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The Institutional Dynamics of a Developmental State: Change and Continuity in State-Economy Relations in Israel
Daniel Maman, Zeev Rosenhek
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
This paper examines the institutional dynamics of the Israeli developmental state, focusing on its transformation since the mid-1980s, when a deep and far-reaching process of liberalization began. In contrast to the conventional stance concerning the withdrawal of the state from the economy and the decline of its political and institutional capabilities to shape the structure of economic relations, our analysis suggests that the state has not retreated from the economic sphere. The important shift in state-economy relations lies not in the extent of the state's involvement in the economy, but rather in the mode of its involvement. That is, institutional changes have to do first and foremost with the definition of the state's objectives in the management of the political economy and the way it uses particular institutional instruments to attain those objectives. As we show, state agencies continue to play a crucial role in the economic arena. While certain institutional traits and practices of the classic developmental state have indeed vanished, there are also very significant lines of continuity in place that keep imprinting on state-economy relations. It is this combination of change and continuity that determines the modes of action of developmental states under conditions of neoliberal globalization.
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Israeli political economy
Liberalization
State-economy relations
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Maman, D., & Rosenhek, Z. (2012). The Institutional Dynamics of a Developmental State: Change and Continuity in State-Economy Relations in Israel. Studies in Comparative International Development, 47(3), 342-363. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-012-9098-3
Maman, Daniel ; Rosenhek, Zeev. / The Institutional Dynamics of a Developmental State : Change and Continuity in State-Economy Relations in Israel. In: Studies in Comparative International Development. 2012 ; Vol. 47, No. 3. pp. 342-363.
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Alasdair Lane
What drives a young man from his privileged life to the killing fields of Syria and Iraq? Morality, says Jack Letts – "why do I have this nice life, and others don't?" – and a sense of Muslim duty. He had converted as a teenager, and when so-called Islamic State (IS) issued their call to arms, 'Jihadi Jack' was quick to answer. Now, imprisoned among the smouldering ruins of the broken caliphate, he awaits his fate.
Detained as he fled the Battle of Raqqa, 23-years-old Letts has been in Kurdish custody since 2017. He is one of 800 foreign nationals imprisoned by the People's Protection Units (YPG), swept up as the ill-fated caliphate collapsed. Facing renewed attacks from regrouped IS militants – and lacking the infrastructure or judicial capacity to hold their inmates indefinitely – the Kurds are calling on Western nations to repatriate their incarcerated fighters.
Britain has shown little interest in playing ball. Like dozens of other IS-aligned UK nationals, Letts has had his citizenship summarily revoked. It's a power reserved to "counter the terrorist threat" and "keep our country safe," said the government, and one that can only be invoked when an individual holds dual-citizenship (a person can't be rendered stateless under international law). Jack is Canadian through his father John, who condemned the government's move as a 'kick in the gut'.
Canada's official response wasn't much cheerier. Ottawa is "disappointed" in London's "unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities," said public safety minister Ralph Goodale. His government's position is clear: Letts was radicalised in the UK, and it was from there that he departed for the Middle East, so he should be Britain's problem. It's a valid argument, but outmanoeuvred in the realm of international law, Letts's future is now a Canadian issue.
In practice, this means little for the young jihadi's hopes of deliverance. While acknowledging his citizenship, Ottawa has said it has "no legal obligation to facilitate [his] return", insisting that it won't risk the safety of consular staff to pluck Letts from prison. The procession of journalists who've gained access to the young man suggests it may not be such an onerous task – but for the 33 Canadians festering behind Syrian bars, their country's decision seems final.
Canada and the UK's mutual reluctance to recover IS detainees reflects a general hesitation among Western nations. Buckling under the pressure of over 5,000 IS inmates, Kurdish jailers are desperate to lighten the load of foreign fighters. They've floated the idea of international tribunals, a move that would ensure suspects receive free and fair hearings. But with public opinion staunchly against jihadi defectors, there's minimal appetite to offer them a Western prison cell – let alone a shot at exoneration.
The risk of acquittal is a major concern for those fighting repatriation efforts. Criminality undertaken overseas is often difficult to prove in domestic courts, with evidence sparse or inadmissible. The USA has seen some IS recruits imprisoned – one man received a 20-year sentence – but others have walked for lack of proof. Letts acknowledges that he fought with the caliphate, but maintains that he neither killed nor enslaved in its name; whether he would be found guilty by a Canadian court is unclear.
And there's little certainty his case would even reach trial. Facilitating foreign terror is illegal under Canada's criminal code, but only if the suspect departs from Canadian soil – Letts's jihadi journey started in the UK. This judicial hurdle could well see him returned to North America for prosecution, only to walk free on a technicality. Letts was, by his own admission, ready to commit a suicide bombing in Syria; despite his repentance, society is unlikely to condone the freedom of such a character.
With an election looming, the court of public opinion is more important than ever. Already Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rowed back on the issue of IS returnees, calculating that his typically softer line will lose votes. "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian," he said upon taking office in 2015, before repealing a terror law that allowed for the stripping of citizenship. Hemmed in by Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's vow to never "lift a finger" to assist Letts, Trudeau has made clear that his team won't be involving themselves with the young man, citizen or not.
But to disregard repatriation entirely – however politically cogent – is a dangerous path to take, analysts warn. "If freed [from Syrian prisons], those still devoted to [IS] could reconnect with cells in the region or pay smugglers to help them reach Europe," says Leah West, Amarnath Amarasingam, and Jessica Davis, a group of Canadian security experts. "Once free, these individuals could engage in further terrorist activity such as financing, recruitment, radicalisation and, of course, terrorist attacks".
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Todor Marev (Bulgarian: Тодор Марев), (born on 20 November 1954) is a former Bulgarian footballer. He played in the center of the defence for Cherno More Varna (1972-1990, 1994), Dorostol Silistra and Ovech Provadia (1990-1993). Marev was capped 16 times for the Bulgarian National team, 6 times for the Olympic team and 26 times for the U18 team of his country, with which he won the Balkan championship cup played in Thessaloniki in 1969. Todor Marev was voted Best player of Varna in 3 consecutive years (1976, 1977, 1978).

