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This is a dedicated group of people who have joined their talents and love of music to praise the Lord. There is no requirement to be a member of this group, except to love the Lord and sing His praises. The choir meets on Thursday nights from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. in Room 146. Email worship@southsuburban.com for more information.
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Compassion - You Probably Have It For Others, But What About Yourself?
Self-compassion is probably the issue that comes up most for my clients. Learning how to stop being so hard on yourself, cut yourself some slack, lean into the hard times, and ask for help when you need it.
We have compassion for other people, so why not ourselves? Having compassion means that we offer kindness, warmth and understanding to others who are suffering. We don't treat them harshly when they make a mistake. All these things are part of being human, we all experience them. We are all imperfect.
So, why then, do we have such a hard time being compassionate to ourselves? Instead of ignoring what we are going through, it's really important to acknowledge it. Say to ourselves 'Ok, things are really hard right now, I'm not coping so well, how can I give myself a break and take care of myself?. It means that we stop being so hard on ourselves. We give ourselves permission to have a hard time, and come up with ways to help ourselves through that hard time.
All this ties in with being mindful, and also my good enough philosophy. Accepting that sometimes things are hard. Sometimes things are out of our control, and sometimes we need to ask for help. None of this means that we are worthless, or not enough. It simply means we are human. The more we feel compassion for ourselves, the more we will feel compassion for others.
It's ok to ask for help. I know for personal experience that this can be hard. It can make us feel like we are a failure, especially as a parent. But, the saying 'It takes a village to raise a child' is completely true. Our culture has lost this someone, and I'm an advocate for bringing it back. It is an impossible task to think you, as one person, can do it all on your own. Ask for what you need. Most people in your inner circle are only too happy to help where they can. For me, I didn't want to feel like a burden to the people I was asking. But, when I stopped and really thought about it, not once has anyone I've asked ever made me feel like I was a burden. That was something I was putting on myself. It took me a while, but now I ask for what I need. And, I expect others to ask me for what they need too, because my greater sense of self-compassion has lead to a great sense of overall compassion.
I like to think of it like this. We all have a bucket. It's a 'capacity of coping bucket' and it's full of our 'stuff'. When we are travelling along well, our buckets are, say, half full. When we hit a snag, we have room in our bucket to cope with that. When we are having a tough time, and our bucket is full, when we hit a snag, we have no more room to fit that stuff in our bucket. We need to take some other stuff out first, otherwise, it will just overflow. This is when we need self compassion the most.
Having a really clear understanding of who you are is helpful in having self-compassion. I've written blog posts previously about living authentically and core values, and they all tie in with having self-compassion. Remember, let go of who you think you are supposed to be, and be who you are, give yourself love and support and comfort. Embrace your imperfections.


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Q: Extend rolle's theorem to complex functions? If $f(z)$ is a polynomial of degree n with n distinct real roots $r _1$<,..., <$r_n$, then there exists exactly one root of $f '(z)$ in between any consecutive root of $f(z)$.
The context of this homework problem is the Gauss-Lucas theorem, and so I tried to play with it. I.e. I tried to use induction: suppose the statement is true for polynomial $g(z)$ of degree n-1, then I want to show that for $f(z)=g(z)(z-r_n)$, the root of $f'(z)$ cannot be less than $r_{n-1}$,combining the theorem that for $f'(z_0)=0$, $z_0$ is bounded within the convex hull, i.e. $r_1<z_0<r_n$,then we get $r_{n-1}<z_0<r_n$, completing the proof.
I did not get anywhere by this approach in the past few hours, so I am just thinking, is it OK to just simply say that since $f(z)=(z-r_1)...(z-r_n)$, it can be viewed as a real-valued function, and then apply rolle's theorem to complete the proof?
Then what would be the rigorous way of saying "it can be viewed as a real-valued function"?

A: It is not true in general that $f(z)=(z-r_1)\cdots (z-r_n)$. What is true is $$ f(z)=c_n(z-r_1)\cdots (z-r_n)$$ where $c_n$ is the leading coefficients. Since multiplication by a nonzero scalar does not change the zeros (including those of the derivative), it is indeed a good idea to consider $c_n^{-1}f_n$, which is real-valued on the real axis. The precise meaning of the latter: the restriction to $\mathbb R$ takes values in $\mathbb R$. The usual Rolle's theorem applies to such a function.

