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Against Education Cuts
Nina Power
Before the UK election in May 2010, Conservative think-tanks such as Policy Exchange were suggesting that universities should be forced to 'sink or swim' and that private takeover was a very real possibility for 'failing' (or even not-so-failing) universities. While the introduction of 'top-up' tuition fees in 1998 heralded a shift in the way institutions understood their relation to both the state and their students, the total market vision of universities held by the coalition government crosses a qualitative threshold in the long-standing drive to impose the ideology of 'measurability' on the education system, despite the absence of any economic or social benefit in doing so.
The tripling of tuition fees, the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for 16–18 year-olds and the removal of state funding for teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences have struck many not only as a searing indictment of the philistinism of a government whose members had themselves received a free university education, but also as an inadequate and unsustainable response to the economic crisis. How is reducing university places, making levels of debt so high that they become unattractive and impossible for those not from rich families, and cutting the funding of various subjects going to stimulate the economy? What else, exactly, are those sixteen-year-olds who will lose the EMA, and those potential university students put off by a lifetime of debt, going to do instead? The short-termist venality of government policy, the Liberal Democrat climbdown over fees, the misjudged rhetoric of 'austerity Britain', the new philanthropy, the 'Big Society' and newspeak claims that 'we are all in this together' have made it very clear to the British public that it is they who will have to pay, and pay hard, for a deficit they didn't create, in the name of a 'shock doctrine' approach to the economy that they don't want.
It is no surprise, in some ways, that education, with all its complex forms of constraint and emancipation, would be at the forefront of this ongoing struggle, though it is quite clear that the government (and the police) have so far massively miscalculated the public response to their policies, assuming, perhaps, that after decades of ideological warfare, many, even among the middle classes, would find little to be upset about in the destruction of the university, with its supposed distance from the 'real world' and uselessness in an era characterized overwhelmingly by an obsession with profit, measurement and financial gain.
In many ways, the attack on universities and the EMA has been interpreted, correctly, as an attack on the young, and in particular on marginalized youth. We have in recent months been treated to the absurd spectacle of millionaire politicians telling already impoverished A-level and university students that they should be fixing the economy by mortgaging their future for the promise of jobs that are likely never to exist. Coupled with the institutional racism of a police force who have for a long time felt at liberty to harass and intimidate black and Asian youth in particular, the sense of divide between the rich and poor has become starker than ever. The battle over education, for so long understood as one of the main drivers of social mobility, has taken on a politicized character that had lain dormant in previous years.
'Rage of the Girl Rioters'? Yes, please!
The increasingly large – and, latterly, ferociously policed – demonstrations of November and December were accompanied by a series of university, college and school occupations involving, in total, around fifty institutions across the country. Although these events took place in direct response to the attacks on education, they should be understood in the context of occupations that took place a year earlier in response to Israel's attacks on Gaza, and to the brief occupation of Deptford Town Hall by Goldsmiths students on 3 November when the government first announced their intentions to raise fees and cut funding. Earlier actions in support of academic staff should also be remembered: last spring, staff went on strike at Kings College London and students occupied Sussex in protest at planned lay-offs. The international outcry that greeted the announcement of the closure of Philosophy at Middlesex University in May last year, and the subsequent occupations of the main buildings and library at its Trent Park campus, coupled with management suspension of staff and students, similarly set the tone for the autumn occupations. Some have begun to call it Winter of Discontent 2.0, reflecting, on the one hand, the return of a more openly Thatcherite political climate (although it was of course Labour who commissioned the Browne Report) and, on the other, the role of new media in disseminating information and organizing the protests and occupations, the scale of which prompted many to compare current student activism to the events of 1968 (plus laptops). There may be some mileage in comparisons to the protests of 1968, so long as they can avoid becoming a nostalgia-fest for those who have long since abandoned political resistance. But any direct identification fails to recognize the changed nature and status of the student as a political and social being: the blurring of the line between student and worker is far more pronounced now, precisely because the expansion of higher education has created spaces for those whose families do not previously have experience of attending university. Most of my students at Roehampton (and I'm sure the pattern is similar in other post-92s) are just as much workers, parents and carers as they are students, which makes participation in the protests and occupations perhaps even more significant. As does the fact that none of the students who occupied and protested this winter will be directly affected by the fee increases, frustrating media attempts to push their usual stereotype of the lazy, self-interested student. Another set of characters had to be mobilized: the naive protester simply caught up in the heat of the events (reinforcing the reactionary division between the 'good' and the 'bad' protester), the image of a 'children's crusade' coupled with a critique of lecturers who 'should know better', and so on. It should be noted that unlike '68, where all the well-known student leaders were male, the role of women as organizers, protesters and commentators in the recent protests was central, much to the horror of the Daily Mail in particular, whose 'Rage of the Girl Rioters' article (25 November) is already notorious.
While National Union of Students and University and College Union leadership were frequently 'spineless' – as NUS leader Aaron Porter described himself during a meeting at the UCL occupation – the students' self-organization and rapid outwitting of police tactics on several occasions should be recognized as part of a new wave of acephalic mobilizations, which, as protests build into the new year, cannot get much further without the support of trade unions, parents and other workers. This is a point made by Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite. University lecturers, who are being increasingly told by management to inform on their politically active students, came in for some serious criticism from the media at various points, particularly those at Goldsmiths who signed a letter defending the student protests ('Full Marks for the Riot Say Lecturers' ran the Evening Standard headline on 12 November). The attack on Goldsmiths is not coincidental. It is seen as the symbolic home of everything that's 'wrong' with the university according to current government policy: arts-based, in London (there are simply 'too many'), renowned (but not in the right way) and far too accessible to students from non-traditional backgrounds. On a related note, the role of 'art practice' in recent protests is also interesting, particularly the re-détourning of already assimilated art forms – the way the flash mob turned in a matter of months from an empty social media happening to an advertising vehicle, to a form of popular protest in the shape of UK Uncut's tax avoidance campaigns.
There is no doubt that 2011 will see a continued and increasingly militant anger spreading from students and the young to public-sector workers and beyond. Parents of children and young adults are increasingly and justly antagonized by the punishment meted out on their kids, and further-education and university students involved in the protests have received a rapid education in how not to trust the state, the police or the media. Some of the most articulate summaries and slogans of the current situation have come not from the old revolutionary vanguard, or from the commentariat, but from the protesters and occupiers themselves – and how could it be otherwise?
Occupations and their limits
Boundaries are permeable. We reach out beyond the police containment zone; our attempt to escape is our attempt to spread the movement into society at large. On the evening of 9 December, journalists are let out just before they hold us for two hours on Westminster Bridge. We are reminded of the futility of tweeting from our smartphones when all the professional reporters have gone home. But, instead of silence, we listen to our own chants.
In protest our biggest opposition is the boundary. We reject the boundaries of the lecture theatre, the separation of students from society, the institutions of privilege, the binding of subjects to disciplines, the lines on the timetables that tell us where to be and when. Boundaries are how we are controlled, and in occupying we aim to take control of and remove them. The metaphors abound, and our movement is attracted to them. It is not by mistake that we engage in modes of protest that leave themselves open to poetic interpretation.
Virtual boundaries manifest themselves in the physical world. Receiving the legal notice of a possession order against an occupation, we find ourselves presented with deeds and blueprints. The perimeters of the occupied rooms are outlined in coloured felt-tip. The documents tell us that the claimant is 'The University', which means its management. In legal terms, the management are the owners of the institution: in legal terms, they control it. Occupiers are depersonalized by definition, defined as 'Persons Unknown (including students)'. We are expected to recognize ourselves in that dismissive parenthesis. The symbolism of the boundaries marked on these documents at that moment becomes a spectre of physical violence: the threat of removal by bailiffs.
This mutation from virtual to physical does not only go in one direction. The police line in front of Parliament or the Treasury becomes an integral part of a whole architecture worthy of destruction. The line becomes a boundary of the spectacle, and then itself becomes subsumed into the spectacle. We form our own line and so the process continues back and forth, between the spectacle of the boundary and the boundary of the spectacle.
The mass incarceration of protesters in Parliament Square is counterposed by the fences put up to stop people getting in. Boundaries become confused. Are they to pen us in or keep us out? In occupation, we rebel against a particular boundary, but in doing so we come to recognize the social functions of boundaries…
Smells like teen spirit
Emily Clifton
Before I learned about the planned rise in tuition fees in October 2010, my sole experience of political protest was as a nine-year-old accompanying my mother on a thoroughly peaceful anti-Iraq War march in 2003. I'm now sixteen, a student at a South-west London state secondary school. Following the election last spring, my friends and I had begun to talk about politics for the first time. There was a wide range of views. There was an equally wide range of opinions about the government's imminent plans involving tuition fees, only this time feelings were heightened as the issue was something that we could directly relate to our futures.
As the students of the future, we are the ones who will be saddled with massive debts. They will be a huge deterrent for many of us, as we ponder how best to continue our education. I don't accept that the Con–Dem alliance has any mandate to decide our futures, to reinstate an elitist education system, and to reinforce the class system that underlies it, particularly as the majority of them have benefited from an entirely free university education.
Inspired by news of planned demonstrations in London, a friend and I joined the 10 November protest march from Whitehall to Millbank, the Conservative Headquarters, in order to 'unite and fight' with thousands of other justifiably irate students from all over the UK. The enthusiasm and motivation of the crowd was phenomenal, with over 50,000 workers and students spanning all ages, united in their view that the contents of the Browne Report were unfair and unnecessary; the energy was particularly exhilarating and heartening outside Millbank, where the chants and banners found an immediate and compelling target.
