City Auto Body Automotive - About | Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks Body Shop & Auto Repair Services. Serving Simi Valley, Moorpark & Thousand Oaks.
Since 1980, City Auto Body Automotive has been dedicated to servicing all make and model vehicles. Our professional craftsmanship and excellent service record has distinguished us from others in the industry.
City Auto Body was founded in 1980, proudly serving Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks and surrounding areas. Over the course of 38 years, we have expanded the company by servicing over 75,000 vehicles to become the largest auto body shop in Simi Valley, California. Our new expansion is complete and we have moved into our beautiful new location on Agate Court. City Auto Body is thankful to all the area residents for making our shop their local favorite.
City Auto Body is proud to have earned the award of being recognized as an "Outstanding Performer" in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2017 by The Automobile Club of Southern California. We also have been awarded "Business of the Year" by the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce in 2014 and voted a "Simi Valley Favorite" in local newspapers by consumers.
We care about our community and we're always looking for opportunities to give back. City Auto Body is proud to be a 38 year member of the Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce and Gary White, the owner, is a member of a local Rotary Club for over 36 years.
Our quality of work and excellent service has allowed us to build trust and solid relationships with many local car dealerships and insurance companies.
We are a direct repair facility for: The Automobile Club of Southern California, Mercury Insurance and many others.
Please contact us to inquire about other insurance companies. We look forward to servicing you and your vehicle!


What is the most important information I should know about acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
You should not use this medicine if you have porphyria, or if you have recently used alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, or other narcotic medications.
What is acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
Acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine is a combination medicine used to treat tension headaches that are caused by muscle contractions.
Acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
You should not use acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine if you are allergic to it, if you have porphyria, or if you have recently used alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, or other narcotic medications.
It is not known whether this medicine will harm an unborn baby. If you use butalbital while you are pregnant, your baby could become dependent on the drug. This can cause life-threatening withdrawal symptoms in the baby after it is born. Babies born dependent on habit-forming medicine may need medical treatment for several weeks. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
How should I take acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not take more of this medication than recommended. An overdose can damage your liver or cause death. Tell your doctor if the medicine seems to stop working as well in relieving your pain.
Butalbital may be habit-forming. Never share this medicine with another person, especially someone with a history of drug abuse or addiction. Keep the medication in a place where others cannot get to it. Selling or giving away this medicine is against the law.
Take the medicine with food or milk if it upsets your stomach.
Keep track of the amount of medicine used from each new bottle. Butalbital is a drug of abuse and you should be aware if anyone is using your medicine improperly or without a prescription.
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222. An overdose of acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine can be fatal.
What should I avoid while taking acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
What are the possible side effects of acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
What other drugs will affect acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine?
Taking this medicine with other drugs that make you sleepy or slow your breathing can cause dangerous or life-threatening side effects. Ask your doctor before taking acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine with a sleeping pill, narcotic pain medicine, muscle relaxer, or medicine for anxiety, depression, or seizures.
Other drugs may interact with acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Tell each of your health care providers about all medicines you use now and any medicine you start or stop using.
Your pharmacist can provide more information about acetaminophen, butalbital, and caffeine.
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The the U.S. Small Business Administration, honored GBC International Bank of Los Angeles as the SBA 2016 Export Lender of the Year, and BanescoUSA, a community bank with headquarters in Coral Gables, Florida as SBA's Export Working Capital Lender of the Year at the 9th Annual SBA Export Lenders' Roundtable (4/8/16).
Last year, SBA guaranteed a record 1,777 loans to small business exporters for $1.45 billion, which supported an estimated $3.3 billion in export sales. Small businesses account for one third of all U.S. export sales.


It does not matter how big or small a company is, they all have huge amounts of data that needs to be organized. Each business keeps records of customer names, demographic data, product inventory, monthly revenue and other vital information. It takes time to organize this information and that takes away from the business of promoting and creating new products. Without proper database design, data cannot be retrieved efficiently and data analysis might be almost impossible. Many people don't have enough experience to use some key features in data analysis, which can have an impact on improper decision making.
The basic infrastructure of the company's records can easily be organized and stored. A small business can go from a desk full of loose papers with information to a well-organized database that can be updated in a few keystrokes allowing any information that you, our client can access at anytime and with ease. Businesses thrive on information and as a virtual assistant database manager, The Retro VA is part of that winning equation.


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<?php
namespace Beech\Party\Domain\Model;

/*                                                                        *
 * This script belongs to beechit/mrmaks.                                 *
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 * It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under    *
 * the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the *
 * Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your *
 * option) any later version.                                             *
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 * This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but     *
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHAN-    *
 * TABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser       *
 * General Public License for more details.                               *
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 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public       *
 * License along with the script.                                         *
 * If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html                      *
 *                                                                        *
 * The TYPO3 project - inspiring people to share!                         *
 *                                                                        */

use TYPO3\Flow\Annotations as Flow;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM,
	Beech\Ehrm\Annotations as MM;

/**
 * A Company
 *
 * @Flow\Entity
 * @MM\EntityWithDocument
 */
class Company extends \TYPO3\Party\Domain\Model\AbstractParty implements \TYPO3\Flow\Object\DeclaresGettablePropertyNamesInterface {

	use \Beech\Ehrm\Domain\EntityWithDocumentTrait {
		__get as ___get;
	}

	/**
	 * @Flow\Inject
	 * @var \TYPO3\Flow\Object\ObjectManagerInterface
	 */
	protected $objectManager;

	/**
	 * The company name
	 *
	 * @var string
	 * @Flow\Validate(type="NotEmpty", validationGroups={"Controller"})
	 */
	protected $name;

	/**
	 * @var \Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company
	 * @ORM\ManyToOne(inversedBy="departments")
	 * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="parent_company_id")
	 * @Flow\Lazy
	 */
	protected $parentCompany;

	/**
	 * @var \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection<\Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company>
	 * @ORM\OneToMany(mappedBy="parentCompany")
	 * @Flow\Lazy
	 */
	protected $departments;

	/**
	 * @var \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection<\Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Person>
	 * @ORM\OneToMany(mappedBy="department")
	 * @Flow\Lazy
	 */
	protected $employees;

	/**
	 * @var boolean
	 */
	protected $deleted = FALSE;

	/**
	 * Construct the object
	 */
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
		$this->departments = new \Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection();
	}

	/**
	 * @param string $name
	 */
	public function setName($name) {
		$this->name = $name;
	}

	/**
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getName() {
		return $this->name;
	}

	/**
	 * @param \Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company $department
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function addDepartment(\Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company $department) {
		$this->departments->add($department);
		$department->parentCompany = $this;
	}

	/**
	 * @param \Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company $department
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function removeDepartment(\Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company $department) {
		$this->departments->removeElement($department);
	}

	/**
	 * @return \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
	 */
	public function getDepartments() {
		return $this->departments;
	}

	/**
	 * @param boolean $deleted
	 */
	public function setDeleted($deleted) {
		$this->deleted = $deleted;
	}

	/**
	 * Set employees
	 *
	 * @param \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection $employees
	 */
	public function setEmployees($employees) {
		$this->employees = $employees;
	}

	/**
	 * Get employees
	 *
	 * @return \Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
	 */
	public function getEmployees() {
		return $this->employees;
	}

	/**
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public function getDeleted() {
		return $this->deleted;
	}

	/**
	 * Get parentCompany
	 *
	 * @return \Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Company
	 */
	public function getParentCompany() {
		return $this->parentCompany;
	}

	/**
	 * Get primaryAddress
	 *
	 * @return \Beech\Party\Domain\Model\Address
	 */
	public function getPrimaryAddress() {
		return $this->__get('address_workAddress');
	}

