What do you do when your perfectly planned strategy of how your life is going to turn out crumbles before your eyes? When the life you thought you'd live decides to take a crazy detour that you never saw coming?
No seriously, I'm asking you.
I know we go through ups and downs in our lives, times of laughter and times of tears, moments of joy and of heartbreak. I get that, and I'm prepared for that. But what happens when all the downs, tears and heartbreaks come in one big mother-load? I don't think there's an easy answer.
Let me explain where I'm coming from. Recently, after 18 years of leading our church, my parents passed on the baton of senior leadership. While the new senior pastors are phenomenal, very few people will ever understand how this transition feels from a pastors kid's perspective.
And all the PK's said? Amen.
I've been wrestling with grief and letting go while at the same time feeling God stirring something new inside me. The problem is I have no idea what that new is.
Nothing is black and white anymore. Nothing is certain.
Earlier this year, it was all so much easier. I was skipping through life with time to smell the roses, break them off the rosebush and run before the neighbours caught me. I was so excited by the plan God and I (but mainly I) had come up with, and it was all starting to unfold. And then, without warning, everything changed. If I was skipping before, now I was on a rollercoaster, holding on for dear life. Everything was moving so fast and jolting so unexpectedly in different directions that there wasn't even time to scream. All I wanted to do was shut my eyes until it was over. Have you ever felt like that?
I've seen a pattern. God calls people, gives them vision, starts them on their way and just when it's looking good, humbles and crumbles them. After the divine humbling and crumbling, the called is sure he (or she) has blown it and it's over. He (or she) doesn't realize that only now is he (or she) ready to serve.
I read it and wanted to scream and shout, as if I was Mrs Jakes at a TD Jakes rally. Unfortunately, I was in a long line at a busy Gloria Jeans. I decided a room full of caffeine-deprived people was hardly the right environment to practice my "Bless you Bishop" shout. I decided a smile and pressing the little star on the tweet to "favorite" would have to suffice.
That tweet made me uncomfortable, teary and completely hopeful.
I don't have all the answers yet (shocking, I know). I'm still working through what this "new" thing is. But now, I'm working it through with God, totally trusting Him to show me. He's taking me somewhere, and I'm letting Him.
If you find yourself on a rollercoaster of confusion, hold on. God is taking you somewhere. It may not be obvious today or tomorrow. But when it is, when He shows us, I think we'll smile, nod, and press the favorites button.
Hindsight. Isn't it beautiful? When people ask me what super power I wish I had, my answer is always immediate hindsight. Impossible right? Well, duh. That's why it would be a super power!
Where was I? Hindsight. Right. So while we might not have it now, we can be confident that God does. He sees the beginning from the end. He's with you right now in your moment, and He's also in your future, getting it ready for you.
This humbling and crumbling doesn't last forever. Soon we will be ready for service, more reliant on Him than ever before.
So what do we do in the meantime? Stand.
Ephesians 6:13 - Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.


Mr So-&-So is (we will suppose) a celebrated art critic of the most refined and exquisite, while Miss Such-&-Such paints simple sentimental water colours. .
But whales might value spouting, and donkeys might maintain that a good bray is more exquisite than the music of Bach.
I imagine that an able surgeon, in spite of the painful circumstances in which his work is done, derives satisfaction from the exquisite precision of his operations.
The painter has an exquisite touch.
The bird's colored feathers were exquisite.
He has exquisite taste in music.


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Q: Web Service client generated by wsdl not working with Deployed web service I have generated a WSDL from a java class using axis2 java2wsdl utility as follows;
java2wsdl -o C:\temp -cn com.temenos.webservices.customer.CustomerServiceWS

Then I have deployed the same web service within an Application Server (say jBoss) in axis2 and I can browse the wsdl on http://  127.0.0.1:8080/axis2/services/CustomerServiceWS?wsdl and call the methods on this service  via standard client like SoapUI etc.
The problem is now that when I generated a client using standard java tooling 'wsimport' by providing a WSDL location as C:\temp (Generated WSDL from java2wsdl utility), my client is unable to communicate with the Deployed Web Service. I am using following code to access the web service;
// Initialise WS
CustomerServiceWS service = null;
CustomerServiceWSPortType servicePort = null;
try {
URL wsdlLocation  = new URL("http://127.0.0.1:8080/axis2/services/CustomerServiceWS?wsdl");
QName serviceName = new QName("http://customer.webservices.temenos.com", "CustomerServiceWS");
service = new CustomerServiceWS(wsdlLocation, serviceName);
servicePort = service.getCustomerServiceWSHttpSoap12Endpoint();
} catch (MalformedURLException murle) {
murle.printStackTrace();
    return;
}

But while creating an (service Port) Endpoint I am getting following error;
Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: An attempt was made to construct the ServiceDelegate object with an service name that is not valid: {http://customer.webservices.temenos.com}CustomerServiceWS.
    at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.ExceptionFactory.createWebServiceException(ExceptionFactory.java:173)
    at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.ExceptionFactory.makeWebServiceException(ExceptionFactory.java:70)
    at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.ExceptionFactory.makeWebServiceException(ExceptionFactory.java:118)
    at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.spi.ServiceDelegate.<init>(ServiceDelegate.java:218)
    at org.apache.axis2.jaxws.spi.Provider.createServiceDelegate(Provider.java:59)
    at javax.xml.ws.Service.<init>(Service.java:56)
    at com.temenos.webservices.customer.CustomerServiceWS.<init>(CustomerServiceWS.java:42)
    at com.temenos.services.customer.client.Client.testGetLanguage(Client.java:32)
    at com.temenos.services.customer.client.Client.main(Client.java:21)

