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package org.keycloak.testsuite.actions;

import org.jboss.arquillian.graphene.page.Page;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.keycloak.admin.client.resource.UserResource;
import org.keycloak.events.EventType;
import org.keycloak.models.UserModel;
import org.keycloak.representations.idm.EventRepresentation;
import org.keycloak.representations.idm.RealmRepresentation;
import org.keycloak.representations.idm.UserRepresentation;
import org.keycloak.testsuite.admin.ApiUtil;
import org.keycloak.testsuite.pages.AppPage.RequestType;
import org.keycloak.testsuite.pages.LoginPasswordUpdatePage;
import org.keycloak.testsuite.util.GreenMailRule;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * @author Stan Silvert
 */
public class AppInitiatedActionResetPasswordTest extends AbstractAppInitiatedActionTest {

    public AppInitiatedActionResetPasswordTest() {
        super(UserModel.RequiredAction.UPDATE_PASSWORD.name());
    }

    @Override
    public void configureTestRealm(RealmRepresentation testRealm) {
        testRealm.setResetPasswordAllowed(Boolean.TRUE);
    }

    @Rule
    public GreenMailRule greenMail = new GreenMailRule();

    @Page
    protected LoginPasswordUpdatePage changePasswordPage;

    @After
    public void after() {
        ApiUtil.resetUserPassword(testRealm().users().get(findUser("test-user@localhost").getId()), "password", false);
    }

    @Test
    public void resetPassword() throws Exception {
        loginPage.open();
        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "password");

        events.expectLogin().assertEvent();

        doAIA();

        changePasswordPage.assertCurrent();
        assertTrue(changePasswordPage.isCancelDisplayed());

        changePasswordPage.changePassword("new-password", "new-password");

        events.expectRequiredAction(EventType.UPDATE_PASSWORD).assertEvent();

        assertKcActionStatus("success");

        EventRepresentation loginEvent = events.expectLogin().assertEvent();

        oauth.openLogout();

        events.expectLogout(loginEvent.getSessionId()).assertEvent();

        loginPage.open();
        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "new-password");

        events.expectLogin().assertEvent();
    }

    @Test
    public void resetPasswordRequiresReAuth() throws Exception {
        loginPage.open();
        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "password");

        events.expectLogin().assertEvent();

        setTimeOffset(350);

        // Should prompt for re-authentication
        doAIA();

        loginPage.assertCurrent();
        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "password");

        changePasswordPage.assertCurrent();
        assertTrue(changePasswordPage.isCancelDisplayed());

        changePasswordPage.changePassword("new-password", "new-password");

        events.expectRequiredAction(EventType.UPDATE_PASSWORD).assertEvent();
        assertKcActionStatus("success");
    }

    @Test
    public void cancelChangePassword() throws Exception {
        doAIA();

        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "password");

        changePasswordPage.assertCurrent();
        changePasswordPage.cancel();

        assertKcActionStatus("cancelled");
    }

    @Test
    public void resetPasswordUserHasUpdatePasswordRequiredAction() throws Exception {
        loginPage.open();
        loginPage.login("test-user@localhost", "password");

        UserResource userResource = testRealm().users().get(findUser("test-user@localhost").getId());
        UserRepresentation userRep = userResource.toRepresentation();
        userRep.getRequiredActions().add(UserModel.RequiredAction.UPDATE_PASSWORD.name());
        userResource.update(userRep);

        events.expectLogin().assertEvent();

        doAIA();

        changePasswordPage.assertCurrent();
        assertFalse(changePasswordPage.isCancelDisplayed());

        changePasswordPage.changePassword("new-password", "new-password");

        events.expectRequiredAction(EventType.UPDATE_PASSWORD).assertEvent();