	/**
	 * This is the function to get specific (primairy) properties.
	 *
	 * See documentation in EHRM-Base for more info
	 * Todo: make this more generic, this is also in person model
	 *
	 * @param $property
	 * @return mixed|null
	 */
	public function __get($property) {
		$return = $this->___get($property);
		if ($return === NULL) {
			$explodedProperty = explode('_', $property);
			if (count($explodedProperty) === 2) {
				list($model, $type) = $explodedProperty;
				$model = ucfirst($model);
				$repositoryClassName = sprintf('Beech\Party\Domain\Repository\%sRepository', $model);
				$repository = $this->objectManager->get($repositoryClassName);
				$allFounded = $repository->findByParty($this->getId());
				$getType = sprintf('get%sType', $model);
				foreach ($allFounded as $object) {
					if (($object->{$getType}() === $type) && $object->getPrimary()) {
						return $object;
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return $return;
	}
}

?>

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A huge thank you to our wonderful PTA, who raised £1490 through this year's annual Summer Bounce. It was a wonderful afternoon of families relaxing together and having fun.
Pupils in Year 6 enjoyed a workshop learning about the different forms of cyberbullying and how to stay safe when using online media.
Children in Year 2 have been telling oral stories and talking about heritage, connected to their topic of Africa.
As part of our collaboration with other Trust schools, Year 3 enjoyed a visit from the Essex Records Office, learning about the local impact of WWI.
Year 5 were visited by Splats, as part of their unit of enquiry entitled, 'Language is a powerful tool…' which was based within a case study of Shakespeare. In just a day, children rehearsed scripts and created props for four scenes from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', then performed the play in front of parents and carers. The team work and focus seen was excellent.
Through an exhibition for parents and carers, Year 5 shared some of their learning experiences from their unit of enquiry and took the opportunity to appreciate the sacrifices that other people made on their behalf as part of WWI.
This term, children in year 6 have been studying the Titanic. As a project, they were asked to produce an artistic piece of work related to this topic. As you can see, they worked extremely hard, and the work they produced was something to be proud of. See the full gallery here.


NetLogo is a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment that is widely. It is particularly well suited for modeling complex systems developing over time. Modelers can give instructions to hundreds or thousands of independent "agents" all operating concurrently. This makes it possible to explore the connection between the micro-level behavior of individuals and the macro-level patterns that emerge from the interaction of many individuals.(Nation Master Encyclopedia).


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Vous adorez les caracos et les t-shirts. Découvrez maintenant le débardeur : doux, délicat et délicieusement fluide.
Sheryl recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Love these tops. Am gutted they didn't being any black ones out this year. Please please bring them back next year - I'm wearing last years this year but would have bought new ones had they been available. Black, Navy, Dark Green would be great please!
Joanne Champion recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Aufpassen. Diese Shirts fallen teilweise zu groß aus. Die Tops sind perfekt für den Sommer, weil sie schön flattern. Sie sind nicht zu lang, so dass man sie zu Jeans oder Shorts tragen kann.
Claudia recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Kathy recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Please can you start doing these again ?
Please LTS can you bring these great little tops back ? I love the way they have a 'swing' to them and dont cling, they look good under too short tops and add the length sometimes lacking. A wide variety of colours would be good, thanks.
Gaye Tye recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Ordered XS but the style was too baggy and made me look pregnant. Nice material and lovely colour though..
Ordered XS but the style was too baggy and made me look pregnant. Nice material and stripe design nice top.
I am 6' and 165 lbs and always get a size small in tops at LTS. This one was no exception. Fits great.
Melissa recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
The white is not as nice as the cheaper version I also bought with stripes, and will show its age much faster. I would return this except it was a sale item and return cost more than the top. High value rating due to sale price, disappointed if full price due to the length - here it looks like a tunic length and it is almost a belly shirt on me.
Janice recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Ich mag diese Teile sehr, denn sie sind luftig und wirken bei heissen Temperaturen ausgleichend. Mir passen sie zudem hervorragend, allerdings habe ich auch ein D-Cup. Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass jemand mit kleinerer Cup-Größe obenrum Probleme bekommt.
I love this top. I bought it for a trip to Hawaii this fall and the first time I put it on was at our hotel. I wish I would have purchased one in every color and I wish they had a t-shirt just like it. My tummy was masked without feeling or looking pregnant. It was bright and very comfortable. I hope I can buy more later in my size.
Ruth Sanchez recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I got this on sale, and it is good for the price! I like the color-prettier in person than online.
LJ recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
This is loose, and the colors fit differently. I ended up keeping the blue and returning the coral colored one. There was nothing outstanding about this tank.
I like this top. I got it a great price on sale. I'll have this until it wears out. Soft fabric, nice details. I can tuck it in or let it out. Goes great with skirts too. So comfortable. Classic.
I was worried that this might look like a maternity top, but it doesn't at all. I like how it flows away from my tummy without making people think I have something to hide. I love stripes and this also has a cute pocket for added detail. I only wish it were a teensy bit longer, but it will work.
Rebecca recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
This tank is amazing. I ordered an XS even though I typically wear a Small in tops, I ordered XS based on LTS's sizing chart, that was the right way to go. I am small busted and the top fit perfectly in the shoulder/bust/arm pit region. Long and flowy on the bottom which is how I prefer my shirts, no clinging to the belly! I plan to order more. No reason to have hanger straps, I cut those out, no big deal.
Natasha recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Must buy some more of these-useful top.
BERNADETTE recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I bought this top in the sale and loved it. The colour is beautiful and the cut and fit looked amazing. I was ready to buy every colour LTS make in this. The first time I wore it it looked lovely on. When I took it off the back split width ways. I couldn't believe how poor the quality is. I wasn't rough with it but because it was the middle of the back and not along a seam I couldn't fix it. What a shame. Very disappointed.
Fits well. A little loose but not too baggy.
This will work for dressing up or casual. The length is perfect. The color is true to what I viewed on the internet. Love the little pocket!
Nice top, ordered three. This was the only one I kept as all were different fits.
I bought a couple of these tops in different colours - all had a slightly different fit. Kept one.
Bought for holidays. Have not worn yet.
Excellent value, colour as in brochure and perfect fit. Very pleased with purchase.
Jean recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I bought 4 but one colour was already sold out. The quality is good and I found the length to be perfect. I've been rotating these three tanks this summer and I know they'll last and still be stylish next summer too. Very pleased!
Vicki Babich recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I purchased this in the coral and white. It flares out at the waist which gives a "princess" feel. I like that it is not skin tight so I can hide my tummy if need be. The coral color is more on that side than orange. The best way I can say is think of an deep salmon color. I wore the white one with a bolier jacket and jeans. Just a cute look.
dominique recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Bought two for the deal price, both in medium. Fantastic pieces for the summer! Love the flare bottom and length is really good. The "Blues" colour fit nicely however a tiny bit big but still wearable. The "bright blue" colour fit was huge and I will probably return it for a size Small. This has happened to me before with pants (at another store), where I buy the same pant size in different colours and they fit totally different! If unsure, buy smaller than you think for these tanks.
Carly Spence recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
So as someone with an hourglass shape I normally stay well away from this style as they just make you look pregnant... well as I am now pregnant this is ideal. LTS don't appear to do proper maternity tops (oh how I wish they did), but this is a good sub. Nice soft and stretchy fabric, straps wide enough to cover the now totally necessary bra straps, and enough room in it that I might well get use out of this for the whole pregnancy. I know this isn't its intended use, but the shape is ideal.
JES recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great basic top, size down!
I disagree with the previous reviewer, I found I needed to size down. I'm a size 14 and a solid M in LTS tops, but I found that the top was a bit too flared in my size, and made me look a bit big and frumpy. I kept seeing these online so I eventually tried sizing down to an S, very glad I did as they now fit really nicely. Bought in the Teal and Mango colours - great summer shades.
These tops are wonderful; flattering for larger figures when teamed up with jeans, except for the awful pocket detail. Come on Long Tall Sally - why on earth would a tall/large-framed woman want a small/badly placed pocket on one breast???? I love the tops but can only wear them with a cardi to big scarf to cover the pocket!
Sue Allonby recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great top - but size UP!
Loved the look of these, so ordered two (one black, one white) prior to my holiday. Always order XS from LTS for all my tops, so did the same here. Tried on the black and it was OK but a bit snug...but did not try on the white before I went away. Mistake! The white was even more snug (i.e. too small and too tight under the armpits) and being a light colour this made it look cheap. Will probably try to order two more - but will go up to the S size next time & go for darker colours.
Lorraine Allen recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great idea but this top is too short! I didn't like the pocket which seems to be placed quite high and is small and seems out of proportion with a tall person like me.
Trish Bogaert recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great, simple and confy tank. Fits nicely all around, length is good. I got size down (S) based on other reviews, as the bottom is wider I did not want to have the feeling of a balloon. The fabric is flowy and it falls nicely all around your curves.
Sylwia Vaclavek recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
This type of top often expresses the little armpit rolls and I was unsure when ordering it, but it's a really good fit, everything is neatly covered. I find the top a bit too short to wear with a legging, but it's just fine with any other trousers. I purchased it in light blue and will add some more colours for the upcoming summer.
I_DW recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
This top would have been very nice in a floaty cotton fabric. I did not like the thick stretchy material and it is too short for the shape. I ordered 4, disappointed and have returned.
Zena Holt recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Ewa recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
elly moore recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Ally recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I was very disappointed with these tops. They have no shape and gave the impression I was pregnant! Also, why do LTS tanks all use a swimsuit material? I'd like to see some 100 % cotton tanks in neutral colors please!
K Stollznow recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great basic, flattering, and it really does cover your bra. Wish all vests were like this. Hope LTS keep a range of these permanently available.. As others have said, go down a size.
Deborah Charlesworth recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
I absolutely LOVE the idea of a swing tank! I want to buy every single color and beg for more colours but they just too short. Why couldn't you make this so it comes down to the bum? A swing top shouldn't be short. PLEASE keep making this style but next season make them longer. I would buy in every season.
This is a cute top, but...I'm 6' and the top isn't long enough to cover my bum. Should be a 30" length. I like the swing top with the capri leggings, really cute. I thought it ran a bit small in the bust area and I usually wear a small. I'm going to order a medium and see how that fits and if I can get a bit of length. Bust 37" I would order two sizes and then determine which one will fit best.
mighty tall girl recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Die extreme A-Linie ist bei großer Oberweite nicht vorteilhaft, weil das Shirt dann vorne absteht.
Discombobulated recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).
Great top, great length but for me it has too much swing! It just made me look huge in the bottom half.
Lorri recommanderait cet article à un(e) ami(e).


