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Local residents will be doing exactly that at the long-awaited EcoDistrict/Livability Workshop, to be held Tuesday, April 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pacific Beach Middle School, located at 4676 Ingraham St.
"We will be giving a presentation to review some key proposals, then participants will go to various stations of their interest to learn more and give more input," said Chris Olson, a member of beautifulPB and Pacific Beach Planning Group, in touting the April 29 workshop. "We will also be looking for more people to volunteer in these efforts, as we are all volunteers and this is community-driven."
Olson said a plethora of topics — including zoning and land use, community gardens, public spaces, PB parks, watershed/stormwater issues, Rose Creek matters, neighborhood greenways and safe routes to school, Garnet/Grand/Mission Boulevard improvements, community identity, signage and entryway improvements, creation of a community benefit district, Mission Bay gateway and a transit-oriented development Balboa trolley stop — will be discussed at the workshop.
In 2013, several members of the American Institute of Architects' sustainable design assessment team (SDAT) visited the beach areas to collaborate with local residents on ways to develop concepts for making communities more environmentally sustainable.
SDAT members are nationally accredited professionals in numerous areas of expertise, including those of urban design, planning, landscape architecture, renewable energy, traffic and transportation. They were invited by local stakeholders to offer expertise on how best to make beach communities greener, cleaner and more economically lean.
Pacific Beach resident Ambrose Wong of Burkett & Wong Engineering will be presenting at the April 29 ecodistrict workshop.
Wong said the SDAT's assessment of what could be done to make the beachfront more sustainable has been broken down into four main categories for further analysis: sustainable infrastructure, urban design and community identity, transportation and economy and land use.
"We're taking a neighborhood-wide approach to planning for the future in such areas as street and alley improvements and sustainable design, including such things as rain gardens and pervious pavement," said Wong. "We're also integrating that with bike lanes, pedestrian crosswalks and ramps and stormwater improvements filtering water before it reaches the bay or beach areas."
Wong said SDAT's experts have "passed the ball to us (residents) and now we're going to have to run with it. This meeting is to involve everyone in creating that game plan — how we run with the ball."
Wong is lending his expertise as a civil engineer, having chaired the sustainable infrastructure committee. PBPG chairman Brian Curry will head the economic and land-use committee at the ecodistrict workshop. Elvin Lai, president of Discover PB, is heading the transportation committee.
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A woman officer in the Indian Air Force allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her official quarters here on Wednesday morning.
29-year-old squadron leader Anandita Das, hailing from Kolkata, was posted at the Jodhpur Air Force Station and living in the officers' quarters with her husband, who is also an IAF officer.
"She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the wee hours today. The body has been shifted to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital for postmortem," police said.
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Defence spokesperson SD Goswami said that a court of inquiry has been ordered in the case.
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but STOP THIS keeping away all the newer and older posts REFERRING TO NEWER AND OLDER SOFTWARE so nobody sees who is asking for help or giving advice or explanation etc.
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I'm not keeping anything away. What I did was move all the old unsorted stuff into a subcategory of its own. I gave warning that I was planning on doing that and asked if anybody had any problems with it. Didn't get much feedback. Of course, some people probably never saw that and are wondering what just happened...
Now I appear to be getting at least a little feedback. Great. I get worried when everybody is just silently accepting whatever I do. I'm here for you guys, not myself. Categorizing things does nothing to help me, since I hardly even use Puppy anymore (I built my own linux from scratch and use that).
I can undo the whole Unsorted thing, putting them back into the main area if that would be more intuitive.
@bigpup: Maybe I was a little unclear. I didn't mean that "Internet" would be a subcategory of "Network". I meant they would be merged into a single category. The only subcategories I had in mind are the ones that are indented: "Eye Candy", "Drivers", and "Security/Privacy".
Granular categories are nice in some ways. They help to limit the number of packages you have to search through. But the problem is that we can only chose one category. The more granular the categories, the more of them that a single package falls under. That makes it harder to decide where to place the package and harder to figure out where to find it. They can actually lead to expending more effort searching multiple categories for a package. The current categories are about the limit of granularity before that begins to become a large problem. Granularity also increases the number of categories that exist, which makes it harder to see an overview of all the software because they're spread out through a bunch of categories. We're probably still missing a couple categories with the current layout. I'm still not sure what to do with qbrew, for example.
The idea behind the alternate categories I proposed above is to decrease granularity, resulting in simpler decisions about where to look for various software and easier ability to see what is available, and decreasing the need to keep adding more oddball categories.
It's just a proposal though. I don't know if it would be a good idea or not.
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I can see you are using that college education to evaluate your ideas. Low feedback can mean two things. We do not care or we like it.
A little tweaking is good, but not too much. The categories you have now are fine for me. It has made it much easier for me to find stuff. It just takes getting to know them. Like I said before, these are used every place software programs are listed.
The one category I have never liked is utilities. It always seems to be a place for a mixture of stuff that could be placed in other categories. I know they are little "utility programs", but it still gets to be a big mix of stuff.
I can say, that it is much easier to find stuff now then before.
I install a new version of Puppy and need a new video driver-category Driver.
I want the latest web browser- Category internet.
I want the latest version of wine- category Virtualization.
I want to check on the program dude- category Desktop.
I want a new file manager-category Filesystem.
Seems a lot better to me!
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Q- How did you spend your summer?
DUNN- I did a little of everything this summer. We have a pretty strict workout schedule over the summer. This summer I spent some time at home, and then came back and worked on campus. I work in the recreation department. I also hang out with my teammates as much as possible over the summer because it's difficult to train on your own... and it's fun being with my teammates.
Q- Has your role changed on this year's team compared to last season?
