Whilst the Riviera Hotel in Bournemouth offers panoramic views across the seascape at Alum Chine as well as a highly-regarded 3 star rating from the AA, do reviews from real guests agree that their expectations have been met in terms of customer service, value and food excellence?
Over 1100 guests who have stayed at the Riviera Hotel in Bournemouth have reviewed the family-owned establishment through the reviewing website Tripadvisor and they have ranked it 18th out of all 66 hotels currently registered on the site, which is phenomenal considering their prices. Guests are full of praise for their excellent customer service stating that they are welcoming and friendly, plus they are happy to help you if your room is not up to your expected standards. The food on offer at the Riviera is also mentioned in several reviews, quite a few guests say they upgraded their packages as soon as they had their first meal!
The location of the hotel is also highly praised which is unsurprising given that it is nestled in secluded woodland overlooking Alum Chine beach, offering walkers a prime base to explore the seaside town of Bournemouth as well as the remaining stretch of golden sands that comprise the Jurassic Coast. If you are travelling to the area with your children you are sure to be welcomed as numerous guests have noted that the hotel is family-friendly, offering several activities such as a disco, table football and safe pool area.
If you would prefer to peruse the Tripadvisor reviews for the Riviera hotel at your own leisure you should visit their website, where you can also make a booking through their affiliated partners.
Riviera Hotel patrons who have reviewed their trips on Booking.com are similarly pleased with their stays, awarding the guesthouse a total score of 8.3 out of 10. As before guests have noted the excellent customer service at the hotel, with one reviewer stating that their reception staff were the kindest he had ever met. Their facilities and cleanliness are also highly complimented, suggesting the hotel is efficiently run by a caring team. You can see all the Riviera Hotel reviews on Booking.com by visiting their summary page of the hotel where you can also check up-to-date prices on the dates which you are travelling on.
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Overall theme of the project: Identity.
Do something you would like to show people who you are and/or what you do. Do something really mind blowing and outta this world!
Specs: Minimum of 2 and a maximun of 5 pages, 6.5" x 8.5" (half the size of a legal bond paper), black and white only. Bahala na kayo sa materials na gagamitin nyo and it doesn't have to be comics. You can do pin-ups, a short story, a poem, prose, a photograph, collage, play with fonts to say something, an ad or poster lay-out... bahala na kayo kung ano gusto nyong gawin. Submit a soft copy if possible. Printing will be done through photocopy so make your art as clean as possible.
Deadline: 1st of October, 2003.
Depending on the number of contributions I'd also like to solicit some contributions for the production of this comic. It's not going to be that expensive, maybe around P50.00 each. We'll still see.
We'll include this in our discussion in our Den meetings. Thanks!


Situated in the picturesque village of Gurnard overlooking The Solent, The Woodvale boasts a traditional bar, a newly renovated function room and extensive gardens featuring a BBQ terrace.
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Brother of Bofur and cousin to Bifur, Bombur rounds out the Company of Thorin as the Quest's travelling cook.
Broad even for a Dwarf, who as a people tend to be stocky and wide of belly, Bombur has a passion for the preparation and consumption of food. But there is far more to the roly-poly Dwarf than just an appetite and predilection for culinary adventuring.
Bombur may be somewhat innocent in the ways of the world and not as well travelled or experienced as some of his older companions, nor has he ever seen the object of the Quest: the Lonely Mountain they seek to reclaim. But he is brave, doughty and as loyal as he is capable with his ladle, a surprisingly effective weapon when swung like a hammer. A strong and dauntless fighter when pressed, the young Dwarf soon finds he can take care of himself when it most matters, and can put on a surprising turn of speed, but then Dwarves are natural sprinters.
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New research finds early-stage training in entrepreneurship is key to increasing social mobility and saving UK's young people from 'dead-end jobs'
Lauren Mistry | 10th August 2020 19th August 2020 Read time: 7 minutes
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New research which tracked the lives of 32 young entrepreneurs from socially and economically deprived communities, found three-quarters of them had more job satisfaction and income prospects than their peers with jobs.
Level Up: Changing Lives through Enterprise, a report from the youth enterprise charity Launch It and small business support network Enterprise Nation, followed the fortunes of young people who had started and built a business in areas with some of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the UK.
It found that despite typically no recognition or encouragement to take this route throughout their education, few role models and limited investment opportunities, 81 per cent reported their finances were at least as good or better than before, 73 per cent said they had higher job satisfaction than their peers in work and those with more advanced companies studied as part of the research said they had provided employment opportunities for an average of 40 individuals in their community.
Launch It CEO Pat Shelley has called for the Government to take note and consider incorporating an enterprise training element into its £2bn Kickstarter plan to avoid 'siphoning off' those from the most hard hit areas into temporary low paid work.
He said: "Young people from deprived areas have always had the odds stacked against them and with rising unemployment in the wake of the pandemic, life will undoubtedly get even harder.
"While the new £2bn Kickstarter scheme is a welcome mechanism to tackle the wider issue of youth unemployment, it's a blunt tool which is likely to siphon young people like those featured in this report into low-paid dead-end jobs.
"What is needed is a more considered approach that would equip and support more young people from minorities and deprived communities to follow a passion and build a long term career for themselves. Funnelling investment into enterprise and opportunity – with advice for starting and growing a business, grants and on the ground support in deprived areas – would help more truly remarkable businesses get off the ground and effectively tackle the worrying wealth gaps in our society."
James Daly, Conservative MP for Bury North and Chair of the APPG for Youth Employment, said: "As a result of COVID-19, we will have at least a million young people unemployed. Many have the skills, aspiration and determination to set up a business but sometimes they don't believe they can do it. I believe there is a huge opportunity for Government and local groups to target support to these young people, for example investing in empty buildings to give entrepreneurs rent free opportunities, mentoring and peer to peer networking opportunities to get started and establish their business without the prohibitive costs they normally face for many years.
"Covid's been an awful thing for the country, but it also provides a number of economic opportunities because we have to do things differently to achieve better outcomes and the old ways of doing things are, I'm afraid, coming to an end."
Emma Jones, founder Enterprise Nation, said: "This report demonstrates that entrepreneurship impacts equality, social mobility and the earning potential of young people from deprived areas and diverse, often BME, backgrounds as well as delivering a boost to their local economy and community.
"The really shocking reality this report brings to light is that our education system prepares our young people only for the world of employment, and the options for them there are mainly low-skilled and low-paid. If we could only instil entrepreneurial ambition and expectation in these young people earlier at school, via relatable role-models and training; throw open unused high street spaces for them to work from and encourage them to create and participate in like-minded peer networks, we would be empowering more young people to fulfil their potential – and that has never been more important than now with so many young people losing their jobs and having education plans scrapped."
Mickela Hall-Ramsay started the award winning social enterprise, HR Sports Academy in 2008 when she was 21. She had been motivated by the rise in youth crime and cuts to youth services she saw in Tottenham. Her business has touched the lives of 40,000 young people in the local community and she now employs 16 people, many of whom have come through her own programmes.
She said: "Running a business has given me fulfilment, confidence and a strong business network. I have gained many skills over the years. I have learned the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone, taking up opportunities, getting mentored as well as mentoring. Everyday my aspirations increase based on the people I meet and the events I attend as a result of running the business."
Acknowledge and use entrepreneurship as an effective tool to bridge the inequality and wealth gaps in the UK. The individual, community and societal benefits are clear. Young successful entrepreneurs provide multiple paid opportunities, inspiration and social impact in their communities. Any organisation that aims to tackle social inequality should promote entrepreneurship as a truly effective way to bridge the wealth gap in the UK.
