We were called for a Flying Squirrel Removal in Woodbury, GA. Upon arrival at the home we noted that the home was a log cabin. This is a favorite home construction for flying squirrels. During our inspection we located numerous entry points. The most common entry point for flying squirrels is thru the construction gap. This is the area where the roof decking meets the fascia board. This area is commonly covered by gutters and gutter guards. However many gutter installers are not as focused on keeping animals out as they are on keeping leaves out. Example number one is where the gutter meets at a ninety degree. See below.
The second most common area we find flying squirrels entering attics is the plastic continuous ventilated ridge. Many Roofing contractors improperly install this type of ridge vent. In the picture below you will see that the installer did not rotate the piece of ridge vent after cutting the end to length. This leaves a prime entry point at the peak of the roof where Flying Squirrels like to enter. In the picture below you will see that the end of the ridge vent is wide open to any rodents and squirrels and bats. The common repair for this issue is to tear off the bad area and reinstall the ridge vent properly and re install the shingle overs. However this process has recently been replaced by a product called Ridge-Guard. This allows the plastic continuous ridge vent to remain in place and this product seals the weak areas from gnawing animals. See below for this opening.
Flying Squirrel Entry under the Ridge vent due to improper install.
The third most common area that allows Flying Squirrels to enter your home is when gutter guards are not install tight to the roof. As demonstrated below you will see that this area allows Flying squirrels to enter the gutter system and into the constructions gap. We normally remove the gutter guards and seal the construction gap with an exclusion material to prevent entry into the construction gap. We also repair the open gutter guards to prevent leaves from entering the gutter in these openings. See the opening below.
Below is the prime example of Flying Squirrel exiting from under the gutter guards while exiting the attic to go foraging.
Flying Squirrel Exiting from under the Gutter Guards.
If your having issues with Flying Squirrels at your home my hopes is the above information will assist you in making the decision on the needed repairs. If you would like to speak to us about setting up an inspection to remove your flying squirrels from you home see more information at www.ecowildlifesolutions.com. Call (678)340-3269 to schedule an appointment.
We were called out to resolve some beaver dam issues in Harrisonville, GA . We found a thriving family of beavers that had built three dams blocking the spillway, and two emergency run around. The beavers has raised the level of the lake by 3 feet above normal levels. After removal of the beavers we began the process of removing the dams in a controlled manner to prevent downstream flooding. This video is the beginning of this process of beaver dam removal to resolve the lake levels. You will see that we don't cause a mass failure of the dam in the videos. This would cause flash flooding down stream. Instead we utilize a controlled release of the backed up water to prevent down stream issues. If you are having issues with Beavers and would like to discuss Beaver Dam Removal at your property. Call (678)340-3269 to schedule an appointment.
Raccoon removal in Turin, Ga after the Silver Queen corn patch was raided.
We were called in to remove a raccoon after the Silver Queen Corn field was raided for the last two nights. We were able to remove the first raccoon with a belly full of fresh corn. Our customer stated that he had lost the entire crop of corn. If your crop is almost ready to harvest and the Raccoons have found your crop give us a call at 678-340-3269 or see more at www.ecowildlifesolutions.com.
Flying Squirrel Foot Prints in Dust .
We were called in for a Wildlife Inspection on a home in Newnan, GA. The Homeowner had a inclination that he had flying squirrels after being to by his Pest Control Company. The homeowner did state his activity was heard after dark and ceased during the day. After further inspection of the property we located trails on the HVAC duct work and toilet areas around the attic.
We located a cavity gnawed in the Icynene Insulation and filled with nesting materials. Fortunately the nest did not have any babies as of yet.
At this point we moved our inspection to the exterior of the home to locate the entry point into the home. We initially thought that the Flyers were entering thru a vent dampener. Upon further investigation we found that the Flyers entered by gnawing thru the gutter guard system allowing access into the gutters leading to a construction gap allowing entry into the soffit box.
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A continuation in our series on Snake Identification of the Snakes of the Southeastern United States. We are providing this series to assist our customers with the ability and tools to assist them in identifying the native snakes of our area.
Description: The eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) is a massive, black snake. It is the longest snake native to the United States, ranging in size from 60-84 inches (152-213 cm), and is entirely shiny bluish-black color, including the belly. The chin and sides of the head are usually colored reddish or orange-brown. Juvenile indigo snakes look very similar to adults but have much more red on their heads. Indigo snakes are sexually dimorphic, with males growing to larger lengths than females.
Range and Habitat: Eastern indigo snakes are restricted to Florida and southern areas of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Although reported historically from extreme southern South Carolina, indigo snakes have not been confirmed in the state in recent years and the early records are questionable. The closely-related Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon corais) is found in southern Texas and other subspecies range into Central and South America. Until relatively recently, all indigo snakes in the U.S. were considered to be the same species, D. corais.
In the Southeast, indigo snakes are restricted to areas of xeric pine-oak sandhills, which are usually inhabited by gopher tortoises. These snakes use gopher tortoise burrows as shelter during the winter and during the warmer months for nesting and refuge from intense summer heat. During the active season indigo snakes may move long distances and often forage along wetland margins.
Habits: Indigo snakes are active strictly by day. During the summer they prefer wetland edges where prey is abundant but move to drier habitats in the winter. Indigo snakes breed in the winter and are more active in cold weather than most other snakes. When cornered, they may flatten their heads, hiss and vibrate their tails, which produces a rattling sound. Despite these intimidating acts, the indigo snake rarely bites. Indigo snakes regularly feed on mammals, birds, frogs and other snakes, including rattlesnakes and cottonmouths. Also, these snakes will occasionally feed on young gopher tortoises.
Conservation Status: The eastern indigo snake is currently listed as a federally threatened species in Georgia and Florida, due primarily to habitat loss. This species is protected throughout its range.
Stevenson, Dirk J., Karen J. Dyer, and Beth A. Willis-Stevenson. 2003. Survey and Monitoring of the Eastern Indigo Snake in Georgia. Southeastern Naturalist 2(3):393-408.
Bat Removal from home in West Point, GA.
This is Guano on one of the Decorative Keystone Lintels.
We received a call from a customer in West Point, GA for Bat Removal. It seems that the contractor had a signature upgrade to his homes to jazz up his homes. This feature is the downfall of the design on these home. This builder added a decorative molded keystone and lintel above each window and door. Now all good intentions crumble with poor follow thru. The contractor installed these features with 18 gauge pin nails which led to them falling away from the homes allowing bats to enter behind the voids.
Bat Guano behind decorative feature.
We also found the bats utilizing another cavity created by the contractors of this home. When this home was built the trim crew completed the home and the rock mason came second. The freeze board in this home does not have rock completely behind it. This defect allows the bats to sneak behind this area and utilize this void.
Here the freeze board does not cover the rocks completely.
Bats are very opportunistic with their roosting areas here we removed a bat from each open area due to the rocks being square and the freeze board running at an angle. You can see the sebum on the freeze board from the bats rubbing as they entered the voids.
We offer trapping to catch or remove ALL Nuisance Wildlife.
We were called out to a Yellow Jacket Removal from a home in Moreland, GA today. We were task with extracting the yellow jackets from a bay window before a child's birthday party. We were able to locate the nest and extract the nest whole chemical free and save the day.
This is the protective layer around a yellow jackets nest.
Yellow Jackets are very aggressive species of wasp that normally are ground dwellers building a paper nest underground, however if given the opportunity and suitable cavity inside a structure that is both protected from temperature and weather they will occupy any cavity. This nest was extracted chemical free from a bay window here in Moreland under a window seat. The yellow jackets found an entry point thru the vinyl siding and into the wall void.
This is a good example of how Yellow Jackets comb are layered when built.
If your having issues with any stinging insects remember we at Eco Wildlife Solutions, LLC remove all stinging insects chemical free. We can remove the target insect and all evidence of their homes from your structure.
Brood Comb from a Yellow Jacket Nest.


