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Beyond Regulation: Securing Sensitive Data in a Shifting Landscape
As security threats increase and become more sophisticated, organizations face pressure to implement strong processes and technology solutions to ensure compliance and the safety of critical assets. The risks associated with a data breach can be devastating, regardless of whether it is due to a simple mistake, or a stolen end-point device such as a laptop. The impact goes beyond fines and lost revenue, to negatively impacting an organization's brand identity and equity, or jeopardizing customers' trust. Providing greater clarity, as well as aligning with industry changes and best practices, Version 2.0 of the PCI DSS standard went into effect earlier this month.
Considering Moving Off IMS? Think Again
The idea of moving off IMS might seem compelling at first glance, but once you look at the whole picture, you might think otherwise. Most people think of cost as the primary reason to move off IMS. But if you look at all of the comparative costs of IMS on a mainframe against a WINDOWS/UNIX solution, you will find that running IMS is actually cost-effective. The obvious cost elements are hardware and software and the huge expense of converting hundreds of thousands of lines of code and hundreds of databases. However, these are only a small part of the story.
DBTA Hadoop Webcast Now Available on Demand
Database Trends and Applications recently hosted an educational webcast to explain how organizations can extract business intelligence and business value from large and complex data, with Apache Hadoop. In a recent Unisphere Research study conducted for the Independent Oracle Users Group, nearly two-thirds of respondents reported more than 5 terabytes of data online and 20% reported more than 100 terabytes of data, according to DBTA president Tom Wilson, who pointed out that as recently as earlier in the past decade, a single terabyte environment was considered unusual enough to be reported as news. With data stores now growing at breakneck speed, users have begun to search for new ways of integrating information to provide a single view of the business and to delivery actionable information for business decision makers.
What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) systems are used to improve an enterprise's decision making by combining tools for gathering, storing, accessing, and analyzing business data. While traditional features for querying, reporting, and analytics have long been the core focus of these tools, BI has evolved in recent years to become comprehensive, enterprise-wide platforms, and newer trends, such as self-service BI, have helped to continue interest in this technology.
What is Data Analysis and Data Mining?
The exponentially increasing amounts of data being generated each year make getting useful information from that data more and more critical. The information frequently is stored in a data warehouse, a repository of data gathered from various sources, including corporate databases, summarized information from internal systems, and data from external sources. Analysis of the data includes simple query and reporting, statistical analysis, more complex multidimensional analysis, and data mining.
What is Oracle MySQL Database?
With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users design and manage complex applications and data sets, and has gained a substantial share of the overall DBMS market.
Preserving Data Integrity
When designing a system an architect must conform to all three corners of the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Accessibility) triangle. System requirements for data confidentiality are driven not only by business rules but also by legal and compliance requirements. As such, the data confidentiality (when required) must be preserved at any cost and irrespective of performance, availability or any other implications. Integrity and Accessibility, the other two sides of triangle, may have some flexibility in design.
Eventual Consistency
The NoSQL acronym suggests it's the SQL language that is the key difference between traditional relational and newer non-relational data stores. However, an equally significant divergence is in the NoSQL consistency and transaction models. Indeed, some have suggested that NoSQL databases would be better described as "NoACID" databases - since they avoid the "ACID" transactions of the relational world.
How Many Data Models Does It Take?
Back in the 1970s, the ANSI SPARC three-tiered model arose, foreshadowing a smooth intertwining of data and architectural design. The three tiers concept isolated the physical storage needs of data structures independent of business' perception of these structures. The three levels were comprised of schemas labeled external, conceptual, and internal, with each level describing the data in focus from varying perspectives.
A Data-Tinged Look Back at 2010
As my regular readers know, toward the end of each year I devote an edition of my column to review the significant data and database-related events of the past year. Of course, to meet my deadlines, the column is written before the year is over (this column is being written in November 2010), so please excuse any significant news that may have happened late in the year!
Denali - It's the Future
In line with recent SQL Server releases, Microsoft on Nov. 9 announced at the PASS Summit that the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of SQL Server 11 - codenamed Denali (after the Alaska mountain also known as Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America) - is available for download and evaluation. This is our first opportunity to look at some of the features that will form the basis for the next major release of SQL Server, expected to be fully available in the second half of 2011.
InterSystems Adds Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Amazon EC2 Platform
InterSystems Corporation, which specializes in advanced integration, database, and business intelligence technologies for breakthrough applications, has announced that support for the latest 2010 releases of the InterSystems CACHÉ database and InterSystems Ensemble integration and development platform is now available on the Amazon EC2 platform with 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the guest operating system.
New Analysis Cubes Available from MITS
MITS, a provider of online analytical processing business intelligence and operational reporting solutions, has announced the availability of two completely new OLAP cubes for its Discover analytics solution.
Revelation Software Announces Winter 2010 - Spring 2011 Training Schedule
Revelation Software offers regularly scheduled classes for OpenInsight.
Rocket Software Unveils U2 DataVu Query; Releases U2 Web DE 5.5
Rocket Software has announced a free product called U2 DataVu Query. This tool provides fully functioning capabilities to graphically build queries against U2 data sources, including the ability to group and aggregate information to provide totals, and to print the results or export them to PDF. All queries built with U2 DataVu Query can be reused in U2 DataVu Report and Dashboard without any re-coding. Instructional material on using U2 DataVu Query can be found on the U2 Developer Zone section of Rocket U2's website.
Summit Professional Education Doubles Speed and Accuracy of Order Entry with Entrinsik's SEMtek and Informer
Entrinsik Software has announced that Summit Professional Education (SPE), a global training company, has implemented SEMtek ERP software and Informer Web Reporting software.