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package com.zimbra.cs.mailbox;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.HashMap;

import junit.framework.Assert;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException;
import com.zimbra.cs.account.Account;
import com.zimbra.cs.account.Provisioning;
import com.zimbra.cs.db.Db;
import com.zimbra.cs.db.DbPool;
import com.zimbra.cs.db.DbPool.DbConnection;
import com.zimbra.cs.db.HSQLDB;
import com.zimbra.cs.mailbox.Mailbox.MailboxData;
import com.zimbra.cs.mime.ParsedMessage;
import com.zimbra.cs.redolog.op.RedoableOp;

public class DesktopMailboxTest {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void init() throws Exception {
        MailboxTestUtil.initServer(); //TODO: allow paths to be specified so we can run tests outside of ZimbraServer
        MailboxManager.setInstance(new MailboxManager() {
            @Override
            protected Mailbox instantiateMailbox(MailboxData data) {
                //mock the behaviors we need to test in DesktopMailbox
                return new Mailbox(data) {
                    @Override
                    protected boolean needRedo(OperationContext octxt, RedoableOp recorder) {
                        return false;
                    }
                };
            }
            //TODO: eventually move this into ZimbraOffline and implement all of the provisioning needed for real DesktopMailbox
//                try {
//                    return new DesktopMailbox(data) {
//                    };
//                } catch (ServiceException e) {
//                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
//                }
        });

        Provisioning prov = Provisioning.getInstance();
        prov.createAccount("test@zimbra.com", "secret", new HashMap<String, Object>());
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        MailboxTestUtil.clearData();
    }

    public static final DeliveryOptions STANDARD_DELIVERY_OPTIONS = new DeliveryOptions().setFolderId(Mailbox.ID_FOLDER_INBOX);

    private int countInboxMessages(Mailbox mbox) throws ServiceException, SQLException {
        PreparedStatement stmt = null;
        ResultSet rs = null;
        DbConnection conn = DbPool.getConnection(mbox);
        try {
            stmt = conn.prepareStatement("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mboxgroup1.mail_item WHERE mailbox_id = ? and folder_id = ?");
            stmt.setInt(1, mbox.getId());
            stmt.setInt(2, Mailbox.ID_FOLDER_INBOX);
            rs = stmt.executeQuery();
            if (rs.next()) {
                return rs.getInt(1);
            }
            return 0;
        } finally {
            DbPool.closeResults(rs);
            DbPool.quietCloseStatement(stmt);
            DbPool.quietClose(conn);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void nestedTxn() throws Exception {
        Account acct = Provisioning.getInstance().getAccount("test@zimbra.com");
        Mailbox mbox = MailboxManager.getInstance().getMailboxByAccount(acct);
        HSQLDB db = (HSQLDB) Db.getInstance();
        db.useMVCC(mbox);

        DeliveryOptions dopt = new DeliveryOptions().setFolderId(Mailbox.ID_FOLDER_INBOX);
        mbox.lock.lock();
        try {
            OperationContext octx = new OperationContext(acct);
            mbox.beginTransaction("outer", octx);
            mbox.beginTransaction("inner1", octx);
            mbox.addMessage(octx, new ParsedMessage("From: test1-1@sub1.zimbra.com".getBytes(), false), dopt, null);

            //nothing committed yet
            Assert.assertEquals(0, countInboxMessages(mbox));
            mbox.endTransaction(true); //inner 1

            //nothing committed yet
            Assert.assertEquals(0, countInboxMessages(mbox));

            mbox.beginTransaction("inner2", null);
            mbox.addMessage(null, new ParsedMessage("From: test1-2@sub1.zimbra.com".getBytes(), false), dopt, null);

            //nothing committed yet
            Assert.assertEquals(0, countInboxMessages(mbox));
            mbox.endTransaction(true); //inner 2

            //nothing committed yet
            Assert.assertEquals(0, countInboxMessages(mbox));

            mbox.endTransaction(true); //outer

            //committed
            Assert.assertEquals(2, countInboxMessages(mbox));
        } finally {
            mbox.lock.release();
        }
    }
}


