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Ubisoft CEO Promises to 'Personally Follow' Misconduct Reports, Two Execs Reportedly Placed on Leave
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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has promised to "personally follow" each of the recent reports of sexual misconduct at the company, while two of its vice-presidents, among others, have allegedly been placed on leave as a result of the reports. In a letter to staff obtained by Business Insider, Guillemot writes that he has been "profoundly affected" by the multiple reports of sexual impropriety and abuse emerging from Ubisoft. "These actions are in total contradiction with our values and with what I want for Ubisoft", Guillemot's letter continues. "The company we hold dear must offer a welcoming and respectful environment, allowing everyone to flourish. I will not accept anything less." Guillemot said the company was setting up a multidisciplinary working group (with an external partner) in order to "come up with better solutions and tools to detect, report and resolve any incident or serious problem without delay and in an impartial manner." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/24/assassinss-creed-valhalla-creative-director-is-stepping-down-amid-cheating-allegations"] Separately, Bloomberg reports that vice-presidents Tommy François and Maxime Béland, as well as several other employees, have been placed on administrative leave as allegations of misconduct from multiple sources are investigated. Bloomberg reports that many Ubisoft employees have expressed skepticism over whether appropriate action will be taken, with some pointing out that some of these allegations are not new, and have been reported to HR in the past without result. Assassin's Creed: Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail has already stepped down from his role on the project after he was accused of engaging in extramarital affairs. It's unclear what his status as an Ubisoft employee is at this time. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to [email protected].
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Like SPAM sites hosted in shared server affects other sites, if other people using the same server misuses the Email IP address then it will also affect you, because it uses the same email server i.e., the same IP address.
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Roundtable Recap: May 10 – BlueSnap-Elance Contest Applications Deadline This Weekend
Posted on Thursday, May 10th 2012
Today's roundtable started with a reminder of a set of contests on which we are collaborating with corporate partners.
A&N Media is offering a series of 1M/1M scholarships to entrepreneurs in Britain to stimulate entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom. With a reach into 130 million consumers, their channel will offer a significant go-to-market opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to bring B-to-C products to market. Please note that while the Scholarships are for UK entrepreneurs only, the channel opportunity is more broadly available to 1M/1M entrepreneurs. More here.
To launch this initiative, A&N Media and TechHub are joining forces to bring you Battle Of The Start-ups on May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in London. During an in-person roundtable session, leading start-ups will have the chance to pitch to a panel of judges including myself. You can find more details here and can register here.
Also, BlueSnap and Elance are offering 12 scholarships to entrepreneurs working on digital commerce and subscription businesses. The deadline for applications is this weekend. More here. Please apply ASAP if you want to be considered. Finals will be on June 4 and 7.
Masala Street
The first presenter, Syed Harris from Chennai, India, pitched Masala Street, which would be best described as OpenTable for India. Syed wants to offer reservation facilities to Chennai restaurants as well as online delivery order management capabilities. In India, incidentally, delivery to the home is much more common because of the availability of affordable labor.
We brainstormed about the business model (SaaS vs. Transactions) and my suggestion is to start with transaction / success fee based models, and once the service gains foothold, SaaS subscription fees can be layered on.
Campus Diaries
Next, Sumit Saurav from Bangalore, India, pitched Campus Diaries, a concept whereby students and alums at various campuses are encouraged to publish context-specific stories related to the campus life. The best stories will later be compiled and turned into books and sold to the same communities. Other media such as eBooks, apps, etc., can also be created from content generated and curated by the community.
Sounds like a fun idea, but as we peeled the onion on the monetization and business model front, I wasn't convinced how the company would make substantial money. Sumit wants to raise $100,000 in angel money, but I don't see the investment case and how this concept offers an ROI to investors. It will be very difficult to build a sustainable, high-growth business out of this. In fact, even if you set aside the growth pace requirements of an investor-funded venture, I am not convinced you can bootstrap a sustainable business with this concept.
All Our Power
Then, Joe Kalfa from Maale Adumim, Israel, pitched All Our Power, a group buying concept that aims to bring 10 million consumers together and create a buying club. The business model is well known, Costco being one of its greatest successes. Groupon is also a spin on the group buying model. Joe wants to use a business model whereby he will take 3% of the revenues generated from selling to his audience.
Most of our discussion today was around positioning and customer acquisition strategies, which is currently Joe's weakest link.
As always, I would very much like to hear about your business, so let me invite you to come and pitch at one of our free 1M/1M public roundtables. We will be holding future roundtables at 8:00 a.m. PDT on:
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Evil is live spelled backwards. The protagonist of a novel represents life; the villain, anti-life. How do you develop, strengthen and revise this important character?
Are Villains limited to Folktales and Mock-Victorians?
It may seem that the term villain is outmoded. It applies only to folktales (monsters, witches, ogres, evil wizards) or to Victorian (Snively Whiplash) or outdated stories (outlaws like Jesse James). Contemporary antagonists tend to be more rounded, less patently evil. But editors insist that villains still populate contemporary books.
Rich says, "I edited Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan, which is contemporary fiction set in India. The mother-in-law in the story has much in common with Count Olaf. She's wholly villainous, wholly self-absorbed. She holds the power to undo the hope for the life of our protagonist." Adding a villain character to a novel does help make the story more powerful: Whelan won the 2000 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her novel, Homeless Bird.
Villains are bad guys who function in novels to escalate the conflict. But how do you create a convincing villain?
When you create a villain, you want the reader of your novel to feel antipathy toward that character, rather than sympathy. To do this, you use the same tools that you use to characterize any character. Give the character a convincing backstory that explains motivations, then personalize them with depth and variety.
Why is this character ignoring society's standards of morality and doing something that is considered evil? Without this information, you run the danger of losing credibility in the story.
Because of her experience editing Count Olaf, Rich doesn't agree that you must include specific motivations in every novel about a villain. "Resist the temptation to make him or her sympathetic. It's not necessary. We don't need to learn that the villain has a soft spot for puppies. That waters them down, rather than strengthens their character." Count Olaf is a pure villain, through and through. And that is precisely what makes him a wonderful character.
The decision to include specific motivations or not must depend on the type novel you're writing, and the specific needs of that story. Lemony Snicket's stories are sort of mock-Victorian and following the Victorian tradition of melodramatic villains, he gets by with a pure villain. But even Holes, a modern-folktale story, requires a more developed villain.
"I think the main danger with a villain," Fleischman says, "is going over the top. It's easy to have him twirl his mustaches too much and chortle and sneer too sneeringly. You gotta make him believable. The villains in my novels chew up the scenery a bit more than others. I get away with these touches of whimsy because my novels are comedies." In other words, avoid cliches and melodrama.
Above all, credibility is the key to creating good villains. Within the story being told, this villain's evil ways must be appropriate.
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A very Merry Christmas to you all! I will taking a short break from blogging because I will be in the country with no internet access for about a week. I will be back shortly with hopefully lots of finishes to share!
I hope Santa is good to you!
Things have been absolutely crazy over here so far this week. This is also my last week at work before 2 weeks of vacation so it's been a little hectic. But I am slowly getting into the spirit of the season!
We decorated our little Christmas tree - it is pretty pathetic looking really, but I love it for some reason. Sitting next to it at night watching TV just makes me so happy!
That's it for now. Talk to you all later.
When I posted my goals for this weekend on Thursday night, I said I would be back on Sunday to report on how I did.
1. Finish piecing and sew the borders on Nine Patch Flip. - Done! But forgot to take a picture!
2. Prepare the quilt sandwich for the Big EZ (my new bedroom quilt at the cottage). - Not done. I didn't buy enough fabric for the backing (I forgot I added a 7 inch border all around)!
3. Quilt and bind Spin City. - Done! I'll post a picture later this week.
4. If time allows, start cutting Veranda for Two Percent. - Done! I should be able to start piecing when I go back to the country Christmas night.
In addition to everything I was able to do above, I also quilted and put the binding on Lincoln and cut some more of my scraps into 2", 3 1/2 " and 5" squares.
That's it for now. Talk to you all later!
I need to start setting goals for my weekends so that I don't end up going home on Sunday night only to realize that I really didn't get done a lot of the stuff I really wanted to get done.
So I decided that every Thursday night, I will post my goals and projects for the weekend and then report on how I did when I get back to the city on Sunday night.
1. Finish piecing and sew the borders on Nine Patch Flip.
2. Prepare the quilt sandwich for the Big EZ (my new bedroom quilt at the cottage).
3. Quilt and bind Spin City.
4. If time allows, start cutting Veranda for Two Percent.
A couple of weekends ago, I cut and started piecing my last 4 Hometown Charm Packs and this weekend, I almost finished the Nine Patch Flip top. All that's left to do is piece the borders and sew them on.
This pattern is called Nine Patch Flip and I found it in the latest Pam and Nicky Lintott book.
I love how this little quilt is coming along. I wasn't sure about using that shade of blue as the accent fabric, but in the end, I'm really liking it.
Sorry about the awful picture! The lighting was really bad and I couldn't be bothered to go outside.
I plan on finishing up the borders next weekend and that will be another top finished!
I hope to be able to get started with this one next weekend!
This weekend, among other things, I decided to organize my scrap basket. Actually, my scrap basket is a pretty big white plastic bin into which I've been throwing scraps since I started keeping them. To be honest, when I started quilting about 3 years ago, I didn't know you could re-use scraps to make "scrappy" quilts, so I used to throw them away. I know, I know... pretty bad heh? :-) When I realized, through reading blogs and researching on the Internet, that scraps could be used to create really beautiful quilts, I bought the plastic bin and began keeping any piece bigger than a 2" x 2" square.
In this book, the author teaches us to organize our scraps into piles of scraps of 3 different sizes: 2", 3 1/2" and 5" squares. Then the book provides a bunch of really nice patterns in which you can use the squares.
Look at what came in the mail a couple of days ago! The Fat Quarter Shop was having one of their amazing sales a few weeks ago and when I saw the Veranda collection on sale, I just had to get me some of it.
I ordered 2 sets of 10" squares and some yardage. With all of this goodness, I plan on making myself a "big" Schnibble. Haven't decided which one yet though... Decisions... Decisions!
Wow! I cannot believe I haven't posted in over a week. Been busy, busy, busy with stuff other than quilting unfortunately. Work is crazy, Christmas is less than 3 weeks away now and D decided we needed to re-paint the whole house! Seriously??!
Anyhow, life came back to "normal" over the weekend and I was finally able to get some quilts finished.
First, I quilted and sewed the binding on the two small table toppers I made a couple of weekends ago. I wrote about these in my last post.
Notice the cute rick-rac on there? I just love it! These two cuties are now sitting proudly on top of the two end tables in the living room at the cottage.
I also finished my grand-mother's "birthday" quilt this weekend... her birthday was in July!!! So I guess this is now my grand-mother's Christmas present. I'm very happy with how this one looks. The pattern is called Nine-Patch Wonder and I found it in the Pam and Nicky Lintott Jelly Roll Quilts book. I used a fabric collection called Martinique by Moda for it.