Club career
Marev was born in Burgas but he grew up and spent all his life in Varna.  He went through all youth formations of Cherno More and is considered one of the greatest talents the club has ever raised. He was introduced to Group A football by coaches Ivan Mokanov and Georgi Dimitrov, making his debut at the age of 17, on 4 June 1972 in a match against Dunav Ruse. He established himself as a leader at the center of the defence becoming one of the youngest skippers in Group A football aged only 22. Marev was known for his faultless tackles, positioning abilities and speed. Under his leadership the Cherno More defence was one of the hardest to beat in Group A. Only ones in his career, Marev was red carded. It was in the last minutes of one of his last competitive games on 6 April 1994 in a brusque Varna derby which saw a total of 4 players sent off.  Marev took little to no part in the attacking phase of the game. He scored only 2 goals in his career, the first and most memorable one coming against local rivals Spartak on 29 September 1985, sealing a 3-0 victory for "The Sailors". Todor Marev played a total of 530 matches for Cherno More (422 in Group A and 108 in Group B) which is a record in Bulgarian football. He played 3 seasons in the lower divisions for Dorostol Silistra and Ovech Provadia before making a brief return to Cherno More as a playing assistant coach under manager Stefan Bogomilov in the spring of 1994. On 13 August 1994, at the age of 39, he put an end to his playing career.

International career
Todor Marev was selected for the Bulgarian A team by manager Stoyan Ormandzhiev and made his debut in Genoa on 22 December 1974 in a friendly against Italy (0-0). He made a total of 16 appearances, the last one being a match against Switzerland, played in Varna on 9 March 1983 (1-1).

Coaching career
Marev graduated from the University of Economics (Varna) in 1983 and also took a course in the National Sports academy (Sofia), receiving a coaching degree in 1995. He coached the female football side of Grand hotel Varna to 3 successive National championship titles after which he dedicated his coaching career to the youth teams of Cherno More. For a brief period in 1998, Marev took charge of the first team when the club was in deep trouble facing relegation to 3d division (Group "V"). From the following season to date, Marev works as a coach with the Cherno More youth academy.

References

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 chernomorepfc.bg

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PFC Cherno More Varna players
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des.nim
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/LucaWolf/des.nim.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/LucaWolf/des.nim)

About
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This is a Nim port of a C-based DES implementation. It implements single, double and triple DES operations with support for basic data padding.
DUKPT simple key management (PEK is cached, not holding the future keys array) with encrypt/decrypt and MAC operations also supported.

Examples
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Refer to the `test` folder for how to DES crypt/decrypt and DUKPT current key(s) derivation.

Notes
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- only the mostly used CBC and ECB modes are implemented. Nowadays, ECB is only useful as an internal helper routine, do not encode your data that way.
- pay attention to resetting the IV when starting a different logical operation (IV is cached to allow manual chaining)
- all operations are based on complete input data. For streams, your may want to enhance or build atop the existing implementation. The last processed block may require special handling (see MAC X9.19)

Future
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None. All desired operations are now supported. (low priority: perhaps incrementing the internal KSN field and deriving the keys based on it)

Credits
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Thanks to the libtomcrypt authors on whose work this library is based.

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Q: Plot ROC curve with pROC R I build a text classifier with randomForest, so to evaluate it I try to create a ROC curve with pROC pâckage .
Here the code :
ndsi.forest <- randomForest(tf.idf[train.index, ], as.factor(train$Note.Reco[train.index]), ntree = 100)

#predict with test data
ndsi.pred <-predict(ndsi.forest, newdata = tf.idf[test.index, ], response  = 'class')
pred <- data.frame(ndsi.pred)
result <- data.frame(id = Data_clean$id[test.index], sentiment = pred[ , ])

##"ROC curve"
multiclass.roc(result$sentiment, test$Note.Reco)

I was wondering if is teher a way to create the plot? ROC plot with pROC package?
I try with this code :
roc(test$Note.Reco, result$sentiment, levels = c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10))

But I get this error :
Error in roc.default(test$Note.Reco, result$sentiment, levels = c(1, 2,  :
  'levels' argument must have length 2

thank you in advance

A: As far as I have understood, you have a multiclass response variable (corresponding to 10 different groups).
The ROC - curve is defined for the classification of two groups, so what multiclass makes is to compute the classification for "one group against the rest". multiclass.roc function doesn't allow you to represent the curves, but understanding what it does, you can:
1) Consider as many roc curves as groups you have. That is, the ROC - curve for the classification of:

*

*Group 1 vs Not Group 1

*Group 2 vs Not Group 2

*. . .