Emboldened by our experience and motivated through the need to raise awareness among our peers and create an impact locally, we then decided to organize our own event in Kingston. We wanted to gain as much support as possible, particularly in secondary schools. Like so many similar groups all over the country, we set up a Facebook event page, giving information and explaining our motives. We planned to stage school walkouts, followed by a local march, to coincide with the National Day of Walkouts to defend Education (on 24 November), organized by the Education Activist Network…
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The increasing presence of Islamic banking and finance in Pakistan's financial sector and the country's exemplary role in the global Islamic finance industry has called for an evaluation of the contribution of Islamic finance to the real economic activity. Islamic finance has started to make important contributions to the real economy by effectively carrying out the financial intermediation role of pooling and channeling funds to the investment activities, however, continuous efforts need to be undertaken to further expand the industry which includes refinement of the legal and regulatory framework to enable healthier growth of the industry, thus further strengthens Pakistan's position as the leader in the Islamic finance industry at the global level.
Islamic banking has now become a reality. Islamic banking assets grew at an annual rate of 17.6% between 2009 and 2013, and will grow by an average of 19.7% a year to 2018. The worldwide Islamic financial services industry is thought to be worth in excess of US$2 trillion and despite current global economic uncertainty it continues to demonstrate with strong signs of growth as investors (Islamic and conventional) look to tap into the alternative source of liquidity offered by Shariah-compliant financing structures and products.
The re-launch of Islamic banking in Pakistan in 2001 has proved to be a big success as the industry starting from almost scratch now constitutes more than 10 percent of country's banking system. The sustained growth momentum over the last 15 years provides strong evidence of growing acceptability of Islamic banking as a viable and competitive alternate to the conventional banking. The outreach of Islamic banking industry has also expanded considerably as now the network of Islamic Banking consists of 22 Islamic Banking Institutions (IBIs) (6 full-fledged Islamic banks and 16 conventional banks having standalone Islamic banking branches). The industry has surpassed the target of 2,000 branches as set in the second State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Strategic Plan 2014-18 of Islamic banking industry in the third year of the plan. The fast-paced expansion of the industry's outreach could among others be attributed to the supportive and enabling role of SBP, which was voted as the best central bank in the world in 2015 for Promoting Islamic Finance in an international poll conducted by Islamic Finance News, an arm of Redmoney Group Malaysia. Some of the steps undertaken by SBP to promote Islamic Banking are as under:
1- Formation of Steering Committee for Promotion of Islamic Banking
2- Establishment of Centers of Excellence in Islamic Finance Education (CEIFEs)
3- Liquidity Management Solutions (Fixed rate rental/Bai-Mu'ajjal of GOP Ijara Sukuk for Islamic Banking Industry
4- Implementation of Shariah Governance Framework
5- Initiation of Islamic Microfinance Operations by Microfinance Bank
6- Awareness Creation and Capacity Building Programs for Islamic Banking Industry
7- Tax Neutrality
8- Strengthening of Shariah Compliance Inspection
9- Global Participation
A general observation is that most of the world's Muslims are not so devout that they completely avoid conventional finance: even in Saudi Arabia, the assets of Islamic banks account for barely half of all banking assets. Muslim account-holders, tend to be more concerned with the products and service on offer than with the strictures of Shariah. But Islamic finance has become sophisticated enough to appeal on both counts. Most of the customers came not out of faith, but "purely as a value proposition". Some of the areas where Islamic Banking could really make a difference are:
It is generally believed that Islamic Banking was re-launched to bring the large un-banked population within the folds of banking industry. Since its re-launch, Islamic Banking industry is still concentrated in urban, semi-urban areas where financial services have greater availability while a significant percentage of faith sensitive voluntary exclusion signifies huge potential demand for Islamic Banking in the country. The SBP and the industry need to collaborate further to expand their network to regions where there is no or limited availability of financial services particularly in the areas of SMEs, agriculture and microfinance.
It has been generally observed that entrepreneurs in SME sector are more inclined towards Islamic banking products due to their religious sensitivity. Small and medium enterprises (SME) sector has a great potential for expanding production capacity and self-employment opportunities in the country. Enhancing the role of financial sector in development of SME sub-sector could mitigate the serious problems of unemployment and low level of exports.
Similar to SME sector, agriculture sector development is critical for the overall growth of our economy but is among the sectors that are being ignored by the banking industry in general and Islamic banking Institutions in particular. Presently, Salam is essentially a sales contract with deferred delivery of goods often used in agriculture as advance payment against future delivery of a crop yield, allowing farmers to finance the advance purchase of inputs to be used in crop production. The type of crop, amount, and delivery date of the expected crop yield is agreed to in advance. The benefits of Salam financing are sufficient to allow farmers to build assets and sustain themselves above the poverty line within five financing cycles, or roughly three years.
Islamic microfinance has great potential to provide support to the poor by providing financial services at their doorstep. The asset based nature of Islamic modes of financing safeguard customers against mis-utilization of financing and thus over indebtedness. The regulatory environment for developing Islamic microfinance in Pakistan is quite conducive as detailed guidelines for Islamic microfinance industry including detailed licensing criteria are already available. Going forward, support is being provided by SBP to the Islamic microfinance industry for capacity building, coordination and collaboration among various stakeholders, focused research and pilot projects to develop this sector.

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Your idea can change the world: Know how
Whenever there was nothing in this world. There comes a mind that have an idea to serve world and change the world. From stone age to today. The world has been changed many times, All because of an idea. Don't underestimate the power of an idea you have. An idea is the one that pursue the power of changing the world. Everyone has some ideas once in their lifetime. Even a small idea has the ability to change the world.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
That is why we say never underestimate yours and others ideas. If you believe in your idea then definitely it has something to believe. But thinking will not lead to anything if no actions is taken against it. Thinking is good, Implementing is better and being successful in it is best.
We need to believe in ourselves first then in our idea. We should do everything what we can do and make enough efforts worth it by implementing it and creating results, great results. It is very hard to implement an idea and this is where most of the people fail. Sometimes stops when it was about to work.
We need to stick through it and work for it and believe in it and let other people believe it too. If you have an idea to serve world something valuable then people will understand you and will help you. You will fail many times, sometimes many more times but you need to work for it and persist and most important thing is have patience. (To know more about how patience can lead you to success click here)
If you fail try again and again but don't stop. only you can make a change, only you is the one that will make the most and best effort for it. lead your way and just implement your idea. If you help yourself god will help you and other people too. You need to let them see, what you are seeing – Your vision.
Tell people your vision by comparing what it is now and what it could be. How Your idea can change the today's world.
Its your life and idea make it large
Don't stop yourself from taking risk
Don't stop yourself from thinking big
Don't let yourself lose
Never give up. believe in yourself and see yourself changing the world. Commit yourself to your task. to serve others something valuable. make a change see your vision and no body can stop you from chasing it.
No idea is small or big, no idea is stupid or extraordinary, all it need is to be improved.
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By setting up interactions with industry experts, Arena ensures that its students are always up-to-date with the industry's landscape. Additionally, Arena's Creative Minds initiatives give students a platform to showcase their talent directly to potential employers. This helps students gain an understanding of the industry requirements, which is vital for a successful career in Animation.
Career Readiness
Simulated e-projects, focus on Animation environment and application areas, periodic tests and exams, constant interaction with faculty, external invigilation, industry knowledge forums, help in all-round development of an Arena student. No wonder they come across as extremely confident and career ready in all the different placement forums they attend.
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Arena's pioneering and pro-active placement related activities over the last 20 years, has resulted in a growing list of some of India's Top Corporates who keep coming to Arena for recruitments/job openings.
Arena has a dedicated placement cell which proactively grooms students to improve their employability as well as assists them in finding the right opportunity in the industry. To date, over 1000 companies have recruited Arena students on board in the following sectors
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This week, as Chicago's Wrigley Field marks its 100th anniversary, Yankees fans may be wondering what their own team was like in 1914, before it become a powerhouse franchise, nine years away from its first World Series championship.
The answer is that the 1914 club was not a very good one, relying on pitching, speed and sacrifice bunts. It finished sixth in the eight-team American League with a 70-84 record.
But there was one intriguing similarity between then and now. The 1914 infield was anchored by a star shortstop, Roger Peckinpaugh, who was small in stature and bowlegged but was the most esteemed everyday player on the team.
Before too many comparisons to Derek Jeter are made, let it be noted that Peckinpaugh had a career batting average of .259 in 17 major league seasons, or 53 points fewer than Jeter's current career average, .312. Peckinpaugh ended up with 1,876 career hits; Jeter has 3,331.
What Peckinpaugh was good at was fielding in an era when gloves were primitive and good double-play combinations were rare. He was recognized throughout baseball for his exceptionally strong arm and, unlike Jeter, his range. Peckinpaugh even received two votes for the 1914 Chalmers Award — that era's equivalent of the Most Valuable Player award — despite hitting just .223.
But more than anything, it was Peckinpaugh's cool demeanor and reputation for steady leadership that stood out, inviting more accurate comparisons to Jeter.
Celebrated in a newspaper headline after his playing career ended as the "calmest man in baseball," Peckinpaugh in 1914 was chosen by Yankees Manager Frank Chance to be the team's captain, even though it was only his second season with the club. And after Chance resigned that September, Peckinpaugh was temporarily appointed as player-manager. He was only 23, and there still has never been a younger manager in the game.
