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The future of journalism and publishing online
The Manchester Salon is hosting a timely debate on the threats to print journalism with the arrival of social media – and how journalism is taking on new forms in the digital age.
National and regional newspapers have experienced a protracted period of retrenchment recently, and the development of critical and in-depth journalism has been one of the main casualties.
With slashed advertising revenues, declining circulation and a rash of redundancies, regional and national newspapers are struggling to find a new economic model.
Alongside this has been a proliferation of online publishing by individual bloggers and citizen journalist trying to develop new ways of news reporting and commentary.
Leading the debate is Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked online and who has also written for the Guardian, Spectator and the British Journalism Review. Brendan will look at the challenges online publishing poses for journalism.
Also speaking will be Louise Bolotin, a former BBC journalist who publishes the website, Inside the M60. Louise will speak about the demands of 24-hour news and the use of social media such as Twitter and Facebook as news platforms.
With the WikiLeaks website being passed and publishing leaked US Embassy cables, its founder Julian Assange has been both vilified and beatified. Some of those who have given material to WikiLeaks in the past have faced long-term imprisonment. But beyond the personalities and witch-hunts, what have we actually learned from these many revelations?
Venue and Time:
In the discussion area of Blackwell University Bookshop, The Precinct, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RN. Please arrive around 6:30pm for drinks and nibbles, ready for a prompt 6:45pm start - expected to finish just after 8:15pm. Tickets are £5 payable in advance, which entitles you to a £3 discount for anything bought from the bookshop on the evening. Purchase tickets in advance, using the PayPal Donate button on the Manchester Salon website (feel free to donate on top of the £5 ticket), in-store or by phone from Blackwell University Bookshop, Manchester 0161 274 3331.
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While getting started with JasperReport, we have seen that we need to create a report template in XML (JRXML) format. We can either hand code the XML and compile to generate <reportname>.jrxml or use tools such as iReport(*), or JasperStudio to do the designing and compiling part. Though these are great tools and an excellent way to create a report in Java, yet, one thing always intrigues; is it always necessary to go through these cumbersome XML when we want to create a simple report from our Java application or use such tools? Isn't there a way where we can write simple Java code to generate a report and forget about XML? If these questions come to your mind too then please read on, we have a good news!
Note: (*) iReport will be soon off the support grid from Jaspersoft Community and JasperStudio will replace it as the official report designer as of version 5.5.0.
By dynamic report we mean creating a report on the fly from Java code, no XML coding, no compiling report template to JRXML, etc., explicitly working only with pure POJO. JasperReport being a pure Java library has the ability to do that. It is possible, though not a very elegant way of programming, to use only its native APIs, thanks to several third party libraries, which can be integrated conveniently with Jasper to solve our problem. One such third party library is Dynamic Jasper. Here we shall see a sample application integrating both JasperReport and DynamicJasper library to create a dynamic report from a Java application.
Download the following software and libraries.
That's it! Installing Java SDK and NetBeans is pretty straightforward. To create a reusable user library of JasperReport in Netbeans refer to Getting Started with JasperReport. Dynamic Jasper library can also be set up in Netbeans in a similar manner. Once this is done we are ready to roll.
Note: Once DynamicJasper zip is extracted, it contains a DynamicJasper 5.x.jar. This jar needs to be included into the library along with the JasperReport library.
Simple, create a Java Project in Netbeans and include both JasperReport and DynamicJasper Library into the project. Right click on <ProjectName> → Properties → Libraries → Select the Compile tab (if not already selected) → Add Library... button and Import... required libraries.
In our project we shall create a report of the Collection of employees supplied to JasperReport API as a data source. So, Employee class is a simple Java bean, which can act as a data transfer object when working with a database. Since we are not using any database here, the list of employee data comes from the collection object we have created in main (Listing 4). While creating a report dynamically, our main concern is the designing of the report. In this project the whole designing part is handled by the EmployeeReport class.
These properties if not set will give a compile time warning. Setting up the following properties is sufficient for this project. For further information refer to Apache log4j manual.
A simple java bean, POJO acting as a data transfer object in our project.
This class is the heart of our project. All the designing part of the report is implemented here. Observe that Style object is extensively used to design different parts of the report to modify the look and feel (such as font family used, size, text color its background, etc.) DynamicJasper library provides many factory builder classes such as ColumnBuilder, ReportBuilder etc. to make the report designing through code convenient and easy. The designing code of the report given below is simple, straightforward and self-explanatory but not too refined to keep its simplicity.
This class feeds the report with a Collection of Java bean objects, which can be otherwise a Collection of database records if we had fetched records form a back end database. The getReport() function of the EmployeeReport object returns a JasperPrint object. With this, report creation is complete. Now, to view the report we use JasperViewer object of the JasperReport library. That's it!
That's all folks, now compile and run.
JasperReport library provided what Java programmers needed and DynamicJasper library complemented it by giving Java programmers what they always wanted. It is not that they do not have their glitches but what this duo JasperReport API and its sidekick DynamicJasper API provides is simply great to program with. Based on experience, I can say start coding now, see for yourself how simple and easy it is. Also do not forget to post your thoughts in the comments below.


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This suburban Chicago seat switched from Trump to Biden two years after turning offended blue
Opinion: Republican racist management urges us to rethink elite schooling
Virginia man arrested at residential checkpoint with gun and unauthorized ID
The Capitol Police arrested a gunman at a DC safety checkpoint
The tip of Swiss neutrality
Saturday Night time Owls: Even the FBI loves Martin Luther King Jr. immediately. It positive didn't do it within the 60s
Pence calls Kamala Harris to supply assist previous to the inauguration
Opinion: Inciting an assault on America isn't a free speech problem, it's treason
Mike Pence calls Kamala Harris to congratulate her on her victory as Vice President
Trump leaves the White Home hours earlier than Biden's inauguration, flying Air Power One to Mar-a-Lago for the final time
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Biden leaves the door open so as to add seats to the Supreme Courtroom
Jay Beiwan October 19, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a city hall hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia, PA.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday refused to rule out the prospect of increasing the number of Supreme Court justices, saying he would announce a firm position on the matter before election day.
Biden has previously criticized the idea of changing the Senate's rules to pave the way for a president to appoint additional Supreme Court judges who share that president's ideological leanings.
Critics of the idea refer to it as "packing the court," and Biden previously said in his presidential campaign that he is "not a fan" of the idea.
Biden initially repeated that line on Thursday during a town hall event hosted by ABC, but after moderator George Stephanopoulos put pressure on him, the former vice president went even further.
Biden said his position on whether to add seats to the Supreme Court would depend heavily on how Republicans handled the current confirmatory process for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat vacated by Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death . Senate Republicans are pushing Barrett's nomination, hearing, and confirmatory voting process, which typically takes months, to a few days before Election Day on November 3rd.
Biden said he had asked if "there is actually a real live debate on the floor when people really have time to go through this process thoroughly".
His position on adding judges, he said, "depends on how much [Senate Republicans] speed this up."
"If you vote [on Barrett's nomination] before the election, are you open to an extension of the court?" Asked Stephanopoulos.
"I'm open to speculation as to what happens from this point on," Biden replied.
"But voters have no right to know," replied Stephanopoulos.
"You do and you have the right to know where I am before you vote," said Biden.
"So you will come out with a clear position before Election Day?" Stephanopoulos shot back.
"Yes," said Biden. "It depends on how you deal with it."
Republicans are making an unprecedented rush this fall to nominate the Conservative Barrett, hold hearings and confirm a lifelong appointment. It has led a small but vocal minority of Democrats to embrace the idea that, should Biden win the presidency, he would be entitled to take drastic measures of his own in response to the Republicans' drastic actions against Coney Barrett.
When several rivals called for Biden's 2020 Democratic primary to add seats to the Supreme Court, Biden said it was a "bad idea".
The constitution did not provide for nine judges in the nation's highest court. Congress can pass a law to change the number of judges.
The total has remained unchanged since 1869. President Franklin Roosevelt attempted and failed to expand the court in the 1930s.
Packing the court would require unified democratic control of the White House, House and Senate – not to mention widespread support within the party itself. Biden would have to defeat President Donald Trump, who had his own town hall on Thursday night, and the Democrats would have to change at least three GOP-held Senate seats.
Democratic Congressional leaders had not previously embraced the idea of court wrapping, but that showed signs of a shift in recent weeks.
In September, Senate Minority Chairman Chuck Schumer opened the door to both the expansion of the Supreme Court and the elimination of legislative filibuster – which Democrats would likely have to do to pass laws to reshape the court.
"Nothing is off the table," said the New York Democrat at the time when the Republicans were filling Ginsburg's seat.
However, it remains unclear whether Schumer or a hypothetical President Biden would be able to muster a majority of Democrats to support a Supreme Court expansion bill.
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2 Drive-by Shootings Overnight in Providence, Rhode Island
No injuries were reported
By Marc Fortier	• Published at 9:02 am on August 19, 2016
WJAR-TV
Police are investigating two drive-by shootings that occurred overnight in Providence, Rhode Island.
According to WJAR-TV, the first drive-by was reported around 10:20 p.m. Thursday on Lancashire Street. Residents reported that someone opened fire on a home, shooting out a window. No one was injured.
The second shooting occurred about 10 minutes later just two miles away on Garfield Avenue. Five shots were fired at a house, one of which shot out a window. No one was injured in this incident either.
A dark-colored sedan was seen leaving the scene of one of the shootings.