I have tried many things but it does not seems to like anything. Am I missing anything?
Thanks,
--
SJunejo

A: The problem was that I had axis2 in lib path because of that the call happend to org.apache.axis2.jaxws.spi.Provider.createServiceDelegate (Axi2 Provider) instead of Java WS Provider. I removed the axis2 libs from classpath and it seems to be working ok now. (though I am still unable to call my web service via client)

A: See the description of WSDL file and check the targetNamespace for the url to be given in QName(). Also import necessary packages.

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On Saturday we have the premiere of our 21st short film made with Action On The Side, The Last Postcard.
The life of a woman with dementia is turned upside down when she receives the latest postcard from her travelling partner. A drama about family.
Here are two of the posters I mocked up.
The images are from our behind the scenes photographer Chris Bourton (d0vzhenko). The posters were created in Canva.com using the same process I outlined in my post on creating an IMDb page. Once I have the finished cut of the film (it's with the editor until Saturday), I'll screencap a different shot for the poster.
If you're in London, see you at the screening!


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LETTER: Wasting tax dollars on cow, fox, motel
SaltWire Network | Posted: May 14, 2018, 8:46 a.m. | Updated: May 14, 2018, 9:30 a.m. | 2 Min Read
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Well here we are yet again with that same old thorn in the side of our government officials and leadership, like the saying goes, the chickens always come home to roost, and apparently according to the latest news in The Guardian, there were a lot more than chickens roosting at an address or two in Charlottetown.
At least that is what the address information on over 500 immigration applications would appear to be showing according to Canada border services. All I can say to that piece of information is wow!
RELATED: Red fox comes out on top, named P.E.I.'s provincial animal
Yes, wow, not cow, that of course is another stellar example of how dysfunctional things truly are within government on P.E.I. and the absolutely shameful display of just how little Islanders tax dollars are respected, as made clear by the waste of time devoted to debating over, fox or cow as the Island's official animal. I am sure both nominees were exhausted by the time the arguments wound down.
If only they had of known that they could have had a faster track to a rubber stamp process had they have picked a better address to post on their application form, they could have had a room at the inn, while awaiting the much-anticipated announcement of the official winner of such a truly beneficial use of our tax dollars and legislature's time.
Never ceasing to be amazed at what goes on in government.
Kara MacRae,
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The Panic of 2008 ended in March 2009, when the S&P 500 fell to a low of 666 points. After that, the stock market, emboldened by optimism of "green shoots" of recovery, embarked on a powerful rally that was briefly interrupted by a small correction in June.
Today, the stock market is in an extremely technically overbought level. In lay-person's speak, the stock market has arrived at a very bubbly level. This implies that the market is overdue for a trend reversal. But that does not necessary mean it is imminent because we have respect for this market rally.
For investors, what should they do?
If you have substantial long positions in the market, we believe this is the time to put on your hedges (e.g. long put options, short deep-in-the-money call options, stop losses, guaranteed stop losses, short CFDs on long positions, take some chips off the table, etc). For those who missed out on the March-June rally, Marc Faber advised at his latest market commentary that they should wait for a correction before entering the market.
Lithuania?s new president has admitted that her country could be forced to seek help from the International Monetary Fund if it fails in efforts to raise more money from foreign capital markets to prop up its teetering economy.
The fate of the Baltic economies is being watched across Europe amid fears that they could trigger devaluations and defaults in eastern and central Europe.
Sweden and other Nordic countries are especially sensitive because their banks expanded aggressively in the region and now face a rising tide of bad loans.
There is tentative evidence that the US economy is approaching a turning point, but conditions in Europe are still weakening.
In contrast, the US amounted to only 4% of GDP.
Today, although the situation has improved in step with global equity markets, Western European bank exposure to Central and Eastern Europe alone exceeds $1.6 trillion.
The recent news of Lithuania can be a portent of more Black Swan contagion in Europe.
Because the European central bank has not embraced quantitative easing and Western European banks have written down so little debt, especially compared with their US counterparts, a number of commentators contend the banking crisis has yet to fully hit Europe. Essentially, because European banks employed more leverage, they have less freedom to mark down debt, which makes them vulnerable in these conditions. In addition to the situation in Central and Eastern Europe, Western European banks face substantial US property losses they have yet to recognize, and are exposed to euro zone corporate debt to the tune of $11 trillion, equaling 95% of the combined economy, compared with US exposure of roughly 50%. If this were not enough, a significant portion of the Russian banking industry is under considerable stress, with $280 billion of a total $400 billion in debt to European banks being due in the next four years, and the issues regarding repayment and threats of non-payment that rattled markets regularly earlier in the year have yet to be resolved.
