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The IOSH Managing Safely training course is delivered over 3 days, generally Monday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Friday. The IOSH Managing Safely training course is designed to teach managers in any industry about their responsibilities and how health and safety will affect their role.
The IOSH training venue in Brighton is ideal for anyone situation in and around the Brighton area. The training room in Brighton is fully air-conditioned. The venue has a lift and the room has disability access. Free wifi is provided to delegates.
Parking is available at the RCP car park on North Road at a discounted rate of £3 for one hour, £6 two hours and £10 up to 24 hours. The post code for the car park is BN1 1YR. If you are travelling to your IOSH Managing Safely training courses in Brighton by train Brighton railway station is 0.5 miles from the hotel, and offers direct services to London Victoria, Gatwick Airport, Southampton and Ashford International.
Refreshments and wraps for lunch are provided, if you have any specific dietary requirements please let us know ahead of your IOSH course.


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Homoioteleuton (Figure of sound)
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An Introduction to Punctuation
Richard Nordquist
English and Rhetoric Professor
Ph.D., Rhetoric and English, University of Georgia
M.A., Modern English and American Literature, University of Leicester
B.A., English, State University of New York
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
Homoioteleuton is the use of similar sound endings to words, phrases, or sentences.
In rhetoric, homoioteleuton is regarded as a figure of sound. Brian Vickers equates this figure with assonance or "prose rhyme" (In Defence of Rhetoric, 1988). In The Arte of English Poesy (1589), George Puttenham compared the Greek figure of homoioteleuton "to our vulgar rhyme," offering this example: "Weeping, creeping, beseeching I wan / The love at length of Lady Lucian."
Etymology: From the Greek, "like ending"
Pronunciation: ho-moi-o-te-LOO-ton
Also Known As: near rhyme, prose rhyme
Alternate Spellings: homeoteleuton, homoeoteleuton
"My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands." (Launce in Act II, scene three of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare)
"The quicker picker upper." (Advertising slogan for Bounty paper towels)
"That's why, darling, it's incredibleThat someone so unforgettable
Thinks I'm unforgettable too." ("Unforgettable," sung by Nat King Cole)
"Loose lips sink ships." (Public service ad during World War II)
"Crispety, crunchety, peanut-buttery Butterfinger." (Advertising slogan for Butterfinger candy bar)
"I must aim at lucidity, simplicity and euphony." (William Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938)
"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground." (President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863)
"He would clap his hands, lick his lips, narrow his eyes into a squinty gaze and extemporize, patronize, chastise, sermonize and crack wise all at the same time." (Linton Weeks, describing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in "Rumsfeld, A Newsmaker Who's Certainly Hard to Follow." The Washington Post, November 9, 2006)
"Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftanOf tan with henna hackles, halt!" (Wallace Stevens, "Bantams in Pine-Woods")
"A very delectable, highly respectable,Threepenny-bus young man!" (W.S. Gilbert, Patience, 1881)
"Reinhart and Rogoff admitted their errors but claimed, incorrectly, that it remains true that high public debt levels are correlated with slower growth. In fact, as sensible economists observed when their study first came out, correlation is not causation." (The Nation, May 13, 2013)
Homoioteleuton as a Pattern of Repetition
"Homoioteleuton is a series of words with similar endings such as those with the Latinate suffixes '-ion' (e.g., presentation, action, elaboration, interpretation), '-ence' (e.g., emergence), and '-ance' (e.g., resemblance, performance). These suffixes work to nominalize verbs (transform verbs into nouns) and tend to appear most regularly in what Williams (1990) referred to as the various '-eses' (idioms such as 'legalese' and 'bureaucratese.' Like other patterns of repetition, homoioteleuton helps to build or reinforce connections, as in this example from the English politician Lord Rosebery in an 1899 speech: 'Imperialism, sane imperialism . . . is nothing but this — a larger patriotism.'" (James Jasinski, Sourcebook on Rhetoric. Sage, 2001)
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High Point defeated Pope John XXIII Regional in varsity field hockey on Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018. The final score was 3-0. The annual Play for Pink game took place at High Point Regional High School in Wantage Township. It was the last game of the season for both teams.
The High Point Wildcats was the home team and wore hot pink while the visiting Pope John Lions donned white and pink during the game.
Tyra Wingle scored two goals for High Point. Michaela Thiessen scored one goal.
Team records: High Point Wildcats 6-8-1. Pope John Lions 5-10.
The charity game "Play for Pink" was the result of High Point coaches wanting to create awareness at the high school and raise money to help cancer patients and future research. The charity game will do both with all proceeds from the game going to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
P.I.N.K. (Prevention, Immediate diagnosis, New technology, Knowledge), a non-profit group started in 1990 by a group of women who were saddened when a friend was diagnosed with breast cancer.


Take Palmetto Expwy to Bird Road/SW 40 Street exit, go east one block and turn right on SW 74 Court/ proceed on 74th court which turns to the right and then to the left into SW 75 Avenue / proceed to end of 75th Avenue which then turns to the left / The 7400 building with green roof will be on your right. Park in designated R LEIVA, CPA spaces on the lake South side of the building.
Take Miller Drive SW 56Street EAST to SW 72 Avenue; turn left to SW 48 Street and follow 48 Street until it turns to the left, you will then see the 7400 building with green roof ahead of you next to the lake. Park in designated R LEIVA, CPA spaces on the lake South side of the building.