        assertKcActionStatus("success");
    }

}


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January 05, 2011 Marijuana » Marijuana News
The roots of the fiasco
From shoddy premises to final 'failure,' a look at the War on Drugs
By John Sinclair
I'd like to start off the new year, if I may, with a radical look at the War on Drugs — a close look at its roots and at the ugly growths that have resulted in America's failing social order today.
I'd like to take as my text a statement by — of all people — TV evangelist Pat Robertson, who commented recently on his 700 Club broadcast on the Christian Broadcasting Network: "We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana, and the next thing you know they've got 10 years.
"I'm not exactly for the use of drugs — don't get me wrong," Pat said, "but I just believe that criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot and that kind of thing, I mean it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prison ... as youths and they come out as hardened criminals, and it's not a good thing." Robertson's spokespersons later tried to back away, saying that he only wanted government to "revisit the severity of the existing laws," but the episode is telling.
Our subtext is provided by the Associated Press in a piece cited by Tony Newman in Alternet last month. The AP headline: "The U.S. drug war has met none of its goals." The AP said, "After 40 years, the United States War on Drugs has cost 1 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence more brutal and widespread."
"This year," Newman adds, "Mexico President Calderon called for a debate on drug legalization to help reduce the bloody war in Mexico. Former Mexico President Vicente Fox has since gone further and called for an end to prohibition. Just last week, United Kingdom's Bob Ainsworth, the former drugs and defense minister, called for the legalization and regulation of drugs.
"All of this follows a 2009 report by three former Latin American presidents, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, Cesar Gaviria of Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico, where they called the drug war a failure and emphasized the need to 'break the taboo' on an open and honest discussion on international drug policy."
"An open and honest discussion" would lead first to an examination of what the War on Drugs is all about: Why do they have a War on Drugs? What are its goals? Who are the combatants? Why has there been no measurable success at all?
First off, it's not a war on drugs per se, because all sorts of drugs are more prevalent than ever, and the pharmaceutical industry is indeed the most profitable of enterprises, but it's a war on recreational drugs and their users.
The purpose of the War on Drugs is to persecute and punish users of recreational drugs in an effort basically to try to keep people from getting high on substances ruled illegal by a political process with little regard for medical or moral niceties — nor for due process of law, for that matter.
Recreational drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroin were once legal. One day, through some mystical process that took place in the houses of Congress and in state legislative bodies in turn, each of them was determined to be illegal.
Marijuana was declared a narcotic. The narcotics themselves were deemed to have no redeeming social value whatsoever. Users and suppliers would be subject to long punitive sentences up to and including life in prison, and there would be no provision for medical or mental health uses. The shit would be illegal, period. Case closed.
This "tissue of horseshit" (as William Burroughs would put it) was sold to lawmakers and the nation's press by a creep named Harry Anslinger not long after the repeal of alcohol prohibition (remember that?) in 1933. Four years later, the idiotic marijuana laws were enacted by Congress with absolutely no convincing medical evidence in support, and users of cocaine and heroin began to be characterized as bigger threats to society than bank robbers or kidnappers.
Like the great novelist Upton Sinclair (no relation) pointed out, as cited by Paul Armentano on AlterNet: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Quickly, however, the stakes progressed beyond simply Herr Anslinger's measly salary to spawn a vast legion of drug law enforcement personnel that gradually reshaped our nation's approach to the very nature of law enforcement itself.
This is all in my own lifetime. I was born four years after marijuana was criminalized, started smoking weed in 1962, and was a criminal user of marijuana until the age of 67, when I was recognized as a medical marijuana patient by the same State of Michigan that had held me for three years in its various prisons some 40 years before.
I started my own war against the marijuana laws 46 years ago this very month, even before the government admitted that there was a War on Drugs — or better said, a war on drug users. The drugs weren't going anywhere, and in fact the government itself has arguably been responsible for importing massive quantities of heroin and other drugs from Afghanistan and Southeast Asia since World War II.
The drug user is a pretty easy target for the drug police. The real criminal elements who present a law enforcement problem are the large-scale suppliers of drugs to the recreational drug users, and they're a problem because incredible sums of money are at stake in their operations as a result of the criminality of the drugs themselves.
If the drugs were legal, these people would be druggists, not criminal drug dealers, they would purvey a uniformly high-quality product and they would be taxed on their sales and earnings. Duh! Instead both users and suppliers are viciously demonized by the forces of law and order, and their parrots in the press, persecuted as a danger to society, and subjected to the entire range of penalties and punishments mandated by the lawmakers.
While I'm sick of hammering at the same old wall — not only for the past few months in this column but almost my entire adult life — somebody's got to say something to try to break this issue open and end the War on Drugs at last. There's progress on several important fronts, and the incessant hammering on the wall is beginning to be heard over the babble of law enforcement, legislators and the sensational media.
But we're fighting a fearsome opponent whose dimensions are revealed in news bites like these gleaned from an AP story by Barry Hatton and Martha Mendoza: "Arrests for marijuana possession in California totaled 61,000 last year — roughly triple the number in 1990" and "The U.S. is spending $74 billion this year on criminal and court proceedings for drug offenders, compared with $3.6 billion for treatment."
Hatton and Mendoza point out that "the first drug court in the U.S. opened 21 years ago. By 1999, there were 472; by 2005, 1,250. This year, new drug courts opened every week around the U.S., as states faced budget crises exacerbated by the high rate of incarceration on drug offenses. There are now drug courts in every state, more than 2,400 serving 120,000 people."
Now, they say, "even [U.S. drug czar] Kerlikowske has called for an end to the 'War on Drugs' rhetoric. 'Calling it a war really limits your resources,' he said. 'Looking at this as both a public safety problem and a public health problem seems to make a lot more sense.'"
No shit, Sherlock. How about ending the rhetoric and the War on Drugs itself — starting today? Happy New Year, everybody.
—Amsterdam, Dec. 29-31, 2010
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Clear Channel/San Diego Names Sean Johnson Dir./Sales
October 18, 2010 at 4:08 AM (PT)
CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO has appointed SEAN JOHNSON Dir./Sales for the SAN DIEGO cluster. Formerly GSM at KEZ/PHOENIX, JOHNSON oversee all sales operations and management for the SAN DIEGO stations, starting OCT. 18th
"SEAN JOHNSON is a strategic and creative leader with a proven track record of building and managing high performing teams and successfully growing revenue and market share," CLEAR CHANNEL/SAN DIEGO Pres./Market Manager DEBBIE WAGNER said. "I am excited to have SEAN on board as our new Dir./Sales and look forward to great success as he applies his experience in managing CLEAR CHANNEL's diverse platforms to the CLEAR CHANNEL/SAN DIEGO cluster. Along with a strong record of management success, SEAN is also highly respected by his peers for his commitment to winning, making him the perfect choice to lead our sales efforts and continue to build our strong and talented sales team here in SAN DIEGO."
"SEAN is a proven performer in CLEAR CHANNEL," added CLEAR CHANNEL EVP/Western Region SUSAN KARIS. "His leadership and contributions have been a key part of our growth in the PHOENIX market. I look forward to SEAN's leadership as Dir./Sales producing strong results in SAN DIEGO."
"I couldn't be happier about this opportunity," JOHNSON said. "With top stations, tremendous digital assets and a strong team of media professionals, CLEAR CHANNEL/SAN DIEGO has all the elements needed for top performance in our industry. My family and I are excited for this move and the opportunity to become a part of the SAN DIEGO community."