A contagion from Europe can easily trigger another global panic. That's the reason why Kevin Rudd is not ready to declare "Mission Accomplished" for Australia with regards to the global recession (unlike the sheeps in the financial markets).
What goes in the mind of the Rudd government as it extends FHOG?
Sadly, a lot of young people fell for that propaganda. One of the first tools of propaganda is to subtly twist the meanings of words.
For example, when a person borrows money to 'buy' a home, he/she do not really own that home in the first place. Instead, what happened was that the home 'buyer' had basically entered into a financial lease contract with the bank. The home 'owner' may have more freedom than a renter, but he/she has more responsibility in return. A large part of that responsibility includes financial accountability and trust to repay debts. There are many anecdotal reports that many first home 'owners' are not acting very responsibly.
There are also many applause that housing has never been more 'affordable' than before, due to record low interest rates. But the vested interests who gave the applause forget why interest rates are so low in the first place. The whole point of the RBA slashing interest rates is to reduce the debt servicing burdens of Australians (in the face of forecasted rising unemployment), not to encourage them to gouge on more debt. The FHOG, by its very nature, defeats this purpose by encouraging young Australians to go further into debt. Most worryingly, when interest rates are at record low, most of these first home owners are not hedging their gamble by fixing their mortgage rates. When the time comes for raising interest rates, many of these 'affordable' homes will become unaffordable.
Obviously, the Rudd government's FHOG policy is a bad policy that will do more harm to Australia in the longer term. We are sure the government knows this. Yet, why did they go ahead with that foolhardy scheme, knowing that it is foolish in the first place?
As you can see, for the past 20 years, housing loans take up a larger and larger portion of the total private debt in Australia. At its peak in January 2005, housing accounts for 55.6% of debt. As in March 2009, it is slightly down to 53.1%.
Given Australia?s high household debt (see Aussie household debt not as bad as it seems?), prime debt can easily turn sub-prime when unemployment rises. As unemployment rises (which all mainstream economists in the government and private sector are forecasting), it will eventually reach a critical mass of prime debts turning sub-prime. Once this critical mass is reached, the deterioration in the Australian economy will accelerate (see what?s happening in the US and UK today).
What if the government succeeds in propping up the 'value' of the collaterals (homes) under-pinning the bad debts? In that case, the banks can take over the homes (and not liquidate in a distressed market), replace the bad debts in asset column of their balance sheets with homes with values that were artificially propped up (with the FHOG). We can imagine the Rudd government introducing some kind of scheme in which the banks rent the home back to the former home owner.
In addition, the government can implement another scheme to let the bank's unemployed debtors to go on a repayment holiday (while interest payments get capitalised). That way, there wouldn't be forced mortgagee sales to deflate house prices and coupled with FHOG to prop up the 'value' of homes, the accounting losses in the banks can perhaps be minimised?
Once the banking system goes down, the government will have to fork out up to AU$1 trillion in money (see Australian government?s contingent liability to exceed AU$1 trillion), which most likely mean Australia will have to print copious amount of money. Should that happen, the Australian dollar will be trashed and the government bonds will become junk bonds.
The question is, will this gamble succeed?
What will be the impact of government interventions on investing?
… I have been wondering what the impact on government interventions will be for investing… What if one was to invest in Blue Chips, with the idea that they are ?too big to fail? (gov. intervention likely) and are therefore very safe?
He had brought a very good point.
A few years later, they end up laughing at you instead. Let's suppose that your fundamental analyses of the banks are correct. So, what went wrong?
They [bailouts and rescues] are inherently unfair because the government will have to act as the judge and decide which businesses/industries should live and which ones should die. Unfairness, by its very nature, implies preferential treatment. What is the government?s basis for favouring one business/industry over the other?
So, in your case, the government bailed out the banks (which is happening right now in the US and UK) in such a way that shareholders are protected. If you are a trader, shorting the banks will lead to heavy losses.
From this example, you can see that when government intervenes, the market is no longer completely free. When the market is no longer completely free, it means that the rules change abruptly in the middle of the game. When that happens, those who ought to lose become winners and vice versa. Incompetency is rewarded and competency is punished (indirectly through taxes).
Imagine, what will happen if there's a soccer match whereby the umpire is allowed to change the rules abruptly any time he wants? In such a world, it's either that bribery will abound or no one wants to play the game. The same goes for the economy. A half-free market will discourage the capitalists and entrepreneurs and encourage cronyism, corruption and speculation.
That's one of the reason why in such an environment, the Warren Buffett way is dead. That's why Marc Faber said this is a traders' market. It's possible that we will see Warren Buffet's long-term track record flounder in the years ahead.


