mu}_{\nu} + \omega^{\mu}_{\nu}$$
where $\omega$ is anti-symmetric. Because of this, our stress-energy tensor is also going to be anti-symmetric and so $T^{00} = 0$. This allows me to write:
$$ T^{0\mu} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{L}}{\partial(\partial_0 \phi)} \partial^{\mu} \phi\; - \; \delta^{0 \mu} = \frac{1}{2} \partial^{0} \phi \; \partial^{\mu} \phi$$
Using this, I get,
$$M^{\mu \nu} = \frac{1}{2} \int_x x^{\nu} \partial^{0}\phi\; \partial^{\mu} \phi - x^{\mu} \partial^{0}\phi \; \partial^{\nu} \phi$$
If we're using the (1, -1, -1, -1) signature for our metric, we can write,
$$M^{\mu \nu} = \frac{1}{2} \int_x x^{\nu} \dot{\phi}\; \partial^{\mu} \phi - x^{\mu} \dot{\phi} \; \partial^{\nu} \phi = \frac{1}{2} \int_x x^{\nu}\; \Pi(x, t)\; \partial^{\mu} \phi - x^{\mu} \; \Pi(x, t) \; \partial^{\nu} \phi$$
where $\Pi(x, t)$ is our canonical conjugate momentum (density).
Now, I'm a little iffy about the following part but what I did next was, argue that because $x^{\mu}$ is going to be just a component of the position 4-vector (and so a number), I can move it outside the integral to write
$$ M^{\mu \nu} = \frac{1}{2} \left[ x^{\mu} \int \mathrm{d}^3 x \; \Pi(x, t) \partial_{\nu} \phi - x^{\nu} \int \mathrm{d}^3 x \; \Pi(x, t) \partial_{\mu} \phi \right]$$
The signs have flipped as I lowered the index. This gives,
$$ M^{\mu \nu} = \frac{1}{2} \left[ x^{\mu} P_{\nu} - x^{\nu} P_{\mu} \right] = \frac{1}{2} \left[ x^{\nu} P^{\mu} - x^{\mu} P^{\nu} \right] $$
This makes sense because this takes the form of angular-momenta but I don't know how to simplify this to get it in terms of a sum of a product of creation/anhilation operators, one of which is differentiated. I am stuck here.

A: You did not write down the creation and annihilation operators you title your question with. I'll let you write the full $T^{0j}=:\Pi \partial_j\Phi:~$ in terms of canonical 3D oscillator modes,
$$
[a(k),a(k')]=[a^\dagger (k),a^\dagger (k')]=0, \\
[a(k),a^\dagger (k')=(2\pi)^3~2\omega_k ~\delta^3(k-k'),\\
\Phi({\mathbf x})=\int\frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3 2\omega_k}  (a(k)e^{i{\mathbf  k\cdot x}}+a^\dagger (k) e^{-i{\mathbf  k\cdot x}}),\\
\Pi({\mathbf x})=-i\int\frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3 2 }  (a(k)e^{i{\mathbf  k\cdot x}}-a^\dagger (k) e^{-i{\mathbf  k\cdot x}}),
$$
for $\omega_k=\sqrt{m^2+{\mathbf k}^2}$.  Scalar field theory is a simple repackaging of an infinity of oscillators: go to your favorite text.
In any case, slipping the x s out of the x-integrals is plain unsound!
It is then evident then that
$$
M_{0j}= i\int \frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3 2\omega_k}  a^\dagger(k) \left(\omega_k \frac{\partial}{\partial k^j}\right)a(k)~, \\
M_{jl}= i\int \frac{d^3k}{(2\pi)^3 2\omega_k}  a^\dagger(k) \left( k_j\frac{\partial}{\partial k^l} - k_l\frac{\partial}{\partial k^j}   \right  )a(k)~.
$$
Can you now verify they lead to the requisite Lie algebraic commutators for the group?
Can you check the "classical" field increment of the  action of the rotation piece on the field,
$$
[M_{jl},\Phi(x)]\propto i \left( x_j\frac{\partial}{\partial x^l} - x_l\frac{\partial}{\partial x^j}   \right  )\Phi(x)~~?
$$