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Nenny caused a hype in the Portuguese music scene early in her career, gaining followers everywhere. Born Marlene Fernanda Cardoso Tavares, she grew up listening to and loving music. Influenced by her parents, she listened to a bit of everything from Cape Verde's funana and batuque to Angolan kizomba and to hip hop. Her first single, "Sushi", was released in 2019 and immediately caught the attention of listeners with its trap sound. It was awarded Double Platinum with more than 11 million views on YouTube. This helped the young Portuguese artist amass 80.000 followers on her social media in a short space of time and this figure has continued to grow. "Bússola", her next hit, reached Platinum with seven million views in just four months. NENNY continues to release hit after hit. Songs like ''On You'', ''21'' and ''Dona Maria'', "Tequila" or "Wave" leave no doubt about her constant evolution and the consistency of her project. Her name has been mentioned by the press and by some influencers and she has also been picked by HighSnobiety magazine as one of the 10 most promising Portuguese rappers today. Nenny's powerful beginnings mean there'll be high expectations to watch her live and the place to be is the next edition of Sumol Summer Fest.
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Today I'll go through a case study to illustrate how your Incentive Stock Options work in order to empower you to maximize their benefits and avoid any potential pitfalls.
As our friends and clients in San Francisco navigate these career transitions they've discovered that the variety of employers they work for, and a company's growth during their time there, can have significant implications for their wealth. In the Bay Area, the choices you make as a start-up employee around your stock options affect whether and how much it costs you to keep stock when you leave the company as well as how you are taxed on your stock options.
Most start-up employees are given Incentive Stock Options that usually vest over four years of employment, with an initial one year cliff. Today I'd like to clarify for you how ISOs work, and how to maximize their benefits while avoiding costly mistakes. I would like to help you proactively understand your stock options so that you can maximize their benefits.
Some of the confusion around ISOs happens because the terminology is confusing. Let's start there, with some brief definitions.
Stock Option: The right to purchase a company's stock for a specific price.
Vesting: The date on which you have the choice to purchase your option and own company stock.
Strike Price: The price at which you get to buy the company's stock.
409A Valuation: A 3rd party's valuation of your start-up's company worth. This valuation occurs at least as often as each round of funding.
Alternative Minimum Tax: An alternative way the IRS calculates your tax due. AMT may be triggered when you exercise your options if the stock price is valued above your strike price.
Let's cover 409A valuations in a little more depth. Basically every time a company raises VC funding or goes through a variety of other possible changes the valuation of the company may change and the underlying stock of the company is calculated again by a 3rd party. While an employee's strike price (purchase price) never changes, the value of the stock itself does change. We'll see how this affects options owners in our examples.
For the remainder of this post I will use a hypothetical example to cover a few possible scenarios. We'll call our subject Jackie Sandberg, working at Rockpile start-up.
We will look at three different ways Jackie can deal with her options. She can A) exercise her options as they vest - basically buying the underlying stock as soon as she has the right to do so; B) exercise her options after a sale or IPO; 3) elect not to wait for the options to vest, but to leave the company before it IPOs or is sold. Each of these scenarios has implications for her tax strategy and wealth planning.
Upon joining Rockpile Jackie was given 50,000 options with a strike price of $0.40. After year one Jackie has vested one fourth of her options, or 12,500 shares. If the company hasn't gone through another round of funding, and no new 409A valuation has been made she can buy those 12,500 shares for 40 cents each (12,500 x .40= $5,000). She is now the proud new owner of 12,500 shares of Rockpile stock.
The next year she chooses again to exercise her last 12 months of vested options. But this year the company raised a significant amount of funding with high hopes for a large IPO. A new 409A valuation is completed and the underlying stock is now considered to be worth $3.00/share. The stock she is buying the second year is thus worth 12,500 x $3.00 = $37,500. Her strike price, however does not change. So she gets to purchase another 12,500 shares for $5,000 just like she did the year before.
No ordinary income tax is triggered by her purchase. But this is where the Alternative Minimum Tax might come into play. The difference between her cost of $5,000 and the appraised fair market value of $37,500 ($37,500 - $5,000 = $32,500) is considered taxable and must be reported. Yes, Jackie might incur a tax bill before she even has a chance to sell her stock.
For the next two years Jackie can continue to decide to exercise her options as they vest, or decide not to do so. But, whether she stays or leaves her company she owns her purchased stock.
To end this scenario let's discuss Jackie's last need: selling the stock for what we'll assume is a profit. When selling her stock to receive the best possible tax treatment she must satisfy a holding period requirement. If the sale is at least two years after the grant date, and one year after the exercise, the gain is treated as a long-term capital gain instead of ordinary income tax. So by purchasing her options she gives herself both the earliest possible opportunity to sell her stock with the lower long-term capital gains tax rate.
If Jackie sells her stock for $100,000 in 5 years on the open market, after having paid $10,000 for it, she gets the favorable long-term tax rate on the growth of $90,000. While she may have paid AMT on the difference between the fair market value and her strike price, that does not step up her basis to the fair market value. Instead she may have earned an AMT credit, which could allow her to recoup the AMT tax she paid down the road. How this works out in practicality is very case specific. We won't dig into it here, but just know that Jackie is not getting taxed twice on her gains.
Finally, it's important to note that if Rockpile's value goes to zero, her purchased stock's value also goes to zero. By exercising her options, Jackie is putting money behind her belief that the company is going to grow and succeed.
In our second scenario Jackie decides that she wants to wait to exercise her options until after her company is bought or IPOs. If the company fails, the cost to her is nothing because she never purchases the stock. But if the company succeeds her cost to purchase her options could be much larger because of her tax liability.
In this hypothetical scenario she holds on to all her vested options until IPO. Her 50,000 shares end up being valued at $20/share when the company IPOs. She can purchase all her vested options for $20,000 (50,000 x $0.40 = $20,000). But her AMT tax liability is going to be based on the difference between her price and the fair market value. $1,000,000 - $20,000 = $980,000. In this situation she will probably have to sell some of her stock to be able to pay the incurred taxes. But for her to have her sale qualify for long-term capital gains rates she would still have to satisfy the holding period. As you can see, balancing the potential tax burden of options can get tricky quickly.
While her company may give her the opportunity to take a "cashless exercise" where some of her shares are traded in to cover the tax bill, her gain that year will still put her in a high marginal tax bracket.
In our last scenario Jackie decided that she didn't want to exercise her options as they vested, but after 3 years of being at the company she receives a job offer she decides she can't refuse. She leaves for the new job, and starts to wonder what will happen to her options at Rockpile. After calling Rockpile's HR she realizes that she has 90 days to exercise her options (this is a standard timeframe for start-up option expiration). She can purchase the vested portion of her options ¾ of 50,000 for the strike price of $0.40/share. But in Jackie's case there has been a recent 409A valuation and the fair market value is $4.00/share. So while she only needs to pay $0.40 x 37,500 = $15,000 to purchase the stock, her AMT tax liability is going to be based on the difference between her cost and the fair market value: $37,500 x 4.00 - $15,000 = $135,000.
In those 90 days she has to determine whether she is willing to take on the AMT obligation. Since the company is not yet public, she cannot easily sell her shares once she purchases them. One of the most difficult pieces of decision making is the fact that just because an employee or former employee owns stock, it does not mean they can sell it. Privately held companies have protocols for when and if their stock can be held, and even when a company goes public employees are almost always subject to a lock-up period before they can sell. This conundrum of owing tax before a person's options are easily disposable on the open market is a real challenge that tech-employees often face as they transition from one company to another.
So what should Jackie do with her options? And more importantly what should you do with yours? The simple answer is that it depends, because developing a plan for your options depends on multiple factors, some of which are in your control (like when you purchase your options, how your compensation is structured), and some that aren't in your control (like whether your company rockets to success, the liquidity of your stock, and the U.S. tax code).
We hope that this discussion has helped give you a better grasp on how Incentive Stock Options generally function. Ultimately, options can be a fantastic way of participating in your company's success. But there are plenty of moving parts. We wish you the best as you plan for your future. If you'd like help wading through them we're here to help.
You mentioned an AMT tax credit, what's that all about?
Let's dive in a little deeper to how the AMT works. Basically, every year your tax liability is calculated using two different systems, the regular system, and the AMT. You pay whichever is higher.
By example, if in Year A under the regular tax system you owe taxes of $39,000, and under the AMT calculation you owe $33,000, then you'll pay $39,000. On the other hand, if under the regular calculation you owe $33,000 and under the AMT calculation you owe $39,000 you'll pay $39,000, and get a $6,000 AMT credit.
This credit can be applied to lower your taxes in years that you aren't subject to the AMT, and bring your regular tax rate down to what you would owe under the AMT calculation.
So, if in YEAR B you owe $40,000 under the AMT system, and $44,000 under the regular system, you can use $4,000 of your prior year credit to bring your tax back down to just $40,000, and carry forward the additional $2,000 to your next return.
a) Exercising your stock options in small blocks may allow you to avoid AMT all together, and benefit from long-term capital gains from the stock sale.
b) It is imperative that your tax preparer tracks your AMT credit every year (using form 8801 – Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax).
c) If you are subject to AMT, or have been in the recent past, please don't file your own taxes using Turbotax, or any other do-it-yourself tax software. You'll want to get this right, and you'll want to carryforward potential AMT credits to future years. Please. Just. Don't.
What about state income tax, or state AMT?
Yes, California has its own AMT of 7% which has its own exemption limit and phase-out amounts. Unfortunately, if you're liable for both the federal and state AMTs, you could be on the hook for a 35% tax rate on exercising your options (7% CA+ 28% federal).