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WHAT is the point of the Daily Mail's new cartoonist Paul Thomas? His drawings are just not funny, in fact they are embarassingly bad. Every day.
Thomas was hired to replace the brilliant Mac, Stan McMurtry, who retired last December.
Yesterday he plumbed new depths by drawing a cartoon, pictured above, which not only isn't funny but doesn't make sense.
Does anyone get the 'joke'? The Drone can't explain it.
The editor should have taken Mr Thomas aside and whispered in his ear: "Could you have another think, old man?"
For that matter, the Mail On Sunday cartoonist Michael Heath isn't much better either.
It's a sad state of affairs when newspapers lose their sense of humour.
*An observant reader points out that the cartoon has a headline to which the answer is No.
The former Daily Mail editor has revealed all in The Spectator. Read his fascinating piece here
BY POPBITCH
BOSSES at the Daily Mail are planning a power grab — by merging its Sunday sister title into a seven-day operation.
The action, which would hit jobs and put the daily paper in the driving seat, comes as the Mail on Sunday is on the backfoot after getting served by Meghan Markle.
The plan will be met with some resistance. The old guard at the MoS don't much care for the daily's recent chumminess with the celebrity set under new editor Geordie Greig.
It didn't escape their notice that Greig offered his good friend David Furnish a massive deal for the serialisation rights to Elton John's new memoir (a deal which has ended up doing naff all for their sales).
But the thing that really caused raised eyebrows was Geordie agreeing to turn off the comments underneath the online version to avoid any unwanted "negativity".
Wretched Reach plans to sack 20 more staff
TWENTY staff are facing redundancy at Reach as the news group continues to integrate teams following its buyout of Express Newspapers.
The proposals affect staff working on the group's national titles within the supplements, celebrity magazines, sport and fashion departments.
Reach bought OK!, New! and Star magazines as part of its £127million deal with Richard Desmond last year, which saw it acquire the Express and Star titles.
Former Mirrorman Revel Barker commented: "How odd is it to realise that 'in our day' we were working in a period of wealth, stability and even (comparative) sanity?"
By ESTHER HARROD
Exactly another year on and here we are again, back on holiday in beautiful Cornwall, taking time to visit our old friend and colleague, Gentleman JIM DAVIES.
When we visited Jim and Pat in 2018, he hadn't been in good health for several months. Things picked up for a bit, but unfortunately Jim was unwell again earlier this year and had to undergo an operation. I'm glad to report that Jim is on good form once again and the consultant has now signed him off.
We belatedly celebrated Jim's 85th birthday over a very enjoyable lunch at the impeccable Nare Hotel with its stunning view overlooking Carne Beach (if you are ever in the area, this is a must place to visit). Jim had obviously ordered the weather for our visit – a perfect, sunny day that made our meal, taken under the parasol, even more delightful
As ever, Jim had plenty of Daily Express anecdotes to share – many laughs and fond memories of colleagues past and present.
After scoffing some expensive food and wine, we returned to Jim and Pat's lovely home in Tregony to continue reminiscing in their beautiful garden while watching various birds fly on to the feeding station. A very green and peaceful English setting in the company of good friends and Tallulah, Jim and Pat's beloved dog.
Jim showed me a short documentary which he had featured in A Day in the Life of the Daily Express (see below). A great watch.
Last year Jim reluctantly said that he felt he would no longer be able to do the journey to London to join one of our Daily Express monthly get togethers. But now he is feeling better, Jim is motivated to let the train take the strain and possibly come to the First Tuesday lunch in October to catch up with his mates.
It would be great to see as many faces as possible to celebrate Jim's return to London from the depths of Cornwall. (The George, in The Strand, opposite the Law Courts, from 12.30pm onwards).
*It wasn't the only time that Jim was chosen to feature in a documentary.
See How Lord Olivier saved the kipper
LEGENDARY Daily Express editor Arthur Christiansen had a list of words and phrases that he never wanted to see in the paper.
He called them his Chamber of Horrors. Here is a selection:
inform (tell), initial stages, initiate
in most instances, inquire (ask)
in rare cases (rarely), in reference to, in regard to, in respect of, in short supply
institute inquiries, instrumental in
insuperable obstacle , integrate
interavailability, interim
in the case of , in the interests of
it is clear that (clearly) - itemise
juncture, at this length of time (how long), level, at a high or top; limped into harbour, liquidate literally
major (important), make an approach to, maladjustment, malnutrition, marginal land
matter of first importance, maximum effort, movement is on foot
natives (use Africans, Arabs, appropriate tribal names)
nature, of a certain, negative, to
network of naval bases, non-availability
not too distant future, number of cases, in a
objective (aim, purpose), on to (on), optimum, overall figures, targets
paramount importance, partially (partly), pending (until), per annum (a year), percentage (where a part of will do), personnel*.
(*Christiansen wrote: The Times calls this word an "alien collective" and doubts whether a more degrading, a more ill-favoured synonym for two or more members of the human race has been coined. People to whom it is applied don't go, they proceed. They do not have, they are, or more often are not, in possession of. (They do not ask, they make application)
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The Year of Magical Thinking
TheaterWorks, Hartford
through May 24
By Karolina Sadowicz
"Do you think it will be sad?" a woman in the audience asks her companion. The subject of "The Year of Magical Thinking" makes the audience uneasy. The play, and the book on which it's based, was written by Joan Didion about the loss of her husband and daughter, and the mental game of avoidance and denial--or magical thinking--that followed.
Annalee Jeffries portrays Didion, in the one-woman show with an abundance of terse, dry wit and a creeping vulnerability that resurfaces when least expected. Though the tragedies at the core of "Thinking" are overwhelming, Jeffries fearlessly navigates Didion's tightrope walk to escape grief. When the audience anticipates a breakdown, she is controlled, defiant, often sarcastic. In a brightly lit living room, she recounts feigning the process of grieving, but inside rejecting grief in hope that not yielding to it will bring back her husband.
The strength of the story and the performance is that it defies expectations, in particular for those who are not familiar with the book. The set and Didion's clothing are in pale neutral colors; the lighting changes subtly to signal shifts in tone or mood, but is rarely stark. The music, too, is soft, spare, and ethereal. Despite Didion's direct, unflinching manner, there are no harsh notes, no melodrama. There is no self-pity. Steve Campo's disciplined direction keeps the production focused, even when Didion's intensity wanes.
With the writer's suffering kept at bay, the audience never experiences the quick descent or visceral meltdown that might be expected from the subject. But what is revealed, and completely entrancing, is a capacity in humans for both hope and self-delusion, and the deep need to transcend the darkest of times. In her controlled and willful avoidance of the reality of death, Didion exposes the fragility and uncertainty in all those who have family, friends, and the capacity to love.
Jeffries' performance brings depth to the narrative voice, never apologizing for its bluntness, but never registering as cold. Her voice, mannerisms, and spot-on timing create an electrifying, honest performance of this thought-provoking memoir.
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How to effectively talk about monkey pox without stigmatizing gay men