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While waiting in line to get stickers on our Jeep for the Great Race, this awesome Peterbuilt hot rod pulled up behind us. Unfortunately it started to rain and hail so, I did not get to learn much about it. It was powered by a twin turbo diesel of some kind.
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By Sarah Groves, also posted in News on 07/02/13
This month, Adnams Cellar & Kitchen Stores are celebrating one of the world's most famous, and widely planted, red grape variety - Cabernet Sauvignon. Because it is widely planted, it can be quite difficult to categorise stylistically, but the grape variety does have traits that can be recognised wherever it is grown. You can enjoy a wide range of different Cabernet Sauvignon wines in our mixed case (£99, save over £14 with free UK standard delivery) - find out more here. In most red grape varieties, the majority of colour and tannins come from the grape skins (the flesh is usually pale yellow / green). Cabernet Sauvignon is a thick-skinned variety, with relatively small berries, so is prone to producing wines high in colour and tannins. It can be slow to ripen, depending on where it is grown, and often shows 'green' characteristics when planted in marginal or cool climates. Its most characteristic aroma and flavour is of black currants and black currant leaves. It is probably most famous as a grape variety in Bordeaux, where it is blended with Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The Merlot adds weight and fleshiness - a fruity padding - to the elegant structure and tannins of Cabernet. Warm or hot climates, such as California and South Australia, often produce Cabernet Sauvignon as a single varietal, rather than blending it with other varieties. In places like Coonawarra (which produces some of the world's finest examples) the climate is warm enough to ripen Cabernet Sauvignon, but is still relatively cool, producing gorgeous mint and eucalyptus flavours with blackcurrant and hints of dark chocolate. There is still some debate as to whether the eucalyptus emanates from the gum trees surrounding the vineyards, but whatever is creating the aromas, it's a fantastic addition to the mix. Rob Chase, Adnams Fine Wine Manager, has an opinion on just about everything, if asked. Here's Rob's view on Cabernet Sauvignon, and true to form, he ends up enthusing about something else entirely… "It's so hard to identify a wine as being 100% Cabernet – growers invariably slip in a small percentage of Merlot or Shiraz or similar, legitimately, to keep costs manageable, but also to make the wine more approachable. I think one of the truest expressions of Cabernet Sauvignon (at least, I believed it was all-Cabernet), was an Australian sparkler, where the bubbles accentuated the blackness and concentration of fruit. Although Bordeaux would appear to be the Cabernet capital of Europe, there are very few pure Cabernets to be found. Invariably, because I prefer Cab to Merlot, I choose a Left Bank wine with its greater preponderance of Cabernet – usually around 70% of the blend in the Médoc. Due to my natural cussedness, however, I now prefer its Cabernet Franc 'cousin', which today is finding greater popularity in the southern hemisphere, but has always made the great red wines of the Loire – like Chinon and Bourgeuil. So, if push comes to shove, and I want a challenging, black fruit-laden interpretation with some chewy tannins (and a roast lamb joint, please), I'd plump for Charles Joguet's 'Cuvée Terroir' Chinon at £12.99. Classic Cabernet Franc." Rob hasn't entirely strayed off-topic, as DNA testing at the University of Davis in California has indicated that Cabernet Sauvignon is in fact a cross between Cabernet Franc and the white grape Sauvignon Blanc. We've put together a 12-bottle mixed case (2 bottles each of six wines) featuring Cabernet as the star grape for £99 (saving over £14 a case, UK standard delivery is free). It either features as a single variety, or as a component in a blend. It's a great way to either help train your palate, or simply just to enjoy the flavour of this classic variety. Find out more here.
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Field Of The Cloth Of Gold
History » List Of Centuries » 16th Century » 1520s » 1520 » Field Of The Cloth Of Gold
For most of a month (June 7 to June 24) in 1520, Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France put on an incredible party to celebrate the peace between their nations. (They had been at peace since 1514.) They met up in Balingham, near Calais, near the border between France and what was then English territory on the continent.
The courts of both kings were known for their decadence, so no expense was spared. The name that history has given the meeting references cloth of gold a rare and valuable fabric made of silk and spun gold - it was used extensively all over the camp. The guest list was huge, a ridiculous "who's who" of 16th Century Europe. The wikipedia page[1] devotes most of its word count to a guest list, so we won't attempt to replicate that here. Thousands of guests stayed in a field of thousands of tents and even a fake/temporary castle. All the food and wine you could consume, live music, daily jousts and tournaments. The two kings were trying very hard to outdo one another.
The party was supposed to go even longer than the 17 days it did, but it suddenly ended early when Henry VIII got his pride hurt during a royal wrestling match. Both kings took their toys and went home. A month later Henry 8th had allied with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and England and France were at war.
Huh. I guess there was also a dragon. I mean, it's right there in the eyewitness painting. Painters don't lie.
2. TV Show: The Tudors
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If you're a knight, noble or herald in the first half of the 16th Century this is the place where you made your name. (Or else it's the place you sadly never got invited to and cause of your jealousy and envy.)
There's some juicy characterization and backstory lurking hereabouts.
Jousting, wrestling, archery, not to mention competitions of the arts. If you're the best of the best, you may have won a prize at this party.
If you're a time traveler this is one of the biggest parties you could possibly crash. It's gaudy and memorable, but big enough that no one's going to notice one extra squire who barely knows the language and is a bumbling fish out of temporal water. In the Past everyone will be famous, so get mingling.
In a Continuum RPG campaign I ran, I had a "Thespian" Corner here that specialized in greeting the numerous time-traveling sight-see-ers and helping them blend in.
A similar event could happen in a fantasy world, and all that magic would let you dial it up to 11. Actually, the original party already goes to 11, so the version you'd get in a dungeons & dragons campaign would have to go to 12 (or 20).
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When people imagine the perfect English countryside, it's the Cotswolds they picture. Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty since 1966, this gentle landscape has everything that's right with the English landscape: gently rolling hills, slow-flowing rivers, picture perfect country gardens and villages sculpted from lovely Cotswold stone.
Winding through Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire, the Cotswolds is so special that it deserves its own page on Exclusively Thames Valley!
Imagine your delegates arriving at their manor house hotel by vintage car, arriving just in time for tea on the lawn. How about some team-building on the river to work up an appetite for your dinner of locally sourced produce in a top gastropub? There is so much to see and do, with facilities to suit any type of event. Bustling market towns like Cheltenham, Cirencester, Tewkesbury, Stroud and Witney nestle cheek by jowl with picturesque villages like Broadway, Chipping Campden and the Slaughters.
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Alfred Corn
Alfred Corn has become one of his generation's most accomplished literary artists since leaving his boyhood home in Valdosta, Georgia. A critically-acclaimed poet, a novelist, and a literary critic, Corn has built his body of work across an astonishing range of subjects personal, political, and artistic, drawing upon a wealth of intellect and curiosity limited neither by geography nor time.
Alfred DeWitt Corn III was born in a Bainbridge, Georgia, hospital, the third child and only son of Grace Lahey and A. D. Corn, Jr. His father was a lawyer who, during the Depression, went to work as an insurance agent in Donalsonville, Georgia. Corn's mother, a graduate of the Valdosta State College for Women, kept house and cared for Corn and his sisters. While his father was serving in the U.S. Army Engineers in the Phillipines, his mother died of complications from a burst appendix and he and his sisters went to stay with relatives in Ray City, in Berrien County, Georgia. When his father was discharged from the military, the family resettled in Valdosta, his father's hometown.