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Brad Wenstrup & Charlie Crist
Compare the voting records of Brad Wenstrup and Charlie Crist in 2017-18.
Brad Wenstrup
Represented Ohio's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 3rd term in the House.
Represented Florida's 13th Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
Brad Wenstrup and Charlie Crist are from different parties and disagreed on 64 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
Sept. 27, 2018 — American Innovation Act of 2018
July 25, 2018 — Restoring Access to Medication Act
Dec. 7, 2017 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes
July 27, 2017 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, and for other purposes
June 29, 2017 — Kate's Law
Dec. 19, 2018 — State Offices of Rural Health Reauthorization Act
Sept. 26, 2018 — Providing for consideration for the conference report to accompany H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY ending September 30, 2019; and H.Res. 1071, recognizing allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of U.S. citizens
Sept. 6, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6691) to amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify the definition of "crime of violence", and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
April 26, 2018 — Lynch of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 87
April 18, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5444) Taxpayer First Act, and providing for consideration of the (H.R. 5445) 21st Century IRS Act
Jan. 30, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to H.R. 695, the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
Nov. 2, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 849, Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act.
Oct. 11, 2017 — Providing for consideration of S. 585, the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017; providing for proceedings during the period from October 16, 2017, through October 20, 2017; and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules
July 27, 2017 — Nadler of New York Part B Amendment No. 38
July 26, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 52
July 13, 2017 — Blumenauer of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 13
July 13, 2017 — Nadler of New York Part B Amendment No. 6
April 26, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1695) to amend title 17, United States Code, to provide additional responsibilities for the Register of Copyrights, and for other purposes
March 21, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 372) to restore the application of the Federal antitrust laws to the business of health insurance to protect competition and consumers.
March 8, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1301) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes


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WHITEHORSE—By providing more than $107,000 in funding, the Yukon government's Community Development Fund (CDF) is supporting nine initiatives across Yukon that are intended to enhance community.
The Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY) will use CDF funding to adapt the Yukon Directory of French Services to an interactive web platform for smart phones and tablets. Yukon has the third highest percentage of bilingualism in the country, after Quebec and New Brunswick. The new web platform will display the Yukon government's Bonjour Yukon logo – which designates the availability of French language services – and will be a valuable tool for French-speaking entrepreneurs, residents, newcomers and visitors.
The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations (CAFN) will enhance its website to improve communication and facilitate new business and economic opportunities in the region.
Organizations are strongly encouraged to contact Community Development advisors before the next intake deadline – May 15 – for assistance with the development of project ideas and applications.


Man I wish I coulda made it, I had car insurance due this past week (we pay every 6 months) and it was pretty pricey. So money was an issue.
Maybe next year I can make it. I hope.
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Q: How to copy a 2016 excel to another(including formulas, cell style and date format) using apache poi. How to copy a 2016 excel to another(including formulas, cell style and date format) using apache poi.Below is the code that i have tried. It copies the file, but does not copy cell style. Also the cell type method is shown as deprecated, is their a new approach to this ? Also i need to try it out using XSSF and not HSSF.
public void copy(String origFileName,String newFileName) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            try {
                BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(origFileName));
                XSSFWorkbook origWorkbook = new XSSFWorkbook(bis);
                XSSFWorkbook copyWorkbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
                XSSFSheet origSheet = null;
                XSSFRow origRow = null;
                XSSFCell origCell = null;
                XSSFSheet copySheet = null;
                XSSFRow copyRow = null;
                XSSFCell copyCell = null;
                int origSheets = origWorkbook.getNumberOfSheets();
                int fCell = 0;
                int lCell = 0;
                int fRow = 0;
                int lRow = 0;
                for (int iSheet = 0; iSheet < origSheets; iSheet++) {
                    origSheet = origWorkbook.getSheetAt(iSheet);
                    if (origSheet != null) {
                        copySheet = copyWorkbook.createSheet(origSheet.getSheetName());
                        fRow = origSheet.getFirstRowNum();
                        lRow = origSheet.getLastRowNum();
                        for (int iRow = fRow; iRow <= lRow; iRow++) {
                            origRow = origSheet.getRow(iRow);
                            copyRow = copySheet.createRow(iRow);
                            if (origRow != null) {
                                fCell = origRow.getFirstCellNum();
                                lCell = origRow.getLastCellNum();
                                for (int iCell = fCell; iCell < lCell; iCell++) {
                                    origCell = origRow.getCell(iCell);
                                    copyCell = copyRow.createCell(iCell);
                                    if (origCell != null) {
                                        CellStyle cellStyle = setCellStyle(copyWorkbook, origCell);
                                        copyCell.setCellType(origCell.getCellType());
                                        switch (origCell.getCellType()) {
                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK:
                                            copyCell.setCellValue("");
                                            break;

                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
                                            copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getBooleanCellValue());
                                            break;

                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_ERROR:
                                            copyCell.setCellErrorValue(origCell.getErrorCellValue());
                                            break;

                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_FORMULA:
                                            copyCell.setCellFormula(origCell.getCellFormula());
                                            break;

                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                                            copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getNumericCellValue());
                                            break;

                                        case XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                                            copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getStringCellValue());
                                            break;
                                        default:
                                            copyCell.setCellFormula(origCell.getCellFormula());
                                        }
                                        copyCell.setCellStyle(cellStyle);
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

                bis.close();
                BufferedOutputStream bos;
                bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(newFileName, true));
                copyWorkbook.write(bos);
                bos.close();
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }
    private CellStyle setCellStyle(XSSFWorkbook copyWorkbook, XSSFCell origCell) {
            CellStyle cellStyle = copyWorkbook.createCellStyle();
            //cellStyle.setFillBackgroundColor(IndexedColors.AQUA.getIndex());
            cellStyle.setFillForegroundColor(origCell.getCellStyle().getFillForegroundColor());
            cellStyle.setFont(origCell.getCellStyle().getFont());
            cellStyle.setBottomBorderColor(origCell.getCellStyle().getBottomBorderColor());
            cellStyle.setLeftBorderColor(origCell.getCellStyle().getLeftBorderColor());
            cellStyle.setLocked(origCell.getCellStyle().getLocked());
            cellStyle.setQuotePrefixed(origCell.getCellStyle().getQuotePrefixed());
            cellStyle.setRightBorderColor(origCell.getCellStyle().getRightBorderColor());
            cellStyle.setRotation(origCell.getCellStyle().getRotation());
            cellStyle.setShrinkToFit(origCell.getCellStyle().getShrinkToFit());
            cellStyle.setTopBorderColor(origCell.getCellStyle().getTopBorderColor());
            cellStyle.setVerticalAlignment(origCell.getCellStyle().getVerticalAlignmentEnum());
            cellStyle.setWrapText(origCell.getCellStyle().getWrapText());
            cellStyle.setHidden(origCell.getCellStyle().getHidden());
            cellStyle.setIndention(origCell.getCellStyle().getIndention());
            cellStyle.setAlignment(origCell.getCellStyle().getAlignmentEnum());
            cellStyle.setBorderBottom(origCell.getCellStyle().getBorderBottomEnum());
            cellStyle.setBorderLeft(origCell.getCellStyle().getBorderLeftEnum());
            cellStyle.setBorderRight(origCell.getCellStyle().getBorderRightEnum());
            cellStyle.setBorderTop(origCell.getCellStyle().getBorderTopEnum());
            cellStyle.setFillPattern(origCell.getCellStyle().getFillPatternEnum());
            return cellStyle;
        }