By 1915, Wild Bill Donovan had taken over as the manager, followed by the Hall of Famer Miller Huggins. Peckinpaugh remained as the Yankees' captain until he was traded to the Washington Senators after the 1921 season.
"Peckinpaugh was the consummate team player and professional," said the author Steve Steinberg, whose writing focuses on early 20th-century baseball. "Years later, when Peckinpaugh was asked about his greatest day in baseball by sportswriter Hugh Fullerton, Peckinpaugh cited a crucial late-season game against Cleveland in 1921 that New York won with the pennant at stake, even though Peckinpaugh himself went 0 for 4. Peckinpaugh totally would put his ego aside, and he was a classy person, the same way that Jeter exudes class."
The 1914 Yankees team did not play in the Bronx, nor were they Bombers. Peckinpaugh's three home runs were the most on the team (the Yankees hit only 12 in all), and two of those were of the inside-the-park variety.
The Yankees that year also faced challenges that today's teams do not, including the risk of having players signed away by the upstart Federal League, as well as having to share the Polo Grounds with the Giants, a team that had been to three consecutive World Series and overshadowed their American League counterparts.
Yankees outfielder Fritz Maisel, nicknamed Flash, led the A.L. with 74 stolen bases in 1914, and Peckinpaugh had 38. Even so, the Yankees scored a meager 535 runs — 214 fewer than first-place Philadelphia. It took the arrival of Babe Ruth six years later, combined with the introduction of a livelier baseball, for the Yankees to take on a far different, and more enduring, image.
Although they were not very good, the 1914 Yankees did have some distinctive players. Pitcher Marty McHale, who suffered through a 6-16 season, was a well-regarded baritone who sang and danced with a vaudeville act. Another pitcher, Ray Fisher, was called the Vermont Schoolmaster for having taught Latin in the off-season early in his career. Making his major league debut in 1914, outfielder Angel Aragon, born in Cuba, is believed to be the first Latino player to appear in a game with the Yankees. Tom Burr, whose career consisted of one inning in the outfield in 1914, died in an airplane accident in France in October 1918 and had the shortest playing tenure of any of the eight major leaguers killed during World War I.
Then there was Boardwalk Brown, who walked 15 Detroit batters in seven and two-thirds innings in 1915, and King Cole, who pitched primarily in relief for the Yankees and gave up Babe Ruth's first major league hit (a double) on Oct. 2, 1914. Pitcher Jack Warhop somehow lost five 1-0 games in 1914.
But Peckinpaugh was the team's centerpiece. His offensive production actually started improving in the 1916 season (he hit .255) and in 1925, with the Senators, he became the first shortstop to be the M.V.P. He was also a major contributor for the Washington team that won the 1924 World Series.
There were also, it should be noted, some very un-Jeterlike defensive failings by Peckinpaugh at key moments.
In 1921, he let a routine ground ball roll through his legs, allowing the Giants to score the only run in the deciding game of the World Series. Then, in 1925, he committed a record eight errors in the seven-game World Series between Washington and Pittsburgh.
"I think of Peckinpaugh as being the Bill Buckner of his time," said Jim Reisler, the author of "Before They Were the Bombers: The New York Yankees' Early Years, 1903-1915."
"Buckner was a great player for more than a decade, but all anyone remembers is the ball going through his legs in the 1986 World Series. The same is true with Peckinpaugh, and it is really a shame."
He added: "We should remember Peckinpaugh as a borderline Hall of Famer who had a lot of intangibles. Peckinpaugh may not have had Jeter's batting average, but Peckinpaugh, too, was well-respected and was a team leader at a young age."
So there you have it. A shortstop who was the captain then, a shortstop who is the captain now. In some small way, Yankees history is repeating itself 100 years later.


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ZeeQ on-Wheels flagged off in Mumbai
· ZeeQ, the children's genre channel flags off ZeeQ on-Wheels van in Mumbai
· ZeeQ on-Wheels to move through 20 cities in India over two months
MUMBAI, January 31, 2013: On Thursday, ZeeQ, India's first edutainment channel, flagged off the ZeeQ van called, ZeeQ on-Wheels in Mumbai, to visit 20 cities across the country.
En route, this van will connect with children across India. "ZeeQ's main aim behind this journey is to interact with children and their parents to communicate how learning can be fun," said Subhadarshi Tripathy, Business Head,ZeeQ at the launch.
ZeeQ on-Wheels is a knowledge treasure for children, providing opportunities of playing games like Balloon Maths, Bottle Cap Memory, Larger than Life Scrabble, English Wordmatch and M.I. Four Quiz. Along with games, ZeeQ on-Wheels will also screen ZeeQ programmes like Amar Chitra Katha Heroes, Sid the Science Kid, Teenovation, Word Match, Science with Braincafe and Cyberchase, etc. for children and parents on the van.
On the whole activity, Aparna Bhosle, Programming Head of ZeeQ, is confident that firsthand engagement with children will enrich the experiences of ZeeQ's Programming team. She said, "As a broadcaster, through our shows, we are committed to give life experience to children and this initiative, ZeeQ on-Wheels is the extension of our very same commitment."
From marketing perspective, ZeeQ on-Wheels will ensure sampling of ZeeQ's shows in its target market. Anuj Katiyar, ZeeQ's Head, Marketing and Research, informed that the activities on ZeeQ on-Wheels are interactive in nature and are formulated considering the four key subjects like English, mathematics, science, and general knowledge. For conducting the mentioned interactive activities, ZeeQ on-Wheels will halt at various locations in each city for four days.
Over next few days, this van will ply on Mumbai roads and then it will cover the rest of the Western Zone. Apart from Mumbai, in Western Zone, it will visit Pune, Surat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Indore, Bhopal and Nagpur. In North the ZeeQ on-wheels is set to tour New Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Amritsar. In Southern region the touch points will be Chennai, Banglore and Hyderabad, whereas in East, ZeeQ on-Wheels will mingle with children in Kolkata.
About ZeeQ
ZeeQ, a kid's genre channel was launched by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (Zee) in early November. The channel aims to cater to the needs of children of age group four to14.
On November 5, 2012 – pan India – it was availed on air on the Dish and Videocon DTH platforms. It is also available on all the digital DTH platforms in India.
ZeeQ is the 32nd channel from Zee. Zee manages ZeeQ's broadcast operations, while Zee Learn Ltd., the education division of Zee, looks after the content and channel management. Zee Learn is the fastest growing education chain of preschools and K-12 in India.
The channel has balanced approach towards the programming content that it airs. It has mix of acquired and locally produced content. The language of ZeeQ's content is Hinglish, i.e. 70% content is in English and 30% is in Hindi.
To name a few, the prominent shows on ZeeQ include – Teenovation, Amar Chitra Katha Heroes, Science with Braincafe, Sid the Science Kid, Word Match and many more.
The founding principle of the ZeeQ is to stand for – What is Right for the Child (WRFC). Each and every show of ZeeQ is reflection of this principle – WRFC. Precisely, the shows on ZeeQ helps mothers decide what is right for their child.


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Department of Game and Fish staff will be assisting Project Healing Waters as they take approximately 7 veterans fishing in northern NM.
This will be a fishing event for invited media at Fenton Lake to learn basic fishing skills, attend a tour of Seven Springs Fish Hatchery and discuss restoration efforts of the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout and the importance of hunting and fishing in tourism and local economies.
The Department of Game and Fish will be participating in a fund raiser for Sierra Vista Primary Fun Fest where various activities and events will be held. The Department will have an archery range at this event. This event is open to the public and is a fund raiser for the school.
Coaches meeting 8:30 am. Safety meeting at 8:45 am.
Event #1 Singles/Handicaps 100 each for Senior/ 50 each for Intermediate
Event #2 Doubles (optional) 100 each for Senior/ 50 each for Intermediate
Squadding will be done by team as registered, partial squads will be combined to have full squads. Registration/squadding is required by Oct. 21st, 2019. Payment is due Oct. 23rd, 2019. You may pay with PayPal (firstname.lastname@example.com) or mail checks to NMHSCTA 16858 HWY 550, Aztec NM, 87410.
The Department will be participating at the Festival of Cranes in San Antonio, NM. Come see our backyard bass program, focusing on casting skills, and a wildlife information trunk at this event.


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Carlos D Is a Professional Actor Now, Gives Long Interview About Post-Interpol Life
Says he doesn't have a relationship with other Interpol members, is working on a one-man show and a book
Carlos Dengler, aka Carlos D, who was a founding member of Interpol, left the band back in 2010. This week, Bedford + Bowery tracked him down for a wide-ranging interview about his post-Interpol career, as Brooklyn Vegan points out.
Dengler said he recently graduated from NYU's graduate acting program, where he spent "three years in acting boot camp." Now, after acting in a few plays, he's begun looking for more work.
Dengler said he's "auditioning and looking for an agent," while settling into his "adult, post-Interpol, post-actor training life":
I'm a 41-year-old man. I'm no spring chicken. So I'm looking at some of my younger classmates and how they're coming out of the gate with fire under their asses and they're doing a lot of stuff. I'm like, "Wow, that's pretty fucking impressive." I just don't have that ability right now. I'm still putting all of the pieces together.
Throughout the interview, Dengler was explicit about his decision to escape his reputation as Interpol's reigning bon vivant. He said his history with the band goes unnoticed until he mentions it:
One thing I'm discovering about getting out there right now– this is the first time I'm out of school since leaving the band, and I'm completely starting over. Nobody in the theater community really knows about my band. They don't really know. I have to tell them. I have to kind of lead with that, which I don't like doing. So it's a problem.