Entrepreneurship must be included as a valid option alongside employment during transitional life stages such as leaving school and college, or when looking for work. School, college or universities offering career fairs, career counselling and job centres advisors should promote entrepreneurship as a positive career choice and point young people towards relevant training to get started.
Local authorities should prioritise offering underused community buildings and spaces, to charities and business support groups that help entrepreneurs. In addition, spaces dedicated to business support in deprived communities should be exempt from business rates and high rents by local government to ensure support remains affordable. Affordable working space provides significant support during early business journeys, most notably helping with work-life balance, shifting mindset towards taking the business venture more seriously and stimulating business growth.
Targeted business support is crucial in helping young entrepreneurs from economically challenging backgrounds overcome some of the most common challenges. This should be central to the economic plan for boosting income-deprived neighbourhoods across the UK.
Micro-grants should be made available to under-represented entrepreneurs together with education about financing and debt management to increase options available.
Entrepreneurship skills are transferrable and very important for future of work, so should be included in the mainstream curriculum. Apprenticeship levy rules should include entrepreneurial apprenticeships for those interested in more formal qualifications. Central government, Local Enterprise Partnerships and businesses through their CSR programmes should prioritise skills training and mentoring for entrepreneurs from economically challenged backgrounds.
Business groups or networks that organise business events should more proactively try to attract a community of entrepreneurs from all ages and backgrounds bearing in mind location and inclusivity.
The researchers held four focus groups with 20 participants and conducted 12 semi-structured additional interviews with entrepreneurs from all Launch It centres across the country. Out of all the participants we spoke to, 45% were male and 55% female aged between 18- 30 years old. Additionally, a survey of 26 entrepreneurs was conducted.
The research participants have a range of experiences, from having launched their business just weeks prior to the conversation to having successfully run their business for a decade. 19% of participants have been running their business for under a year and 42% between 1-2 years – these business owners are the current participants of the Launch It programme. Another 23% of founders have launched their businesses 3-4 years go, and 16% have been in business for 5 years or longer – these are the alumni of the Launch It support programme.
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i was flying solo for brunch on cup-day weekend as my musician husband is currently rehearsing for a show… so decided to head into trendy brunswick street for a try of stagger lee's latest menu. these guys are synonymous with good food + coffee in inner-melbourne – having also brought us proud mary – and this is not my first visit. but memories of a delicious coco-pops french toast had me craving something sweet for breakfast (a regular occurrence) and i remember seeing a few enticing looking items from their new menu popping up on my instagram feed recently.
the generous serve of lemon curd was simply lip-smackingly yummy; and i really liked the mixture of the sweet fresh strawberries with the tartness of the raspberry sauce + crunch of the pistachios. i would have expected perhaps a mint, but the addition of basil was a lovely but pleasant surprise. head chef, chris hamburger has produced a vibrant spring menu full of seasonal ingredients and full-flavoured comfort food; and if the crumpets are any indication, the other dishes would be equally as delectable. this was a light and summery dish and i could definitely go back for more!
and just as i experienced on my first visit, staff were super friendly – even coming up to me on the way out to ask how i liked the crumpets. and the atmosphere, even when dining alone, has a great vibe and buzz. a memorable and enjoyable brunch – keep the great food and coffee coming guys!
verdict: staggeringly good, as always!


It's a rare treat to come across a newly published travel book of the traditional sort – the kind that used to be a fixture of the bookshop "travel" section until ten or fifteen years ago. I recently received a review copy of one such – Isambard Wilkinson's Travels in a Dervish Cloak, about Pakistan – a country I have a particular fondness for, although I've long neglected it in favour of Indonesia.
Pakistan was once prime territory for Western travel writers. It offered an attractive combination of subcontinental color and Central Asian romance, plus a lively history and a hospitable population speaking excellent English. Geoffrey Moorhouse, Dervla Murphy and Wilfred Thesiger passed this way, among many others. In The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux even pondered the attractions of Peshawar as a place of retirement.
But since the launch of the "war on terror" in neighboring Afghanistan with subsequent instability in Pakistan itself, the bulk of the books about the country by foreigners have been made of sterner stuff: bleak journalistic or scholarly commentaries from the likes of Anatol Lieven and Owen Bennet-Jones.
This is what makes Isambard Wilkinson's Travels in a Dervish Cloak such a welcome delight….
Read the full review on the ARB website here.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2017 by Tim Hannigan.
Exterior shot: a hot August afternoon in Bali with the trade wind running through the palms.
Interior shot: the dining room of the glorious Biku Restaurant, all antique woodwork and art. At the back of the room a delectable kroncong ensemble is playing "Surabaya" (Kota kenangan, kota kenangan, takkan kulupa!) while the grandes dames of Seminyak sip their tea and nibble their finger sandwiches.
At a table on the right, the patroness herself, the mighty Jero Asri Kerthyasa, is playing host to a pair of writers. Both, as it happens, have written books about a certain Thomas Stamford Raffles, though they have rather different views of the man – Raffled and unRaffled, perhaps. Despite this, they're getting on like a house on fire.
Nigel has very generously credited me in the introduction for providing the original suggestion – though I still can't quite believe that he hadn't already thought of writing about Muriel for himself. After all, he has fine form when it comes to fictionalising outrageous Bali-based expats, thanks to Island of Demons, his take on Walter Spies.
Muriel's mythomaniac tendencies certainly make her untouchable for a nonfiction writer, and if I'd suggested writing a book about her to a fellow narrative history author, it would have been a devious act of sabotage. But Nigel Barely is one of those lucky blighters who can do fiction and nonfiction with equal panache (he's the author of many, many books, including the brilliant The Innocent Anthropologist, and Not a Hazardous Sport, republished as Toraja, as well as being a bone fide scholar). He's also very, very funny, and the one thing you can say with confidence about Muriel as a character, is that she's hilarious. I couldn't think of anyone better to take her on, and Snow over Surabaya is everything I might have hoped for.
The book has Nigel's customary blend of airy prose and wicked humour, plus the sort of solid historical background familiar to readers of his other Southeast Asia-set novels. There is, as yet, no single narrative history account of the Indonesian revolution, but Snow over Surabaya actually fulfils that function remarkably well, despite being a work of fiction with a notorious liar for a narrator. All the noteworthy players – from Sukarno to Turk Westerling – get walk-on parts, and you'll come away with a decent sense of how the revolution played out.
My only disappointment was that the book ends just as Muriel ascends into her bloated post-Revolution period – a period during which she took the physical form of a pink blancmange with winged spectacles, attained new heights of Awfulll!!!ness, and made a career out of permanently inhabiting international hotels at other people's expense. Still, that at least leaves open the possibility for a sequel in which Muriel gives an unreliable account of her attempts to flog her unreliable account to Hollywood – now that really would be meta!
During the many ill-fated attempts to turn her tale into a movie, Muriel drove would-be producers and script-writers to distraction with her blunt insistence that there should be absolutely no hanky-panky, no torrid trysts with Balinese princes or steamy clinches with rugged revolutionaries. It was precisely this "bizarre and stilted sense of sexual propriety", as Nigel calls it, that stymied all attempts to bring her legend to the silver screen.
But in the Snow over Surabaya version of events, Nigel Barley's naughty streak has come to the fore. Outrage of outrages! – he's given Muriel that thing that she surely must have had in reality, for all her public prudery: a sexuality! Pudding basin haircut, distinct physical resemblance to a Javanese clown, and voracious appetite for cream cakes are all in place. But Barley's Muriel also lusts after handsome tram boys and has her wicked way with Ambonese truck drivers. It's a devilish touch, and one that would surely set the real Muriel spinning in her grave, which is exactly as it should be!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2017 by Tim Hannigan.