A: to copy the style see: Copy a XSSF/HSSF-Cells into a new XSSFWorkbook

I modified your code and its working fine.
See the modified code for new way to handle cell type.
Assuming workbook exist under c:\temp\1.xlsx
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellType;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCellStyle;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

public class CopyCat {

    public void copy(String origFileName,String newFileName) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        try {
            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(origFileName));
            XSSFWorkbook origWorkbook = new XSSFWorkbook(bis);
            XSSFWorkbook copyWorkbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
            XSSFSheet origSheet = null;
            XSSFRow origRow = null;
            XSSFCell origCell = null;
            XSSFSheet copySheet = null;
            XSSFRow copyRow = null;
            XSSFCell copyCell = null;
            int origSheets = origWorkbook.getNumberOfSheets();
            int fCell = 0;
            int lCell = 0;
            int fRow = 0;
            int lRow = 0;
            for (int iSheet = 0; iSheet < origSheets; iSheet++) {
                origSheet = origWorkbook.getSheetAt(iSheet);
                if (origSheet != null) {
                    copySheet = copyWorkbook.createSheet(origSheet.getSheetName());
                    fRow = origSheet.getFirstRowNum();
                    lRow = origSheet.getLastRowNum();
                    for (int iRow = fRow; iRow <= lRow; iRow++) {
                        origRow = origSheet.getRow(iRow);
                        copyRow = copySheet.createRow(iRow);
                        if (origRow != null) {
                            fCell = origRow.getFirstCellNum();
                            lCell = origRow.getLastCellNum();
                            for (int iCell = fCell; iCell < lCell; iCell++) {
                                origCell = origRow.getCell(iCell);
                                copyCell = copyRow.createCell(iCell);
                                if (origCell != null) {
                                    // read more here
                                    //https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32067614/copy-a-xssf-hssf-cells-into-a-new-xssfworkbook

                                    XSSFCellStyle origCellStyle = origCell.getCellStyle();
                                    XSSFCellStyle copyCellStyle = copyWorkbook.createCellStyle();
                                    copyCellStyle.cloneStyleFrom(origCellStyle);
                                    copyCell.setCellStyle(copyCellStyle);

                                    CellType origCellType = origCell.getCellTypeEnum();
                                    copyCell.setCellType(origCellType);

// This is the new way :getCellTypeEnum

switch (origCellType) {
                                    case BLANK:
                                        copyCell.setCellValue("");
                                        break;

                                    case BOOLEAN:
                                        copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getBooleanCellValue());
                                        break;

                                    case ERROR:
                                        copyCell.setCellErrorValue(origCell.getErrorCellValue());
                                        break;

                                    case FORMULA:
                                        copyCell.setCellFormula(origCell.getCellFormula());
                                        break;

                                    case NUMERIC:
                                        copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getNumericCellValue());
                                        break;

                                    case STRING:
                                        copyCell.setCellValue(origCell.getStringCellValue());
                                        break;
                                    default:
                                        copyCell.setCellFormula(origCell.getCellFormula());
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            bis.close();
            BufferedOutputStream bos;
            bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(newFileName, true));
            copyWorkbook.write(bos);
            bos.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

public static void main(String[] args) {
    new CopyCat().copy("c:\\temp\\1.xlsx", "c:\\temp\\2.xlsx");
}
}

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NCAA Hoopster Cam Johnson Fighting the Good Fight
By League of Fans On June 8, 2017
I want to be the first member of the Cam Johnson Fan Club.
Johnson is a former University of Pittsburgh basketball player who is trying to transfer to the University of North Carolina to play his final two years of eligibility. He graduated from Pitt in three years, summa cum laude, with 3.9 GPA.
According to NCAA bylaws, Johnson should be allowed to transfer and play immediately for any NCAA school as a graduate student. However, for some reason, the NCAA also allows schools and conferences to set their own policies for graduate transfers.
As such, Pitt decided that Johnson could transfer to a conference member school but had to sit out a year before becoming eligible to play.
Johnson is a Pitt graduate and gave three years to the Pitt program. Shouldn't a graduate be allowed to transfer where he wants?
This is the NCAA plantation mentality at work again. Here's how it works: coaches and athletic directors are allowed to break their contracts and take jobs at any school of their choice. Athletes, whose compensation is limited to a scholarship — despite pulling in millions in revenue to pay the salaries of coaches and athletic directors — are only allowed to go to another university if their school says they can. If their original school wants to play the role of jerk and prevent an athlete's transfer — to all NCAA schools or only certain schools they designate — they can.
Universities simply have too much power over athletes. College kids don't have the protection of unions or agents to argue on their behalf like professional athletes do. They're left to fight the NCAA Machine on their own.
This whole scenario stinks. In Johnson's case, he was recruited to Pitt by former coach Jamie Dixon, who left shortly thereafter to take the job at TCU. Kevin Stallings left his players at Vanderbilt to take the job at Pitt. Pitt's athletic director also left during Johnson's time at Pitt to go to Oregon State. Nevertheless, Pitt wants to hold Johnson hostage.
As Johnson wrote in a letter he released publicly this week:
"As a student-athlete, who is not a paid employee of the school, and a graduate, shouldn't I be granted the same freedom of movement?"
Where's the justice in this system?
Hopefully, public pressure will force Pitt to change this unfair decision.
Just last week, public pressure on Kansas State's athletic department forced head football coach Bill Snyder to change his mind regarding his decision to not allow wide receiver Corey Sutton to transfer anywhere, and I mean anywhere. Snyder banned Sutton from transferring to all FBS (Division I), FCS and Division II schools. After heavy criticism, Snyder changed his tune and allowed Sutton to freely transfer.
It shouldn't take heavy public criticism to change these decisions. This is a deeply flawed system that needs to be fixed.
Permanently.


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By Darrell Etherington Growth July 30, 2012
Mashape Opens its Marketplace of Over 400 APIs to the Public
Mashape, the cloud API clearinghouse originally founded in Italy, today announced that it will be opening up its services to the general public after a little over a year in beta. In terms of positioning, Mashape is in a very good place; its business is based around providing a single go-to location for APIs, of which it has a hefty library, now topping 400 listed, a significant growth over 110 APIs at the launch of its beta.
The company is adding on new APIs at the rate of about two every 10 days, according to Mashape founder Augusto Marietti. That growth is helping it build out the supply side of the equation, but Marietti says the most important aspect of Mashape is its user base.
When asked what provides Mashape its strongest advantage over its competition (the API space is heating up, and will likely continue to do so, with entrants like Mashery providing access to APIs and API management), he said it was "the community." "Building a marketplace is very hard," he explained. "But once you solve the chicken and egg problem [of building out supply in the form of APIs, and demand in the form of developer customers], you are even harder to kill."
Mashape accomplished this by focusing on the supply side first, which is where that 300 percent growth in available APIs has come from. Now, the team feels they've reached critical mass in that regard, so opening up to the general public makes sense at this point.
In terms of the types of partners it has on the supply side, Mashape has already had some significant success by paying attention to the community has an appetite for. When Face.com shut down access to its facial recognition API post-Facebook acquisition, for instance, a developer called Lambda Labs built a replacement and attracted hundreds of developer customers in just a couple days via Mashape. That kind of case study is representative of the advantage developers get through Mashape: an audience primed and ready to consume the products they're offering, without the same kind of discovery hurdles of building an API yourself and shopping it around solo.
Historically, the best way to sell APIs has been building a test case via a standalone product to show what it can do. With Mashape and its competitors, developers can often skip that step and simply build services that others are looking for. The convenience factor for shoppers, who can also analyze API usage through Mashape's new Consumer Console, which Marietti says is "the first dashboard out there that unify the consumer experience of multiple APIs for a developer."
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With its pubic debut, attention will be on how fast Mashape can now grow its user base. Getting big-name clients on board on the API side could definitely help spur that growth, and the startup clearly feels its ready to take the next step.
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Q: Copy files to the target directory after build Let's assume I have a game with the following directory structure:
/src
/resources
Cargo.toml

I would like cargo build to copy the files in the resources directory and paste them in the same directory as the executable file.
I know it is possible to do this using a custom build script, but this seems to be a common case that deserves special treatment. So the question is: does cargo provide a standard way of copying files to the target directory (using just Cargo.toml)?