By On Aug 7, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gregg Gonsalves of the Yale School of Public Health about the public messaging challenges surrounding monkeypox, which primarily affects men who have sex with men.
When the White House declared monkeypox a public health emergency, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said it should concern everyone.
(SUNBIT OF ARCHIVE RECORDING)
XAVIER BECERRA: We urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus.
SHAPIRO: But the reality is that this disease doesn't affect everyone equally. According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, 99% of people diagnosed with monkeypox are men, and 98% of those who report their sexual orientation are men who have sex with men — people like Kyle Planck, a 26- year-old student in New York City studying infectious diseases.
KYLE PLANCK: I haven't had a ton of super painful experiences to compare it to, but it's definitely, for me personally, the worst I've been through. And especially because it was an internal kind of pain, it was really hard to deal with.
SHAPIRO: He told our colleague Pien Huang that he spent several days in bed with monkeypox.
PLANCK: I had had a really high fever and I took hot baths, e.g. five or six times a day because it was one of the only things that made me feel better. So if I had to rate it, I guess my pain was about a seven or eight out of the worst pain I could ever imagine. And it came and went throughout the day.
SHAPIRO: As someone who studies infectious diseases, Planck was quite familiar with the risks.
PLANCK: Those things, combined with being a gay man in New York City – I think I had more awareness than the average person. So even though I knew about it, I didn't think I would get it. So when I actually did, I was very shocked.
SHAPIRO: He got better after he started a medication called TPOXX. So how can we talk about this disease in an accurate and specific way to help those most at risk without creating stigma or homophobia? Gregg Gonsalves at the Yale School of Public Health has wrestled with this question. He has spent decades working on HIV and other infectious diseases. Welcome to ALL CONSIDERED.
GREGG GONSALVES: Thank you very much.
SHAPIRO: What comes to mind when you hear Secretary Becerra say that every American should take monkeypox seriously?
GONSALVES: Well, every American should take it seriously, but there are two kinds of taking it seriously. One is when you think you're at personal risk, and that would be men who have sex with men — gay men in the United States, especially those who are sexually active. Other Americans, you know, should have some empathy and some solidarity and help their gay and lesbian neighbors through this. Many straight Americans rallied to our side during the HIV epidemic, but the federal government really needs to get its act together, because right now we're failing to respond.
SHAPIRO: There is a long history of politicians and homophobes portraying gay men as carriers of the disease. And so if public officials get specific about how this disease spreads and how to prevent it, do they risk playing into the harmful tropes?
GONSALVES: Well, one thing is that we have to figure out how to hold two thoughts in our heads at once. One is that it is not a homosexual disease, but it occurs among men who have sex with men. And what the federal government has actually been pretty good at is they've been very, very vocal about the need not to stigmatize the LGBT community, gay men — not to discriminate against them. Having said that, you know, we've already heard from certain politicians – particularly in the other party – who have tried to make this a way to scapegoat people in a moment of crisis. And you know, we have to be fact-based in our prevention messages. And we just have to be very, very clear about the fact that discrimination and stigmatization are bad in a moral sense, but they also drive people away from care and prevention.
SHAPIRO: This disease is not only spread through sex, but it is often spread through sex. And after the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared monkeypox a global public health emergency, he spoke much more specifically than Secretary Becerra.
TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS: It means making safe choices for yourself and others. For men who have sex with men, this currently includes reducing your number of sexual partners.
SHAPIRO: Some gay men were outraged to be told who they had to sleep with. And others, like sex columnist Dan Savage, tweeted it's not discrimination. It's not homophobia. It is treating grown gay men as adults. In your opinion, was that the right message?
GONSALVES: Well, Dr. Tedros did something brave when he announced a public health emergency. He overruled his advisory board and said, indeed, it is. It affects gay men all over the world. So I think he spoke about this from an attitude of care and solidarity – not of moral criticism or moral condemnation. And so yes, I think it's fair to say that it's fair to change the places you seek out sexual contact. And we should be talking about it explicitly, especially among the gay community – talking to ourselves, peers. That said, watch out for stigma and discrimination. But that's – that's what I think people are responding to – that talking about gay sex among themselves – among gay men, among the LGBT community – is one thing, but certain politicians will always take advantage of it.
SHAPIRO: You've spent so much of your career working on HIV. Although monkeypox is not fatal – there is a vaccine. There are treatments. Yet there are parallels between that disease and this one. What lessons from your experience with HIV and AIDS are you applying at this moment?
GONSALVES: Well, the most important thing we need to do is support people who are suffering from this disease – the gay men who are in desperate pain that your interviewee was talking about. People must be supported. Remember; 21 day quarantine may be OK for some. But if you don't have a job that allows you to stay at home, or you don't have sick pay, how are you supposed to do it? If you go into the hospital for pain medication, what will happen if you are underinsured or uninsured when you get that hospital bill? So my main point is that in the 1980s the gay community had to build its own systems of care for itself. We shouldn't do that 40 years later. We should figure out a way to make sure that everyone who has a case of the monkeypox doesn't fall between the racks.
SHAPIRO: I know that treatment, vaccines, access to care is its own whole issue. But on this issue of messaging and how to balance specificity with not wanting to incite homophobia and stigmatization, how would you rate the government's performance so far?
GONSALVES: I mean, I don't know if I have enough data to do that. But just remember – public health plays a role at state and local level. CDC's role in public health is to provide technical guidance. How is it transmitted and how is it prevented? – you know, all kinds of facts. And state and local health departments make public health messages, and so some are better than others, right? Again, you know, the best message is going to be the most honest – as Dan Savage said – and treat us like adults.
This is not a gay disease. There should be no stigma and discrimination, but it is affecting gay men right now and we will have to change our behavior – not from some kind of moral admonition about our sex lives, but about protecting ourselves and caring for each second and to show solidarity with our gay men – to say that it will be a tough few months until we can get vaccination up to a level where we have broad protection against the virus. And you know, this happened in the mid-1980s. Gay men started to change their behavior and we start to decrease HIV rates in the mid-80s, before the big kind of community-based campaigns started. So we can do this.
SHAPIRO: Gregg Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Thank you.
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Jacin Sinclair (2 January 1972 – 9 December 2010) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for the Balmain Tigers twice, the Eastern Suburbs Roosters later renamed the "Sydney Roosters" and South Sydney Rabbitohs as a centre.