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An Unnatural Death | The Daily Star
Have you ever put your ear to the rail to listen to the rumbling sound of an approaching train? I have. Many of us have. When we were children, we tried to make sense of the world with curiosity and innocence. Even a simple law of physics such as the traveling of sound through metal would have stirred us, excited our imagination. The cold steel on the track, smoothened by the constant frictions, would announce from a distance the arrival of a train carrying a hundred different passengers with a hundred different stories. We would have heard the metallic noise, but not the human voices it carried—the human stories it contained.
Grownups rarely have the curiosity to press their ears to the track not only because it is silly but also because it is dangerous and dirty. One man in Rajshahi decided to do so. He had no intention of moving his head away when the Rahanpur-bound commuter train was passing by. His head was instantly severed from his body, which had a suicide note.
"Jalal, Kalam and his son Rana and others have beaten me hard and broken my arms and legs. The pain and the trauma are unbearable… Three people who mattered the most in my life are my mother, daughter and wife. I cannot take it anymore. Please give the main copy of this note to my wife, and the photocopy to police."
The 40-year-old Emrul Hasan thus ended his life. His enemies had taken away his land and left him in a crippled state, making it difficult for him to go to court and seek justice. He came to Rajshahi from his village in Chapainawabganj to receive medical treatment, and was staying at his sister's house in Rajshahi. Last Monday, he told his family that he was going out for tea. Instead, he walked to the rail track in his crutches and chose to lay his head down in front of a moving train. The suicide note mentioned the phone numbers of his relatives, details of his creditors, and even instructions regarding his funeral. It was not a whimsical act; he scripted his own death—something that is not permissible in both law and religion.
While reading the news in Bangladesh Pratidin, I could not help but think of the nonchalant train and its metal heart. Despite the public attention (however little) that this staged performance of Emrul Hasan has drawn, the train will have little consideration for whether and how suicide constitutes a unique form of social protest. Maybe the locomotive has been there for a long time to witness many such horrible incidents and learn to ignore such anomalies. Few of the locals perhaps will think of this day as a day when they did something "slightly unusual". Many of the eye-witnesses will be traumatised for days to come. But once the police formalities were done, I am sure the track was cleared, and it was business as usual. The commuter train thus becomes a symbol of our own frets and fervours; the desire to remain on track of our own destination. Emrul's death is simply a story we picked up along the way. We suspended our activities for a while to watch the drama or read the story and then opted to move back to our daily routines. Do we really have the time to internalise the message that Emrul was trying to give?
If you ask me, Emrul's death is a public statement. He wanted the world to know about the wrongs that had been done to him. His depression and derangement are the likely causes of the extreme method that he has chosen. His incapacitated state has perhaps contributed to his self-immolation. The letters in his pocket, however, suggest that he did not want this to be understood as a psychological drama or internal issue. After all, through its theatricality, his death refused to be anonymous. He wanted his body to be found intact so that the Jalal-Kamal-Rana trio could be named. His anger against the trio is distinguished from the love for his mother-daughter-wife. As a crippled man, did he feel that he was becoming a burden to his family? As a crippled man, did he feel that he did not have what it takes to have revenge? The note does not say. It does not explicitly mention what he actually wanted to accomplish: punishment for those responsible for his death, return of the land that his enemies had occupied by force, or simply an end to his misery. Instead, he allowed his staged silence to speak, urging us to fill in the void. We can read it as a protest against injustice.
Did the "suicide protest" affect us in any way to think out of the ordinary? Would it have the same effect if Emrul decided to hang himself or take poison? Does the speed of the method of suicide (rapid, as with self-immolation, or slow, as with fasting) produce different outcomes? Can we consider this suicide protest non-violent as he tried to redress the violence done against him though an act of self-violence? How different is it from other forms of suicide?
According to a 2017 report, the average rate of suicide in Bangladesh is 39.6/100,000. The facts vary within the country, and in the western regions the rate is as high as 128/100,000. In the absence of systematic suicide surveillance, it is hard to trust these numbers. Besides, these rates are only the tip of an iceberg—for every suicide, there are many more attempted ones every year. You may wonder why I am "glorifying" one death, especially when there are such deaths aplenty. Moreover, talking about it does run the risk of encouraging others to go for self-harm, violating the legal and religious prescriptions.
What is the alternative? Be a heartless train with a heartless engine? And think of it as only natural even though Rajpara Police have booked a case of Unnatural Death (UD) for the incident relating to the death? The headless body of Emrul with its mutilated and muted mouth has a tale to tell, but do we have the ears on the track to listen to it? Can we not prevent such a death by going to its root causes? In this case at least, we know that Emrul's private space was terrorised and occupied. He came to the public space to act out a public protest so that we do something about the violated space. As someone said, behind every act of suicide there is a desire not for death but for being rescued.
The evil three who disrupted the balance of life must be brought to justice so that the loved three of Emrul can relish his memory with some comfort.
Shamsad Mortuza is a professor of English at Dhaka University (now on leave). Currently, he is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of ULAB.
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When the Ujani Dam was built in 1969, little thought was given to the heritage constructs in the villages that were to be submerged, prized among which was a temple, estimated to have been set up between 9th and 11th century AD. Now, almost half a century later the government has woken up to the tourism potential the area holds and is trying to develop the spot on the lines of the underwater tours offered to visit the ancient city of Dwarka, off the coast of Gujarat.
Last week, at the behest of the state tourism department, the irrigation department decided to hand over 10 acres of land on the banks of Ujani, near Indapur, about 80 km from Pune, for this purpose. Besides the underwater relics, the tourists will also be treated to the sight of scores of migratory birds that flock to the area, particularly at Bhigwan. "We've been pursuing the water resources department for the past two years to give us this land to build a tourist centre.
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The biggest heritage attraction at the site is the Palasnath temple near Palasdeo village. The structure is dated between 9th and 11th century. Palasdeo was the capital of King Nalhans. Adjacent to Palasdeo, is another village —Pedgaon — which is home to three temples from yore; one for the deities Lakshmi-Narayan, second for Shiva and third a Ram temple. The last one is embellished with rare stone carvings of Ram, Sita, Laxman, Hanuman and Ravan. Some of these have already been eroded under water. These apart, there is another Tulja Bhawani temple at an old village called Wangi.
Its roof has already collapsed under the pressure of the water flowing over it. But its carved pillars stand tall, covered with inscriptions that are yet to be read. Besides these remarkable structures of archaeological interest, many other temples dot the 28 villages that went underwater with the building of Ujani Dam. In fact, Wangi alone has four ancient temples for different deities — Siddheshwar, Khandoba, Lakshmi and Nagnath.
The others, including Pomalwadi, Kettur Chikhlathan, Parewadi, Kugaon, Bitergaon, Sangvi, Dhokri, Takli, Kondhar-Chincholi, too have their share of old temples. Some of these were for "gram-daivats" (village deities). At the time of evacuation, the villagers took away the idols, but the temples remain under water. Beyond temples, there are old wadas and bridges which date back to the Shivaji and British era. "There is little documentation on the ancient temples and structures drowned in the Ujani waters.
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Record review: Algernon Doll – Citalo-pop [Common]
August 3, 2013 ravechild	2 Comments
Algernon Doll, aka Ewan Grant, is back with his second album, Citalo-pop.
Moving in an altogether noisier direction, fuzzy overdrive, squealing harmonic overtones and some very cool and tasteful soloing are the new order of the day.
Blended together with softer ambient tracks and some intricate classical guitar work, Citalo-pop is an extremely accomplished piece in its entirety, well thought-out as a whole and best listened to as such.
Opener 'Anti-them' is the perfect example of this new style and rather than breaking his faithful listeners in gently Grant drops them straight in with this driving pop song.
Masked by fuzzy guitars and vocals saturated with reverb, it has a deliberately lo-fi feel.
It is oddly reminiscent of the Foo Fighters, although much more raw.
Second track 'Cassini' will be running through your head for days.
Particularly the opening line (backed by lightly strumming guitar) "Cassini / could never watch you die", with the rest of the band dropping in heavily on the final word, is very compelling.
The track is in the vein of The Twilight Sad (although that could mainly be said of the drum beat) with screeching guitars and fierce feedback and Grant's soft vocals riding over the top.
'Home-schooled' is the first of the album's slow burners.
The gentle opening section of the song is tainted by a sense of foreboding that seems to infect the entire album, mirrored in Grant's lyrics ("Fell from the apple tree / discovered gravity").
The build into the eventual climax of the heavy guitar riff seems to fulfil this promise, fading out into ethereal keys that segue into the next track.
'23' (following on from the outro of 'Home-schooled') and the titular 'Citalo-pop' are both short instrumental tracks.
The first creates a moody ambiance that is built up in the latter with the addition of soft classical guitars and sound effects.