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Are unsustainable agriculture practices contributing to ALS and Alzheimer's?
I've always been told that no one knows what potential causes exist for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease) or Alzheimer's disease (with the exception of a relatively rare genetic form of ALS). So the idea that there is at least a plausible hypothesis as to what may be behind these terrible diseases caught my interest when I watched Dr. Michael Greger's excellent review of the issue in these two videos:
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/als-lou-gehrigs-disease-fishing-for-answers/
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als/
He does an excellent job telling the story of how the research has progressed and the evidence started coming together, and reviews quite a few more articles than I do here. But I wanted to produce a short written summary for those who don't like videos, and to highlight where I think the data is relatively strong and weak.
Since my professional research focuses primarily on sustainable agriculture, my mother died from ALS, and my grandfather died from Alzheimer's, I have a strong interest in how these topics might intersect. That also means I likely lack the objectivity needed to review this from a completely neutral perspective, but I think the data paint a compelling picture that merits further study.
The basic hypothesis here is that BMAA (β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, a toxin created by cyanobacteria, AKA blue-green algae) forms when algae thrive (often due to excessive nutrient runoff from agriculture), accumulates in seafood, and can cause neurological damage including ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and similar symptoms. Note that concern over microcystin, which is another toxin produced by cyanobacteria, led to the residents of Toledo being unable to drink their tap water for 48 hours in August of 2014.
Let's take a look at each of the steps in that theory.
Cyanobacteria in Lake Littoistenjärvi, Flickr user Stefe
First, there is strong evidence that consumption of high levels of BMAA is associated with ALS / Alzheimer's. The classic case is in Guam, where incidence of ALS, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's (referred to collectively as ALS-parkinsonism-dementia complex or ALS-PDC) was abnormally high among the Chamarro people there. These people eat flying foxes (a kind of bat), which in turn eat cycad seeds which are high in BMAA, and the BMAA accumulates in flying fox flesh at levels around 3,500 ug of BMAA per g of flesh (Cox et al. 2003). When you feed BMAA to macaques, they develop similar symptoms (Spencer et al. 1987), and BMAA was detected in brains of people in who died from ALS / Alzheimer's but not in brains of people who died of other causes (Cox et al. 2003, Pablo et al. 2009).
In addition to directly showing high levels of BMAA in the diet and presence of BMAA in brain tissue of symptomatic patients, there is some additional weaker correlative evidence. Torbick et al. 2014 found a correlation between hotspots of ALS and proximity to lakes with high nitrogen and turbidity. This may sound like a stretch, but there is solid evidence showing how nutrient and sediment runoff from agriculture leads to eutrophication and algal blooms in lakes and streams (in addition to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico), and since BMAA is produced by blue-green algae this is at least interesting data. Another very small study (Field et al. 2013) looked at three patients who lived on the same short street and all developed ALS (raising the possibility of an environmental trigger given the rarity of ALS). In looking for common factors, they found that all three patients consumed Chesapeake blue crab on a weekly basis, and they verified that these blue crabs had BMAA. However, the levels found (0-115 ug/g in the claws) were significantly lower than in the flying foxes, and some of the BMAA leaches into cooking water meaning the absorbed dose should be lower unless the broth is consumed.
This raises the question of how common seafood with potentially dangerous levels of BMAA is, and the evidence is mixed. On the one hand, Brand et al. 2010 measured BMAA concentrations in several types of seafood in S Florida and found high levels (up to 7,351 ug/g) in some samples of some species (with other samples having lower values or none). They found the highest levels in blue crab, pink shrimp, and one sample of pufferfish), and indeed those levels were higher than that of the flying foxes in Guam. On the other hand, Jiang et al. found BMAA at levels less than 1 ug/g in locally-caught Swedish seafood (although they did find detectable levels in about half of tested samples), and review the results and methods of a few other studies where BMAA levels were much lower than those found by Brand et al. This is an area where we really need more research; both measuring levels of BMAA in seafood, and determining how those concentrations relate to an increased risk of disease.
Finally we have the question of to what degree algal blooms are really associated with BMAA. Scott et al. (2014) found that 70% of the cyanobacteria blooms they sampled had BMAA (compared to 50% with microcystin). Apparently BMAA is produced more under low-nitrogen conditions, while microcystin is produced more under high-N conditions, but interestingly large algal blooms allow both to form simultaneously due to nutrient gradients within the bloom. Again we need more study to determine what drives BMAA production in the first place, and what nutrient levels we should aspire to achieve.
This leads to an alarming possibility: in addition to the potential risk from seafood, the fact that drinking water is generally not tested for BMAA and BMAA can occur even when microcystin levels (which are tested more frequently) are low means we could be missing a risk factor for some serious diseases.
So what are the implications of all this? First, there is enough evidence to raise concerns that consumption of BMAA could be a contributing factor to developing ALS and Alzheimer's disease. Second, while the wide variation in measured levels of BMAA in seafood means more study is needed, the fact that Brand et al. found some levels comparable to the infamous flying foxes in Guam should be motivation to look seriously at this. Third, since eutrophic waters are associated with BMAA production (and thus perhaps with ALS as indicated in the Torbick study), this is one more reason to work on improving agricultural practices to reduce nutrient and sediment runoff.
There are many promising possibilities to reduce nutrient runoff (precision agriculture, riparian buffers and wetlands, changes in cropping systems, changes in irrigation and drainage, and more) and the research is clear that we need different approaches in different contexts. If evidence continues to grow about the link between the way we grow our food and the incidence of ALS and Alzheimer's disease, so will our motivation to take swift and effective action to solve our nutrient runoff problem. Hopefully farmers, conservationists, and health professionals can come together to make that happen.
UPDATE: A more recent paper (Chernoff et al. 2017) has come out which concluded that there was NOT good evidence that BMAA leads to neurological diseases in humans. See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10937404.2017.1297592 for more detail
Brand, L. E., Pablo, J., Compton, A., Hammerschlag, N., & Mash, D. C. (2010). Cyanobacterial blooms and the occurrence of the neurotoxin, beta-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), in South Florida aquatic food webs. Harmful Algae, 9(6), 620–635. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2010.05.002
Chernoff, N., Hill, D. J., Diggs, D. L., Faison, B. D., Francis, B. M., Lang, J. R., ... & Schmid, J. E. (2017). A critical review of the postulated role of the non-essential amino acid, β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, in neurodegenerative disease in humans. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 20(4), 183-229.
Cox, P. A., Banack, S. A., & Murch, S. J. (2003). Biomagnification of cyanobacterial neurotoxins and neurodegenerative disease among the Chamorro people of Guam. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100(23), 13380–13383. doi:10.1073/pnas.2235808100
Pablo, J., Banack, S. A., Cox, P. A., Johnson, T. E., Papapetropoulos, S., Bradley, W. G., … Mash, D. C. (2009). Cyanobacterial neurotoxin BMAA in ALS and Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 120(4), 216–25. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0404.2008.01150.x
Scott, L. L., Downing, S., Phelan, R. R., & Downing, T. G. (2014). Environmental modulation of microcystin and β-N-methylamino-l-alanine as a function of nitrogen availability. Toxicon, 87, 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2014.05.001
Spencer, P., Nunn, P., Hugon, J., Ludolph, A., Ross, S., Roy, D., & Robertson, R. (1987). Guam amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia linked to a plant excitant neurotoxin. Science, 237(4814), 517–522. doi:10.1126/science.3603037
Torbick, N., Hession, S., Stommel, E., & Caller, T. (2014). Mapping amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lake risk factors across northern New England Mapping amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lake risk factors across northern New England.
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True Hope and a Future: God Blessed My Socks Off!
"Bless your socks off" - to receive blessings from God in such a quantity and with such force as to cause the coverings to fly off one's feet.
OK, this definition did not come from Websters; I made it up. But it's the best way I can describe my experience this weekend - God blessed my socks off!
Moses, get ready. God's going to bless your socks off!
God blessed my socks off! Perhaps part of the blessing was that I didn't see it coming. We organized a retreat for our small group leaders, and one of the women knew someone with a cottage on a lake who would allow us to use it for the weekend. Just having a place where we could hold this retreat was a blessing. The place God provided for us was AMAZING!
The cottage was not a cottage at all (perhaps, in my limited mental capacity, that term was all I could comprehend). It definitely wasn't something you would ever find in The Parade of Homes. Nope. The Lodge, as it is called, would be better suited on "The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." Except you would never see it there because the owners just aren't that kind of people. I don't even know who they are.
I'm sure our eyes grew bigger as we approached the Lodge. Because the caretaker met us there, we showed as much decorum as we could muster up. But once he finished our tour and left, we could no longer contain ourselves and started jumping up and down and screaming. Literally. Not something I normally do, but then nothing about this experience was normal.
I knew the Lodge had twelve bedrooms, but my mind couldn't fathom the SIZE of this place, and my words cannot describe it. I wonder if John felt this way as he was writing down his vision of Heaven in the book of Revelation?
I was one up on John - I had a camera. I will admit, I took a picture of every room. I thought the pictures would express what my words couldn't. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? If that is true, I needed it to be worth a million. As soon as I got home I loaded the pictures on the computer to show my husband and realized how far they fell short of the reality of this place. So even if John had illustrated the book of Revelation, we still would have only a sliver of the reality of what Heaven is.
I wonder how often I do that - settle for vanilla when God wants to give me a smorgasbord of the best? Scripture says in Ephesians 3:20 that God "is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine." After this weekend, I have a better understanding of what that means. It wasn't just the house (or the icecream), it was that God was there. He was lavishing His love on us. He was speaking to us. We were listening and we were blessed.
I could have never imagined a person like me staying in a place like this. In a way that is only possible in God's kingdom, this experience reminded me of my time in Africa. The houses were different - a mansion vs. dirt floors and mud walls, but the hearts were the same. In both places I was offered the use of everything they had.
okay, so I just found your blog through pinterest and the link for the microwave bowl pot holders (which by the way, I think will save me much aggravation since I make these by the dozens this time of year). The Lord may have blessed your socks off in 2009 when you wrote this post, but, he just blessed my socks off when I wound up on your blog. Merry Christmas in the truest sense of the Word.