*Group 10 vs Not Group 10

You can do that with the roc function. The only thing you need is to redefine the response vector with 1 for the individuals belonging to the group i and  a 0 for the rest of individuals. Save each roc object with a differnt name.
2) To represent all the curves, just use plot function for each of the curves adding plot(..., add=T) to all of them but the first.

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A school story by M.R. James
A SCHOOL STORY
by M.R. James
TWO men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. "At our school," said A., "we had a ghost's footmark on the staircase. What was it like? Oh, very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe, with a square toe, if I remember right. The staircase was a stone one. I never heard any story about the thing. That seems odd, when you come to think of it. Why didn't somebody invent one, I wonder?"
"You never can tell with little boys. They have a mythology of their own. There's a subject for you, by the way--'The Folklore of Private Schools.'"
"Yes; the crop is rather scanty, though. I imagine, if you were to investigate the cycle of ghost stories, for instance, which the boys at private schools tell each other, they would all turn out to be highly-compressed versions of stories out of books."
"Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's , and so on, would be extensively drawn upon."
"No doubt: they weren't born or thought of in my time. Let's see. I wonder if I can remember the staple ones that I was told. First, there was the house with a room in which a series of people insisted on passing a night; and each of them in the morning was found kneeling in a corner, and had just time to say, 'I've seen it,' and died."
"Wasn't that the house in Berkeley Square?"
"I dare say it was. Then there was the man who heard a noise in the passage at night, opened his door, and saw someone crawling towards him on all fours with his eye hanging out on his cheek. There was besides, let me think---- Yes! the room where a man was found dead in bed with a horseshoe mark on his forehead, and the floor under the bed was covered with marks of horseshoes also; I don't know why. Also there was the lady who, on locking her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a thin voice among the bed-curtains say, 'Now we're shut in for the night.' None of those had any explanation or sequel. I wonder if they go on still, those stories."
"Oh, likely enough--with additions from the magazines, as I said. You never heard, did you, of a real ghost at a private school? I thought not, nobody has that ever I came across."
"From the way in which you said that, I gather that you have."
"I really don't know, but this is what was in my mind. It happened at my private school thirty odd years ago, and I haven't any explanation of it.
"The school I mean was near London. It was established in a large and fairly old house--a great white building with very fine grounds about it; there were large cedars in the garden, as there are in so many of the older gardens in the Thames valley, and ancient elms in the three or four fields which we used for our games. I think probably it was quite an attractive place, but boys seldom allow that their schools possess any tolerable features.
"I came to the school in a September, soon after the year 1870; and among the boys who arrived on the same day was one whom I took to: a Highland boy, whom I will call McLeod. I needn't spend time in describing him: the main thing is that I got to know him very well. He was not an exceptional boy in any way--not particularly good at books or games--but he suited me.
"The school was a large one: there must have been from 120 to 130 boys there as a rule, and so a considerable staff of masters was required, and there were rather frequent changes among them.
"One term--perhaps it was my third or fourth--a new master made his appearance. His name was Sampson. He was a tallish, stoutish, pale, black-bearded man. I think we liked him: he had travelled a good deal, and had stories which amused us on our school walks, so that there was some competition among us to get within earshot of him. I remember too--dear me, I have hardly thought of it since then--that he had a charm on his watch-chain that attracted my attention one day, and he let me examine it. It was, I now suppose, a gold Byzantine coin; there was an effigy of some absurd emperor on one side; the other side had been worn practically smooth, and he had had cut on it--rather barbarously--his own initials, G.W.S., and a date, 24 July, 1865. Yes, I can see it now: he told me he had picked it up in Constantinople: it was about the size of a florin, perhaps rather smaller.
"Well, the first odd thing that happened was this. Sampson was doing Latin grammar with us. One of his favourite methods--perhaps it is rather a good one--was to make us construct sentences out of our own heads to illustrate the rules he was trying to make us learn. Of course that is a thing which gives a silly boy a chance of being impertinent: there are lots of school stories in which that happens--or any-how there might be. But Sampson was too good a disciplinarian for us to think of trying that on with him. Now, on this occasion he was telling us how to express remembering in Latin: and he ordered us each to make a sentence bringing in the verb memini, 'I remember.' Well, most of us made up some ordinary sentence such as 'I remember my father,' or 'He remembers his book,' or something equally uninteresting: and I dare say a good many put down memino librum meum, and so forth: but the boy I mentioned--McLeod--was evidently thinking of something more elaborate than that. The rest of us wanted to have our sentences passed, and get on to something else, so some kicked him under the desk, and I, who was next to him, poked him and whispered to him to look sharp. But he didn't seem to attend. I looked at his paper and saw he had put down nothing at all. So I jogged him again harder than before and upbraided him sharply for keeping us all waiting. That did have some effect. He started and seemed to wake up, and then very quickly he scribbled about a couple of lines on his paper, and showed it up with the rest. As it was the last, or nearly the last, to come in, and as Sampson had a good deal to say to the boys who had written meminiscimus patri meo and the rest of it, it turned out that the clock struck twelve before he had got to McLeod, and McLeod had to wait afterwards to have his sentence corrected. There was nothing much going on outside when I got out, so I waited for him to come. He came very slowly when he did arrive, and I guessed there had been some sort of trouble. 'Well,' I said, 'what did you get?' 'Oh, I don't know,' said McLeod, 'nothing much: but I think Sampson's rather sick with me.' 'Why, did you show him up some rot?' 'No fear,' he said. 'It was all right as far as I could see: it was like this: Memento--that's right enough for remember, and it takes a genitive,--memento putei inter quatuor taxos.' 'What silly rot!' I said. 'What made you shove that down? What does it mean?' 'That's the funny part,' said McLeod. 'I'm not quite sure what it does mean. All I know is, it just came into my head and I corked it down. I know what I think it means, because just before I wrote it down I had a sort of picture of it in my head: I believe it means "Remember the well among the four"--what are those dark sort of trees that have red berries on them?' 'Mountain ashes, I s'pose you mean.' 'I never heard of them,' said McLeod; 'no, I'll tell you--yews.' 'Well, and what did Sampson say?' 'Why, he was jolly odd about it. When he read it he got up and went to the mantel-piece and stopped quite a long time without saying anything, with his back to me. And then he said, without turning round, and rather quiet, "What do you suppose that means?" I told him what I thought; only I couldn't remember the name of the silly tree: and then he wanted to know why I put it down, and I had to say something or other. And after that he left off talking about it, and asked me how long I'd been here, and where my people lived, and things like that: and then I came away: but he wasn't looking a bit well.'