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Sunil Chhetri – The Man who scored a goal in every Indian's heart !
India won the ICC Cricket World Cup in 1983, igniting a spirit for sports within the entire nation. Everyone from that generation dreamt of being the next Gavaskar or Amarnath or Kapil Dev. Then came the Tendulkar's, Dravid's, Dhoni's and Kohli's. The game cricket became synonymous to religion in India and why not ! We were the best in the sport.
Regardless, Football has been historically a rich sport especially in the Eastern part of India. Mohun Bagan and East Bengal have scripted one of the best derbies in the history of the sport globally.
While most of India was busy with a bat in hand, a certain youngster from Secunderabad was planning to dribble in way into football history. That youngster was none other than Sunil Chhetri. Who knew the extent of his momentous achievements which were to come in the years to come by.
Sunil Chhetri became India's Football Talisman (Image Courtesy : Twitter.com)
Sunil started his journey of the beautiful game very early on during his childhood days. The son of a Army Brat, Sunil always had the discipline ingrained in him which enabled him to shine even at an early age. After scoring tons of goals in his amateur journey, Sunil joined City FC in Delhi at just 17 years of age. This was the first stage of professional football where the youngster started showing the potential of greatness within him.
One day, Chhetri was invited to a trial to the mighty Mohun Bagan within an year of his professional career. He went thinking it was for the reserve team but the club from Bengal had already understood his talents and thought they were suitable for the first team.
The Youngster signed for Mohun Bagan for his first National League season (Image Courtesy : Twitter.com)
His first season in 2002-03 was a difficult one but Sunil stuck to his beliefs and kept developing his game alongside legends like Bhutia. Sunil scored 4 goals that season for Mohun Bagan as they finished 7th in the table. In the next two seasons combined, the forward was only able to match his tally of the 02-03 season with 4 goals in them two season combined.
In 2005, Sunil Chhetri took his next step in his development of the game when he joined JCT from the National Football League based in Ludhiana. He scored thrice in his first season as JCT finished in 6th place that season. It was in the Santosh Trophy though where Sunil really announced himself with two hat-tricks against Orissa and Railways. His stinct for Delhi in that period made gave him a significant boost.
(Image Courtesy : Twitter.com)
India U-20 gave a national team call-up to Sunil back in 2004 SAF Games where he made his debut against hosts Pakistan and scored a couple of goals against Bhutan. Having impressed during the tournament, Sunil made his senior team debut for India in 2005 and scored his first national team goal against Pakistan.
Sunil's performances caught the eye of many possible suitors in Europe with him being linked to Leeds United at one point, but the dream move never materialized. Later that summer in 2008, Sunil made his move back to Bengal, this time to East Bengal.
The forward scored on his debut match against Chirag United. Sunil also played a crucial role in the Federation Cup that season, helping knockout his former team JCT before being beaten by his other former club Mohun Bagan where Sunil missed a decisive penalty in the shootouts.
The 2008 SAFF Championship and the following AFC Challenge Cup is when Sunil started taking big strides in his international career. His goals in both tournaments were crucial including the final of the AFC Challenge Cup where he scored a hat-trick against Tajikistan which enabled India to lift the cup.
Midway through the 2008-09 season, Coventry City showed huge interest on the Indian star offering him an extended trial at the club. The trial was a real hammer-blow for Sunil where Coventry decided not to sign him as well as he lost his contract with East Bengal.
It was in 2010 when it finally happened for Sunil. His dream to play abroad was about to be realised as Kansas City Wizards of the MLS in United States offered him a contract in March 2010. He made his debut in the Lamar Hunt Cup where he picked up a yellow card.
Sunil became the First Indian to play for Kansas City FC (Image Courtesy : Twitter.com)
He was involved in the midseason friendly against the mighty Manchester United in somewhat controversial fashion within the club since he hadn't actually played a league match yet. In February 2011, Sunil had left the MLS on mutual consent.
He made stincts with Chirag United, Sporting Club de Portugal B, Churchill Brothers and Mohun Bagan again in the next two seasons which were a difficult part of his footballing journey.
In 2013, Sunil's career took a great turn when he joined I-League new comers Bengaluru FC. He scored an incredible 14 goals and made 7 assists in just 23 matches that season which led Bengaluru to their first ever I-League title. In the upcoming season, Sunil played a great role in the Durand Cup and Federation Cup scoring goals in decisive games.
While Sunil was banging goals in the National Team as well as the I-League, ISL franchise Mumbai City FC signed him for the 2015 ISL tournament for a record fee of INR 1.2 Cr which made him the most expensive Indian player in the ISL auctions so far.
He scored his first goal against Delhi Dynamos and followed up with a goal against FC Goa. Sunil made history in the following game becoming the first Indian player ever to score a hat-trick in the ISL against Northeast United.
He scored 7 goals that season for the Islanders. National commitments and signing of Diego Forlan and Sony Norde kept Sunil's involvement limited in the next two ISL tournaments for Mumbai City.
Sunil Chhetri became an instant fan favorite at Mumbai (Image Courtesy : Twitter.com)
While at loan back to Bengaluru FC, Sunil's goals helped the club win a second I-League title in 3 seasons in 2016. He also scored crucial goals in the AFC Cup where Bengaluru reached the quarterfinals where his goal against Kitchee being the most iconic moment of the tournament.
Sunil scored 46 goals in the next three season for Bengaluru FC who had also become part of now a season-long Indian Super League. He won the "Hero of the League" award in 2018.
His national team achievements were beyond anyone in an Indian jersey. He captained India to a 13 match unbeaten run, the 2019 AFC Cup qualification where India topped the group stage.
In 2018, Sunil scored a hat-trick against Chinese Taipei at the Mumbai Football Arena which enabled Indian football to take another glorious step towards massive support from a huge chunk of population towards the sport.
As it stands, Sunil Chhetri has scored 72 goals in just 115 caps for India, making him the second active top goal scorer for his country in the World and only behind the legend Cristiano Ronaldo.
His impact in the game, especially National Team football has been enormous. His skill on the ball, his quickness with it and his preciseness when he strikes the ball has been a treat to the eyes of every Indian supporter over the years.
The brace that took Sunil Chhetri over Messi in the active goal scorers record (Image Courtesy : AFC Asian Cup Twitter)
He has rallied a huge fan following over the years to pursue their passion for football. He has inspired team mates around him to achieve great success for Indian football. He is also now a brand ambassador for PUMA with whom he signed a massive 3 year deal. Sunil was voted the favourite player for AFC Asian Cup of 2019 and was awarded that merit on 1st August 2020, a couple of days before his birthday.
As the Indian Footballing Legend turns 36 today, his achievements in the Indian National Team as well as for Bengaluru FC will be remembered by generations to come. He inspired millions of kids to kick the ball and realize a new dream which will always be his legacy to the sport in India. Happy Birthday Captain ! India Loves You !
Also Read: Sandesh Jhingan – Gladiator of modern Indian Football
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Our days in Vienna were amazing. We went to a concert at Musikverein, a concert hall built in the 1800s that has incredible acoustics. It's just beautiful architecture as well. Then we went on the hop on hop off bus to Schonbrunn , which was the summer palace of the Habsburg of the Austrian Hungarian empire. It was beautiful and really interesting history. There is another palace across town called Hofburg Which is where the Lippizana horses and the Spanish riding school is also located. This was a fabulous place and full of little shops behind The palace grounds and stables. Vienna is just rich in culture, history and a very cool place.