If you have never written a term paper before, if you are pressed for time, or if you struggle with term papers, you can be scared and frustrated when an assignment is given. You can expect that you will be assigned these essays during high school and during college in all subjects. In college, it is assumed that you know what to do and how to do it.There are five tricks, which you can use and should keep in mind when you are writing a term paper for any class.
Know the format-there are at least half a dozen formats for structuring essays. The most used are the APA, MLA, and Harvard. You do not need to memorize the rules that would be impossible. What you should do right now, before you are even assigned a single composition or project, is to ether buy the handbooks on the rules or bookmark the sites for the rules on your computer. Do it now, so when you need it, you are ready.
Work Backwards-I know it sounds weird, but as you organize your schedule for completing a term paper, work from the due date backwards to the current moment. Leave at least two days of a buffer on the end to handle any issues. Schedule every single due date, all your interviews, your trips to research, and your writing time. If you map out a plan at the beginning, you will stay more organized as you work through the process.
The Outline-the outline is one of the most important pre-writing tools you can use. The more detailed that the outline is, the less time it will take for you to write. In addition, you will have fewer errors and be more likely to stay on track. There are two basic outlines, the topic and the sentence. In the topic outline you only use phrases and are not allowed sentences expect for in quotes and the thesis statement. In the sentence outline, you can have as many sentences as you wish.
Seek help-if at any point you need help, then go get that help. You can get free help from your instructor, a peer, or the writing lab. Or you can pay for help via a tutor or a writing company. There is no shame in seeking help; the shame is in not seeking help when you know that you need it. So, regardless of your budget, you can easily find help on campus when you struggle with essays. Better buy papers online and relax for a while.
Plagiarizing-it may be tempting to use another student's work or to submit an essay you have located online, but never do this. As a writer and a teacher, I can tell you that every single teacher and writer has several plagiarism checking apps to use. It is easy to check and see if your work has been submitted anywhere else. The easy out in this case is not the route that you want to travel. Never plagiarize a term paper.
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Enjoy all the fun in different, vibrant maps & gamemodes! Click on any map to see it more clearly.
All weapons are controlled uniquely and have their own special ability. As of now, the Oasis© CloneControl technology supports 4 weapons. The more you play, the higher the chance for us to add crazier weapons!
Equip a huge, heavy hitting hammer & slam it down on your enemies!
Special attack: stun enemies around you & make them move slower, dissipates over time.
Fully control your weapon swing & create momentum to injure the other clones.
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Ranking: The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park From Worst to Best
Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Man ranks dinosaurs...
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Welcome to Jurassic Week! In anticipation of Jurassic World, Consequence of Sound will publish a related feature each day leading up to the blockbuster sequel's Friday release. Today, we start with our official ranking of every dinosaur to have ever appeared in the Jurassic Park series, from the mighty T-Rex all the way down to the irascible compys.
"Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's the running and, um, the screaming," Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) warns early on in 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park. It's a quasi-meta moment, considering that the audience is just as aware of the dangers ahead as the snarky chaos scientist. However, one can't also help but stand in awe at the cloned creatures walking amiably in the forest. After all, that's what makes the Jurassic Park series so damn lucrative: the dinosaurs.
Boy, there have been plenty over the years! Thanks to those tireless amber miners and InGen's top scientists — ahem, the late Stan Winston — we've been able to enjoy a plethora of prehistoric wonder on the big screen. Think back to the time you first saw the peaceful Brachiosaurus munching on leaves, or when you cowered in your seat as the Velociraptors prowled for chow in the Visitor's Center. These are popcorn classic moments and there's simply no disputing that these are the real stars.
This Friday, InGen's dino glossary will expand with Jurassic World. Already, we've seen glimpses of the aquatic Mosasaurus, the genetically mutated Indominus Rex, among many others. Those won't be ranked in the pages ahead, however, simply because we've yet to see them fully in action. Instead, we focused on the dinosaurs that appeared in Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Jurassic Park III — an eight-year voyage from Isla Nublar to Isla Sorna. Agree, disagree, up to you.
Just remember to hold onto your butts and say the magic word. No promises!
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Q: Reading/Writing files to HDFS from Windwos server I want to write files to HDFS from windows server. Hadoop cluster is on Linux.
I tried researching everywhere I got a java code that can be run using "hadoop jar"
Can somebody help me to understand how can I run HDFS file write java code from windows? What is required on Windows box? Even a proper link will do.

A: You need only to code a simple java program and run it like a normal .jar file.
In the project you need to import the hadoop library.
This is a working example maven project (I tested it on my cluster):
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

public class WriteFileToHdfs {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {

        String dataNameLocation = "hdfs://[your-namenode-ip]:[the-port-where-hadoop-is-listening]/";

        Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
        FileSystem hdfs = FileSystem.get( new URI( dataNameLocation ), configuration );
        Path file = new Path(dataNameLocation+"/myFile.txt");

        FSDataOutputStream out = hdfs.create(file);
        out.writeUTF("Some text ...");
        out.close();

        hdfs.close();

    }

}

Remember to put the dependencies to your pom.xml and the instruction to build the manifest file for the main class:
<properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
        <mainClass>your.cool.package.WriteFileToHdfs</mainClass>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
            <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
            <version>2.6.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>install</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                        <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                        <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
                        <mainClass>${mainClass}</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </build>

Just lunch the program with the command:

java -jar nameOfTheJarFile.jar

Of course you need to edit the code with your package name and namenode ip address.

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This case has a bit of history. Artist Frederick Bouchat had previously won a copyright infringement lawsuit against the NFL, alleging that the Baltimore Ravens had used part of his drawing without permission. Although he won the fight, he lost on the damages argument (the jury awarded no damages to Bouchat, finding that no part of the NFL 's profits were attributable to the infringement. The Ravens stopped using the infringing logo in 1998.).
Fast forward to a football video game, created by EA Sports, which featured "throwback" uniforms of football teams. You guessed it. The video game allowed players to pick the Baltimore Ravens uniform from 1996, complete with the infringing Flying B logo.
Outcome? A federal district court in Maryland determined that EA Sports' use of Bouchat's Baltimore Ravens' logo in its "Madden NFL" game was not a fair use. It remains to be seen whether Bouchat will be awarded monetary damages for this infringement.
Via JD Supra. The article briefly discusses the four fair use factors.
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tBDMS group (tert-butyldimethylsilyl group): A group consisting of a tert-butyl group and two methyl groups bonded to a silicon atom. Commonly used as a silyl ether protecting group for alcohols.
Benzyl tert-butyldimethylsilyl ether. The tBDMS group is shown in red.