"I don't remember any more that was said by either of us about this. Next day McLeod took to his bed with a chill or something of the kind, and it was a week or more before he was in school again. And as much as a month went by without anything happening that was noticeable. Whether or not Mr. Sampson was really startled, as McLeod had thought, he didn't show it. I am pretty sure, of course, now, that there was something very curious in his past history, but I'm not going to pretend that we boys were sharp enough to guess any such thing.
"There was one other incident of the same kind as the last which I told you. Several times since that day we had had to make up examples in school to illustrate different rules, but there had never been any row except when we did them wrong. At last there came a day when we were going through those dismal things which people call Conditional Sentences, and we were told to make a conditional sentence, expressing a future consequence. We did it, right or wrong, and showed up our bits of paper, and Sampson began looking through them. All at once he got up, made some odd sort of noise in his throat, and rushed out by a door that was just by his desk. We sat there for a minute or two, and then--I suppose it was incorrect--but we went up, I and one or two others, to look at the papers on his desk. Of course I thought someone must have put down some nonsense or other, and Sampson had gone off to report him. All the same, I noticed that he hadn't taken any of the papers with him when he ran out. Well, the top paper on the desk was written in red ink--which no one used--and it wasn't in anyone's hand who was in the class. They all looked at it--McLeod and all--and took their dying oaths that it wasn't theirs. Then I thought of counting the bits of paper. And of this I made quite certain: that there were seventeen bits of paper on the desk, and sixteen boys in the form. Well, I bagged the extra paper, and kept it, and I believe I have it now. And now you will want to know what was written on it. It was simple enough, and harmless enough, I should have said.
"'Si tu non veneris ad me, ego veniam ad te,' which means, I suppose, 'If you don't come to me, I'll come to you.'"
"Could you show me the paper?" interrupted the listener.
"Yes, I could: but there's another odd thing about it. That same afternoon I took it out of my locker--I know for certain it was the same bit, for I made a finger-mark on it and no single trace of writing of any kind was there on it. I kept it, as I said, and since that time I have tried various experiments to see whether sympathetic ink had been used, but absolutely without result.
"So much for that. After about half an hour Sampson looked in again: said he had felt very unwell, and told us we might go. He came rather gingerly to his desk, and gave just one look at the uppermost paper: and I suppose he thought he must have been dreaming: anyhow, he asked no questions.
"That day was a half-holiday, and next day Sampson was in school again, much as usual. That night the third and last incident in my story happened.
"We--McLeod and I--slept in a dormitory at right angles to the main building. Sampson slept in the main building on the first floor. There was a very bright full moon. At an hour which I can't tell exactly, but some time between one and two, I was woken up by somebody shaking me. It was McLeod, and a nice state of mind he seemed to be in. 'Come,' he said,--'come there's a burglar getting in through Sampson's window.' As soon as I could speak, I said, 'Well, why not call out and wake everybody up? 'No, no,' he said, 'I'm not sure who it is: don't make a row: come and look.' Naturally I came and looked, and naturally there was no one there. I was cross enough, and should have called McLeod plenty of names: only--I couldn't tell why--it seemed to me that there was something wrong--something that made me very glad I wasn't alone to face it. We were still at the window looking out, and as soon as I could, I asked him what he had heard or seen. 'I didn't hear anything at all,' he said, 'but about five minutes before I woke you, I found myself looking out of this window here, and there was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning.' 'What sort of man?' McLeod wriggled. 'I don't know,' he said, 'but I can tell you one thing--he was beastly thin: and he looked as if he was wet all over: and,' he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, 'I'm not at all sure that he was alive.'
"We went on talking in whispers some time longer, and eventually crept back to bed. No one else in the room woke or stirred the whole time. I believe we did sleep a bit afterwards, but we were very cheap next day.
"And next day Mr. Sampson was gone: not to be found: and I believe no trace of him has ever come to light since. In thinking it over, one of the oddest things about it all has seemed to me to be the fact that neither McLeod nor I ever mentioned what we had seen to any third person whatever. Of course no questions were asked on the subject, and if they had been, I am inclined to believe that we could not have made any answer: we seemed unable to speak about it.
"That is my story," said the narrator. "The only approach to a ghost story connected with a school that I know, but still, I think, an approach to such a thing."
The sequel to this may perhaps be reckoned highly conventional; but a sequel there is, and so it must be produced. There had been more than one listener to the story, and, in the latter part of that same year, or of the next, one such listener was staying at a country house in Ireland.
One evening his host was turning over a drawer full of odds and ends in the smoking-room. Suddenly he put his hand upon a little box. "Now," he said, "you know about old things; tell me what that is." My friend opened the little box, and found in it a thin gold chain with an object attached to it. He glanced at the object and then took off his spectacles to examine it more narrowly. "What's the history of this?" he asked. "Odd enough," was the answer. "You know the yew thicket in the shrubbery: well, a year or two back we were cleaning out the old well that used to be in the clearing here, and what do you suppose we found?"
"Is it possible that you found a body?" said the visitor, with an odd feeling of nervousness.
"We did that: but what's more, in every sense of the word, we found two."
"Good Heavens! Two? Was there anything to show how they got there? Was this thing found with them?"
"It was. Amongst the rags of the clothes that were on one of the bodies. A bad business, whatever the story of it may have been. One body had the arms tight round the other. They must have been there thirty years or more--long enough before we came to this place. You may judge we filled the well up fast enough. Do you make anything of what's cut on that gold coin you have there?"
"I think I can," said my friend, holding it to the light (but he read it without much difficulty); "it seems to be G.W.S., 24 July, 1865."
(Prepared by Susan Robinette)