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Viniculture in LI, Part III: Palmer Vineyards
Based on interviews with Miguel Martin & Josh Karp in October 2010; updated May & August 2018
Palmer Vineyards was opened to business in 1986 when Bob Palmer, a New York City advertising and marketing executive, purchased farmland on the North Fork of Long Island in 1983. He built what was then the most modern winery on the island and planted a vineyard. Before long, using his marketing savvy and traveling worldwide to promote his new venture and its product, Palmer became one of the best-known LI wineries. Since then many other vineyards and wineries have been established on the East End, some of them even larger and more modern. Yet Palmer still has one of the largest vineyards, at 100 acres planted to vines (in two parcels, each of 50 acres), with an annual production of 10,000 to 12,000 cases, including red and white wines, a rosé, and a traditional-method sparkling wine.
Until 2018, Palmer's winemaker was Miguel Martín, who was hired by Mr. Palmer in 2006 to succeed Tom Drozd as winemaker. Miguel an experienced and highly knowledgeable vintner had previously worked at, among others, Robert Mondavi in California, Caliterra in Chile, and Gonzalez Byass in Spain. While living in Barcelona (he worked in the Penedés wine region of Cataluña) he and his wife, Ellen, who is from the Hamptons area, saw an ad in a trade publication for a winemaker in Long Island. When Palmer took Miguel on he was told that he had free rein to do whatever he deemed fit to run the winery and make wine. It was an offer Miguel could not turn down, so he moved back to the Island with his family and took over winemaking at Palmer. He has done exactly as Palmer told him to do, making very good, often excellent wines, and constantly extending Palmer's offerings: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Muscat, Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, and Viognier. He was also the first to plant Albariño–a Spanish variety from Galicia– in the region in 2010. Its wine is aromatic, with a touch of spice, yet dry, and it became an immediate hit.
Over the years, Miguel continued to introduce a new range of wines. The latest, released in 2018, is Reposo, a dessert wine made from raisined, botritised Gewürztraminer grapes left on the vine for weeks after harvest. The grapes were then fermented in used brandy casks and allowed to age for eight years before being bottled and released. A fine account of the production of this wine can be found at Edible Long Island: Palmer Reposo wine.
I'd visited Palmer Vineyards a few times before, but in mid-October, 2010, I arrived at the time of the harvest. I observed first-hand the work of a mechanical harvester—a $300,000 behemoth that is share-owned with another vineyard in order to make it more affordable. The harvester is used for collecting the grapes so efficiently that it can complete a 200-yard row in about 10 minutes or less, with little damage to the fruit, but of course without the selectivity that comes with hand-picking. Obviously, this is not the method the winery uses for producing top-quality wines with prices to match, but rather is one means of producing decent wines at affordable prices. In this case the vineyard lot in question was planted with Merlot, and a crew of experienced vineyard workers efficiently went through the rows to be harvested, lifting and fixing the bird netting to expose the grape clusters. The harvester straddles a row and using a set of mechanical beaters shakes the vines so that the ripe grapes fall to a conveyor belt of plastic cups that carry the grapes up to a collection grid that dumps the grapes into either of two mechanical arms—one on either side of the harvester—with bins large en
ough to hold about a ton-and-a-half of fruit each. When the bins are full—after four or five rows have been harvested—the harvester delivers its largess to a stainless-steel gondola with a capacity of five to six tons. Once the gondola is filled with grapes, it proceeds to the winery, where it is immediately hooked up, by means of a 4-inch diameter hose, to a pump that then feeds the grapes into a destemmer-crusher.
The destemmer-crusher is a compact machine that accomplishes two things at once: it removes any stems or leaves from the grapes by means of a steel rotating spindle with long steel pins, hurtling them out at one end of the machine while the grapes pass through, by gravity, to the crusher. The crusher does just that to the fruit, which is to say that it crushes the grapes enough to break their skins and allow the juice to flow out. (Pressing is a much more forceful way of getting the maximum juice out of the grapes, leaving behind only the pomace—but more on that at a later time.)
On a subsequent visit in late October, I observed a handpicked harvest, where Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon were being selectively clipped, stems and grapes together, and delivered to the winery. This time, a crew received the bins of grapes and dumped them on a sorting table. Any bad bunches were removed and the rest pushed into the destemmer-crusher, which this time was piling the removed stems so quickly that they needed to be regularly removed by pitchfork and placed in a wagon. These grapes were destined for the high-end wines made at Palmer.
So, back at the winery, after a day's harvest, I had a chance to sit down with Miguel and talk about another matter that is of special significance to this series of posts on viticulture in LI: the question of terroir, which is something that has long been discussed, argued over, embraced as a concept of agriculture in France, while seriously questioned in the United States.
Here is a classic statement about it by one of its adherents:
'The very French notion of terroir looks at all 'the natural conditions which influence the biology of the vinestock and thus the composition of the grape itself. The terroir is the coming together of the climate, the soil and the landscape. It is the combination of an infinite number of factors: temperatures by night and by day, rainfall distribution, hours of sunlight, slope and drainage, to name but a few. All these factors react with each other to form, in each part of the vineyard, what French wine growers call a terroir.' –Bruno Prats, the proprietor of Château Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux, as quoted in The Vintner's Art: How Great Wines are Made, by Hugh Johnson and James Halliday (1992)
(One of the factors not named explicitly above is the human one: culture, politics, agricultural practices, even belief systems play a part in terroir. In other words, human intervention, such as the choice of varieties to be grown, the vine density, pruning and training methods, how the vine rows are laid out—e.g., to take advantage of sun or to deal with prevailing winds—etc.)
According to Miguel, the most important issue in LI is the climate (which includes the weather), as it is the one element that cannot be controlled, being highly variable and therefore the greatest challenge to both the viticulturist and the vintner. In 2009, for example, the vineyard lost 10-15% of harvest due to heavy rains, but had to spend more in order to retain the fruit that was still hanging. Indeed, climate is definitely a controlling factor in terms of site choice, viticultural practices as mentioned in the paragraph above, and dealing with such issues as vine diseases and pests, which is particularly problematic given the high humidity that prevails in LI. Thus, virtually all vineyards on the North Fork , including Palmer, use double-cordon training with Vertical Shoot Positioning (which is explained in my introductory post to this series, Viticulture in Long Island, introduction to Parts 2-xx).
With respect to the soil as a part of the concept of terroir, Miguel is firm in saying that the effects of soil alone are exaggerated, and he cites for evidence an article published in The New York Times in May of 2007, by Harold McGee and Daniel Patterson, "Talk Dirt to Me." The point is made in the article that what we like to call goût de terroir (taste of the earth), is in fact not at all the result of rocks and soil alone, but more the result of the fermenting yeasts and human intervention. "Plants don't really interact with rocks," explains Mark Matthews, a plant physiologist at the University of California, Davis who studies vines. "They interact with the soil, which is a mixture of broken-down rock and organic matter. And plant roots are selective. They don't absorb whatever's there in the soil and send it to the fruit. If they did, fruits would taste like dirt." He continues, "Any minerals from the solid rock that vine roots do absorb — sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, a handful of others — have to be dissolved first in the soil moisture. Most of them are essential nutrients, and they mainly affect how well the plant as a whole grows." This insight is a clarification of the soil factor in terroir, but would seem to put to rest the notion of a goût de terroir as something discernible in wine.
In the Palmer vineyard, historically a combination of both natural and synthetic composts has been used based on soil needs, such as additional nitrogen or phosphate. The lack of either of these would be visible in the vine leaves by means of certain patterns of discoloration. Indeed, in what should be seen as a move towards a more organic viticulture, Josh wrote in an e-mail: "With some (much needed) advice from Barbara Shinn I have started a [natural] compost pile. At Palmer we always put the pomace back into the fields along with the prunings from the winters' pruning but a [natural] compost I feel will affect the soil faster and with more nutrients."
Palmer, like most East End vineyards, uses clones designed for late blooming and early ripening in its newer plantings, such as of Albariño, Viognier, and Muscat, in order to avoid the damages inflicted by spring frosts and autumn weather. Clover (which is self-seeding) is planted for ground cover between the rows, because it is low-growing and nitrogen-fixing. Copper-sulfate sprays are used up to one month before the harvest. One should only spray the foliates, not the fruit (there is a type of curtain spray system used for this—it has a trough that recovers and recycles dripped spray so that it doesn't enter the soil, an important factor, as high levels of copper in the soil can be toxic to the topsoil biota). As harvest-time approaches, the copper sprays are put aside and alternative, more environmentally-friendly sprays such as Serenade or Stylet oil are used. (Stylet oil is a highly-purified white mineral oil which is extremely versatile and it functions as an effective insecticide, fungicide, and miticide.) Thus, if there is a late appearance of, say, powdery mildew, it can then be dealt with in a way that poses no risk to the plant, the fruit, the land, or the worker. Furthermore, said Josh: "Any product used is always being checked to see if it can be used less (fewer times used along with a lower rate) with the same effectiveness or can be replaced for a product that can be organic or that is considered less harsh."
What this all means is that supervision of the vineyard is a constant, requiring that both the winemaker and vineyard manager are checking daily for signs of disease, pests, vine malnourishment, and so on. For example, overlapping canes lead to problems of rot, so must be corrected regularly by the vineyard workers in the field. Bird netting (seen in the picture wrapped and marked for the row on which each will be set) has to be carried, after veraison, into the rows of vines and set properly, otherwise birds would decimate the crop. (The nets do not trap the birds, but merely keep them from reaching the grape bunches.) That still leaves raccoons, deer, foxes, and other vermin to feed on low-lying fruit. Groundhogs need to be monitored too, for their tunnels and underground burrows can heave vines and kill them. One must love nature in a tough way in the vineyard. This year Palmer has installed both bat and owl boxes to help keep insects and animal pests under better control. Unfortunately, owls and bats
seem to be rather particular about where they nest and the offer of domiciles has so far gone ignored. It doesn't mean that they aren't around, though. Both are among the vineyards natural friends, but there are also insect predators who feed on aphids, mites, caterpillars, moths, and so on. Ladybugs, for instance, are a natural control for aphids, which suck the vine leaves and can cause them to wither. In other words, to the extent possible, natural pest controls are used.
What all this has meant is that Palmer Vineyards was very ready to join the Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing group some years ago, and in May 2018 was again recertified as complying with the standards of LISW, the Vinebalance Workbook, and international standards of sustainability.
Bob Palmer died in January of 2009, and though the winery continues as he had envisioned it, his family had put the property up for sale. In July 2018 it was purchased by Paumanok Vineyards, owned by the Massoud family. Paumanok had been seeking to expand and Palmer fit it plans very well. Unfortunately, while they held on to most of the Palmer staff, they could not justify having two winemakers and had to let Miguel go. Kareem Massoud, the very gifted winemaker at Paumanok, will handle winemaking at both wineries. The story was published in the Wine Spectator: Paumanok Vineyards buys Palmer
Miguel is held in such high esteem that when it was reported that he was now unemployed, Wölffer Estate immediately contacted him and offered him the position of Assistant Winemaker to Roman Roth. But then, they'd known Miguel for years, and he also makes the white wines for Roanoke Vineyards, owned by Richie Pisacano, who is the vineyard manager at Wolffer. That story is told in an article in Edible East End: Miguel Martin moves to Wölffer Estate
Palmer Vineyards
Aquebogue, Long Island, New York 11931
This entry was posted in Vineyards, Vinification, Viticulture, Wineries and tagged Hugh Johnson, Kareem Massoud, Long Island AVA, Long Island Vineyards, Miguel Martin, North Fork Wineries, Organic Viticulture, Paumanok Vineyards, Roanoke Vineyards, Roman Roth, Sustainable Viticulture, Wolffer Estate on 16 August 2018 by JoseM-L.
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Ellen Schwartz 13 November 2010 at 18:15
I'm glad you finally posted the next in the series after four months. I always enjoy reading your blog; and without fail learn something new each time. I've been to many of the East End vineyards over the last decade, and it is nice to have a professional view which can also be appreciated by a lay person.
Your passion for wine (and the intricacies involved in its production) are so clearly evident in your writing; which makes your blog a pleasure to read and indulge in.