He also said he doesn't want to get a part just because he was in Interpol:
I don't want to ever get a gig because the director's like a fan of Interpol or something like that. I would construe that as a fundamentally corrupting ingredient in the mix. I might be naive or idealistic in wanting this, but it's an ideal. I want to do this for the art, for the art.
Later on, he explains his decision to leave the band:
I was not really mentally all that well while I was in Interpol. I had many substance and process addictions that I was coping with. And I was, you know, the classic VH1 "Behind the Music" story of upward rise and downward fall. The only difference was that— because I didn't have such a good relationship with my bandmates— I wasn't willing to be in the band with them while I experienced my crash.
There was a little crash before the third record [2007's Our Love to Admire] but the big crash actually came afterwards. One of the reasons why it was necessary for me to be out of the band to experience that crash was because I wasn't, at the time, willing to let anybody know about it. I didn't want anyone in the music industry to see me fall that way. It was beyond anything, like, that I would want anyone to know about. It shook my very belief in the career I was even pursuing inside of music.
As for his relationship with the other members of Interpol, Dengler said:
I don't like phrase "we don't talk." That's sort of like someone hammering a plaque into a rock and engraving it: "Thus they do not speak, in perpetuity." And it's a much more fluid situation than that. The fact of the matter is that I have not spoken to them in quite some time.
I haven't spoke to Sam [Fogarino] or Paul [Banks] since I left the band, since I actually left our group counseling session together, which is where I announced that I was leaving. That was the last time that I saw them in the flesh. I saw Daniel [Kessler] a couple times after that— we actually met up— and then as things got more serious with my training, I just wasn't ready to continue the friendship.
Additionally, he said he's working on a book ("I don't want to make it a straight-up, tell-all memoir, I wanted it to be more of an essay and more literary") and a one-man, autobiographical show modeled after Spalding Gray and Mike Daisey. "I've workshopped it quite a bit and I'm going to workshop it one more time at Stella Adler Studio of Acting," he said. "And I anticipate I will have it in somewhat more of a finished form soon."
Read the whole interview here. Back in 2012, Dengler participated in Pitchfork's oral history of Interpol's album Turn on the Bright Lights.


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Reconstructionist Rabbi Michael PollackŌĆÖs kippah is purpleŌĆöbipartisan by designŌĆömixing red and blue because when it comes to political bribery in Pennsylvania, a state that ranks in the Center for Public IntegrityŌĆÖs top 10 corrupt states, Republicans and Democrats are equally culpable.
ŌĆ£In our 2015 rankings Pennsylvania was one of a group of states that got an F grade,ŌĆØ said Gordon Witkin, CPIŌĆÖs executive editor. ŌĆ£We found overall that there was an absence of effective ethics at the state house, flaccid anti-corruption laws, not a lot of oversight of lobbying and that a culture of corruption had grown up around all the malfeasance which is a regular part of the Harrisburg diet.ŌĆØ Witkin said that in their reporting it was found that 40 state officials or high-ranking aides had been convicted for crimes of corruption in the past four decades.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs a culture that incentivizes bad behavior at every single turn,ŌĆØ says Pollack, who is the founder of March on Harrisburg, an anti-corruption pro-democracy organization committed to moving the Commonwealth from its embarrassingly low rating to the very highest. Pollack says that to the detriment of good governance both sides play the gerrymandering game and unapologetically accept gifts from lobbyists. ŌĆ£One Democratic legislator told me: ŌĆśI depend on gifts to pay my mortgage,ŌĆÖŌĆØ Pollack said.
Astonishingly, in Pennsylvania this is not an admission of wrongdoing. It is one of only 10 states with no limitations on what people can gift to politicians. While Gov. Tom Wolf's office is under a self-imposed gift ban, members of the state legislature are not. Rep. Greg Vitali has linked the inability to pass meaningful environmental protections to the 203 lobbyists employed by the oil and gas industry (a 1:1 ratio with state reps), who expense $7 million to $8 million each year lobbying.
ŌĆ£You can gift anything, there are no limits,ŌĆØ Pollack explained. ŌĆ£And the reporting requirements are a joke, thereŌĆÖs no enforcement. Legislators can receive new cars, vacations, even cash gifts are legal. A lobbyist can literally walk into the statehouse with a briefcase full of cash.ŌĆØ
Under the green glaze of the capitolŌĆÖs domed roof the business of the state is conducted in an atmosphere begging for an infusion of morality. Pollack, who says that heŌĆÖs ŌĆ£much better at lobbying corrupt politicians than leading services,ŌĆØ has been in every nook and cranny of the palatial building, including multiple detentions in its holding cell after engaging in civil disobedience meant to advance MoHŌĆÖs legislative agendaŌĆöan end to gerrymandering and a gift ban.
ŌĆ£TheyŌĆÖre afraid of us,ŌĆØ he said, ŌĆ£because weŌĆÖve made our deal fairly clearŌĆöif you meet with us we wonŌĆÖt protest you, if you donŌĆÖt, we will.ŌĆØ Only three of the 253 legislators have not yet met with MoH, most notably Rep. Daryl Metcalfe who holds power as majority chairman of the House state government committee.
Of most urgency to MoH is MetcalfeŌĆÖs refusal to meet with its members to discuss a gerrymandering reform bill. HB 722 is still stuck in the state government committee chaired by Metcalfe, even after MoH walked 105 miles from Philadelphia to urge that it be brought for a vote. Bearing gifts of Champagne, candy and flowers, Pollack even offered Metcalfe the shirt off his back, stripping down to his tzitzit as an inducement for a conversation. If it is not voted on by June 30, its measures (which were endorsed by Metcalfe's own district of Cranberry Township in a resolution) will not be eligible to be placed before voters in a referendum before the next round of redistricting in 2021.
Metcalfe did not directly respond to TabletŌĆÖs request for comment, but did publish a video disparaging MoH on his website the very next day.
Undeterred, Pollack notes that while that culture of corruption ŌĆ£runs deep,ŌĆØ so does the tradition heŌĆÖs calling on to root it out.
Inspired by prophets, not profits, Pollack reads the entire Hebrew bible as a testament to how wrong bribery and corruption are. Passages from Exodus, Deuteronomy and Isaiah fall trippingly off his tongueŌĆöŌĆ£a bribe blinds they eye of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous; your rulers are rebels they chase after thievesŌĆØŌĆöwhich he sees as warnings about the hazards of shutting out the voices of the marginalized.
ŌĆ£When thereŌĆÖs a disconnect between those that govern and the people there is chaos and suffering; it directly affects us when Pennsylvania doesnŌĆÖt have money for basic social services because Comcast doesn't pay taxes, or when the air and water are poisoned.ŌĆØ
Trained at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, seminary prepared him for this work not only scripturally but temperamentally.
ŌĆ£At RRC I learned how to meditate to have a clear mind, to check my own ego and reactions, and to form and articulate a more or less consistent world view, with tons of doubt and contradictions built in, of course.ŌĆØ
If a secular approach could get the job done Pollack mightŌĆÖve become a lawyer instead of a rabbi, but educating people to the problem of corruption alone is insufficient. Polling shows that 96 percent of those asked want to change the way elections are funded, but also that 91 percent donŌĆÖt think anything will ever change. Pollack is bringing what he calls ŌĆ£an irrational spiritualityŌĆØ into the discussion about money in politics, which he feels is dominated by ŌĆ£hyper-rational cynicism.ŌĆØ
For that reason he says it was a ŌĆ£no-brainerŌĆØ to join in a ŌĆ£moral fusionŌĆØ under the umbrella of the Poor PeopleŌĆÖs Campaign into a coalition with Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania and the Coalition to End Death By IncarcerationŌĆōan organization working to end Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania. On May 21, Pollack along with five other rabbis, including Mordechai Liebling, director of RRCŌĆÖs Social Justice Organizing Program, were arrested at the state capitol.
Rabbi Pollack is unconcerned that ŌĆ£moral fusionŌĆØ might be interpreted as a dilution of the precepts of Judaism. HeŌĆÖs been inspired by the writings of Shalom Center founder and director Arthur Waskow on the long traditions in Judaism of both disobedience and nonviolent direct action, and especially draws on the wisdom of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel from whom he received three key concepts: No religion is an island, we live in an interconnected world, and itŌĆÖs an issue of pragmatism at the end of the day.
ŌĆ£Intersectionality is building that beloved community,ŌĆØ said Pollack, ŌĆ£even if we only agree on 20 percent of issues.ŌĆØ
Pollack does not treat corrupt Jewish legislators any differently than non-Jews.
ŌĆ£But I carry more disappointment,ŌĆØ he admitted. ŌĆ£I expect more from them, whether thatŌĆÖs fair or not is a different question.ŌĆØ


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The party's over. Time for Ottawa to roll up the sidewalks and turn out the lights?
Not so fast.
Recent stats confirm that 2017 was a record year for the city's tourism industry. As headquarters for the nation's sesquicentennial celebrations, throngs of people visited Ottawa to take part in the festivities. There were special events, exhibits and shows throughout the year.
But now what? Well, as we get back to our regularly scheduled programming, we're noticing benefits to the birthday hangover, including a bunch of ongoing exhibits and renovated institutions.
While we're still working towards recognition as a music city, let's not forget that Ottawa is already a significant destination for arts and culture, with the added bonus of having plenty of green space. And speaking of green, the impending legalization of recreational cannabis is sure to be another factor in attracting international visitors.
No matter what kind of buzz you're seeking, here are eight reasons to explore Ottawa in 2018.