DUNN- It has. I am captain this year so I have much more responsibilities to the team. I have to make sure I am in the best condition and taking care of myself in competition. I also have the responsibility of making sure my teammates are being great athletes and doing what they need to do to take care of themselves. It's been a lot more work, but it has also been fun. I enjoy planning things for the team to do.
Q- Are you looking forward to any of the races on your schedule?
DUNN- I am looking forward to two races... four races when you include Regionals and Nationals. I'm looking forward to the Roy Griak Invitational in
Q- Has our cross country course changed this year?
DUNN- The parking structure being built has taken out one of our big downhills in the course. The trails have been worked on a lot and are taken care of now. The course is technical and a little difficult, but it's an advantage to practice on it everyday.
Q- What do you like about head coach Ted Van Arsdale?
DUNN- He has tons of experience when it comes to coaching. He has a lot of wisdom to share with us all of the time. It really shows in how everything is set up down to the way he runs camp in Mammoth and how he has us practice everyday.
Q- What is a typical week like at practice, leading up to a race?
DUNN- Nothing slacks off. We will have two to three hard workouts a week with faster pace work or hills. We will do a long run, somewhere between an hour and an hour and a half. The day before the race we get an easier day, but for the week we get in all the miles and work.
Q- Are there any newcomers that are impressing you so far this season?
DUNN- There are quite a few. We have six newcomers, five freshmen and a transfer. We've seen a couple girls do very well. Marie (Schaper) was our top finisher in time trials. Jordana (Henderson) improved by about a minute and a half from the time trials to our last race. We are seeing a lot of impressive things from our newcomers.
Q- If you could play another collegiate sport, what would it be?
DUNN- I think it'd be fun to pole vault. I would like to play soccer too... although college soccer is a bit different than when I played soccer when I was five years old.
Q- Was it a difficult adjustment for you, transitioning from high school to college?
DUNN- A lot of it depends on the high school and cross country program that you come from. Schools that have less rigorous programs with coaches that are not quite so stern... it's more difficult to make the transition to be a student-athlete here. But I came from a very serious high school program, so making the transition was not too difficult for me. The workload is a lot more and quicker here, but I came from a strict program.
Q- Why did you choose UCSD?
DUNN- When I was choosing schools, it came down to a few that were all equally ranked academically. I had met the coaches and some of the athletes on the team when I came down for a visit. I just really liked the feel of the team and I knew I could learn a lot from the coaches here as both a student and an athlete. I also love the campus. It was an easy decision.
Q- Are there other runners in your family?
DUNN- My dad likes to say that I got my running talent from him, but I like to think that I'm the only one who can run in the family. We have other athletes in my family, but none that really run competitively.
Q- What do you enjoy doing outside of running?
DUNN- I enjoy going to the beach and watching movies with my friends. I live with a couple girls on the team so we do a lot of activities together.
Q- What is your major?
DUNN- I am a Sociology major with a minor in Law and Society. I really enjoy both subjects, but am not sure what I want to do with it right now.
Q- Have you had a favorite out-of-state race?
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Bank of AmericaCEO and Chairman Kenneth Lewis is recommending that he and his top lieutenants receive no bonuses for 2008, saying he expects the bank's final results to be below expectations, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which cited an internal memo issued today.
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Bank of America's board still has to verify Lewis' recommendation, the report said.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) was among the industry's stronger players, picking up mortgage lender Countrywide Financial and securities firm Merrill Lynch, but it still suffered from broad exposure to consumer credit problems and cut its long-sacrosanct dividend in half.
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NORFOLK, Va. — The Norfolk Southern Foundation, the charitable giving affiliate of Norfolk Southern Corporation, awarded $7 million in grants to nonprofit charitable organizations during 2012, a 13 percent increase over 2011.
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"As a leading transportation provider, we believe we also should take the lead in investing in the communities where we operate," said Norfolk Southern CEO Wick Moorman.
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- $1.24 million to cultural and performing arts groups, including: Virginia Arts Festival, Virginia Opera, Virginia Symphony, Virginia Stage Company, Chrysler Museum, North Carolina Transportation Museum, Western Virginia Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Woodruff Arts Center, and Zoo Atlanta.
- $1.14 million to educational organizations: Benefiting from the 15 percent funding increase in this category were Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and Smart Beginnings-Hampton Roads, which prepare children to enter kindergarten; the ACCESS Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships to enable high school graduates in Hampton Roads to attend college; and 16 universities that received $300,000 in grants under the Norfolk Southern College Partnership Program. This program, established in 2006, builds relationships to enhance the railroad's recruiting opportunities, particularly for business and engineering graduates.
- $345,000 to civic, community, and environmental groups: As part of its environmental support, the Foundation provided grants to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Nature Conservancy of Virginia, and Elizabeth River Project to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. NS also supported the American Chestnut Foundation's project to reforest reclaimed mine sites in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky with native, disease-resistant American chestnut trees.
Each year, the NS Foundation gives its operations division employees an opportunity to recommend eligible nonprofit organizations in their communities to receive grants. During 2012, $180,000 was awarded to police, fire, and emergency response organizations; school programs; and historical and community groups as part of NS' local discretion grant program.
Overall, grants were made to 350 organizations in NS' operating territory, and an additional 525 organizations benefitted from $1.66 million in employee matching gifts.
NS Foundation sets funding at $7 million for 2013
In 2013, the Foundation again will award $7 million in grants. Since its creation in 1983, the Foundation has contributed nearly $131 million to thousands of civic and charitable organizations throughout Norfolk Southern's territory. In the last five years, it provided more than $29.6 million in contributions.
Grants are awarded to eligible organizations located within Norfolk Southern Corporation territory. Applications for 2014 funding will be accepted July 15-Sept. 30, 2013. For information about eligibility and application procedures, visit Norfolk Southern Foundation.