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India moment at Winter Olympics opening: Skier Arif Khan leads contingent out
By Press Trust of India on 1:26 am February 5, 2022 No Comment
BEIJING: Skier Arif Khan led a small four-strong Indian contingent during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony here on Friday amid a diplomatic boycott of the event by the country.
The 31-year-old Arif will be the lone Indian competitor at the Games, having qualified in Slalom and Giant Slalom events. India sent a six-member contingent to the Games including a coach, a technician and a team manager.
Arif is the first Indian to secure qualification in two events of the same edition of the Games and his competitions are slated for February 13 and 16.
India was the 23rd contingent to walk in during the grand ceremony at the iconic Bird's Nest stadium here as China welcomed athletes from 84 countries amid a diplomatic boycott by powerful nations such as the USA and Britain over its alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang region.
India announced a diplomatic boycott of the Games after China fielded Qi Fabao, the regimental commander of the People's Liberation Army, who was injured during the 2020 military face-off with Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, as a torchbearer for the event's Torch Relay.
India said China's move was "regrettable" and it has chosen to "politicise" the Olympics.
Born in Kashmir's Baramulla district, Arif took up skiing quite early in life, winning his first national slalom championship at the age of just 12.
He later went on to win two gold medals in the Slalom and Giant Slalom events of the South Asian Winter Games in 2011.
He has also participated in both the editions of the Khelo India Winter Games held in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir.
Arif's inspiration was his father Yasin Khan, who owns a ski equipment shop in Gulmarg, a popular tourist destination in Jammu and Kashmir.
Previously, India's Winter Olympics campaigns have been identified with one man — veteran luge athlete Shiva Keshavan, who represented the country in six editions of the mega-event.
The 40-year-old from Manali, Himachal Pradesh has now taken up the role of promoting winter sports in India.
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Length: 5.2 miles. Medium use.
Directions: From Highway 87 at Stanford, follow Dry Wolf Road 251 to Dry Wolf Campground. Drive through the campground to the picnic site where the trail head is located.