World-class arts
If you haven't had the chance to check out the newly renovated National Arts Centre, from the impressive Kipnes Lantern at the now-visible Elgin Street entrance to the comfier seats in Southam Hall, this is the year to do so. The season features NAC Orchestra performances as well as dozens of theatre, dance and variety shows, a spate of singer-songwriters and much more, including a couple of blockbuster Broadway Across Canada productions. Les Miserables is booked for Feb. 13-18, The Illusionists run is March 27-April 1 and we're sure to see the touring version of Come From Away, the new hit musical based on the experience of airline passengers stranded in Gander, Nfld., on Sept. 11, 2001, although dates have not yet been announced.
Festival city
Ottawa is full of annual outdoor events that celebrate different genres of music, as well as food, tulips, dragon-boating, gay pride and virtually every other aspect of culture. While we're watching for lineup announcements for the major music festivals (Bluesfest, CityFolk, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Chamber Music Fest, Music and Beyond) we can't help but notice that others are celebrating landmark years: It's the 40th anniversary of Winterlude (Feb. 2-19), the 25th Dragon Boat Festival (June 21-24) and the 15th Westfest (June 8-10). Westfest, by the way, has already nabbed Canadian rock heroes The Pursuit of Happiness as a headliner.
History, buffed
Ottawa's museums went all out for the 150th party, and the efforts didn't end when the calendar flipped over to 2018. Canada's Science and Technology Museum is flaunting an extensive, $80-million renovation, while the Museum of Nature unveiled a new, permanent Arctic Gallery. The Bank of Canada Museum is back in business after a four-year reconstruction project, almost long enough to forget we even had a currency museum, and the Canadian Museum of History launched its ambitious, 40,000 square foot Canadian History Hall, a new exhibit that covers 15,000 years of our shared past.
The art of expansion
The expanded Ottawa Art Gallery, a whopping five times bigger than the old one, is expected to open this spring at 50 Mackenzie King Bridge, part of Canada's first mixed-use gallery, hotel and condo project. The inaugural exhibition is titled 'Àdisòkàmagan / Nous connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We'll all become stories' and covers 6,500 years of artistic activity in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Meanwhile, the National Gallery of Canada, although closed from Jan. 8-23 to replace the windows and roof, has some big plans for 2018, including a summer exhibition devoted to the work of Canada's 19th-century master silversmith, Laurent Amiot.
Rebuilding Parliament
Want to visit the Senate, House of Commons, Library of Parliament or the Peace Tower? Better do it before September because Centre Block is closing this fall for a major renovation that is likely to take more than a decade. While it's out of commission, the House of Commons will shift to West Block, and the Senate will conduct its business in the Government Conference Centre, the former train station across from the Chateau Laurier. You'll be able to take tours of those historic sites, too, but it won't be the same postcard view.
The great outdoors
Culture is great, but our proximity to nature is an undeniable attraction. Whether it's skating on the Rideau Canal or cross-country skiing in Gatineau Park (or in the city on the Sir John A. Macdonald trail), or during the summer, lounging on a beach, bicycling along a dedicated pathway or getting out on the water, outdoor activities are never more than a few minutes away. One long-uncharted landmark to check out this year is Chaudiere Falls, which will be made accessible to the public by spring — in its natural state, thankfully, not as part of a sound-and-light show.
Bud and breakfast?
Get ready for a surge in tourism by recreational pot smokers searching for a new high. They're the ones who have already explored Amsterdam's coffee shops and stayed in a Bud + Breakfast hotel in Denver, perhaps while attending the city's 420 Rally. Now the race is on in Canada for new agencies, services, products and events to be developed to cater to what's expected to be a multi-billion dollar market when cannabis becomes legal next summer. And don't think everyone is going directly to the West Coast to score some famed B.C. bud; they'll soon find out that growers in the rest of the country have mastered the art of indoor horticulture.
Entertain us
TD Place is still fresh from Lansdowne Park's recent rejuvenation, Canadian Tire Centre hasn't gone anywhere, and both are ramping up for a busy year of concerts and shows. Among the artists headed to the TD Place arena are metal legends Judas Priest (March 25), the Can-rock double bill of Our Lady Peace and Matthew Good (March 8) and Scottish-Canadian country star Johnny Reid (April 13). Over at CTC, they're getting ready to host classic rockers Santana (March 18) and Rod Stewart (March 30), superstar Shania Twain (June 25) and Corteo, a sure-to-be-dazzling Cirque du Soleil show (June 27-July 1).
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Earn Gil with Persimmon Leaf Sushi's material
The Unending Coil of Bahamut (Ultimate) is exciting.
There is Persimmon Leaf Sushi as Meals for such Raids.
Critical Hit Rate is greatly increased so it is Meals suitable for Bard and others.
Actually, recently this item came in the turn.
The status of Persimmon Leaf Sushi is as follows.
Critical Hit +5% (Max 82)
Vitality +5% (Max 77)
Direct Hit Rate +2% (Max 32)
In this way it seems that the Critical Hit is going to rise 82, but in reality it is not.
Since the upper limit is only raised to 5%, in order to rise 82, the Critical Hit was 1640 necessary.
When IL was low, it was impossible to satisfy this status itself, so it was not possible to fully draw out the power of Persimmon Leaf Sushi.
However, it is not amusing that the Critical Hit will exceed 1640 if equipped with current equipment.
Now that you can draw out the ability of Persimmon Leaf Sushi, there is demand.
Let's make Gil with persimmon leaf sushi, but this time we will focus on the material Ivory Sole.
Is there a possibility that you can earn if Ivory Sole delicately low probability of obtaining.
I think that it can be used as one of the Fisher's policies because it is made to be able to take it to some extent efficiently.
Location / method
Location: The Lochs – Loch Seld Southeastern Lakebed (around 26, 27)
Time: None
Spearfishing: Normal
It seems there is no specification of the weather / time, but the probability of obtaining is subtly low.


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MP and Mayor cycle too!
Cycle Colchester persuaded new MP Will Quince to try out their pedal powered smoothie maker at the Street Wise festival on the 13 June.
They took the opportunity to talk to him about local cycling and he confirmed his wish to sort out Colchester's infrastructure to help cyclists as well as bus users.
New Mayor Cllr Theresa Higgins has been seen out and about on her bike. Cycle Colchester interviewed her this month and she said, cycling is her preferred mode of transport for travelling to civic occasions, it's often quicker, and cheaper than using the official car, so makes savings for the mayoral budget.
You can read more at www.cyclecolchester.org.uk
Bee Green!
Colchester Institute hosted it's second Bee Green event yesterday to highlight the importance of sustainability to it's students, staff and the public. As well as having Colchester Bee Keeping Association with them for the day highlighting the vital contribution bees make to sustainable agriculture and the environment, there was also the opportunity to take part in lots of activities.
Free bike repairs, local stalls, a farmers market, a boot camp, electric cars, walking tours, free NHS checks, fabulous food cooked by Colchester Institute's chefs were just some of the many other attractions.
Rhonda, Colchester Institute's CTPC rep led a lunchtime walk around the town, including a picnic on route with free water and sandwiches. Eight members of staff took part. Rhonda said 'I am really pleased with how the walk went and I hope to make it a more regular activity'
The Colchester Institute's bike user group offered Dr Bike health checks, checking around 20 bikes over the course of the day. Students and staff could also test their stamina, to see how far they could cycle in three minutes on a stationary bike!
Pulp Friction was there, getting many students and staff back on a bike for a chance to pedal themselves a free smoothie!
The weather held out, but at 2:30 a sudden hail storm descended with pebble sized ice as a dramatic grand finale to a good day!
Get on your Bike! 15 – 23 June
It's Bike Week next week and we have been busy working away with Cycle Colchester to produce a brilliant new leaflet highlighting all the regular cycle rides, cycle clubs and cycling activities for all levels, that go on locally. Print out your copy HERE or contact us for hard copies for your organisation.
Colchester Cycle Champions will be launching Bike Week at the Young Children's Festival in Castle Park on 15 June. Dr Bike will be there offering FREE bike checks.
Several of our members have already got events and competitions planned to make this Bike Week a week to remember.
CBC is holding a cycle challenge throughout Bike Week. Participants will receive a free bike computer to log their rides and compete with colleagues. Also on the 13 of June CBC are hosting a 'Come Spin With Me' challenge for staff to see who can create the loveliest, most tastiest and smoothest smoothie!
Re-cycle, at North Colchester Business Park are offering free bike MOT's on the 18 and 20 June. Drop your bike in between 08:30 and 14:00 for a free health check and pick up our new leaflet and other useful info re cycling.
Mini Bike Festivals are being hosted by Colchester Institute on the 18 June and by CHUFT at Colchester General Hospital on the 21 June and at Essex County Hospital on the 25 June.
Both events will feature the highly popular Pulp Friction and Dr Bike so you can have a smoothie while your bike has a free MOT.
The University of Essex will be running Cycle Sleuth, offering Cycle Watch (bike security tagging) and Bike Maintenance, plus a Cyclist's breakfast!
We have also worked in partnership with Culver Square to organise an ECOmmunity event on the 22 June. Loveurcarcolchester and Cycle Colchester will join over ten other stall holders promoting sustainable lifestyles.
Plus the event will host a bike fashion show showcasing vintage, street, party and business/school looks from local retailers, showing how fabulous you can look on a bike at high street prices.
For more details about the Culver Square event, click here!
The local cycling community also have lots to offer this June, find out more here!