Our neighbour Dave is holding the quilt! So funny!
I briefly mentioned these two table toppers in my last post, but I thought I'd show pictures today. I needed a pattern that would require only about 1 charm pack because that's basically what I had left of the Recipe for Friendship fabric. So I searched the Internet and found this really easy and cute pattern and tutorial on Sherri's blog - A Quilting Life.
I was able to piece both tops on Sunday and now I only have to put the ric-rac decoration and borders on. I should be able to get that done this weekend, after doing some major Black Friday shopping!
I'm linking up to Freshly Pieced for W.I.P. Wednesday. Don't forget to go check out what everyone else has going on this week.
I had a very productive weekend at the sewing machine this week. First, I finished my Ducky mini-quilt. He will be on his way to Boston later on this week.
Second, I quilted and put the binding on X-Rated. This is a Schnibbles I completed last month. I used a scrappy binding for this one and I'm very pleased with the results.
The picture really isn't great - it was way too cloudy and windy to go outside so had to settle for an indoors picture. I'm not quite sure X-Rated will stay on the coffee table at the cottage. I'm thinking it may find its way under the Christmas Tree (I'm way behind in the gift-making department!).
I also pieced 2 more small tops and started cutting charm squares for a new quilt top using the last 4 Hometown charm packs I had left over after completing Lincoln.
TNT Thurday - I'm all ducky!
During my bloggy travels last Thursday, during TNT Thursday, I read on someone else's blog that they were trying paper piecing for the first time and really liked how easy it was. When I got to the cottage on Friday night, I decided I was going to spend at least a little bit of time trying to paper piece something simple. I remembered seeing a pattern in a past issue of Quilt Magazine that looked really cute so I went searching for it.
I l.o.v.e. it!!! And it really was easy! I decided not to put a binding on this mini quilt so instead I stitched the front and back right sides together with a piece of batting at the back (leaving a small opening) and then turned the whole thing through the opening. The pattern said to use embroidery for the eye, but I decided to use a small black button instead.
In this picture, I hadn't pressed it yet or closed the opening, but I'll do that this weekend. I'm also going to do some echo quilting around the ducky and something else on the duck itself... not quite sure yet. Any suggestions?
And what did you try this week? I'm linking up at Melissa's for TNT Thursday. Be sure to check out what else everyone is up to this week.
I made really good progress last weekend on the new quilt for my bed at the cottage. This is the one where I decided to let my 7 year-old choose the fabric so I'm thinking of calling it "Dylan's Choice". I used a pattern called the Big EZ from the book Bloom Creek Quilts.
This quilt top came together really fast and easy... gotta love those big blocks! The finished top actually wasn't big enough for my bed so I added the border. I really like how this one turned out... I may have to let Dylan choose the fabrics more often!
I've also been working on my Granny Squares and Crochet School over at Craftyminx's blog went over seaming this week so I started joining my squares. I really love how this is coming together. This is going to make a really cute and soft baby blanket.
I'm hoping to quilt X-Rated and Spin City this weekend, but I also want to get started on a quilt I have planned for the lovely fabric I won from the Fat Quarter Shop.
I'm linking up at Lee's from Freshly Pieced! Be sure to check out what else is happening in blogland!
Canada Post came by the house late last week to deliver the fat quarter bundle I won from the Fat Quarter Shop.
This is a designer bundle from Bonnie & Camille and it's got 15 fat quarters (3 are solids). I love it! I think I've already decided which pattern I'm going to use these for... more to come!
I'm linking up to Happy Quilting today for Try New Things (TNT) Thursday.
What have I tried this week? Well... I've wanted to make a new quilt for my bed at the cottage for a while now so I finally decided to get started. I found an easy and fast pattern in one of my quilting magazines (I can't remember what it is right now, but I'll post the information when the top is finished), but I couldn't, for the life of me, decide on which fabrics to use.
So - I asked my 7 year-old to choose. I told him the number of different fabrics I needed, told him they needed to have purple in them and I let him go!
Check out what everyone else is trying out this week at Happy Quilting.
I have to say... I love working on Schnibbles and other small quilts. I was able to complete the Lincoln top this weekend in less than a day. I'm in love with the Hometown fabric collection. The reds, greys and soft blues are beautiful and the different fabrics just come together so nicely. Very soothing for the eye.
The pattern by Carrie Nelson called for beige background fabric for the star blocks, but I decided to use some of the lighter 5" squares instead for a scrappier look.
That's it for now. Talk to you later!
I decided to link up to T.N.T. Thursdays at Happy Quilting today to show off what I've tried this week: Crochet!
So here is my very first Granny Square.
It is not perfect, I made one or two mistakes, but these squares are soooo easy to do and so much fun! I think I found something to do during the week to satisfy my need to be "crafty"!
So be sure to visit the Craftyminx for some crochet lessons and pay a visit to the Happy Quilting blog and all other bloggers trying something new today.
So I finally cut into those beautiful 5' Hometown charm squares this weekend. All of these little pieces will come together shortly to form "Lincoln".
Lincoln is a Schnibbles from the book Another Bite of Schnibbles by Carrie Nelson.
I cannot wait to start piecing next weekend!
Thanks for coming and don't forget to visit everyone participating in W.I.P. Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
I still cannot believe it, but I won some gorgeous fabric yesterday! Go see this post on the Jolly Jabber to have a look at what I won!
Happy Halloween everyone! Well it was a treat for me today - these little beauties were delivered to my door while I was at work. Aren't they gorgeous?
This is the Northcote Range collection by Cabbages & Roses for Moda. I love the soft palette and the beautiful roses... I cannot wait to put these together into a quilt.
Any treats for you today?
Another finish to show! I managed to finish the quilting and put the binding on McGuffey this weekend.
I quilted in the ditch around each square and then along each small square within each square. I really like how this one turned out. Such happy colours!
This is the back. I used the panel that came with the Recipe for Friendship fat quarter bundle for the back.
This one is going to be a Christmas present for my wonderful friends and neighbours in the country: Vicky and Claudia.
I got a new toy!
I've been wanting a new sewing machine for months now, but there is simply no way I can afford the one I really want so I had come to terms with the fact that my little machine was going to have to do for a few more years.
It's definitely not one of those high end machines, but it's got features I never had on a machine before like the needle-down feature, speed controls and lots and lots of different stitches!
Red & White Placemats finished!
I had way too many finished quilt tops on the go and too many projects I wanted to get started on so with Christmas now 9 weeks away, I decided I needed to start actually finishing projects.
So this past weekend, I quilted and put the binding on the set of 4 placemats I started a couple of months ago. I love how they turned out.
I quilted in the ditch around the white parts and machine stitched the binding - mainly because I hate hand stitching and because I'm guessing these placemats will need to be washed over and over again and I want them to stay together!
I still have to put a label on these little babies, but I think I want to make special Christmas labels for these gifts so I'll have to put them on later.
I still had quite a few Recipe for Friendship 5" squares left and wanted to try something new after sewing 3 different Schnibbles designed by Carrie Nelson. So I decided to do a little "research" on the Moda Bakeshop website and found this great little pattern.
The pattern is called Baby Lattice Quilt and it was designed by Amy Smart from Diary of a Quilter. I really, really enjoyed making this little quilt. It came together really fast, the instructions were clear and easy to follow and the end product looks amazing.
So I'm down to about 40 5" charm squares in Recipe for Friendship and I'm thinking of making another little table topper from the pattern Coming Home. This is a pattern from the Simplify book written by Camille Roskeley. I already used this pattern to make small table toppers for my bedroom furniture at the cottage.
Farmer's Wife... Now I know!
During my bloggy travels lately, I've read numerous posts and looked at lots and lots of pictures of beautiful 6" blocks related to the Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt. At first, I really didn't know what the heck these people were talking about, but I really did enjoy looking at all the pictures. Finally, I read someone's comment on a blog and this person was saying how she had bought the book and was going to get started on these blocks.
My curiosity finally got the better of me and I logged on to Amazon.ca and searched for this book... and ordered it! :-) I love reading all the letters; I'm a big history fan, so all of those letters are simply a delight for me. I might actually try making some of these blocks as a way to use my scraps... who knows - maybe I'll be able to make enough to turn these little blocks into a small lap quilt or even maybe a twin-size quilt. We'll see!
Another Bite of Schnibbles was finally delivered today! Yay!
The photos aren't great, but you get the idea! I cannot wait to get to the cottage Friday and get going on one of these lovelies!
We really got a taste of Autumn this weekend... cold, wet and extremely windy! So although I had planned on cleaning up the garden this weekend and getting it ready for winter, I really only got to do the bare minimum. We put all the patio furniture away, emptied the flower boxes and removed all of the "decorations" we had in the garden.
I also spent quite a bit of time in the sewing room this weekend, which was amazing! I finished the X-Rated top, prepared the backing and basted it so it'll be ready for quilting.
So I said I was going to try quilting without buying fabric for a few months, but I never said anything about not purchasing new books! I visited the Fat Quarter Shop a couple of nights ago and ordered Carrie Nelson's Another Bite of Schnibbles. I cannot wait for Canada Post to deliver it!
The weather was just terrible this weekend so that means... lots of sewing time for me! I finished my Spin City top and pin basted it so it's ready for quilting.
I also cut and started piecing X-Rated, another Schnibble from Carrie Nelson's Schnibbles Times Two. This top will be finished next weekend.
Oh and the postman finally came on Friday with 6 wonderful Hometown Charm Packs. I cannot wait to get started sewing with these cuties. The colours are a perfect match to the colours in our kitchen at the cottage so I'm thinking a couple of curtain panels or maybe placemats and a table runner.
I spent the better part of last year making quilts with Jelly Rolls... those beautiful, gorgeous, yummy rolls of fabric that are so much fun to play with! So this year, I decided I was going to try to make quilts with Charm Packs - the cute 5" squares. A couple of weeks ago, I posted about cutting up a Recipe for Friendship fat quarter bundle into 5" squares and so far, I've made 2 quilt tops with those: McGuffey and Spin City (both are Schnibbles for Carrie Nelson's book Schnibbles Times Two). I haven't yet posted pictures of Spin City but McGuffey looks amazing.
In fact, I'm loving these little 5" squares so much, I signed-up for the Fat Quarter Shop Charm Pack Club where 6 identical Charm Packs will be shipped to me every month. September's fabric line: Hometown!
So I am anxiously awaiting Mr. Postman who should be delivering my beautiful Hometown Charm Packs any day now!
This weekend was very productive, but I have zero finishes to show you! I do have a couple of finished tops and a couple of finished blocks... and a couple of new windows.
First, here are place mats that are ready for quilting. I found this pattern in the February 2011 Quilter's World magazine. I used fabrics from my stash for this one. I had told myself I would get going on the quilting on these this weekend, but then I really wanted to work on something else... Quilting is most definitely my least favourite part of the whole process so I tend to put it off until I can longer put it off.
Next, here is McGuffey. I used two of my Recipe for Friendship charm packs for this one as well as white fabric I had in my stash. For the backing, I used the Recipe for Friendship panel that came with the fat quarter bundle. McGuffey is a Schnibble designed by Carrie Nelson and which can be found in her book "Schnibbles Times Two".
Third, here are two blocks from my next project: Spin City. This is another Schnibble designed by Carrie Nelson (also from the Schnibbles Times Two book). I'm using the Recipe for Friendship charm packs for this one as well and so far, I'm loving it! The blocks are fairly easy to do, but I'm using a technique I've never used before: quilting with a template.