'Aerosol' is a dreamy, meandering track, with a loping drumbeat and oo's and ahh's in the background giving the impression of a warped record, all fitting in with the overall wet, lo-fi aesthetic that Algernon Doll has achieved.
Comparisons to Elliott Smith will be inevitable with seventh track, 'Falling In Love With Those Above'.
Somewhat of a gear change, the song features no heavy guitars and no ambient noises but instead a great piano melody and a country drum beat that again demonstrates Grant's diversity as a songwriter and shows his strength in writing great pop tracks.
'No Hands' fools you into thinking it's another slow-burner.
It begins with just vocals and guitar and the signature foreboding that Algernon Doll creates better than Stephen King (author, dream-weaver, plus actor).
Then at the half way mark it explodes into the heavy guitars of the opening tracks, complete with thudding drum fills and a beat that is almost pop punk.
Grant's whining vocals, "she says the curtains are plain / he leaves his dishes for days", complement the track well, giving the song an anxious edge.
The song dissolves into the next instrumental section of the album, 'Citalo-pop #2'.
Building on the earlier theme of 'Citalo-pop', Grant ramps it up with the use of horror film motifs of bows dragged across cymbal edges, tinkling, off-kilter piano melodies, and an air-siren that could be straight out of Silent Hill.
Again, starting slowly, 'Snuff', then becomes another great bounce along pop track in the last third.
The separate elements of the track, the heavy and the acoustic, are successfully pulled together by Grant's vocals and the use of ambient noise that would otherwise be quite disparate.
'Venus' is the most stripped back song on the album, with no effects on the vocals, Grant's voice is laid bare for the first time on Citalo-pop and beneath the reverb and the distortion is actually a very pretty voice, technically good yet retaining an honesty and an authenticity that is sometimes lost by singers with such accuracy.
'Cut-throat Kid' is a return to the storming, grungey pop of the opening tracks and, along with 'Anti-them' and 'Cassini', is one of the best tracks on the album.
Musically, it does nothing starkly different from these two songs (although does have a nice vintage sound to the drum kit which is a good touch) but it does feature some brilliant lyrics: "I left my heart in San Francisco yet I've never been / I'm safe to travel once my spine grows in again".
Final track 'Unaligned (an afterthought)' slows everything down again and I wonder if it may have been better to finish at 'Cut-throat Kid' after coming full circle to the start of the album.
The anxious tension created throughout is pushed over the edge slightly.
However, what the track does do well is bring together all the elements of the album, mirroring its epic scope.
The second outing from Algernon Doll is not just a follow up to debut album Camomile, but an evolution.
It successfully keeps the raw, emotional edge of Grant's writing despite being multi-layered and complicated musically.
While the instrumental sections of the album may be viewed by some as pretentious, there is no denying the down to earth appeal of some of the earnest, noisy rock songs Grant has created here.
Whatever comes next from Algernon Doll, you can bet it will be something different again.
Words: Callum McSorley
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by: GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press
FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2020, file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London, after their recent stay in Canada. As Prince Harry and Meghan step back as senior royals, questions linger over the role race has played in her treatment in Britain. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday he believes the royal family can resolve a serious rift over the plans of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who want to break free of their royal roles and move to Canada.
The plans of Harry and Meghan, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have received tentative approval from Queen Elizabeth II, who said she and other senior royals regret the decision but understand and respect it.
Vital details remain to be worked out, with difficult issues to resolve, and Canada's leader has raised questions as well, but the British prime minister told the BBC that the monarchy will be able to find solutions.
"My view on this is very straightforward: I am a massive fan, like most of our viewers, of the queen and the royal family as a fantastic asset for our country," Johnson said. "I'm absolutely confident that they are going to sort this out."
He said the senior royals, who had a crisis summit Monday afternoon at the queen's palatial Sandringham House retreat in eastern England, will be able to find an amicable way forward "much more easily without a running commentary from politicians."
Harry and Meghan ignited the latest crisis by unilaterally issuing a statemen t Wednesday indicating a desire to step back from most royal duties and become financially independent. They have decided to spend at least part of their time in Canada, a Commonwealth country where the queen is head of state and Meghan worked for seven years while filming the TV series "Suits."
The move annoyed senior royals who had not been consulted, sparking the so-called Sandringham summit that brought together the 93-year-old queen, her eldest son and heir Prince Charles, and Prince William, who would follow his father Charles to the throne, along with Harry.
Few details emerged, butthe queen's statement afterwards indicates the family won't seek to block Harry and Meghan's bid for independence from royal roles they clearly find restrictive.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking after the queen made clear the couple has chosen Canada as its alternate destination, said his country welcomes the news but has issues to discuss, including the possible cost to taxpayers of providing security for the well-known royal couple.
"I think most Canadians are very supportive of having royals be here, but how that looks and what kind of costs are involved, there are still lots of discussions to have," he told Canadian TV, adding that no formal talks between the British and Canadian governments have been held.
Britain's royals are protected by a special unit of London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, at a cost that is not made public because of concerns that details about its operation could compromise the royals' safety.
In addition to cost concerns, it is likely that special arrangements would have to be made to allow London police to operate on a long-term deployment in Canada.
Many financial questions remain. The queen says Harry and Meghan don't plan to use public funds when they step back from royal duties, so it is possible they may be asked to pay for security out of their own pockets.
The royals seem to be adopting a "go slow" attitude toward the breakaway couple, with the queen talking about a period of transition.
Harry and Meghan have declared that one of their goals is to become financially independent. It is not known if they will continue to receive financial support from Harry's father, Prince Charles, who uses income from the Duchy of Cornwall estate to support a variety of royal activities. The estate generated more than 20 million pounds ($26 million) last year.
Harry and Meghan have announced plans to launch a major charitable institution in the coming year, but details haven't been made public. In the past they have focused on female empowerment, wildlife protection, ending the stigma surrounding mental health problems and other issues.
They just took a six-week vacation in western Canada with their infant son Archie. Meghan has returned to Canada after a brief visit to London last week.
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Prince Harry posed for a photo on the steps of a hostel in London on Thursday — almost 22 years after his mother, the late Princess Diana, smiled for the very same shot.
After a brisk run with members of The Running Charity — the U.K.'s first running-orientated program for homeless and vulnerable young people — Harry spent the afternoon at the Willesden Green hostel, which was opened by Diana in 1995.
When he arrived, he passed by the picture of his mother with a group of young people on a flight of stairs. He and members of the charity then recreated the same shot — down to Prince Harry's crossed arms, exactly like his mother's.
Martin Houghton-Brown, the U.K. chief executive of the Depaul group of hostels, said the Willesden Green hostel was opened by Diana in June 1995.
"She really connected with the young people, and returned in a private capacity to play ball games with them," he said.
Prince Harry has followed in his mother's footsteps when it comes to supporting people in need. In addition to his Invictus Games, which helps injured veterans achieve new goals via sporting competition, Prince Harry regularly stands up for sports-oriented charities for children and young people across the U.K.
"The prince observed that a lot of young people who use our charities have been let down in the early stages of life and that their success is defined by how they pick themselves up," said Alex Eagle, founder of The Running Charity.
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As political slogans go, "Free Tibet" has long had a whiff of pot smoke about it, as if it should be followed by "...dude."
footnote, all but obscured in the public mind -- to say nothing of stoned teenagers -- by the unrelenting rise of modern China.
director of the Canada Tibet Committee, adding that it broke into pop culture sometime in the 1980s.
movies, ensuring public sympathy for years to come.
this week, documents that reveal something like a fair-weather friendship.
matter what the people living in those regions may feel about the matter."
Affairs to the ambassador in Washington, instructing him on what to say if the matter came up at the United Nations.
between the lines was added: "U.K." Evidently, Washington and London had other ideas, and a declaration was never made.
violations by Chinese authorities in Tibet, not the autonomy question. In any case, the resolutions proved mostly toothless, and the concessions to China in vain.
"Nothing changes. And in many cases, those concessions [to China] are met with crackdowns [in Tibet]," Mr. Travis said.
Tibetan refugees after the invasion. The Tibetan-Canadian population is now about 5,000, centred in Toronto, according to the Canada Tibet Committee.
claims; it neither challenges nor endorses them."
met the external affairs minister. Paul Martin was the first prime minister to meet him, in 2004, and last year he was granted honorary citizenship.
Mr. Travis said this slowly increasing support is a result of growing frustration at Beijing's refusal to entertain criticism on Tibet.
been taken to the cleaners?' " he said. "I think they're sending a message to China that change is expected."