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Dancers Discuss Injury, Recovery, And Pain
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This Video Proves Just How Much Of A Beating Dancers' Bodies Take
Kasandra Brabaw
Even if you've never been a dancer, we bet you can understand the athleticism that goes into dancing professionally. There's a lot of training behind those beautiful and powerful moves. A lot of training, and a lot of pain.
That's what two professional dancers from Paul Taylor American Modern Dance talk about in a new video from Furthermore.
Michelle Fleet and Robert Kleindorst have been dancing for 15 and 19 years for Paul Taylor respectively. They love dance and the company because it allows them to be themselves, to be expressive and to have a range of emotions, they both said in the video.
While all dancers are athletic, Fleet said that Paul Taylor dancers are specifically known for their muscular legs and backs. But it's his back that bothers Kleindorst the most.
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"The part of my body that takes the most beating is probably my back," he said in the video. "There's a lot of twisting in Paul's work, a lot of lifting in Paul's work."
Instead of lifting weights at the gym, Kleindorst will lift the women in his dance company, because that's what he's training to do anyway.
Images of both dancers on stage show just how muscular they need to be to dance. In one scene, a woman jumps into Kleindorst's arms, but it's clear that his character wasn't expecting it. So instead of lifting her with his knees (the way many of us are warned to do to avoid back injury), he has to catch her weight with his body and hold her with his arms straight out. We can see how moves like that can put a strain on his back.
And when a dancer does get injured, they often dance through the pain. Kleindorst has been dancing for eight years on a partially-torn ACL, he said. It means that he has to be careful about how he moves and plan his steps ahead.
"I have to think 'okay how am I going to get into this? And how am I going to get out of it?'" he said.
Fleet added that taking care of yourself as a dancer isn't just about what you do on stage, it's about what you do after work as well. She's a fan of acupuncture, massage, icing, and compression. "It's a miracle," she said.
We were impressed by these amazing and talented dancers even before we knew what a beating their bodies take, but now we're in complete awe. Who else has complained about a muscle cramp just walking up the stairs? Yet, these people are literally dancing through their cramps, muscle tears, broken toenails, and even more painful injuries.
If that's not enough to convince you of how awesome these people are, listen to Kleindorst's mantra.
"You are a machine. You are not tired. You will keep jumping."
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Q: Oracle get last 10 days sql I need to get the last 10 days from now on
I currently have following Oracle sql query to get the last 10 dates.
WITH DATES AS (
  SELECT sysdate - 10 AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 9  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 8  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 7  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 6  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 5  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 4  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 3  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 2  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate - 1  AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate      AS value_date FROM dual
  UNION
  SELECT sysdate + 1  AS value_date FROM dual

But I want a more proper and efficient way to get the past 10 dates. An Union query looks pretty dirty.
How do I do this in Oracle SQL?

A: Use a more compact equivalent with CONNECT BY clause:
SELECT trunc( sysdate ) - level + 2
FROM dual
CONNECT BY rownum <= 12

Demo: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/a50e25/5
| TRUNC(SYSDATE)-LEVEL+2 |
|------------------------|
|   2017-09-15T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-14T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-13T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-12T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-11T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-10T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-09T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-08T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-07T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-06T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-05T00:00:00Z |
|   2017-09-04T00:00:00Z |