Park Slope Food Co-op in New York, but still, it is a worthy milestone for any community owned enterprise.
Alfalfa House provides low-cost, ethically-produced and minimally-packaged wholefoods which are predominately organic, biodynamic, as well as cruelty-free, vegetarian and or vegan lines. Most lines are provided in bulk with customers supplying their own jars and bags. As would be expected, locally sourced food is also high on the agenda. Whenever possible, given contraint of seasons, fruit and vegetables are sourced direct from the co-op's own network of organic farmers. Recently a source of sea vegetables, such as wakame, was found in Australia, negating the need for Japanese imports.
Being a community-based co-operative, the 2,400 members 'own' the business and contribute by filling the suggestions box to the brim, nominating for positions on the voluntary Management Committee (MC), and for every two hours they volunteer they are rewarded with 25% off their groceries and produce. Membership in the past year or so has been booming as the general public become more attuned to the origins of what they put in their mouth. Anyone can walk in off the street and shop there, though members do receive a 10% discount, without needing to volunteer.Spoilt food is composted or fed to worm farms. Packaging is either returned to suppliers for reuse, or recycled. All electronics are turned off at night, even the electronic funds swipe machines are unplugged. Printers and faxes munch through reused paper.
Whilst it might not be possible to run all businesses this way, successful community enterprises show that it indeed more than possible. (There are two other community food co-ops in Sydney, one in the nearby Blue Mountains and three University-based food co-ops.) Transparency and accountability are paramount to such operations. For example, minutes of MC and staff meetings are published for all to read on Alfalfa House's website. Members can ask to look over the books at any time, to see if their one-off, lifetime membership fee of $20 AUD is being well accounted for. ::Alfalfa House Community Food Co-op.
Disclosure: This TreeHugger is the current co-op co-ordinator at Alfalfa House.


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Q: Groovy Reusable Functions - Extract Node Value - groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: I'm a Groovy noob and trying to get my head around using reusable functions to extract an xml node value for a given test step and node in SoapUI. It seems the class runs fine but the problem is when using the method. I get the following error:
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: org.apache.log4j.Logger.info() is         applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, java.lang.String) values: [return TestStepName, Node] Possible solutions: info(java.lang.Object), info(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Throwable), any(), wait(), dump(), find(groovy.lang.Closure) error at line:

This is my class:
class Example
{
def log
def context
def responseSOAXmlStep
def resultValue
def responseNodePath
def storeProperty
// Class constructor with same case as Class name
def Example(logIn,contextIn,testRunnerIn)
    {
    this.log = logIn
    this.context = contextIn
    this.responseSOAXmlStep = responseSOAXmlStep
    this.responseNodePath = responseNodePath
    }

    def execute(responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath)
{
    def groovyUtils = new com.eviware.soapui.support.GroovyUtils( context );
        // do some stuff to prove I've run with right context, etc.
        log.info "return "+responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath

    def holder = groovyUtils.getXmlHolder( responseSOAXmlStep+"#ResponseAsXml" );
    resultValue = holder.getNodeValue( "//ns1:"+responseNodePath );
    log.info("Node value: " +  resultValue );
    testRunner.testCase.testSuite.setPropertyValue(storeProperty, resultValue);

        return execute
}

}
context.setProperty( "example", new Example( log, context, testRunner) )
log.info "Library Context:"+context

This is where I do the call in a step after the response step:
// get a reference to the library TestSuite
library = testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.testSuites["Library"]

// find the module within the library
module = library.testCases["Library"].testSteps["Second Example_Class"]

// initialise the library; which places an instance of Example in the context
module.run(testRunner, context)

// get the instance of example from the context.
def example = context.example

// run the method, with parameter
log.info "example.execute(responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath) = " +        example.execute("TestStepName","Node")

I've searched the forum but could not find an answer that suites my query. Any form of assistance is appreciated. Thanks.