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Women make up nearly half of Mayor Ginther's executive, office staffs
Lucas Sullivan
With the morning sun still looking up at the Downtown skyscrapers, Columbus' utilities directorstepped in front of a room full of men who maintain the city's sewer lines.
They wore bright-green vests, stained jeans and camo-print ball caps. She wore a black blazer,cream scarf and black flats.
In a department in which women are outnumbered by men, Tracie Davies outlined her managementstyle last month. She is the third woman in the city's history to lead the city's water, sewer andelectrical divisions.
But at City Hall, she is anything but an anomaly.
Downtown, Davies is part of an administration in which women make up nearly half of theexecutive and office staffs for Mayor Andrew J. Ginther.
'Being a woman in a male environment has never been a forethought in my mind, but occasionallyyou look around and see you're the only woman,' Davies said. 'I got more comments about my age whenI was younger, but not anymore.'
Davies, 44, the city's utilities director, is one of seven female department directors whomGinther has appointed since his swearing-in in January. The others are Amy DeLong of the CivilService Commission; Sherry Kish, technology; Nichole Brandon, human resources; Jennifer Gallagher,public service; Health Commissioner Dr. Teresa Long; and Rhonda Johnson, Department ofEducation.
The city has a total of 14 department directors. The median salary among women in Ginther'scabinet and office is nearly $112,000. A similar figure for men was not available on Friday.
In his first State of the City address as mayor, Ginther spent nearly an entire page of his11-page speech on women's rights and equality in the workforce. He said that his office staff andcabinet feature more women than any other administration in the city's history.
'Women who have some college education as well as those who have received a graduate degree earnabout 75 percent of what their male counterparts earn,' he said.
Ginther also has assembled a communication team of three women to deliver his message to thepublic. He recruited Kimber Perfect from the Columbus College of Art & Design to be a deputychief of staff handling communication.
Dawn Tyler Lee came from the United Way to be Ginther's deputy chief of staff for externalaffairs. Both Lee and Perfect make nearly $155,000 a year, which is on par with their malecounterparts.
Former Dispatch food editor Robin Davis was recruited from Kenyon College to be Ginther'sspokesperson. She will make $85,000 a year.
During the State of the City, Ginther announced that his wife, Shannon, would lead the ColumbusWomen's Commission. The commission, he said, will help empower area women and girls.
Ginther said that appointing his wife is not a political move and that he wants concrete goalsfor placing women on an equal footing with men in the public and private sectors. He said that thefuture of their young daughter makes this personal for him.
'We will benchmark our progress,' he said. 'If you're not measuring it, then you don't mean it.And I mean it.'
On the campaign trail, Shannon L. Ginther, 38, stood with her husband and appeared in earlyads.
The two married in 2001 when he was 25 and she was 23.
Those who know Shannon Ginther well say she is liberal and thoughtful. She pushes the mayor onwomen's issues, a close aide to the mayor said.
She has a law degree from Capital University and worked at Ohio State University's WexnerMedical Center handling government-affairs tasks before starting at OhioHealth as an executivedirector.
Many at City Hall believe she could become the city's first female mayor if it was something shewanted to pursue.
Shannon Ginther declined to comment for this story, saying she wants to wait until she hasprogress to report about her role on the commission.
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This blog series deals with the idea of Model Driven Development. In five parts we're going to cover what Model Driven Development is and what tangible engineering offers to support this kind of software development process. We also walk through a scenario showing how to use our products.
This first part of the blog series talks about the principles behind the Model Driven Development and tangibles contribution to implement this development process. Finally we give an overview how this blog series continues.
Model Driven Development (MDD) is an approach to design and develop software based on abstract but human-elaborated models using domain specific knowledge. These models usually are represented by diagrams like Component Diagrams, Distribution Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and/or Class Diagrams. While designing the resulting software, architects use these diagrams to communicate ideas and requirements between the different stakeholders (End Users, Decision Makers, Software Developers, …).
Thus MDD is considered useful when the created domain specific models make sense to the domain users as well as serve as a basis for implementing the system. The actual implementation can either be done manually or assisted by automatic code generation, e.g. in a rapid prototype scenario.
In the implementation process the domain specific models are also referred to as "platform independent models", since their information is valid no matter what platform or programming language will be used to create the software. Either the manual code writing or a code generation process transform this independent model into a platform dependent model e.g. for a specific operation system.
The advantage of automated code generation is, that changes need to be applied only to the platform independent (domain specific) model. All other artifacts can be automatically regenerated and then contain the desired changes.
The tangible Modeling Tools augment Visual Studio and add a designer for Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Component Diagrams, Persistence Diagrams, State Diagrams and UseCase Diagrams. In contrast to other UML diagram designers, those of the tangible Modeling Tools can be extended to store additional, user defined information.
The key feature of tangible Modeling Tools is their integration into T4 Templates, to make it very easy to build domain specific models from any modeling diagram using T4.
Visual Studio ships with full T4 templating functionality but lacks any editor experience. The tangible T4 Editor adds a new Editor extension to Visual Studio with known Visual Studio experience: syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, auto completion, snippet support, … (view full feature list here).
This makes it easy for everyone to edit existing T4 templates or create custom templates for code generation purposes. It's not necessarily .NET code that can be generated – any output format is possible: HTML, XML, SQL, php – just to mention a few.
In order to get an easy start into T4 templating the tangible T4 Editor hosts a free T4 template gallery. You can find templates there that explain the functionalities of the T4 engine as well as supportive template parts you can reference inside your templates as well as fully functional and ready-to-use templates solving common problems.
All templates in the gallery are free to use in your own projects. Maybe you're going to share some of your templates in our gallery?
We're going to put some domain specific knowledge of an imaginary customer and create a Persitence Model Diagram (.tasl-File) from it. A T4 template will use this Model file to generate ready-to-use C# EntityFramework Data Access Objects which will allow us to store Data in a relational database.
Another T4 template will transform the Knowledge inside the Persistence Model to generate a Basic User Interface accessing the previously generated Data Objects.
In order to create a fully functional software we would need to manually extend the generated code artifacts by a business logic layer and customize the basic user interface. To achieve this we could again use models from the tangible Modeling Tools but this is not covered in this series.
The artifacts being developed or presented during this series do not claim to be omnipotent. They are merely a showcase of basics that can be achieved using tangible engineering products. You are free to use to improve the results of this series to match your needs and use them in your solutions.
If you need further assistance or you are looking for a partner in MDD, please contact us at info@tangible-engineering.com.