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UNION ALL
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In the modern day, one of those games whose popularity has shot high is golf. In case you gain interest in golf, you will need to account for certain factors before getting into a golf academy. The main content in this website is the criteria for selecting the best golf academy.
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Online banking remains under threat to MitB and Trojan attacks
Yogesh Sapkale 08 February 2012
According to experts from banking and IT-Security, banks are not really interested in security unless they forced to. Some even try to threaten experts who show the loopholes in their systems
Safety and security for online financial transactions has always remained a cause of worry for all customers. Be it ATM frauds or online banking or mobile banking, the onus to prove that he was robbed remains on the customer. Several times it is found that banks do not even pay heed to security requirements. It is often said that in a chain, it is the weakest link that is most vulnerable. In banking sector, unfortunately, the bank itself comes out as the weakest link.
In addition, banks are often found not to pay any heed on any warnings on Trojans and malware and always tell us that their systems are 100% safe and sound like a forte-Knox. While, there are several cases on bank Trojans stealing thousands of dollars from customer accounts, especially from western world, Indian banks are even not ready to pay any heed to these threats.
In fact, many banks 'shut out' security expert, Yash KS, who has demonstrated how sites of several Indian banks are vulnerable. Mr Yash shot the video showing how Trojan can breach bank sites and uploaded it on public platform so that the lenders can increase the level of security. All these banks responded immediately by blocking and successfully removing the video from public domain like YouTube but failed to enhance security levels of their sites.
Mr Yash says, "Citibank has never responded when I contacted them to talk about malware. But when I posted my videos online, they mitigated the risk to some level within 10 days. It's a good response. (However) Before fixing it, they blocked my video in YouTube saying it is harmful content."
Recently British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) published an article on how hackers are outwitting online banking identity security systems (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16812064). The article says, "Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks."
The article, however, says that a test witnessed by its team suggests even those with up-to-date anti-virus software could be at risk, and there is no specific risk to any on individual bank. "Called a Man in the Browser (MitB) attack, the malware lives in the web browser and can get between the user and the website, altering what is seen and changing details of what is being entered," it said.
To get rid of the risks involved in online banking transactions, financial institutions brought two-factor authentication (2FA). But this is also not without problems. In 2005, renowned security technologist and author, Bruce Schneier, wrote an essay where he predicted that attackers would get around multi-factor authentication systems with tools that attack the transactions in real time: man-in-the-middle attacks and Trojan attacks against the client endpoint.
This exactly was the issue Mr Yash has been trying to explain to all the banks in India. But there is no response so far. According to Mr Yash, he met senior officials from ICICI Bank and demonstrated to them that how a malware can harm their account holders. However, the bank officials claimed that their systems are more secured compared with other banks and no such can happen to their customers.
When Mr Yash again demonstrated that even more secure site of ICICI Bank as claimed by its officials is vulnerable to malware attacks. After waiting for several months for a response from the Bank, he finally put the demo video in public domain. The Bank then sent Mr Yash a defamation notice through its corporate communications department saying that he trying to sell his product to them and that he should immediately remove the video from his website else they may take the legal action.
According to Mr Yash, another lender, HSBC Bank, also tried to remove his videos from public domain. He claims that the Bank asked the hosting services provide to disable his site and later forced them to remove the video that showed how HSBC's online accounts can fall prey to malware attacks. Mr Yash also alleged that the lender sent some goons to his residence. He said,"…after failure attempts to bring down content with the help of service provider, HSBC sent goons to my residence. I was not present at that time; they have asked my family members rude questions."
However, there is no verification for his claims about the goons and whether they were indeed sent by the lender.
Coming back to the security loopholes in online transactions, the Financial Fraud Action UK reported that during the first six months of 2011, online banking fraud losses in that country totalled 16.9 million pounds. Banks in UK usually refund victims of online fraud as a matter of course.
In case, you are wondering what is the situation in India, well, the numbers of frauds in online transactions are much less compared with other countries. This is because we Indians (and our bankers) prefer to do most of our transactions by visiting the bank branch in person.
According to Reserve Bank of India, managing security is more challenging in online and phone banking as compared to other delivery channels and online threats in the form of phishing attacks, spyware, viruses, Trojans, key loggers are frequent. "Fraudsters are not only tech savvy but have clear understanding of the systems and procedures obtaining in banks," said G Padmanabhan, executive director of RBI while speaking at a Secure Banking conference last year.
This leaves all net-savvy bank customers from India wondering if online banking is really safe and secure. The answer is yes and no. Yes, if you are taking all precautions like regularly updating the anti-virus installed on your computer and using good anti-malware software and practising safe browsing practices. No, if you do not follow the above mentioned practices or using public computer (like a cyber café) or your bank do not have enough checks in place to block malware or Trojan attacks.
From July 2011, the RBI has mandated a system of alerts for all card transactions, irrespective of the channel used. However, the central bank made it clear that it is for banks to make this effective by ensuring that the customers are persuaded to register their mobile phone numbers for receiving such alerts.
So far the second-factor authorisation (2FA), introduced by RBI about three years ago, appears to be working fine. Some banks have also issued small devices that generate authentication codes that can be used only for one time for secure card transactions. The report from BBC states, "While these chip and pin devices make the hackers' job more difficult, the hackers themselves have raised their game."
MitB and Trojan attacks are just examples of what hackers and criminals can do to steal your money. So, how one can protect oneself from online banking frauds? According to Mr Schneier, multi-factor authentication like the 2FA does not solve anything. "In case of MitB, the attacker can pass the ever-changing part of the password to the bank along with the never-changing part. And in case of Trojan, the attacker is relying on the user to log in," he said.
"The solution is not to better authenticate the person, but to authenticate the transaction. Think credit cards. No one checks your signature. They really don't care if you're you. They maintain security by authenticating the transactions," Mr Schneier says.
Are the banks listening, especially when innovative methods of hacking and stealing are coming to the fore regularly?
Andrea Smith
1 decade ago
maybe they can start telesigning people in to further prevent fraud and hacks.