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Published to coincide with Martin Scorsese's lengthy biopic of the same name, George Harrison: Living In The Material World is a richly presented and sumptuous biography of the former Beatle told through photographs, archive interviews and new quotes from those who knew him.
Although she receives the credit on the book's cover, there are precious few words by Olivia Harrison, George's widow, herself. She provides a tribute to her late husband towards the book's end, as does their son Dhani, but otherwise she plays the role of the 'quiet one'.
Her main contribution, however, is the assembly of archive photographs and memorabilia from the Harrison collection. And what a collection it is.
From the Harrison family's modest Liverpool roots to his grand gothic mansion Friar Park, we see holiday snaps, school-era sketches of guitars and the pre-fame Beatles, through to the years when he was one of the four most photographed men on the planet. His passion for India, motor racing and gardening, and his accidental entry into film production, make up the latter part of the book, as he largely retreated from public view but remained no less active.
While some of the images are well known, many are seen here for the first time, and capture George's public and private sides, at work, play, on holidays, in the studio, with friends, family and fellow musicians.
Not all the photographs are from the Harrison archives, however. Among the numerous credits are names including Yoko Ono, Astrid Kirchherr, Jurgen Vollmer, Dezo Hoffman, Mal Evans and Mike McCartney.
Harrison was a keen photographer himself, and his own images appear throughout the book. It is rare to see the world through The Beatles' eyes, but Harrison's fondness for turning his lens on the huddled journalists and photographers give a revealing insight into the mayhem of the mid-1960s.
The biggest revelation, however, is that Harrison kept a diary during the Beatles years. Just two extracts are reproduced: an entry for 1 April 1967 in which Harrison notes: "Recorded Sgt. Peppers Lonely-Hearts club-band – part 2", and another from 10 January 1969 in which he matter-of-factly documents the day he temporarily left The Beatles:
Got up went to Twickenham rehearsed until lunch time – left the Beatles – went home and in the evening did King of Fuh at Trident Studio – had chips later at Klaus and Christines went home.
While Harrison was evidently a man of few words, the fact that he was documenting each day during that tumultuous time is hugely significant. How delicious it would be for Olivia to publish the entire diaries for Beatles scholars to pore over.
Disappointingly, Harrison's first wife, Pattie Boyd, is all but airbrushed from this history. There is no mention of their relationship, which lasted from 1964 to 1974, nor their 1966 wedding. She appears in two photographs from India, and her only other mention is in a caption which runs: "George and Pattie's house, 1968".
Playing down their relationship is Olivia's prerogative; after all, it is her tale to tell. But consider this: were Yoko Ono to produce an anthology of John Lennon's life with barely a mention of his 10-year relationship with first wife Cynthia, Ono would inevitably receive the ire of Beatles fans the world over. It will be telling if Olivia Harrison gets off relatively lightly.
The picture is incomplete in other ways. Harrison's numerous affairs are not dwelt upon, his extensive use of drugs is downplayed, and his obstinacy and public surliness in the post-Beatles years is not considered. Instead, Harrison is presented mainly as a saintly figure, searching for spiritual guidance and the path to enlightenment through music, religion and meditation.
For all its faults, Living In The Material World contains enough previously unseen photography, poignant and revealing in equal measure, to become an object of devotion for all Harrison fans. It offers a rare revealing insight into the inner world of this relentlessly private man, and for that we should be thankful.


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Ada Programming/Exceptions
- 1 Robustness
- 2 Modules, preconditions and postconditions
- 3 Predefined exceptions
- 4 Input-output exceptions
- 5 Exception declarations
- 6 Exception handlers
- 7 Raising exceptions
- 8 Exception handling and propagation
- 9 Information about an exception occurrence
- 10 See also
Robustness is the ability of a system or system component to behave "reasonably" when it detects an anomaly, e.g.:
- It receives invalid inputs.
- Another system component (hardware or software) malfunctions.
Take as example a telephone exchange control program. What should the control program do when a line fails? It is unacceptable simply to halt — all calls will then fail. Better would be to abandon the current call (only), record that the line is out of service, and continue. Better still would be to try to reuse the line — the fault might be transient. Robustness is desirable in all systems, but it is essential in systems on which human safety or welfare depends, e.g., hospital patient monitoring, aircraft fly-by-wire, nuclear power station control, etc.
Modules, preconditions and postconditions[edit]
A module may be specified in terms of its preconditions and postconditions. A precondition is a condition that the module's inputs are supposed to satisfy. A postcondition is a condition that the module's outputs are required to satisfy, provided that the precondition is satisfied. What should a module do if its precondition is not satisfied?
- Halt? Even with diagnostic information, this is generally unacceptable.
- Use a global result code? The result code can be set to indicate an anomaly. Subsequently it may be tested by a module that can effect error recovery. Problem: this induces tight coupling among the modules concerned.
- Each module has its own result code? This is a parameter (or function result) that may be set to indicate an anomaly, and is tested by calling modules. Problems: (1) setting and testing result codes tends to swamp the normal-case logic and (2) the result codes are normally ignored.
- Exception handling — Ada's solution. A module detecting an anomaly raises an exception. The same, or another, module may handle that exception.
The exception mechanism permits clean, modular handling of anomalous situations:
- A unit (e.g., block or subprogram body) may raise an exception, to signal that an anomaly has been detected. The computation that raised the exception is abandoned (and can never be resumed, although it can be restarted).
- A unit may propagate an exception that has been raised by itself (or propagated out of another unit it has called).
- A unit may alternatively handle such an exception, allowing programmer-defined recovery from an anomalous situation. Exception handlers are segregated from normal-case code.
Predefined exceptions[edit]
The predefined exceptions are those defined in package Standard. Every language-defined run-time error causes a predefined exception to be raised. Some examples are:
- Constraint_Error, raised when a subtype's constraint is not satisfied
- Program_Error, when a protected operation is called inside a protected object, e.g.