Corn excelled in Valdosta public schools and went to Emory University in Atlanta, where he earned a B.A. in French literature (1965). He did graduate study at Columbia University in New York City, where he earned an M.A. in 1967. Corn left Columbia before finishing his Ph.D., and he held short-term office jobs in New York and wrote free-lance for literary-cultural publications while he concentrated upon writing his own fiction and poetry. Corn's poetry first appeared in print in the journals Saturday Review and Poem in 1972, and other publications soon followed. In 1974 the Academy of American Poets awarded Corn its James Ingram Merrill prize, which enabled him to write poetry full-time, and in 1976 the Viking Press published his first volume of poetry, the critically praised All Roads At Once.
Corn identifies himself as a Southern writer. Yet he only rarely writes about recognizably Southern themes, locations or subjects. Corn told an interviewer in 2005, "I tend to write about whatever is before me," and visiting Georgia in his writing requires him to make a conscious decision to "go back down memory lane and write about those years in the South." Among the instances where his poetry focuses specifically upon his Georgia childhood are Corn's poems "The Outdoor Amphiteatre," "Getting Past the Past," "Dreambooks," "Stepson Elegy," "Sugar Cane," and "A Goya Reproduction."
Despite the rareness of Southern regionalism in his work, Corn strongly credits his art to the "forces that shaped me as a Southerner." The language and culture of African-American Georgians, for instance; also the music of his Valdosta church choir and Bible readings, as well as the South's notable appreciation for homegrown storytelling and wit. "I would also say that because I thought and read, I became aware of the injustices that were prevalent in racism and also of some of the special difficulties Southern women faced, so I became ardently political. Perhaps I wouldn't have if those issues weren't posed so strongly in the region where I grew up." He added,
One of the other things about being a Southern writer that's affected me: the lushness of the vegetation, the flowering and fragrances in the air—that has contributed to my work. … The luxuriant potential of language appeals to me perhaps because of having grown up in the semitropical state of Georgia. You go from perception to sexual experience. Some people say that warm climates promote what Whitman called amativeness and that tropical peoples excel in that capacity. There may be something to it; I don't know. I do know that Southerners are very sexual, and that's going to affect your sense of language. Think how [Tennessee] Williams handled the subject in A Streetcar Named Desire."[1]
Corn has published twelve volumes of poetry, including Stake: Selected Poems, 1972–1992, a collection from the first two decades of his career. In 2016 and 2017 a bilingual collection of Corn's work was published in Spain and Mexico. Corn has also published two novels, a comparative guide to American and British English, and an acclaimed study of prosody. He frequently write critical articles on poetry and art for leading journals, and his book reviews have appeared in many periodicals including the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and ARTnews, and have been compiled in three collections of essays.
In 2011, London's Pentameter Theatre premiered Lowell's Bedlam, Corn's first play, and in 2014 he won the international Andersen Prize, awarded for an original fairy tale.
Corn's numerous awards include Poetry Foundation prizes, an Award in Literature from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. For many years a teacher in the graduate writing program at Columbia University, he has held visiting posts at U.S. colleges including UCLA, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma State, and Yale. He has taught and held fellowships at various universities in the United States, England, Mexico and Spain. In November 2015, he was a featured speaker at the grand opening of the Mu Xin Museum in Wuzhen, China.
Corn lives in Rhode Island and spends part of every year in the United Kingdom.
[1] Christopher Hennessy, "Alfred Corn," in Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Photograph of Alfred Corn ©Miriam Berkley.
The following works by Alfred Corn are held by UGA's Hargrett Library:
All Roads at Once. New York: Viking Press, 1976.
A Call in the Midst of the Crowd. New York: Viking Press, 1978.
The Various Light. New York: Viking Press, 1980.
Tongues on Trees. New York: Parenthèse, 1981.
The New Life. New York: Albondocani Press, 1983.
The Metamorphoses of Metaphor. New York: Viking Press, 1987.
Navidad, St. Nicholas Avenue. New York: Albondocani Press, 1984.
Notes from a Child of Paradise. New York: Viking, 1984.
An Xmas Murder. New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1987.
The West Door. New York : Viking, 1988.
Autobiographies: Poems. New York : Viking, 1992.
Present. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997.
Part of His Story. Minneapolis: Mid-List, 1997.
The Poem's Heartbeat. Brownsville, OR: Story Line, 1997.
Stake: Poems, 1972-1992. Washington, D.C.: , Counterpoint, 1999.
Aaron Rose: Photographs. (Essayist and interviewer) NY: Abrams, 2001.
Contradictions. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002.
The Poem's Heartbeat. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2008.
Unions. New York : Barrow Street Press, 2014.
Miranda's Book. London: Eyewear Publishing, 2014
In addition, the Hargrett Library's "Alfred Corn Collection" includes more than fifty individual periodicals containing poems or critical reviews by the author, dating from 1972.
www.alfredcorn.com
"Topics and Events" (weblog 2010-2013)
New Georgia Encyclopedia: "Alfred Corn."
"Biographical and Critical Works about Alfred Corn." (Notre Dame Review)
Poetry Foundation: "Alfred Corn."
Academy of American Poets: "Alfred Corn."
Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds the papers of Alfred Corn, including the author's manuscripts, photographs, and correspondence.
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The Deep Beyond
By C. J. Cherryh
Part of Alliance-Union Universe
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About The Deep Beyond
This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee Cuckoo's Egg and Locus Best Novel Award nominee Serpent's Reach.
In Cuckoo's Egg: They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the defenders. Thorn knew his difference was important—but not important enough to prevent murderous conspiracies against him, his protector, his caste, and perhaps against the peace of the world. But when Thorn finally learned what his true role in life was to be, that on him might hang the future of two worlds, then he had to stand alone to justify his very existence.
In Serpent's Reach: Raen a Sul Meth-maren was very young when the machinations of her distant kin erupted into a bloodbath. Years passed and Raen bided her time. Then, on a voyage to the outermost planet of the Reach, Raen encountered Betas with an intriguing tale to tell, an Azi unlike any other, and a Blue Warrior who remembered her contribution to the Hive mind. And she knew her time had come….
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C. J. Cherryh planned to write since the age of ten. When she was older, she learned to use a typewriter while triple-majoring in Classics, Latin, and Greek. With more than seventy books to her credit, and the winner of… More about C. J. Cherryh
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Aug 02, 2005 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9781101666449
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"A study in alienation and adaptation." —Publishers Weekly
"Cherryh has the uncanny ability to yank readers into an alien culture and to keep them there. A book to be treasured (cover and all) by advanced readers who can catch all the nuances cleverly incorporated into the remarkable tale. Let us hope for a sequel." —Kliatt
"Cherryh gives us here a finely imagined first contact whose like I cannot recall. I do keep raving about Cherryh, and this time is no exception. Cuckoo's Egg is excellent, and execution is only part of the reason. Cherryh is consistently original…. she strikes me as doing more to shape the future of SF than any other writer now living. She, almost alone, is inventing new kinds of stories." —Analog
"Cherryh's customary strengths are all here—brisk pacing, above-average characterization of both human sexes and also of nonhumans, and genuinely brilliant worldbuilding." —Booklist
"A fascinating alien civilization." —Locus