A: Your error description says that you're invoking info() method on log passing two strings as and arguments, and this method doesn't exist.
The problem is easy to solve, pass one concatenated string with + as parameter instead of passing two strings. In your execute method inside your Example class use this:
def execute(responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath)
{
...
    // USE + TO CONCATENATE STRINGS INSTEAD OF USE ,
    log.info "return " + responseSOAXmlStep + responseNodePath
...
}

instead of:
def execute(responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath)
{
...
    // do some stuff to prove I've run with right context, etc.
    log.info "return " + responseSOAXmlStep,responseNodePath
...
}

EDIT:
As you said in your comment probably you've another problem storing properties in TestSuite level. You're using this code:
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.setPropertyValue(storeProperty, resultValue);
The problem is that setPropertyValue is expecting string as a first argument however at this line in your code storeProperty is not defined yet. Try for example defining storeProperty as:
def storeProperty = "myProperty" before using it in setPropertyValue call.
Hope this helps,


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The meeting was called to order at 7:40PM.
Roll call showed a quorum. Clubs not present: Baltimore Football, Damascus, Eastern Panhandle, Lee-Mt.Vernon, Mid-County, Soccer Assoc. of Columbia, Vienna, and Washington Soccer Club.
Last Saturday at the VYSA General Meeting, the membership voted to approve background checks on all coaches, team managers, etc. The fee is $2.00 for every soccer player in all of Virginia for the first year.. This will be a full nation-wide background check. After the first year, there will be a $10. fee for each background check on new volunteers. Re-evaluation of the entire environment will determine whether it will be continued after the 5th year.
Ray Greenberg-R & D- All decisions were posted on Monday, but it was not a bad season. There were a # of terminated games. Three cases were sent to VYSA for referee abuse and assault, all three were found guilty. Dennis Quicker has a list of all players and coaches who will owe a sit-out in the fall. We had two cases this season where tie-breakers went to disciplinary points, in each case it affected their structure.
Mike Basileo-Md. Registrar-Md. clubs get a handout of player passes, please make a test print. Each team also gets one paper on registration. All forms are on the web site. If they change the computer program, it will be posted on the web site. Multiple roster players must first be rostered to one team as their primary roster. Do not take the social security number for the card # from a VA or DC player.
Gloria Gallager-VA Registrar-Already had a meeting for registrars and the VYSA registration manual has been updated, please throw the old one away. NCSL has league specific rules, be sure you download the Rules and Registration Manual. There are special rules for U9 and U10 teams. The orange sheet has the timelines. State cup applications must be in the state office by 4 oclock on August 23rd. 3.0 is the newest version of rosterpro and the version you must use. The blue membership pass will be returned to the players this year and will no longer be used as a duplicate player pass. They only sign the white one. Need registrar volunteers in the Arlington, Falls Church, Great Falls and McLean areas.
John Ellis-Consultant on Player Development-From every World Cup you have changes because the World Cup sets standards. In this World Cup we are seeing the older established organizations going out early, perhaps they became complacent. The more developing soccer communities are hungry and enthusiastic, and they are doing well. The NCSL is one of the older youth organizations in the country and must not be complacent. We are here for the players. He watched about 40 games last season, and found no game where the parents were out of order. Also saw some teams out there playing very skillfully. This is the time of year for coaching courses, if your club does not organize one, make sure that your coaches know about courses in other places. We cannot become complacent.
Kathleen Sessions-Administrator- Demosphere sites are back up, all is working. Be sure all have given her the packets, field forms are on club rep. page, you can get started on it. Scheduling request forms have multiplied. We can deconflict for coaches with 2 teams. Do not turn in a request for no games after 2 on Sunday, etc. Pick only dates that are important and matter. Some teams want back to back Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday we generally try to adjust times to have them play later. Need a U12 scorekeeper for the fall send Kathleen an e-mail if interested. There was a question on could we compress season for U17s and U19s so that they finish before Memorial Day? It is impacted with state cup and ODP and almost impossible.
Motion: That St. Marys Youth Soccer. Inc./St. Marys United be accepted into the NCSL.
Motion: That Freedom Soccer Club be accepted into the NCSL.
Motion to accept Burke Athletic club withdrawn.
Motion: We extend the application of league play for Burke on a one time basis.
Motion: To accept the consolidated club from the merge of Soccer Club of Baltimore and Baltimore Football Club to be called The Baltimore Bays Soccer Club.
Motion to adjourn at 9:30PM.