- Storage_Error, raised by running out of storage
- Tasking_Error, when a task cannot be activated because the operating system has not enough resources, e.g.
Name : String (1 .. 10); ... Name := "Hamlet"; -- Raises Constraint_Error, -- because the "Hamlet" has bounds (1 .. 6).
loop P := new Int_Node'(0, P); end loop; -- Soon raises Storage_Error, -- because of the extreme memory leak.
Ex.3 Compare the following approaches:
procedure Compute_Sqrt (X : in Float; Sqrt : out Float; OK : out Boolean) is begin if X >= 0 then OK := True; -- compute √X ... else OK := False; end if; end Compute_Sqrt; ... procedure Triangle (A, B, C : in Float; Area, Perimeter : out Float; Exists : out Boolean) is S : constant Float := 0.5 * (A + B + C); OK : Boolean; begin Compute_Sqrt (S * (S-A) * (S-B) * (S-C), Area, OK); Perimeter := 2.0 * S; Exists := OK; end Triangle;
A negative argument to Compute_Sqrt causes OK to be set to False. Triangle uses it to determine its own status parameter value, and so on up the calling tree, ad nauseam.
function Sqrt (X : Float) return Float is begin if X < 0.0 then raise Constraint_Error; end if; -- compute √X ... end Sqrt; ... procedure Triangle (A, B, C : in Float; Area, Perimeter : out Float) is S: constant Float := 0.5 * (A + B + C); begin Area := Sqrt (S * (S-A) * (S-B) * (S-C)); Perimeter := 2.0 * S; end Triangle;
A negative argument to Sqrt causes Constraint_Error to be explicitly raised inside Sqrt, and propagated out. Triangle simply propagates the exception (by not handling it).
Alternatively, we can catch the error by using the type system:
subtype Pos_Float is Float range 0.0 .. Float'Last; function Sqrt (X : Pos_Float) return Pos_Float is begin -- compute √X ... end Sqrt;
A negative argument to Sqrt now raises Constraint_Error at the point of call. Sqrt is never even entered.
Input-output exceptions[edit]
Some examples of exceptions raised by subprograms of the predefined package Ada.Text_IO are:
- End_Error, raised by Get, Skip_Line, etc., if end-of-file already reached.
- Data_Error, raised by Get in Integer_IO, etc., if the input is not a literal of the expected type.
- Mode_Error, raised by trying to read from an output file, or write to an input file, etc.
- Layout_Error, raised by specifying an invalid data format in a text I/O operation
Ex. 1
declare A : Matrix (1 .. M, 1 .. N); begin for I in 1 .. M loop for J in 1 .. N loop begin Get (A(I,J)); exception when Data_Error => Put ("Ill-formed matrix element"); A(I,J) := 0.0; end; end loop; end loop; exception when End_Error => Put ("Matrix element(s) missing"); end;
Exception declarations[edit]
Exceptions are declared similarly to objects.
Ex.1 declares two exceptions:
Line_Failed, Line_Closed: exception;
However, exceptions are not objects. For example, recursive re-entry to a scope where an exception is declared does not create a new exception of the same name; instead the exception declared in the outer invocation is reused.
package Directory_Enquiries is procedure Insert (New_Name : in Name; New_Number : in Number); procedure Lookup (Given_Name : in Name; Corr_Number : out Number); Name_Duplicated : exception; Name_Absent : exception; Directory_Full : exception; end Directory_Enquiries;
Exception handlers[edit]
When an exception occurs, the normal flow of execution is abandoned and the exception is handed up the call sequence until a matching handler is found. Any declarative region (except a package specification) can have a handler. The handler names the exceptions it will handle. By moving up the call sequence, exceptions can become anonymous; in this case, they can only be handled with the others handler.
function F return Some_Type is ... -- declarations (1) begin ... -- statements (2) exception -- handlers start here (3) when Name_1 | Name_2 => ... -- The named exceptions are handled with these statements when others => ... -- any other exceptions (also anonymous ones) are handled here end F;
Exceptions raised in the declarative region itself (1) cannot be handled by handlers of this region (3); they can only be handled in outer scopes. Exceptions raised in the sequence of statements (2) can of course be handled at (3).
The reason for this rule is so that the handler can assume that any items declared in the declarative region (1) are well defined and may be referenced. If the handler at (3) could handle exceptions raised at (1), it would be unknown which items existed and which ones didn't.
Raising exceptions[edit]
The raise statement explicitly raises a specified exception.
Ex. 1
package body Directory_Enquiries is procedure Insert (New_Name : in Name; New_Number : in Number) is … begin … if New_Name = Old_Entry.A_Name then raise Name_Duplicated; end if; … New_Entry := new Dir_Node'(New_Name, New_Number,…); … exception when Storage_Error => raise Directory_Full; end Insert; procedure Lookup (Given_Name : in Name; Corr_Number : out Number) is … begin … if not Found then raise Name_Absent; end if; … end Lookup; end Directory_Enquiries;
Exception handling and propagation[edit]
Exception handlers may be grouped at the end of a block, subprogram body, etc. A handler is any sequence of statements that may end:
- by completing;
- by executing a return statement;
- by raising a different exception (raise e;);
- by re-raising the same exception (raise;).
Suppose that an exception e is raised in a sequence of statements U (a block, subprogram body, etc.).
- If U contains a handler for e: that handler is executed, then control leaves U.
- If U contains no handler for e: e is propagated out of U; in effect, e is raised at the "point of call" of U.
So the raising of an exception causes the sequence of statements responsible to be abandoned at the point of occurrence of the exception. It is not, and cannot be, resumed.