A: I can't solve this for crates (as the accepted answer says) but for a "single" binary that needed a file to run correctly, this works for me.
use std::env;
use std::path::Path;
use std::path::PathBuf;

fn main() {
    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=config.json");
    println!("cargo:warning=Hello from build.rs");
    println!("cargo:warning=CWD is {:?}", env::current_dir().unwrap());
    println!("cargo:warning=OUT_DIR is {:?}", env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap());
    println!("cargo:warning=CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR is {:?}", env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap());
    println!("cargo:warning=PROFILE is {:?}", env::var("PROFILE").unwrap());

    let output_path = get_output_path();
    println!("cargo:warning=Calculated build path: {}", output_path.to_str().unwrap());

    let input_path = Path::new(&env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap()).join("config.json");
    let output_path = Path::new(&output_path).join("config.json");
    let res = std::fs::copy(input_path, output_path);
    println!("cargo:warning={:#?}",res)
}

fn get_output_path() -> PathBuf {
    //<root or manifest path>/target/<profile>/
    let manifest_dir_string = env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap();
    let build_type = env::var("PROFILE").unwrap();
    let path = Path::new(&manifest_dir_string).join("target").join(build_type);
    return PathBuf::from(path);
}

This is a mess and I'm very new to Rust. Improvements welcome.

A: No, it doesn't.
You can move files around with build scripts, but these are run before your crate is built because their sole purpose is to prepare the environment (e.g. compile C libraries and shims).
If you think this is an important feature, you can open a feature request in Cargo issue tracker.
Alternatively, you can write a makefile or a shell script which would forward all arguments to cargo and then copy the directory manually:
#!/bin/bash

DIR="$(dirname "$0")"

if cargo "$@"; then
    [ -d "$DIR/target/debug" ] && cp -r "$DIR/resources" "$DIR/target/debug/resources"
    [ -d "$DIR/target/release" ] && cp -r "$DIR/resources" "$DIR/target/release/resources"
fi

Now you can run cargo like
% ./make.sh build


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#include <af/defines.h>
#include <af/image.h>
#include <handle.hpp>
#include <common/err_common.hpp>
#include <scan.hpp>

using af::dim4;
using namespace detail;

template<typename To, typename Ti>
static af_array sat(const af_array& in)
{
    const Array<To> input = castArray<To>(in);

    Array<To> hprefix_scan = scan<af_add_t, To, To>(input, 0);
    Array<To> vprefix_scan = scan<af_add_t, To, To>(hprefix_scan, 1);

    return getHandle<To>(vprefix_scan);
}

af_err af_sat(af_array* out, const af_array in)
{
    try{
        const ArrayInfo& info = getInfo(in);
        const dim4 dims = info.dims();

        ARG_ASSERT(1, (dims.ndims() >= 2));

        af_dtype inputType = info.getType();

        af_array output = 0;
        switch(inputType) {
            case f64: output = sat<double, double>(in); break;
            case f32: output = sat<float , float >(in); break;
            case s32: output = sat<int   , int   >(in); break;
            case u32: output = sat<uint  , uint  >(in); break;
            case  b8: output = sat<int   , char  >(in); break;
            case  u8: output = sat<uint  , uchar >(in); break;
            case s64: output = sat<intl  , intl  >(in); break;
            case u64: output = sat<uintl , uintl >(in); break;
            case s16: output = sat<int   , short >(in); break;
            case u16: output = sat<uint  , ushort>(in); break;
            default: TYPE_ERROR(1, inputType);
        }
        std::swap(*out, output);
    }
    CATCHALL;

    return AF_SUCCESS;
}

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Q: Using PHP to redirect when SQL query comes up empty I am using this PHP script to return search input values with corresponding URL values on a MySQL database/table. The idea is to append them to a redirect to automatically jump to that page.
<?php
$searchResults = $_POST['search'];
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'admin';
$dbpass = 'pwd';
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if(! $conn )
{
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
$sql = "SELECT url
    FROM Table_1
    WHERE input = '" .$searchResults."'";

mysql_select_db('database_1');
$retval = mysql_query( $sql, $conn );
if(! $retval )
{
  die('Could not get data: ' . mysql_error());
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($retval, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
    $redirect = $row['url'];
    header('Location:'.$redirect);
}

To catch any input that does not match a value on Table_1 added this If statement.  It will take any non relevant or misspelled inputs and redirect them to xyz.html
if (mysql_num_rows($retval) < 1)  {

header('Location: xyz.html');

}

Is this incorrect?  It seems to be working but I assume there must be a cleaner way of doing this/ it may be bad practice.

A: The way you use is wrong, it may cause lots of headache.
2 ways :
 1.If result is x then redirect to page A.

 2.If result is x then load view just similar like page A with same header ,footer.

So , as per 2nd way ,when the query is empty , Load specific view which you want.
For your example , suppose you visit a Shopping cart Site, you clicked on Shoes category , if there is no shoes, the page shows message Sorry stock is empty, no shoes, it does not redirect you to any page if stock if empty.

A: If you are expecting only one result from the query then it would work.
But if there are multiple rows then the last row would be loaded . It would be inefficient then.
You could also directly do this:
if($retval)
{ .$row = mysql_fetch_array($retval, MYSQL_ASSOC);
 header('Location:'.$row);
}
else
header('Location:xyz.html');

You wouldn't need to use the while loop if you are expecting only one row.


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Tour de France: Judicial investigation launched against offending spectator
London Dickinson June 27, 2021 2 min read
As the tour began on Sunday for the second stage between Perros-Guirec and Mr-de-Bretagne, the gendarmerie announced on Sunday the opening of a judicial investigation against the spectator causing a major downfall on Saturday with his mark.
• Read also: A spectator causes a massive fall at the Tour de France
The gendarmerie forces confirmed to AFP on Sunday that the two large mass falls in the first stage of the Tour de France did not cause any serious injury to the crowd gathered on the roadsides.
But on Saturday, Peloton shocked a spectator who waved her back in the direction of the race and caused several runners to fall 45 km from the finish.
Witnesses were called to find her and to open a judicial investigation into "involuntary injuries with a disability of not more than three months as a result of a clear intentional breach of the obligation of safety or precaution," as the Finistere gendarmerie identified on Facebook.
"The main issue on the tour remains road safety, and that was clarified yesterday," Lt. Col. Joel Shearer explained. But "I can confirm that there are no casualties in the public," continued the liaison officer from the Gendarmerie Department with the ASO, the tour organizer.
A second fall occurred a few kilometers later, again throwing several runners to the ground.
During the second stage on Sunday, prevention messages will continue to be broadcast by four designated cars inside the convoy.
"As they pass by, they will remind the people, that they always keep out of the way, that they do not throw themselves away for gifts and to keep their children," said Lieutenant Colonel Shearer Detailed.
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Q: Star Trek emergency beam back Several times on board a "Star Ship" the hulls have been compromised expelling crew members into space.
Why not have an emergency system whereas when a person is ejected into space a transporter automatically beams that person back on board?

A: Examining a prime example of this in action:

From what we see, the first line of defense should be the emergency bulkhead, but in the example above it fails to initiate in a timely manner. Given that the processes involved in determining whether or not there's a hole in the hull should be comparatively simple compared to deciding if a crewmember is in or out of the ship (and whether or not they should be in or out, since they might be in a spacesuit) and then transporting them back in, we can probably assume that either:

*

*The bulkheads are normally considered sufficient, so no programming exists for the transporters.

*The bulkheads are malfunctioning, in which case the transporters may be as well.

There may also be considerable risk in programming the computer to auto-transport. If someone were to hack the computer, such a system could be reversed to place people out into space instead. Considering we don't see automated beaming of intruders into the brig or injured crew to sickbay (I can't recall any cases of fully automated transporting in the shows actually), it may be safe to say that Starfleet chose to prevent the computer from running transports without direct human control/initiation for safety/security reasons.

A: Shields block the transporter, and in combat a ship is going to have shields full on.