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Woman Kills Hitman Hired By Her Husband
Posted on by Eric Roberts
Woman Kills Hitman Hired By Her Husband. About eight years ago, Susan Walters was attacked by a hit-man that was hired by her ex-husband Michael Kuhnhausen. Not only did Walters manage to fight off her assailant, but she also killed him in self-defense. Turning the tables on the would-be assassin, Walters says that the man's last words were "You're strong." She also told KPTV that, "I didn't choose my attacker's death for him. I chose my life." Well now it is eight years later and her ex-husband is now eligible for parole.
The story all started back in 2006 when the couple were going through a messy divorce. The husband Michael Kuhnhausen thought that he could hire a hit-man, Edward Haffey, to take care of his wife. Well he was wrong. One night after Walters came home, Haffey was waiting for her and attacked her with a hammer. Walters immediately defended herself and got the hammer away from Haffey. "I got the hammer and started hitting him with the hammer several times. My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense— the claw end would work best," Walters said this back in 2006. In court Walters also confronted her ex-husband by saying, "If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have the balls to do it myself." Kuhnhausen is now eligible for parole and could walk later this year.
Walters said that she is concerned about keeping him away if he gets out and is going to make sure that she is at the parole hearing to make sure that she is protected as well. The more important thing that Walters wants to convey is that more women need to do as she did and fight back in situations of assault or abuse. She says, "If you feel like, 'Wow I don't feel like I can do that.' You can. You're stronger than you know." She hopes that her story will serve as an inspiration to other targets of violence throughout the country, as domestic violence is a huge and growing issue. Check out the interview below:
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Another hazing death and arrests — 14-year old victim
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Once again the news from the Philippines is grim.
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CAMP GEN. ALEJO SANTOS, Bulacan — Three teenagers and a leader of a street gang were arrested by police for the death of a 14-year-old boy after an initiation rite in Sta. Maria town on Tuesday.
Police said the victim, Christian de la Cruz, was beaten up around 8 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday as part of the initiation rite of the True Brown Style (TBS), a street gang led by Brylle Daguiso, 25.
Police said members of TBS took turns punching De la Cruz, who died on Wednesday morning while being treated at the Bulacan Medical Center in Malolos City.
He was first taken by his parents to a hospital in Sta. Maria when he complained of stomach pains at 10 p.m. on Tuesday.
Policemen responded to a tip that an initiation rite was taking place in Barangay Sta. Clara on Tuesday night, leading to the separate arrests of Daguiso, a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl.
On Thursday, a 13-year-old suspect surrendered to authorities. A fifth suspect, a 15-year-old boy, has yet to be arrested.
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/700950/3-nabbed-for-death-of-14-year-old-hazing-victim#ixzz3eBVDCUbQ
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Success in Japan: Infineon is outgrowing all other leading suppliers of automotive semiconductors
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Strong growth in a strategically important market: According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics*, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) increased its automotive business in Japan by almost 25 percent in 2018. It thus grew faster than any other of the top ten automotive semiconductor suppliers in the country. Japan accounts for approximately 10 percent of global car production. A key pillar to Infineon's success is its quality leadership strategy. Last Friday, the biggest Japanese car manufacturer Toyota once again honored Infineon for five years of zero defect deliveries to its Hirose plant.
"Quality requirements are particularly high among Japanese car manufacturers," said Peter Schiefer, President of the Automotive Division at Infineon. "Receiving an award for half a decade of immaculate shipments makes us very proud. Our strong commitment to zero defects is one of the reasons why we have continuously outgrown the automotive semiconductor market in Japan since 2010." The data from Strategy Analytics shows that Infineon has far more than doubled its respective market share since the beginning of the decade.
Once a year, Toyota's Hirose plant honors suppliers for their high quality. Infineon delivers CAN transceivers to the plant - devices that enable various electronic control units in cars to exchange data. For the second time in a row, Infineon has received the most prestigious prize: the Honor Quality Award, which is presented only to suppliers with a flawless quality record for four consecutive years.
In recent years, Infineon also received awards from other automotive global players such as Hyundai-Kia, Bosch, UAES, Denso, and Mitsuba. In the 2018 fiscal year, Infineon shipped more than seven billion automotive parts worldwide - not even 0.00001 percent of them were object of a customer complaint.
Further information is available at www.infineon.com
*Strategy Analytics Ltd., "Automotive Semiconductor Vendor 2018 Market Shares", April 2019. Information is not an endorsement of Infineon Technologies AG. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own risk. Visit strategyanalytics.com for more details.
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Caption: A key pillar of Infineon's success is its quality leadership strategy. Toyota once again honored Infineon for five years of zero defect deliveries to its Hirose plant.
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Drops in the Bronx goes back to the roots with 14 full length drum tracks of block party classics ranging from 88-112 bpm in multi-track format. Featuring separate Kick, Snare, Hat, Toms, Overheads, Percussion and FX: Includes tempo-mapped ProTools LE, Logic 6 and Cubase SE session files.
Recorded and mixed on a 1970s Neve console, analog tape, vintage microphones and outboard gear including multiple Pultec equalizers, Fairchild compressors, vintage Ludwig and Gretsch kits were used with old skins including calfskin, vintage Zildjian hats and snares by Ludwig, Rogers and Slingerland.