While some patients might enjoy going to the dentist, that is not the case for most.
And some won't step through the doors without sedation dentistry.
Sedation is a medical way of relaxing a patient. Dr. Arnold uses Oral Conscious Sedation. This is a fairly deep level of sedation. You are so profoundly relaxed and comfortable that your memory of the appointment is likely to be spotty. Many patients don't remember the appointment at all.
Oral conscious sedation involves taking a pill about an hour before your appointment, which sedates you for several hours. During the appointment, your vital functions are monitored and your dental work is completed while you are in a dreamy, relaxed state. The sedative effects will wear off only gradually, so you will need to have someone drive you home afterward.
Patients who haven't been to the dentist in a long time often find that they need a little extra work done to repair the damage of years without dental care. Sedation is especially useful in those cases. Because of the relaxed state you're in, you can have more work done in one sitting. Without it, many patients find it difficult to sit that long with their mouth open.
Often people who haven't been to the dentist in a while fear they'll be judged by the dentist and staff. We can assure you that is not the case at Arnold Dental. We will not judge or lecture you but will treat you like family. We realize that it is quite normal for people with dental anxiety to avoid visiting the dentist. We'll be glad you decided to come and our total attitude is wanting to help you any way we can.
Yes, sedation dentistry has a long track record of safety. It is called conscious sedation because you aren't unconscious. Your vital functions continue normally, and your reflexes, such as coughing to clear your airway, are fully functional. It may also reassure you to know that Dr. Arnold did a General Practice Residency in anesthesia, so he has more training than most when it comes to sedation. You'll be in good hands.
If you're ready to try sedation dentistry, you may call our office to schedule an appointment. Or if you prefer, you may click here to request an appointment online.


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Cardno is an ASX listed international business that works to improve physical and social infrastructure for global communities. For 70 years, Cardno has been a world leader in the provision of professional services to improve the physical and social environment.
AI Assets provided services to Cardno for the past 10 years, since Cardno won an important project for the RTA in NSW.
"When we first tendered for the RTA work, AI Assets had its first version of the software on the market," said David Taylor, Business Unit Manager in Building Services at Cardno. "It was a bit primitive however it was exceptionally good and helped us win the initial tender."
As AI Assets founder and CEO Wayne Herbert kept developing the software, it gave Cardno an advantage in tendering and the company were able to pick up projects with little fuss.
Easy data collection
"Our clients love the format, the way the data is represented and the ease of data collection," David said.
"Another advantage is the way software ties in photos so that a full photographic record for all spaces and defects can be identified during the ssessment process and provided as part of the reporting. This and the mobility of the software are all things our clients like. It is far more efficient than Excel spreadsheets."
$1.5m in new business achieved
David explained that using AI Assets, Cardno were able to win major clients including Serco – a major facility management service group that specialises in health, immigration, justice and correctional services under contract from the Australian Federal Government.
"By using AI Assets software, we won major clients including Serco Group, which was for a $600,000 project to carry out condition audits and asset registers on 29 immigration facilities around Australia, including Christmas Island," David said.
Another major project won using AI Assets was the $900,000 asset register and condition audit of 451 facilities around state campuses for the University of West Australia.
Easy to use and flexible
"Using AI Assets, we have won new clients, been able to set up rooms and easy systems for parent reporting and export data quite easily into existing databases. It is a very flexible technology," David said.
Business Unit Manager, Building Services
Cardno www.cardno.com
In just half an hour we can show you how AI Assets is the world's quickest asset data capture system.
Just shoot us some details and we'll send through a calendar invite.


Grounding is when you create a stable connection with the Earth. It's your personal connection to the planet we live on. It's a connection to her rhythms, and her energy. Properly grounding yourself allows you to recharge and access the energy necessary to implement your intentions on the material plane.
When you lose grounding, you seem to "fall out" of reality, immersed in a world of fantasy and airlocks, lose clarity of thinking and focus. But, more importantly, you lose the ability to manifest in reality what you want. The energy of your ideas and thoughts accumulates around your head but never seem ground, in order to anchor into the earth and be realized in a three-dimensional physical reality. At times like this, you are like an inverted pyramid, unstable balancing on its edge.
If you feel like you have millions of plans but minimal results then you should consider including grounding techniques into your everyday life.
In this article, I want to share with you eleven very simple yet effective grounding techniques that will help you to reconnect to Mother Earth and realize your inner potential in 3D reality on the highest level.
Why Do We Need Grounding?
A grounded person is always in contact with his center, in balance with himself and with his body. He stands firmly on his feet. The one who knows how to successfully ground himself will no only be able to obtain a large portion of joy, and various intangible benefits, but he will also be able to obtain financial, health success more easily.
If you don't ground yourself daily you lose a lot. But don't get upset – you can always catch up. You just need to know that grounding techniques should be done every day. And it is especially important to practice grounding daily in cases where unforeseen circumstances arise and you begin to feel the lack of harmony in the body.
Any physical exercise activates your physical body. At that moment, the mental energy gathered around your head descends lower and spreads throughout your body.
One of the easiest grounding techniques is getting a massage or at least patting yourself. If you can't book a massage session right at the moment you can pat every part of your body with an open hand. Thus, you "turn on" the body and accelerate the energy blocked in it.
When you lose grounding, your ethereal field extends far beyond the physical body. That's why you feel like you're losing touch with reality. Taking a bath with sea salt narrows the boundaries of your ethereal field, returning you, literally, to your physical body.
Note: This method is highly recommended after any energetic and meditative practices.
Everything that grows in the ground has a stable natural connection with the earth, so, helps you to be grounded. Therefore, eating root crops will help you to stay grounded. For this purpose, it's good to eat potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, etc.
"Losing ground" is the result of your Muladhara and Svadhisthana chakras being imbalanced. Including red and orange fruit and vegetables in your meal will help you to balance these chakras and feel more grounded.
Drinking water helps to conduct energy in your body. Moreover, it cleanses your body of toxins and harmful substances.
There are different ways to interact with Earth. It can be gardening, making crafts of clay, barefoot walks on the ground or sand, etc. Choose whatever you like and do it! And do not forget about conscious walks when you switch your mind from everyday thoughts and direct your attention to the ground under your feet, to its roughness, pits, puddles, etc.
A nice walk in the park, forest or beach calms you down, slows you down and energizes you. You can choose any outside area near your home or office and make it the sacred place that you can use anytime for harmonizing and balancing yourself.
If all of the above methods of grounding are not available to you due to certain circumstances (for example, you are at work or in transport), try to do this simple grounding technique.
Take a vertical position. Make sure that you stand firmly on both feet, imagine that from your feet down into the ground grow powerful brown roots, penetrating deeper and deeper. Imagine that you are a tree with thick branches, stretching up to the sky, and with strong roots reaching to the ground. You are not afraid of hurricanes and storms, because your roots penetrate deep into the soil.
You pass through a stream of cosmic energy that passes through your body and flows down the roots into the earth.
Imagine that from your Muladhara chakra (if you're a man) and from your Svadhisthana chakra (if you're a woman) an energy cord going down into the center of the planet. This cord connects you with the Earth's core.
The more you visualize this cord, the more energy you direct downwards, the stronger and thicker this cord becomes, the stronger your connection with Earth becomes.
It is believed that the Prithvi mudra is capable of increasing the earth element within the individual, which strengthens and heals the physical body.
If you feel deterioration of the psychophysical state of the body, the state of mental weakness, stress, this mudra will help you to heal and find the balance.
The fulfillment of this mudra improves the objective assessment of self, self-confidence, and also provides protection from negative external energy influences.
For performing this mudra connect your ring finger and thumb to the tips, with slight pressure. The remaining fingers straightened.
Since the Earth is a living organism, ready at any time to support you, to guide you in the right direction and to envelop with love, do not forget to "acknowledge" it and give your love and gratitude. Thank Earth for its generosity and unconditional love for all its creations in general and personally for you!