For this post; I want to take an example of something really fun we did in Assam; which is sample local lakes. And these lakes were "full" of Daphnia – amongst other things. We found gobs and gobs of Daphnia in our samples. So many, that I had never seen that many Daphnia in an ml of water before. What was remarkable – I have never seen a "blue pigmentation" in Daphnia; and was thrilled and still thinking about this mystery.
To give you a context on the location, we were on the outskirt of Guwahati.
The "red" star represents the place where we did some sample was collected from.
With the students, I did a quick Foldscope movie of the "beating heart" of Daphnia. This is collected just with my regular Fodlscope; with a 140x lens and an iPhone. So, now you should try to collect a data set like this too. Here I am talking about the value of patience and collecting good data. It's an important lesson in microscopy – patience pays off.
With this post; I also want to share a quick tutorial on how to use "Fiji" or ImageJ to do some image processing and measure some numbers out of your movies. Say, you are interested in measuring the heart rate of the Daphnia.
So, on our route to the workshop – we sampled a local lake.
To get live imaging of Daphnia; I made a glass slide with a simple cover slip. I added some double sided tape to create a gap between the glass slide and cover slip and gently pressed a little bit – so as to stop any movement in the Daphnia; although they are still alive. This allows me to do long term imaging of Daphnia (in this case; it's heart) over long periods of time.
Now; to do some quantification – I used a simple tool in ImageJ (an open source microscopy analysis software – available for free. Download here). I sometimes use Fiji – which is an equivalent tool but written in Java (download here).
Now, since I know that my phone recorded the video at 30 fps (30 frames per second) – I can import the movie in any of these tools and get every single frame as an image. To get an information on how fast your cellphone records; see the info button on the video.
It's nice to see that most cellphones will also record the location of the data collected- which is valuable for ecological measurements.
Now; I can draw a simple line across the beating heart – so I can set the profile of the heart muscles for a single frame. Once you press "contrl K" – you get to see the profile of intensity for the given line.
Now, simply using the "reslice" tool (Image->stacks->reslice); I am able to get a beautiful Kymograph (where one axis is space and the other extended axis is time); see image below.
Now, every one of these blips is a heart beat. So you can simply count the number of blips per unit time (where time is given in number of frames). Since I recorded at 30 frames per second; that would mean one image every 1/30 sec = 33.3 msec. I checked this by making sure my number of total frames (1617) multiplied by time per frame (0.033 sec) was equal to total length of video ~ 54 sec. So now, by simply counting number of blips per second I am able to tell what the heart rate for this little Daphnia is; and it turns out to be 22 beats in 3.33 seconds; or 6.6 beats per second or ~390 beats per minute. That;s a remarkable number to think about – much higher as compared to a human heart.. even for a stressed out person being monitored under a microscope.
Now, you can imagine; you can do all kind of experiments and ask questions that you care about; and do the experiments over and over again to get to a point where you are satisfied with the answers you get. It all starts by just dipping your hands in a lake and getting some of the beautiful microcosmos of the lake. When I first sample the lake; I did not know I will be watching a heart beat alive. So next time you watch a lake, imagine the billions of beating hearts that make that lake. That;s something to remember.
To give you a perspective of who attended the workshop; here are a few images of the participants.
I am curious to read posts from participants from the workshop – where they can start taking projects they started forward. To me that is the real test of time.. can't wait to see what is discovered in the lakes of Assam. Once you make posts; please add comments so I can cite you on this post.
4. For more details on learning quantification tricks with Fiji; see this starting manual from DUKE.
I'm still thinking about this number.. wow!
Looks like the daphnia you captured has a heart beat on the higher side – almost as much as one with caffeine from the link you attached.
I love this post! Such a great capture on a number of levels. I found images with blue eggs very similar to the ones that we captured by Melissa Pompilius on Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354447433142625180/).
It doesn't solve the mystery of the blue color, but it is a very intriguing parallel, since she caught her Daphnia in the Alabama estuaries.
Dear @Manu. This is a tremendous post capturing so many emotions. It was a most unforgettable experience. Also, thanks for the lesson on ImageJ, these are very useful.
I am hoping we see many posts from the Guwahati-nivaasis. Its been a month or more and their foldscopes must be smooth with use by now. I do have images of a parasitic fly larva from Dipor Beel that I havent posted as someone else already did so.


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Volkswagen Group and Google are tying up to do research on quantum computing. Quantum computers can solve certain highly complex tasks considerably faster than conventional super computers. In some cases, a solution will be possible with only quantum computers. Volkswagen hopes the collaboration will help it in traffic optimisation, to explore structures for new materials (especially high-performance batteries for electric vehicles) and to work on artificial intelligence with new machine learning processes.
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Just reposting this here since I said it on the Rogue forums. Orangu/Lith had asked a question about how I wanted feedback.. which is when I found out that my PM's had been turned off. They've since been turned on and will remain on. Below is my reason for doing such.
Oh... and also for the record, while the name might imply that I'm eastern European, hates daylight, and can't see my reflection in the mirror, that is not correct. Vladd the Viking is probably more fitting.Although, Impaler would be an awesome soul name. Just sayin'.