Playing career
Sinclair made his debut in 1991 for Balmain against the Gold Coast Seagulls. Sinclair featured more prominently for Balmain over the next two seasons and represented NSW City in 1993. In 1994, Sinclair joined South Sydney after having a fallout with Balmain coach Alan Jones. Sinclair spent three seasons at the club before joining Eastern Suburbs for the 1997 season.

In 1998, Sinclair returned to Balmain but was limited to 6 appearances over the final two seasons of his playing career due to injuries. Sinclair intended to play on beyond 1999 but was forced into early retirement after being unable to recover from chronic knee problems. Sinclair attempted to resurrect his career by coming out of retirement to play with South Sydney once again when the club was on the verge of readmission to the league but this never came to fruition.

Death
On 9 December 2010 Sinclair was found dead at his apartment in Woolwich, Sydney. NSW Police stated that Sinclair had not been seen for a number of days leading up to his death.  Former players who knew Sinclair spoke to the media in the wake of his death. Former Balmain player Steve Roach said "He could play, don't worry about that". Former Canberra player Laurie Daley said "I know when I played against Jacin it was always a tough game, He was ultra-competitive and a gifted player. It is very sad news".

Paul Sironen said of Sinclair "All of the old Balmain players are very upset, Jacin was always easy to get on with, he was a terrific footballer, but he was compared to some greats of the past when he was young and that pressure made it hard for him".

Australian Rugby League chairman John Chalk said '"He was a champion bloke and a champion footballer, He just had talent to burn. He didn't quite fulfill his promise as a player, because he got a number of injuries as his career went on, and like a lot of young people who are thrust into the limelight because they are good at something, he found it hard to handle all of the attention".

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1972 births
2010 deaths
Australian rugby league players
South Sydney Rabbitohs players
Balmain Tigers players
Sydney Roosters players
Rugby league players from Sydney
Rugby league centres
South Sydney Rabbitohs captains

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Q: Printing a string created in a local function I understand that the problem with the code below is that the char array, where the input is stored, is in a local function. When the pointer to that char array is passed to the main function, that char array should be deleted from the stack.
However when I try printing the string, it prints despite the compiler warnings. But if I try to put a timer in between the function call and the print statement the string is empty.
Why is this? Is the "garbage collection" slower than the print statement?
Output without the sleep:

"String is [string]"

Output with the sleep:

"String is "

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define MAX 20

char* get_user_input();
int main (){
    char *choice;
    choice = get_user_input();
    //sleep(1);
    //Add sleep and it won't print
    printf("String: %s\n", choice);

}

char* get_user_input( ) {
    char inbuffer[MAX];
    char *pos;
    printf("Enter string>");
    fgets (inbuffer, MAX, stdin);
    pos = strchr( inbuffer, '\n' );
    if ( pos != NULL ){
        *pos = '\0';
    }
    return inbuffer;
}

A: It will primarily be due to the stack being re-written, consider:
char* get_user_input( ) {
    char inbuffer[MAX];
    char *pos;
    ...
}

void anotherfunc( ) {
    char a[MAX];
    char *b;
}

int main (){
    char *choice;
    choice = get_user_input();
    anotherfunc();
    printf("String: %s\n", choice);
}

The call to anotherfunc will use the same stack memory as get_user_input(), in this case nothing is actually written to a[] or *b, so your *choice may persist - just. If a function has any local variables which are written to, the invalid choice pointer will point to whatever is written there.

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Григорьев, Александр сын Лыков (1630-е — после 1676, Москва) — русский пушечный и колокольный мастер, литейщик.

Биография
В 1651 году в возрасте около 17 лет по поручительству мастера Емельяна Данилова стал «колокольным литцом» московского Пушечного двора. Сирийский путешественник Павел Алеппский оставил его описание: «Мастер, из переживших моровую язву, молодой человек, малорослый, тщедушный, худой, моложе 20 лет, совсем еще безбородый».

У Александра Григорьева было 7 учеников, совместно с которыми он перелил Благовестный колокол для московской церкви Антипия на Колымажном дворе и ещё шесть вестовых колоколов «про запас» для других городов.

В 1655 году после смерти Емельяна Данилова он занялся работой по отливке Большого Успенского колокола (128 т) — главного колокола страны. Этот колокол был расколот во время кремлёвского пожара 1701 года, позднее его металл использовали для отливки Царь-колокола.

В 1655 году Александр Григорьев изготовил трёхтонный колокол для Фроловской (Спасской) башни Кремля. В 1657 году он отлил колокол (0,75 т) для Котельного ряда в Москве (ремесленной слободы). В 1665 году отлил колокол (около 5 т) для Симонова монастыря. В надписи на этом колоколе Александр Григорьев впервые назван «государевым пушечным и колокольным мастером». В 1668 году создал колокол Большой Благовестник для Саввино-Сторожевского монастыря. Этот колокол считался самым звучным колоколом России, он был разбит в 1941 году. За отливку колокола Григорьев был награждён царём Алексеем Михайловичем отрезом сукна сверх положенного «денежного и хлебного жалованья». В последний раз Григорьев документально упоминался в 1676 году, когда его ученики помогли Харитону Иванову изготовить 10 ружей-пищалей.

Известны имена 21 ученика Григорьева. Ему принадлежал двор на Большой Сретенской улице, который после смерти Григорьева перешёл к его племяннику, «ученику гранатного дела» Григорию Екимову.

Александр Григорьев сын Лыков послужил прототипом для образа мастера Бориски Моторина из картины Тарковского «Андрей Рублёв».