The House Blessing Kit is a great way to use Feng Shui to help support the flow of positive energy and to harmonize and energize your home or office. This blessing kit includes 8 varieties of Feng Shui incense: Guidance, Health, Journey, Love, Luck, Prosperity, Recognition and Wisdom and includes an informative brochure and black stone burner. A great gift for those new home owners or to bless and invite positive energy into your own home.


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Q: How can I Create a Picklist of Contacts from a Specific Account So I am trying to create a picklist of contact names from a specific account (listing available installers) to be assigned as a specific field selection in other accounts. Over time, of course, installer contacts will be added and removed, but it will always be one specific account hosting the contacts.
I thought I would create an Apex trigger to compile that list, but I'm in a bit over my head. Here's what I have so far:
trigger Installers on Contact (after update, after insert)
    {
       String names='';
       Integer ok=1;
       Set<id> accIdList =  '001G0000022epuD';
       for(Contact con : Trigger.new)
       {
          if(con.accountid!=null)
           accIdList.add(con.accountid);
       }

       List<Account> accUpdateList = new List<Account>();
       for(Account acc : [Select id, name, Contact_Name__c, (Select Id, name From Contacts) From Account Where Id In : accIdList])
       {
           ok=1;
           for(Contact con : acc.contacts)
           {

              if(con.name!=null)
              {
               if(ok==1)
               {
                names = con.name;
                ok=0;
               }

               else
                {
                names = names  + ',' + con.name;
                }

             }

           }
         acc.Contact_Name__c = names;
         accUpdateList.add(acc);
       }
       update accUpdateList;
}

I'm receiving an error: Illegal assignment from String to Set. Perhaps somebody can help me over the hump here?
Thanks

A: The error can be fixed by changing this line:
Set<id> accIdList =  '001G0000022epuD';

to this:
Set<id> accIdList =  new Set<id>{'001G0000022epuD'};

The Sets documentation provides more explanation.
I'm not entirely clear what you want to do with the comma separated values; often such a list of values would be created when needed in a controller. Also if the number of Contacts can grow very large, a lookup may make more sense than a picklist.

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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain walks with Chef KF Seetoh to visit the World Street Food Jamboree at the MOA concert grounds in Pasay City, June 1, 2017. Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.
Anthony Bourdain, of course, needed no introduction, but on Thursday afternoon, Chef KF Seetoh, introduced his good friend to the audience at the World Street Food Congress (WSFC) 2017 Dialogue as a supporter of street food.
Bloggers, members of media, and fans were star struck as the celebrated street food enthusiast gave a talk on the second day of WSFC in Pasay City.
Bourdain was joined by other Michelin-starred chefs at the congress, which has "Re-imagine Possibilities" as this year's theme.
"Imagine a place without food," said Bourdain, revealing that he travels 250 days in year for the past 17 years and that he is still searching for the perfect meal.
"I would not want to bring chicken rice to New York because I will not have an excuse to visit Singapore," he added.
With his opening remarks—where he shared that he loves coming back to the Philippines, his children knows Jollibee in New Jersey—loud applause and cheers was extended to him by the audience.
After his talk, Bourdain visited the World Street Food Jamboree and tried Filipino dishes like Sisig Paella, La Paz Batchoy, a burger from Singapore, and a stew from China.
It was really a quick tour, with 10 uniformed security personnel and two policemen escorting him as part of the event organizer's crowd control efforts. There was no way that a fan could get close to Bourdain for a photo opportunity.
Yet, his fans didn't mind as the celebrity chef was his usual cool self (despited the heat), smiling back at those who catches his eye, and even signing his book upon the request of a fan.
Here some scenes from yesterday's World Street Food Jamboree visit.
Celebrity chef tastes 'sisig' paella by Chef Sau del Rosario. Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain tries La Paz 'batchoy' from Iloilo City. Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.
Chef KF Seetoh and Anthony Bourdain cool themselves with a fan as they go through the World Street Food Jamboree stalls. Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.
Joycelyn dela Paz shows her Anthony Bourdain book signed by the celebrity chef at the World Street Food Jamboree. Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.