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Nuclear Information Service
Investigating the UK Nuclear Weapons Programme
Burghfield
Faslane & Coulport
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UK Warhead
US Warheads
Parliamentary scrutiny
Disarmament & nonproliferation
Astute latest news
HMS Audacious finally leaves Barrow amid growing Astute programme secrecy
BAE kept the team at work on Audacious throughout the coronavirus crisis.
Astute: seventeen month delay may impede Dreadnought programme
Handover of HMS Audacious was due in August 2019, but is now expected to be January 2021.
New Report – Trouble Ahead
This report looks at the problems arising in the UK nuclear weapons programme, the overall total cost of the programme and the need for policy changes to address a situation that is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Dreadnought prototype review exposes flaws in naval reactor programme
Senior academics criticised a 'culture of optimism' within the programme.
£235m overspend highlights problems in major nuclear projects
A report has highlighted the risks to several interlinked projects.
Playing With Fire: Nuclear Weapons Incidents and Accidents in the United Kingdom
NIS has released a report examining the accident record of the UK's nuclear weapons programme over its 65 year history, looking across the full scope of the programme and describing the most significant incidents in detail.
The report describes 110 accidents, near misses, and dangerous occurrences
Government report casts doubt over delivery of Trident replacement programme
The programme to construct four new submarines to carry the UK's Trident nuclear weapons is "in doubt" and faces "major risks", according to a new government report. Newly published data from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) paints a bleak picture for government's aspirations to replace the Trident submarines by the mid 2030s, with "issues […]
Astute class submarine HMS Ambush damaged in collision off Gibraltar
Image: Weapons being offloaded from HMS Ambush in Gibraltar following the collision. Credit: Gibraltar Chronicle One of the Royal Navy's newest nuclear-powered submarines has been damaged following a collision with a merchant ship during a training exercise in the Mediterranean Sea. Astute class submarine HMS Ambush was forced to return to Gibraltar following […]
Reactor safety figures for Navy's Astute class submarines published
Nuclear reactors on board the Royal Navy's Astute class submarines have been involved in over twenty safety-related events over the last year, according to official figures released by the Ministry of Defence.
Two submarines to move to Faslane under Navy's future submarine basing plan
The Ministry of Defence has announced that two of the Royal Navy's Trafalgar class submarines will move from their current base in Devonport to the Clyde as part of a long-term scheme to station all the Navy's submarines at a single base.
The day crustaceans crippled a nuclear submarine
How a Royal Navy submarine and crew was almost lost off the coast of Africa 2011.
Comment by Trish Whitham
'Stop work' notice issued following safety concerns during refit work on nuclear powered submarine HMS Trenchant at Devonport dockyard
Concerns about emergency response arrangements resulted in a 'stop work' notice being issued for refit work on a nuclear powered submarine at Devonport naval dockyard earlier this year, according to a report published by the government's nuclear safety regulator.
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Ferguson's Municipal Elections Show That Voter Turnout Matters
Sean McElwee
In the wake of higher voter turnout in Ferguson, the city council now has three Black council members, up from only one before the election. This is a welcome change. As Demos has noted, the Ferguson city council is one of the many across the country in which Blacks are severely underrepresented. Using data from the International City/County Manager's Association (ICMA) survey, Demos finds that one in five Blacks are underrepresented in their city council.
This is important, because racial equity in representation has important implications for policy. Research suggests that Black representatives are more attuned to the concerns of Black voters, and thus represent their interests. African-Americans express more positive feelings about representation when their representative shares the same race. Using exit polls from between 1982 and 2002, Zoltan Hajnal shows that Black voters are those who most frequently vote for a losing candidate: 41% of Blacks saw their choice of president, senator and mayor all lose their election, compared to only 9 percent of whites. This means that Blacks have less voting power: candidates are less likely to try to appeal to their interests.
The result of this low voting power is that politicians simply don't focus on the issues of importance to Black voters. In Minority Report, John Griffin and Brian Newman show that one solution is getting more people of color into office. They find that African-American members of Congress equally reflect the preferences of their Black and white constituents. Further, in some cases, descriptive representation has an impact on Black and Latino's relative representation, "over and above district racial/ethnic composition, income, turnout, and even MC's party affiliations."
Ferguson shows one way to increase descriptive representation: voter turnout. However, while it was higher in the recent election, it was still only an abysmal 30% (still dramatically higher than the previous 12%). The history of Black disenfranchisement, combined with the fact that many local elections are off cycle mean that participation in these elections is abysmal. As the chart above shows, the turnout in local elections is heavily skewed toward whites and the wealthy.
But turnout matters. Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine find, "Even after controlling for public preferences, spending capacity, and needs, the more people who turn out to vote, the more local governments are likely to spend their money on welfare, public housing, and other redistributive programs." Griffin and Newman find that boosting turnout of African-Americans and Latinos increases representation, but that Latinos gain more than Blacks. They find that these advantages are not enough alone to bring about representational equity, but they are an important first step.
In addition, there is a problem on the supply side. In the election before this one, there was one Black candidate on the ballot (he won). In this election, there were four (two won).
Paru Shah finds that when candidates of color are on the ballot, they win at the same rate as white candidates—the problem is getting more candidates on the ballot. Once there are more people of color, more candidates of color tend run. As she told me elsewhere, "once a candidate of color has run and won, there was a tipping point." This could well be Ferguson's tipping point.