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		float[] hsb = Color.RGBtoHSB(color.getRed(), color.getGreen(), color.getBlue(), null);
		float deltaS = 0 , deltaB = 0.1f;//05f;
		return Color.getHSBColor(hsb[0], hsb[1]-deltaS, hsb[2]+deltaB);
	}
	static Pair<Color,Color> darkerBrighter(Color color) {
		float[] hsb = Color.RGBtoHSB(color.getRed(), color.getGreen(), color.getBlue(), null);
		float deltaS = 0 , deltaB = 0.1f;//05f;
		return new Pair<Color,Color>(Color.getHSBColor(hsb[0], hsb[1]+deltaS, hsb[2]-deltaB),Color.getHSBColor(hsb[0], hsb[1]-deltaS, hsb[2]+deltaB));
	}
	GradientPaint cachedPaint;
	Color cachedBaseColor;
	int cachedBarWidth;

	@Override
	public void paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
		Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;

		JProgressBar bar = (JProgressBar)c;
		Dimension size = bar.getSize();
		Insets in = bar.getInsets();

		double p = bar.getPercentComplete();
		Color color = bar.getForeground();
		int x = in.left, y = in.top, w = size.width - in.left - in.right, h = size.height - in.top - in.bottom;

		int barWidth = p < 0.5 ? (int)Math.ceil((w-2) * p) : (int)((w-2) * p);
		Paint oldPaint = null;
		if (useGradients) {
			GradientPaint paint = cachedPaint;
			if (cachedBaseColor == null || !cachedBaseColor.equals(color) || cachedBarWidth != barWidth) {
				Pair<Color,Color> darkerBrighter = darkerBrighter(cachedBaseColor = color);
				cachedBarWidth = barWidth;
				paint = cachedPaint = new GradientPaint(x+1,y, darkerBrighter.getSecond(), x+barWidth, y, darkerBrighter.getFirst());
			}
			oldPaint = g2d.getPaint();
			g2d.setPaint(paint);
		} else {
			g2d.setColor(color);
		}
		g2d.fillRect(x+1, y, barWidth+1, h);

		if (useGradients) {
			g2d.setPaint(oldPaint);
			g2d.setColor(color);
		}

		g2d.setColor(color);
		g2d.drawRect(x, y, w, h);