So there is lots to keep you all busy this bike week. If you have any questions about events mentioned or are hosting an event and want to let us know about, feel free to leave a comment and we will get back to you ASAP
CHAPS Men's Health Day
Pulp Friction (our pedal powered smoothie maker) will be making an appearance at CHAPS' annual event taking place on Thursday 28th March from 10am – 4pm at Weston Homes Community Stadium.
The event is free and aims to reacquaint men with their health, making health checks as convenient as possible by offering a quick but thorough service from medical professionals.
There will be a veteran car rally as well as around 20 stalls covering all aspects of men's mental and physical health, including aortic aneurysm screening, heart checks, prostate cancer screening, diabetes tests, physiotherapy and sports injury detection and treatment.
Last year almost 200 men attended during the day and the event helped to prolong the lives of at least four men by identifying two life-threatening Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) and two cases of prostate cancer.
To read the full press release, click here.
If you have an event coming up and you would like an appearance from Pulp Friction why not get in touch?
Pedal power at Chuft
Well in the end it was Caroline and I who did most of the pedalling but we gave out over 100 smoothies by the end of the day!! It was a beautiful day and great to talk to so many people about cycling, CoHoC and anything else that came up!
Photo and article from the Gazette 21/06/2012
Pulp Friction joins giant inflatables!
It was a gloriously sunny day on Wednesday for Colchester Institute's Freshers' Fair.
Luckily for us we found a shady spot to set ourselves up, having transported the smoothie maker plus all the fruit to the event in a bike trailer! Pulp Friction joined an array of strange and energy demanding inflatable fun things and offered a welcome break and much needed energy boost for weary and hot students fresh from their surfing, bumper cars and this other thing – which I couldn't quite work out, but having done some googling have discovered was an inflatable laser quest – picture above!
There were plenty of students prepared to pedal for their smoothies, but plenty also that were happy for someone else to pedal one for them! Pulp Friction got a good thrashing from some of the more enthusiastic lads and at times had to be held down to stop the whole bike and turbo trainer from taking off – some serious rubber was burnt!
180 smoothies were made and we ran out of fruit at around 3. We attempted to do a short travel survey and managed to pin down 84 students, who completed the survey with varying degrees of attention, so the results are a little random! We did at least get how they travelled to campus, and the top three ways to travel were bus at 42%, train at 20% and walk at 19%.
So Colchester Institute Freshers' fair is over and we are due to be at the University of Essex's Freshers' Fair on Saturday 8th October – sadly we will not have Pulp Friction with us, as she is already booked, but it does mean we will have some time to actually talk to the students!


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The use of a DOTA 2 VPN has long been a hot topic. Should you even use one? Could it possibly help, in such a competitive online game, in which fast responses and low latency are so important? The idea of spoofing a connection location in order to access servers beyond your real, geographical location feels counter-intuitive. Why risk your ping like that?
Well for a start here's security. DDoS attacks are, alas, a part of modern, competitive gaming. But hiding one's IP address using a VPN can certainly help with securing against them. And then, of course, there's access to the wider player pool. If you're in a region with a small selection of players, or find that you keep getting matchmade with players where the language barrier causes problems, you might want to try using a VPN to pick and choose your area of competition. A VPN could help you speed up matchmaking, and get you a better experience once you're in. And you needn't assume that speeds will necessarily be a problem either. A few VPNs are now pretty well optimised for gaming, as we'll highlight as we work further down the page.
Do note though, that although always up for discussion in the DOTA 2 community, DOTA 2 VPN use technically goes against Steam's terms of service, so you do run a risk by using one. But with all of that clear, let's look at the list.
The best DOTA 2 VPN
The all-round best DOTA 2 VPN
In tests, IPVanish was up to five times faster that some of its rivals over shorter distances, and its download speeds are strong across the board. That alone is a solid point in its favour, as is the fact that IPVanish owns its entire server infrastructure, which covers more than 1000 servers over 60 different countries. Perhaps most importantly, those servers can be sorted by ping time and gaming suitability, giving you all the tools you need to plan your DOTA 2 VPN session properly. Alas, all of this doesn't come cheap, compared to some other VPNs, and there's no free trial - though a seven-day, money-back guarantee is available. Of all the price plans, the full-year sign-up is cheapest, but obviously the level of commitment you're initially happy with is entirely up to you.
The fastest downloading DOTA 2 VPN
The fastest downloading DOTA 2 VPN
When it comes to pure download speeds, stacked on top of pure breadth of geographical locations, VyprVPN is a beast. Offering 700 global servers, offering 200,000 individual IP addresses, VyprVPN also tested with download speeds up to two and a half times faster than connecting without a VPN. That's the kind of bonus you get when you're looking at a tier-1 with its own infrastructure. There are, alas, no refunds with VyprVPN, but you can get a three-day free trial.
- Basic: $9.95 monthly or $3.75 per month billed annually
- Premium: $12.95 monthly or $5.00 per month billed annually
The DOTA 2 VPN all-rounder
A great all-rounder DOTA 2 VPN
ExpressVPN might not be the cheapest around, but it certainly is one of the most robust all-round services. It has absolutely no interest in logging your data, delivers solid connection speeds, and gives you the option of 148 different global locations spread across a not-unimpressive 94 countries. As is often the case with VPNs, signing up for longer gets you a cheaper deal in the long-run, but you can also test the service out with a 30-day free trial if you're not sure you want to commit.
- Exclusive deal [$6.67 a month], save 49%, 15-month - $99.95
- [$9.99 a month] 6-month - $59.95
- [$12.95 a month] 1-month - $12.95
The best DOTA 2 VPN for ping
Buffered VPN
The DOTA 2 VPN for a low ping
If you're all about pure connection speed above all else, Buffered VPN is very much worth looking at. You might expect a VPN to have a neutral effect on your gaming ping in the absolute best-case scenario, but in tests, Buffered VPN actually managed to reduce it. Don't expect downloads to be as impressive, mind, because they weren't. You'll pay a bit over the average for these speeds, but there is a great refund policy that will give you all your money back as long as you haven't exceeded 10 hours, 100 sessions or 10GB of usage.
- [$7.62 a month] 13-months (1 free month for the first year) - $99.00
- [$9.99 a month] 6-months - $59.94
- [$12.99 a month] 1-month - $12.99
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Nokia E6 (NOT E61i) cellphone Repair & Teardown Instructions - None?
Es werden einige allgemeine Werkzeuge verwendet, um an diesem Gerät zu arbeiten. Du wirst nicht jedes Werkzeug für jeden Vorgang benötigen.
Track down a number of hardware problems using the Nokia E61i troubleshooting guide.
Identification and Background
The Nokia E61i is a smartphone originally directed towards European business users. It was released one year after its predecessor, the Nokia E61. Although these phones look virtually identical, there are a few apparent differences:
- Engraved model number below the power button of the E61i.
- The joystick used by the E61 was replaced by a D-Pad in the E61i.
- The E61i has two additional "quick function" buttons.
- The E61i features a slimmer case design than the E61.
Other differences include:
- 2 Megapixel camera.
- Updated version battery.
- MicroSD port instead of MiniSD.
The E61i was replaced by the Nokia E71 Repair in June, 2007, which offered improvements in all technical and aesthetic aspects.


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Enter through the designer front door to find the separate dining and living rooms~living room will wow guests with its French doors and eye-catching wall; plantation shutters throughout main level!Meal prepping just became fun in the gourmet kitchen with granite counters, island and breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances, custom backsplash, pantry, cooktop, and wall ovens; beautiful stone fireplace in family room off kitchen. The sunny breakfast room is the perfect place to spend your mornings and leads to the spacious, flat, fenced backyard and patio perfect for BBQ season! After a long day, enter to the master suite! Suite complete with sitting room, his and hers custom-built walk-in closets, and a luxurious bath with soaking tub, dual sinks and granite counters, and a rain shower! Getting ready just got easier! Three additional bedrooms all offer ceiling fans and walk-in closets (and two additional full baths upstairs) Host a movie marathon in the modern rec room with wet bar! Gray tile floors, wine storage, a spa-like bathroom, and a playroom with a chalkboard wall for the kids!
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With over 200 dedicated professionals, Beijing East IP has helped a full spectrum of clients – from startups to Fortune 500 corporations to domestic multinational companies – on their intellectual property issues in China.
On April 27, 2018, the Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Conference 2018 was held in Beijing. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, the Management Committee of the Zhongguancun Science Park, and the Center for Patent Examination Collaboration Beijing Center of the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office of China. Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Bureau and the Capital Intellectual Property Service Industry Association jointly organized the conference. The topic of the conference was "Optimizing Patent Management Services; Assisting Science and Innovation Center Construction." During the conference, 13 patent attorneys from BEIP were appointed by Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Bureau as Zhongguancun foreign intellectual property service experts.
Lixin ZHAI, the director of Zhongguancun Management Committee, stated in his speech that intellectual property plays an important supporting role in promoting the development of high-precision and advanced industries of Zhongguancun. In 2017, the number of patent applications filed by enterprises in the Zhongguancun demonstration area topped 70,000 for the very first time, including 44,000 applications for invention patents, which accounted for 68.2% of the total number of invention patent applications filed in Beijing during the same period; the number of granted invention patents was nearly 20,000, wherein valid invention patents exceeded 80,000.


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AMAP Assessment 2015: Radioactivity in the Arctic(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), 2016-09)A fully referenced, comprehensive scientific and technical report presenting the 2015 AMAP assessment of radioactivity in the Arctic; prepared by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)'s Radioactivity Expert Group.