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8 Pennsylvania Gift Basket Ideas for the Holidays
Isabel Soisson
Originally Published November 28, 2022 3:55 pm EST
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Looking to send the taste of Pennsylvania this holiday season? Look no further.
Between soft pretzels, Philly cheesesteaks, Amish chicken pot pie, sweets, and chips in every flavor imaginable, Pennsylvania has its own unique food groups. The holidays are a perfect time to introduce the people you love to the food of the Keystone State, no matter where they live. This is why we've compiled a list of the best Pennsylvania gift baskets for the holidays. So whether you're looking for cheese, meat, or just a bunch of snacks, we've got you covered.
A Box of Berks
"A Box of Berks" can be purchased on Etsy. With locally sourced snacks, this gift basket features everything from pretzels, to tea, to beef sticks, and of course, Tastykakes, one of the state's preeminent delicacies. This basket will also only set you back $50, making it one of the more affordable holiday gift baskets on the market. Also, one of the best things about this gift basket is that it's homemade, and in purchasing it, you're supporting a local business.
Bird-in-Hand
Bird-in-Hand is a small, unincorporated community in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish country. On its official website, you can purchase Pennsylvania Dutch Gift Baskets that feature everything from homemade baked goods to fruit spreads. The Happy Holidays Gift Crate includes a warm slice of Grandma Smucker's wet-bottom shoofly pie and Bird-in-Hand Signature Blend coffee. The Santa's Sweets Gift Box features a delectable selection of delicious Lancaster County treats. These two will cost you $69.95 and $44.95 respectively. Head over to Bird-in-Hand's online shop to explore all of the holiday options.
Di Bruno Bros.
For more than 80 years, Di Bruno Bros. has offered Pennsylvanians nothing but the finest cheeses, meats, and more. Started in the Italian Market in Philadelphia, Di Bruno Bros. has grown to five locations in and around the Philadelphia area. Gifting a Di Bruno Bros. gift basket is the perfect idea if you're looking to introduce the people in your life to some of the best the City of Brotherly Love has to offer. There are dozens of options to choose from, but the best-selling box is the Abbondanza Gift Box for $95, which features the shop's famous aged New York Cheddar, rustic charcuterie, and original recipe cheese spreads and antipasti. There are plenty of cheaper boxes available as well, such as the Taste of DiBruno for $70, and the Cheese Spread Sampler for $45.
Dutch Baskets
Dutch Baskets' mission is to find the best foods in Pennsylvania's Amish Country and package them into gift baskets perfect for the holiday season. These baskets feature everything from smoked meats and handmade cheese to shoofly pie and whoopie pies. There are 15 holiday baskets available for purchase, ranging in price from $18 to $175, so there are a number of options available for people of all budgets. The Cheese Basket features colby cheese, sharp cheddar, smoked cheddar, and garlic and chives cheese, as well as handmade pretzels and potato chips. The Christmas Meat Lovers basket features handmade pretzels, ring bologna, bologna, sweet bologna sticks, sweet and spicy mustard, and cheddar cheese.
Herr's
Perhaps one of the most "Pennsylvania" brands of all time, Herr's was founded in 1946, and its popularity hasn't waned since. For decades, Pennsylvania children have looked forward to lunchtime when they could open their lunch bags and rip into a bag of Herr's salty, delicious snacks. But these chips and pretzels aren't just made for lunchtime in grade school; they make the perfect gift for the holidays as well. There are nearly a dozen holiday treats to send your loved ones this season. One of the most diverse offerings is the Decorative Boxes basket, which features 38 pre-assorted one ounce snack packs. The Holiday Truck Box Variety Pack includes 42 one ounce snack packs as well, but you can select which treats you want to be included. Both of these options are available for under $50.
Linvilla Orchards
Linvilla Orchards is especially popular during the fall, when families from all over Pennsylvania join together to pick everything from apples, to pumpkins, to flowers. This is why a Linvilla basket is perfect for the fruit lovers in your life. There are over a dozen baskets to choose from, featuring seasonal fruit from the orchards, locally made products, and other delectable treats great for the holiday season. The Pennsylvania Basket is just $60 and features apple butter, apple jelly, Pennsylvania maple syrup and honey, fudge, pretzels, and Pennsylvania salsa. The Pennsylvania Basket with Apples is just $9 more and features all of the above, as well as apples from Linvilla Orchards.
Pennsylvania General Store
The Pennsylvania General Store has been around since 1987, and has an outpost in Philadelphia's historic Reading Terminal Market. The store has everything from crafts and souvenirs to Pennsylvania-made food perfect for the holiday season. If you're looking for a specifically-themed Pennsylvania gift basket, there are more than two dozen options to choose from. If you're looking for something more holiday-centered, there are more than four dozen gifts to choose from. These baskets range in price, so head to the Pennsylvania General Store's website to learn more and to purchase.
Perfectly Pennsylvania
Perfectly Pennsylvania is a gift shop in Dauphin County that features everything from beauty products to apparel to food. There are 10 gift baskets to choose from if you're looking to gift the people you love with a taste of Pennsylvania this holiday season. The Best of Pennsylvania Sweet Treats basket features Hammonds Pretzels, Tastykakes, Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer, Asher's Chocolates, and more. For the same price, you can purchase a Pennsylvania Dutch Food Basket and get everything from jam made in Lancaster County to Dutch Country Pretzel Mix.
Isabel Soisson Isabel Soisson is a multimedia journalist who has worked at WPMT FOX43 TV in Harrisburg, along with serving various roles at CNBC, NBC News, Philadelphia Magazine, and Philadelphia Style Magazine.
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