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What do a toy company, a supermarket, a low-cost furniture chain, and a movie studio have in common? They're all trying to extend their brands—perhaps in embarrassingly awkward fashion—into the hotel business.


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The Jelly Dome in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life has been extended. Now, you'll have until June 13 to enjoy this immersive video experience and get a feel for the underwater world of jellies.
Even if you haven't had a chance to visit the dome yet, keep reading to learn about the important roles these species play in their ecosystem—and the contributions they are already making to medicine.
Near the surface, most jellies eat tiny plankton that drift through the water. Deeper down, many graze on "marine snow"— bits of dead matter that drift down from the surface. Larger jellies eat fish, crustaceans, and even other jellies.
Lagoon jellies use their poisonous tentacles to capture prey.
In turn, jellies are food for many species of fish, sea turtles, and marine birds. Some species, like the rhizostome jellyfish, even end up on restaurant menus.
Jellies are also playing a part in medical advances. The genes responsible for regeneration in some species of jellies may help scientists replace cells damaged by disease. Research on jellyfish venom could someday lead to new drugs.
Scientists are studying the bioluminescence displayed by animals like this northern comb jelly.
Scientists are even using a protein for jelly fluorescence to tag cancer cells. The cancer cells glow when exposed to light, making them easy to see and remove during surgery.
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but msrepl_commands is getting bigger (and bigger) and Cleanup locks with Logreader……. why?
we are using one distribution db for multiple PUBLISHERS.
tables that we are publishing are very busy and cleanup just not handling the load.
I would like to focus only on the second point. Lets assume 1st point has been fixed and there is only one Publisher going trough that one distribution database.
I like to keep retention on "fixed" values, means min and max are the same.
Defaults by Microsoft are min=0 and max=72 which means everything thats been delivered will be deleted on next cleanup run and if replication fails to deliver the replication data will be removed after 72 hours. I like to set it to same values as it did save my "life" few times (more about "disaster recovery" using LSN and transnational replication later).
Im mentioning retention because if you set it to high then the table msrepl_commands and msrepl_transactions will become huge and hard to maintain. Check your retention settings on distributor and set it to values that wont cause disk space issues but still meets your and business needs.
This is quite interesting… I did notice in very big and busy replication environments some of the default settings does not work well. Reason? The default batch size for delete is 2000. Which is bit low for system that can get 30K (or higher) commands every minute. In such cases you think cleanup is working fine and running but actually it is not coping with amount of load. In this case you will see msrepl_commands just going very big and above the retention period you set on distribution db.
Batch size (DELETE TOP()) increase that to value that suits you. Remember to change as well at the end of the loop IF @row_count < [same value as in DELETE TOP]. There are two loops that you need to change it.
As you see two modifications are exactly same between these two the only difference will be the values in TOP part. For sp_MSdelete_dodelete you can set these values lower (or not). You just need to see what works the best on your system.
One last thing about this. If you made this changes on SQL 2014 and will apply SP2 CU2. All changes will be replaced with default settings again.
At this point we need to ask question.. Do we really need to replicate all tables? Do we really need so many publications? and the most important do we have articles that are published in multiple publications???
First two questions you need to answer by yourself… however if answer on the last question is "yes I do have articles published in more than one publication" this is part you should read.
Lets assume you have TableA that is published in publication Pub1 but you also have publication named Pub2. 99% of tables published in these two are different but one table that getting 1 million transactions a day is published in both publications… now what happened just by doing it you multiple entries in msrepl_commands for that article. Here is an example. Below query showing how commands are looking for ONE insert into table A.
As you see because table is published in two different publication you will get two entries for each transactions on that table.
How you can solve it? If possible, send that table with one publication. Remember you can decide what articles goes to which subscription. You can have two subscriptions going out from one Publication but with different sets of articles. But this is topic for different article.
Cleanup job by default is set to run every 10 minutes. You can decrease that time to 1 minute but this wont always help, still you cleanup can fail with a deadlock. On busy systems I do often adding retry attempts to cleanup step and putting 0 between retries. That save us time and cleanup will try to run again straight away. Note: Do not set retry attempts too high. Otherwise you wont know if there are some real problems with Cleanup Job (because it will never fail or fail when it will be to late and you ran out of disk space).
Is our distributor following best practices? (multiple tempdb files, maxdop etc.) Is our distributor running on default settings? (default 1MB autogrowth on distribution db, low memory settings etc.). This is just reminder as Im assuming these things you already checked and you ran out of ideas, that is why you are here:).
Last thing is about running update stats on distributors. You may or may not know that it is not really needed…. as cleanup procs running UPDATE STATISTICS (on msrepl_commands and msrepl_transactions) at the begging and at the end of the cleanup proc execution.
Check your Distributor configurations. Check retention on distribution dbs. Modify cleanup procedures accordingly. Review your publications and articles. Add retry attempts to cleanup step.
These are my suggestions to you. If you have any other ideas or comments let me know.
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Q: Load properties file in a java servlet deployed in JBoss as a war I have a servlet deployed as a war in JBoss 4.0.2.  I have a properties file for the deployed application.  Where should I put this file? Under the conf directory in the jboss server\default\conf folder? How do I load that properties file in a portable manner?

A: Just get hold of the servletContext and then
InputStream stream = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/log4j.properties");
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(stream);

This will always work, regardless of whether you deploy a war or exploded war.

A: If the properties file can be deployed along with the application make it part of your source tree. This will result in the properties file to be in the WEB-INF/classes folder.
This can then be read using
Properties properties = loadProperties("PropertyFileName.properties", this.getClass());
...

public static Properties loadProperties(String resourceName, Class cl) {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    ClassLoader loader = cl.getClassLoader();
    try {
        InputStream in = loader.getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
        if (in != null) {
            properties.load(in);
        }

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return properties;
}

A: To load that properties file in a portable manner, the best way would be to put it on the classpath of the web application (either in a JAR under WEB-INF/lib/ or under WEB-INF/classes/ or on the app server classpath if you want to be able to edit that file without repackaging your web application) and to use Class#getResourceAsStream(String).
The following code gets an InputStream for a property file which resides in the same package as the servlet in which the code is executed:
InputStream inStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
                 .getResourceAsStream("myfile.properties");

Then, load(InputStream) it into a Properties object (skipping Exception handling):
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(inStream);

A: The best place to put it is under the web-apps' own doc-root, like "./WEB-INF/myapp.properties", i.e. relative to where the servlet container unpacked your .war or .ear file. You can provide the properties file directly in the .war.
The ServletContext has a method getRealPath(String path) that returns the actual path in the filesystem. Using the real path you can load it in a Properties collection.
Update
The code in your comment tries to lookup real path for "/", you should ask for the relative path to your properties file, as in:
String propertiesFilePath = getServletContext().getRealPath("WEB-INF/application.properties");
Properties props = properties.load(new FileInputStream(propertiesFilePath));

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to give you permission to lead.
Question the voice that says "I'm not ready yet."
Let them know what kind of brilliance you see, and why it's so special. Call them into greater leadership and action. Let them know that they are ready. Watch out for that subtle, probably unconscious thought, "because I had to struggle and suffer on my way up…they should have to too." Watch out for thinking this will "take" too much time — when the truth is it always has huge, often unexpected returns.