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A short sale often consists of complex and lengthy processes that require months to complete. Despite this, many homebuyers still choose this type of real estate transaction because of the immense savings that they will get. Because lots of individuals are considering buying houses through this process, Freddie Mac has developed a program that makes short sales transactions faster and easier. This new program aims to provide better benefits to borrowers and increase profits for the property owner and seller. The new process is more streamlined without the traditional obstacles that a homebuyer and home seller go through.
Here are the benefits of Freddie Mac's shorter short sale process.
Servicers are allowed to approve applications from financially challenged homeowners including those who are past due and are current on their mortgage payments. This eliminates the need for the mortgage insurance companies' review of the applications and applicants. Reviews often take weeks to be completed as mortgage companies have other responsibilities that they are primarily committed to.
In this new process, servicers are required to make decisions 30 days after they receive a completed application. They are allowed another 30 days should they need more time in case there are third parties involved. No more extensions, however, will be offered. Hence, they are expected to give their final decision at the 60th day.
Communication is an important part of every type of transaction. This is why Freddie Mac has greatly improved communication in the process. Weekly updates are submitted by servicers to keep borrowers and realtors informed throughout every step of the process. Acknowledgment must also be submitted after every application and form has been received.
The new process is more streamlined because of the improved communication and specific time frames. Borrowers are given updates regarding the status of their application and where in the process it is currently at. They are also provided a number to call to inquire about their application.
Have you exhausted all retention options to resolve your upcoming foreclosure?
Are you looking to leave your home and unpaid mortgage loan balance without damaging your credit history and report?
Do you want to move on to a more affordable housing without worrying about your previous loan balance and debts?
Do you need to leave your current home and relocate as soon as possible due to your employment?
Are other options such as loan modification, forbearance, or reinstatement not suitable to your needs and situation?
Do you want to sell your home so as to cover your unpaid mortgage debts and outstanding balance?
Should you decide to proceed with a short sale transaction, contact Jerry Pinkas Real Estate Experts now to assist you.


Watch 'Black Widow' music video by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora. Pop starlet Iggy Azalea unveils the video for her single 'Black Widow,' feat. Rita Ora.
Pop starlet Iggy Azalea unveils the video for her single 'Black Widow,' featuring none other than Rita Ora.
Taking inspiration from Japan's action films and paying more than a passing resemblance to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga, the video sees both Azalea and Ora taking on an army of henchmen and goons, tracked to a revenge-themed tune which is sure to be a smash hit amongst clubbers.
Michael Madsen, who plays Bill's brother Budd in Kill Bill, takes a main role in the video as well.
Watch 'Black Widow' music video by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora.


We are looking for a Wellness Coach for some of our adults with developmental disabilities at Hammer.org. This caring individual would spend 1- 2 hours a week coaching and encouraging one of our Hammer residents to make healthy life-style choices. While together, Wellness Coach and individual could participate in an exercise activity of choice, prepare a health meal together or participate in stress relieving activities like yoga or meditation. The is an excellent way to give back to your community, make some new friends and have some fun!
Location: 1909 E. Wayzata Blvd.


Whether you currently operate in 'blue-collar' Labour & Trades or 'white-collar' installation Management Building Services Recruitment, this opportunity is a career-defining opportunity.
My Client is a profitable, cash-rich, expanding Agency.
Branch Managers' desk isn't just warm or even hot, it is volcanic, currently generating nearly £1m in GP itself.
Own's it's own Payroll business which turns over in excess of £50m.
This firm has a opening created by the fact that the current CEO has developed this office personally and was the original branch manager. With planned expansion in the branch requiring implementation and management, and growth in the South East (and the rest of the country) planned both organically and by acquisition, the role of Branch Manager today will become Regional Manager tomorrow. This isn't a static opportunity.
The company majors in supplying the Building Services mechanical and electrical installation sector, but also operates in the Facilities Management market where it is looking to grow and further penetrate this market. Applications are therefore welcome from Recruitment Consultants with managerial experience of leading and developing a team within any associated Built Environment recruitment sector, but candidates must be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the challenges of delivering into blue-collar high-volume supply markets.
New IT systems and CRM ("Matchmaker") have been invested in in the last six months. With a cleansed database drawing on eighteen years of development the company prides itself on its capability to supply and it's commitment to new routes to market through social media and digital marketing.


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Govt ad spends on print down 51 per cent from last year
Newspapers have been struggling to recover from the pandemic's severe blow.
23 Mar, 2021 - 08:57 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
New Delhi: Print publications received a hard wallop with the outbreak of Covid2019 last year – circulation dropped, subscribers cut ties, and revenue dried up as advertisers tightened their purse strings. Now, it has emerged that the government, which is one of the biggest newspaper advertiser, slashed its spends on the medium by more than half during 2020.
The NDA-led Centre spent roughly Rs 62 crore on print advertisements to publicise its activities and programmes during the pandemic ravaged 2020-21, which is 51 per cent down from last year. In 2019-20, the government's total ad spend was Rs 128.96 crore.
The information was shared by union minister for information and broadcasting Prakash Javadekar in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
According to the data, the government had spent Rs 430.75 crore in publishing print advertisements in 2015-16, which came down to Rs 366 crore in 2016-17, and increased substantially to Rs 462.2 crore in 2017-18. However, the downward trend began in 2018, when the print ad spends decreased from Rs 301 crore in 2018-19 to Rs 128.96 crore in 2019-20 and further shrunk to Rs 62 crores last year.
The plummeting ad spends by the government come at a time when the print industry is struggling to survive the pandemic's severe blow. Print media thrives on advertisement expenditure of industries including e-commerce, automobiles, and BFSI, which were also impacted by the lockdown. Many businesses ended up pulling out advertisements, as part of budget cuts and also due to a drastic fall in the circulation of newspapers and magazines. The prolonged lockdown restrictions forced several publications to limit the number of pages, shut their editions and resort to layoffs .
Last year, the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) had also raised concerns over the rising newsprint and logistics costs and increasing preference for online content.
The data shared also showed that the Centre spent relatively less money on advertising its programmes and policies on private satellite and cable TV channels compared to 2017. The overall ad spend on television came down from Rs 123 crores in 2018-19 to 25.68 crores in 2019-20 and just Rs 11 crores in 2020-21. The ad spends on social media remained a miniscule part of the total budget, the data indicated.
The Bureau of Outreach and Communication (BOC), which acts as an advisory body to the government on its media strategy, undertakes information, education, and communication (IEC) campaigns of the government through its empanelled media platforms as per the policy guidelines.
Javadekar also informed the Parliament that BOC adopted a media mix approach and it is also using digital cinema, internet websites, SMS, and social media along with print, radio and television advertisements for dissemination. He said that BOC had also conducted an all-India survey – an impact assessment study of multi-media campaigns covering 722 districts to study the impact of the campaigns run on various media platforms.
When asked if the government plans to increase the ad spend over the next few years, the I&B minister said, "BOC releases advertisements keeping in view the campaign requirements, target audience, availability of funds, and preferences indicated by the client departments."
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Drools, a leading Indian pet-food brand, announced actress Janhvi Kapoor as the face of the brand. The brand aims at addressing the irks of pet parents by making their pooches' meals not only delicious but also well-balanced delivering all nutritional value.
Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company Ltd. (ABHICL), the health insurance joint venture of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd.
Stoa announces new brand campaign in association with The Rabbit Hole
Online B-school startup Stoa has launched their brand campaign in association with The Rabbit Hole, a video content solutions agency of the Zoo Media Network. Engineered with an unconventional message, the campaign is spread over a three-part film series, playing on the reverse psychology of...
Nikon India elevates the voice of women in photography with "Through Her Lens" campaign
Nikon India Private Ltd. unveils the latest edition of its pioneering campaign "Through Her Lens," an annual digital contest aimed at empowering and elevating the voices of professional and amateur women photographers in India.
Weekend Unwind with: Foxymoron business head – South Keerthi R Kumar
Mumbai: With another weekend upon us, it is time to unwind with the latest Q&A edition of Indiantelevision.com's Weekend Unwind—a series of informal chats that peek into the minds of business executives through a fun lens in an attempt to get to know the person behind the title a little better...
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Prashant Panday resigns as ENIL MD, director
Entertainment Network India Ltd. (ENIL) has said that its MD Prashant Panday has requested to be relieved due to other preoccupations. He has tendered his resignation from the position of MD as well as directorship of the company with effect from the close of business hours on 31 January, 2023.
Aditya Birla Health Insurance announces new brand campaign "KyaPeecheChhodaHai"
Mumbai: Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company Ltd. (ABHICL), the health insurance joint venture of Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (ABCL), on Friday unveiled its latest brand campaign "KyaPeecheChhodaHai" to promote the role of health insurance in changing lives of people by empowering them to lead...
The New Shop appoints Rajkummar Rao as brand ambassador
Mumbai: The New Shop, which is a convenience retail company, has appointed Bollywood actor Rajkummar Rao as the brand ambassador. In a series of campaigns to expand its footprint across the country, the actor will be featured on digital and print platforms such as social media, OTT, OOH, and IVR...
Mumbai: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be unveiling the Union Budget for FY 2023 – 24 in the coming week, and everybody has their eyes fixed and hopes pinned on the same. Indiantelevision.com spoke to ad industry troupers who spilled the beans about what's on their minds with regard to...