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Budget Director (PDF) July 1, 2022 to January 12, 2024
TPD Computer Systems Administrator (PDF) July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023
Assistant Director of Human Resources (PDF) July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Human Resources Benefits Specialist (PDF) May 24, 2021 to June 30, 2024
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Human Resources Benefits Clerk (PDF) September 7, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Human Resources Director (PDF) July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025
Executive Director MOECD (PDF) April 06, 2020 to March 17, 2023
Chief of Staff (PDF) September 19, 2022 to January 1, 2024
Treasurer / Collector (PDF) February 14, 2022 to June 30, 2023
Confidential Administrative Assistant (PDF) November 28, 2022 to February 28, 2023
Commissioner of Public Works (PDF) August 06, 2019 to June 30, 2024
Assistant Commissioner of Public Works (PDF) January 17, 2022 to June 30, 2025
Confidential Legal Secretary / Administrative Assistant (PDF) November 8, 2020 to June 30, 2023
Confidential Legal Secretary / Administrative Assistant (PDF) July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023
Commissioner / Director of Parks, Cemeteries and Public Grounds (PDF) July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023
Water Department Supervisor (PDF) February 12, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Director of Elections (PDF) April 20, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Chief Financial Officer (PDF) December 22, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Auditor (PDF) January 14, 2023 to January 14, 2026
COVID Coordinator (PDF) April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024
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Q: Placeholder in javascript with val() I can not understand Javascript language properly, I am trying to write inside placeholder but it is not working, here is my code
<!doctype html>

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>val demo</title>

<input id="myInputText" type="text" name="post_title" size="79" placeholder="Enter title here" />

Snippet Preview:

<input name="textfield2" type="text" id="myOutputText2" size="79" />

It is work perfectly but I want this in to placeholder mode.
Please help me.

A: To change an attribute, use attr() like
$('#myOutputText2').attr('placeholder',$(this).val());

Update
Since placeholder is a native HTML DOM property of input elements, it is better to use prop()
$('#myOutputText2').prop('placeholder',$(this).val());

For further reading, see .prop() vs .attr()


Roy Wheeler Realty Co. Newsletter - Roy Wheeler Realty Co.
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If you regularly follow my quarterly reviews, you aren't surprised by what the recently released Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors market report said about how 2018 ended.
The good news is 2018 finished a bit better than the previous year. The bad news is because of the strong start over the 1st five months, it did so even though the last few months of the year were a bit sluggish.
The number of sold properties in October-December actually decreased compared to the last quarter of 2017. The other troubling statistic is the number of pending sales (homes that went under contract but haven't settled) were also off versus 2017 for the same time period. This does not bode well if you are hoping for a positive housing report at the end of March of 2019. One segment of the market that could offset this decline in homes sold is there will many new homes that went under contract in 2018 but won't close until sometime this year.
I have heard from builders who have already contracted for as many homes as they will build in 2019 and many others are already projecting closings into the 2nd half of the year. This shows new construction is still very active making up approximately 15% compared to 12.7% in 2017 of homes sold in Charlottesville and the Central Virginia area.
There are signs that new home prices caused by demand and higher material/labor costs are starting to peak. Traffic through some new home models has diminished so this will be something to watch as we head into the spring market. This could be a good sign for existing inventory as buyers may choose to buy an older home to get a better price and not have to wait months for a new home to be built. Another positive sign comes from an article recently released saying Rental prices move more quickly than sales prices, so they can be a better way to gauge the health of a market".
In the article it says if rental prices are going up, more renters will consider buying. If this is true, Charlottesville should see more tenants wanting to become homeowners. Michael Johnson from PMI-Charlottesville confirms this by sharing, ". As of December 2018, average rent for an apartment in Charlottesville, VA is $1545 which is a 16.96% increase from last year when the average rent was $1283, and a 1.29% decrease from last month when the average rent was $1565. One bedroom apartments in Charlottesville rent for $994 a month on average (a 5.43% decrease from last year) and two bedroom apartment rents average $1362 (a 3.45% increase from last year).The average apartment rent over the prior 6 months in Charlottesville has increased by $249 (19.2%)".
Another sign that home prices have hit their peak in the Charlottesville/Albemarle County Area is the increase in homes sold and home prices in Greene, Nelson, and Louisa counties meaning buyers are traveling out a bit to get more home for what they are willing to pay. The significant reduction in gas prices may be playing a role in that decision as well.
As long as interest rates don't rise much more, I don't think the 5% rate will curtail buyer activity especially with the attractive financing options available for 1st and 2nd time home buyers. The wild card for projecting whether we will see a downturn in 2019 is the economy. The uncertainty with the stock market has caused a "wait and see" attitude amongst many who are thinking of buying. Waiting may not be the answer though as right now one has a better chance of finding a home than a year ago without having to make a hasty decision or paying too much for the property.
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Q: Ubuntu 20.10 freezes on bootup(nvidia graphic card issue which a lot of people have faced apparently) So I've got the Dell G3 3590 i7+Nvidia GTX 1660Ti Max Q set up. I've win10 as my primary OS but I wanna dual boot with Ubuntu.
I wanted to try the "try Ubuntu" option using the live usb thing. However, my laptop would freeze even before I could select the "try Ubuntu" button.
I tried inputting nomodeset in grub, and that worked...but I learned(I might have misunderstood) it basically disables the graphic card drivers and doesn't use it. Plus I've to keep inputting nomodeset every time I bootup which would be annoying honestly(Plus I want to use my graphic card for Data science stuff using the python cudf module).
I also tried the thing where I go to driver updates and under additional drivers, select the Nvidia proprietary driver. After I rebooted, my laptop froze again, although I could get beyond the try ubuntu option without nomodeset this time.(keep in mind I've done everything on the live usb only and have not actually installed Linux on my laptop)
I've basically followed the step 1, 2 and the alternate step 3 on this site
Does anyone know a fix to this? It's apparently not a Dell G3 specific thing, a lot of people have faced this issue, especially the ones with Nvidia graphic cards. Please can anyone help?
Edit: So after first using nomodeset I used the command sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y in the terminal and tried to reboot the live usb. Without using nomodeset, it'd get stuck at the Dell+Ubuntu logo screen(pressing escape, etc did not work):Dell+Ubuntu Logo screen
Using nomodeset again, I could get past this barrier and was able to click on "Try Ubuntu" again, however, the screen froze again in a minute after Ubuntu loaded. Tried this multiple times to get the same result. No key press worked. Screen frozen
Edit2: Note that it started freezing even with nomodeset only after using the update command mentioned above


Enterprise productivity software provider DocsCorp has announced the release of contentCrawler 2.1, the recently updated version of its integrated analysis, processing and reporting software that makes content fully searchable. contentCrawler provides an end-to-end solution that examines image-based documents and converts them to searchable PDFs. The newest update also includes usability and performance improvements.
The new tool features faster processing over its predecessor utilizing multi-threading for optimized support for modern CPUs with up to 32 cores. Running on a 16 core CPU, contentCrawler can OCR (optical character recognition) up to 350,000 pages per day. New search filters provide more control over processed document types and can exclude selected document types from searches for improved processing times.
• Establishment of various service email notifications for reporting on the progress of the craw and requesting statistics and error-reporting emails.
• Instant access to progress status of individual documents being OCR'd.
• An information display providing information, such as total page number and size of in-process documents.
• Configurable, multilingual OCR with support for over 180 languages.
• Export process reports as CSV files for review.
• Configurable disk space limit allows users to specify the minimum free space threshold for document caching.
The contentCrawler 2.1 trial is available for download to show how much non-searchable content is present in content repositories. The program integrates with Autonomy iManage, Autonomy TRIM, OpenText eDOCS DM, ProLaw, MS SharePoint, and Windows file systems. contentCrawler will soon offer integration with OpenText Content Server and Worldox.