	}
}

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To get the most out of a show, follow-up is crucial – but it's often left out of most event plans (industry statistics show that eight out of 10 exhibitors fail to follow-up leads after a show).
The secret is to ensure your after-show follow-up strategy is written up before the show starts: email follow-ups should be written, designed, and any offers decided on.
Often people are not ready to buy at they moment they discover your product, so creating a way to capture their information ensures you have the opportunity to convert them at a later date.
Depending on your goal, you may be collecting sales leads, competition entries or newsletter sign-ups. Think carefully about the environment, as at certain times it may not be practical to collect names with the many people typically crowding stands – it's best to KISS (keep it simple stupid).
Your way of capturing leads could be a simple clipboard and pen, or an iPad containing an app to capture data. But whatever you do, ensure you check the data each day and keep the information safe.
At the end of each show day, collate all visitor data collected and enter the most common fields into a CSV or Excel file. Once the show is complete, you will have a full show database to work from.
Consider the use of an iPad with an app such as Polldaddy to collect data and have it sync back and saved to their servers each day.


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Oregon's federal & state leaders react to historic $422m in federal wildfire aid
Posted by Katie Streit November 3, 2021
MEDFORD, Ore. – Oregon is receiving more financial help from the federal government. NBC5 News first reported Monday that $422 million were coming to the state through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD. That money will go towards rebuilding communities after last year's horrific fire season.
This money will bring hope back into our community, as we continue to rebuild following last year's fires. The funding from HUD will give the state more than $422 million dollars toward recovery efforts. While the specifics aren't laid out yet leaders tell me the money will help immensely.
The news first got out Saturday at the ribbon-cutting for the Talent-Gateway Project. Leaders from the local level all the way to the federal government are excited about the announcement.
"This is an incredibly unusually large grant to receive and will help a ton of those families who lost everything," said U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley.
In order to even qualify for this type of grant, the state needed help from congress. U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to get the assistance.
"Wyden and I promised that we would not forget you and we would fight for you. And this is apart from pushing FEMA to every moment, this is the biggest way we've been able to fulfill that promise," said Sen. Merkley.
What will the state do with 422 million dollars for recovery efforts? HUD told NBC5 News it's up to the community.
"It's driven my choices that the residents and citizens of Oregon make. They'll present that information to HUD in a plan that not only describes their unmet needs but which specific program and activities they'll use the funding for," said Tennille Parker, Director of Disaster Recovery and Special Issues Division.
The grant will go to Oregon Housing and Services who previously budgeted local and state money for wildfire aid. But before Oregon gets the money, local leaders need to create a plan on how best to spend the new resources.
Ashland State Representative Pam Marsh has been vocal through the rebuilding process. She told NBC5 News she's already brainstorming ideas.
"With this money, we can really think creatively about the way we approach building housing density and housing stock within the community," said Rep. Marsh, "The goal is for us to be a model for getting housing units fast and as inexpensively as possible".
While our community is still in the early stages of planning around the grant, leaders hope it will bring residents back home.
Oregon Housing and Community Services sent NBC5 News a statement:
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) appreciates the strong leadership from our congressional delegation to help ensure the needs of Oregonians are elevated with the allocation of this federal grant. We know that the unmet need [for] housing is overwhelming. The mission of our agency is to provide affordable, safe, and resilient housing. This is just the beginning of a months-long and complex process to get federal funds to help Oregon wildfire survivors. The state must still complete many tasks required by the federal government before it receives the money. One of these tasks will be to develop an action plan that identifies how the state will use the funds and address unmet disaster recovery and mitigation needs. The public will be invited to review the plan and submit feedback throughout the process.
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Grubbrr's platform allows food companies, bars, movie theaters, golf courses and other service businesses to build self-service kiosks for customers. It will use the new capital toward developing its artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies as it aims to move lines along faster, increase ticket averages and lower labor costs for its customers.