It was 5.30 a.m., and bitterly cold. A broad saffron stain was spilling into the milky-gray sky over Sumbawa, and the green of the Sembalum valley was forming from the gloom.
The wind of the night had dropped to nothing, and despite the chill the sweat was dripping from the tip of my nose. Glancing back, I could see the flashlights of the other trekkers flickering along the ridge.
To my left a fearsome void opened in a sheer drop to the crater lake, and to the right the plummeting sweep of the volcano's north wall ran down towards a pale sea. Ahead of me, rough and imposing, was the summit of Gunung Rinjani. But I still had a hellish climb to get there.
Rinjani volcano towers over the beautiful island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara province. Rising from the sparkling rice terraces to a dizzying height of 3,726 meters, it is the second-highest volcanic peak in Indonesia.
Only Gunung Kerinci in Sumatra is higher, at 3805 metres. Unlike the smooth cones of Bali and Java, Rinjani is more a massif than a single peak: the huge crater is some six kilometres across, and shelters a deep lake.
The whole of the Rinjani area was gazetted as a national park in 1997, and the mountain is one of the most prized trekking destinations in Southeast Asia.
We had arrived at Lombok's well-served Mataram Airport two days earlier, and spent the first night in Senggigi on the west coast. Tourist development on Lombok is low-key, though the island has many of the attractions of its illustrious western neighbor, Bali: stunning rural landscapes, beautiful golden sand beaches, a fascinating traditional culture, and of course, Rinjani.
Senggigi is the only major resort on Lombok with a full range of hotels and services. Kuta on the south coast – far removed from its famous Balinese namesake – is the other resort, although it is still unspoilt, with the atmosphere of a fishing village.
All travel agents and most hotels and guesthouses in Senggigi can organize Rinjani treks at short notice. Prices are negotiable depending on the size of the group, and after a couple of hours comparing and negotiating from operator to operator we were all set.
The next morning after a dawn ride from Senggigi up into the cool of the hills we had set out from the highland village of Sembalum Lawang, cupped in an ancient crater and famous for its garlic and onions.
Our party was a motley crew of Surabaya-based English teachers and others, and we were soon strung out along the path from the village. A warm wind was blowing through the yellow grass, the smudged outline of the summit rising in the distance.
We had hired porters to carry our bags and camping equipment. They were spectacularly tough Sasak men from the villages around the volcano, with a lifetime of work on the high slopes behind them.
They carried their loads delicately balanced on stout bamboo poles over their shoulders, and made their way up slippery scree slopes in rubber sandals.
Oldest and toughest of these was Pak Mohammad, a wiry, cheery man who smoked kretek cigarettes continuously. Our guide was a cheerful young man called Dipan. He was from the village of Senaru where we would finish the trek, and he had grown up in the shadow of Gunung Rinjani.
The first day's walking was easy to begin with, the route bending over the rolling grasslands with the coastal plain hazy to the north. By late afternoon, however, we were struggling up a steep and winding path through sparse pine trees toward the ridge.
The air cooled as we left the sultry tropics far behind. The great Rinjani peak towered over us and the hills beyond Sembalum were dark.
We reached the ridge just before sunset. We watched as the light faded behind the black line of the far ridge, across the shining Segara Anak crater lake, then we made our way to the first campsite.
It was a cold and windy spot, at the foot of the steep rise towards the summit, but the views down to the lake on one side, and back towards the coast on the other were spectacular.
A couple of other trekking groups were camped out already, all planning to make the final climb to the summit in the early hours of the morning. We ate a hurried dinner of mie goreng (fried noodles), rustled up by the porters, then clambered into our tents.
It was bitterly cold when we stumbled into the darkness at 2.30 am. The plan was to reach the summit for a spectacular sunrise, and those of us foolhardy enough to try set out up the steep, slippery path after a cup of lukewarm, sweet tea.
I quickly pushed my way to the head of the group and was soon walking peacefully alone along the high ridge. Empty blackness opened to my right, and to my left the lights of the distant coastal villages glittered in the dark. Up above dozens of shooting stars streaked out of a clear sky.
The final climb to the summit was desperately hard. The path became loose gravel, rising at a steep angle, and the effects of the high altitude soon became apparent as I gasped for breath.
But it was all worth it when I reached the top in time to watch the sun creeping up above the flat-topped outline of Gunung Tambora on Sumbawa.
All of Lombok from the fish-hook of the port at Labuan Lombok, to the low stains of the Gili Islands was visible, and in the west the cone of Bali's Gunung Agung loomed from the low cloud.
It was shockingly cold, but the elation of reaching the summit kept me warm as the other trekkers started to arrive.
As we rested in the brightening sunlight Dipan told me that local villagers believe that the mountain holds the key to eternal life. But to seek the secret is dangerous, and people have been turned to stone for trying.
Back at the campsite we ate a breakfast of banana pancakes, then started the descent to the lakeside.
Segara Anak Lake ("Child of the Sea" in Sasak language) is sacred to the people of Lombok. For the ethnically Balinese Hindus the waters are the Home of the Gods, and for the Sasaks too, some of who still cling to pre-Islamic beliefs, the waters are home to powerful spirits.
There are crude alters at the water's edge, scattered with Balinese sesajen offerings, and during the annual Pakelem festival pilgrims make their way up from the villages to cast gold offerings into the lake.
Rinjani is still active, and rising from the lake is Gunung Baru ("New Mountain"), a volcano within a volcano that emerged from the waters in 1942, and erupted as recently as 1997.
While the porters prepared lunch we took advantage of this geothermal activity by washing away our aches and pains in the steaming hot springs that bubble from the rocks below the crater rim.
The afternoon saw us trekking uphill once more, following a beetling path along the northwest crater wall. The jagged dagger of the summit was fringed with cloud now, and the wind was singing in the trees.
But we were all elated when we reached the top of the ridge in the golden light of evening. From here it was downhill all the way to the beaches.
The second campsite was a warmer spot than the first, sheltered by the ridge and not far from the start of the dense forest that cloaks the lower slopes. We made our way into this forest the following morning, a welcome change from the barren landscape higher up.
The shaded humidity was a return to the tropics, and the canopy and undergrowth bustled with life. Grey macaque monkeys eyed us suspiciously from the branches, and rustling in the distance suggested the wild deer and forest pigs that live in Rinjani National Park.
Once we caught a glimpse of a pair of elusive ebony leaf monkeys, fleeing through the treetops.
We reached the trailhead village of Senaru at midday, weary and footsore. The Park office is located at Senaru, and there are a several simple guesthouses and restaurants. The area is also scattered with villages of rattan and bamboo where Sasak traditions are maintained.
But for us, tired and dirty, it was time to relax.
After fond farewells to Dipan and the porters we were on the road again, heading for the white-sand beaches and crystal-clear waters of the Gili Islands where we could ease away the aches and blisters, and look back at the dark outline of Gunung Rinjani, looming to the east, with some satisfaction.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2017 by Tim Hannigan.
History is everything; everything can be explained by the events of the past.
It suggests a way of thinking in which Christianity is some highly contagious disease, with an apparently innocent selfie near a very bad statue every bit as dangerous as jabbing yourself with a junkie's used needle. Even in the parts of the world where the persecution of minorities is generally a more deadly business there rarely seems to be such an air of paranoia. So why this apparent sense of insecurity around Christianity amongst some Muslims in Java?