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Huffington Post: A Fresh Start, With Students at the Center
By Harriet Sanford
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The Every Student Succeeds Act is an opportunity to look at what works when it comes to improving teaching and learning.
Now that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is no longer the law of the land, education policymakers at all levels are talking about the importance of a fresh start. The Every Student Succeeds Act—NCLB's successor—is more than a new name for the law. It's an opportunity to rethink how educators and school leaders can work together to improve student learning, starting right where such efforts should begin—in the classroom.
While evaluation and other top-down efforts to improve learning have typically focused on the adults in the classroom, we know that the process, when done right, is really aimed at ensuring that all students are taught in ways that help them succeed. For the first time, the new law explicitly allows states to invest in evaluation systems that go beyond ratings and instead provide teachers with "useful and timely feedback" and help to "inform decision-making about professional development and improvement strategies." The jury's still out on what these changes will mean, but from our work with forward-thinking districts and teacher unions over the past decade, we know that this approach can put students, not adults, at the center of the discussion.
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Today: You don't need a recipe to make the ultimate holiday side: creamy, perfect potato gratin.
Have you ever had a friend who knows no strangers? The kind of genuine person to whom everyone in the room gravitates -- someone who doesn't have to work at meeting new people, because somehow it is coded into their DNA for others to like them?
For me a potato gratin is just such a friend. A friend who hangs out with all the cool entrees too: an herb-crusted roast beef taking a bath in a platter of flavorful juices or a perfectly roasted chicken with crackly brown skin are its best friends.
But, to its credit, a potato gratin knows enough to complement all the other dishes and, with the exception of a few rules, remains unfussy enough not to need a recipe and somehow is always perfectly put together for any holiday gathering.
2. Slice the potatoes an 1/8-inch thick, ideally on a mandoline right into a heavy bottomed pot. Add a few minced cloves of garlic, about a teaspoon of salt, and roughly equal parts of water and milk to cover the potatoes.
3. Bring it to a gentle boil over medium heat and cook the potatoes till just tender but not falling apart, then drain. By cooking the potatoes most of the way through in flavorful liquid, you don't have to worry about exact quantities of liquid and seasoning later on.
4. While the potatoes are cooling, grate approximately 2 1/2 cups of Gruyère or Comté cheese -- they are traditional but expensive. Other cheese in the family would be gouda, fontina, or American Gruyère.
5. Get out an oval gratin, or any casserole, pie pan or dish you choose. Just take note: with a smaller circumference dish you have more creamy interior and less crunchy top and, obviously, the reverse is true for a larger gratin. Place around half the potatoes into the gratin (they don't need to look pretty, yet). Season with salt and white pepper. Top with half the cheese and drizzle about 1/2 cup of cream over the top.
6. Starting with one slice of potato placed in the middle of the gratin, spiral the potatoes around until you reach the gratin edges. Make it look pretty -- it makes a difference.
7. Top with the remaining cheese, then drizzle another 1/2 cup or so of cream over the top and around the edges so it gets to the bottom, too.
8. Bake at 425? F until brown and bubbly, about 30 minutes. Don't overcook the gratin so it dries out. You want a little cream to remain on the bottom. Serve.
Please use the food-holder when slicing on a mandolin!
I *thought* cooking the potatoes first would be the best way. Definitely not in the Betty Crocker and Martha Stewart recipes (which turn out rather blechy).
Substitute whipping cream for the half-and-half and nix the cheese and you have my potato dauphinois/scalloped potato/potato gratin dish made always without reference. I don't bother to artfully arrange my potatoes but heat them to the boiling point with the cream and garlic and then dump them into a deep buttered baking dish and bake them covered for about 3/4 of an hour and uncovered in a 300 degree oven until browned and done. Cooking at a high heat may split the cream. Great cold with a salad the next day.
I use a Nigella Lawson recipe where you simmer the potatoes in seasoned milk (just enough to cover) then dump it all into the baking dish to bake. Delicious and easy.
Sounds great but I wonder if you couldn't use the discarded boiling liquids for something? Seems kinda like this could be used for something considering it has the added starch in it now. Seems wasteful as wellt :/ Any ideas?
They would work great for bread but obviously would add a garlic flavor too.