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#Asia Social e-commerce and advantages: BetaOut spills insights from their expansion plan
Publié le 13 mai 2016 par Startup365
The expansion plan to Indonesia follows the company's recent pre-Series A funding
Betaout Co-Founders (left to right): Arjun Maheshwari, Raghubir Thakur, Mayank Dhingra, Nandini Rathi and Ankit Maheshwari
In late April, Indian marketing automation platform for e-commerce companies BetaOut announced it has received a US$1.5 million pre-Series A round from various investors including Beenext, Stanford Angels, LetsVenture, Chennai Angels, Hyderabad Angels, Mumbai Angels, and previous investors Sam Yagan of Match Group and Corazon Capital.
Which begs the question, what plan does the company have in mind following the funding round?
"We're planning to rent an island," BetaOut Founder and CEO Ankit Maheshwari jokingly replied in an interview with e27.
But on a serious note, apart from investing in technology and sales, BetaOut is also looking to expand to the US and Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, by next year.
In Indonesia, BetaOut has already secured clients such as e-commerce giant Tokopedia.
"E-commerce in Indonesia is very similar to e-commerce in India, but I believe it is [falling] three years behind India. In India, we have solved problems like payments, logistics, while in Indonesia these are the problems that entrepreneurs are working on right now," Maheshwari explained.
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To get ahead of competition, BetaOut chose to stay focussed on building a product that its end-users would need.
"We are just adding new features day-by-day, we are closely monitoring what is working for us or not," Maheshwari said.
Recently, apart from a flow of investments from Japan, Indonesia has seen more Indian startups entering the market.
According to Maheshwari, the reason why Indian startups are interested in Indonesian market goes beyond its friendly and open-minded human resources.
"Indonesian entrepreneurs also have an advantage in terms of looking over the shoulders of what people have done in China, India, and the US. In that sense, they have already seen some of the successes and failures, which they can bank on," he explained.
"I think the market is growing right now. VC communities are also shaping up their presence in Indonesia," he added.
During the same interview, BetaOut Co-Founder Mayank Dhingra explained market size and Internet penetration are the key factors on why startups can grow rapidly in the country.
"For example Go-Jek, they have an impressive growth, doing over a million orders a day. That's what is really exciting. And we see that the very same e-commerce growth that has shaped India is going to shape Indonesia in a similar fashion," he said.
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While entering a new market certainly has its own challenges, BetaOut feels that at the moment it is still too early to map out its greatest challenges in entering Indonesian market.
"There'll be some requirements to improve or customise the product for Indonesian market. So right now we have a generic product which works globally but there'll be couple of features [specifically for the market]," Maheshwari explained.
The most valuable lessons BetaOut has learned so far about Indonesian e-commerce scene is that social e-commerce is still very big in the country.
"People are still using channels like Instagram, BBM … In India, we don't have those kind of channels. Also, similar to what is happening in India, bank transfer option is still great in e-commerce," he concluded.
Image Credit: BetaOut
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A talk Neil gave us at YP last friday has really got me thinking about this issue.
One thing that really stands out in my mind of my gran was how we would be all sitting in their lounge watching the cricket and she would be shaking her head and telling the batsman that if he would just hit the ball through the gap he would score runs, or if he would just hit a few sixes South Africa would win the game. She could not seem to understand why on earth they weren't just hitting sixes! Of course none of us could persuade her otherwise.
This is a harmless example of something we are so prone to do in everyday life. We criticize others so easily and so often we are no better than they. What an opportunity to be different – not to join in when someone is being criticized and even to add something about that person which is good?
Things like these make an impression on people – evangelism isn't just about walking around with a Bible reading it to your friends, you can contribute in a small way which may result in something big happening!
Over the last little while I have been thinking a lot about the issues which face us as Christians living in the 21st century. About how we have adapted to the technology available and now take it for granted that we can talk to people hundreds of kilometres away at the touch of a few buttons. We have such a wealth of information available to us. Google as a search engine has around 3.083 billion web pages listed (and only around 10% of all web pages available are listed) and it is estimated that on average there are about 1 000 000 new static web pages being added the net every single day. That is a heck of a lot of information which is freely available for us to browse. However, not all of it is stuff which we should be filling our heads with and as Christian teens we need to be very careful and discerning about what we fill our minds with and the way we use the internet.
In the this post and the sequels which will follow, I plan to write about issues surrounding the internet and how I think we as Christian teens ought to live accordingly.
Well, before we look at the negatives and dangers of the internet we must acknowledge that this is a great source of information. I mean, what homework assignment can a teacher possibly give you that you cannot possibly find an answer to on the internet? Isn't that great? The internet is possible the most useful tool a scholar can find – have you ever wondered what people did for finding answers before the internet was freely available? They would have had to traipse off to the library and spend hours pouring over books looking for the piece of info that they needed, upon which they would have to rewrite that article into their books!
I'm not sure about you, but I certainly appreciate the ease with which we live life in the 21st century.
Not only is the internet useful for schoolwork, but there are many God-glorifying, edifying websites out there which we can actually use to learn about God and find answers to our questions about things written in God's Word.
We can chat to friends, play games, read blogs, listen to podcasts, watch movies and so much more.
As Christians we cannot afford to "just do" anything, we should first think about it and put it under the microscope of the Bible to see if it lives up to the standards God has placed before us, because whether you are aware of it or not, there is stuff out there which can be really harmful to us, offensive to God, and downright illegal.
In the following articles I hope to discuss issues like the copyright law, Online relationships, Dangers on the internet, Managing your time etc. I don't claim to know it all, but as a guy who spends a fair amount of time on the computer this is something which I have given a lot of thought recently and hope to share with you some of the conclusions I've reached.


Just a quick post to show some photos of the men working hard to get up all the leaves. We have been fortunate as the weather has cooperated nicely. This a magical service. The properties are literally covered with debris and within a few hours it is emaculate. As a North Attleboro Landscaper we have to wait until the week before Thanksgiving to get going on full clean ups as the oaks, beech leaves are still hanging on.