News about Jonathan Favreau, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Democrats don't need to win the white working class. They need to do better with it.
Welcome to the Podcast. First, a Word From Our Celebrity.
Stars like Katie Couric and Lena Dunham often revel in putting a personal spin on the ho-hum ads they read as they host their digital shows.
Feeling burned out, President Obama's former chief speechwriter moved to Los Angeles, but he hasn't left Washington completely behind.
President Obama has come to consider the solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office. Barely getting five hours of sleep a night, he considers the time alone more important.
The departures of Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser, and Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director, mark a transition for President Obama.
Despite his party's losses in the recent elections, President Obama laid out an expansive agenda as if he were the one who had triumphed.
For Cody Keenan, the White House speechwriter President Obama has christened "Hemingway," the toughest audience can be the man who will deliver the words.
President Obama revealed a long list of gripes in a nearly 50-minute news conference that ranged from a recalcitrant Congress that is refusing to deliver the emergency border funding bill he requested to a press corps that neglected to wish him a happy birthday.
President Obama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with a speech at the Lincoln Memorial, and the comparisons to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seem inevitable.
Recent presidents have limited their use of the Oval Office address, increasingly opting for other modes of communication as cable and the Web compete for viewers' attention.
48 hours after leaving the White House, Tommy Vietor, the former spokesman for the National Security Council, began making waves on Twitter with a range of pointed opinions.
As he set off on a morning-to-midnight march through Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Virginia, Mr. Obama scoffed at Mitt Romney's recent attempt to appropriate the "change" label.


Gavin Pickin talks about "ContentBox in the Cloud (Docker Magic)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
He is one of the speakers at Into The Box 2018 conference.
What is ContentBox and why would you want to use it with Docker?
Using CommandBox and Forgebox you can install modules and extend your app in seconds.
You can extend and build on top of ContentBox easily to mold it to your liking.
It's just ColdBox MVC under the hood.
Big changes in 3.8 releasing any day now.
Version 4 – maybe at ITB – come and find out.
Which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image.
How to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance.
What are you looking forward to at Into the Box this year?
What other conferences are you going to attend?
Speaking at CF Summit West again – if they pick me – speaker deadline April 15th.
MuraCon in Sacramento early in April.
Waiting for dates NCDevCon – would love to attend this one.
CFCamp – I wish… maybe next year. Brad and Luis will probably be there.
Start to finish, launch your ContentBox site in the cloud with Docker. We will look at the ContentBox docker image, which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image. We will learn how to use a file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances, and how to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance.
The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future.
You'll meet the members of Team Ortus, community members, speakers and sponsors.
We'll tell you a story about CFML, which we think you will want to hear, and learn what Ortus and the community is doing for CFML and the future of CFML.
You will get updates on an array of Ortus *Box products, including recent releases & upcoming plans and features in our roadmaps.
We will finish with Ortus's plans for the future… as well as remind you of a driving force behind all things Ortus.
Alexa from Amazon powers the Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV and is Amazon's answer to Siri, Cortana and Google home.
Amazon's Alexa Skills Kit allows developers to build their own set of abilities that can be published to the Alexa App Store for consumers to use.
This Session will walk through the pros and cons of voice, how to design a voice user interface, how to get started with ColdBox, and how to design Alexa Commands that integrate with your ColdBox API.


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An der Heeresoffizierschule von Japan (jap. , Rikugun Shikan Gakkō), auch Haupt-Kadettenanstalt, wurde die Offiziersausbildung der Kaiserlich Japanischen Armee durchgeführt. Sie bot einen Grundkurs für Absolventen der regionalen Kadettenanstalten und der Mittelschulen und einen Sekundarkurs für Offizieranwärter an.

Geschichte
Die Heeresoffizierschule wurde 1868 in Kyōto unter dem Namen Heigakkō eingerichtet und 1874 in Rikugun Shikan Gakkō umbenannt und nach Ichigaya, Tokio verlegt. Ab 1898 war sie der Heeresbildungsverwaltung unterstellt.

1937 wurde die Schule aufgeteilt. Der Sekundarkurs wurde nach Sagamihara in der Präfektur Kanagawa verlegt, während der Grundkurs nach Asaka in der Präfektur Saitama verlegt wurde. Die Feierlichkeiten zur 50. Abschlussklasse am 20. Dezember 1937 wurden bereits in den neuen Räumlichkeiten in Sagamihara abgehalten und unter anderem von Tennō Hirohito besucht. 1938 wurde die Ausbildung für die Offiziere der Heeresluftwaffe in eine eigene Schule ausgelagert.

Ab Juni 1945 wurde die Schule aufgrund der intensivierten Alliierten Luftangriffe auf Japan vorsorglich geräumt und die etwa 3.000 Schüler auf eine langfristige Geländeübung in die Präfektur Nagano verlegt.

Nach der Kapitulation Japans im September 1945 übernahm ein Bataillon der 1. US-Kavalleriedivision das Schulgelände von den wenigen verbliebenen Wachen. Ende des Jahres wurde die Schule formal aufgelöst. Das Schulgelände in Sagamihara ist gegenwärtig Teil einer Basis der United States Forces Japan.

Als Nachfolgeorganisation kann die Landesverteidigungsakademie der japanischen Bodenselbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte gelten.

Ausbildung
Zwischen 1937 und 1945 besuchten 18.476 Kadetten die Heeresoffizierschule.

Kandidaten für die Schule wurde in der Regel unter den Absolventen einer der dreijährigen regionalen Kadettenanstalten (, Rikugun Yōnen Gakkō) in Tokio, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Sendai und Kumamoto, die um 1910 jährlich etwa 300 Absolventen überwiesen, oder unter Mittelschulabsolventen, welche die körperlichen und geistigen Voraussetzungen erfüllten, ausgewählt. Der Besuch der Heereskadettenanstalten war dabei hauptsächlich den Kindern von Offizieren oder im Kampf gefallenen Soldaten vorbehalten. Der Besuch der Offizierschule war teilweise auch aktiven Soldaten unter 25 Jahren möglich, sofern sie die nötigen Tests bestanden.

Neben der theoretischen Ausbildung wurde auch Kampfkunst und Reiten gelehrt. Nach einer zweijährigen Grundausbildung wurden die Absolventen für acht Monate im Rang eines Feldwebels in ein Infanterieregiment versetzt, um sich mit dem Armeeleben und ersten eigenen Kommandoaufgaben vertraut zu machen. Anschließend erfolgte die 20-monatige Sekundarausbildung, welche mit einer erneuten viermonatigen Verwendung in ihrem Infanterieregiment abgeschlossen wurde. Bestand der Kadett seine Abschlussprüfung, wurde er im Rang eines Unterleutnants in die Armee übernommen und erhielt die Möglichkeit, an der Heereshochschule zu studieren.

Während ihres Bestehens durchliefen auch viele ausländische Kadetten die Ausbildung an der Offizierschule, hauptsächlich aus China. Unter diesen war auch der spätere Präsident der Republik China, Chiang Kai-shek.

Literatur
 US Department of War: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, TME-E 30-480. Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8071-2013-8.

Weblinks
 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, TM-E 30-480 (1945) (engl.), abgerufen am 15. Februar 2011