Ex. 1
... exception when Line_Failed => begin -- attempt recovery Log_Error; Retransmit (Current_Packet); exception when Line_Failed => Notify_Engineer; -- recovery failed! Abandon_Call; end; ...
Information about an exception occurrence[edit]
Ada provides information about an exception in an object of type Exception_Occurrence, defined in Ada.Exceptions along with subprograms taking this type as parameter:
- Exception_Name: return the full exception name using the dot notation and in uppercase letters. For example, Queue.Overflow.
- Exception_Message: return the exception message associated with the occurrence.
- Exception_Information: return a string including the exception name and the associated exception message.
For getting an exception occurrence object the following syntax is used:
with Ada.Exceptions; use Ada.Exceptions; ... exception when Error: High_Pressure | High_Temperature => Put ("Exception: "); Put_Line (Exception_Name (Error)); Put (Exception_Message (Error)); when Error: others => Put ("Unexpected exception: "); Put_Line (Exception_Information(Error)); end;
The exception message content is implementation defined when it is not set by the user who raises the exception. It usually contains a reason for the exception and the raising location.
The user can specify a message using the procedure Raise_Exception.
declare Valve_Failure : exception; begin ... Raise_Exception (Valve_Failure'Identity, "Failure while opening"); ... Raise_Exception (Valve_Failure'Identity, "Failure while closing"); ... exception when Fail: Valve_Failure => Put (Exception_Message (Fail)); end;
Starting with Ada 2005, a simpler syntax can be used to associate a string message with exception occurrence.
-- This language feature is only available from Ada 2005 on. declare Valve_Failure : exception; begin ... raise Valve_Failure with "Failure while opening"; ... raise Valve_Failure with "Failure while closing"; ... exception when Fail: Valve_Failure => Put (Exception_Message (Fail)); end;
The Ada.Exceptions package also provides subprograms for saving exception occurrences and re-raising them.
See also[edit]
Ada 95 Reference Manual[edit]
Ada 2005 Reference Manual[edit]
Ada Quality and Style Guide[edit]
- Chapter 4: Program Structure
- Chapter 5: Programming Practices
- Chapter 7: Portability


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American Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek will not be competing in the Sochi Games because of a hip injury, he said in a interview on Tuesday's "Today" show.
"It's very difficult for me to say that now, but my road to Sochi ends here," said Lysacek, who appeared emotional during his interview with "Today" host Matt Lauer.
Lysacek, a 28-year-old native of Naperville, Ill., outside Chicago, has not competed since he took home the gold in Vancouver in 2010. He said that he has "unmanageable pain" from a labral tear in his left hip and a muscle tear in his abdomen resulting from an accident in August.
Lysacek has stayed busy since Vancouver with endorsement deals and charity work. He finished second as a celebrity contestant on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2010.
"It's a difficult decision, for sure," Lysacek said of not competing in Sochi.
With the help of his doctors, Lycasek fast-tracked his rehabilitation so he could return to the ice in October to train for a December event that would qualify him for Sochi. But the pain intensified as he resumed training and Lysacek said knew he would never fully recover if he kept skating.
"My doctor warned me that if I continued to train, with 100 percent certainty the injury would get worse, the pain would get worse every single day," he told Lauer. "I could be doing permanent and severe damage."
Lysacek sidestepped questions about his retirement, saying his focus right now is to get healthy.
"I love to represent my country and I'm determined to be healthy and skate again and really be the one who decides when it's over," he said.


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We are a new bonded winery in Napa Valley. This label is for our second wine. We expect this wine to be moderately priced and fun to drink. The name comes from a high school friend of my wife's who played in a band called Tyrant Blu. They were around in the late 70's and early 80's. The band played at the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles. We have a ticket stub with from the Troubadour with Tyrant Blu listed as one of the bands. We would like to label to be fun and whimsical. Please see the Lost Coast Brewery logo attached. The brewery has some great bottles designed by Duane Flatmo we really like the look and feel of these types of designs.
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Part of the mission of this blog is to bring attention to the systemic global issue of human trafficking. Human trafficking is pervasive in all nations and sometimes victims are hidden in plain sight. I hope my continued efforts help bring to light a growing international problem.
[ The following information is taken from the California Attorney General website: http://oag.ca.gov/human-trafficking/identify ]
Identifying victims of human trafficking can be difficult because traffickers often isolate victims from their families, communities, and the public. Victims are sometimes kept locked behind closed doors. Victims of human trafficking can also be hidden in plain sight. They may have a seemingly legal job at a hotel, factory, or restaurant, but are actually working for little or no pay. To a general observer, victims of human trafficking may look similar to other workers in their respective professions, but there may be some signs or indicators of abuse.
The following possible indicators can help identify the signs of a human trafficking victim, and was adapted from information provided by the Polaris Project and its National Human Trafficking Resource Center:
Physical Indicators may include:
Excessive work-related injuries
Bruises and other evidence of sexual assault, beatings, physical restraint or confinement
Untreated sexually transmitted diseases
Untreated critical illnesses such as diabetes or heart disease, malnourishment, etc.
Severe psychological distress
Poor dental health
Under 18 and providing commercial sex acts
Other Important Signs may include:
Inability to speak to someone else alone, or to speak for themselves
Limited or nonexistent ability to speak English
Disoriented – lack of knowledge of whereabouts and/or loss of sense of time, or inability to clarify where he/she is staying
Evidence of being controlled
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A list of Trafficking Indicators is also available from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): http://www.dhs.gov/humantrafficking
Other Resources on How to Identify Human Trafficking Victims
For the General Public
Identify and Assist a Trafficking Victim (US Department of State)
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Recognizing the Signs of Human Trafficking (Polaris Project)
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Kristen Stewart - Kids' Choice Awards 2013 Red Carpet
Kristen Stewart is a beauty in blue on the purple and orange carpet at the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards held at the USC Galen Center on Saturday (March 23) in Los Angeles.