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PlayStation VR Bundles In Stock Now At Amazon
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PlayStation VR is finally available for purchase worldwide. The headset was made available for pre-order months ago but the available stock was quickly sold out. However Amazon has restocked in time for the launch of the PlayStation VR headset.
The virtual reality gaming head-mounted display has been developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment and can be used with the PlayStation 4 console. It also comes with its own set of games and accessories.
The PlayStation VR Headset, known by the codename Project Morpheus during development, has a 5.7 inch OLED panel with a RGB sub-pixel matrix resolution of 1080p, or 960 × 1080 × RGB per eye. The headset also has a processor box which allows video output to be seen on television, and processes the 3D audio effect using a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Sony has promised a great lineup of over 30 first and third party games available from day one. These include PS VR exclusives such as Batman: Arkham VR, Driveclub VR, PlayStation VR Worlds, and RIGS: Mechanized Combat League.
Amazon has $399 PS VR Headsets as well as the $499 Launch Bundle in stock. The bundle includes the camera and move controllers which are essential for the use of the VR Headset. Sony has publicly stated that the PlayStation VR stock will be limited so you might not want to wait too long if you want to get your hands on one.
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Gifts are hard enough to pick out, let alone pay for. So we propose you leave the socks on the shelf, toss the cafe gift cards aside, and make affordable gifts your friends and fam can snack on all winter long. (But we'll still take the cash in a card—thanks, Grandma!) These 7 DIY edible gifts will satisfy the chocolate lover, the chai drinker, and even the fancy salt sprinkler. Oops, we think you just won the holidays!
You may think of chocolate bark as that vaguely minty stuff sold at every home and kitchen-goods store for $25 bucks a box. Spoiler alert: Chocolate bark is laughably easy to DIY, plus you can add any toppings you want, like… literally anything except crushed candy canes. Because who even likes those?
Giving caramel sauce as a present is as safe as a pair of cozy socks, but we bet this jar of amber goodness will yield a much warmer reaction. Attach a list of what to do with the sauce to each jar you give out ("dunk pretzels," "spoon over ice cream," or "eat with a spoon").
Chai mix is a nearly foolproof gift for the office swap. While your coworkers unwrap their $5 Starbucks gift cards (like that even covers a small drink) and re-gifted cheap bracelets they'll never wear, one lucky guy is five minutes away from a sweet and spicy homemade chai.
Those friends you've been meaning to get coffee with the past three months? Give them jars of peppermint mocha syrup with a note containing your nearest free afternoon—and a recipe for homemade peppermint mocha lattes.
Your healthy, hippie friend who wears hemp shoes and was born vegan is tough to shop for, right? This is the gift for them. Make sure you deliver it in a recycled jar wrapped in newspaper to avoid being scolded.
Without a doubt, the least offensive gift that's also fancy AF is flavored salt. Whip these up for teachers, bosses, and significant others' parents. You can infuse pretty much anything (citrus zest! Spices! Herbs!) into salt, and it'll look gorgeous. Tell them to sprinkle it on pasta, meats, even avocado toast—and expect an A on your next paper/a raise/an invite to spend the weekend immediately after.


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Q: What is the shortest way to represent all php types in string? I'm writing a universal system that will hopefully one day apply to medicine, etc. (i.e. it's "scientific").
I figure the best way to go about this is to represent all data in php with string (true would be "true", false would be "false", so on and so forth). The reason for this is that there is exactly one string representation of any value in php (e.g. php code itself).
I am posting this question in an attempt to accelerate the design process of this program.
Some values are easily translated to string: numbers, booleans, etc.
Some are not: objects, arrays, resources.
I figured the format for transmitting objects and arrays is basically json, but I'm not sure if this is a tight fit. It's better than what I currently have (nothing), but, at least at some point, I would like to refine this to a point.
Any ideas?

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I'm writing a universal system

This is an ambitious goal indeed; so ambitious as to be foolish to attempt.
Now, probably you don't really mean "can do absolutely anything for anyone", but it's relevant to your question that you don't place any limits on what you're trying to represent. That's making your search for a serialization format unnecessarily difficult.
For instance, you mention resources, which PHP uses for things like database connections, open file handles, etc. They are transient pointers to something that exists briefly and then is gone, and serializing them is not only unsupported by PHP, it's close to meaningless.
Instead of trying to cover "everything", you need to think about what types of data you actually need to handle. Maybe you'll mostly be working with classes defined within the system, so you can define whatever format for those you want. Maybe you want to work with arbitrary bags of key-value pairs, in the form of PHP arrays. You might want to leave the way open for future expansion, but that's about flexibility in the format, not having a specific answer right now.
From there, you can look for what properties you want, and shop around:

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*JSON is a hugely popular "lowest-common denominator" format. Its main downside is it has no representation of specific custom types, everything has to be composed of lists and key-value pairs (I like to say "JSON has no class").

*XML is less fashionable than it used to be, but very powerful for defining custom languages and types. Its quite verbose, but compresses well - a lot of modern file formats are actually zip archives containing compressed XML files.

*PHP serialization format is really only intended for short-term, in-application purposes, like cache data. Its fairly concise, and closely tied to PHP's type system, but has security problems if users have influence over the data, as noted on the unserialize manual page.

*There are even more concise formats that don't limit themselves to human-readable representations, if that was a relevant factor for you.

Obviously, the list is endless...