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Currently there are no compendial standards available for metal packaging systems for pharmaceutical use. In 2016 the USP Expert Committee "General Chapters-Packaging and Storage" announced to develop a new General Chapter <662> "Metal Packaging Components and their Materials of Construction". Common metal packaging components include aluminum and its alloys, stainless steel, tin-free steel, and tin. Additionally a stimuli article (Metal Packaging Systems and Their Materials of Construction for Pharmaceutical Products) was published in PF 39(4) (July-August 2013). However, the proposed USP chapter has still not yet been released. Thus any other guidance providing information on metal components, e.g. from the food area, can be useful.
EDQM´s practical guide for manufacturers and regulators
The 1st edition of EDQM´s technical guide "Metals and alloys used in food contact materials and articles" has been completely reviewed by the European Committee for Food Contact Materials and Articles to take into account regulatory developments and recent risk assessments. The 2nd edition was open for public consultation until 29 April 2022.
According to the announcement updates to the 2nd edition include the following:
Alignment with the guiding principles of the Council of Europe Resolution on the Safety and Quality of Materials and Articles for contact with Food;
Amendments to tolerable daily intakes (TDIs) and specific release limits (SRLs);
Quality requirements and use recommendations;
A new section on zirconium;
Improvements related to release testing;
Improvements related to the expression of uncertainty surrounding measurements.
Further information is provided in:
EDQM´s Publications on food contact materials and articles (including guidance on substances migrating from printing inks and paper and board),
Council of Europe's policy statements concerning materials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (including statements on coatings, rubber, silicones, etc.),
EDQM´s Newsroom: Metals and alloys used in food contact materials and articles: updated technical guide.


A while back, a regular viewer of my YouTubes emailed me and shared some thoughts, particularly on Josephus. I want to share his correpondence here.
In addition, just recently, on the Internet radio program "Two Guys and the Bible," William Bell and I were discussing Josephus and how his history of the Jewish War corroborates scripture. The response to our discussion has been fascinating and enlightening. I have had several people tell me that they had never read Josephus before, but, after listening to the program they had done so, and were just amazed at what they were seeing. Let me recommend that you do the same! That show, "Two Guys and the Bible" airs each Tuesday evening at 6 PM central, and is very popular. Tune in and join us! Go to www.ad70.net). You can listen to past programs as well.
My name is Paul **** and I am ***** on Youtube. I have certainly enjoyed reading your articles and have (I think) finally caught up on all of your Youtube videos. I have previously not been grounded in any specific echatological position, mainly because the options were so completely convoluted and confusing so as to prevent even understanding all the options. I have recently began studying eschatology and I find your scriptural understanding and presentations of Covenant Eschatology to be very enlightening and coherent, not to mention very much in-line with the scriptures, in so far as I am able to discern. I have also gone to a few of your detractors' sites to see their arguments against your position and I have seen MUCH ERROR on their parts on the contrary. Most error seems to emanate from the "physical" expectations they almost unanimously hold to in the prophetic fulfillments.
I wanted to bring something I found in my own studies to your attention regarding the Seventh Seal Opening spoken about in Revelation 8:1. I have been reading the works of Josephus, particularly, The Wars of The Jews. In book #6, chapter #5, paragraphs #3-#4, I found a very interesting passage that speaks of several supernatural signs that were reported in and around Jerusalem before and during the rebellion and ensuring war with the Romans. Josephus says a great light was seen emanating from the Temple in Jerusalem which lasted for half an hour. As I read that passage for the first time, I was immediately reminded of the opening of the Seventh Seal in Revelation 8. There are some other similar events recorded by Josephus and I have copied the entire passage here for your review and convenience.
estivals; and he continued this ditty for seven years and five months, without growing hoarse, or being tired therewith, until the very time that he saw his presage in earnest fulfilled in our siege, when it ceased; (309) for as he was going round upon the wall, he cried out with his utmost force, "Woe, woe, to the city again, and to the people, and to the holy house!" And just as he added at the last,—"Woe, woe, to myself also!" there came a stone out of one of the engines, and smote him, and killed him immediately; and as he was uttering the very same presages, he gave up the ghost.
4. (310) Now, if any one consider these things, he will find that God takes care of mankind, and by all ways possible foreshows to our race what is for their preservation; but that men perish by those miseries which they madly and voluntarily bring upon themselves; (311) for the Jews by demolishing the tower of Antonia, had made their temple foursquare, while at the same time they had it written in their sacred oracles,—"That then should their city be taken, as well as their holy house, when once their temple should become foursquare." (312) But now, what did most elevate them in undertaking this war, was an ambiguous oracle that was also found in their sacred writings, how, "about that time, one from their country should become governor of the habitable earth." (313) The Jews took this prediction to belong to themselves in particular and many of the wise men were thereby deceived in their determination. Now, this oracle certainly denoted the government of Vespasian, who was appointed emperor in Judea. (314) However, it is not possible for men to avoid fate, although they see it beforehand. (315) But these men interpreted some of these signals according to their own pleasure; and some of them they utterly despised, until their madness was demonstrated, both by the taking of their city, and their own destruction.
It is purely speculation on my part, but it would seem possible that the event described by Josephus might bear some earthly correlation to the opening of the Seventh Seal in heaven. I don't think there is any way to conclude this with much certainty, but I would be interested in hearing any additional thoughts you have on it, if any. In any instance, Josephus' account of all these events would, if for no other purpose, serve to display there actually WERE supernatural signs that were physically visible in the heavens which were viewed by "they also which pierced him" and many others.
I look forward to much more study on Covenant Eschatology and will be ordering some of your books as soon as I am able.


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On this page I introduce the different projects that made it possible for me to
            create this tool.

At the beginning of 2013 I started learning about elasticsearch. Since than I have done multiple projects
            for customers and I have given multiple trainings. I found out about repetitive tasks that were dealing with
            tools to maintain your elacticsearch nodes and the cluster. Therefore I decided to create a tool to help
            make
            these tasks easier to perform.