Einzelnachweise

Militärische Ausbildungsstätte
Kaiserlich Japanische Armee


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Croatia aims to boost renewables to 36% by 2030
By Energy Reporters | 29.11.2019 | Environment
Croatia is looking to increase its share of renewable energy to 36.4 per cent by 2030.
The consultancy GlobalData said the rise in renewable capacity from around 1 per cent in 2008 to 17 per cent in 2018 occurred because of revised targets under Zagreb's National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP), its feed-in-tariffs and premium tariff support schemes. Renewable power capacity is due to reach 1.9GW by 2030.
"Croatia's large-scale untapped renewable sector, with around 8-9 GW potential for wind and solar, has opened new opportunities for market players," said Utsha Ghosh of GlobalData. "The southwestern region of Croatia receives a good amount of solar irradiation. Furthermore, the prominent wind resources in the south, southwest coastal region comprise significant wind potential to meet the country's renewable-energy target. The country also has huge potential for geothermal energy in the northern part of the country, which could be used both for electricity generation and heating."
Wind power is expected to offer the largest proportion of renewable power between 2019 and 2030, generating 1.4 GW. The sun-kissed Balkan state's solar output is forecast to reach 280MW by 2030 from just 61 MW in 2018, rising annually by 15 per cent.
Croatia has limited fossil-fuel deposits and is dependent on imports. It is estimated that the share of electricity from imports should fall from the current 62.5 per cent to 44 per cent by 2030.
"Renewable energy and distributed energy resources have changed the market dynamics of the electricity system in the country," said Ghosh. "The falling cost of renewable energy installations and the introduction of strong policies to cut down pollution levels have led the policymakers to focus more on this."
Eco-islands
A Croatian island has been named as one of six European islands looking to go carbon-neutral.
The Cres-Lošinj archipelago aims to completely decarbonise its energy system by 2040, partly through community-owned solar farms.
This year's Clean Energy for EU Islands Initiative of the European Commission targeted the Spanish island of La Palma, Portugal's Culatra, Italian Salina, the Croat Cres-Losinj, Sifnos in Greece and Ireland's Aran Islands to create an energy transition based around the island communities' needs and resources.
The Cres-Losinj archipelago aims to fully decarbonise its energy sector by 2040.
Since February the six islands have developed decarbonisation policies tailored to their environment.
"Thanks to the evolution of technology, the potential for reducing energy costs on islands and moving towards energy autonomy has never been greater," said Ditte Juul-Jørgensen of the European Commission's energy department. "Established in the context of the Clean Energy for all Europeans package, the Clean Energy for EU Islands Initiative is set up to assist and accelerate this process. Moreover, islands can be lighthouses for global climate action. Whether it's through more wind power, retrofitting homes, moving towards electric mobility, decarbonising maritime transport or deploying renewable energy for domestic hot water and heating, the decarbonisation solutions showcased by these six pilot islands will veer them towards higher energy efficiency, more renewables and low-carbon pathways," she added.
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Alvin Malnik Is The God Father of Blanket
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As the discourse about the unexpected death of Michael Jackson shifts from his pop cultural legacy to the more complicated affairs of finances and his children's paternity, South Florida entrepreneur Al Malnik, a one-time close Jackson friend, has denied he is the biological father of his godson and Jackson's third child, Prince Michael II, nicknamed Blanket.
In an interview Wednesday on NBC's Today show from his home in Palm Beach County, Malnik offered a series of family photos and home movies of Jackson and his three children. Paparazzi-free, none of the children are wearing masks or costumes or shying away from the cameras.
Instead, the images are of well-adjusted children: smiling, hugging, blowing bubbles, watching movies, attending Blanket's birthday party and playing with Malnik's triplets, who are close in age to Jackson's children.
"Of course I'm not the biological father," he told co-anchor Meredith Vieira, adding that he did not actually meet Blanket until he was 2 years old.
But the day after Jackson's death, Malnik told WFOR-CBS 4 in Miami that he and Jackson had signed a document granting him custody of Blanket — the infant that Jackson infamously dangled from a Berlin hotel-room balcony in 2002.
"I guess in 2003 or 2004, he asked me if anything ever happened to him, if I would become godfather and parent to Prince Michael," he told reporter Lisa Petrillo. "So I signed a document at that time agreeing to bring up Blanket in the event anything happened to him."
At that time, Malnik — who opened Miami Beach's venerable restaurant The Forge in 1968 — says Jackson asked him to be the executor of his wil.
Their friendship reportedly unraveled in 2005 when Jackson was tried on child molestation charges. Malnik has offered little details of their parting but is rumored to have loaned Jackson millions.
Malnik, 76, was first introduced to Jackson in 2001 or 2002. They quickly became friends and Jackson even chartered a plane to travel to South Florida to surprise him at his 1970s-themed 70th birthday party, at which he donned a giant afro wig. Jackson would stay for months at a time at Malnik's mansion.
During one stay, the Malniks even arranged a late-night shopping trip to a supermarket — a routine task made impossible by Jackson's celebrity.
"He was an extraordinarily nice guy and just a wonderful father," Malnik told Petrillo. "He and the kids stayed here for several months with us, and we all just thought the world of him. He just could not have been a nicer, sweeter soul."
Jackson's 7-year-old will was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust while making his mother the guardian of his children and cutting out his former wife Debbie Rowe. Court documents estimated the current value of his estate at more than $500 million.
A judge ruled Wednesday that Katherine Jackson, 79, will retain limited control of 2,000 items from Neverland until another hearing is held Monday.
Also Wednesday, a Jackson family spokesman said a public memorial for Michael Jackson is in the works, but it won't be held at the late pop star's Neverland Ranch.
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How do judges address torture issues in Brazil and what measures they can implement in their practices to prevent torture, ill-treatment and police abuse? This was the focus of a recent seminar in Brasilia, gathering 50 judges from 22 states.
Custody hearings foresee that detainees should be brought before a judge within 24 hours of their arrest, to promptly verify the legality of the arrest, the need to keep the person detained during the pre-trial period, and if the person suffered torture or ill-treatment at any stage of custody. They are an effective and much needed tool to prevent abuses in detention and their implementation comes as a response to the international obligations of the Brazilian state.
Despite a lack of a legislative federal norm in place, the National Council of Justice in Brazil has adopted a proactive policy for State courts to start implementing this practice. The Council has recently issued guidance for local courts on how the custody hearings should be conducted, in particular to assist judges to detect early signs of torture and ill-treatment. These guidelines constitute a most welcome tool on torture prevention in the country, as they gather recommendations on best practices to be adopted by judges and courts, based on international standards. They are targeted at assuring that the proper conditions are in place to enable victims of torture and ill-treatment to report and to address concerns regarding their safety against intimidations or retaliation.
The objective of the seminar was to share this guidance with judges and engage a discussion on how custody hearings can effectively prevent torture and other forms of ill-treatment. During the seminar, judges were able to exchanges views and challenges regarding the implementation of the custody hearings and to reflect on good practices being implemented by different courts around the country. In most states, custody hearings have contributed to decrease the systematic use of preventive detention. However, a lot remains to be done to assure that custody hearings are an effective tool to prevent torture, ill-treatment and police violence. Judges were not only able to hear from each other, but also from two international experts: Felipe Villavicencio, member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, and Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, who visited Brazil in 2015.
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, addresses Brazilian judges on their role in preventing torture and ill-treatment (in Spanish).
As a result, it is expected that similar discussions take place at local courts to assure the effective implementation of custody hearings in accordance with the criteria and guidelines issued by the National Council of Justice.
The "2nd Seminar on Torture and Violence in the Criminal System: the Role of Judges in Preventing and Combatting Torture" was co-organised by APT, the National Council of Justice, the Association of Magistrates of Brazil, the Human Rights Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, and International Bar Association.
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Audrey Olivier Muralt, director of APT's regional office for Latin America and João Ricardo dos Santos Costa, President of the Association of Brazilian Magistrates.