Flashbacks – A Splash of Love….
Quick Quotes: Just because I love them.
"Don't you ever struggle any more?" the young woman asked after our conference, looking deep into my eyes as if searching for the secret, hidden in the 'windows to my soul'.
Here's the reality: the past has lost its grip, but the power of memories like that will always be part of my life. It is inevitable. There will be triggers. I hear certain screams and my blood runs cold. The unexpected popping balloon will make my heart race; it's too close to a gun shot. And angry distant yelling takes me to a time and place, where a child's heart falls silent with fear. These are my realities.
What has changed, however, is the impact of that power. Where once it was altogether negative and debilitating, it has now become a force for good, for right and for purpose. Even in the hard times. Even when occasional flashbacks blindside me.
The hard times used to knock me down for weeks, if not months. Now they are moments in which I turn quickly from my pain to reach for the hand and heart of God. They used to knock me down and out; now they present a challenge, an invitation to something greater, something more whole, more enduring, more fulfilling. When my chest grows tight with the anxiety of PSTD–something I fought against daily for years, and now experience mostly in new situations or relationships–I celebrate that I am growing, learning and stretching. Oh it's still frightening at moments, but I've seen it often enough that I recognize it's all part of moving forward, even though it hurts. Much like stretching a tight muscle, or discovering muscles you didn't even know you had.
Mostly I guess I've stopped struggling against the impact of the abuse by accepting that I walk with a limp, while refusing to stay stuck in negative patterns. It's somewhat like the cancer patient who loses the ability to walk during treatment, and ends up in a wheelchair. When the cancer goes into remission the individual can sometimes learn to walk again, but could as easily resign him or herself to being confined to wheelchair. To learn to walk again requires effort, determination and resilience. It is a choice. Some try and learn to walk again. Some try and remain in a wheelchair. Some never put in the effort.
And right about there the analogy falls apart because cancer and abuse are two very different things. But the reality is that our investment, as individuals who have overcome abuse, makes a tremendous difference. And even if we learn to walk again, and walk with strength, there likely will be things that trip us up more easily for the rest of our lives. This doesn't mean we are not 'healed' and whole. It means we are healed with scars. And scars tell stories, and stories connect hearts.
Stories… Yes, they connect hearts. And as ours heal, and we become comfortable with them, scars and all, something rather beautiful takes place; the focus shifts from our pain and need, to focusing more on others and hearing their stories.
I thought of that yesterday when I walked into a store and started connecting with a young cashier, a beautiful young woman from Egypt. It all started with looking for pearl earrings to replace my 'go to' pair; one of which I lost recently. I don't wear a lot of jewelery partly because I don't care for the feeling, and partly because of metal allergies making it so that I mostly only wear gold, titanium, or stirling silver, with the latter being most common for day to day. I shared this with the young woman so she could point me in the right direction, and so it began. From allergies we moved to health, to research, to psychology, to dreams and whatever path women's minds choose to take things. If one can call the spaghetti trail a 'path' at all.
She told me she is going back to school in the fall, having dropped out of studies that had not held her interest; she hoped this would be different. Being old enough to be her mother, I playfully told her I too was returning to school, which. We exchanged areas of interest, and our reasons for choosing our particular field of studies. And she told me how her mother had become a doctor in Egypt, only to have to go through it all over again to be a doctor in Canada. It was a compelling story of courage, determination and resilience and she told it with a blend of admiration and disappointment which I only understood when she said it made her sad that her mother had to work so hard, put out so much money, only to not be fully appreciated. "People think doctors make a lot of money and are super rich, but they're not." She went on to say how General Practitioners only make around $70,000 after years of financial investment and time spent. There was no resentment, just an honest opinion.
Jessica intrigued me. She was helpful, curious, and an engaging communicator and connector, yet somewhat reserved. She shared quite transparently her disengagement from past dreams and the direction she had wanted to take her life and studies, while persisting in her search, even while knowing that her first love would always be art.
The real connecting started when we shared our stories. Both of us have encountered disappointment and challenges in our lives. Both of us, though decades apart in age, are learning to push past roadblocks, fighting for our dreams, and overcoming obstacles.
And that is why I no longer struggle with being an abuse victim. Though rarely, the aftermath at times causes me to struggle, that is true, but it is the thing that opens doors to relationships in ways I would never have imagined, allowing me to inspire others, and others to inspire me. And that makes it all worthwhile.
Make friends with your past. Embrace your story. Embrace your scars. And, inevitably, it will connect you with the stories, the scars and the hearts of people around you.
Tim held me in his arms as he prayed. I wasn't able to focus on the words, but that didn't matter. He was talking to God on my behalf, and He was listening.
He explained why he left, and what his plan was, to drive around the parking lot and return.
It didn't matter. The issue wasn't the current situation. It was the past that had been 'jogged' in my subconscious by the apparent abandonment.
With that resolved, we continued about our day, as planned.
Flashbacks are a common and difficult part of life for victims of any kind of abuse or violence. They are emotionally exhausting for the victim, as well as those who observe them. In the above story it was my husband, but can also impact children, siblings and friends. They take a toll on the mind, especially if not identified and worked through, and they most definitely take a toll on marriage.
Flashbacks come in the form of emotions that are hard to identify, vivid pictures—often almost as 'out of body' type images, where the victim is watching him or herself in a specific memory, and feeling things that were blocked at the time of trauma.
These episodes leave even a 'recovered victim' or survivor of abuse to deal with raw pain and the need to heal at a new level, peeling back another layer. It can be very overwhelming, because it often happens just about the time you think there's nothing left to heal from, just about the time the past feels truly in the past.
These unexpected interruptions are disheartening because they leave you feeling temporarily hopeless, as if healing will never truly be yours, as if you will never truly be free, and as if you are destined to be a victim for life. With the hopelessness comes shame, because you feel as though you should be past that by now. It should happen any more. Your faith in God should be stronger, your 'presence of mind' less easily overthrown.
Tim and I have been through numerous episodes similar to this one, though this was one of the most powerful, most daunting.
Over the years we have learned to identify what is happening, to talk through it, to pray over it, and then be aware. In exploring the cause, and the fear behind the flashback, and then having him pray over me, rather than getting impatient, or taking it personal, we take authority over it. Rather than remaining victimized or vulnerable to the flashbacks, they become an opportunity for deeper healing, and stronger relationship.
Each time Tim has patiently walks me through a flashback, I become stronger. Rather than dealing with constant flashbacks, my trauma is brought to light, and the flashbacks are fewer and farther between. The first seven years of marriage, especially before we recognized them, flashbacks were a fairly constant part of life. The last eleven years I can only remember about four episodes in total, though there may have been some that I have forgotten.
If you deal with flashbacks, don't be discouraged. Ask Jesus to show you what He wants to heal in your memories. The enemy wants to use them to destroy you, but God will redeem everything the enemy throws at you, if you're willing to open your heart and let Him shine His love and His light on the pain and the darkness.
We have the option of staying in that place, and remaining victim to the past. But we also have authority to break the power of victimization. It is ideal to find someone, whether a spouse, a mentor, or a counsellor, to share the trauma with. Someone who will not call you crazy, or mental, but who will support you, believe in your healing, and pray over you.
The most important thing, always, is to not carry the trauma alone. It is overwhelming to do so. They say that, "Pain shared, is half the pain. Joy shared is joy doubled." If shared with the right person, I wholeheartedly agree.
"Wait here for just a minute… I'll be right back," I said, as I jumped out of the car, leaving Tim in a 'no parking' zone. A minute or two, with him in the car and the car running, wouldn't be a problem.
I ran into the grocery store to get a money order. Only one person in line ahead of me, and it was a quick transaction. Great! I stepped up, asked for the money order, handed the cashier the money, and seconds later I held the money order in my hand. Wow! That was quick!
I rushed back out of the store. Outside I stopped. Looked around. No Tim. No vehicle. Nothing. It had been a great day. Until that moment.
I waited. I paced. I looked around again, scanning the parking lot. Nothing. I went back to the store, looked for a pay phone. No pay phone. My cell phone was in my purse. My purse in the car. I returned to the sidewalk where Tim had dropped me off, scanned the row of cars parked there. A horn honked. I looked to see if it was Tim. He wouldn't honk for me. He'd come get me. I walked to the other side of the store entrance, scanning the cars.
Something inside of me snapped. Not anger. Nothing to do with the present circumstance. I was a little girl again. Lost. No one there. No place to turn. No way to call for help. Tears threatened. My chest felt a sense of panic. My brain fogged over. People all blended and blurred into faceless figures. I turned away, ashamed of the tears, threatening to spill over. Where am I? Where is he? Why am I all alone?
The tears spilled without reserve. I turned my back to the parking lot, pretended to study the flowers for sale outside the story. What is happening to me?
A man, scruffy, dirty and rough-looking, marched toward me. He didn't smile. "HI!" he said, boldly. Loudly. No emotion. Then he marched away. Probably homeless. Why am I distressed? I have it so good!
"Hi," I whispered as I turned, letting my hair fall over my face.
People rushed past. A horn honked in the distance. I scanned the parking lot. No Tim. I turned away again. Time passed slowly. It felt like forever. Why didn't I take my phone? Why am I here, alone? My mind raced. No way to connect to my world. I froze in fear. The tears stopped.
It felt strange and yet familiar, all at the same time. I wanted to run. But I realized I had nowhere to go. I would wait. Nothing like this had ever happened before. I tried to tell myself that everything was ok, but something inside of me wouldn't stop.
I turned. Squinted. Was that him? I waited. A horn honked. I walked across the two lanes of traffic. I waited. It was Tim. He pulled up. I opened the door and sank into the passenger seat. I took a deep breath, holding in the tears.
"Don't ever do that again," I whispered in panic.
"Leave me like that," I whispered. Somewhere deep in my soul a dam burst. I sobbed like I've only sobbed a few times in my marriage.
Tim pulled into a parking spot, wrapped his arms around me, and just held me. Terror lingered, somewhere below the surface. Slowly reality set in. I was fine. An adult. Safe with Tim.
I looked at Tim, "What's wrong with me?" The flood of tears started all over again. Slowly I realized I had experienced a flashback. Buried deep in my subconscious all the fear of abandonment in childhood and all my lonely teen years had overtaken me, overwhelmed my reality, and drawn me into the past.
"Maybe, but I don't know what to say. I can't talk about it yet. Let's go," I said again.
I started and the words tumbled out, as I tried to explain the panic, the fear, the loneliness, all those years of having no one there. No one who noticed. Or cared. No consistent 'presence' in my life. The dam burst again… and again. Tim just held me.
"Making a splash for the ripples..."
As a child I loved to throw rocks in water, just to watch the ripple effect. Eventually I mastered the art of skipping stones, creating ripples upon ripples.
In this blog I cover a blend of topics. Some are tough topics. Like overcoming abuse--emotional, physical, sexual or spiritual--and violence. Others are spiritually uplifting, devotional types. Still others are simply storytelling, practical advice on marriage, parenting, relationships and a variety of topics.
When I put the written word out there, it's like tossing a pebble in the lake. I have no idea how far the ripples will go. Sometimes it's like skipping stones, as I watch people share and pass it on, creating a series of ripples that my little pebble, dropped in front of me, could never create.
In all I say and share, my prayer is that the ripple that reaches you will be one of hope and encouragement. I don't mention Him explicitly in every post, but my goal is to make Jesus famous in my life and in my writing, so that you will be empowered to live a life of purpose and meaning.
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Q: ILocalizedStringManager is reused unexpectedly across requests? I think this is really unexpected, because the ILocalizedStringManager is IDependency and that means it should always be created for each request.
I put some logging in the implementation class like this:
public class LocalizedStringManager : ILocalizedStringManager
{
    private readonly ITranslator _translator;
    public LocalizedStringManager(ITranslator translator)
    {
        _translator = translator;
        //we defined an OID on ITranslator to help debug this
        Debug.Print($">>>>>>>>> Init LocalizedStringManager ... ({_translator.OID})");
    }
    public string GetLocalizedString(string scope, string text, string cultureName)
    {
        return _translator.Translate(text).Text;
    }
}

public interface ITranslator : IDependency, IDisposable {
    string Translate(string text);
    Guid OID {get;}
}

public class Translator : ITranslator {
   public Guid OID {get;}
   public Translator(){
       OID = Guid.NewGuid();
   }
   public string Translate(string text){
       //...
   }
   public void Dispose(){
       Debug.Print($">>>>>>>>> Disposing ... {OID}");
   }
}