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Колокольные мастера России
Умершие в Москве
Оружейники России


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Rogue Music: Should Music be Too Immoral?
Jul 27, 2020 4 min
African music, in particular, should be respectful, moral, and empowering. Women should be empowered and displayed as the queens they are.
Photo by aiden marples / Unsplash
The Fire of Youth
It is incredible to be young and to have the fire of youth. It is a thing of incandescent beauty and a gift of life: youth. Being young is plain joy and love. The love for music, in particular, is magical. Ever since one could understand what music is, it has been a constant in our lives.
Music has such an effect that our brains can relate particular music and even individual songs or melodies to specific times or periods in our lives. For instance, if I listen to an early 2000's song, I get memories of my childhood. That is insane when you think of how a combination of melodies, voices, and sounds can create such specific memories. Our brains can connect individual neurons, particular to specific music, to specific memories.
What is Good Music?
Good music is unmistakable and reverberates with our lives. Good music never dies and remains eternal if I may. It is a marvel of life how individuals can create such powerful art out of the creativity of their minds and talent. Music encompasses all spheres of life. Music is for all and can be a part of any particular group in society.
It is a considerable part of lifestyle, celebration, religion, advertising, art, commercialization, and human expression. Music is the thread that ties human life and reality to fantasy and hope, something more. Music is bigger than any of us and, as such, cannot be controlled or whisked away if it achieves the kind of impact I'm trying to exemplify.
Traditional African Music
As Africans, music has been a part of society since humans could make music. Traditional African society manufactured, appreciated, and loved music. If you have had the chance to listen to real traditional African music, you understand the effect and vibrance that authentic and undiluted music can have on people and society.
Music is a companion in life and is always with us, be it in sorrow, joy, grief, struggle, fear, and, most importantly, hope, and longing. Music is, therefore, a constant of life and an essential part of the human experience. We would not have the opportunity to experience genuine emotion and feeling without music.
The Commercialization of Music
As the world becomes more industrial and art increasingly commercialized, many new and derivative types of music have come up. These are offshoots of the primary and most influential genres. If you have read the history of music, you understand that it has morphed over time. Music evolves as times change. The kind of music that we would expect in the future will result from the occurrences of those particular times.
For instance, in times of struggle and war, music is used to denounce war and renounce suffering. Alternatively, it becomes a tool to encourage or preach peace. By listening to the music of a particular period in time, you can tell what was happening during that period.
Rogue Music: The Dark Side of Music
Music also has a dark side and has been used to abuse, harass, or act inappropriately toward certain groups in society. Unfortunately, as beautiful as music can be, it can also get used to incite and spread hate.
Wiley Spreads Hate on Twitter
A good example is how musicians can use their platforms, be it social media, to encourage hateful sentiment. Grime artist Wiley took to Twitter and Instagram recently to spread antisemitic views and hate. Music, over time, has become increasingly confrontational and offensive. Grime is an offshoot of Garage music and is less emotional and more confrontational.
Increasingly Vile Music in Kenya
Locally, here in Kenya, branches of genres, such as Genge, have become increasingly immoral. The content coming off of 'gengetone' and the like heavily objectifies women and dehumanizes the female role in society. Women are an integral part of society, and music should uplift and empower women. However, the increasing commercialization of the music industry has led numerous artists to create sexually inappropriate content as a way to sell their music.
Sex Appeal in Advertising and How It is Ruining Music
In my view, this effect has become magnified by the need for and the encouragement of sex appeal in advertising. For artists to make an adequate income from their music, they need endorsements. As such, sex appeal is a way to ensure that they have adequate fan bases to warrant advertising deals and product endorsements.
The 4 Ps
The situation is becoming more and more about the 'Other Four P's in Marketing: Pretty, Power, Pride, and Pomp.' The more artists get pressured to make money and acquire all these endorsements, the more they produce low-quality and short-lived music.
Should We Boycott Low Quality and Vile Music?
We should boycott music that is of low quality and music created to create a spectacle. If artists feel they need a lot of views on platforms such as YouTube, they should do better and create better music. Numbers matter, but that does not mean that music should be created just for the sake of selling records.
Why Do Some Artists Struggle to Sell Music?
In my personal view, if an artist struggles to sell music, then they are the problem. The same applies to those artists who do all manner of things to attract attention. They should go back to the drawing board and conjure up new and enriching content. As a consumer of music, sex appeal does not appeal to me anymore, and I bet it doesn't appeal to many of us, music lovers.
Does sex appeal appeal to you?
What Constitutes Authentic African Music?
African music, in particular, should be respectful, moral, and empowering. Women should be empowered and displayed as the queens they are. We should denounce vixen culture and encourage art and music that is feminist and empowering to women.
Proper Messaging to the Female Audience
We should tell our young queens that they are to be respected, viewed as equal to the male gender, and treated right. Music should not get seen to encourage rape culture or the objectification of women. The more we follow and mimic western culture, music, and art, the more we lose our cultural essence.
Kenyans will Play Kenyan Music when It is as Good or Better than International Music
Even with recent campaigns to encourage support for Kenyan music, Kenyan artists should do better. The better and more meaningful the content, the better we will play Kenyan music. An excellent example of authentic African music is Nigerian and Kwaito music.
You can feel the beat and the culture of Western and Southern Africa in their tunes. However, Kenyan music lacks that power and feel that outrightly identifies it with East Africa. Tanzania has also done an excellent job with Bongo and, unsurprisingly, is doing better. Authentic Kenyan music could be heard in the twentieth century, but nowadays not so much.
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Leaked Tapes Expose State Department's Secret Plan to Oust Assad in Syria
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In a leaked recording of Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the top US diplomat discusses deposing Assad by forcing through an election under questionable circumstances.
Speaking before a group of Syrian opposition members in New York only days before the collapse of the US-Russia brokered ceasefire in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry advised the group on their best path to ousting the Assad government amid intense fighting – a "political" solution.
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"You can have an election and let the people of Syria decide: Who do they want?" said Kerry in what on its face appears to be a fairly benign statement in advocacy of restoring democracy to the war torn country, but there is a very big caveat.
Kerry explained that such an election could be set up by Western governments and imposed by the United Nations "under the strictest standards" and suggested that the result could effectively be cooked by incorporating the millions of Syrian refugees who fled the country since 2011 voting in absence.
"Everybody who is registered as a refugee anywhere in the world can vote. Are they going to vote for Assad? Assad's scared of this happening. Assad is very scared of this happening. We know this from intelligence and we know this from the Russians. So democracy has some virtues folks," advised Kerry.
The Syrians in the audience questioned whether the civilians living in the country would be able to freely cast their vote against Assad, but a much larger question presents itself over whether the votes of the refugees would be tallied in a fair and equitable fashion occurring outside of the government and administered by powers who see the election as a tool to remove the Syrian government even if reports show that a majority of refugees blame terror groups like Daesh (ISIS) for their plight.
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The timing of this strategy session with Syrian opposition figures, only days before the collapse of the ceasefire – which collapsed after a US-led airstrike on Deir Ez Zor military base killed 62 Syrian soldiers and wounded 100 others – also raises questions about the sincerity of the US commitment to peace.
The deal also struggled under the weight of over 300 ceasefire violations by armed rebel groups in Syria with the second largest 'moderate' rebel group Ahrar al-Sham patently refusing to commit to the ceasefire in the days leading up to its implementation and with rebels leaders saying that they could not disband from al-Nusra Front (Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate) because the groups had become too intertwined.
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And if you return home from a shopping trip to find your closet pretty full, it is time to organize. If you are unable to squeeze another pair of jeans into your closet then use some space saving hacks. There are ways to manage your closet space. This includes using any available dead space area.
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In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process.
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This full-issue article compares the characteristics of U.S. "modern streetcar" systems with those built near the turn of the 20th century, with special emphasis on urban form implications. At stake: whether or not the modern streetcar movement is, as some critics argue, retrograde.
The National Railway Historical Society Bulletin, Fall 2010, pp 4-43.
This full-issue article explores the cultural meaning of the American railway depot from their peak in the 19th century, through to the their mixed fates in the 20th and 21st centuries: decline, demolition, repurposing, and renewal. Accompanied by Joel Jensen's photography of active, abandoned, and demolished American railway structures.