The 22-year-old actress is wearing an Osman dress, Christian Louboutin shoes, and Karen London's Caradona ring.
Kristen is nominated tonight for Favorite Movie Actress for her work in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. She is up against The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island's Vanessa Hudgens, and The Avengers' Scarlett Johansson.
Make sure to tune in to the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards, hosted by Josh Duhamel, airing NOW on Nickelodeon!


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Roasted Vegetable Macaroni and Cheese
I made you an enormous pan of roasted veggies!
And…I might have whipped up a little mac and cheese to go with them.
(Or wait, was it the reverse?)
Either way, I've been craving comfort food galore lately while freezing my tail off this winter in Kansas City. And when it comes to comfort food, it goes without saying that mac and cheese will forever and always have a spot at the top of that list. But hey, when it comes to getting my veggie quotient for the day, it probably also goes without saying that roasted veggies are at the top of that list. So a few weeks ago, I decided to bring together the best of both worlds. And this creamy, colorful, oh-so-comforting pot of roasted veggie mac and cheese was born.
Actually, some of you long-time blog followers may recognize this recipe from way back in 2012 when I first shared it here on the blog. It's been one of my favorites for years, and when I made another batch of it for dinner a few weeks ago (along with my new Kale Caesar Salad recipe), I decided to snap some new pics along the way to give it this recipe a little 2016 update.
As you can see, the recipe is just as good and vibrant and delicious as ever. :)
To make it, simply roast up a huge pan (or I actually spaced my veggies out onto two pans) of your favorite veggies, tossed with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Then while the veggies are roasting, whip up my favorite simple (and healthier!) mac and cheese recipe. It uses evaporated 2% milk instead of heavy cream or sour cream, and is super quick and easy to make. The one tip I'd give is to just use the sharpest cheese you can find for extra flavor (I used a sharp white cheddar this time). And always always be sure to freshly grate a block of cheese rather than buy the pre-shredded stuff (otherwise it may not melt well).
Just cook up some of your favorite pasta, stir in the milk sauce mixture, and then add in your shredded cheese and stir it until it's 100% melted…
…and then add in those gorgeous roasted veggies. Just look at all of that color!!
As always, this cheesy sauce seemed to totally disappear once it got behind a camera (so weird how cheesy sauces do that). But I swear, these noodles and veggies are coated in a thick and creamy and oh-so-cheesy sauce that you're going to love. Well really, I'm pretty sure you're just going to love the whole thing.
So cheers to comfort food with a healthier twist! And for anyone else stuck in the midst of your own snowmageddons, I hope this keeps you nice and warm!
Roasted Vegetable Macaroni & Cheese
This "Roasted Vegetable Macaroni & Cheese" overflows with delicious vegetables. And the creamy, lighter sauce is simple to make and full of flavor!
- 1 large red bell pepper, cored and diced
- 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and diced
- 1 yellow squash, de-stemmed and diced
- 1 small head of broccoli florets, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 (8-ounce) package button or baby portabella mushrooms, quartered
- 1 small white onion, peeled and diced
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 head garlic, cloves peeled
- 1 (12-ounce) can 2% evaporated milk
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- pinch of cayenne
- 12 ounces elbow macaroni (or any shape of pasta)
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 8 ounces freshly-grated smoked or sharp white cheddar cheese (do not use pre-grated cheese)
- 1/4 cup freshly-grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for garnish
Preheat oven to 400°F. Prepare a large baking sheet (or two medium-sized baking sheets) with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
In a large bowl, toss diced vegetables with olive oil. Season with a few generous pinches of salt and pepper. Spread the vegetables out in an even layer on the baking sheet(s). Place the garlic cloves in the center of a sheet of aluminum foil, then wrap the foil around them to form a sealed packet and place the packet in the center of the baking sheet. Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until vegetables are soft and have begun to brown a bit around the edges, giving them a stir halfway through and checking on the garlic to be sure that it doesn't burn.
While the vegetables are roasting, bring a large pot of generously-salted water to a boil, and cook the pasta until al dente. Drain the pasta, and then return the pasta to the pot and toss with butter over medium-high heat until melted.
Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, whisk together the evaporated milk, egg, salt, pepper, smoked paprika and cayenne until combined. As soon as the butter is melted with the macaroni, pour in the evaporated milk mixture and stir until combined. Continue cooking over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, for about 2-4 minutes, or until the sauce comes to a simmer.
Remove pan from heat and stir in the grated cheddar and Parmesan until melted. Then gently stir in the roasted vegetables and roasted garlic cloves until combined. Serve immediately, topped with extra Parmesan cheese if desired.
*Edited slightly in January 2016.
If you make this recipe, be sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #gimmesomeoven. I'd love to see what you cook!
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This is one of those, I made this but basically I didn't comments that so often frequent recipes. But I made a vegan version of this slightly adapting the vegetable selection and it was delicious. I used more peppers and left out the squash (I did follow the rest though as per the recipe) because thats what I had, but the combination of textures and roasted flavors of the vegetables with the pasta was really delcious. Which I think would still stand for the recipe as printed even though I really didn't make this recipe.
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Such a great comfort food recipe. My family loves simple and delicious dinners like this.
Hi Ali,
I just thinking of having mac and cheese and found this on FB. So here is my version. Portabella is a little uncommon here so I used Shimeiji mushroom as the substitution. Do not have yellow squash on hand so I omit it. Other than that I try to follow as closely as possible. Great recipe, great taste and thank you for sharing.
P/s: Not sure how to let you see what I have done so I uploaded in my Instagram.