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Chinese automaker BAIC to eliminate fossil fuel vehicles by 2025
The Beijing giant positions itself to comply with tough new air quality goals.
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It seems that the Chinese automotive behemoth BAIC has finally had enough of all our Blade Runner jokes and will move towards the elimination of internal combustion engine development by 2025.
"Our goal is to stop sales of self-developed conventional fuel-powered cars in Beijing by 2020 and stop their production and sales nationwide by 2025," said Xu Heyi, BAIC chairman, as reported by Reuters.
Xu Heyi, Board Chairman of BAIC at a Beijing Hyundai event.
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If the name BAIC isn't ringing any bells for you, that's likely because it works primarily as a domestic production partner for electric vehicles and hybrids for Daimler AG and Hyundai, in addition to having several subsidiaries that produce heavy vehicles for military, transit and agricultural industries.
This move toward electric cars and hybrids represents a sea change in the Chinese auto industry, one spurred by increasingly strict governmental regulations for air quality. With China now being home to the world's largest automotive market, this shift could signal changes for other global automakers that want to increase market share there.
While China is one of the more recent countries to focus on cleaner air by phasing out internal combustion engines, they are by no means the only one with countries like the UK, Germany and France seeking to ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles altogether in the coming decades.
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Moti Shapira began his career as a detective for the Central Unit of Investigation in the Israeli Police Force. He continues to serve with a special anti-terror unit on the IDF Reserve Forces. Over the past two decades Moti has conducted criminal investigations and intelligence gatherings for his clients worldwide. From his offices in the United States, Europe and Israel, Moti serves a variety of clients including lawyers, celebrities, major corporations, businessmen and politicians.
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Like most young starlets, Stephanie Simmons moved to Hollywood to pursue fame and fortune. Stephanie, however, finds herself working as a clerk, trapped in an unbearable marriage -- far from the life of glamour she had envisioned. A turn of events leads Stephanie to begin studying Islam, where she becomes obsessed with learning more about the culture. Her attraction to Islam is reinforced by her passionate desire for her professor, whom she falls in love with. Upon sharing her plans to travel to Iran, Stephanie is surprised when her mother emphatically objects. Even more perplexing, the CIA becomes involved in dissuading her from traveling. Great complications unfold and Stephanie soon discovers that she is at the center of a stormy espionage affair. Realizing that her "monotonous" life has really been a tangled web of deceit, Stephanie has to unravel her own mystery.
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Moti Shapira is a private investigator with offices located in Los Angeles, California . His work takes him to places across the globe. His second book 'The Woman in Black,' is a collection of eleven breath-taking and suspenseful stories, which keep the reader continuously riveted and surprised.
With openness, sensitivity and most of all the knowledge of a professional-Shapira expresses the daily challenges of an international private investigator, including the dilemmas he faces regularly when balancing his obligation to his clients verse his moral and civil obligations toward the preservation of the law.
'The Woman in Black' gives the reader a rare opportunity to peak into the private world of the investigator, Ethan Eshed, and reveals secrets from behind the scenes of one of the most unique and mysterious of all professions: How is a case managed? How is information gathered? What human and technological tools are necessary? Are there "red lines," or does anything go?
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Based on real life events and autobiographical stories, "Angel in a Foreign City ," tells the sad and emotional story of a kidnapping entwined with a unique love story and heroic acts.
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Ethan Eshed, a Los Angeles based private investigator, is hired by a Mexico City business tycoon, Señor Diego Dual, to help with the rescue of his kidnapped daughter Carmen.
Surrounded by personal foes and business rivals, Señor Diego Dual puts the fate of his daughter in the hands of Ethan.
Lisa, a beautiful young Mexican college student from an extremely conservative family, is drawn into the story both by the force of her desire to become a law enforcement officer and her affection for Ethan.
The complication of working in a foreign city, with language and cultural barriers, causes the bond between Ethan and Lisa to strengthen. Struggling through hardships and setbacks, while overcoming despair, Ethan and Lisa work their way through a hostile environment with tight deadlines to expose the kidnappers, their collaborators and to bring the case to a successful conclusion.
During the climax of the story the newly discovered love is put to a test as it clashes with the attempt to save Carmen, all leading to a violent, yet touching ending.
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In the adult market, Suzy is particularly on the hunt for great serious nonfiction, especially by historians who are looking to make a transition from an academic to trade readership and journalists who have something unique and significant to say. She's also on the lookout for smart parenting books with truly useful, original hooks that fill a gap in the market (bonus points for humor!); food, health, and diet-related titles, especially culinary histories of all flavors and tastes; sports books with crossover appeal in other genres, especially history and philosophy (she'd LOVE to find the next Golf in the Kingdom or Zen and the Art of Archery); self-help of every stripe by authors with well-established platforms and riveting, elegantly-written memoir (recent favorites include William Finnegan's Barbarian Days and Paul Kalanithi's deeply-rendered When Breath Becomes Air), as well as cookbooks with inventive new twists; humor, especially as it relates to parenting; and small, quirky books that make her smile or think about the world in entirely new and surprising ways. She'd also love to find a great legal thriller.
On the children's front, Suzy has a great love of middle grade and is particularly on the hunt for lively, engaging nonfiction that pops off the page and makes kids excited about reading and learning; wacky/hilarious commercial MG fiction with series potential; and graphic novels that bring history, great works of literature and fascinating historical figures (think Socrates! Machiavelli! Hamilton!) to life.
She also have a soft spot for classic, coming-of-age MG works, contemporary YA fiction that tackles difficult issues in bold, daring ways and with inventive formats that can be brought into the classroom to stimulate meaningful discussion and debate (a la Walter Dean Myers' Monster) and sweet, lyrical picture books that capture the imagination and call for multiple readings (favorite classics include Stellaluna and The Cat Who Walked Across France). She'd also love to find MG/YA fiction that explores diversity in all its glorious manifestations and an exciting, high-concept thriller that has "MOVIE!" written all over it.
As an author herself, Suzy's most recent books include Machiavelli for Moms (Simon & Schuster) and Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities. She's also a ghostwriter for a #1 New York Times best-selling author with more than 25 million copies in print and her first children's book will be published by HarperCollins in 2018.
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Cow stomachs, an everyday by-product of the meat industry, gets a luxurious afterlife, thanks to the innovative handling of undervalued organic materials. Ventri shows how something that is considered waste in many countries is given a new and much higher value through the action of design.
After slaughter, the value of a cow stomach is nil. In the Netherlands, the best-case scenario for its use is in dog food. In Italy and other countries, such animal "waste" products can end up on people's plates, often only because they are low-priced.
Each of the cow's four stomachs has different properties, shaped by their function. Some are like winding landscapes, others are almost reptilian. In a labour intensive process, designer Billie van Katwijk transforms their raw, natural aesthetic in a range of leathers with their own look and feel, for the use in luxurious design.