In the nearby future I am planning on creating more features related to configure your cluster an indexes.

If you find bugs or have ideas for improvements, please use github.

        https://github.com/jettro/maintain-elastic

Dropwizard

                website

Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. I
                    use it to create the REST api and to interact with the java driver of elasticearch.

AngularJS

                website

AngularJS is the MVC framework for the client. The AngularJS client talks to my own REST api.

Twitter bootstrap

                website

Twitter bootstrap is started as a pure css/html library to enable developers to create nice looking
                    websites without to much effort. Nowadays a lot of (javascript) components are available that make
                    life even easier.

UI Bootstrap

                website

This is the glue between twitter bootstrap and angularjs. This library provides a number of directive
                    that enable developers to easily create rich client side components.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Use of trailing characters in JAVA/C++ I was bit curious that why we use trailing character in Java/C++. Like,
float f = 23f;

we can also write
float f = 23;

both having same effect.

A: That is important when you are hardcoding numbers in mathematical operations.
For example:
5 / 2 == 2
5.0f / 2.0f = 2.5f
5.0 / 2.0 = 2.5      // without the 'f' suffix you have doubles
5.0d / 2.0d = 2.5d   // for doubles 'd' can be used as well

Also these will have a different result:
blah / 3.141592653592  // this returns an accurate double
blah / 3.141592653592f // this returns a less accurate float

A: This is because there is something else that can supply the type information in the second case (namely, the type of the variable). In cases like that suffixes are not required.
However, you may need them in other cases, when the type information must be derived from the numeric literal itself. For example, consider the two expressions below:
float f = 23 / 5;  // Integer division

vs.
float f = 23f / 5; // Floating point division

You would get different results with and without the suffix.

A: They have the same effect, but there is an extra step in the second.  The data type of 23 is int.  The compiler almost certainly converts 23 to a float at compile time, but it does have to check that the number can be represented as a float.  They take the same amount of space, so some integers can't be represented as floats.  Consider this Java code:
int i   = 2147483647; // Integer.MAX_VALUE, but at compile time.
System.out.println(i);

float f = 2147483647; // Integer.MAX_VALUE, but at compile time.
System.out.println(f);

What gets printed?


The course of true love can be a bumpy ride. Thirty-one stories ranging from naughty fun to heart-wrenching reunions.
The course of true love can be a bumpy, up-and-down, and sideways ride, but the end-of-the-year holidays are perfect for happy endings! Whether they're finding a new romance or rekindling an old one, the men in these stories get some help from the magic of the season. Some of them might need a miracle to muddle through the conflicts and confusion that arise, but luckily for them, 'tis the season. From naughty fun, to heartfelt and heart-wrenching reunions, to out-of-this-world adventures, these guys are in for quite a ride.
Holiday reading fun! Sleigh Ride is a package of 31 stories that bought individually would sell for a total of $83.69. As a package, only $64.99.


A pension scam has hit the ministry of Health with officials blamed for paying out about Shs2.7b to people reportedly not supposed to benefit, Saturday Monitor can reveal.
This newspaper has seen a copy of a draft internal audit report which indicates the money is likely to have been paid to non-existent pensioners.
The report covering the pensions and payroll for the Financial Year 2017/2018, and signed by Ms Annet Musiime, the assistant commissioner for Internal Audit, queries how Shs1.5b was paid to beneficiaries whose records are not on the pension payroll.
The report also exposes a discrepancy between the Integrated Personnel and Payroll System pension data file and the Integrated Financial Management System.
"Audit, however, noted that payments to the tune of Shs1,589,517,109 were made to beneficiaries who did not have corresponding records on the IPPS pension payroll.
This implies that there could have been manual intervention in between the two systems that led to payment of the said funds," the report states.
The same report indicates that the Ministry of Health made payments of Shs1.1b to pensioners who had exceeded their pensionable period of 15 years and there is no record of life certificates for the beneficiaries.
The pensions policies provide that a pensioner will benefit from the scheme for 15 years after his or her retirement and there must be certified evidence that they are still alive for them to continue receiving the money.
"This might have been caused by management failure to adhere to this requirement. Absence of evidence of continued existence of pensioners in form of life certificates to support pension payments may imply payments to non-existent pensioners," the auditors noted.
Although the pension scheme is managed by the Ministry of Public Service, the payments are recentralised so that the ministries in which the beneficiaries served are responsible for effecting payments.
The report also highlights the issue of maintenance of pensioners who never retired under the Ministry of Health.
The auditors say of the 891 pensioners on the payroll, a total of 263 have respective votes where they retired from yet there is no information about where 119 pensioners belong.
The auditors blamed the Health Ministry management for being reluctant to reconcile information from the Ministry of Public Service and the information on the files kept by the Health ministry, saying this poses a risk of paying non-existent pensioners.
Ms Musiime in her report says the audit process realised that the Health Ministry has not implemented enough preventative and detective procedures to mitigate the risk of errors and overpayments over pensions and payroll disbursements.
When contacted, the Health ministry permanent secretary (PS), Dr Diana Atwine, said she was not in position to comment on matters related to payment of pensions because the process is managed by the Ministry of Public Service.
"The best person to explain those issues is the PS of Public Service. Although it is recentralised, Public Service ministry makes sure they approve the payroll and then we pay," Dr Atwine said.
Efforts to reach Ms Catherine Bitarakwate, the PS of Public Service, were futile as she neither answered nor returned our calls and messages to her known telephone contact.


4. Description: Gas-analysis apparatus. The School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds is seeking tenders for a High Temperature Simultaneous Thermal Analysis system with MS detector for evolved gas analysis (TGA with DSC).


1. Newborn hat & dribble bib - this box is aimed at a toddler so C wouldn't necessarily get the use out of the hat but as I'm expecting another baby, I think I'll be saving them for her! I was unable to find a price for this item online.
2. Puckabook by Puckababy and 10% off discount code - this cute little hardbacked book is a sleeping guide for you and your baby. Like the hat and bib, it's probably not something that I'll need with C but will come in very handy with the new baby. C does like looking at the little illustrations though.
3. That's Not My Hamster... board book (RRP. £4.50) - C loves touchy feely books. He always brings this book over to me to read and likes to rub his fingers on the fuzzy bits. I think this is his favourite item in this months Nonabox.
4. 9-bar (RRP. £0.64) - this is an energy bar that is gluten and wheat-free. I've actually tried these before and the taste just isn't for me. I generally don't like anything that is supposed to be good for me!
5. Thorntons Milk, White & Dark Continental chocolates (RRP. £10.00) - I think my eyes lit up as soon as I spotted these. I am a huge lover of chocolate, especially Thorntons, so they didn't last very long. They were absolutely delicious.
6. Cloud B Sleep Sheep (RRP £33.22) - This little sheep has been an absolute lifesaver. Sometimes C is a bit fussy at bedtimes but since he's been cuddling this gorgeous little sheep to sleep, it has really helped. It has a little soundbox inside and you can listen to nature sounds. Perfect for soothing a baby to sleep. I will definitely be using this from day 1 with the new baby too!
7. Waterwipes (RRP. £2.49) - I received a little sample pack in my Bliss bag when I brought C home from hospital but once I used them all up, I hadn't spotted them again. They are really moist which pleases me as I hate wipes that are very dry. They are 99.9% water with a hint of natural ingredients.
The total value of this box equals around £50 which is fantastic considering that the subscription cost is £25 per month. We've really enjoyed this months box so if I were a paying customer, I would have been very happy with what I received for my money.


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Q: Android: Force close the app in Application class I have a class which extends Application class. In this class I am checking Internet Connectivity and calling the web service.
Below is the method I am using to check:
public static boolean isInternetConnected(Context mContext) {
        ConnectivityManager connec = (ConnectivityManager) mContext
                .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);

        if (connec != null
                && (connec.getNetworkInfo(1).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED)
                || (connec.getNetworkInfo(0).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;

    }

When there is no Internet connection I want to force close the application. How to do it?
I have an alternative solution. If there is no Internet connection, I can skip calling api process and wait for the first activity to start and finish that activity as soon as it starts.
Is it possible to do it in Application class?