For the first request, I can see it printed out
>>>>>>>>> Init LocalizedStringManager ... 086a1487-bad9-481d-92f0-4615b9c6c5fd

then finally the referenced ITranslator is disposed, and prints the following:
>>>>>>>>> Disposing ... 086a1487-bad9-481d-92f0-4615b9c6c5fd

So everything is fine here, but somehow the next request (from browser) triggers the LocalizedStringManager via a NullLocalizer, and it's strange that I did not see any line like >>>>>>>>> Init LocalizedStringManager ... printed, but right before where it threw exception, I have a logging line printing out the ITranslator OID and it matched the value 086a1487-bad9-481d-92f0-4615b9c6c5fd, really confusing.
Here is the code run for the second consecutive request:
public interface ISomeService : IDependency {
     SomeModel LoadData();
}
public class SomeService : ISomeService {
    public Localizer T {get;set;}
    public SomeService(){
        T = NullLocalizer.Instance;
    }
    public SomeModel LoadData(){
        //use the Localizer T here, such as to translate some text
        var model = new SomeModel();
        model.SomeText = T("SOME_KEY");
        //...
        return model;
    }
}

So the T(...) will trigger some LocalizedStringManager, and really I would expect it to create a new one (with new ITranslator referenced inside), but somehow it reused the one created in the request before (because I did not see any line like >>>>>>>>> Init LocalizedStringManager ... printed this time.
Also finally it will call the reused ITranslator (its Translate method) BUT this has been disposed before (after the request before), and now it threw an exception saying something like this:

Exception thrown: 'System.ObjectDisposedException' in Autofac.dll
An exception of type 'System.ObjectDisposedException' occurred in Autofac.dll but was not handled in user code
Instances cannot be resolved and nested lifetimes cannot be created from this LifetimeScope as it has already been disposed.

Everything seems to be out of my control. All are setup by the Orchard framework. I don't really understand how that LocalizedStringManager can be reused so easily? It should never be reused that way. We've encountered this kind of exception fairly frequently now (after trying to globalize our websites with multi-language support).
It's especially that this is not always reproducible (I mean it happens intermittently). I hope someone experienced with Orchard enough to at least give me some good suggestions for which could cause this issue.
Update
I cannot provide the exact actual code (word by word), but the main logic can be like following (the most different things here are IDisposable not being implemented and IRepository being used in ITranslator implementation):
public interface ITranslator : IDependency {
    string Translate(string text);
    LanguageInfo GetCurrentUserLanguage();
}

public class LanguageInfo {
    public string Name {get;set;}
    public string DisplayName {get;set;}
}

public class Translator : ITranslator {
   readonly IRepository<LanguageRecord> _languageRepo;
   readonly IOrchardServices _orchardServices;
   public Translator(IRepository<LanguageRecord> languageRepo,
                     IOrchardServices orchardServices){
      _languageRepo = languageRepo;
      _orchardServices = orchardServices;
   }
   public LanguageInfo GetCurrentUserLanguage() {
       if(_orchardServices.WorkContext.CurrentUser == null){
          //obtain the language for not-logged-in user from his browser's cookie
          var langCode = _orchardServices.WorkContext.HttpContext.Request.Cookies["LangCode"] ?? "en";
          //get full language info
          //this is where the exception thrown (because of using the disposed repository)
          var fullInfo = _languageRepo.Table.FirstOrDefault(e => e.Code == langCode);
          return new LanguageInfo { Name = fullInfo.Name, DisplayName = fullInfo.DisplayName };

       } else {
          //obtain from DB the settings for the current user
          //however my test is for the case user not logging in
          //So this branch is not important in this specific question.
          //...
       }
   }
   public string Translate(string text){
       //get current user language
       var lang = GetCurrentUserLanguage();
       //do the translation … (not important in this specific question)
       //...
   }
}

Again I must say that this happens intermittently, no way to ensure that it can be reproducible easily (that's the hardest thing to figure out why) especially after you can reproduce it once. As in my case, right after starting the homepage, the GetCurrentUserLanguage is called some times (for each translation), everything is fine. But all the calls are originated from T(…) inside razor views.
However after that clicking one link (calling to the api ISomeService) will throw the exception, some others do use translation but they use T as part of Orchard's WebPage base (rendered in razor view), those don't cause the exception at least the first time I try navigating through the website. It's strange now that (as I've described by using the word intermittently) by re-visiting that link, the exception does not throw. Actually from this time on I can hardly reproduce it, but for the production website, we can still see fairly many logging lines showing the intermittent occurrences (and I'm sure that many of them are from using T(…) in razor views, not just from the ISomeService as when I could easily reproduce the exception the first time).
Please note that the code above is not good, it's not me writing it originally (we have a team of several members). And I know it should be refactored but it's not the right time to do it, even fixing this issue as I've done is just a quick solution).

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Bwhahahaha! When I find a good link, I will post.
I am so happy right now I am trying so hard not to cry! Heck I am crying.
I came across an article that states according to some study we are the most educated group by race and gender!
I know people can say what they want re education and types of education and I know there will be haters..
But I am just so proud right now!
Merry ( if belated) Jol and a good new year!
Happy New Year! Take your time, enjoy your break. I ditched the book of face cause I could no longer deal with the foolishness so I understand needing to step away.
Happy Holidays Betty!Praying for you and your family.I hope this year brings you much joy,love and security.May every good thing you think on come to pass.
I emailed you. I was hoping that you were ok! 🙂 Good to hear from you and wishing you an awesome 2015 where all your wildest hopes and dreams come true!
Happy Holidays, Betty! So glad to know you're around. Stay on that extended break as long as you need for renewal. Have a great 2014!


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Q: How to search the DNF package manager for all available versions of a package? What I want to know is how to search for all available versions of a particular package.
It might help to understand my situation to understand exactly what I want to do.
I develop software for clients using Node.js, npm, TypeScript, JavaScript, Express JS, React TSX/JSX, Mocha/JEST, and lots of other things.
All of the software mentioned above is obtained via "Npm", and much of it runs in the Node.js Runtime Environment.
Many clients get stuck to specific versions of Node.js, TypeScript, Npm &/or Npm packages. This makes it imperative that I can install the latest version of Node.js, the LTS version of Node.js, and all versions that have not yet reached their EoL.
I use to boot to Ubuntu, and I would obviously use the Apt package manager to search & download packages. "Ubuntu" & apt has some issues when it comes to certain packages though, expecially when trying to change versions. Unfortuanatly Node.js is one piece of software where switching around to different versions is difficult to do using "Ubuntu" & apt. This conundrum led to me getting use to manually installing Node, Npm, and manually adding the global npm bin dirs to my path &/or soft linking them.
I switched to Fedora Workstation 35 a little over a year ago (currently I just upgraded to the 37-prerelease version) for other reasons not to do with Node.js. Because of my problems w/ Ubuntu I got use to manually installing Npm & Node.js and I continued that practice while booting to Fedora. I Decided to see if I could install different versions of node using DNF, but the problem I am having is when I search using DNF it only returns the name of the package, informing me that it is available for download, but it doesn't mention what version it is, and if any other versions are available.
Does anyone know how I can search dnf for all available Node.js packages & Npm packages?

A: Okay so I figured out how to find all available packages for a given piece of software.
To see if the software is even available through dnf, I will first run the following.
$ dnf search pkg-name-here
If it returns with a result that looks like the software I was searching for, then I will execute:
$ dnf search --showduplicates pkg-name-here
If there is more than one package available for the package-name that you searched for the --showduplicates flag will print the list of all available packages, as well as the version info for each one.
This is a very useful flag IMO.