Nearing the end of his five year term, he achieved none of his stated goals.
Instead, he has been accused of engaging in endemic corruption, nepotism, inefficiencies, illegal backroom deals with foreign countries and companies as illustrated by Dr. Abdullahi Y. Muse (runaway corruption, nepotism, and inefficiency), and mismanagement of public funds (Abdiwali Gaas a shameless incorrigible betrayer of his nation), (Gaas-and-the-floundered-presidency) as published on WardheerNews by Osman Hassan, Faisal Rooble,respectively.
If he runs again, it would not only be a travesty on the face of the people of Puntland to exercise their inalienable right to vote fairly and freely for their candidate of choice, but it would also be pretense to sap democracy in the region. It would be reprehensible microcosm of tribal political Mockery, an entitlement, if you will, that is reserved only for certain sub clans of the establishment class, with no chance so far, for others to have a real chance of winning the Presidency.
On the face of it, it seems that successive Puntland presidents have come to power in fair and free elections but in reality the behind the scenes process used to elect the president has been a make-believe one because the outcome of election and the winner has always been known in advance to establishment elites.
Also, of their own, the establishment class has more than half of the MPs in the parliament and if they stick together, the top job is always guaranteed to them. However, if the MPs of the ruling clan fail to stick together, the framers of the constitution cleverly devised another mechanism to sway the votes in their way. Establishment elders created certain voting blocs who were known to be susceptible to bribery and corrupted practices, thus creating an unholy alliance between the establishment and MPs belonging to corrupted voting blocs.
Again this guarantees a favorable outcome for the ruling class. And this is in essence how it becomes possible to know the outcome of the election in advance. So, essentially Puntland election is manipulated either through collusion amongst the dominant clans or through bribery of corruption prone MPs.
If Puntland was moving in the right direction, if progress was made where it was needed, and if we could hold leaders accountable for their actions, it would have not mattered who won the presidency. But when the presidency becomes an entitlement, there would be no incentive for the incumbent to achieve growth and development for the region.
Some months back, I asked a well-placed Somali official who also hails from the region, why he wouldn't give it try to run for Puntland presidency. His answer: this is the turn of Osman Mohamud Saleban. No one else has a chance to win the presidency other than them, he added. I told him I wouldn't mind them succeeding each other if they were doing a good job in developing the region, keeping the peace, providing public services, and maintaining law and order.
The disastrous legacy that these four leaders (Abdullahi Yusuf, Cadde Muse, Abdirahman Farole, and Abdiwali Gaas) left behind will reverberate in our conscience long after them and, the damage done by them would not be easily undone, but we are living the present and can stop Abdiwali Gaas, from extending his stay or claiming another term through corruption, bribery, and intimidation.
Rumors are abound that foreign mercenaries underwritten by UAE, are wreaking havoc on the economy by illegally mining gold and other minerals in Puntland region without legally binding agreements/contracts to explore and extract natural resources in Puntland.
Due to Puntland's abysmal election process, I have this creeping feeling that the next so-called election in Puntland will be more of the same charade, a revolving door for another candidate of the same establishment class to enter through, claim victory and warm the seat for another five years only to pass the baton again to the next one, without achieving much in the way of development, stability, and opportunities for the youth.
Someone who will abide by the rule of law.
And although there are a number of highly qualified candidates such as Ali Haji Warsame and others who are currently running, they might not be able to muster enough votes to win the election, because of the fact that it is not their turn to run.


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