AMAP Assessment 2009: Radioactivity in the Arctic.(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), 2010-06-01)"This report is one of the detailed assessment reports that provide the accessible scientific basis and validation for the statements and recommendations made in the AMAP State of the Arctic Environment report, 'Arctic ...


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From 8th April – 9th June we are offering the Richelieu Lodge residence to adult students, in addition to the Peterborough House adult residence. We are offering the following:
- Board: Light continental breakfast
- Facilities: 10 rooms with private bathrooms. Communal areas include a kitchen, dining room, lounge, games room & garden.
- Location: 1km to the centre of St Helier and Jersey's south coast, 8km to St Brelade's College. Being located on the outskirts of the main town of St Helier, students can easily reach the main bus station and explore around the island.
- Transport to and from school: Public bus pass for the course duration included
- Laundry & cleaning: Bed linen & bath towels provided, as well as weekly room cleaning, washing machine available onsite for personal laundry
- Price: £145 per week for a large room with private bathroom + £55 accommodation fee
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PARISH TRIP TO WALSINGHAM FOR THE BRENTWOOD CENTENARY CELEBRATION - Saturday 22nd July 2017. A coach has now been booked for our parish to attend this celebration. The cost per person is £15.50. Could those parishioners who signed up for a seat(s) on the coach (see the list on the notice board) please give their money to the Parish Office as soon as possible. Details regarding the itinerary for the day will be given out nearer the day of the trip. If you are unable to go, please ensure you let the Parish Office know as soon as possible, so that your seat may be offered to somebody else. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TRIP IS FULLY BOOK. *If there is a space available, please write your name down on the list in the church notice board as a reserve.
We congratulate the children who made their First Holy Communion. Please continue to pray for them- they are our future in faith. Well done to their parents and teachers, and especially to the coordinators who took an active part in the preparation of the programme.
FOR YOUR DIARY. 29th May is Bank Holiday. Mass starts at 10am.
4thJune is Pentecost Sunday.Confirmation will take place on this day at 3pm.
Congratulations to Tendai Precious Marvi and Ulanda Melissa Riley who were received into the Catholic Church and made their First Communion on Sunday, May 28th.
Welcome and thanks: We extend a special thanks to Fr. John Brown who join us for masses this weekend. A warm word of thanks to Fr. Kevin Kieran OFM Cap who joined us for the First Communions last weekend.
† We regret to announce the death of Thomas Edward Ennis who's Catholic Service of Cremation takes place at the City of London Crematorium on Tuesday 30th May at 2.45pm. May his soul rest in peace.
PRE-BAPTISM MEETING. Tuesday 30th May at 7pm. This meeting is for PARENTS ONLY and no children allowed in this meeting.
PHILIPPINES 119th INDEPENDENCE DAY – 11th June 9am Mass. The Filipino Community invite all parishioners on 11th June to celebrate Philippines Independence. The celebration will include food served on the lawn after the 9am Mass. Any Filipino parishioners wishing to contribute to the celebration please ring Dolly Relopez on 020 8521 5742.
ST PATRICK'S NURSERY – Full and part-time places available from September 2017. Please see church notice board for full details.
ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL has the following pupil vacancies: Year 3 – 5 spaces, Year 4 – 2 spaces & Year 5 – 4 spaces. Please contact the school office on 020 8509 4321 for more information.
St. Patrick's School invites parishioners to Rosary during the Month of May The Luminious Mysteries, in the school library every Friday during May
at 8.30am.
UNABLE TO MAKE IT TO MASS? The church offers a service called Mass Link. At 6pm Sunday Mass, via Skype, we call people who want to listen to the Mass and broadcast the Mass to them over their phones. This service is available for anyone who can't make it to Mass, be that due to illness or any other reason. If you would like this service, please give your number to the Parish Office and we will ring you every Sunday at 6pm to listen in!
NEW PUBLICATION: The Diocese of Brentwood – 100 Years in Pictures, a Souvenir Booklet to mark our Diocesan Centenary, 110 pages with more than 300 colour and black & white photographs. Copies may be ordered from: Centenary Booklet, Brentwood Diocesan Archives, Cathedral House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 8AT. The Suggested Donation is £7 per copy (plus £2 postage & packing). Cheques should be made in favour of BRCDT.
DIOCESAN CENTENARY EXHIBITION, Cathedral House Conference Room Foyer, Ingrave Road, Brentwood, Essex CM15 8AT: April-June 2017.
PLEASE HELP. The parish is looking for volunteer readers for the 6pm Sunday Mass. Please email or ring the parish office during office hours.
RED MISSIO BOX Please bring the red boxes to the Presbytery for emptying.
DIVINE MERCY- every Wednesday at 4pm in the church.
PARISH OFFICE TIME HOURS 9am-1pm
Marifé: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Marta: Friday / Magdalena: Saturday
PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI: PRAYER FOR PEACE Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy; O Divine Master, grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
The Many Ways We Can Pray There is no wrong way to pray. It's your personal conversation with God by Pablo Diaz. People pray in a variety of ways, reaching out beyond themselves to give thanks, ask for help, weep for loved ones, seek God's presence. No matter what we are praying for or how we pray, there is no wrong way to do so. It's our personal conversation with God. Mother Teresa said, "Prayer is simply talking to God. He speaks to us, we listen. We speak to him, he listens. A two way process: speaking and listening." When we pray, it's not only about telling God our needs but also our deepest yearnings and longing to connect with Him. The psalmist writes, "As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God" (Psalm 42:1-2a). The main purpose of prayer is not to gain the answers to all questions, eliminate the unknown or make life easier but to speak with God and become closer to Him. And through conversations, whether they are communicated with words or actions, we discover the many blessings of God: strength, grace, empowerment, peace, patience, healing, wisdom and much more. Although we might feel helpless at times, we are not, because prayer gives us access to a greater power. Lord, thank you for the gift of prayer and its power in our lives.
Telephone: 020 8520 3647
61 Blackhorse Road
Marife and Marta
(Parish Secretaries)
Monday – Wednesday 9am – 1pm
Friday - Saturday 9am - 2pm
Monday – Friday09.30am
Saturday: 10.00am / 7.00pm
Sunday: 09.00am / 11.30am /
1.00pm (Polish) / 6.00pm
Tuesday: 7.30pm – 8:30pm
Friday: after Morning Mass
Every Friday 8.00pm – 9.30pm
Led by a Polish prayer group.
Everyone welcome.
Saturday 10:30 am – 11:00 am &
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We headed to the zoo with friends again today. Getting there right when they open at 8AM is key to staying cool. And we always end at the splash pad which works out awesome. With Monsoon season in full mode it's been a bit more humid these days, but they kids don't seem to notice and getting out for a bit beats being stuck indoors all day.
The "Warty Pigs"
"Rest With Me -Janie" Rock
Checking out the armadillo in the learning center (not to mention cooling off before heading back out into the heat!)


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Matthew joined Kelso in 2017. He spent the preceding three years in the Global Financial Sponsors group of Barclays.
Matthew is active in the Firm's investment in Newport Group and SouthernCarlson. He also was active in the Firm's past investment in PowerTeam Services.
He received a B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the School of Business at Wake Forest University in 2014.


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Hi everybody! I'm enjoying the cooler weather here in the Midwest U.S. I know I haven't been posting much. My time seems to be all taken up with trying to do something with the bumper crop of pears that our pear tree has produced this year. Ummmm and watching Stargate SG-1 on Hulu.com. I'm on season seven. There are ten seasons. I'm pretty sure I'll be worthless until I finish the entire series.
My one questions is: why am I always the one who has to pull stuff out of the dog's butt? Really?
I hope you are having a good week... better than my dog's week. But the odds are you don't chew on 2x4's, so I'm guessing you're doing ok.
Friday, October 15, 2010
I Have One Question...
2 comments:
- Nona said...
LOL!!! I've definitely been having a better week that your dog. Poor thing!!!
The pear tree in our complex has been having a great yield as well. I've been making pear tarts for everyone and my neighbour just gave us a delicious bottle of pear chutney.
- October 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- Agnes said...
LOL Liz!!!!
Have a great weekend :-)
- October 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM
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Pennsylvania school district settles lawsuit alleging black schoolchildren treated unfairly
On September 26, 2018, the Pa Human Relations Commission held a town hall meeting about racism in York. A KKK member spoke in public comments. Cameron Clark, York Daily Record
Pennsylvania school officials have agreed to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit that alleged black schoolchildren were subjected to rampant discrimination and a hostile environment because of their race.
The Saucon Valley School District, near Bethlehem, agreed to continue its anti-bullying program, provide anti-bias training for the next three years and pay almost $100,000 as part of the settlement. The Morning Call reports district officials redacted the names of the plaintiffs in the settlement.
School board member Bryan Eichfeld confirmed the lawsuit involved the McLean family. Kerry and Sheila MacLean filed a civil rights lawsuit against the district in May 2017, saying their sons faced constant racist harassment and violent threats — alleging school officials ignored the boys' complaints.
Superintendent Craig Butler says the district is continuing to address diversity and bullying.
Information from: The Morning Call, www.mcall.com.
More: 'No Hate in our State' town hall on racism in York County postponed until December
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Scientists and science teachers agree that science is a way of explaining the natural world. The ability to perform inquiry is essential for students to participate in true science, however students will enter the science classroom at different developmental levels of science process skill development. This VLE focuses on the discrete process skills students must master for science inquiry and provides teachers with resources to scaffold student mastery of these process skills.