KP Kwan
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Today I found your website while searching for something to cook for dinner and I ended up making this pasta and your baked chicken breast recipe. I am so grateful to you and your website, the food came out amazing and the combination was perfect! Thank you!
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Just made this and it's amazing! Also wanted to say thanks for all your recipes- I've made several now and every single recipe has turned out absolutely delicious!
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This is incredibly for vegetarians like me. Thanks for this recipe I will try it with the use of my organic bentilia pasta. It is made up of beans alone. Less carbs and very nutritious for the kids. My niece loves it so much.
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I made this last night and it was delicious!! By any chance do you have the nutritional facts for the meal?
Delicious mac and cheese recipe and I love the addition of the roasted vegetables. Thanks for the recipe!
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Do you really use an entire head of garlic in this recipe? Or did you just use one clove of it? An entire head seems like a lot to me. I plan on making this today but I am unsure about the garlic part.
Can this be made without using egg?
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Google's Jelly Bean Voice-Recognition vs. Apple's Siri
I've been trying out the early version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean distributed at Google I/O and it is obvious that the changes in search do result in a very different experience—one that is more likely to give you the answers you are looking for. But just as impressively, I tried it using the voice feature and, on an initial look, it seems to compare quite favorably to Apple's Siri. Here are some first tests of Jelly Bean running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus versus Siri on an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1.1.
When you press the microphone button on the home screen in Jelly Bean, it brings up a "card" that asks you to speak.
I asked both systems, "How warm will it be tomorrow?"
The Android system initially gave me the forecast high, then brought up a card with the temperature forecast and more information. (In testing, I tried this a couple of times. Sometimes, it actually spoke the results; other times not. I'm unsure why.)
On the iPhone, Siri similarly both spoke and displayed the high and the low temperatures, along with a weekly forecast.
As a long-suffering Cubs fan, I asked both systems, "Did the Cubs win?"
The Google system immediately spoke the depressing news and showed a screen with the results, including a link to the recap and highlights.
Initially, Siri didn't know, and asked if I wanted to do a Web search.
When I did, it showed the scores for the past three games, but I would rather have had the link to the recap.
Then I asked both systems, "Where is the nearest sushi restaurant?"
The Android system responded by giving me the name of a restaurant on a card and accompanying driving directions.
If I wanted more results, I could have gone to Web answers, but instead it assumed I wanted its first choice.
On the iPhone, Siri said it found "a number of sushi restaurants," then brought up a list. It wasn't exactly what I asked for, but it might be more useful, since there are so many around in San Francisco.
Finally, I asked, "How tall is Mount Everest?"
The Google phone spoke the answer in feet and displayed a card with the result.
On the iPhone, Siri initially said, "Let me check that for you," then said, "I found this for you" and displayed the result, but it didn't speak the actual elevation. (Note: the answers are slightly different, but I don't blame the software for that.)
Overall, Jelly Bean appears to work at least as well as Siri, often giving me more exact answers where Siri would want to do a Web search. Both approaches have their strengths and I still maintain that voice is more of a parlor trick than a useful feature in most circumstances. Still, I'm impressed at how quickly Google seems to have caught up.


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It has that label on the lower right corner of a Christmas Tree.
I had a couple over the weekend; I thought it was quite good and I'm not an Ale drinker
Took my wife and daughters to the Wildflower Cafe in downtown Mason. Recommend it very much. Great food.
Being on vacation, I had beer for lunch. Started with a St. Bernardus Christmas Ale which was very good. Then the waiter asked if I wanted another one and I said what the hell, and asked him what he recommended. He told me the Left Handed Milk Stout was good and it was.
Came home, puttered around, and took a nap. Can't drink like I used to.
A saxophone someplace far off played
Sam Adams has a new beer out, at least in my part of the country. Alpine Spring is an unfiltered lager. Give it a try, not bad. I'm wondering if this will be this years spring beer. They've changed up several times over the past ten years.
I also ran across what I believe to be a new brew from Saranac, White IPA. I like this one as well. Kind of blends the witbier with an IPA. The ABV% is a safe 6%.
I would recommend both of these beers. Nice way to come out of the winter beers.
On a side note, why the heck is the Spring beer out already? I hate how SA does that, Summer Ale will be out by March at this pace.
Just saw their new spring combo 12 pack. There are two more new beers in that not including the Alpine Spring! Don't recall the new ones right off. The other three were Black Lager, Lager, and Noble Pils as I recall. Looks interesting. I'm waiting for the sale price.
Grabbed a Widmer Brothers combo 12 pack for $4 less.
I saw an interesting article on what type of glass should be used for your brand of beer.
Hidden nuances, become more pronounced, colors shimmer, and the enjoyment of the beer simply becomes a better, more complete, experience.
Getting Some Glassware
Many are available on-line, at stores like Crate & Barrel or, for those of you in the beer industry, from restaurant glassware wholesalers. Also checkout your local beer store who might carry a selection of glassware, and even the occasional glassware giveaway with purchase.
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Watched the 2013 Playoff Clincher on FSO - Fiance' is a UK fan
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But I did notice when drinking Christmas Ale's that when you pour a bottle into a glass the beer taste much much better. Almost to the point where I was ready to give some of my ale's away and then poured one into a glass and said "is this really the same beer!"
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
'Beer Week' celebrates craft of brewing distinctive tastes (Cincinnati)
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I would like to ask for help with the correction of tenses.
I am writing a letter to my friend and I am writing her:
- I have a great time because I found a great boyfriend. Are the tenses correct?
Shouldn´t I use:
I am having a great time because I have found a great boyfriend.
What tense shoud I use at the beginning:
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Negotiations to end the labor strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continued for a fourth consecutive day Sunday, but sources close to the talks said the sides likely were not close to reaching an agreement. | PHOTOS
Reacting to the perceived stalemate, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wrote a letter to both sides Sunday urging them to work around the clock and bring in a government or private mediator to help resolve the issues. The sides have been negotiating, intermittently, since Thursday night.