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Q: Convert array as string to array in JavaScript I have a string variable songs, with the following content from a streaming log file:
[{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/0TLAptKgYxe7F0KewWH6X6','title':'I Need A Forest Fire','album':'The Colour In Anything','artist':'James Blake, Bon Iver','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/7b8f132a8a91d46cce43b42bd0916f16708c8358','date':'May 21, 2016 at 04:41PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/3cBV8V9zlYNraydyF8NpBY','title':'Dress','album':'Sylvan Esso','artist':'Sylvan Esso','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/d64189ee29314326a188f1a334dfd20c085dfb7e','date':'May 22, 2016 at 06:53PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/6W3CjUdc26sI1Y7cmelM5A','title':'Stutter','album':'Good Future','artist':'EMEFE','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/10669383f3ca6f90b6692e2da9b6601f020078ff','date':'May 23, 2016 at 12:57AM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/1GxNPd5r7D1zChEMuMhue0','title':'Only','album':'Dawn','artist':'RY X','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/281bc0be895562e7146b361931330ec5a586d1ba','date':'May 24, 2016 at 01:55AM'}]

How do I convert it to an actual array in JavaScript? I tried JSON.parse() but it failed. Is it because the values are in single-quotes and not double-quotes? (I don't have control over the streaming data file.)

A: You can use eval()

var songs = `[{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/0TLAptKgYxe7F0KewWH6X6','title':'I Need A Forest Fire','album':'The Colour In Anything','artist':'James Blake, Bon Iver','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/7b8f132a8a91d46cce43b42bd0916f16708c8358','date':'May 21, 2016 at 04:41PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/3cBV8V9zlYNraydyF8NpBY','title':'Dress','album':'Sylvan Esso','artist':'Sylvan Esso','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/d64189ee29314326a188f1a334dfd20c085dfb7e','date':'May 22, 2016 at 06:53PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/6W3CjUdc26sI1Y7cmelM5A','title':'Stutter','album':'Good Future','artist':'EMEFE','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/10669383f3ca6f90b6692e2da9b6601f020078ff','date':'May 23, 2016 at 12:57AM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/1GxNPd5r7D1zChEMuMhue0','title':'Only','album':'Dawn','artist':'RY X','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/281bc0be895562e7146b361931330ec5a586d1ba','date':'May 24, 2016 at 01:55AM'}]`;

var res = eval(songs);

console.log(res);

Refer the following question : Why is using the JavaScript eval function a bad idea?

Or replace all single quote with double and then parse it using JSON.parse()

var songs = `[{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/0TLAptKgYxe7F0KewWH6X6','title':'I Need A Forest Fire','album':'The Colour In Anything','artist':'James Blake, Bon Iver','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/7b8f132a8a91d46cce43b42bd0916f16708c8358','date':'May 21, 2016 at 04:41PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/3cBV8V9zlYNraydyF8NpBY','title':'Dress','album':'Sylvan Esso','artist':'Sylvan Esso','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/d64189ee29314326a188f1a334dfd20c085dfb7e','date':'May 22, 2016 at 06:53PM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/6W3CjUdc26sI1Y7cmelM5A','title':'Stutter','album':'Good Future','artist':'EMEFE','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/10669383f3ca6f90b6692e2da9b6601f020078ff','date':'May 23, 2016 at 12:57AM'},
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/1GxNPd5r7D1zChEMuMhue0','title':'Only','album':'Dawn','artist':'RY X','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/281bc0be895562e7146b361931330ec5a586d1ba','date':'May 24, 2016 at 01:55AM'}]`;

var res = JSON.parse(songs.replace(/'/g, '"'));

console.log(res);

A: javascript eval will do the work.
var str = "[{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/0TLAptKgYxe7F0KewWH6X6','title':'I Need A Forest Fire','album':'The Colour In Anything','artist':'James Blake, Bon Iver','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/7b8f132a8a91d46cce43b42bd0916f16708c8358','date':'May 21, 2016 at 04:41PM'},{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/3cBV8V9zlYNraydyF8NpBY','title':'Dress','album':'Sylvan Esso','artist':'Sylvan Esso','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/d64189ee29314326a188f1a334dfd20c085dfb7e','date':'May 22, 2016 at 06:53PM'},{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/6W3CjUdc26sI1Y7cmelM5A','title':'Stutter','album':'Good Future','artist':'EMEFE','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/10669383f3ca6f90b6692e2da9b6601f020078ff','date':'May 23, 2016 at 12:57AM'},{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/1GxNPd5r7D1zChEMuMhue0','title':'Only','album':'Dawn','artist':'RY X','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/281bc0be895562e7146b361931330ec5a586d1ba','date':'May 24, 2016 at 01:55AM'}]"
eval(str)

Another way of doing it
var f = new Function('return ' + str );
var arr = f();

You can check this SO thread for the difference between eval and new Function

A: Replace all single quotes with double and use JSON.parse() like this:
var str = "[{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/0TLAptKgYxe7F0KewWH6X6','title':'I Need A Forest \ Fire','album':'The Colour In Anything','artist':'James Blake, Bon\ Iver','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/7b8f132a8a91d46cce43b42bd0916f16708c8358','date':'May 21, 2016 at 04:41PM'}, \
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/3cBV8V9zlYNraydyF8NpBY','title':'Dress','album':'Sylvan Esso','artist':'Sylvan Esso','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/d64189ee29314326a188f1a334dfd20c085dfb7e','date':'May 22, 2016 at 06:53PM'}, \
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/6W3CjUdc26sI1Y7cmelM5A','title':'Stutter','album':'Good Future','artist':'EMEFE','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/10669383f3ca6f90b6692e2da9b6601f020078ff','date':'May 23, 2016 at 12:57AM'}, \
{'url':'https://open.spotify.com/track/1GxNPd5r7D1zChEMuMhue0','title':'Only','album':'Dawn','artist':'RY X','coverUrl':'https://i.scdn.co/image/281bc0be895562e7146b361931330ec5a586d1ba','date':'May 24, 2016 at 01:55AM'}]";

str = str.replace(/'/g, '"');
var strJson = JSON.parse(str);
console.log(strJson);

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process is stopped but it's still running in the background.
a jdk issue, still looking for workaround if any..
There seems to be a library for killing windows processes.
hudson.util.ProcessTreeKiller class in hudson makes use of it and it also provides ways of killing unix/solaris processes.
itself (the build JVM) with System.exit().
<workdir>&& java -cp <cp> <mainclass>". that plexus-utils' CommandLineUtils wrap each execution request into.
A quick n dirty workaround I just made until this issue is solved.
A custom maven goal and a tiny unix shell script to kill the instance.
1.put this in nbaction.xml, rename NewClass to your runnable class name.
echo -n "Kill $1 $2... "
echo "Proccess $1 not found"
echo "$PID < 100. abort kill"
uprooter: P4 has less priority than P3, you've actually decreased the priority of this issue.
Any quick workaround for 6.7?
overshadowed by this unfortunate issue.
looked into this further, but maybe that indicates that there is a way to get it working properly even without the debugger.
Sorry, the deadline for 6.7 is long passed.
with builds alone, but spawned processes (forked surefire and exec-maven-plugin) still don't work.
other options include some platform specific means of killing.
I think Igor Minar is right. This problem foils the good maven integration in netbeans. As a workaround I use, as Igor, the debugger for running applications.
But this costs time. In my opinion this issue should be fixed in a bugfix release.
Can we convert Maven project to usual NetBeans Java project?
upcoming automated message will point out which build is the first one to support it.
inherited by any spawned child process and it kills all such processes found.
We should also consider to make the codebase part of some api (external execution probably the best place).
mkleint. can you please do something that it will be possible to install the module killer on 6.7 ?
it complains about dependency modules too old.
not working anymore but it should work automatically.
I consider the issue fixed for 6.8. Please verify in the first build containing the changes.
Log: #138116, #135475 proper termination of external maven processes via extexecution api call.
I still see this with 7.3 and 7.4. Running projects and then stopping them leaves the Java process in the background. NB thinks it's killed. When doing client/server based stuff this means I have to go kill my processes externally between every single run, and it gets a bit boring quite fast.
I won't reopen this though, not my task to do that, could be that this bug is just a duplicate and the real work is done somewhere else.
This is definitely still occurring with Netbeans 7.4.
4. Inspect your running processes, you should see two java processes.
5. Inspect your running processes, you should see one java process running still.
This is extremely annoying when you're working on something that needs to listen on a particular port or happens to use a lot of resources as subsequent runs will cause multiple instances of the application to run in the background.
The work around I have found for this is to never simply 'run' the application, but always launch it via a debugging session. The stop button on the output window still does not work as expected but the "Finish Debugging Session" button in the toolbar or Shift+F5 will terminate both running java processes.
Like the comment above, I'm not sure about the workflow for reopening something like this, so I'll defer to someone more experienced to make that call.
> This is definitely still occurring with Netbeans 7.4.
> 4. Inspect your running processes, you should see two java processes.
we can only reliably kill the maven JVM itself. Any other JVMs that maven spawns are outside of our capacity to kill as far as I can see. Definitely not supported by the JDK. AFAIK jenkins employs quite some tricks (including platform specific code/shell scripts) to get rid of such spawned grandchildren processes.
I have same pb when i use exec-maven-plugin and run it with netbeans.
If i run maven command from terminal and press ctrl+c, all process are killed.  Netbeans kill the process differently?
Should be fixed in dev version.