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Case Profile: Adamski v. Tacoma General Hospital
Updated on: 2/26/2019
When most people think of personal injury cases, they imagine circumstances that don't impact people other than the victims and defendants. Some cases, however, have effects on people who aren't injured or being sued at the time; these are the cases that set precedents that may be referenced in later legal proceedings.
Adamski v. Tacoma General Hospital is one such case. On January 9, 1974, Richard Adamski was playing basketball when he injured his finger. The break was a nasty one, with part of the broken bone protruding from a gash on his finger. Mr. Adamski's friend helped him to apply a crude splint, and made a makeshift bandage for the wound. After that, Mr. Adamski continued to play basketball.
That evening, after the game, Mr. Adamski went to Tacoma General Hospital and explained his condition to a nurse and Dr. Tsoi. His wound was irrigated, debrided, and cleansed at the hospital. Shortly afterwards, his hand began to swell and hurt, but when he called the ER where he had received treatment a nurse told him that this was not unusual after a bone has been broken.
He called again the next day, and was once again told that his symptoms were normal and he didn't need to go back to the emergency room. By the time Mr. Adamski was seen by another doctor at a different hospital, he had a deep infection of the hand.
Is a hospital responsible for a doctor's negligence?
Mr. Adamski brought an action for damages against Dr. Tsoi, Tacoma Emergency Care Physicians, Inc., P.S. (TECP), and Tacoma General. Here's the part that made this case different from a standard malpractice case: Tacoma General moved for summary judgement in its favor, arguing that it couldn't be held liable for the actions of Dr. Tsoi. They argued that Dr. Tsoi was an independent contractor, not an employee, and that they couldn't be held liable for damages caused by an independent contractor working in their building.
The court found Tacoma General Hospital initially not liable for damages. Mr. Adamski appealed the decision. At that time, the court found that even though Dr. Tsoi was a contractor, he was performing an "inherent function of the hospital." Mr. Adamski had a reasonable belief that he was being treated by an employee of Tacoma General Hospital, and the hospital was "holding out" Dr. Tsoi as if he were an employee.
A decision rendered decades ago still affects cases today
Many hospitals do not staff their emergency rooms with doctors who work for them full time. Instead, they contract these positions out to companies that provide the doctors. If the court had ruled the other way in Adamski v. Tacoma General Hospital, hospitals might not be held liable for the actions of doctors they had hired as contractors.
When a patient comes to an emergency room, their first concern isn't the employment status of the doctor. They may not even realize that they have been treated by a contractor until they get a separate bill in the mail, or until something goes wrong and they have to file a lawsuit for medical malpractice.
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Misumena picta es una especie de araña del género Misumena, familia Thomisidae.

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Esta especie se encuentra en Cuba.

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" 'ffe have "been trying to establish a law similiar to the one in Indiana, relative to the ^'Sterlization of Defectives", as yet we have not met with success. I have recently learned to my regret that there is proposed a change in the Indiana Law, this is indeed very unfortunate, for it is evidently an advance step in the right direction.
I take the liberty of communicating this portion of the doctor's letter to bear out my  statement in conversation with you a fev/ days since, that if the law should be declared uncon¬ stitutional, it would be hailed as a clamity, not only in this but in lUi*ejJ"eann countries.
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Citation Sharp, Harry. 1909 Letter to Indiana Gov. Thomas Marshall opposing the possible unconstitutional ruling of the sterilization law. Govenor Marshall Papers. Indiana State Archives.
Transcript Dr. Harry C.Sharp 316 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING IN Dl AN APOLI S May 13,09. Hon# Thomas R* Marshall, City • Dear Governor:- I this day am in receipt of a letter from Dr# G# Macke of Leipsig, §a#, in which he states in part the following* " 'ffe have "been trying to establish a law similiar to the one in Indiana, relative to the ^'Sterlization of Defectives", as yet we have not met with success. I have recently learned to my regret that there is proposed a change in the Indiana Law, this is indeed very unfortunate, for it is evidently an advance step in the right direction. I take the liberty of communicating this portion of the doctor's letter to bear out my statement in conversation with you a fev/ days since, that if the law should be declared uncon¬ stitutional, it would be hailed as a clamity, not only in this but in lUi*ejJ"eann countries. I am firmly of lihe opinion that no-one operated upon would institute action for damages, upon his own initative for after close post-operative oliyservation of over four hundred cases, I am in a position to knov/ positively that there has been no damage done So I appeal to you again to discourage, rather than incourage any legal action, and to pursue the course that I suggest, which is to let the law remain in operative, until such time that a lav/ may he enacted, which you osonBide^!^^ constitutional.