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Environmental Engineering of Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ant Mounds Part of the Young Naturalist Awards Curriculum Collection
Environmental Engineering of Pogonomyrmex Harvester Ant Mounds main content.
by Anna, Grade 11, New Mexico - 2006 YNA Winner
Today, the human population is growing beyond our planet's ability to support it. Groans from Americans as they grudgingly fork out their savings to pay exorbitant gas prices reveals that an alternate source of energy is desperately needed, not only to maintain the lifestyle of Western civilization, but also to stop further global warming, the consequences of which are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic. For a while now, the idea of harnessing the immense power of the sun has been investigated with some degree of success but has never really been achieved in a practical and cost-effective manner. Yet in other, more "primitive" societies, this feat may have already been accomplished. With this in mind, I have examined the habits of some of our fellow creatures in an attempt to find more effective techniques for harvesting solar power.
Anthill #1 in White Rock Canyon
On a crisp morning, soon to turn into a scorching summer day, I walk along a trail leading to White Rock Canyon, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Many would not consider this sparse woodland habitat, which is covered in scrub oak, piñon, and juniper, to be attractive. However, I grew up here, and although this harsh wilderness may not possess the majesty of a towering pine forest, or the awe-inspiring splendor of a rain forest, to me it has its own stark, rugged beauty. Along this path it would be hard to miss the towering anthills built by Pogonomyrmex, the harvester ant. At first glance their mounds seem to be composed of small jewels, but upon closer examination they are actually built out of tiny quartz crystals about 1-2 mm in length. For a long time I considered these shimmering palaces to be just for show, true "diamonds in the rough" dotting the desert landscape. But eventually I began to speculate on the purpose of these quartz mounds (Dinger, 2001). Perhaps these tiny creatures use the light-transmitting properties of quartz to trap heat, which is then absorbed in the mounds, in order to warm their habitats. More explicitly, because quartz is transparent to visible and ultraviolet light from the sun, the sunlight is absorbed, heating the mound. The layer of quartz on the anthill then acts as insulation, preventing heat from escaping. Since ants are most active in warm temperatures, such heat retention inside the mound could increase the time available for ant activity.
The longer I considered this intriguing hypothesis, the more determined I became to understand the function of the quartz crystals glittering atop the harvester ants' mounds. Perhaps this investigation of these miniscule fascinations will inspire similar ideas for our society, enabling the solution of mankind's energy and environmental problems.
Ant colonies are both fascinating and complex (Gordon, 1999), although much about the lives of the harvester ant and other species is still unknown. A colony begins with the mating of the tiny winged alates. The females become potential queens after mating; however, their chance of survival is less than 1 percent. The males die within a few days of the mating ritual. Against the odds, a few novice queens manage to create colonies, which become established only after two years. After surviving this crucial era, colonies go through various phases, each with a unique colonial personality, until they reach six years of age, at which time the population growth plateaus and the colony remains at a size of about 10,000 ants for 12 more years. The queen sustains the colony, although her job is far from royal. Her only function is to produce larvae for her colony until she dies, after 20 years. Once the queen is dead, the colony will also die out, since its population can no longer be replenished.
The colony inside the mound consists of a complex array of tunnels and small chambers reaching about three meters into the ground. Some of this immense space is used for food storage, while other chambers house the ant larvae. The behavior of the ants within the colony mirrors their home's complex structure. Such a society has strangely communistic attributes. Each ant attends to its own duty with no apparent command structure; all the ants work together in harmony for the good of the colony. Communication between the ants is primarily thought to be through scent and by touching antennae. All ants are in their adult stage when they break out of their pupae. A newborn ant tends to the pupae and larvae. As an individual ant grows older, it moves towards the surface of the colony: the next task in the life of an ant is to stack seeds. Finally, an ant moves to the outside to work as a forager, nest maintenance worker, patroller, mitten worker (trash collector), or reservist, performing whatever task is needed (Folgarait, 1998).
Ants at the entrance to their mound.
Overall, outside workers make up about 25 percent of the ant population in a colony and only live at the top of the nest for the last two out of the 12 months of their lives (Holldobler, 1990, 1994). In the above photo, ants are seen outside the entrance of their mound, actively foraging. The food the ants gather is mainly used to feed the larval population, not the active ants. Far more crucial than food to harvester ants is moisture. None of the harvester ants drink; they depend on their surroundings to be wet enough to sustain them, so it is crucial that their mounds retain moisture in the scorchingly dry conditions in which they live (Nkem, 2000). All of these characteristics may drive harvester ants to engineer their mounds to preserve heat and moisture.
Figure 1: Map of the trail heading into White Rock Canyon
I began my study of the Pogonomyrmex harvester ants (Werner, 1994) by scouting out four ant nests on a roughly one-kilometer stretch of the trail heading into White Rock Canyon, shown in the map in Figure 1.
The size of the mounds varied from a diameter of approximately 25 inches and a height of four inches for Mounds 3 and 4, to a diameter of 33 inches and height of 7 inches for Mound 1, to a diameter of 50 inches and height of 7 inches for Mound 2. I observed the ants' behavior, their habitat, and their nests during the summer of 2005 to form the basis for my project. What I discovered was that these ant nests are not just covered with quartz crystals, but are composed of them. By shifting through a small sample of a mound, I determined that the mounds are a mixture of quartz and fine dirt, in a 2:1 ratio by volume, with the dirt hardening into a cement-like mortar to bind the mixture together.
From this initial study, I formulated the three different phases of my experiment. First, I spent 12 hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., testing the temperature inside the four anthills in the sketch, the ground next to them, the air temperature, and the surface temperature, in roughly one-hour increments, while simultaneously observing the ants' activity (the number of ants outside the mound and distance they traveled away from the mound). The number of ants was estimated by roughly counting the number of ants on the mound at a particular time, backed up by a photo of the mound taken at that time. To determine the distance the ants traveled, I measured the distance from the mound to the farthest ant I saw. These measurements served to reveal if and how ant activity correlates with temperature, as well as whether the anthills do retain heat better with quartz than simply with dirt.
Next, I obtained pieces of various rock samples that were approximately 1-2 millimeters long: turquoise, rose quartz, peridot, citrine, blue topaz, quartz, and a sample of mixed gemstones, all with different absorption spectra, and placed them next to Mound 2, one of the two large anthills. Over the next three weeks I observed the use of these stones by the ants.
Finally, I built two anthills, without ants, so I could do more extensive temperature tests with no further disturbance of the ants. One hill contained the precise quartz mixture of the anthills I had observed, 33 percent fine soil and 67 percent quartz pebbles, while the other was made up of dirt collected from the area surrounding the anthills studied. Both hills were the same volume. I observed the temperature of these anthills, in one-hour increments, over two 24-hour periods.
The concluding element of my project I stumbled upon during the study of the temperatures in my man-made anthills. I had placed plastic bags over the anthills so they would not get wet when it rained. It had been nearly a week since the last summer shower, and as I removed the plastic bag from the quartz anthill I observed condensation on the inside of the bag, whereas the solid dirt anthill revealed no condensation. I decided to investigate whether the quartz anthill retained moisture better than the dirt anthill by mixing an identical amount of water (0.25 liters) into the two hills and then weighing them twice a day over three days, taking a loss in weight as a loss in moisture. I repeated this measurement four times and averaged the data.
Figure 2: Air, mound, ground and surface temperatures at anthill 1 (Click to enlarge)
Figure 3: Surface temperature versus the number of ants outside for anthill 1 (Click to enlarge)