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The literal definition of the word volatile is "readily vaporizable," with a secondary connotation of "changeable." This month's tool matches this description nicely, as its implementation will cause the objects contained in a hashtable to vaporize, and the rate of that vaporization is indeed changeable.
But more on that in a moment. First, I'll address reader feedback from last month's column.
Half a dozen readers wrote in to inform me that the following block of code (which relates to the
GlobalValues tool we discussed two columns back) is a performance bottleneck for multithreaded access.
public static synchronized GlobalValues getRef() { if( self == null ) self = new GlobalValues(); return self; }
Synchronization is only necessary for the part of the method that instantiates a new instance of the
GlobalValues. This will happen the first time the method is called. The block of code should therefore only synchronize if it needs to perform instantiation, as follows:
public static GlobalValues instance() { if( self == null ) { synchronized( GlobalValues.class ) { if( self == null ) { self = new GlobalValues(); } } } return self; }
And that's it. No other problems came to my attention this month. (Whew!) On to this month's topic.
The concept of caching
Caching is a time-honored method for improving the performance of an application. Instead of constantly creating and destroying objects as needed, a cache holds on to them and reuses them when appropriate. The Web browser you're running right now uses caching in a number of ways. For example, the JavaWorld logo at the top of this page appears at the top of all the articles. But your browser doesn't reload the image as you travel from one article to the next. The browser caches the image and reuses it when needed.
However, the browser can't cache the image forever. The more sites you visit, the more images the browser saves, and soon you run out of hard drive space. So, the caching mechanism in your browser has to perform some garbage collection. The browser basically sets a maximum space limit for caching images and destroys the oldest images in the cache when that limit is reached.
Caching in Java
In Java, it's incredibly simple to implement a crude caching mechanism using the
Hashtable class. Here's how: When you (or your application) need an object, first check to see if it's in the
Hashtable. If the required object isn't there, create a new instance of it and put it into the
Hashtable. This way, the next time you need it, it's right where you left it.
The tricky part is the cleanup. At some point, your application needs to go through the
Hashtable and clean up the objects that haven't been used for a while and are wasting memory. Where do you put this cleanup code? How often do you call it? These are problematic issues, but what if you had a special instance of the
Hashtable that knew how to clean itself up? Hello
Ping -- the Cachetable's friendly reminder
The magic behind the
Cachetable is a timer thread that periodically reminds the table to clean itself up. I've dubbed this tool
Ping. In the olden days of submarine warfare, when a sub was looking for a target it would send out an audible ping sound. This sound would then bounce back from any obstruction, thus revealing the position of the target. In the wonderful land of Unix and the Internet, there exists a little utility called
ping that is used to the same effect. The Unix utility sends out a packet to its "target" machine and if the target machine is up and running it "bounces" the packet back.
Ping utility follows the same traditional concept.
Ping sleeps for a predetermined amount of time, then "pings" a target object. How the target object handles the ping depends on the implementation. All that is required is for the target object to implement the
Pingable interface. Implementing the
Pingable interface forces the target class to implement the
ping() method. The
ping() method will be called at a regular interval (further explained below):
public interface Pingable
{ public void ping();
Implementing the
Ping thread is now incredibly simple. The constructor takes two arguments: the target object and the time (in milliseconds) to sleep between pings, as shown below:
public class Ping extends Thread
{ private long sleepTime; private Pingable target; public Ping( Pingable target, long sleepTime ) { this.target = target; this.sleepTime = sleepTime; }
run() method of
Ping loops infinitely between sleeping and pinging:
public void run() { while( true ) { try { sleep( sleepTime ); } catch( InterruptedException e ) { // ignore it! } target.ping(); } }
So far, so simple, right?
The TimeWrapper
Properly cleaning up the contents of the cache requires that each object's age be tracked. For this task, we'll use another little tool, which I call
TimeWrapper. The
TimeWrapper simply stores an object and a timestamp. The constructor takes an object and internally sets the timestamp to the current time. Here's the first part of the
TimeWrapper class, which implements these concepts:
public class TimeWrapper { private long age; private Object object; public TimeWrapper( Object object ) { this.object = object; updateAge(); } private void updateAge() { age = System.currentTimeMillis(); }
The wrapper then exposes two accessor methods -- one to retrieve the contained object and another to get the age of the object. Notice that the
getObject() method updates the age of the object. When we ask for the age of the contents, we want to know how long it has been since the last time they were accessed. Here are those accessor methods (and the last part of the
public long getAge() { return( System.currentTimeMillis() - age ); } public Object getObject() { updateAge(); return( object ); }
The Cachetable object
Cachetable object extends a
Hashtable and implements the
Pingable interface. The
Cachetable's implementation of the
ping() method will check the age of each contained object (via the
TimeWrapper, explained below) and simply vaporize any stale objects. Here's the first part of the tool:
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
public class CacheTable extends Hashtable implements Pingable {
The constructor takes the desired expiration time for objects stored in the underlying
Hashtable, and starts up an instance of the
Ping tool:
private long expireTime; private Ping cleaner; public CacheTable( long expireTime ) { super(); this.expireTime = expireTime; cleaner = new Ping( this, ( ( long )( expireTime * 0.75 ) ) ); cleaner.start(); }
To keep track of the age of the objects in the
Hashtable, we wrap them in a
TimeWrapper. To do this, we must override the
get() and
put() methods.
When an object is placed into the
Cachetable, the key is preserved but the object itself is wrapped in a new instance of
public synchronized Object put( Object key, Object value ) { return( super.put( key, new TimeWrapper( value ) ) ); }
When an object is retrieved from the
Cachetable, it must also be extracted from its
TimeWrapper encasement. As explained above, the
TimeWrapper updates the age of the object when the object is extracted:
public synchronized Object get( Object key ) { return( ( (TimeWrapper) super.get( key ) ).getObject() ); }
When the
Ping instance calls the
ping() method within the
Cachetable, the table performs the actual cleanup. It cycles through all the objects in the table and examines their
TimeWrappers. If an object hasn't been accessed via a
get() call within the expiration time specified, it's removed from the
Hashtable (and garbage-collected if no other threads retain a handle to it). Here's the implementation of the
ping() method and the cleanup logic:
public synchronized void ping() { Enumeration e = super.keys(); while( e.hasMoreElements() ) { Object key = e.nextElement(); TimeWrapper tw = (TimeWrapper) super.get( key ); if( ( tw != null ) && ( tw.getAge() > expireTime ) ) { remove( key ); } } System.gc(); }
Notice that we used
super.get() to access the
TimeWrapper object. If we had called
get(), the instance defined by the subclass would be invoked and we would have received the raw object instead of the wrapper. Also note that we call the Java garbage collector at the end of the method. This is just a trigger to the virtual machine, requesting that it reclaim memory at the next available opportunity.
Cachetable tool is a clean and simple way to implement caching in your Java applications. I'm sure you'll also find uses for the
Ping and
TimeWrapper tools. Your homework assignment is to implement a volatile "queue" using the techniques and tools discussed in this article. I'll be using such a queue in an upcoming installment of Cool Tools. As always, comments, criticisms, and especially design-improvement suggestions are welcome.
Learn more about this topic
- Caching
- Garbage collection
- Hashtable
- Threads
- The Unix
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- Price$1,995
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- Built1972
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South Austin home near Manchaca & Slaughter. 4 BDR, 2 BTH, large living/dining area with fireplace, vaulted ceiling & built ins. Ceramic tile floors throughout. The master bedroom has a walk in closet, vanity area & ceiling fan. Galley kitchen with pass through to dining area. 2 car garage with storage & laundry area. Washer, dryer & refrigerator provided. Large back yard with privacy fence. Fresh interior paint. New AC & Heat. Cowan El, Bailey MS & Akins HS. Free month's rent with 2nd yr renewal.
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Any teen or man who shaves should make aftershave part of his shaving routine since its main purpose is to protect the skin. Some men choose to use the aftershave in place of a cologne since they like how it smells and they don't want to use too much scent. In other cases, there are men who are in relationships that choose to wear aftershave to please their partner if they've commented how they like the scent on them.
Shaving Relief
The main reason to use aftershave is to relieve your skin from the trauma of shaving it. The lotion can stop the bleeding from shaving nicks and help them heal, soothe your skin, prevent or minimize razor burn and remove ingrown hairs.
Men in all income brackets can afford some kind of aftershave. Even those who don't usually go in for luxury brands can splurge on a bottle of Terre D'Hermes or Joop—which each cost about $65 per bottle—to keep for special occasions. They can stick with a brand like Old Spice, which only costs about $6 to $21 per bottle, for everyday use.
Splashing on aftershave lets people know that you are invested in your appearance and that you practice good hygiene. This can be particularly helpful for men who suffer from acne, for it shows that their skin condition isn't the result of not cleaning properly. Also, people simply prefer to be around others who look clean than those who don't.
Skin Care
This lotion can help keep your pores clean and prevent them from getting blocked up with bacteria, which can cause acne or make existing acne worse. It also moisturizes your skin, makes it look smooth and polished, and gives it a refreshing feeling.
Scents go a long way in making a good impression and can be changed to suit any occasion. Businessmen select top brands like Armani or Burberry since they signify status; a man who wants to impress his fiancee's parents would use a discreet scent when he first meets them.
Aftershave can make a man seem more attractive. The role that scent plays in sexual attraction is well-documented, and men use it to increase their chances in landing dates. Both gay and straight men can benefit from using aftershave to enhance their appeal.
Aftershave helps men feel more confident about their appearance. An nice scent draws compliments and attention from others. Confidence, in turn, makes people feel happier, which can enhance their business dealings and personal life.