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The Get-Ripped Diet Plan to Lose Fat and Gain Lean Muscle
By Kaitlin Ahern Updated May 22, 2019
Kaitlin Ahern
Senior Wellbeing Editor she/her/hers
Kaitlin Ahern is LIVESTRONG.com's senior wellbeing editor. She is a New Jersey-based writer and editor who has been covering health and wellness for more than 10 years. She is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she earned a degree in magazine journalism.
In order to get ripped you need to focus on fitness and nutrition. Balance your calories, carbs and protein to maintain muscle and lose fast with these diet tips.
Image Credit: Getty Images/AmalliaEka
You've been hitting the weights regularly to build muscle, but now you want to take your fitness plan one step further to really define those abs and triceps. That means it's time to focus on your nutrition and shed some pounds.
The good news? You don't have to starve yourself to get ripped — but you do need to pay careful attention to what and how much you eat. The key to a get-ripped diet plan is cutting calories while still getting the right balance of nutrition, which will help you lose fat and maintain your hard-earned muscle.
Cut Down Your Calories
When it comes to losing weight, doctors recommend a healthy pace of about one to two pounds per week. According to a May 2014 review published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN), decreasing your daily calorie intake by about 500 calories should help you lose about a pound each week. However, your specific daily calorie needs will depend on your current intake and activity level. If you're not losing weight or you're losing weight too quickly, you may need to subtract or add 100 to 200 daily calories, respectively.
Read more: How to Calculate Percentage of Calories From Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein
Get the Right Balance of Carbs, Protein and Fat
The best diet for getting ripped is high in protein and low in fat, with a moderate amount of carbs. Active individuals must be careful to eat enough protein to preserve lean muscle mass. According to the researchers behind the 2014 JISSN review, that translates to 2.3 to 3.1 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. So, for example, a 175-pound person would need to eat somewhere between 183 and 247 grams of protein each day (a lot more than the 50 or so grams the Food and Drug Administration recommends most people get in a day).
Fat should account for 15 to 30 percent of your overall calories, and the rest of your nutrients should come from carbs. So your calorie breakdown might look like this: 45 percent from protein, 35 percent from carbs and 20 percent from fat.
Read more: 15 of the Best Lean Animal Proteins
Eat to Get Ripped
Your ripped-body diet plan should include three to six meals a day. The International Society of Sports Nutrition recommends spacing your protein intake throughout the day, eating about every three hours. And keep in mind that you should consume a high-protein meal before a strength-training session to maximize muscle growth, according to the JISSN review.
When restricting calories, make the most nutritious food choices to ensure you're meeting your body's vitamin and mineral needs. A healthy, get-ripped diet should include lean sources of protein such as poultry, fish, egg whites and tofu. You should also aim to incorporate fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy.
Make protein the center of each meal to ensure you're getting enough.
Six-egg-white omelet filled with 1/2 cup of spinach cooked in 1 teaspoon of oil
One serving of nonfat yogurt
6 ounces of grilled tuna on top of 3 cups of mixed greens with balsamic vinegar and 2 teaspoons of olive oil
Small apple
1 cup of brown rice
High-protein pre-workout meal:
6 ounces grilled chicken breast
1 cup of cherry tomatoes, peppers and mushrooms served kebab style
1 cup of nonfat milk
6 ounces of roasted turkey breast
2 cups of broccoli sautéed in 1 teaspoon of oil
1 cup of a baked sweet potato
This meal plan contains 1,780 calories and 196 grams of protein.
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition: "Evidence-Based Recommendations for Natural Bodybuilding Contest Preparation: Nutrition and Supplementation"
Mayo Clinic: "Why do doctors recommend a slow rate of weight loss? What's wrong with fast weight loss?"
National Center for Biotechnology Information: "International society of sports nutrition position stand: nutrient timing"
1000 Calorie Per Day High Protein Diet
Low-Fat, High-Protein Diet Menu
The 1,000-Calorie Vegetarian Diet Plan
Nutritional Requirements in a 1000 Calorie Diet
How to Gain Weight & Lose Belly Fat
What to Eat for Breakfast Before a Soccer Game


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There was a project in the 2018 Google Summer of Code that added a new special page to the Page Forms extension, Special:MultiPageEdit, which lets users edit and create lots of pages at once from a single spreadsheet interface. It would be great to have a similar interface for creating and editing pages from a calendar interface, for pages that call templates that contain one or more date fields. This interface would most likely use the FullCalendar (https://fullcalendar.io/) JavaScript library. This feature may require the presence of the Cargo extension, or at least would be easier to use if Cargo is installed, since Cargo has separate types for "Start date" and "End date", something that Semantic MediaWiki lacks. If there's time left over after this project is completed, it could be very interesting to create a similar editing interface using a map, for pages with Coordinates fields, letting users create and drag around markers on a map using OpenLayers and/or Google Maps. **Prerequisites**: PHP, JavaScript, Ajax **Mentors:** Yaron Koren, Erik Biegert
There was a project in the 2018 Google Summer of Code that added a new special page to the Page Forms extension, Special:MultiPageEdit, which lets users edit and create lots of pages at once from a single spreadsheet interface. It would be great to have a similar interface for creating and editing pages from a calendar interface, for pages that call templates that contain one or more date fields. This interface would most likely use the FullCalendar (https://fullcalendar.io/) JavaScript library. This feature may require the presence of the Cargo extension, or at least would be easier to use if Cargo is installed, since Cargo has separate types for "Start date" and "End date", something that Semantic MediaWiki lacks. If there's time left over after this project is completed, it could be very interesting to create a similar editing interface using a map, for pages with Coordinates fields, letting users create and drag around markers on a map using OpenLayers and/or Google Maps. **Prerequisites**: PHP, JavaScript, Ajax **Mentors:** Yaron Koren, Erik Biegert, Yashdeep Thorat


Mercy-USA believes that by helping rural and urban communities with the basic of life—clean water, we can make positive contributions to the entire country's steps toward stability and a resurgence of prosperity.
Since 1997, Mercy-USA has played a vital role in providing safe drinking water in Somalia, digging and repairing over 600 wells. Communities with a combined population of over 700,000 persons are benefiting from this safe water program.
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The benefits of a Good Cup of Coffee Every Morning other than being a substitute to other popular beverages like tea, it's also known to provide a few health benefits. However, like any other beverage, it's beneficial only on moderate consumption.
Some of the benefits of drinking it are as follows: however, the enumerated benefits aren't based on any medical or scientifically proved results. Are more of what researchers proclaim. Coffee has been a popular drink and there have been major changes in process of growing beans as well as brewing it to lend it rich taste and special flavor. Gourmet coffee makes a perfect example of the changes and the development that took place in the overall process of growing beans to brewing it.
You feel more active - A cup of gourmet coffee heightens your senses. You feel more energetic. It extends your concentration span. You feel like grasping your subject matter in a better way. However, it's not wise to consume lot of it, just to keep yourself active, better to have it in moderation. it's best to have it twice a day or maximum four times a day.
Zero calorie count - A cup of black coffee contains zero calorie count. Therefore, it proves to be a great drink for all those who are on a diet or want to lose their excess weight. However, it's beneficial only when you cut away milk, cream and sugar. Moreover, its caffeine content keeps you energetic and thus you don't feel low even while on a diet.
Rich In antioxidant - Everyone seems to love coffee. The main reason behind this can be its antioxidant content. Moreover, it's prepared in such a way that it retains almost all of its antioxidant values. Thereby, you enjoy maximum health benefits with every cup. Antioxidants are also known to slow down aging process, thus, you retain your youth for long by drinking it.
Acts as antidepressant - The beans for organic coffee are grown through organic farms and thus these beans contain no harmful chemicals or pesticides. However, they're rich in antioxidants and other useful nutrients. You can even go for decaffeinated variant of the drink. Having some amount of caffeine is good. However, nutritional values of organically grown beans along with high antioxidant values acts as antidepressant. Therefore, you feel good and happy after having a cup of your favorite gourmet coffee.
Improves digestion - Coffee is rich in diuretic and therefore its regular. Moderate consumption of improves your digestion. Therefore, along with giving your day a fresh and energizing start, it also improves your general digestion. There are a lot more in the list of benefits of drinking gourmet coffee. Other than the aforementioned we can't ignore the rich taste and flavor that it offers to make our day a beautiful day.
Other potential health benefits associated with drinking coffee include: protecting against type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, liver disease, liver cancer, and promoting a healthy heart.