Figure 4: Ant activity over time for all anthills. (Click to enlarge)
Results and Analysis
First, I will describe the results of the field study of the four anthills. Figure 2 reveals the temperatures (air, mound, ground, and surface) over time at Mound 1. The surface temperature exhibits a large variation and responds quickly to changes in the environment, such as the clouds that appeared from noon to 2 p.m. The other temperatures (air, ground, and anthill) increase slowly and steadily as the day heats up. In Figure 3, I plot the surface temperature against the number of ants outside for Mound 1. As is seen in Figure 3, the number of ants outside the anthill correlates most readily with surface temperature, with ant activity maximizing at approximately 90° to 100°F., but plummeting to zero above 115°F. (Note that no ants are active in the dark.) Finally, I measured the distance that the ants traveled from the entrance to the mound as a function of time. This data, plotted on the same graph as the surface temperature and the number of ants on the mound, is shown in Figure 3. It reveals that the distance that the ants travel peaks at about the same temperature as the number of ants and so also correlates with the surface temperature. This result is reasonable because one would expect the ants to forage farther under optimal temperature conditions when there are more ants with which to compete.
Figure 4 reveals the ant activity for all four of the mounds. All exhibit the same qualitative behavior, maximizing their activity at the same time of day, either during cooler temperatures in general, or during episodes of cloud cover that allow the surface temperature to drop. Different anthills display different maximum numbers of ants, since these anthills were various sizes. The ants were quite sensitive to temperature, and when a cloud passed in front of the sun, which almost immediately cooled the surface temperature, the ants responded immediately, leaving the mound to forage.
Figure 5: Surface temperature and total number of ants from four anthills over time (Click to enlarge)
Figure 6: Total number of ants compared to surface temperature (Click to enlarge)
This response is seen clearly in Figures 5 and 6, where I plot the total number of ants from all four mounds and the surface temperature on the same graph (Figure 5), and the number of ants compared to surface temperature (Figure 6). I made plots of the number of ants versus all of the other temperatures measured (ground, air, and anthill), but the only temperature on which the number of ants depended was the surface temperature. Again, this result is reasonable because the ants scampered along the surface as they carried out their tasks outside the mounds.
This study was carried out during the summer, so it became unbearably hot during the day. The data reveals that for certain periods of the day the heat was actually a problem for the ants, too, essentially limiting their activity. Why would the ants want their hills heated if at some times of the day they could not bear to step outside for fear of being fried? This puzzle definitely provided food for thought.
Original rocks placed on Mound 2 (top) Remaining rocks 48 hours later (bottom)
The next phase of my project, observing the ants transporting crystals placed near a mound, revealed that the ants did move the crystals. Many crystals were observed on top of the mound adjacent to the gemstones, and some gemstones were observed on a neighboring mound 50 feet away. The photo (top) shows the crystals just after they were placed by Mound 2, while the photo (bottom) reveals the smaller remainder after 48 hours. Of the various small crystals I placed by Mound 2, the most popular with the ants was turquoise, a rock that does not transmit light, thus one that would heat up the anthills the least. I suspect that this stone was the most popular because the flakes of turquoise were slightly smaller than the other stones, making them more convenient to carry.
Figure 8: model mound using only dirt surrounding the ants' habitat
Building my own anthills to test their temperature became crucial so that I could determine if quartz retained the heat better overnight, a time when the ants might actually want warmth. I constructed a model ant mound using the measured ratio (2:1) of quartz to dirt, and a second model mound, shown in Figure 8, constructed only of soil from the same area. The mounds were both 2.5 inches high and 6 inches in diameter. Figure 9 and Figure 10 show the temperature data, taken on two different days. I recorded the temperatures of the surface (green), the air in the shade (blue), in the deep ground (pink), as well inside the quartz (black) and dirt (red) mounds. The presence of quartz rocks increased the temperature of the mound by an average of 2.5°F., plus or minus 0.5°F., compared to the mound without quartz, a small but consistent effect that might be especially important at night. A similar increase was seen in both sets of data, although the air temperatures on the two days were different. Furthermore, the increase in temperature was consistent throughout the night, when such an increase would be beneficial for the ants' activity level.
Figure 9: Temperature data for model mounds on first day (Click to enlarge)
Figure 10: Temperature data for model mounds on second day (Click to Enlarge)
Figure 11: Moisture loss for the mound with quartz and the mound without quartz (Click to enlarge)
Feeling dejected because the measured increase in temperature in the quartz mound was rather small, I was preparing to disassemble my makeshift anthills when the condensation on the inside of the plastic bag led me to the hypothesis that perhaps anthills built with small stones retain moisture better than those built only from dirt. To determine how well each mound retained moisture, I mixed 0.25 liter of water into each and measured their weights as a function of time. I took four sets of data over a period of a couple of weeks. Figure 11 shows the average of this data, for the quartz (black) and dirt (red) mounds, revealing the superior moisture-retaining capacity of the quartz mound. The amount of water, Wi(t), declines linearly with time for both mounds: Wi(t)= 1- Kit, where kquartz = 0.2/per day and kdirt = 0.33/day. Therefore, moisture is retained for 66 percent longer in the quartz mound. This linear decrease in moisture over time, along with the smaller proportionality constant for the quartz mound, is consistent with a moisture-loss model in which the moisture loss increases with exposed surface area, and the quartz partially blocks (decreases) the surface area. Hence, the quartz rocks form a partial barrier preventing moisture from escaping from the mound. Since a harvester ant's need for moisture shapes its lifestyle—from how long it can stay out of its nest to its construction of extensive underground tunnels—it would be reasonable for these ants to build their nests with stones to retain moisture.
I investigated the reasons why the harvester ants near my home cover their mounds with quartz crystals, with the hypothesis that the ants use quartz to regulate the temperature and humidity within their mounds. I found that ant activity correlates with surface temperature, with maximum activity around T=95°F. and no activity for T>115°F. Ant mounds consist of small rocks to dirt in a 2:1 ratio, and ants actively carry small rocks to mounds. The presence of quartz rocks increases the temperature in the mound by an average of 2.5°F., plus or minus 0.5°F., a small but consistent effect that is perhaps most important in the cool of the night. The quartz rocks also increase the length of time that moisture is retained, by approximately 66 percent. Building anthills with small stones could have other practical uses that I have not yet investigated, such as resistance to erosion or ease of mound construction. However, it is clear that trapping moisture is an important feature of the quartz mound design, enabling the ant to maintain a viable moisture level in their habitats in this desert environment.
This project reveals that ants have successfully controlled their environment by simple quartz engineering. Perhaps mankind can imitate ants in the quest for clean solutions to the energy crisis. Moreover, these tiny creatures, which many people unwittingly crush under their shoes, inspire many questions for further exploration. I could study the physical characteristics of the anthills during seasons other than summer, because with lower temperatures the insulating effect of the quartz may be more important, and its effect on moisture retention less important. Alternatively, I could examine how ants affect their environment. For example, what are the environmental consequences of the presence of these ant mounds? Finally, I could redirect my investigations towards ants' behavior towards one another, determining how they interact with members of their own and other colonies. All of these studies are important because they reveal how other life forms build habitats to suit their own needs, and how they utilize the natural resources available to them and integrate them into their lifestyle. If one does science to satisfy one's curiosity, then eventually someone will stumble across a discovery crucial to mankind's survival. After all, many of the most important scientific discoveries through the ages were accidental.
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