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Samsung Electronics Hints It Made 53% More Profits In Q2
admin2 / 8 July 2021
A likely 53 per cent surge in its operating profit for the second quarter was ported by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd which was much higher than the estimates of the market – driven by strong chip prices and surge in demand despite lower smartphone sales.
Higher by 33 per cent compared to the first quarter, the preliminary result also reflects the surge in demand for chips which has brought down stockpiles because of a pandemic-led consumer appetite for electronics and recovering investment in data centres.
Profit for the quarter ended June 30 was likely 12.5 trillion won ($11 billion), said the world's largest memory chip and smartphone maker, which was much higher than a Refinitiv SmartEstimate forecast of 11.3 trillion won. If the company confirms this preliminary data in its final results later this month, it would be the biggest second-quarter profit for the te3ch giant since 2018.
"Third-quarter profit is expected to be even higher on strong mobile DRAM memory chip prices, and peak seasons for mobile and display businesses," said Park Sung-soon, analyst at Cape Investment & Securities.
According to analysts, the likely profit for the second quarter for the company's chip division rose by a fifth or more compared to the same period a year ago, for the second quarter, because of strong memory-chip prices and surge in demand for consumer electronics as well as from data centre customers.
Servers, mobile phones and other computing devices widely use the memory chip, especially for DRAM chips, from Samsung and its shipments during the quarter were higher than expected which drove up profits for the company's chip business which helped to more than cover up for the sharp quarter on quarter drop in shipments of the company's smartphones.
According to analysts, costs for the first quarter were also likely reduced by improvement in yield in cutting-edge 1z nanometre DRAM chip production using ASML's extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines.
Analysts said that there was also a likely improvement in the profits of chip contract manufacturing and logic chip design businesses of Samsung with production operations returning to normal at the storm-hit factory of the company in Texas, United States.
"One of the most-anticipated elements in the earnings call later this month is how much the chip contract manufacturing business has progressed in competitiveness, and the current status of foundry customers and orders," said Lee Won-sik, analyst at Korea Investment & Securities.
"Another is what changes Samsung expects in memory chip profitability, as competitors like Micron are said to be narrowing the technology gap (with Samsung)," Lee added.
However according to Shinyoung Investment & Securities, in the April-June quarter, there was a drop in Samsung's smartphone shipments to about 59 million compared to about 76 million in the first quarter, with a slowdown in demand for the company's flagship model which it had launched in the first quarter.
Analysts said that the drop in smartphone shipments during the quarter was also likely because of new Covid-19 outbreaks in regions such as India and Vietnam and a shortage in the supply of mobile processor chips.
(Adapted from TheEconomicTimes.com)
8 July 2021 in Companies, Consulting, Global perspectives, Publications, Technologies.
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