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Harriman Bill Harriman Mosin-Nagant Rifle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Formats: PDF
>> First World War
>> Militaria, arms & armour
>> Military history
>> Second World War
>> Warfare & defence
>> Weapons & equipment
>> Harriman Bill Harriman
The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most famous for its role during World War II when it proved to be an excellent sniping weapon in the hands of marksmen such as Vasily Zaitsev and Simo H yh . This study covers the rifle's entire combat history, from its early development through to its service in combat and the impact it has had on modern firearms.Dramatic battle reports and specially commissioned artwork complement the meticulously researched examination of the Mosin-Nagant provided by author Bill Harriman as he delves into the history of one of the most iconic rifles of World War II.


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Animation, Stop Motion | hdv | color | 2'52'' | USA | 2014
Jeu de Paume depicts a court tennis match at the Château de Fontainebleau, France, set in 1907. The stop-motion animation, filmed with a robotic hand-held camera, reflects the asymmetrical design of the court and the irregular rhythm of the game.
Joshua Mosley is Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Joshua is a recipient of fellowships including the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. His work has exhibited and screened at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bruce Museum, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donald Young Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.


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Many have discovered the power of a personal life coach. Life coaches help clients in several areas: designing the life they want, bringing out their brilliance and resources, achieving excellence, creating purposeful, extraordinary lives, and overcoming fears and obstacles.
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Navigating through the unpredictable territory of investing can be challenging and stressful for new investors. Although at its core, the concept of investing is simple, there are pitfalls that can trip up even those who consider themselves to be financially savvy. Some rookie investors say the idea of investing without any assurance of a return or the potential of a loss makes them hyperventilate. To make matters worse, according to a study conducted by Science Magazine, people under financial stress can lose as much as 13% of their IQ points. This often translates into poor investment decisions that are panic or emotion based. Experienced financial advisors point out however, that even if you make an initial mistake or two, it's possible to get back on track as long as you stay in the game.
The bottom line is investing does not have to be stressful and it can help you to achieve important long-term financial goals. If you are new to the investment process, it can be easy to overlook or skip some important steps. To give you a greater chance for success, we have put together the top ten dos and don'ts of investing.
Do take the time to evaluate your current financial circumstances to make sure that you clearly understand your investment goals and risk tolerance.
Don'trush into making an investment based on media hype, third party information or random advice from family and friends about potential windfalls.
Dotake the time to conduct your own research. Before you plunge your money into any investment plan, project or company, it is important to have, at least, a basic understanding of the investment process. For example; take the time to examine how the company you plan to invest in spend their money as well as their sales and marketing systems. Get expert advice on grey areas about mutual funds, stocks and bonds and learn the meaning of some of the common terminology used in the investment arena.
It also makes sense to have some understanding of the process before you take start discussing your financial goals, even if you plan to engage a financial advisor to help you with your investments. This advice also applies to conducting research into anyone you plan to invest in, invest with or retain to help you manage your money.
Don'tProcrastinate. People often believe they need a considerable sum of money before they can start investing. Even if you only have a small amount to invest now, compound interest can help you to earn more over a period of time than if you waited until you had a larger sum to invest five years from now. Once you have done your due diligence and have access to expert advice, move ahead as soon as possible with your investment plans.
Do plan for long term investment. Historically, people who engage in long term investments are more likely to get a better return. For instance, compounding interest works to your advantage over time and you'll most likely pay less in taxes. Plus, the inevitable ups and downs of the market becomes less significant for those who have settled in for the long haul. It also jettisons the emotional roller coaster associated with the short-term investment process.
Don't time the market. Trying to figure out the best time to enter or exit the market is a bad idea on many levels. To begin with, even financial experts shy away from this practice simply because the probability of failure is extremely high. In fact, studies have repeatedly shown that (a) there is less than 10% chance that people who use this strategy will make a profit, (b) investors who believe in market timing are almost certain to lose money; and (c) consistency is almost impossible. Trying to time the market as a new investor may be setting yourself up to lose money before you even get started.
Do diversify your investments. Even if you have a financial adviser, it is important to make sure that your portfolio is properly diversified. Diversification can help you to achieve better asset allocation. That means having a good mix of investments in stocks, bonds, different companies, industries and market as well as investing styles such as value versus growth and in local and global markets. According to the experts, the right diversification of your portfolio can provide a cushion against unpredictable fluctuations in the market.
Don't ignore fees. Before you make a commitment to any investment venture; count the costs in fees. Investment costs include brokerage account fees, trade commissions, mutual fund transaction fees, expense ratios, sales loads or sales commissions, advisory or management fees, 401(k) fees or Administrative fees. While you certainly cannot avoid fees associated with the investment process, there are ways to reduce them. Find out up front how much a service, account or trade will cost. With a little extra digging, you may be able to limit the amount you dish out and keep more of your profits.
Do keep a separate cash savings account. "Always arrange your affairs so that any requirements for cash you may conceivably have will be dwarfed by your own liquidity." This is a paraphrased statement by the great Warren Buffet which in essence is suggesting the you should always have access to cash if you need it. In other words, investments are for tomorrow, cash savings are for today.
A separate, cash savings account is a form of protection for your long-term investments. It provides the capability and peace of mind to address unexpected emergencies such as a broken air-condition unit in the middle of a hot summer without derailing your investment goals. Having a healthy savings account or liquidity in the form of short-term certificates of deposit can ensure that you never need to touch your long-term investments or retirement account.
Don't go it alone. A great way to avoid sabotaging your own financial interest is to work with a qualified and experienced investment manager or financial advisor. While it is true that today's investors have access to more information than ever before and expert advice does incur some costs, an experienced financial advisor can save you money in the long run. Unless you spend most of your day doing little else but studying investments, having a financial advisor could help you to make more financially savvy decisions and improve the returns on your investment.
*Historically, people who engage in long term investment are more likely to make money.


CUT each slice of bread into thirds making 12 pieces. Set aside.
WHISK together the eggs, milk, maple syrup, and vanilla.
SELECT Preheat on the Cosori Air Fryer, adjust to 350°F, and press Start/Pause. Allow to heat up.
DIP the bread sticks into the egg mixture and arrange into the preheated air fryer. Spray the French toast sticks liberally with cooking spray.
COOK the French toast sticks for 10 minutes at 350°F. Flip the sticks halfway through cooking.
MIX together the sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
COAT the French toast sticks in the cinnamon sugar mixture when done cooking.
SERVE with maple syrup and dust with powdered sugar.