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FH+H Partner Craig Guthery Helps Software Developer Collect Substantial Fees from Delinquent Client
FH+H Partner Craig Guthery recently assisted a software developer in collecting payment for custom work performed after the client's customer put off paying for nearly a year.
FH+H's client assigned its developers to the customer under a master services agreement that required annual payments, but the customer had delayed the most recent payment for nearly a year — a few weeks at a time — using a variety of excuses.
The customer made the overdue payment after a single demand letter from Mr. Guthery, which saved our client from incurring any litigation fees or costs in resolving the dispute.
Read about Mr. Guthery's experience and capabilities here, and contact one of our professionals here.
FH+H GovCon Team Successfully Challenges Source Restrictions in Agency Solicitation
The FH+H Government Contracts team, including Partner Milt Johns and Associate Emily Spence, successfully prosecuted a bid protest for a client that resulted in the agency taking voluntary corrective action.
FH+H assisted a government contracting client in protesting a procurement containing significant source limitations. These source limitations effectively transformed the agency's "unrestricted procurement" into a sole source procurement without adequate source justification. In response to the protest, the agency agreed to voluntarily cancel the solicitation.
The protest succeeded due to persuasive argument that in preparing its solicitation, the agency failed to comply with the Competition in Contracting Act and requirements for utilization of small business concerns under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
FH+H Litigation Team Defeats Summary Judgement Motion Filed Against Client
FH+H Partner Milt Johns and the FH+H Litigation + Investigations team succeeded in defeating a summary judgment motion that was filed against a client.
In the breach of contract action, the opposing party sought to have a judgement entered against a client of the firm without the benefit of a trial. The court found that material facts were still in dispute in the case, and the motion for summary judgment was denied.
FH+H GovCon Team Successfully Challenges Client's Unacceptable CPARS Rating
Partner Milt Johns and the Government Contracts team assisted a client in challenging an unacceptable Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) rating.
A government contracting client received a CPARS rating from a customer that was unsatisfactory in several areas. FH+H assisted the client in crafting a response to the contracting officer, challenging these ratings and providing legal and factual basis to change the ratings.
As a result, the client's government customer changed the ratings in three of the four areas, and the client no longer had any unsatisfactory ratings in any category.
Agency Takes Voluntary Corrective Action for FH+H Client's Bid Protest
The FH+H Government Contracts team, including Partner Milt Johns and Associate Rachel Leahey, successfully prosecuted a bid protest for a client that resulted in the agency taking voluntary corrective action that provided the possibility of additional competition for the work.
The agency agreed to voluntarily terminate a blanket purchase agreement issued on a sole source basis. The termination came little more than one month of its issuance, and after only a fraction of the value of the BPA had been spent on the awardee. The agency also agreed to reconsider its acquisition strategy and issue a revised solicitation.
The protest succeeded due to persuasive argument that in preparing its limited source justification in support of the award, the agency failed to comply with the relevant Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
FH+H Attorneys Close a Multi-Million Dollar OTA
FH+H attorneys, including Partner Jennifer Huber and Senior Associate Marlena Ewald, helped close a multi-million dollar Other Transaction Agreement for a unique prototype project with the U.S. Government.
Other Transaction Agreement, or Other Transaction Authority, (OTA) contracts give the Department of Defense the ability to move forward with certain prototype and research projects without going through the traditional acquisition process, which can take years to complete. 10 U.S.C. § 2371b.
"Instead of undergoing a more rigid procurement process with the potential risk of a protest, OTAs allow for a much quicker and flexible avenue of procurement," Ms. Huber said. "Contractors are able to innovate and create with today's technology, not the technology of years ago when the solicitation process was started."
The FH+H Government Contracts team is able to guide contractors through the applicable rules and regulations related to OTAs and other contracts in order to enable corporate success. Read about the group here.
FH+H GovCon Team Successfully Prosecutes Client's Bid Protest
The FH+H Government Contracts team, including Partner Milt Johns and Associate Rachel Leahey, successfully prosecuted a bid protest for a client that resulted in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustaining the protest and recommending that the Agency award a contract to the client and pay the client's attorneys' fees.
Bringing the protest required careful argument interpreting a key passage of the solicitation. As the GAO found, the solicitation interpretation offered by the Agency was "not unreasonable." Decision, p.6.
However, as the GAO also recognized, we "advance[d] an alternative interpretation of the solicitation" on behalf of our client that the GAO also found to be "reasonable." Id. This was a critical finding, as it was only by successfully countering the Agency's solicitation interpretation that the GAO ultimately decided in favor of our client.
The GAO's decision is public and available for download here.
FH+H Helps Secure Export License for Defense Contractor
FH+H recently helped a defense contractor export sensitive defense articles to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region.
The contractor was selected by a strategic U.S. ally to provide such articles and required assistance with navigating the regulatory hurdles that it faced.
Leveraging its experience and relationships in the export compliance arena, FH+H coordinated with the Department of State and the Department of Defense to help ensure that an export license was issued, and that the license's provisos both protected U.S. national security interests and allowed FH+H's client to satisfy its contractual obligations overseas.
"U.S. hardware and services remain in high demand across the Middle East and North Africa," FH+H International Trade + Transactions Partner Adam Munitz said. "And we will always utilize every skill we have to expedite their delivery and grow our clients' international footprints, all while preserving their compliance with U.S. laws and regulations."
FH+H Defends Military Reservist Who Was Denied Promotions
In a case brought by federal law enforcement officers against their employers, Partner Kevin Byrnes, Senior Associate Samuel Adelmann, and Associate Rachel Leahey filed several actions and appeals against a federal agency for consistently mistreating Military Reservists on promotional and career advancement opportunities within the agency.
FH+H lawyers have argued that numerous Reservists in the agency were subject to anti-military animus and subject to retaliation and reprisal after he submitted evidence establishing what they submitted claims under USERRA (Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act).
The supervisors against whom the clients brought the complaint repeatedly failed to promote them, investigated the employees for making complaints and assigned the employees menial assignments
Read about FH+H's extensive practice on USERRA here.
Client Denied Promotion in Ethnic and Religious Discrimination Case
FH+H Partner Kevin Byrnes and Senior Associate Samuel Adelmann are currently litigating a case of ethnic and religious discrimination for a federal employee who was denied a promotion.
The client, who is of Mexican descent, was repeatedly attacked because of her ethnicity. For example, on the first day of her employment, she found an oversized sombrero in her office.
The employee was then passed over for promotion, for a position to which she was eminently qualified for an employee who claimed to be a clergy member, and who ministered to the recommending supervisor, who apparently shared his religious faith.
During the discovery phase of the case, it was further revealed that the selectee and the recommending supervisor had exchanged emails professing their love for one another.
The case is currently being litigated before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Read about FH+H's Litigation and Investigations practice group here.


A great big well done to all of our performers at our School Music Concert. All of the audience were amazed by the musical skills and talent we have in our school. Thank you to all of the teachers involved in making this event happen.


TEHRAN (FNA)- With a stock estimated at 1,000 million tons so far, mesopelagic fish dominate the total biomass of fish in the ocean. However, a team of researchers with the participation of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has found that their abundance could be at least 10 times higher.
The results, published in Nature Communications journal, are based on the acoustic observations conducted during the circumnavigation of the Malaspina Expedition.
Mesopelagic fishes, such as lantern fishes (Myctophidae) and cyclothonids (Gonostomatidae), live in the twilight zone of the ocean, between 200 and 1,000 meters deep. They are the most numerous vertebrates of the biosphere, but also the great unknowns of the open ocean, since there are gaps in the knowledge of their biology, ecology, adaptation and global biomass.
Duarte states: "Malaspina has provided us the unique opportunity to assess the stock of mesopelagic fish in the ocean. Until now we only had the data provided by trawling. It has recently been discovered that these fishes are able to detect the nets and run, which turns trawling into a biased tool when it comes to count its biomass."
Xabier Irigoyen, researcher from AZTI-Tecnalia and KAUST (Saudi Arabia) and head of this research, states: "The fact that the biomass of mesopelagic fish (and therefore also the total biomass of fishes) is at least 10 times higher than previously thought, has significant implications in the understanding of carbon fluxes in the ocean and the operation of which, so far, we considered ocean deserts."
Mesopelagic fish come up at night to the upper layers of the ocean to feed, whereas they go back down during the day in order to avoid being detected by their predators. This behaviour speeds up the transport of organic matter into the ocean, the engine of the biological pump that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, because instead of slowly sinking from the surface, it is rapidly transported to 500 and 700 meters deep and released in the form of feces.
Irigoyen adds: "Mesopelagic fish accelerate the flux for actively transporting organic matter from the upper layers of the water column, where most of the organic carbon coming from the flow of sedimentary particles is lost. Their role in the biogeochemical cycles of ocean ecosystems and global ocean has to be reconsidered, as it is likely that they are breathing between 1% and 10% of the primary production in deep waters."
According to researchers, the excretion of material from the surface could partly explain the unexpected microbial respiration registered in these deep layers of the ocean. Mesopelagic fishes would act therefore as a link between plankton and top predators, and they would have a key role in reducing the oxygen from the depths of the open ocean.