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No public support for native forest logging
Posted by Susie Russell 98sc on November 14, 2018
The evidence is clear from a recent industry survey of over 12,000 Australians that the logging of public native forests has no social license, and rather than logging of public native forests being entrenched for a further 20 years it must be phased out as soon as possible according to the North East Forest Alliance.
The Forestry and Wood Products report "Community perceptions of Australia's forest, wood and paper industries: implications for social license to operate" surveyed over 12,000 people from throughout Australia and found 70% of urban, and 65% of rural Australians find logging of native forests unacceptable, compared to just 10% of urban, and 17% of rural Australians finding it acceptable.
This reaffirms polling by Reachtel in northern NSW (Ballina and Lismore) late last year that showed that over 48% of people believe the most important value of State forests are the protection of wildlife, nature and trees, with another 23% considering it is the protection of water supplies, 10% carbon storage and 9% recreation. Only around 10% considered the best use was for logging, woodchiping or burning for electricity.
Continued logging of public native forests clearly does not have a social license and must be phased out as soon as possible, said NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh.
"Logging of native forests is a dinosaur industry, and with 87% of our sawn timber now coming from plantations there is no excuse to go on logging public native forests,
"Native forests are far more important for tourism jobs, recreation, water yields, mitigating climate change and saving our declining wildlife, such as Koalas.
"The NSW and Commonwealth Governments need to start listening to the community rather than the National Party, and refrain from the imminent intent to entrench logging of public native forests for a further 20 years in new Regional Forest Agreements while further increasing logging intensity and slashing environmental protections.
"Instead of increasing logging the Governments need to implement a strategy to rapidly phase it out, and begin repairing the damage they have inflicted on our irreplaceable public forests", Mr. Pugh said.
The industry report states:
There are therefore much lower levels of social license for native forest logging than for producing timber using plantations. Additionally, views were very strong about unacceptability of native forest harvesting, with most of those who indicated it was unacceptable choosing the response of 'very unacceptable' rather than moderately or slightly unacceptable.
Overall, the findings suggest that native forest logging is equated by many Australians with depletion or 'mining' of resources, as it is clustered with coal-seam gas extraction and open-cut mining in terms of acceptability. The findings also suggest that it is not associated with ideas of renewability, with solar farms and wind farms – producing renewable energy – having much higher acceptability than native forest harvesting, as do other practices often associated with sustainability and environmental protection.
The activity of harvesting timber from native forests has very low levels of social license in Australia, both in regions where this activity occurs and in those where it doesn't. Even amongst the groups who have the highest levels of acceptance of this activity (farmers), and in the regions with highest acceptance (mostly those in which there is higher economic dependence on native forest logging), more people find this activity unacceptable than acceptable.


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Climate Change Land Use Agriculture and the Emerging Bioeconomy
Last Updated on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 | Climate Change
David L. Skole and Brent M. Simpson Abstract
Measuring sustainability of land use and agriculture requires some understanding of the complex interactions that take place on land. As we look to the future, it is likely that those concerns that threaten sustainability, such as climate change, will have profound influences on land use and land cover change. In particular, the world's continued exploitation of fossil fuels for energy and material feedstocks is not sustainable. There are optimistic prospects that the global economy can make a transition to a system in which renewable energy and materials can be derived from feedstocks based on biomass. Impressive advances have been made in using the natural chemistry of plants to derive a myriad number of materials and important sources of energy from ethanol, methanol, and esters rendered from biological materials in biorefineries. This transition is explored, taking particular note of the following interactions: the availability of the land for natural product feedstocks, competition for land, replacing food crops with bioenergy crops, and other dynamics. The chapter focuses on two related and converging concerns: (a) the emerging climate crisis brought on by fossil fuel combustion and land use change, and (b) an economy reliant on increasingly scarce and nonrenewable fossil fuels for energy and materials. It is postulated that efforts to change our source of fuels and materials from fossil sources to natural sources will create a new bio-economy. A revolutionary change from nonrenewable carbon economy to renewable carbon economy presents exciting prospects for a new economic system—one that can mitigate climate change and hasten sustainability. However, there are potential risks to food security, water supplies, and the natural environment. The prospect of a future carbon-constrained world is creating dramatic transformation of the world economy with both positive and negative consequences. The way we manage this transition will be critical to a sustainable economy of the future.
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Bristol's health watchdog has funding slashed by nearly half
At a Healthwatch Bristol meeting last week, supporters were told the five-strong team now had to work harder to keep up with demand
Jack Pitts, Local Democracy Reporter
Bristol's health watchdog has had its funding cut by 40 per cent.
Healthwatch Bristol looks out for patients and allows the public to have its say on the city's health system.
The organisation consults people to see what services they do or do not like and holds NHS officials to account when things go wrong, but has this year become the latest victim of council cuts.
'He's looked me in the eye and threatened to kill me': Bristol mum lives in fear of her 12-year-old son
After having its budget slashed by nearly half it has had to let go of a full-time officer and an administrator and has cut hours for two other staff members.
At a Healthwatch Bristol meeting last week, supporters were told the five-strong team now had to work harder to keep up with demand.
The organisation consults people to see what services they do or do not like and holds NHS officials to account when things go wrong (Image: Pablo_K)
Morgan Daly, director of community services at the Care Forum, which hosts Healthwatch Bristol, said: "As is the case with many local Healthwatch, Healthwatch Bristol has had reductions in our budget over recent years.
"As of 2018/19, we have agreed to discuss with our commissioner how to best deliver our vital role on reduced funding.
"Our approach will always be to put the voices of Bristol people first when it comes to health and social care."
Bristol becomes first UK city to allow people to test their drugs before taking them
The council has had to make a range of cuts to services as it works with ever-decreasing grants from central Government.
A Bristol City Council spokesman said: "We are looking to see how we can deliver our local healthwatch services differently and are working with local partners to see how we can deliver it in the most cost effective way for the city.
"We remain committed to delivering a service which allows the public to have a say and monitor the work that our local health and social care services do in Bristol and are in talks with Health Watch England to make sure this happens."
Healthwatch Bristol recently questioned an NHS trust after one of its doctors suggested teenagers were being put at risk by sex change drugs.