A: In ENT, the transporters were normally only used for cargo and not for people (multiple episodes, Star Trek: Enterprise).  In TOS, beaming within the ship was considered unsafe or at least risky (Star Trek 3x11 "Day of the Dove").  For both time periods, it seems unlikely that they would be able to develop a system of the sort that the question describes.
From TNG on, this is less obviously problematic.  However, as early as the launch of the Enterprise-B, ships were capable of projecting emergency force fields to seal hull breaches, and were programmed to do this automatically (Star Trek: Generations).  This greatly reduces the need for an emergency beam-out system.  Combine this with the simple fact that, when a person is sucked out into space,[1] they are moving and therefore hard to lock onto,[2] and this whole design just seems rather improbable to me.
[1]: "Correction, sir, that's blown out into space" - Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation 1x03 "The Naked Now"
[2]: If you accept the Abramsverse as canon, Star Trek (2009) provides an example of this being difficult but not impossible with a sufficiently talented transporter operator.

A: Realistically the reason is to add tension and drama to the story.
In universe there are many situations where a transporter lock requires manual input. On top of that if the ship is in combat it's possible that the computer's are busy with processing other combat related tasks or that power is being routed to shields and weapons rather than transporters.

A: In the ENT episode "Cold Station 12", Archer is briefly in open space and  transported aboard so a human could survive in open space and be transported back. Throughout the series we have seen numerous examples of reviving the dead so it is reasonable to assume that a shipmate flung into open space could be revived after a much longer time that we are currently able to at this point in reality: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Death
Knowing this; and with the chaos and confusion of a battle, power needs for weapons and shields, and not being able to drop shields to transport, it may have simply not been a priority to retrieve them immediately as they would most likely be recoverable and revivable after some time.


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Making beer at home can become a passionate hobby for those who enjoy good, flavorful beer and a passing interest in do-it-yourself. You have the opportunity to explore techniques, ingredients and flavors to customize the experience of your beer.
For me, the journey began over 12 years ago when I spent an afternoon at a friend's house while he made a batch of beer. After that, my interest in homebrewing fell by the wayside in pursuit of starting a family, moving, getting into debt, then struggling out of debt and establishing an emergency fund for my family.
Once my family was fairly secure financially, I allowed myself to spend the money for an equipment kit. Actually, I think my wife ordered me to do it as a celebration of being debt free. After my first batch, a Russian imperial stout, I was hooked. Enjoying the beer I made was only rivaled by sharing with people I care about.
One of my first ten gallon batches, splitting in to two fermentation vessels.
With several friends and family members "helping" me drink my homebrew, I quickly realized I needed to start producing larger batches. Upgrading from 5 gallon batches to 10 gallon batches not only allowed me to produce more beer in one batch, it allowed me to split a batch into large fractional batches or many smaller batches. These fractional batches allow me to experiment with different yeasts, dry-hopping techniques or fermentation temperatures.
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Volleyball / September 1, 2022
VB Notebook: at PAC-12/Big Ten Challenge
Game Notes (PDF) Live Stream (Washington) Live Results (Washington) Live Stream (Colorado) Live Results (Colorado)
OPPONENT Iowa (2-1, 0-0) vs. #14 Washington (1-1, 0-0)
LOCATION Boulder, Colo. (CU Events Center)
DATE Saturday, Sept. 3
FIRST SERVE 1 p.m. (CT)
OPPONENT Iowa (2-1, 0-0) at Colorado (3-0, 0-0)
DATE Sunday, Sept. 4
FIRST SERVE 2:30 p.m. (CT)
University of Iowa volleyball heads to Boulder, Colorado, for the PAC-12/Big Ten Challenge. The Hawkeyes face No. 14 Washington on Saturday at 1 p.m. (CT) and Colorado on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (CT) at the CU Events Center.
Live stats for each contest can be found on the team's schedule page at hawkeyesports.com.
TV: Both matches will be streamed on PAC-12 Network (subscription required).
SCOUTING WASHINGTON
Keegan Cook enters his seventh season as head coach of the Huskies, winning four PAC-12 Championships.
The Huskies opened their season going 1-1 with Arkansas, winning, 3-1, and losing, 1-3.
Senior outside hitter Claire Hoffman leads the team with 32 kills.
Senior setter Ella May Powell leads the squad in assists with 95 and in digs with 28.
Washington traveled to Europe over the summer and played in five matches against teams from Slovenia, Italy and France.
The Huskies are ranked 14th in the this week's Top-25.
SCOUTING COLORADO
Jesse Mahoney enters his seventh season at the helm of the Buffaloes. Last season Mahoney set a school record by opening the season 9-0.
The Buffaloes opened their season 3-0, winning in three against Green Bay, 3-1, against Western Michigan, and 3-2, against Denver.
Graduate Student outside hitter Lexi Hadrych leads the team in kills with 43.
Sophomore setterTaylor Simpson leads the squad in assists with 114.
Senior libero Katie Lougeay leads the Buffs in digs with 38.
RS Junior middle blocker Alexia Kuehl was named PAC-12 Defensive Player of The Week on August 29th, registering 22 blocks in their opening tournament.
The Hawkeyes added nine student-athletes to the team this season, including seven transfers and two freshmen.
Delaney McSweeny comes home to Iowa from Wake Forest. The 6-7 middle hitter is a junior from Center Point, Iowa.
Jacqlyn Caspers is also coming home to Iowa from Kent State. The redshirt senior stands at 6-5 as a middle hitter and is originally from Swaledale, Iowa.
Lily Tessier joins the squad from Florida State. Tessier stands at 6-3 as a setter, classifying as a redshirt senior. Tessier calls Fort Meyers, Florida, home.
Anna Davis comes to the Hawkeyes with Coach Barnes from Tulane. Davis, a 6-1 middle hitter is entering her junior year. Davis hails from Castle Rock, Colorado.
Michelle Urquhart joins Iowa alongside Davis and Coach Barnes from Tulane. The 6 foot outside hitter will be an incoming sophomore, hailing from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Amanda Darling transferred into Iowa from Niagara. The junior is a 5-3 libero from Oswego, Illinois.
Madi Wahrmund steps into Iowa from Lafayette. The middle hitter stands at 6-1 and will be a graduate student. Wahrmund calls Fredericksburg, Texas, home.
MICKEY'S BREAKOUT OPENER
Sophomore Michelle Urquhart, an outside hitter transferring in from Tulane, recorded back-to-back double-doubles against Gonzaga and Florida International on Friday at the Oklahoma Invitational.
Urquhart tallied 17 kills (.424) and 10 digs against Gonzaga before notching 10 kills and 12 digs against Florida International.
In her freshman season at Tulane, Urquhart recorded 341 kills, placing her with the second most kills on the roster and the 12th most in the AAC.
Urquhart finished her freshman season with 235 digs and six double-doubles.
SETTER SPOTLIGHT
Redshirt senior Lily Tessier, a 6-3 setter, spent four seasons with the Florida State Seminoles before entering the transfer portal.
"Lily is an elite level, experienced setter," said Coach Barnes. "She is a great communicator, teammate, and leader as well. Here ability to run the offense from well above the net will make her one of the most feared setters in the Big Ten."
A Fort Myers, Florida, native, Tessier appeared in 73 matches for Florida State totaling 1,765 assists (7.29 per set).
She has 36 career aces and 464 digs.
Tessier ranks 11th all-time at FSU in assists per set and 14th in career assists.
She is a three-time ACC Academic Honor Roll selection.
Tessier was a four-year starter at Evangelical Christian High School. In 336 career sets, she recorded 185 aces, 600 digs, 376 kills, and 2,282 assists (6.8 per set).
She was named to the 2014 AAU All-American Team and the 2015 News-Press All-Area second team.
Tessier was named a finalist for the 2016 New-Press All-Area Volleyball Player of the Year award.
SOPHOMORE SPOTLIGHT
Sophomore Addie VanderWeide made 27 consecutive starts to end her freshman season and recorded 12 double-digit kill matches.
VanderWeide recorded a career-high .471 hitting percentage against No. 11 Washington and career high and team-leading 23 digs against Ball State.
Sophomore Toyosi Onabanjo made her first two starts in the Cy-Hawk Series Tournament.
Onabanjo recorded five kills and four blocks in both matches.
XTREAM HOME MAKEOVER
The Hawkeyes finally welcomed fans to Xtream Arena for the first time as they faced Syracuse in the Cy-Hawk Series Tournament on Sept. 9, 2021.
The Hawkeyes ranked 30th in the nation in attendance last season.
JIM BARNES NAMED HEAD COACH
The University of Iowa Athletics Department announced on Dec. 28, the hiring of Jim Barnes as the new head coach of the Hawkeye volleyball program. Barnes is the 11th head coach of the program.
In his 24 years as a head coach, Barnes has a career record of 455-345 (.569), and nine 20-plus win seasons. He has put together six top-20 recruiting classes and made four appearances in postseason tournaments, including a program first NCAA Sweet 16 run.
Barnes arrives in Iowa City after spending six seasons (2016-21) as head coach of Tulane volleyball program. Before Tulane, Barnes spent 11 seasons as the head coach at Baylor (2004-15), and two seasons at Wyoming (2002-04). Barnes was the head coach at Lamar from 1996-200. Barnes got his coaching start at his alma mater of McNeese State, where he spent six years as an assistant coach.
Campbell, Jones Named November's Student-Athletes of the Month
Volleyball / December 14, 2022 Campbell, Jones Named November's Student-Athletes of the Month
116 Hawkeyes Named Fall Academic All-Big Ten
Volleyball / December 9, 2022 116 Hawkeyes Named Fall Academic All-Big Ten
Hawkeye's End Season on a High Note
Volleyball / November 26, 2022 Hawkeye's End Season on a High Note