In the middle of the 20th century, very nearly 100 percent of the indigenous population of Central and East Java was Muslim – nominally, at least. The only non-Muslims were the geographically isolated Tenggerese (whose religious identity was probably not so obviously distinct from that of their neighbours then as it is today), a tiny and proportionally stable smattering of Christians descended from 19th-century missionary converts, and the ethnically distinct Chinese and other immigrant populations.
Of course, that great mass of Javanese Muslims amounted to no monolith. Anthropologists liked to divide them cleanly between a minority (and it was a very small minority in many places) of orthodox Muslims known as "Santri" (or sometimes, historically, "Putihan", "the white ones"), and a heterodox majority known as "Abangan" ("the red ones"), who still identified as Muslim but who generally had little time for standard Islamic practice. This blunt two-way division was, of course, a gross oversimplification, and both categories contained almost limitless diversity of their own. But it is nonetheless a useful shorthand.
The prompt for all this, if it's not already obvious, was the astonishing slaughter that swept Java in late 1965/early 1966, the anti-communist pogrom precipitated by the so-called "30 September Movement".
In the aftermath of the killings, across Indonesia, there was a push for proper adherence to one of the country's officially recognised religions (at that time, Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism). To not offer a clear demonstration of religious affiliation was to risk the taint of communism. In Java, given that virtually everyone was already officially Muslim, the expected upshot might have been a universal uptick in Islamic praying, fasting and alms-giving. But it didn't turn out as simply as that.
Elsewhere, there were those – usually, though not always, in remote rural areas – who were particularly firmly committed to the syncretic traditional Javanese belief systems usually known as Kejawen, and who had long understood themselves to be a distinct counterpoint to the Santris, for all that they were technically Muslim themselves. For them a change to demonstrative mosque-going was equally unpalatable (it was from amongst this group that most of the Hindu conversions emerged, though these were always insignificant in overall number compared to the shift to Christianity).
For far more detailed background on all of this – and much, much more pertaining to the current religious make-up of Java besides – it's well worth hunting out M.C. Ricklefs' Islamisation and its Opponents in Java. For the context of the context, including the formation of the Abangan-Santri dichotomy and the beginnings of the small 19th-century Christian community, see his earlier book, Polarising Javanese Society, and for the context of the context of the context, look for Mystic Synthesis in Java. These are all thoroughly academic books, but don't let that put you off. Most people know Ricklefs' big standard history, A History of Modern Indonesia, but it turns out that his far more specialised works on the history of religious identity in Java are generally much more engaging. They have room for colour and anecdote and a very lively writing style, which sometimes gets squeezed out in his more general history.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2017 by Tim Hannigan.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2017 by Tim Hannigan.
The first echo is there in the physical form of the book itself: a slender pinch of pages, little thicker than a floor tile; a thing to be handled carefully as if it might break, and to be read with a delicate dabbing, like eating some rare dessert. The next echo is in the form of the story within: a man in a tiny boat, striving shoreward. And there's an echo in the sparsity of the style too.
You went out. You went out too far fishing.
Cormac McCarthy, Bruce Chatwin, and, above all here, Ernest Hemingway: these are clearly Cynan Jones' writers – the writers that every young man wants to be, usually with disastrous results. It's some measure of his skill that he can have those influences yet never descend to posturing and pastiche. It's yet greater measure of his skill that he can have written a book which nods so very directly in the direction of The Old Man and the Sea, but which you can read almost without noticing as much.
All of Jones' books have been slender volumes, and Cove is certainly short. Flicking through, you might mistake it for a book of poetry. Broad margins; acres of white space. There are pages where few of the paragraphs stretch further than a single line. The style is as careful as poetry too. I am a very slow reader, and I was stopping to reread a passage every few pages, to feel its sharp edges carefully. But I was still done in an hour and a half – an hour and a half during which I slowly hunched tighter and tighter over the book, with the noisy clatter of the café in which I was reading fading like the sound of the waves against the shore as you paddle for the horizon.
In the story of this ordeal, Jones does the compelling stuff of physical endurance, of making do in extremis, familiar from The Old Man and the Sea or The Road: a line cutting into flesh; filleting a fish with one hand crippled; the task of paddling landwards made herculean by a lost paddle. There are also the moments of strange beauty that are often a feature of such tales: a sunfish, flapping against the plastic of the boat; a wren's feather trapped in a mobile phone casing; a doll, adrift in the deep water. And there are images of the sort that mark the finest of observational writing: the imprints of barnacles left in the skin of a pregnant woman's belly after bending over rocks at the shore.
But with never so few words he brings so, so much more to this story. His other books have also had the alchemic quality of the condensed epic. This was particularly the case with his debut, The Long Dry (which remains one of my very favourite books read in recent years). In the space of fewer than a hundred pages and in a narrative covering a single day, it managed to range hugely through two whole lives, voyage back through generations then – utterly devastatingly – into the near future, all while meditating magnificently on the corruptibility of the flesh.
He could not picture her, but the sense of her came back.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2016 by Tim Hannigan.
Issue 170 of Indonesia Expat – which always has an interesting and eclectic array of articles – carried a piece of mine about Bengkulu, the erstwhile British outpost on the west coast of Sumatra.
Bengkulu, October 1685: The fort stood atop a small hillock on the banks of a coffee-coloured creek. To the west the Indian Ocean stretched blank and white and empty. To the east the dark wall of the Bukit Barisan mountain range rose like a stalled tsunami, a grey curl of monsoon cloud spilling from its lip.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2016 by Tim Hannigan.


An important question in neuroscience is understanding how the central nervous system (CNS) controls the large number of degrees-of-freedom of the musculoskeletal apparatus to perform a wide repertoire of complex motor behaviors. A long standing hypothesis is that the CNS relies on a modular architecture to simplify motor control and motor learning.
I will first present in this talk the results of a series of experiments that I have carried out with human subjects to study the low-dimensional structures underlining the kinematics and electromyographic (EMG) activity recorded from a large set of body muscles during the execution of complex whole-body movements. These results link together, in a hierarchical view of motor control, the joint coordination characterizing whole-body pointing movements with a basic muscle synergistic organization, namely a triphasic pattern.
I will also describe the unsupervised learning algorithms that I used to analyze different biological data, and I will describe how the imposition of specific constrains and priors to the algorithms can lead to well-defined physiological interpretations.
At the end I will present partial results of the work I'm currently carrying on in the framework of an important EU project, AMARSi (Adaptive Modular Architectures for Rich Motor Skills). In a series of experiments in a virtual reality environment we are collecting kinematic data from human subjects during the accomplishments of ad-hoc walking plus pointing motor tasks. Such data are being used, in a theoretical control framework, to extract periodic and non-periodic synergies to generate and control movements of characters in graphical applications and robotics.


Shoppingscanner is a search engine for clothes and accessories for women, men and children, cos- metics and house decor.
Easy to manage, it uses tools and filters such as price range, discount percentage, color, size or name of the product, brand, keyword. One can also navigate within the categories and find a series of tips and outfits that are in the trend section. Shoppingscanner has currently four versions: Italian (.it), French (.fr), English (.uk) and American (.com) and nearly 1,000,000 products per site from over 60 of the best Italian, European and American stores. The website gets about 400,000 visitors per month.
"We've created this search engine that can browse the best online stores and filter products according to brand, price range, discount, color and size. We want shopping online to be easier for everyone. We're work- ing hard to perfect it. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening," say Lau- ra Cappelletti and Alessandra Mas- saini , co-founder s of the platform.


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FDA Prioritizes Vaccine Review and Process Improvements
Jill Wechsler
Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology, August 2021 Issue, Volume 45, Issue 8
Full approval of COVID-19 vaccines may increase public confidence, but better coordination in development and review is needed.