"The cost is too great to continue down this failed path," Villaraigosa wrote. "Mediation is essential and every available hour must be used."
In broad terms, the key issue remains staffing levels, sources say. Negotiators with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit want to protect employment for as many of their members as possible, while management officials want more flexibility to control the number of temporary and full-time office workers they hire.
Many elected officials and retail executives had pushed the sides to negotiate an end to the work stoppage – possibly one that would even put the strike on hold while the sides continued to talk – but a quick resolution may no longer be possible, sources say.
In the meantime, many containers destined for Southern California sit elsewhere – on ships that cannot be serviced in Long Beach or Los Angeles or at other ports on the West Coast and Mexico.
The strike began at midday Tuesday when some members of the Office Clerical Unit – one of the smallest ILWU locals with only about 800 total members – walked off the job at APM Terminals Pacific Ltd., the largest terminal operator at the Port of Los Angeles. It spread on Wednesday, effectively shutting down three of six terminals in Long Beach and seven of eight terminals in Los Angeles after other union members refused to cross the picket lines.
The complex is by far the busiest shipping hub in the United States – Los Angeles is the top port by container traffic, and Long Beach ranks second, according to industry data.
Many members of the Office Clerical Unit, who provide back office and logistics support to most of the major terminal operators, have been working under terms of a set of contracts that expired in June 2010. Union members claim managers at many of the terminal companies have been quietly shifting jobs to lower-wage workers in other states and countries, an accusation denied by the employers. Management negotiators say the new contracts must stop so-called featherbedding – or providing temporary and permanent jobs to workers even when there is no work to perform.
The strike is only affecting terminals where the union has contract disputes, so a Disney Cruise Line ship called Disney Wonder was able to dock without difficulty on Sunday morning, Port of Los Angeles spokesman Phillip Sanfield said.
But the port's focus is cargo containers, the majority of which arrive from Asia on gigantic ships. And Sanfield said port officials are urging both union and management to come to an agreement soon, so the containers can move to warehouses across Southern California and beyond.
"Cargo continues to back up and concern is mounting throughout the worldwide logistics chain," Sanfield said. "We need resolution to prevent further economic damage."
Many logistics industry analysts initially said the strike occurred during a historically weak period for international trade because most retailers have already received their holiday shipments.
But the longer the strike lasts, the deeper the impact on the supply chain, industry experts say. Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy for the National Retail Federation, said in an interview Sunday that it took retailers roughly six months to recover from the impact of a 10-day lockout in 2002 that affected ports throughout the West Coast.
"This shutdown of the ports doesn't just impact the retail industry," Gold said. "You've got manufacturers who are operating just-in-time supply chains, and you've got exports that aren't moving because the ports are shut down. We're in day five. We need it to end now because it's going to take some time to clear through the backups."
The National Retail Federation is one several groups to ask President Barack Obama to wade into the dispute. Under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act governing union-management relations, Obama could invoke an emergency mechanism and ask a federal court to order an 80-day cooling-off period. President George W. Bush used the power during the 2002 lockout.
But Gold said the federation has not heard back from the White House regarding its request, which it delivered by letter, and observers say it is unlikely the president will get involved – at least soon.
Several sources have calculated that the strike is costing the economy more than $1 billion a day, but Jock O'Connell, an international trade economist who studies the shipping industry, said Sunday in an email that the figure is slightly misleading. O'Connell said it will be several weeks before anyone will be able to come up with a good estimate on the true economic cost of the strike.
"That billion-dollar-a-day number wrongly assumes that all of the cargo being delayed or diverted will never be delivered and would have to be entirely written off," O'Connell said. "To be sure, someone in the supply chains will sustain losses because of late deliveries, but nearly all of those goods not being handled right now at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will eventually reach a market."
The strike's local impact could be greater if shippers decide to bring their goods to other ports in the future, but that also won't be known quickly. Logistics industry experts say no shippers like to send their goods to areas known for trouble, but they acknowledge most North American ports have some reliability issues – whether due to labor unrest, poor infrastructure or bad weather.
East Coast ports have had their own issues recently. The ILWU's East Coast counterpart – the International Longshoremen's Association – recently postponed plans for a strike that could have crippled trade there this fall. And the Port of New York and New Jersey still has not fully recovered from damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy in late October.
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Felix Mara finds activist architects in Canterbury
Activism was the overarching theme at this year's show at the Canterbury School of Architecture, part of the University of the Creative Arts.
Students are encouraged to believe that the architect is the catalyst and has an active role to play, rather than expecting to take up roles as passive agents, which may or not await them, within a rigid, immutable process.
This realistic design activism was reflected in the briefs of the distilled selection of projects at the student-curated show. For their final projects, third-year students made proposals for a string of abandoned sites in Budapest that they had visited on a field trip. Tom Bauer chose a site on a polluted river to bring improvements to the environment and James Young made an exquisite model drawing on the history of stringed instruments.
Tutors chose the year 2050 for fifth-year projects set in the future, because this falls within the scope of Unitary Development Plans. First-year students had designed furniture and perceptual devices, in one case an appendage for intensifying light from lamp posts by Hassan Sheikh, Anna Sturton, Solene Thierry and Samuel Withing. Generally, experiments were balanced by accomplished digital work, exemplified by fifth year Sean Hanmer's Parasitic Prototype retrofit of Greenwich Power Station as a plastic recycling plant.
Standout unit
John Bell's fifth year students.
Standout students
Sean Hanmer, James Young.
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Felix Mara is technical editor at the AJ
AJ reviews of every student show in the UK are in AJ26.07.12. Students can subscribe to the AJ for just £82.50.
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