A: I've programmed a solution to this problem. It's a simple class that converts string to int | float | bool | null | string. The idea is that
any value that is not a relativistic value (e.g. an array, something that simply holds other values) is represented by a single string. The implications are broad, I'll do my best to simplify.
Imagine you're making a website, which is basically (and in fact) made of webpages. If a webpage consists of inputs (typically GET and POST form data), and those inputs are string (GET and POST elements are string), all that stands between us and raw php is interpretation of said string.
Or think of it this way: if you model the total potential of php in string, it may not be ultimately how you do things but it works, right here right now. What THAT means is that we can implement it immediately.
The rest of it is left blank, as that is what I mean by "relativistic".
Now, ok, just to cap it all off, if you think about what this implies in form, in the actual php code itself, everything is, at a point at which there is exactly one string per one "non-relativistic" value.
So basically what you have is a bunch of php. The idea is is designed to be semantically AND syntactically as simple and functional as possible (or, at least, completely factorialized). So basically we have one way to represent any potential data in php.
Anyways, you can find it here: https://github.com/cinder-brent/Cinder
Cheers:)
-- edit --
Lo' and behold, I moved the project. It is now at https://github.com/cinder-brent/Leaf


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Both myself and the production company who made this are based in Brighton, so it was a joy to be able to walk to work for this shoot. We spent all day hunched over a table, making barely imperceptible changes to the props on the table top, and we had to shoot it backwards in order to get everything laid out nicely. This process is called Knolling – named after a system devised by a janitor who was clearing up after Frank Gehry while he worked on furniture for the company Knoll. It's incredibly satisfying when you start editing it together, and it made me want to make a Wes Anderson film.
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"Invisible" bicycle helmet offers new twist on cycling safety
22 August 2012, by Carly Blair
Every year in the Netherlands around 200 people die and around 67.000 are injured in cycling accidents. Around one third of cyclists who are injured suffer head injuries. The most effective protection against serious injuries to the skull is to wear a bicycle helmet every time you get on your bicycle. International studies show that bicycle helmets reduce injuries by at least 60%, and 40% of people who die in cycling accidents would have survived if they had been wearing a helmet.
Despite these statistics, the vast majority of cyclists on the roads aren't wearing helmets, and among people wearing helmets the majority are children. If people recognize that helmets promote safety when it comes to children, why do so few of adults wear them?
Reasons are many and vary from person to person. Bicycle helmets are bulky and impractical to carry around when you're not on your bicycle, and difficult to safely affix to the bike itself. Helmets are hot in the summertime, and difficult to fit over a warm hat in the wintertime. Wearing a helmet can mess up one's hairstyle. Many (most?) also think that helmets simply look silly or uncool.
Apparently many people think that the chance of getting into an accident is small enough to make wearing a helmet not worth the hassle, but the statistics indicate otherwise. So how to persuade more cyclists to wear a helmet?
With this quandary in mind, Swedish industrial design students Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin spent seven years creating Hövding, an "Invisible" bike helmet in the form of a collar with an airbag hidden inside which deploys in the case of an accident.
The airbag is triggered by sensors which pick up abnormal movements of the cyclist, based on measurements collected from hundreds of simulated cycling accidents. Once filled, the airbag covers the entire back and sides of the user's head. The Hövding also has a black box that records data around the time of an accident, which users can send back to the company to help them further develop the product. The collar is covered by a removable fabric shell which comes in different colors and patterns to match user's outfits.
Between being safe, practical to carry around, and relatively stylish, Hövding seems like a good option for cyclists who have avoided wearing a helmet in the past - at least those who can afford the $597 price tag.
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Peraji () is a small settlement in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

It lies close to the border with Croatia and is not connected by road to any surrounding settlements. It no longer has any permanent residents.

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External links
Peraji on Geopedia

Populated places in the City Municipality of Koper


Look, we're going to level with you: there are definitely some valid reasons to skip the update to Windows 10. Maybe you're on a work PC and your IT department hasn't authorized the update. Maybe you have some crazy custom legacy software that you've confirmed just won't work on Windows 10. Maybe you're afraid Windows 10 is going to spy on you.
We're not going to judge you in any of those cases but to be frank, Windows 10 is pretty awesome. Microsoft did a terrific job of listening to customers complain about everything they hated in Windows 8 and undoing most of the damage. But be warned: If you ever plan to update to Windows 10, now is the time to do it.
Three weeks from today will be the last day you'll be able to download Microsoft's big Windows 10 upgrade for free. After that, you'll have to pay to update your desktop or laptop, and you'll be furious that you didn't grab Windows 10 while it was free.
Do yourself a favor and don't wait for the last minute to install the update. Bite the bullet and take some time out of your weekend plans to get the ball rolling. Trust us when we tell you that you'll be happy you did.
What should you do if you do if you're ready to upgrade your machine to Windows 10? It really couldn't be easier. Make sure your PC is plugged in if it's a laptop and then head to this page on Microsoft's website. There, you'll be able to run a quick check to see if your PC is eligible for the update — it almost certainly will be as long as you're running a licensed version of Windows — and your download will begin. Once it's downloaded, the installer takes care of the rest.
You should definitely back up any important data before you begin. Microsoft's upgrade process is pretty smooth and you won't lose anything if all goes according to plan… but things don't always go according to plan.
July 29th is the last day Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade will be available for free. Again, don't wait until then.
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