As federal officials struggle to boost US vaccination rates to combat the coronavirus pandemic, manufacturers and regulators are responding with efforts to file and evaluate biologics license applications (BLAs) for COVID-19 vaccines to further assure the public of product effectiveness and safety. The rise of COVID variants has made public health officials anxious to expand immunity more widely and quickly in areas with low vaccination rates, and experts hope that full approval of existing and new vaccines will increase public confidence in their value.
The top priority for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) is to approve BLAs for COVID vaccines to address vaccine hesitancy, said CBER Director Peter Marks. He emphasized that the agency is working to "move this forward" as quickly as possible in remarks at the Drug Information Association (DIA) virtual annual meeting on June 30, 2021. Even if full approval encourages only 5% more individuals to get vaccinated, "that will make a difference," he observed, adding that "having an approved vaccine may help."
FDA won plaudits this past year for devising a clear and pragmatic process for awarding Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 vaccines able to meet high standards for product safety and efficacy. Although the three vaccines with EUAs have experienced few adverse events and have provided clear protection against infection for much of the population, strong vaccine hesitancy is limiting efforts to expand these gains. With variants and another wave of COVID-19 infections threatening [or emerging], FDA officials recognize that full BLA approval may help counter concerns about the "experimental" nature and limited testing of the available preventives.
To move forward, Pfizer initiated a rolling submission of a BLA on May 7, 2021, initially filing existing preclinical and clinical information, with manufacturing and facility data to come. On July 16, 2021, FDA formally accepted the company's BLA for individuals age 16 and older and granted the application priority review (1). Moderna announced on June 1, 2021, that it also had launched a rolling BLA submission, with an eye to gaining priority review and approval by year-end (2). FDA acknowledges that BLAs require more information than the initial EUAs, including data from conformance lots, full characterization reports, additional facility inspections, closer scrutiny of individual safety cases, and more follow-up on adverse events. Marks explained in a letter to The New York Times that CBER staff can't turn around such evaluations in a few weeks but will require several months to fully assess the complete data (3). Marks emphasized that the review of applications for full approval of COVID-19 vaccines is "one of the highest priorities" at FDA, but that the extensive additional manufacturing and clinical information warrants a "high-quality review" to avoid undermining the public trust in the agency.
Even so, some public health authorities have criticized FDA for moving too slowly in processing the BLAs, while others agree with Marks that any appearance of hasty action or incomplete oversight may only aggravate latent fears.
Future efficiencies
In planning for more efficient and effective vaccine development for the next epidemic or pandemic, FDA and manufacturers agree that master protocols would be helpful, as would the early designation of a single central laboratory to handle testing and assays across different platforms. A valid concern is that each of the approved vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson was tested and developed using different endpoints and assays and without head-to-head comparisons. At the DIA meeting, Marks acknowledged that early on there was consideration of establishing a master protocol to test three or four initial vaccine candidates with one control group, but that timing issues prevented that approach. Waiting for all manufacturers to be ready for clinical studies would have delayed product approvals for three or four months, he explained, which most likely would have increased COVID deaths.
Marks also cited the need for better strategies to quickly scale up vaccine production, acknowledging that manufacturing drug substance and drug product is "a huge issue." That doesn't mean building more plants to have them sitting there until needed, Marks said. For vaccine manufacturing, one needs productive facilities that can shift from "slow simmer" to "low boil" very quickly. Here advanced manufacturing methods may be important, with disposable and modular systems that can be easily transported to support production on a global basis. And although vaccine manufacturing requires considerable expertise, semi-automated processes would be more scalable and require a smaller, but still highly skilled, cadre of workers.
Manufacturers also are looking for more common guidance and requirements from regulators around the world, and less "global disharmony" in policies and standards. Marks and others acknowledged that regulators could do more to come together and avoid claims that their vaccine is better than others. An initial area for collaboration may involve determining the need for COVID vaccine boosters or new preventives for variants. There also is interest in agreeing on what tests or measures would support boosters and or the need for annual COVID-19 vaccines.
Conversely, Marks noted, different authorities working at cross purposes and promoting diverse claims will only spur vaccine hesitancy and may delay efforts to bring the pandemic to an end.
1. BioNTech, "U.S. FDA Grants Priority Review for the Biologics License Application for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine," Press Release, July 16, 2021.
2. Moderna, "Moderna Announces Initiation of Rolling Submission of Biologics License Application (BLA) with U.S. FDA for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine," Press Release, June 1, 2021.
3. Peter Marks, "The F.D.A. on the Vaccine Reviews: 'We Want to Assure the Public'," The New York Times, July 9, 2021.
Jill Wechsler is Washington editor at Pharmaceutical Technology.
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Skeens v. Commonwealth
Whitlow v. Grubb
We have said repeatedly that compliance with them is necessary for the orderly, fair and expeditious…
Taylor v. Worrell Enterprises
Stated differently, the requirement for the assignment of error enables this Court and counsel to determine…
Full title:DAVID SKEENS v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Court:Supreme Court of Virginia
Date published: May 7, 1951
64 S.E.2d 764 (Va. 1951)
64 S.E.2d 764
Supreme Court of Virginia
39100 Record No. 3776.
Present, Hudgins, C. J., and Eggleston, Spratley, Buchanan and Miller, JJ.
(1) Appeal and Error — Rules of Appellate Procedure — Objects in Adopting New Rules.
(2) Appeal and Error — Rules of Appellate Procedure — Assignment of Errors and Notice of Appeal — Provision Mandatory.
(3) Appeal and Error — Rules of Appellate Procedure — Assignment of Errors and Notice of Appeal — Purpose of Rule.
(4) Appeal and Error — Rules of Appellate Procedure — Assignment of Errors and Notice of Appeal — Applicability to Criminal Cases.
(5) Appeal and Error — Rules of Appellate Procedure — Assignment of Errors and Notice of Appeal — Effect of Rule 5:1, Sec. 6(a), as to Duty to File.
1. The main objects in adopting the new rules of appellate procedure were to simplify the method of getting up the record, clarify the issues and reduce the cost of appeal. These objects were accomplished by having the clerk of the trial court transmit the original papers to one of the justices, or to the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and by printing only that part of the record necessary to decide the questions raised.
2. The provision of Rule of Court 5:1, Sec. 4, requiring the appellant to file his notice of appeal and assignments of error within sixty days from date of final judgment, is mandatory and not merely directory.
3. Rule of Court 5:1, Sec. 4, requiring the appellant to file his notice of appeal and assignments of error within sixty days from date of final judgment, was adopted in order to give appellee ample opportunity to examine the record and assure himself of its correctness before it leaves the clerk's office of the trial court; to file, in civil cases, assignments of cross-error; to designate for printing that part of the record he deems material to support the rulings of the trial court; and to prepare a brief in opposition to the granting of an appeal.
4. Defendant was convicted and sentenced for unlawful wounding and upon defendant's appeal the Attorney General moved to dismiss the writ of error on the ground that defendant did not file his notice of appeal and assignments of error within sixty days after final judgment as required by Rule of Court 5:1, Sec. 4. Defendant contended that the rule does not apply to a criminal case because no cross-errors are filed in such cases, but that contention was without merit since Rule 5:1, Sec. 1, specifically provides that the scope of the rule governing appellate procedure includes all appeals (civil and criminal) to the Supreme Court of Appeals, except appeals from the Industrial Commission; since Rule 5:1, Sec. 6(h) (applying specifically to criminal cases) requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to file with the clerk a designation of additional parts of the record that he wishes printed; and since not infrequently attorneys for the Commonwealth file briefs in opposition to an appeal, which the Supreme Court of Appeals has found very helpful in determining whether or not the case should he reviewed.