The US airstrikes on a Syrian regime airbase have hardened the dividing lines across the world in regards to the Assad regime.
MailOnline has set out world leaders' positions on the conflict, which clearly shows the split between pro and anti-Assad countries.
It suggests which side of the battle line countries would position themselves on should the escalating crisis turn into an all out global conflict.
Britain, Israel, Canada, France, Germany and Turkey all spoke out strongly in their condemnation of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, following the strikes on Friday.
Meanwhile, Russia has blasted the US, with the country's UN envoy accusing President Trump of 'violating international law' by firing at an airbase near Homs.
Britain and Israel today specifically praised Trump's airstrikes, which took place in the wake of a deadly poison gas attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.
This puts them at odds with countries including Russia, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Algeria and Venezuela, who have all shown their support for Assad in the past.
France and Germany today said that Assad bears 'sole responsibility' for the US strike.
On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the strike saying it sent a 'strong and clear' message that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated.
The attacks in neighboring Syria have worried Israel, which has warned against 'game-changing' weapons reaching Hezbollah in Lebanon from Syria.
The Israeli leader and Israel's ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, hope America's actions will send a 'significant message' to the likes of Iran and North Korea, where leaders have repeatedly ignored warnings against the use of such weapons.
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that Israel, along with many other international allies, were informed by the US ahead of the military strike, which saw at least 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from two American naval destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean strike the Shayrat Airfield north of Damascus.
The strike was in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack Tuesday in the northern Syrian province of Idlib that left at least 86 people dead.
Britain backed the US missile strike, describing it as an 'appropriate response', as the government offered its full support to Trump's targeted assault.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said Syrian president Assad bore 'sole responsibility' for the US strike on a regime airbase.
Hollande added that the US strike was what France had been calling for in the wake of the 2013 chemical attack.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the US attack was 'understandable' given the Syrian people's suffering.
While this is not the Battle Lines for World War III or Armageddon, they are certainly a reflection of our world geopolitics has moved closer to the alignment of nations at the time when Armageddon will take place. A Key change that we will yet see is with the EU who will at some point in the near future move closer to seeing world conflicts and issues the same way that Russia does. That might seem hard for some to believe right now but it is what all True Bible Students expect based on Bible Prophecy.
So WATCH for this development to come into alignment, as it is a sure sign that we are living in the last days before Christ's Return.