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package com.netflix.simianarmy;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.testng.Assert;

import com.netflix.simianarmy.MonkeyRecorder.Event;
import com.netflix.simianarmy.basic.BasicConfiguration;
import com.netflix.simianarmy.basic.BasicRecorderEvent;

public class TestMonkeyContext implements Monkey.Context {
    private final Enum monkeyType;
    private final LinkedList<Event> eventReport = new LinkedList<Event>();

    public TestMonkeyContext(Enum monkeyType) {
        this.monkeyType = monkeyType;
    }

    @Override
    public MonkeyConfiguration configuration() {
        return new BasicConfiguration(new Properties());
    }

    @Override
    public MonkeyScheduler scheduler() {
        return new MonkeyScheduler() {
            @Override
            public int frequency() {
                return 1;
            }

            @Override
            public TimeUnit frequencyUnit() {
                return TimeUnit.HOURS;
            }

            @Override
            public void start(Monkey monkey, Runnable run) {
                Assert.assertEquals(monkey.type().name(), monkeyType.name(), "starting monkey");
                run.run();
            }

            @Override
            public void stop(Monkey monkey) {
                Assert.assertEquals(monkey.type().name(), monkeyType.name(), "stopping monkey");
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public MonkeyCalendar calendar() {
        // CHECKSTYLE IGNORE MagicNumberCheck
        return new MonkeyCalendar() {
            @Override
            public boolean isMonkeyTime(Monkey monkey) {
                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public int openHour() {
                return 10;
            }

            @Override
            public int closeHour() {
                return 11;
            }

            @Override
            public Calendar now() {
                return Calendar.getInstance();
            }

            @Override
            public Date getBusinessDay(Date date, int n) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Not implemented.");
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public CloudClient cloudClient() {
        return new CloudClient() {
            @Override
            public void terminateInstance(String instanceId) {
            }

            @Override
            public void createTagsForResources(Map<String, String> keyValueMap, String... resourceIds) {
            }

            @Override
            public void deleteAutoScalingGroup(String asgName) {
            }

            @Override
            public void deleteVolume(String volumeId) {
            }

            @Override
            public void deleteSnapshot(String snapshotId) {
            }
        };
    }

    private final MonkeyRecorder recorder = new MonkeyRecorder() {
        private final List<Event> events = new LinkedList<Event>();

        @Override
        public Event newEvent(Enum mkType, Enum eventType, String region, String id) {
            return new BasicRecorderEvent(mkType, eventType, region, id);
        }

        @Override
        public void recordEvent(Event evt) {
            events.add(evt);
        }

        @Override
        public List<Event> findEvents(Map<String, String> query, Date after) {
            return events;
        }

        @Override
        public List<Event> findEvents(Enum mkeyType, Map<String, String> query, Date after) {
            // used from BasicScheduler
            return events;
        }

        @Override
        public List<Event> findEvents(Enum mkeyType, Enum eventType, Map<String, String> query, Date after) {
            // used from ChaosMonkey
            List<Event> evts = new LinkedList<Event>();
            for (Event evt : events) {
                if (query.get("groupName").equals(evt.field("groupName")) && evt.monkeyType() == mkeyType
                        && evt.eventType() == eventType && evt.eventTime().after(after)) {
                    evts.add(evt);
                }
            }
            return evts;
        }
    };

    @Override
    public MonkeyRecorder recorder() {
        return recorder;
    }

    @Override
    public void reportEvent(Event evt) {
        eventReport.add(evt);
    }

    @Override
    public void resetEventReport() {
        eventReport.clear();
    }

    @Override
    public String getEventReport() {
        StringBuilder report = new StringBuilder();
        for (Event event : eventReport) {
            report.append(event.eventType());
            report.append(" ");
            report.append(event.id());
        }
        return report.toString();
    }
}

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Great Yarmouth Mercury > News > Health
Health trust chief steps down
Published: 11:43 AM May 6, 2009 Updated: 8:24 PM October 10, 2020
The chief executive of an East Anglian health authority with a history of trouble is to leave his role. Michael Stonard is to step down from his position at NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney to develop a new career, it was announced yesterday.
The chief executive of an East Anglian health authority with a history of trouble is to leave his role.
Michael Stonard is to step down from his position at NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney to develop a new career, it was announced yesterday. The 50-year-old said he was proud of his team's achievements and was looking forward to more flexible working arrangements.
The health trust has come under fire in recent months. In March it was reported that NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney had been ranked second worst of 148 in the country according to a performance league table and just a month prior to this the trust was told it needed a "radical transformation".
At the time Mr Stonard insisted that the trust had already instituted a robust review of management arrangements to address areas of weakness and said he was confident of an improvement in performance this year.
The trust has also come under fire for spending large amounts of money on outside consultants.
David Edwards, chairman of NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney, yesterday thanked Mr Stonard and wished him well for the future.
10 Londoners fined for travelling to stay at second home in Norfolk
The trust said that work would begin immediately to appoint a successor to Mr Stonard.


College Park, Md., native Frances Tiafoe won't legally be able to drink until next January. Fans of Roger Federer probably needed a stiff one as the teenager took him deep into a fifth set in their opening-round match at the U.S. Open Aug. 29.
The event was pure theater -- playing out on the grand Arthur Ashe Stadium court as fans lived and died on every shot before the sport's all-time greatest champion ultimately prevailed.


Murdoch Mysteries, based on the series of novels by Maureen Jennings, tells the story of turn-of-the-century police detective William Murdoch, as he investigates crimes using ground-breaking techniques, and meeting luminaries like H.G. Wells, Houdini and the Wright Brothers. Yannick Bisson (Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Flashpoint) stars as Detective Murdoch alongside Thomas Craig (Casualty, Where the Heart Is), Helene Joy (Heartland, The Outer Limits), Jonny Harris and Lachlan Murdoch (The Outer Limits).


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RJAH Vaccination Centre celebrate as 100,000 covid vaccinations delivered
The Covid Vaccination Centre at Oswestry's specialist orthopaedic hospital has reached a milestone achievement – as it administered its 100,000th covid vaccination.
In under 12 months since the first batch of vaccines arrived at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, 100,000 first and second doses of the vaccination have been given to residents across the county, with the over 40-year-olds and health and social care staff, now receiving their boosters.
Shropshire-based auctioneer and television presenter Christina Trevanion was at the RJAH Vaccination Centre on the day of the landmark vaccine.
Many will recognise Christina from popular BBC television programmes such as Bargain Hunt, Flog It!, and Antiques Road Trip.
She said: "As a place very close to my heart, it is a huge honour to have my vaccine at RJAH. To have my vaccine from Rebecca and her inspiring team who have worked incredibly hard under difficult circumstances is wonderful.
"Thank you to everyone for all they have done to care, protect and keep us safe – many congratulations on your achievement!"
Rebecca Warren, Clinical Lead Nurse for the RJAH Vaccination Centre, who has led the team since the vaccination centre opened in January this year, was also quick to express her pride at the achievement.
She said: "It's awesome that we've hit the 100,000 milestone – it's a monumental step towards protecting people against this virus.
"I'd like to thank the team and everyone that has worked to support the vaccination effort, they should all be enormously proud of themselves, and this milestone is a real testament to how hard they have worked over the past 11 months.
"I'd also like to thank everyone who has come forward to have their vaccine since the start of the year. It's been a fantastic effort from everyone involved."
More about the covid vaccination programme across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin can be found here: https://stwics.org.uk/our-priorities/covid-19-vaccination-programme.
Members of the RJAH Vaccination Team celebrating after reaching 100,000 covid vaccinations given to members of the public.
Local auctioneer and television personality Christina Trevanion with the RJAH Vaccination Centre Team.
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Picked up some Hordes minis cheap and thought this guy would make a fun monster for my players. Came out a bit glossier than I intended. Put on some matte sealer on after the gloss, but I think I oversealed it. The white markings are supposed to be tendons and ligaments. A friend pointed out that it looked like it had outgrown its shell, so I was trying to make it look like raw, exposed muscle. The bones are done with a simple bone color, followed by a wash, then highlighted and finally given an edge highlight. It doesn't show up so well here, but there's a fair amount of Blood For the Blood God slathered around on the red bits. The basing was done with oxid paste, painted and highlighted, and done up with a little static grass and some swamp tufts. Not sure what stats I'll give him, but it should be a fun fight.