5. The fact that Rule of Court 5:1, Sec. 6(a), gives appellee in civil cases an option to postpone until after the appeal has been granted designation of that part of the record that he desires printed, does not relieve appellant of the duty to file his notice of appeal and assignments of error under Rule 5:1, Sec. 4.
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Giles county. Hon. Vincent L. Sexton, Jr., judge presiding.
Writ dismissed.
The opinion states the case.
W. B. Snidow and Samuel A. Martin, for the plaintiff in error.
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General, and Frederick T. Gray, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.
HUDGINS, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court.
The judgment attacked in this case was entered on a verdict finding David Skeens guilty of unlawful wounding and fixing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for five years. The Attorney General moved to dismiss the writ of error on the ground that the defendant did not file his notice of appeal and assignments of error within sixty days after final judgment.
The motion to dismiss involves the construction of Rule of Court 5:1, Sec. 4, providing: "No appeal shall he allowed unless, prior to the expiration of sixty days after final judgment, counsel files with the clerk notice of appeal and assignments of error. Within fourteen days thereafter counsel for appellee shall file with the clerk his assignments of cross-error, if any. Only errors so assigned will be noticed by this court."
The main objects in adopting the new rules of appellate procedure were to simplify the method of getting up the record, clarify the issues and reduce the cost of appeal. These objects were accomplished by having the clerk of the trial court transmit the original papers to one of the seven justices, or to the clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and by printing only that part of the record necessary to decide the questions raised.
Under the old method of making up the record for this court (Code, sec. 8-470) counsel, by agreement, could reduce the size of the record by requiring the clerk to copy only that part of the record necessary for the Supreme Court of Appeals properly to decide the case, or they could agree upon the facts, or any part of them, and direct the clerk to copy such statements in lieu of copying the complete record. Unfortunately counsel did not avail themselves of these provisions, with the result that the entire record was usually printed at unnecessary cost, and this court was required to read many pages of printed matter having nothing to do with the issues before it.
The appellate procedure, now Part Five of the Rules of Court, does not require appellee to consent to anything, nor does it give him an opportunity to argue that omitted parts of the printed record are material. It provides for the printing of only the material parts of the record, and yet the entire record of the proceedings in the trial court is available to the Supreme Court of Appeals in the event some vital part of it is by mistake not designated to be printed.
What constitutes the record of a case in the trial court is set forth in detail in Rule 5:1, Sec. 3. This includes a transcript of the oral testimony and other incidents of the trial when presented to the trial judge within sixty days and signed by him within seventy days after final judgment. In addition to seeing that the record in the trial court is thus completed, appellant, in order to perfect his appeal, must take the following steps: (1) within sixty days after final judgment deliver to or serve on opposing counsel a copy of his notice of appeal and assignments of error, and file the originals with the clerk; (2) after the record is made up, file with the clerk a designation of the parts of the record he desires printed; (3) after twenty days from the time he has filed his designation for printing the record he must notify the clerk to transmit the record in time for it to be delivered to the clerk of the Supreme Court, or one of the justices, within four months from the date of final judgment; (4) he must deliver to opposing counsel a copy of his petition for appeal and file the original with the clerk of this court, or the justice to whom the record has been transmitted, within the four months' period; and (5) pay the filing fee of $1.50 to the clerk of the Supreme Court.
[2, 3] The precise question presented is whether the provision requiring the appellant to file his notice of appeal and assignments of error within sixty days from date of final judgment is mandatory or directory.
The provision is couched in mandatory terms. The notice of appeal is in lieu of the notice of appellant's intention to apply for a transcript of the record formerly required by the provisions of section 6339 of the Code of 1919. The rule requiring the notice of appeal and assignments of error to be filed within sixty days was adopted in order to give appellee ample opportunity (1) to examine the record and assure himself of its correctness before it leaves the clerk's office of the trial court; (2) to file, in civil cases, assignments of cross-error; (3) to designate for printing that part of the record he deems material to support the rulings of the trial court; (4) to prepare a brief in opposition to the granting of an appeal. If no notice of appeal and assignments of error are filed within sixty days the prevailing party then knows that the case is ended.
Defendant contends that the rule requiring appellant to file notice of appeal and assignments of error does not apply to a criminal case because no cross-errors are filed in such cases. The answers to this contention are:
(1) Rule 5:1, Sec. 1, specifically provides that the scope of the rule governing appellate procedure includes all appeals (civil and criminal) to the Supreme Court of Appeals, except appeals from the Industrial Commission (which are governed by the provisions of section 65-94 of the Code), but only section 13 applies to appeals from the State Corporation Commission.
(2) Rule 5:1, Sec. 6 (b) (applying specifically to criminal cases) requires the attorney for the Commonwealth to file with the clerk a designation of additional parts of the record that he wishes printed. An attorney for the Commonwealth would be unable to determine what additional parts of the record are material if he did not know the assignments of error upon which defendant intended to rely.
(3) Not infrequently attorneys for the Commonwealth file briefs in opposition to an appeal, which the court has found very helpful in determining whether or not the case should be reviewed.
The fact that another provision — Rule 5:1, Sec. 6(a) — gives appellee in civil cases an option to postpone until after the appeal has been granted designation of that part of the record that he desires printed, does not relieve appellant of the duty to file his notice of appeal and assignments of error. The rule requires the record for the appellate court to be completed in the clerk's office of the trial court. If appellee desires to postpone until after the record has been transmitted and the writ granted the designation of additional parts of the record to be printed, it may be necessary for him to incur the expense of a trip to Richmond to examine the record in the clerk's office of this court in order to make the designation. The rule is expressed in such terms that it does not compel an attorney for appellee to examine the record after it has been transmitted to the clerk of the Supreme Court.
When a case has been prosecuted to final judgment in the trial court, counsel representing the losing party is, or should be, in a position to know the specific rulings of the trial court upon which he intends to rely to obtain an appeal and a possible reversal. Hence, little effort is necessary to prepare the notice of appeal and the assignments of error upon which he relies.
This rule is couched in clear, concise language, and was adopted for the purpose of giving both parties equal opportunity to inspect the record for appeal in the clerk's office of the trial court, to designate the material parts of the record they desire printed and to prepare briefs on the principles of law involved. See opinion by Mr. Justice Whittle, announced at this session of the court, in Avery v. County School Board, post, p. 399, 64 S.E. (,d) 767.
The rule is fair to both parties, and to insure orderly procedure, must be enforced according to its intendment.
The motion to dismiss is sustained.


The ancient origin of the name Waite was found in the irishsurnames.com archives.
Variants of the name Waite include Wait, Waight, Wate, Wayt and Wayte. This is an occupational name describing a person who made their living as a watchman. This name is usually of English descent and is found in many ancient manuscripts in that country. Examples of such are a Randulph Waight of County Cheshire, who was recorded in the University of Oxford in the year 1610. An Alice Waight was recorded as having been baptised in Saint Peter, Cornhill, in the year 1595.
The Waite family crest (or coat of arms) came into existence many centuries ago. The process of creating these coats of arms began as early as the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this, including Ireland. The new more formalized art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own family crest, coat of arms, including Waite descendants.


Japanese Asagi koi carp 6-7 inches (2). Stunning Koi Carp with beautiful clear scaling and a deep red pattern. This fish is currently 6-7 inches and has grown with us from 4 inches at 18 months old.