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Fragrance Industry Responds to Anne Steinemanns Study
Fragrance Industry Responds to Anne Steinemann's Study
November 11, 2008 Contact Author
Anne C. Steinemann, a researcher at the University of Washington, released a study late last month entitled "Fragranced consumer products and undisclosed ingredients," which claims fragrance ingredients contained in a selection of consumer products are potentially toxic. Steinemann examined six products (three air fresheners and three laundry supplies) using regulatory and chemical analysis. The author's study found that in the six products, nearly 100 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were identified, but none of the VOCs were listed on any product label, and one was listed on one MSDS. Also, Steinemann's study says that of these identified VOCs, 10 are regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, with three (acetaldehyde, chloromethane, and 1,4-dioxane) classified as Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). Click here (pdf, 138 KB) to download Steinemann's study.
The Fragrance Materials Association (FMA) has published a statement addressing the issues raised in the study. According to the FMA, "The Steinemann study presents no new data or breakthrough analysis." The FMA goes on to say "She claims that, simply because certain chemicals are present in the analyzed products they pose a health risk to all consumers. This is hardly sound science, but rather more like crystal ball gazing and cannot be compared to the sound, independent four-step safety testing process outlined above, which is carried out by the fragrance industry." Click here (pdf, 41 KB) to download the FMA's response statement.
In addition, the FMA and Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) have provided a response to a series of questions put to them by a Seattle reporter. Click here (doc, 71 KB) to download the questions and answers.
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11/30/2020, Rutger M.T. van Sleeuwen, materials science R&D, Firmenich
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Beth Vrabel: "Weirdest Writing Inspiration"
Today we have the honor of welcoming a guest post from Beth Vrabel, author of the recently released middle grade book Bringing Me Back. Below, Beth shares her weirdest writing inspiration – then keep reading to learn more about her book!
I wrote my first story when I was 10 years old. In a moment of bravery, I shared it with my mom. She closed it, looked me in the eye, and said, "Someday, Beth, you're going to write a story, and it's going to be published."
That idea—a book with my name on the spine—stuck. It helped carry me through the awkwardness of middle school. After all, it was all fodder for my future book, right? But by high school, I started to wonder if it was too big of a dream. In college, I focused on journalism, where at least I'd still be a writer even if I never had that book.
Writing a novel felt like too wild a wish to set free. Better to lock it up inside.
But after years as a journalist, moving up the ranks at my newspaper to become a columnist and editor, I knew I had the skill set to be a novelist. And then, when I stayed home with my children, I also had the time. The only thing keeping that wild wish trapped was … me.
And so, every day, I'd pull open that blank white page on my laptop and fight for the determination to fill it with words. After years of this—including three failed manuscripts that even Mom would have trouble praising—most of me screamed to give up. That it was useless, that so few actually made it as a writer.
But another part? It whispered, maybe. Maybe you could.
That whisper stuck with me. It had grit.
And then, in 2014, my first series, PACK OF DORKS (Sky Pony Press) debuted to critical acclaim. The next year, A BLIND GUIDE TO STINKVILLE released, earning the ILA award. And the following year, Sky Pony published its companion, A BLIND GUIDE TO NORMAL, which became a Junior Library Guild selection.
Set free, that dream became a reality. Books with my name on the spine! I was crafting a reputation for writing funny middle grade books.
And then, one day, I saw a story in the news that I could not get out of my head.
A young black bear had been spotted around Clarion, Pa., with what appeared to be a bucket wedged on his head.
Yes, a bucket. Stuck on its head.
Now the closest I had come to a bear was a few years earlier when, as I was driving my son to preschool, a black bear trotted up the road past us, thereby expanding my son's vocabulary. ("He told us all about it!" the preschool teacher said at pick up. "So it was a mother bear?" Uh…)
But I couldn't stop thinking about Bucket Bear. I followed postings on social media. For weeks—seriously, weeks—residents shared pictures when they spotted him around the town, hoping rescue workers would track him. But anytime someone got close, he'd run.
He was more frightened of those who wanted to save him than he was of having a trap around his neck.
In each picture, I could see the bear was weaker, shaggier, thinner. Even if rescuers were able to get the bucket off of him, would he have enough time to bulk up for the upcoming winter? When would it be too late to save him?
About this time, I began visiting schools around the country. At each stop, I told young writers to dig deep into their own experiences, use them to root their stories.
My experiences had nothing to do with a trapped bear. But I couldn't shake this bear.
I called my agent and told her I had an idea. "It's about a bear with a bucket on its head."
She paused. "Are you sure there isn't anything else you'd like to write?" I kept talking. And soon, maybe even before me, she saw I wasn't about to write a story about a bear at all.
It's a story about a boy, trapped by his past decisions. Decisions that had led to his mom being in prison and his friends abandoning him. So blinded by his own shame, the boy—Noah—runs from everyone who might want to help, anyone who could lift or share some of that regret.
Though Noah believes everyone has given up on him, when he hears about an injured bear cub, he refuses to give up on her. No one else thinks she can be saved. Maybe. Maybe you could, part of him whispers.
BRINGING ME BACK is a book about grit. About never giving up.
Somehow this book, inspired by a weird news story, reflects more of me than just about anything else I've written.
(The actual Bucket Bear, by the way, was saved by a group of townspeople who somehow found the courage to jump on top of a live bear. They used tools to chip away at what had been trapping it, and the bear ran free into the woods.)
Noah is not having a good year.
His mom is in prison, he's living with his mom's boyfriend–who he's sure is just waiting until his mother's six month sentence is up to kick him out–and he's officially hated by everyone at his middle school, including his former best friend. It's Noah's fault that the entire football program got shut down after last year.
One day, Noah notices a young bear at the edge of the woods with her head stuck in a bucket. A bucket that was almost certainly left outside as part of a school fundraiser to bring back the football team. As days go by, the bear is still stuck–she's wasting away and clearly getting weaker, even as she runs from anyone who tries to help. And she's always alone.
Though Noah ignores the taunts at school and ignores his mother's phone calls from jail, he can't ignore the bear. Everyone else has written the bear off as a lost cause–just like they have with Noah. He makes it his mission to help her.
But rescuing the bear means tackling his past–and present–head-on. Could saving the bear ultimately save Noah, too?
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Oliver Sweeney Starts To Move Outside Of The Uk
Earlier this week Oliver Sweeny took its first order outside of the UK for its Spring/Summer collection of footwear. The account is an independent retailer in the USA, and the British men's footwear and clothing company hopes it will be followed by many others around the world.
But for now, the USA is the company's top priority for international expansion. Working with a sales agent in New York City, Ju Ju, Oliver Sweeney is retaining a studio in the city to display its ranges to prospective U.S. customers. It is speaking with Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, and would like to develop a presence in U.S. department stores in addition to independent retailers in the country. The company is also searching for a good piece of real estate in New York City for its first single-brand store in the country, possibly by next Fall.
The company is named after its founder, Oliver Sweeney, who suffered a stroke last May. He brought in Andrew Marshall as new managing director last December to spearhead the company's expansion outside of the UK. Marshall was recruited from a hotel supply company after spending four years in Japan and gaining experience in the luxury goods sector with companies like Gucci.
Marshall recently appointed a former colleague, Cristina Abriani, to help him with the expansion into Italy, where she is already speaking to prospective agents in her newly created role of international sales manager. Marshall will also be working with a former Gucci colleague, Paul Woods, on a consultancy basis. Next March the company will focus its efforts on tapping into the Italian market, where its footwear is made, displaying it for the first time at MICAM in Milan.
In the UK, where the company has about 60 wholesale accounts, Oliver Sweeney has just opened a large flagship store on London's New Bond Street with1,300 square feet of retail space coupled with a 1,000-sq.-ft. showroom and some office space. It already has three other stores in the UK, plus concessions in Harvey Nichols department stores.
The company says it grew by 15 percent in its 2006 financial year, ended Sept. 30. With the new accounts outside of the UK as well as the addition of the flagship store, sales growth should exceed 40 percent in the current financial year.


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Q: Java null appear in front of text hey i'm creating new project about cryptography
here's my code:
private void encCaesar() {

    char[] chars = plaintext.toCharArray();
    for (int z = 0; z < plaintext.length(); z++) {
        char c = chars[z];
        if (c >= 32 && c <= 125) {
            int x = c - 32;
            x = (x + keyCaesar) % 96;
            if (x < 0)
                x += 96;
            chars[z] = (char) (x + 32);
        }
    }
    tempCipher = new String(chars);
    Log.d("Caesar", tempCipher);

}

private void encRF() {

    int skip;
    int i, d, j;

    for (d = 0; d < keyRF - 1; d++) {
        skip = 2 * (keyRF - d - 1);
        j = 0;
        for (i = d; i < tempCipher.length();) {

            ciphertext += tempCipher.charAt(i);
            if ((d == 0) || (j % 2 == 0))
                i += skip;
            else
                i += 2 * (keyRF - 1) - skip;
            j++;
        }
    }

    for (i = d; i < tempCipher.length(); i += 2 * (keyRF - 1)) {
        ciphertext += tempCipher.charAt(i);
    }
    Log.d("RF", ciphertext);
    etCipher.setText(ciphertext);
}

btnEnc.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            try {

                keyRF = 2;
                String tempkey = key1.getText().toString();
                plaintext = etPlain.getText().toString();
                if (plaintext.trim().equals("")) {
                    {
                        AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(
                                SentSMSActivity.this).create();
                        alertDialog.setTitle("Alert Dialog");
                        alertDialog
                                .setMessage("Plain text masih kosong . . .");
                        alertDialog.setButton("OK",
                                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                                    public void onClick(
                                            DialogInterface dialog,
                                            int which) {
                                    }
                                });

                        alertDialog.show();
                    }

                }
                if (tempkey.trim().equals("")) {
                    Toast.makeText(
                            getBaseContext(),
                            "Key 1 masih kosong, maka akan digunakan digunakan key default yaitu 2",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    key1.setText("2");
                } else if (Integer.parseInt(tempkey) > plaintext.trim()
                        .length() - 1) {
                    Toast.makeText(
                            getBaseContext(),
                            "Key 1 nilainya melebihi plaintext, maka akan digunakan digunakan key default yaitu 2",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    key1.setText("2");
                } else {
                    keyRF = Integer.parseInt(key1.getText().toString());
                }

                keyCaesar = 3;
                if (key2.getText().toString().trim().equals("")) {
                    Toast.makeText(
                            getBaseContext(),
                            "Key 2 masih kosong, maka akan digunakan digunakan key default yaitu 3",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    key2.setText("3");
                } else {
                    keyCaesar = Integer.parseInt(key2.getText().toString());
                }

            } finally {

                tempCipher = "";
                encCaesar();
                encRF();

            }
        }
    });

when click encrypt, encrypt Caesar first then RF.
i have done opposite RF then Caesar just work fine
but when caesar then RF problem comes up
so the problem is when the ciphertext supposed to be "XYZ" but instead it appear "nullXYZ"

A: null String gets 'null' when converted toString. Try initialize your String variable with
String ciphertext = "";