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2014 (7) TMI 1143 - SUPREME COURT - Indian Laws
Arrest in a case under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter called as IPC) and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 - Held that:- If the provisions of Section 41, Cr.PC which authorises the police officer to arrest an accused without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant are scrupulously enforced, the wrong committed by the police officers intentionally or unwittingly would be reversed and the number of cases which come to the Court for grant of anticipatory bail will substantially reduce. We would like to emphasise that the practice of mechanically reproducing in the case diary all or most of the reasons contained in Section 41 Cr.PC for effecting arrest be discouraged and discontinued. Our endeavour in this judgment is to ensure that police officers do not arrest accused unnecessarily and Magistrate do not authorise detention casually and mechanically. In order to ensure what we have observed above, we give the following direction: All the State Governments to instruct its police officers not to automatically arrest when a case under Section 498-A of the IPC is registered but to satisfy themselves about the necessity for arrest under the parameters laid down above flowing from Section 41, Cr.PC; All police officers be provided with a check list containing specified sub- clauses under Section 41(1)(b)(ii); The police officer shall forward the check list duly filed and furnish the reasons and materials which necessitated the arrest, while forwarding/producing the accused before the Magistrate for further detention; The Magistrate while authorising detention of the accused shall peruse the report furnished by the police officer in terms aforesaid and only after recording its satisfaction, the Magistrate will authorise detention; The decision not to arrest an accused, be forwarded to the Magistrate within two weeks from the date of the institution of the case with a copy to the Magistrate which may be extended by the Superintendent of police of the district for the reasons to be recorded in writing; Notice of appearance in terms of Section 41A of Cr.PC be served on the accused within two weeks from the date of institution of the case, which may be extended by the Superintendent of Police of the District for the reasons to be recorded in writing; Failure to comply with the directions aforesaid shall apart from rendering the police officers concerned liable for departmental action, they shall also be liable to be punished for contempt of court to be instituted before High Court having territorial jurisdiction. Authorising detention without recording reasons as aforesaid by the judicial Magistrate concerned shall be liable for departmental action by the appropriate High Court. We hasten to add that the directions aforesaid shall not only apply to the cases under Section 498-A of the I.P.C. or Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, the case in hand, but also such cases where offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may be less than seven years or which may extend to seven years; whether with or without fine. We direct that a copy of this judgment be forwarded to the Chief Secretaries as also the Director Generals of Police of all the State Governments and the Union Territories and the Registrar General of all the High Courts for onward transmission and ensuring its compliance.
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Thirty-Two Years Ago Today: The Pine Tar Game
Gabriel Bogart
American League, Baseball History, Features, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees
Unless you've been living in a cave, with no electricity and, thusly, no chance in hell of having television or the Internet, you're probably quite familiar with The Pine Tar Game by now. Here's a little video to jog your memory if you thought I was taking a shot at Michael Pineda.
That's right folks, the infamous game wherein George Brett hit an eventually game-winning home run off of Goose Gossage, but was called out after Billy Martin got the umps to rule it an "illegally batted ball."
Why on earth would that be?
Well, according to Rule 1.10(c), "a bat may not be covered by such a substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the handle." The first element of comedy comes into play here, as the umpires, specifically home plate umpire Tim McClelland, measured the amount of pine tar with the width of home plate as their measuring stick. Home plate is 17 inches wide. Oops!
"Billy, I don't have a measuring tape on me, mind if I just eyeball it with home plate?" – Tim McClelland
Temporarily, this meant that the New York Yankees had won the game 4-to-3, but the Royals had already filed an official protest, which was heard by then American League President Lee McPhail. McPhail ended up siding with the Royals, mostly due to his view of the rule being more about economics than gaining an edge in power to drive the ball. To clarify, McPhail felt that the 'spirit' of the rule had more to do with pine tar getting on the balls, thus making them "discolored" and not eligible for official use.
Therefore, it has been theorized that, beyond Billy Martin's notorious genius for scheming any way to win, the economics angle is that the home team – in this case the Yankees – would want to be on the hook for as few replacement balls and their ensuing cost as possible. Essentially, McPhail believed the ball would have been a home run no matter how much pine tar Brett had applied to his bat. To my curious mind, I feel like he's not ever explicitly answered whether the amount of pine tar was in fact legal or not, according to the rules, not his summation of Economics 101. Don't get me wrong, though, I still agree with how he ruled it; anything to screw the Yankees.
So, the game was resumed on August 18th, again at Yankee Stadium. George Brett would be watching the game from an Italian restaurant in New Jersey with Don Ameche's son, Larry Ameche. Ameche was a sort of Travel Secretary for the Royals at the time. Why was Brett watching from a restaurant if he was eventually ruled safe? Well, McPhail had to find redress for Brett's near head-shearing assault on the umpiring crew, so he retroactively ejected him from the game.
To wrap it up, I thought it would be fun to dispense some trivial tidbits about this most notorious of games. For example, did you know that the Yankees attempted to charge an extra entrance fee (approximately $2.50) to the resumption of the game? Due to legal battles concerning how people would be admitted into the game's ending, the Royals were uncertain that the game would even be played until they landed in Newark that day. I highly doubt anything like this would be allowed to happen today. Also of note, due to an injured Bert Campaneris, Don Mattingly played second base, albeit for only one third of an inning. Yet, his third of an inning marks the last time a left-handed-throwing player has played the middle infield.
Lastly, there were three Hall of Famers who participated in the action over those two days: George Brett and Goose Gossage, obviously, but also the ever-crafty Gaylord Perry, who tried to steal the bat by giving it to the bat boy, who was then pursued and cornered by Yankee security staff in the Royals locker room.
Even though I said these kinds of events could never happen in today's game, sometimes I do wish for the un-sanitized, rough-and-tumble days of this kind of baseball insanity.
Happy 32nd birthday to The Pine Tar Game!
Billy MartinGeorge BrettGoose GossageKansas City RoyalsLee McPhailNew York YankeesTim McCLelland
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Disclaimer: The good folks at Kerrygold provided me with a copy of Coldagh's Kitchen Diaries and coupons for their fantabulous butter. I highly recommend both.
I have found a new outlet to get baked goods out of my house….it's called daycare. Not that my coworkers have tired of being on the receiving end of what comes out of my kitchen. It's just that it's good to have options. And now that my daily activities include daycare drop-off and pick-up, I can spread the love (and the calories) around a little further.
When The Mistah and I became parents, it was with less than 48 hours notice. So where most parents have nine months to plan, prepare, and make arrangement for life after a baby arrives, we were winging it. Our heads were still spinning at the idea of a baby as we swept through the aisles at Target and Babies R Us to get the stuff that we thought we might need. And even though the list of what you really need to bring a baby home can be rather short, those carts filled up pretty damn quickly.
So the buying tons of stuff part of becoming parents got taken care of. And then we brought Lib home. And the taking care of a little person got underway. Which led to buying more stuff to take care of our little person. It went on like this for a while. And then one day, two and a half months had gone by and I needed to go back to work.
It was only after we became parents that I had any understanding about how hard it is to get an infant into daycare. When you are able to estimate your child's arrival in the world, you've got the luxury of time on your side. You can go to a daycare and get a spot in their infant program. When your family grows by +1 overnight, the stars need to align, the Universe needs to smile on you, and you need to make a wish upon a falling star to find a daycare center that has openings for an infant.
And as if I needed further proof that the Universe was smiling on our adoption, we managed to do just that. Now our child is charming her way into the hearts of the folks at daycare, one day at a time. Seriously, she has her own fanclub at daycare…teachers from other classrooms come by to see her and say hello.
As her parent, I want to make sure I acknowledge the people who spend their day caring for my child so that I can spend my day at work. And it never hurts to build a little goodwill for those days when my normally charming child chooses to be a devilish handful.
If you find yourself hankering for a little mint chocolate fix, wanting to say say thank you, or maybe even apologizing in advance for something that your child may or may not do in the days to come, these cupcakes have your back.
BAH Note: If you don't have self rising flour in your pantry, you can substitute 1 cup all purpose flour + 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder + 1/4 teaspoon salt. My cupcakes sank in the middle as they cooled….that could have been my doing or not….I just used the frosting to camouflage that and nobody was the wiser.
Heat your oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tin with 9 or 10 baking cups.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, and chocolate chips.
In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating until thoroughly combined before adding the next one. Add the mint extract and then use a spatula to fold in the flour mixture until combined.
Divide the batter among the baking cups and bake for 20 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of the cupcakes comes out clean. Cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes before turning the cupcakes out and cooling completely on a rack.
BAH Note: If you want a richer frosting, add up to an additional 1/2 stick butter. Taste the frosting and if you want a mintier flavor, add another 1/2 teaspoon extract.
Combine butter and marshmallow in the work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium until completely smooth. Reduce speed to low and add confectioners sugar, mint extract, and salt. Continue to beat until smooth and fluffy. If using food color, add it a few drops at a time and mix until the color is distributed. Add more food color to get your desired shade of green.
Frost your cupcakes, garnish with mini chocolate chips, and enjoy.
dw loooooves the mint + chocolate combination. i am most interested in your marshmallow fluff icing.
Marshmallow buttercream is heavenly.� And mint + chocolate is always the right answer.
Didn't think there could be anything that would improve the marshmallow buttercream. I was wrong.
Oma, I forgot that you have already had the pleasure of meeting marshmallow buttercream. Hope you like this version just as much!
We wouldn't have had the presence of mind to think of half of what we needed if you hadn't been there. So you see, the Universe knew I would need you in B'more that weekend and it lured you here with the promise of #crabcakecrawl and a #boxofwine.
You give me too much credit. And as awesome & memorable as #crabcakecrawl was, now we know for sure we will never, ever forget that weekend! I'm gonna crave crab cakes every year on the munchkin's birthday.