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New York Times Best Seller of Childrens Middle Grade Hardcover
New York Times Best Seller of Childrens Middle Grade Hardcover includes Daughter Of The Deep (2021), The Christmas Pig (2021), The Beatryce Prophecy (2021), Final Season (2021) and other 119 books.
Daughter Of The Deep
by: Rick Riordan
No. 1 Best Seller on Sunday, January 16, 2022.
Ana Dakkar faces the weekend trials at the Harding-Pencroft Academy.
by: J. K. Rowling
No. 1 Best Seller on October 31, 2021.
When a young boy's favorite toy goes missing, it's Christmas Pig to the rescue!
The Beatryce Prophecy
by: Kate DiCamillo
release date: Sep 28, 2021
The prophecy of a girl who will unseat a king unfurls.
by: Tim Green
No. 1 Best Seller on October 3, 2021.
After his father is diagnosed with A.L.S., Benjamin Redd re-evaluates his football career.
by: edited Kwame Mbalia
No. 1 Best Seller on August 22, 2021.
Seventeen stories that celebrate the joys of Black boyhood.
The Official Harry Potter Baking Book
by: Joanna Farrow
No. 1 Best Seller on August 8, 2021.
Forty-three tasty recipes inspired by the Harry Potter films.
Ali Cross: Like Father, Like Son
by: James Patterson
release date: Jun 28, 2021
No. 1 Best Seller on July 18, 2021.
Ali investigates the shooting of new friend, Zoe.
by: Alan Gratz
No. 1 Best Seller on July 4, 2021.
Three children in three different conflicts look for safe haven.
Stamped (For Kids)
by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi and Sonja Cherry-Paul
No. 1 Best Seller on May 30, 2021.
An adaptation of "Stamped" for younger readers.
Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Boy
by: Emmanuel Acho
A dialogue about systemic racism.
by: Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz.
release date: Mar 02, 2021
No. 1 Best Seller on April 11, 2021.
A journey through the pubescent body.
Becoming: Adapted For Young Readers
by: Michelle Obama
No. 1 Best Seller on March 21, 2021.
A memoir of the former first lady.
Living The Confidence Code
by: Katty Kay, Claire Shipman and JillEllyn Riley
Thirty girls from around the world lead with hope and confidence.
No. 1 Best Seller on February 21, 2021.
Parallel storylines of Brandon and Reshmina take place on Sept. 11th, in 2001 and 2019.
The Ickabog
by: J.K. Rowling
No. 1 Best Seller on November 29, 2020.
A fearsome monster threatens the kingdom of Cornucopia.
A Tale Of Witchcraft...
by: Chris Colfer
In this sequel to "A Tale of Magic..." a mysterious new witch arrives at the academy with dark intentions.
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
by: Jeff Kinney
Roland and Garg the Barbarian embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock.
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
by: Vashti Harrison
The biographies of 40 African-American women who made a difference.
The One And Only Bob
by: Katherine Applegate.
In this sequel to "The One and Only Ivan," Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister.
The Wizenard Series: Season One
by: Wesley King. Created Kobe Bryant
Reggie must survive the extraordinary ordeals of practice.
Wings Of Fire: Legends: Dragonslayer
by: Tui T. Sutherland
Ivy, Leaf and Wren fight for the survival of the human race against dragons.
Legacy And The Queen
by: Annie Matthew Created Kobe Bryant
No. 1 Best Seller on March 1, 2020.
Legacy enters a tennis tournament in an attempt to save her father's orphanage.
Little Legends: Exceptional Men In Black History
by: Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson
Biographies of trailblazing black men.
Epoca: The Tree Of Ecrof
by: Ivy Claire Created Kobe Bryant
Pretia and Rovi are chosen to train at Ecrof Academy, the premiere training school for athletes.
Warriors: The Broken Code: The Silent Thaw
by: Erin Hunter
After losing a life, Bramblestar's spirit haunts StarClan and sparks suspicions about who may have broken the warrior code.
A Tale Of Magic...
A #1 New York Times bestseller An IndieBound bestseller A USA Today bestseller A Wall Street Journal bestseller This #1 New York Times bestseller is a new series starter set in the Land of Stories universe from Chris Colfer, perfect for new and old fans! When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility. But with the help of the mysterious Madame Weatherberry, Brystal is whisked away and enrolled in an academy of magic! Adventure comes with a price, however, and when Madame Weatherberry is called away to attend to an important problem she doesn't return. Do Brystal and her classmates have what it takes to stop a sinister plot that risks the fate of the world, and magic, forever? Fall in love with an all-new series from Chris Colfer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Land of Stories, filled with adventure, imagination, and wonderfully memorable characters both familiar and new.
Diary Of An Awesome Friendly Kid
Greg's best friend Rowley Jefferson writes his own diary.
Rumple Buttercup
by: Matthew Gray Gubler
A little monster, who dwells underground because he thinks that he's weird, finds that he's not alone.
The Wizenard: Training Camp
by: Wesley King Created Kobe Bryant
No. 1 Best Seller on April 7, 2019.
Professor Rolabi Wizenard, the new coach of the West Bottom Badgers, uses unorthodox methods to train his basketball players.
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs
by: America's Test Kitchen Kids
No. 1 Best Seller on December 23, 2018.
Over 100 kid-tested recipes from America's Test Kitchen.


Erin's Fund was established in 2002 for the purpose of helping young people find and obtain treatment for their drug and alcohol addictions. Erin Jessica Moreken was a resident of our area, graduate of Scranton High School, and student at Temple University, when she met a premature death at the age of twenty eight due to a drug overdose. The Tour de Scranton is being held in her memory, so that young people of our region may benefit from treatment and live their lives and their dreams by conquering their addictions through treatment.
This course has ~1800' of climbing in the 25 mi. to Forest City High School.
From Scranton HS to Forest City HS then around Elk Mt. and back to Scranton HS on back country roads. (approx. 65 mi. loop) This route is for serious cyclist.
This ride will have an addition 3100' of climbing in 40 mi. after leaving Forest City HS and before returning to Scranton HS. There will be many hills to climb on this route around Elk Mt., through Clifford, Greenfield Twp., and Scott Twp. The last rest stop will be at Lakeland HS before returning to Scranton HS. There will be 3 water stops between the ~29 mi. segment from Forest City HS to Lakeland HS.
Registration is available up until 10am the day of event. Bike/Walk registration starts at 9:00 AM at Scranton High School and start time for all Bike routes is 10:00 AM. Walk starts at 10:00 AM following the Bike start. On line registration is available for Walkers and Bikers on the following link below. Registration rates increase after April 24th midnight.
*All Participants of the Tour de Scranton must follow the "Rules of the Road" and All Traffic Laws.


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Chongqing Pudisi Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd.
5. Do you offer guarantee for products9 A: Yes, the warranty is varies depending on model. 7.How to proceed an order9 A: Firstly let us know your requirements or application. Thirdly customer confirms the samples and places deposit for formal order.
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Shenzhen Zpower Lighting Technology Co., Ltd.
, Ltd is one of professional leading led manufacture in China since 2003, have been specialized in led downlight market for 12 years . Q1: What are your market reach throughout the region9 A1: Our markets around the world in every corner, we have eight years of experience in foreign trade. Q6: What type customer is your client9 A6: Hotel projects, wholesaler, export company, supermarket, retail chains On-line shop, also personal home use.
Shenzhen Rise Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
For dedication ourselves to society, we never stop our step to pursue products innovation. 5.How to get a sample9 Based on the value of our products, we do not supply free sample. If you need a sample for testing first, please kindly contact our sales for more details.
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Guangzhou Kindom Opto-Electronic Co., Ltd.
Application Mainly using for outdoor lighting or decoration. 5,Good After-Sale Service,once there is a quality problem,compensate a new one for you after providing relevant information. Pls provide us the pictures or vedios if there is any quality problem during this period.
Minhou AVT Trading Co., Ltd.
Luminans (Shenzhen) Lighting Co., Ltd.
Recessed 26mm height outside led wall light Item No. JP-9021 Color Texture white,Texture black Input voltage 220-240V IP rating IP54 Light output 250lm Color temperature 2700K Color rendering Ra>85 MacAdam <3 SDCM Beam angle Asymmetrical Material Aluminum Cutout 67mm or 73mm Related Products Packaging & Shipping MOQ 1pcs Port Yantian Payment item T/T, Paypal, L/C at signt - 180 days, OA/DP 30-180days. Packing details 40pcs/ctn Supply ability 30000 packs per month Shipping item DHL,UPS,FEDEX,TNT,EMS and by sea , by air etc.
Shenzhen Jetsen Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
We now have more than 300 kinds of new commercial lighting fixtures. Q5. :Is your company a Manufacturer or trading company 9 A. : We are a 100% Manufacturer which producing LED commercial lighting fixtures.
Shenzhen Hongda United Technology Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Kai Fan Lighting Co., Ltd.
2. Good service 1)Your inquiry related to our products or prices will be replied in 24hours. 3)Distributer ship are offered for your unique design and some our current models. 4)Protection of your sales area, ideas of design and all your private information.
Zhongshan Hopesealed Lighting Appliance Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Simu Technology Co., Ltd.
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