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November 4, 2019, Vancouver, Canada - Jaxon Mining Inc. ("Jaxon" or the "Company") (TSX.V: JAX, FSE: OU31, OTC: JXMNF) announces that further to its news releases dated October 2nd and 21st, 2019 the Company has closed the second tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") to raise gross proceeds of $350,000 through the issuance of 7,000,000 non flow-through units (the "NFT Units") priced at $0.05 per NFT Unit, bringing the total raised in two tranches to $1,260,000. Each NFT Unit will comprise of one common share and one-half common share purchase warrant. Each whole purchase warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one common share at $0.075 per share. The warrants will have an expiry date of two years from the date of issuance.
The securities issued in this tranche will be subject to a hold period of four months expiring March 5, 2020. No finder's fees were paid. The Private Placement is subject to final acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Company wishes to clarify its last news release dated October 21, 2019. The Company raised $910,000 in the first tranche through the sale of 13,000,000 flow-through units (the "FT Units") priced at $0.07 per FT Unit.
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Behind the Fold: Deconstructing Rick Owens
Dubbed the high priest of 90s avant-garde and the "antithesis of Hollywood glamour," Rick Owens is time-honored as one of the most influential and fêted American designers in the history of fashion.
His second-skin leather jackets, monochromatic palettes and architectural reveries have garnered a cult-like following, leading the Rick Owens Corporation – led alongside gothic legend Michèle Lamy – to its first major museum spotlight at the Triennale di Milano: Subhuman, Inhuman, Superhuman (December 2017- March 2018), a four-month retrospective surveying Owens' oeuvre from incipit to today.
Eight months after closing, and for the first time in the history of the brand, a selection of these archetypal pieces made their classroom debut, becoming protagonists of a two-day workshop with Owens' Head of Women's Patternmaking Ahmad Daher. Ten of the most symbolic garments from the Triennale were set up in the rationalist setting of Polimoda's third campus in the Manifattura Tabacchi, "an evocative space that harmonizes consistently with Rick Owens' style and aesthetics," comments Daher, creations laid bare to unearth the technical mechanics of Owens' method to the next generation of creatives.
"I wanted to tell stories of patterns and details of pattern engineering by walking and leafing through twenty years of Rick Owens' runway," explains Daher of the aesthetics and patternmaking seminar, which involved final-year students in Fashion Design and Fashion Technology. "The items selected from the Subhuman Inhuman Superhuman Archive are the autobiography of a designer who loves the technical process of creating… In every creation, Rick Owens is always looking for the straight line that joins point A to point B, a philosophy that translates technically into a modest silhouette: simple, elegant, radical, futurist with an ever-present pace in a fast-moving world."
From the volumes of Thayaht and Le Corbusier to the industrial influence of Land Art's Richard Serra and Michael Heizer, without art, architecture and design, explains Aurora Fiorentini, Rick Owens' fashion would not exist. The Polimoda teacher and longtime industry expert dedicated the first portion of the workshop to introducing Owens' values and poetics as deviating from the realms of mainstream and commercial fashion, unraveling the aesthetic archetypes and artists that most influenced his constructive philosophy and volumes.
Following the lesson, Daher used mannequins and the Triennale pieces to visually guide students through the pillars of Owens' fashion, touching on the bias cut and pattern, cascade draping, the construction of twisted draperies and the Pillar silhouette, among others. "We told the story of Rick Owens' bias cut and his strong connection to Madeleine Vionnette and Madame Grés," he explains, referring to the technique of cutting fabric at a 45-degree angle championed by Vionnette and Grés in the 1920s. "The bias cut was the protagonist of the workshop, where together with the students we transformed a classic base into a bias construction."
"Among the great couturiers of the past dear to Owens," explains the Polimoda expert, "we also investigated a genie often forgotten in American fashion history: Charles James (1906-1978)." A predecessor of an aesthetic that triumphed in the late 1950s – sculptural silhouettes and evening gowns supported by complex, self-supporting internal scaffolding – James is most known for the influence of nature on his work and his innovative evening jacket (1937): a piece made of cellulose acetate entirely quilted with feather padding, resulting in a satin-like effect, very similar to a modern puff jacket, Fiorentini describes.
Defined by Salvador Dali as a "soft sculpture" for its strength and harmonious three-dimensionality, the jacket served as a significant point of reflection for Owens: "United by the search for the new and unusual, as well as by a passion for volumes carved in fabric, the two American designers reveal many similarities in their study of the female body and the search for a timeless style, even if marked by very different languages," clarifies Fiorentini.
"More interested in art and architecture than in the history of fashion, Owens, however, makes exceptions for true champions like Thayaht, Vionnet, Madame Grès and Charles James: in fact, starting from his Citroen SS 2004 collection, he intensifies his studies on the latter and in particular on the 1937 quilt, elaborating models of jackets and dresses that recall its composition, employing new cuts, techniques and distinct materials, including very light leathers and hides, jersey of various weights and fabrics with textures and colors that are immediately attributable to his unmistakable and personal style," she continues.
In the Scorpio SS 2005 show, the Polimoda lecturer elaborated to the class, Owens modified the shoulder line in line with James' prototype, opening its folds and transforming them into triangular points with a strong visual impact. In the Tungsten SS 2006 and Dustulator FW 2006 collections, he softened the contours, rounding its profiles through complex biasing, or by amplifying the curved line with folds, ruffles and cuts that emphasize continuity between the neck and shoulders. "From the Limo FW 2011 collection until his latest show, we find James' cult coats witnessed in new interpretations, emphasizing big Renaissance sleeves shaped by an arched perimeter, all marked by technical fabrics alternating between the glossy and opaque," adds Fiorentini on James' enduring influence in Owens' work.
During the Polimoda workshop, Daher and students worked to reconstruct the cult coat form, using small-scale mannequins to explore the way a traditional shape can be reinterpreted through cut and material. After working with students to engineer Owens' most noteworthy garments, Daher closed the lesson by moving to one of the designer's most iconic pieces inspired by the Parisian Art Nouveau, a personal tribute to the architect Hector Guimard (and baptized by Owens himself): the "Guimard Jacket." As Daher demonstrated, this garment is a structure on which huge pieces of a technical fabric are draped, folded and screwed, then coated with a thin sheet of laminated aluminum and coupled with neoprene, resulting in a moldable, concrete-like sculpture.
In his current tenure since 2013, Daher recalls the process of creating the jacket with Owens: "We started from the base, realizing a simple jacket in canvas on which Rick Owens could drape and create volumes in canvas/calico and then pin them on the jacket base. After that, the pattern team's job was to make the pattern-finding technical solutions to move to an industrialization step. In this, an important aspect was the process of sewing the thick materials; the task of the pattern team, together with the team of tailors, was to find the right compromise between the silhouette and technical solutions, among which was discarding the seams, removing the pleated bottoms without damaging the volume, offsetting all the seams and so on."
As the birth of the Guimard and the influence of James imply, teaching Rick Owens to young designers means moving beyond patternmaking and fashion history: his method stands as a singular example of where the final product is the result of a long process of reflection, experimentation and as Daher explains, evolution: "Rick Owens always analyzes what he has already created before and thinks about the next logical step, never starting from zero."
For the American designer, each collection becomes both an extinction and evolution of the previous, transforming the use of fabric into the creation of both garment and narrative. For each show, he explores new silhouettes with patterns from his archive, using them as the canvas bases on which he edits and creates new volumes and draperies. This thoughtful process explains Daher's approach to Polimoda's aspiring patternmakers and designers: "I never accept hearing [the students] say, 'I did it because I like it.' I want to know the reason for everything and what path led to this creation."
The consistency and permanence of the production of Owens' designs are rooted in his merging of influence from other disciplines and historic figures, a process that has founded his ability to create timeless, original pieces that transcend the boundaries of traditional fashion – a key point of reflection for students exploring their own creative processes. Allowing students to interact with these garments meant "transmitting part of my work experience as Head Patternmaker," concludes Daher, "confirming [to them] the originality of final products when the creative and the technical aspect travel in hand. Giving the students the opportunity to analyze and touch the samples of the exhibition at the Triennale of Milan was a great satisfaction… I appreciate the curiosity of young people, their awareness in knowing they must have solid foundations. In this way, they can explore what they love in this wide and varied fashion world."
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ICI's latest "Focus on Funds" video features a segment entitled, "SEC Changes Alter Picture for US Money Market Funds. The description says, "In the lead-up to implementation of new SEC rules governing money market funds, assets shifted from prime to government funds. Sean Collins, ICI senior director for industry research and financial analysis, tells viewers why in the December 9, 2016, edition of Focus on Funds." ICI's Director of Media Relations Stephanie Ortbals-Tibbs says, "On the heels of significant reform, how does the US money market fund industry look these days? I got some fresh data analysis from ICI's senior director for industry financial analysis, Sean Collins." Collins explains, "The most important thing we saw was that about $1 trillion flowed out of prime money market funds over the period from about November 2015 all the way up to the implementation date of October 14, 2016, and our sense is that probably all of that essentially went back into government money market funds. That's more or less what we had expected to happen. There's an almost one-for-one offset in flows from prime into government money market funds -- almost dollar for dollar. Government money market fund assets have grown very substantially. Prime money market funds have fallen very substantially. The same is true for tax-exempt money market funds -- they've seen their assets fall very substantially." He adds, "That's about the state of affairs at the moment -- it's kind of wait and see. There's not too much money moving either direction at the moment. In general, money market funds in total have been pretty stable for the last four years, at about $2.7 trillion, including through this entire transition period. We think that's representative of the fact that investors continue to like these products, demand them, and it's just the change in the slice of the pie from one type of instrument -- prime money market funds -- into government money market funds." Ortbals-Tibbs comments, "So, of course, we don't prognosticate. What we do know is that investors will probably continue to assess where they are in a particular category, but this is one of these categories where eventually we could continue to see money move around again as people continue to settle into this new regime." Collins responds, "Yeah, I think that could certainly happen. `It's possible that as people get more comfortable with floating NAVs [net asset values] for prime institutional money market funds, get comfortable with the possibility of fees and gates, you might see some money move back into prime money market funds from government. But I think that at the moment it's kind of wait and see -- people probably want to let the dust settle and get some experience, and then go from there."


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