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Adelaide produced a battling effort to open their AFL win account for the year with a 26-point win over a struggling Sydney side at the SCG.
The Crows booted six goals to two after half-time on Friday and broke the game open in the third quarter, kicking 3.5 to 0.4 on their way to a 12.16 (88) to 8.14 (62) victory.
Adelaide were more efficient in their ball movement and hitting forward targets against a Swans side which has kicked just 15 goals in their first two games.
Sydney kicked five goals in the second quarter, but paid a costly price for not applying more scoreboard pressure in the others, as they were pressured into errors by the Crows intensity.
Adelaide coach Don Pyke said it was a good response from his side after last week's first up home loss to Hawthorn.
"'We probably conceded that second quarter but i just thought their work rate and their effort throughout the night, with some good passages of ball movement," Pyke said.
"We hung in there and that was the pleasing part, the guys just continued to give effort and found a way at the end."
As happened in their opening same, Sydney kicked the first goal but conceded the next four and trailed 29-8 as they did at quarter-time against the Western Bulldogs last weekend.
The first quarter highlight was a monster 60-metre goal to the Crows' 'Paul Seedsman.
He kicked two goals, with Sydney booting three of the last four majors of the quarter to trail by just four points at half-time.
Sydney couldn't get the deficit below 17 in the last quarter, with Adelaide kicking three of the last four goals.
Swans; coach Joihn Longmire said his team competed better than last week but were undone by skill errors.
"Lack of polish in the end hurt us, the basic fundamental skill areas that we weren't able to execute." Longmire said.
''We got the ball out in space, we'd miss a handball, drop an easy mark and going the other way they were able to take some marks we should have been able to spoil."
Tireless co-captain Josh Kennedy tallied a match-high 36 touches for Sydney..


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Major fire at Gupta market in Malad
A total of 12 fire tenders bring blaze under control after nearly five hours; no casualty reported
By Express News Service |Mumbai | Published: May 30, 2018 2:15:38 am
Fireman at Malad market on Tuesday. Amit Chakravarty
A MASSIVE fire broke out at Gupta market behind the famous M M Mithaiwala shop outside Malad (West) station at around 7 am on Tuesday. No casualties have been reported, said BMC's disaster management unit.
While the cause of the fire is yet to be officially ascertained, a Malad Fire Brigade (MFB) official said a short circuit is believed to have led to the blaze.
It took 12 fire tenders four hours and 55 minutes to bring the blaze under control. The narrow and dingy alley between M M Mithaiwala and the Balaji restaurant made it difficult for the firefighters to enter the congested market area, that too amid thick smoke.
The shop where the fire broke out is a one-storey structure located outside the Gupta Market, opposite Malad West station. Even commuters at Malad station faced problems, as smoke entered the station and led to traffic snarls between Malad West station and SV road.
The blaze further spread to various shops in Gupta Market, including those selling stationary, garments and imitation jewellery. Around 20 to 25 shops around M M Mithaiwala were burnt, said officials, adding that it is yet to be ascertained where the fire started.
"The fire was confined to an area of 5,000 to 7,000 metres. The market houses several small shops selling stationeries, items used for offering prayers, garments and imitation jewellery along with the sweet manufacturers' cooking area. Luckily, it was early morning and the place was not crowded… none of the shops had opened. Hence, there were no casualties. Had the incident occurred later in the day, it would have led to huge loss, as the place is very congested," said Prabhat Rahangdale, MFB chief fire officer.
Rahangdale added that his team carried out the firefighting operation strategically to ensure that if anybody was stuck, he could be rescued immediately.
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Indian fighter jets crash: One in Pakistan territory, pilot 'taken alive', claims Pak
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By IANS Last updated Feb 27, 2019 - 1:54 PM
New Delhi/Islamabad: Two Indian fighter jets crashed on Wednesday, one in Jammu and Kashmir's Badgam district and the other across the Line of Control (LoC), whose pilot has been captured alive, as claimed by Pakistani authorities. However, there is no official confirmation on the reports so far.
In a tweet by the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces (PAF), said: "In response to PAF strikes this morning as released by MoFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), IAF crossed LoC. PAF shot down two Indian aircraft inside Pakistani airspace. One of the aircraft fell inside AJ&K (Pakistan administered Kashmir)… One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground."
DG ISPR, Pakistan, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said, "There are reports of crash of an Indian aircraft on the Indian side (in Budgam), we had no engagement with that aircraft."
The crash in Badgam was 7 km from the Srinagar International Airport, police said. It resulted in the suspension of commercial flight operations in Leh, Pathankot, Jammu and Srinagar.
Earlier top Jammu and Kashmir police sources said three PAF F-16 fighter jets violated Indian airspace in Nowshera sector, but were pushed back by the Indian side.
"The jets entered into the Indian air space over Nowshera sector of Rajouri district this morning," a police official said, adding that the Indian fighter jets on air patrol immediately scrambled and pushed them back beyond the LoC.
There were no immediate reports of the Pakistani side having dropped any payload in the Indian territory.
Indian Air Defence Systems have been put of maximum alert.


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Le'Veon Bell Reveals The Teams Who Inquired About Him At Trade Deadline, And It Included The Steelers
by Nick Dimengo November 1, 2019 12:37 pm
Le'Veon Bell is an All-Pro talent who decided to play for a, seemingly, semi-pro NFL team when he signed with the New York Jets this past offseason. While the running back did get big money — four years and $52.5 million, to be exact — the fact that the team's head coach, Adam Gase, didn't even want to sign him in the first place was proof that this relationship may have been strained from the jump.
Add in the dysfunction around the Jets' front office — which fired former general manager Mike Maccagnan after the guy used up their salary cap space and signed Bell, among other players — and Le'Veon Bell's welcome to New York party was short-lived AF.
Fast-forward to this week, and reports had the Jets actually exploring trades for Le'Veon Bell before the NFL Trade Deadline. While the team, ultimately, decided to hang on to the guy, it's further proof that this thing is totally F'ed up. And, although the Jets' current general manager, Joe Douglas, did consult Bell to let him know about the trade reports, it still shows how backwards the entire franchise is.
So which teams were calling the Jets about Le'Veon Bell? According to the running back, who opened up about the trade rumors on his Sirius XM podcast 17 Weeks, there were a handful of teams — one of which was the Pittsburgh Steelers, who Bell played for before signing with the Jets, and had an awkward holdout with all of last season.
"There was a lot of trade speculations and rumors about, you know, me getting traded obviously from the Jets to other, multiple teams," Bell said, via Pro Football Talk. "And they were actually true. There were times where — I found out from my agent, you know, he had talked to the Jets and things like that. But there were teams like Houston, the Packers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and surprisingly the Steelers, were all in the mix of trying to trade for me."
"The Jets were really asking for a high price and a lot for me," Bell said. "On top of that, my actual contract was kind of tough for teams to deal with, which is understandable. Not too many teams want to pay that high of a price for a running back.
"To be honest, I was not trying to take a pay cut, simply for the fact that I sat out a full year of football to get what I earned and deserved. That would've kind of defeated the whole purpose, so I didn't want to do that."
Could you imagine Le'Veon Bell rejoining the Steelers after the awkwardness of last season? With James Conner likely out for a couple weeks with an AC joint injury, Bell could've picked up for the Pro Bowler, but, damn, that could have been weird.
While Bell seemed pretty cool with all the trade rumors after the fact, he did praise GM Joe Douglas for being so candid with him about the whole process, saying that the front office exec did his part to loop in the player throughout, while also reiterating that teams were calling the Jets, not the other way around.
"[H]e took his time out to call me," Bell said. "He kind of told me that they weren't really shopping me in a sense but teams kind of inquired about me before the trade deadline. And, you know, he was honest with me, he said he was open to it. But like I said earlier, teams were really asking for a lot and he wasn't really trying to give me up for something he didn't feel like would help the New York Jets in the future. And he obviously feels like I'm a player who can help turn this team around."
Le'Veon Bell used to be one of the most dynamic players in the NFL. And while he's still young, hungry and, presumably, fresh after a year away from football in 2018, playing for a crappy Jets organization doesn't give too much hope that he'll rediscover those skills that led him to such a big payday.
(H/T Total Pro Sports)
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Presentation by Commissioner Anthony Perl on his takeaways from the 9th World Urban Forum.
From February 7 to February 13 23,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the 9th World Urban Forum.
WUF9 was the most diverse urban gathering ever convened by the United Nations.
The Kuala Lumpur Declaration emphasized the need to implement the New Urban Agenda from the ground up.
Channel energy from the shame of your city to begin engagement on the NUA (New Urban Agenda).
Vancouver has plenty to be ashamed of; but we are not alone in the world when it comes to developing solutions that meet basic human needs.
Public officials should take inspiration from the daily prayers of those seeking help from a higher power.
Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini identified prayer as a focus for urban servant leadership.
Urban leaders should try and answer the prayers of those who call for help in this way.
Local officials have the greatest opportunity to gain and keep the trust needed to achieve the NUA.
According to Carola Gunnarsson, Mayor of Sala, Sweden, it's all about trust.
The NUA will require more than the incremental change that higher orders of government usually offer.
Inspiring confidence that the NUA will result in widespread benefits is both necessary and possible in urban governance.
A new mode of scrutiny is needed to recharge urban democracy.
What is the cure for "Democracy fatigue"?
Choosing random citizens to examine local government (in)actions could bring new energy to Vancouver's civic engagement.
Can these and other lessons from WUF9 help open the door to Vancouver's pursuit of the New Urban Agenda?