Asagi is actually the Japanese word for indigo or pale blue. This breed can be recognized by its shade of blue immediately. The scales of Koi Carp are artwork themselves when you look closely. A neatly arranged netting pattern of scales that is present in many breeds of Koi. The head of the Asagi is usually white or very pale blue, with a red coloration running back along the belly, to the tail.
Asagis' are capable of getting very large but are easy to care for. They get along well with other Koi varieties and will become a long-standing member of your Koi family when looked after well. They will add amazing beauty to any collection!
If you cannot find what you are looking for or need help and advice on keeping your fish happy and healthy, do not hesitate to contact us. We would be more than happy to help! Don't forget to look at our blog regularly for tips on keeping aquariums and ponds. As well as follow our Facebook page for regular updates! Also if you are local you are able to visit us to shop at Unit 1-3, Acorn Drive Business Park, Wigbeth, Dorset, BH21 7JJ. Please contact Dave to view the koi.


Aalto University's tenure track career system provides researchers with a well-supported and clear career path towards a permanent professorship. Nearly 300 new professors have been recruited to our tenure track since 2010, with one third coming from outside Finland.
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Tenure track consists of three levels: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor. Candidates can be recruited for any of these levels in accordance with each job announcement. Our recruiting is based on open international competition, and we primarily focus on scientific and/or artistic potential and merits when making selections.
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Despite Senate uncertainty, Andrew Cuomo still banking on federal stimulus money
Jon Campbell David Robinson
ALBANY – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was banking on a Joe Biden presidency and a Democratic Senate to set aside federal funding next year to help close the state's multi-billion-dollar, COVID-fueled budget deficit.
Now Biden is inching toward the White House. But the prospects of a Democrat-controlled Senate have dimmed, leaving state budget watchers wondering what Cuomo's backup plan is should a federal stimulus package not come through.
Cuomo, however, said he's still optimistic state and local governments will ultimately get billions in federal aid — even if Republicans and Sen. Mitch McConnell ultimately do remain in charge in the Senate.
In his first public comments since Election Day, Cuomo told WAMC-FM on Thursday that he "certainly" thinks McConnell will be more likely to cut a stimulus deal after the election, assuming Biden wins the presidency and Republicans keep the Senate.
"Certainly, certainly," said Cuomo, a Democrat. "I'm telling you, even the Republican states need help."
Huge budget hit in NY
The New York state budget has taken an enormous hit during the coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 25,000 people dead in New York.
The state estimates it will fall $14.9 billion short of its pre-pandemic revenue projections from February, opening up a large hole in the $173 billion budget for the current fiscal year. Through the 2024 fiscal year, the revenue projections fall more than $60 billion short from pre-pandemic estimates.
From March through September, the state reduced spending by $4.3 billion compared to the same period the previous year, according to a mid-year report issued Friday by Cuomo's budget division.
Much of that came from a 20% reduction in certain state aid payments to local governments, schools and Medicaid programs — cuts the Cuomo administration says will be restored if the federal government approves a stimulus package with significant funding for states.
Maria Doulis, a vice president of the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission, offered a stark analysis of the COVID-related financial crisis unfolding in New York, as well as the devastating impact if federal pandemic aid never materializes.
"It is an unprecedented shortfall in revenue, and it's sent public budgets in New York and other states into a tailspin," she said, adding states need "federal aid to be able to continue to provide core services."
Yet even if a federal stimulus package comes together, the fiscal pain is likely far from over. The pandemic's economic fallout is projected to endanger local and state government services and jobs for years.
"History tells us even when there is a large federal aid package it does not solve for the whole fiscal problem," Doulis said.
Cuomo pushing for $500M nationwide package
For months, Cuomo has called on the federal government to act, using his pulpit as chair of the National Governors Association to call for $500 billion in direct aid to state and local governments across the nation.
House Democrats, Senate Republicans and Republican President Donald Trump were unable to reach an agreement on a stimulus package in the weeks leading up to Election Day, with some Republicans denouncing it as a "blue state bailout."
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Q: How to copy internal packed files in to a working directory in Java? as you can see by the title I am trying to copy various files imported into my src to a temporary directory. In this case, there is a folder being created in the C drive called "Dank". All I wish to do is copy these internal files(http://prntscr.com/d39rmt) to the temporary folder.
Don't mind the bad body, this is just a snippet of the rest of the program which is irrelevant to this part. Thank you.
public class sstool extends FileNotFoundException {
    @SuppressWarnings({ "static-access", "unused" })
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Path newDirectoryPath = Paths.get("C:\\Dank");
        if (!Files.exists(newDirectoryPath)) {
            try {
                Files.createDirectory(newDirectoryPath);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println(e);
            }
        }

A: @Rogue was close.  Files embedded in your application are typically read with Class.getResource or Class.getResourceAsStream.
You absolutely should use Files.copy, just not the method that takes two Path arguments:
String[] files = {
    "cheatsmasher.exe",
    "Everything.ini",
    "jdgui.jar",
    "launcher.jar - Shortcut.lnk",
    "LAV.cfg",
    "LAV.exe",
    "logs - Shortcut.lnk",
    "pexplorer32.exe",
    "pexplorer64.exe",
    "Prefech.lnk",
    "schem.exe",
    "SE32.exe",
    "SE64.exe",
    "skypefiles.lnk",
    "smash.dll",
    "synpase.lnk",
    "TM.lnk",
    "TS3Client.lnk",
    "USB32.cfg",
    "USB32.exe",
    "USB64.cfg",
    "USB64.exe",
    "Vape.dll",
    "vapev.jar",
    "versions - Shortcut.lnk",
};

Path destination = Paths.get("C:\\Dank");
Files.createDirectories(destination);

for (String file : files) {
    try (InputStream stream =
        SSTool.class.getResourceAsStream("/tools/" + file)) {

        Files.copy(stream, destination.resolve(file));
    }
}

A common question on Stack Overflow is whether you can just list the contents of the directory.  The answer is: No, you can't.  A .jar file is just a zip file with a different extension, and a directory in a zip file isn't really a directory at all;  it's just another zip entry.  (While in theory you could iterate over all of the entries looking for ones with a certain prefix, or you could even try using Java's zip file system, those workarounds are subject to problems.)

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Bulgarian Lawmaker Stirs Conflict Because of Hidden Fishery Ownership?
by Биволъ September 4, 2018
Farmer Evgeni Minchev recently accused the lawmaker (MP) from the parliamentary group of the "United Patriots" Yordan Apostolov of attacking and threatening him. According to Minchev, Yordanov's aggression had been unlocked by his signal to the Regional Directorate of Environment and Waters (RIEWs) in the Black Sea city of Varna against the discharge of water from the fishponds of "Bul Aqua Fish". In his words, the MP had the reputation of a hidden owner of the company. Bivol talked to both sides of the conflict and found evidence of Apostolov's connections with "Bul Aqua Fish". In addition, the MP has acquired the farmyard where the company is located through a scandalous deal.
Minchev gave an emergency press conference to tell publicly about his conflict with the MP from the National Front for Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB, part of "United Patriots") Yordan Apostolov. In the breeder's words, on August 27, the conflict between him and Apostolov became physical.
Yordan Apostolov is a member of the National Political Council of the NSSB. He "rose to fame" for taking the third place in the party's election ballot in the Black Sea city of Burgas, being completely unknown to local people but personally endorsed by party leader Valeri Simeonov. In order for Apostolov to secure a seat in Parliament, Simeonov ran on the ballot of his party in the capital Sofia, freeing one spot in Burgas.