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ISS could go crewless after Soyuz launch failure
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PUBLISHED: October 13, 2018 at 10:31 a.m. | UPDATED: July 21, 2021 at 6:38 a.m.
(11 Oct 2018) NASA says it's dusting off its plans for flying the International Space Station without a crew after the aborted launch of a Russian rocket taking two astronauts toward the station. (Oct. 11)
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On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Lord led us to return to New York City. Beginning in New York City, we went on a two-week tour through the Northeastern United States down to Washington D.C. to distribute free Bibles and books. This video highlights the distribution activities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Day 9 of the 2011 tour.


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package com.chodavarapu.io;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

/**
 * @author Ravi Chodavarapu (rchodava@gmail.com)
 */
public class ReadWriteBuffer {
    private static final long MAXIMUM_WAIT = 5000;

    private static byte[] ensureBufferOfCapacity(byte[] buffer, int minCapacity) {
        if (minCapacity - buffer.length > 0) {
            return grow(buffer, minCapacity);
        }

        return buffer;
    }

    private static byte[] grow(byte[] buffer, int minCapacity) {
        int currentCapacity = buffer.length;
        int newCapacity = currentCapacity << 1;
        if (newCapacity - minCapacity < 0) {
            newCapacity = minCapacity;
        }

        if (newCapacity < 0) {
            throw new OutOfMemoryError();
        }

        return Arrays.copyOf(buffer, newCapacity);
    }

    private final Object availabilityBarrier = new Object();
    private byte[] buffer;
    private final Object bufferMonitor = new Object();
    private final Object openCountMonitor = new Object();
    private int openOutputStreams = 0;
    private int writtenPosition = 0;
    private Consumer<byte[]> outputCompleteHook;

    public ReadWriteBuffer(byte[] initialBuffer, Consumer<byte[]> outputCompleteHook) {
        if (initialBuffer != null) {
            buffer = initialBuffer;
            writtenPosition = buffer.length;
        } else {
            buffer = new byte[1024];
        }

        this.outputCompleteHook = outputCompleteHook;
    }

    public ReadWriteBuffer() {
        this(null, null);
    }

    public InputStream openInputStream() {
        return new BufferInputStream();
    }

    public OutputStream openOutputStream() {
        return new BufferOutputStream();
    }

    public void truncate() {
        synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
            writtenPosition = 0;
        }
    }

    private class BufferInputStream extends InputStream {
        private int readPosition = 0;
        private long waitStart;

        private void waitForWriters() throws InterruptedException, IOException {
            if (System.currentTimeMillis() - waitStart > MAXIMUM_WAIT) {
                throw new BlockingReadTimeoutException("No bytes available for reading for over 5 seconds, quitting!");
            }

            synchronized (availabilityBarrier) {
                availabilityBarrier.wait(1000);
            }
        }

        private int numberOfAvailableBytes() throws IOException {
            int numberOfAvailableBytes;

            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                numberOfAvailableBytes = writtenPosition - readPosition;
            }

            try {
                if (numberOfAvailableBytes < 1) {
                    waitStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
                    do {
                        synchronized (openCountMonitor) {
                            if (openOutputStreams == 0) {
                                return -1;
                            }
                        }

                        waitForWriters();

                        synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                            numberOfAvailableBytes = writtenPosition - readPosition;
                        }
                    } while (numberOfAvailableBytes < 1);
                }
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                throw new IOException(e);
            }

            return numberOfAvailableBytes;
        }

        @Override
        public int read() throws IOException {
            if (numberOfAvailableBytes() < 0) {
                return -1;
            }

            byte byteRead;
            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                byteRead = buffer[readPosition];
            }

            readPosition++;

            return byteRead;
        }

        @Override
        public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
            if (b == null) {
                throw new NullPointerException();
            } else if (off < 0 || len < 0 || len > b.length - off) {
                throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
            } else if (len == 0) {
                return 0;
            }

            int availableBytes = numberOfAvailableBytes();
            if (availableBytes < 0) {
                return -1;
            }

            int numberOfBytesRead = Math.min(availableBytes, len);

            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                System.arraycopy(buffer, readPosition, b, off, numberOfBytesRead);
            }

            readPosition += numberOfBytesRead;
            return numberOfBytesRead;
        }

        @Override
        public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
            if (n <= 0) {
                return 0;
            }

            long numberOfBytesSkipped;
            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                numberOfBytesSkipped = Math.min(writtenPosition - readPosition, n);
            }
            readPosition += numberOfBytesSkipped;

            return numberOfBytesSkipped;
        }

        @Override
        public int available() throws IOException {
            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                return writtenPosition - readPosition;
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void close() throws IOException {
        }
    }

    private class BufferOutputStream extends OutputStream {
        public BufferOutputStream() {
            synchronized (openCountMonitor) {
                openOutputStreams++;
            }

        }

        private void releaseReaders() {
            synchronized (availabilityBarrier) {
                availabilityBarrier.notifyAll();
            }
        }

        private void checkOutputCompletion() {
            boolean outputComplete = false;

            synchronized (openCountMonitor) {
                if (openOutputStreams == 0) {
                    outputComplete = true;
                }
            }

            if (outputComplete && ReadWriteBuffer.this.outputCompleteHook != null) {
                byte[] completeContents;
                synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                    completeContents = Arrays.copyOf(buffer, writtenPosition);
                }

                outputCompleteHook.accept(completeContents);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void write(int b) throws IOException {
            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                buffer = ensureBufferOfCapacity(buffer, writtenPosition + 1);
                buffer[writtenPosition] = (byte) b;
                writtenPosition++;
            }

            releaseReaders();
        }

        @Override
        public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
            synchronized (bufferMonitor) {
                buffer = ensureBufferOfCapacity(buffer, writtenPosition + len);
                System.arraycopy(b, off, buffer, writtenPosition, len);
                writtenPosition +=  len;
            }

            releaseReaders();
        }

        @Override
        public void flush() throws IOException {
        }

        @Override
        public void close() throws IOException {
            synchronized (openCountMonitor) {
                openOutputStreams--;
            }

            releaseReaders();
            checkOutputCompletion();
        }
    }
}

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