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Entrepreneur Ray Leonard Jr. to launch new book in fall
'Life Success Playbook'
OW Staff Writer | 7/9/2020, midnight
Ray Leonard Jr. needs little introduction.
He will forever be remembered appearing with his famous father, hall of famer boxer Sugar Ray Leonard in the 1970's iconic 7-Up commercial capturing the hearts of millions.
Ray Leonard Jr, now all-grown up, is a former two-sport division one collegiate athlete and former sports agent, credits his father's talk with him about opportunities.
"I've always remembered the words from my father that remain with me today, 'Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities,'" says Ray. "I believe that all our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Ray is a husband and father of four children and believes "young people need a strong sense of their strengths, abilities, interests, and values," he says.
He has dedicated his life to helping others and as an active supporter of many causes and a youth coach and mentor, Ray brings energy, excitement and insight to any setting.
Ray is a motivational keynote speaker, radio host, actor and award-winning business executive. He is also the co-founder of Launch Team Consulting, Inc., which focuses on diversity, leadership and corporate culture training.
Additionally, Ray is also the co-owner of Universal Media Group, a media conglomerate whose corporate focus is on the implementation of celebrity-based programming, social media and interactive TV. The company is known for its cutting-edge technology in media through music, with sports and empowering the millennial generation.
As a motivational speaker, Ray has an ability to connect with his audience and instills the virtues of leadership, discipline, awareness and control in talks to various businesses, organizations and the military during his extensive travels.
Ray will release his passion project in the fall: "Ray Leonard Jr's Life Success Playbook," a dynamic book of heartfelt inspiration, life lessons and practical strategies to drive change for young people.
The Maryland native resides in California and is a graduate of Ohio University with a BS in Sports Management and a BA in Business Administration.
Tune in to all things Ray Leonard Jr. @rayleonardjr.
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It is disappointing to see that the only agenda the Pakatan Rakyat parties and supporters have a care for is the immediate release of their leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, even to the point of willing to barter away our sovereignty.
While the United States embassy was quick to issue out a statement to say they were "disappointed" by the verdict, it is a travesty for their supporters to sign a petition calling for a foreign nation to interfere in local affairs.
How quick are Pakatan leaders to forget the lessons of history, of how the US has used its might and power to trigger international flashpoints across the world from the Iran-Contra issue, to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the toppling of Iraq over non-existent weapons of mass destruction, let alone its continued support for the state of Israel and against the recognition of the Palestine state.
Even with the threat of us losing our ability to govern our nation and conduct trade by ourselves independently through the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), it seems that Pakatan and its supporters would prefer to barter these off simply for some words from the US government in support of Anwar's release.
By doing this, Pakatan and especially PKR has abandoned their call for reformation which was always one for Malaysians alone without foreign intervention and instead has shown their preference for foreigners to intervene in the rule of law in Malaysia.
So I ask everyone, is one person really worth sacrificing the entire nation for?
As at time of writing, some 27,000 Malaysians seem to think so.
According to the petition, Anwar is a "political prisoner" and the American government must follow up with action. What kind of action are they proposing is left vague.
With Pakatan promoting this petition to its supporters, allow me to ask this; what if the US puts forward trade sanctions on Malaysia? Think about it.
According to Matrade statistics, the US is the third largest trade partner for our country last year amounting to RM8.01 billion.
Or worse, what if the trade off is that we sign off on the TPPA which, if we were to believe the unproven words of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, has benefits outweighing its costs?
Is Anwar worth the signing of a biased trade agreement that will threaten affirmative action policies, more expensive medicine due to the extension of patents, and even the inclusion of foreign companies for government procurement?
Because this is what is at stake here.
And the fact that those who were against the trade deal even going through in Pakatan suddenly asking their supporters to sign this clearly shows they would willingly give up the country for one of their leaders.
So congratulations to them on finally showing their political stripes and just how far they are willing to sell out the people they vowed to defend.
Malaysians should not unwittingly support something so blindly. The spirit of Reformasi has always been an internal call for Malaysians supported by Malaysians, and that would have been an internal matter. Sad to see even their leaders forgetting that. – February 11, 2015.
* Hafidz Baharom reads The Malaysian Insider.


I am not a numbers person – never have been. In fact, I'm about as far from a numbers person as one can get. A numbers person might say that if a numbers person is represented by the number 100, I would be represented by -100. Numbers result in the sum of all fears in me.
If I'm asked to math in my head, I'm seized by panic – even if it's basic math. If given sufficient time and privacy and perhaps a pencil and paper, I could solve that basic math. However, if there is anyone present, waiting for the answer – if there is any audience to the calculation – I am paralyzed by performance anxiety. Any attempt to see the equation in my mind is prevented by a barrage of thoughts, usually centered on the belief that I'm the equivalent of a fool.
Instead of the numbers involved in the equation being tabulated in my mind, I'm adding up all of my inadequacies in an exponentially growing list of self-deprecating words and phrases. I am imagining that each of these thoughts is also crossing the mind of my audience.
To the audience: 169 + 565 = 734. However, in my mind 169 + 565 = "Um…5 + 9 = 14…carry the 1…um…quick, quick quick….how much time has passed?…um…I'm an idiot…can everyone else do this except me?… what's the average speed for solving this in one's head?...why don't they just use the calculator on their phone?...we should have stopped attempting math in our heads once we invented the calculator watch…when was that anyway? 1980?...um…6 + 6 = 12 + the 1 we carried = 13… so far I have _34…how long ago did they ask me?
At this point minutes have passed – yes, minutes. Shameful, I know. You are likely judging me the way my audience does but you're all right. It should not take me, a fully grown woman, minutes to do a basic math problem in my head. Only a fool would struggle with basic math, so I must be a fool. But I would contend that this is a legitimate medical handicap – mathematically induced performance anxiety.
What is the treatment for this condition? What is the solution to this problem? My solution is to finally expel some number from my mouth – any number that will put an end to this experiment in torture. I essentially vomit out a collection of numbers from my head that have been crudely constructed amongst the pyramid of shame in my mind. Inevitably, it is the wrong number and the audience, already horrified at the time that it has taken me to compute in my mind, is shocked silent. And I too am silent, now calculating the probability that I will ever see this person again.