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Apostolov became known further for his open lobbyist position for amendments to the Black Sea Coast Act, which would have allowed a three-year extension of the terms for construction on farming lands along the coast. After the failure to pass them, the "United Patriots" pushed for the lobbyist amendments through the Sowing and Planting Act. It was Yordan Apostolov who was the main engine of the legislative initiatives in question, benefiting mainly oligarchic interests.
Yordan Apostolov – "The Patriot"
On September 1, days before his case was to become political, Minchev gave an interview to Bivol. He described himself as a former farmer from the village of Slaveevo. Former, because in February this year, his animals – 52 cows and calves – had been killed in a fire under suspicious circumstances. Prior to the incident, he and his brother had tried to breed animals through "supreme genetics".
"The farm had ups and downs. It all depends on the price of milk. When the price is good, there is nothing to complain about. In the last four years, we have had no reason to complain," he said.
Evgeni Minchev and his brother have even received European funding for one project. However, the second project has been declined. They have had serious problems with "Bul Aqua Fish" which had started with the very opening of the fishpond. The company is housed in the farmyard of the bankrupt socialist farming cooperative in the village of Slaveevo. According to media publications, Yordan Apostolov acquired its assets in 2005.
"There are a lot of companies there, one cannot know which is which: there is "Vuzhod – Arnieu and Co", "Agrostroy M"," Bul Aqua Fish "and who knows how many companies. The names are printed on the European funding signs."
Apostolov: "Bul Aqua Fish" is not mine
According to the "red-neck information", the owner of the company with the fishery, which is in the heart of the conflict, is lawmaker Yordan Apostolov, but he denies it. It is a fact that he is not entered officially as an owner, but according to data from the Trade Register, a person close to him is associated with the company.
Minchev says that the land, which has been planned for being given to locals from Slaveevo, has mysteriously become Apostolov's possession through Svetoslav Lazarov, a brother of Apostolov's wife, Ventsislava, and through Tihomir Danchev Slavov.
In 2013, when the company's fishery began operating, the discharge of wastewater also started occurring. As a result of this, Minchev's farm started turning into a swamp.
"Last year, all my cows miscarried. I had a cow mated with a world champion bull, and she miscarried in the seventh month."
Finally, the yard in which he and his brother had bred their animals until February had been flooded. The farmer lodged a signal with RIEWs Varna on August 23 and on Monday, August 27, employees of the Inspectorate arrived in the village for a check. Apostolov had been part of the group.
"When he was 30-40 meters away from us, he started shouting and threatening. He started screaming "I will not deal with you anymore; I will put you in such a hole that no one will find you". All this was done in front of the two female employees of the RIEWs."
The breeder says that he replied, "Well, come on, I will bring you the shovel and the pick for the ditch now." According to Minchev, Apostolov then swung his arm, hit him, and tore his shirt. Upon this, the breeder called the 112 emergency hotline, and Apostolov's behavior changed drastically. The police arrived and interrogated the eyewitnesses.
Dobrich District Prosecutor Petko Tukchiev confirmed that there is a similar incident, but the case had been sent to the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office because it involves a person with immunity.
Yordan Apostolov's version of the story is different. According to him, Evgeni Minchev absolutely tendentiously organized his press conference while the lawmaker was abroad, in Vienna. Apostolov initially categorically denied having attacked Minchev.
"No such thing. The fables of this boy that the Lord has punished enough. We have been patient with him for dozens of years while his cows were trampling our fields. We have always been good with him because I respect his brother."
Bivol: Are you connected with "Bul Aqua Fish"?
Apostolov: The only connection is that it is in my yard. There are seven-eight companies there. They are not mine.
Bivol: In fact, did an incident happen on that day?
Apostolov: There is no incident the way I see it; the only occurrence is that on the 27th there was a check by the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Waters of the drainage of water from the yard, but as I said, there are seven companies there that are not mine. It has an area of 34 decares. Under the circumstances, the lowest point is in our land and any water that leaks from anywhere, goes through this lowest point and into a ravine. Evgeni claims that this water affects his property of which I'm not sure."
Apostolov also confirmed that two employees of RIEWs Varna had arrived for the inspection. In his words, he had been there accidently, because he and his wife had to attend an inspection of farming machinery. They had met Minchev on the main road of the village.
"I cannot understand the problem with this water. It goes into the village ravine. When he had cows they drank from that water. For dozens of years. His property is not water-supplied."
Bivol: He has another view – that this is swamp water and because of it, his cows have miscarried.
Apostolov: What should the animals do when he does not give them water? If you are kept thirsty for days, and they will let you go free, will you not drink from the nearest water you see?"
In the conversation, however, the MP admitted of having had physical contact with Minchev.
"He accused me of taking part in the bankruptcy of his business. You understand? Can I now tell you that you are a bad man? He told me "you're a criminal"! I cannot understand why this guy is at large and not in a psychiatric ward. He causes harm and outrages to people!
Bivol: I am still asking about the specific incident?
Apostolov: The only thing… after he spoke these words, I grabbed him by the T-shirt, he drew back and it tore at the top. That was the whole incident. "
The lawmaker vowed to "endlessly" sue Minchev.
Yordan Apostolov always stands close to his leader Valeri Simeonov Photo Actualno.com
Nevertheless, who owns "Bul Aqua Fish"?
All this would be just a spicy incident involving an MP and a breeder, but the ownership of "Bul Aqua Fish" leads to other suspicions. The company has been incorporated in 2009. Its founders are Zhivko Stefanov Vassilev, Milko Velikov Penchev and Genoveva Petrova Chorbadzhieva. The company engages in the breeding of sturgeon fish, and in 2016 it has been checked by RIEWs Varna. Inspectors did not find any violations then.
Currently, Milko Velikov Penchev is no longer part of the company. He is the leader of the left-wing ABC party in the city of Dobrich and is… a parliamentary assistant to Yordan Apostolov. They had been partners in "Sidom Ltd.", a beneficiary of a European project under the Rural Development Program (RDP). They both have left this company to be replaced by Maya Atanasova Ilieva – Pencheva and Ventsislava Lazarova Apostolova. Everything indicates that the two ladies are their wives.
In 2015, Milko Penchev was a candidate for mayor of Dobrich on the ABC ballot, while Apostolov was running for municipal councilor on the ballot of the same party. Previously, they had also been part of another political formation – "More Citizens than Needed". Apostolov can be seen in a photo introducing the political formation together with Penchev.
Scandalous deal
Zhivko Vassilev is also associated with Yordan Apostolov in a scandalous manner. He has long been part of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in Dobrich. In a series of media publications in 2006, it is reported that Vassilev had traded the assets of the "Slavey" Farming Cooperative for Production and Services in the village of Slaveevo for a symbolic sum. He had sold the building with warehouses, the land plot and the power station to "Vuzhod – Arnieu and Co", whose manager was… Yordan Apostolov. The assistant notary, who had signed the sale deal was Milko Penchev.
The publications from 12 years ago cite victims who accuse Zhivko Vassilev of using the signatures of all 300 members of the cooperative and a fictitious protocol to conclude the deal with notary Milko Penchev in Dobrich. According to the notary deed from November 10 2005, the deal had been valued at BGN 4,000. The members of the cooperative have not received a penny from the sale. Bivol's sources claim that the case had also involved criminal proceedings, but Zhivko Vassilev had been acquitted.
All these facts undoubtedly indicate Yordan Apostolov's connection with "Bul Aqua Fish", and there is also disturbing evidence related to European funding under Operational Program Fisheries. It will be the subject of our next story on the subject.
Photo: Apostolov and Penchev at the introduction of a political formation in Dobrich
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