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Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier: George Floyd 'could be me'
Published Mon, Jun 1 20208:40 AM EDT Updated Mon, Jun 1 202010:23 AM EDT
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"What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, is being treated as less than human," Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier told CNBC.
Frazier also said business leaders can be a "unifying force" in helping to calm a nation convulsed by protests over police brutality and economic destruction from the coronavirus.
Merck CEO on unrest over police brutality: George Floyd 'could be me'
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier told CNBC on Monday that George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police, could have been him.
"What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, is being treated as less than human," Frazier said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
Protests have erupted across the United States over the death of Floyd. Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes before Floyd died as other officers stood by. He was fired by the department and later arrested on charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
"What the community saw was, until they went out into the streets, this officer — much less even the other officers — was not even going to be arrested for what was clearly inhumane treatment of a citizen," Frazier said.
He noted racial inequities across U.S. society, from education to health care to the criminal justice system.
"Even though we don't have laws that separate people on the basis of race anymore, we still have customs, we still have beliefs, we still have policies and practices that lead to inequities," Frazier said.
As a child growing up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, Frazier, 65, was among inner-city African Americans bused out to schools more than an hour away.
"I know for sure that what put my life on a different trajectory was that someone intervened to give me an opportunity, to close that opportunity gap," he said. "And that opportunity gap is still there."
Frazier said that leaders in the business community can be a "unifying force" and have the ability to create jobs and new opportunities. More than 41 million Americans have lost their jobs since mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic upends the U.S. economy.
"Joblessness leads to hopelessness," he said. "Hopelessness leads to what we see in the streets."
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Before Frazier was interviewed, Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson told "Squawk Box" the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality.
"Now is the time to go big," the 74-year-old Johnson said.
To Frazier, change through the "polarized" U.S. political system is more difficult.
"I don't believe that we'll be able to get anything like that through our political system," he said.
As the country also grapples with the pandemic, Frazier also urged unity after the civil unrest and health crisis both pass.
"The fact of the matter is no one of us can rebuild this great country, and the good news is none of us has to do it our own," he said. "Together, we can actually make this the country that stands for the ideals that have always been behind it."
BET founder Bob Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery


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Prima di diventare allenatore, Ataman ha giocato nelle file dell'Eczacıbaşı e del Yeşilyurt.

Carriera

Primi anni
Ataman ha iniziato la sua carriera di allenatore con la squadra giovanile dell'Eczacıbaşı, prima di passare alla squadra giovanile dell'Efes Pilsen. Nel 1996 Ataman viene assunto come capo allenatore dalla Türk Telekom, squadra di BSL, per poi spostarsi al Pınar Karşıyaka e successivamente all'Efes Pilsen. Ataman è stato inoltre vice allenatore della nazionale turca guidata da Ercüment Sunter ad EuroBasket 1997, raggiungendo l'ottavo posto. Durante la stagione 1998-99, Ataman ha svolto il compito di osservatore per la Stanford University.

Dopo il suo ritorno in Europa, Ataman firmò con la Montepaschi Siena, diventando così il primo allenatore turco ad allenare in Italia. A Siena rimane per due stagioni, facendo fare il salto di qualità alla squadra ed alla società, portandole entrambe ad alti livelli. Nella stagione 2001-02 ha condotto la Mens Sana alle sue prime finali, quella di Coppa Italia persa dopo un supplementare contro la Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, e quella più prestigiosa di Coppa Saporta, vinta in quel di Lione contro il Valencia. Nel campionato italiano ha guidato la squadra fino al quinto posto assoluto in campionato.
Nella stagione successiva, guida la Mens Sana alle prime Final Four di Eurolega della propria storia, classificandosi terza. Nel campionato italiano ha portato la squadra a giocarsi le semifinali scudetto, un traguardo mai raggiunto fino ad allora dalla società biancoverde.

Dopo l'esperienza senese il coach torna in Turchia per allenare l'Ülkerspor per il triennio 2003-2006. Durante questo periodo, Ataman alza al cielo sette trofei, tre coppe di Turchia, tre coppe del Presidente ed una coppa del campionato turco.

Dopo aver lasciato la Turchia per motivi personali, Ataman ritorna in Italia per allenare la Climamio Bologna dopo l'esonero di Fabrizio Frates, ma questa esperienza non si rivela felice come quella senese; infatti il coach viene a sua volta esonerato per fare spazio a Massimiliano Oldoini.

Ataman torna quindi in Turchia, allenando per una stagione il Beşiktaş.

Beşiktaş Cola Turka
La stagione di Ataman al Beşiktaş andò ogni oltre aspettativa, portando la squadra di Istanbul alle Final Eight di ULEB Cup di Torino, grazie anche ad una striscia di 10 vittorie consecutive durante la regular season. Nella prima partita tra squadra turche in ULEB Cup, il Beşiktaş perse la partita contro il Galatasaray Cafe Crown, venendo così subito eliminata dalla competizione. In campionato, il Beşiktaş finì la regular season al comando, venendo però eliminata ai quarti di finale dal Banvitspor. La sconfitta portò la dirigenza del club a non rinnovare il contratto.

Efes Pilsen
Solo una settimana dopo la scadenza del contratto, Ataman firma un biennale con l'Efes Pilsen. Nella sua prima stagione alla guida dell'Efes, Ataman vince il campionato turco, la coppa di Turchia e la coppa del Presidente. La stagione successiva non fu vincente come quella precedente, portando la società a liberare il coach al termine della stagione 2009-2010.

Ritorno al Beşiktaş
A gennaio 2011, Ataman ritorna ad allenare il Beşiktaş, chiudendo però la stagione 2010-2011 senza vincere alcuna competizione. Nella stagione successiva, il Beşiktaş vince la sua prima Coppa di Turchia, battendo il Banvit in finale; ad aprile, Ataman vinse la EuroChallenge, battendo in finale l'Élan Chalon. La stagione si concluse con la vittoria del campionato, battendo nella serie finale l'Anadolu Efes.

Galatasaray Odeabank
Il 22 giugno 2012, Ataman firma un contratto pluriennale con il Galatasaray Odeabank, riuscendo subito a riportare il club alla vittoria del campionato turco battendo in finale il Banvitspor, titolo che mancava alla società dalla stagione 1989-90.

Il 22 marzo 2013, Ataman diventa anche il capo allenatore della nazionale turca, prendendo il posto di Bogdan Tanjević.

All'inizio della stagione 2014-2015, il Galatasaray ebbe problemi finanziari, i quali portarono anche ad una crisi di risultati. Molti giocatori boicottarono gli allenamenti, alimentando così la frustrazione ed i conflitti all'interno della squadra stessa. Il 19 ottobre 2014, Ataman è coinvolto in uno scontro con Nolan Smith, il quale dopo una sostituzione, lanciò l'asciugamano contro l'allenatore stesso. La settimana successiva, il giocatore lascia la squadra turca.
Il 21 novembre 2014, durante la conferenza stampa dopo la partita giocata contro la Crvena zvezda, Ataman definì terroristi tutti i tifosi della Stella Rossa dopo gli scontri avvenuti alla fine del match Galatasaray-Stella Rossa, scontri che hanno portato all'uccisione di un tifoso serbo. A causa delle sue dichiarazioni, il primo ministro serbo Aleksandar Vučić annunciò che Ataman era "persona non più gradita in Serbia".

Il 6 giugno 2015, Ataman firma un'estensione biennale con il club per un valore complessivo di un milione di euro.

Il 27 aprile 2016, il Galatasaray sconfisse lo Strasbourg IG nella finale di EuroCup, giocata alla Abdi İpekçi Arena, vincendo così per la terza volte un titolo europeo.

Il 31 agosto 2016, Ataman decide di lasciare la guida della nazionale turca per dedicarsi completamente al Galatasaray.

Anadolu Efes
Il 18 dicembre 2017, Ataman firma un contratto di un anno e mezzo con l'Anadolu Efes, chiudendo la prima stagione in semifinale di campionato.

Nella stagione successiva, Ataman torna a vincere il campionato turco. Inoltre riesce a portare la sua squadra alle Final Four di Eurolega, venendo però sconfitto in finale dal CSKA Mosca.
Ataman riesce finalmente a vincere l'Eurolega nella stagione 2020-2021, battendo in finale il Barcellona per 81-86.

Si ripete l'anno successivo battendo in finale il Real Madrid per 57-58.

Statistiche

EuroLeague

Palmarès

Squadra

Competizioni nazionali

Efes Pilsen: 2008-09
Beşiktaş: 2011-12
Galatasaray: 2012-13
Anadolu Efes: 2018-19, 2020-21

Ülkerspor: 2003-04, 2004-05
Efes Pilsen: 2008-09
Beşiktaş: 2011-12
Anadolu Efes: 2018, 2022

Türk Telekom Ankara: 1997
Ülkerspor: 2003, 2004, 2005
Efes Pilsen: 2000, 2009
Anadolu Efes: 2018, 2019, 2022

Competizioni internazionali

Mens Sana Siena: 2001-02

Beşiktaş: 2011-12

Galatasaray: 2015-16

Anadolu Efes: 2020-21, 2021-22

Individuale

Anadolu Efes: 2020-21

Note

Voci correlate
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Collegamenti esterni

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