A: You can call in Application derived class ;
 android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());

A: Why do you wish to force close an application? Heard of such request for the first time.
When there is no internet, you can just close the activity like this:
if (!isInternetConnected(context)){
    finish();
}

A: This is better use this...
public boolean isOnline()
{
    ConnectivityManager cm =
        (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo netInfo = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    if (netInfo != null && netInfo.isConnectedOrConnecting())
    {
        return true;
    }

   // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Internet is not Connected", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    alertwifi();
    return false;
}

 public void alertwifi()
    {
    AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(
            context);

        // set title
        alertDialogBuilder.setTitle("NO Internet Connection!!");

        // set dialog message
        alertDialogBuilder
            .setMessage("Click below to turn on Wifi or Enable Data pack")
            .setCancelable(false)
            .setPositiveButton("Wifi",new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int id) {
                    // if this button is clicked, close
                    // current activity
                    wifi();
                }
              })
               .setNeutralButton("GPRS",new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int id) {
                    // if this button is clicked, close
                    // current activity
                    datapack();
                }
              })
            .setNegativeButton("Back",new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int id) {
                    // if this button is clicked, just close
                    // the dialog box and do nothing

                    exit();

                }
            });

public void exit()
{
     Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
     intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
     intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
     startActivity(intent);
}

// create alert dialog
        AlertDialog alertDialog = alertDialogBuilder.create();

        // show it
        alertDialog.show();
    }


An immense collision between Earth and a Mars-sized astronomical body called Theia may have formed the moon lighting up our night skies. New evidence presented in a study published in the journal Science supports the Giant Impact hypothesis.
Recall that previous reports also reveal that the moon may have come from the floating debris brought about by such collision. This came from the Giant Impact Hypothesis, a predominant and widely accepted explanation of the origin of the moon.
The new study, "Identification of the giant impactor Theia in lunar rocks," is said to confirm and support the immense collision.
The hypothesis suggested that Theia slammed into our planet about 4.5 billion years ago. The said collision tossed magma into orbit around our planet. The magma, both from Earth and Theia, condensed and then cooled into the rocky orb: the moon. This explanation is said to best illustrate why the moon swirls, has a small core and lacks water.
The new scientific study involves an analysis of the composition of moon rocks carried to Earth by Apollo astronauts, which shows fragments of Theia somehow supporting the hypothesis. The thin core of the moon, meanwhile, indicates that two other planets helped in creating it.
"The Giant Impact Hypothesis is very good in explaining most of the moon's features," lead study author Daniel Herwartz says. He is also an isotope geochemist at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
Meanwhile, various researches say some scientists still have doubts over the idea of a collision forming the moon because of its chemical composition. Collision models often show that the moon should be around 70 percent composed of Theia. Most of the planets in our solar system, however, have distinctive chemical compositions, as well as Earth and moon. What makes the moon and Earth look similar is in terms of versions of isotopes, as opposed to those models with Theia.
Herwartz admits to Space.com that it was indeed a "big puzzle" -- but not until now. Along with fellow researchers, he discovered differences in the isotopic composition of the moon and Earth. The differences support the Giant Impact Hypothesis.
The scientists initially studied the lunar rocks that landed as meteorites on Earth, following being thrown off the Moon by celestial impacts, but found that oxygen isotopes from Earth's water tainted these rock samples. To replace this, NASA provided lunar rocks taken by astronauts who were in Apollo 11, 12 and 16 missions.
Findings from the new study indicate that the moon may be composed of Theia by around 40 percent. They suggest Theia was comparable to enstatite chondrites meteorites, which have a considerably parallel isotopic composition to Earth. Though the exact individual composition of Theia and Earth in the moon remains unknown, Herwartz now assures the giant collision actually happened.
Several reports gathered, however, show that not all scientists are impressed by the findings. One not impressed, for instance, is professor emeritus Robert Clayton of the University of Chicago, who says he doesn't see anything new in the recent paper but simply a repackaging of error bars. On the other hand, Dr. Mahesh Anand of Open University also says the data were just based from three samples of lunar rocks, thus it requires further analysis of diverse lunar rocks to completely confirm the Giant Impact Hypothesis.
Is the moon the next Wi-Fi hotspot for Earth?


At SJOA, your children and their formation and discipleship with Christ will always come first! We provide an excellent education, which can be seen in our test scores, but more importantly we provide the experiences that guide the students as leaders in the love and service of Christ.
Religious Education is integrated into the life of each student. All students celebrate children liturgies & daily prayers.
There is after school childcare for all grade levels.


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Ohio state troopers increasing visibility this week to crack down on seat belt use
Updated: 6:29 AM EDT May 25, 2021
WLWT Digital Staff
Ohio State Highway Patrol
SOURCE: OSP
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will be joining forces with troopers in six other states to crack down on seat belt safety.The weeklong initiative goes through next Monday.The high-visibility enforcement will include the Indiana State Police, Kentucky State Police, Michigan State Police, Pennsylvania State Police and the West Virginia State Police, as well as OSHP.This effort coincides with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "Click it or Ticket" campaign.The three-year average of fatalities has increased by 22%, OSP said. Year-to-date from 2018 through 2021, Ohio is averaging 342 traffic fatalities. "Properly wearing a safety belt increases a person's chance of surviving a crash," said Col. Richard S. Fambro. "It's a simple step. One that is proven to save lives."Ohio's safety belt law is still a secondary violation, but troopers say there is zero-tolerance when drivers are stopped for other violations and are found to not be wearing their safety belt.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will be joining forces with troopers in six other states to crack down on seat belt safety.
The weeklong initiative goes through next Monday.
The high-visibility enforcement will include the Indiana State Police, Kentucky State Police, Michigan State Police, Pennsylvania State Police and the West Virginia State Police, as well as OSHP.
This effort coincides with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "Click it or Ticket" campaign.
The three-year average of fatalities has increased by 22%, OSP said. Year-to-date from 2018 through 2021, Ohio is averaging 342 traffic fatalities.
"Properly wearing a safety belt increases a person's chance of surviving a crash," said Col. Richard S. Fambro. "It's a simple step. One that is proven to save lives."
Ohio's safety belt law is still a secondary violation, but troopers say there is zero-tolerance when drivers are stopped for other violations and are found to not be wearing their safety belt.


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This year's Proudly Philippines🇵🇭 will shine light on Filipino – Canadians who have
exhibited excellence in politics, media, the arts, business, and other fields, and
contributed to the dynamism and vibrancy of Canada's socio-cultural fabric.
Each day, "Proudly Philippines, Proudly Filipino!" will feature one outstanding
Filipino-Canadian personality that would show who they are, what they do, and
convey their thoughts on being a Filipino.
Their videos will be posted on the respective official websites and social media
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Happy Friday to you my friend! I hope you have been enjoying a very good week wherever you are.
It has been quite a few weeks since I shared my last Friday Favorites post with you.....the holiday blogging season kind of consumed my time and while there were many bloggers that were inspiring me to want to share, there just wasn't time to put those posts together. But the winter is my time to regroup and catch my breath and so this weekly series is back.
I've been excited this week to really get back into blogging, creating, and planning and even shared a few posts that have been many months in the making.
In case you missed them, on Sunday, I was finally able to share the before tour of the fixer upper that I'll be working on. I've got so many ideas rolling around in my head about what to do with this property and can't see to settle on anything, but taking the first step of sharing the tour made it all feel a little more real and like it is finally happening!
And I also created two different designs of some free pantry labels for you to accompany the spice jar labels that I shared in the past. All the links to both can be found in the post, as well as many more organizing printables that my blogging friends shared as part of the tour.
Like myself, most bloggers tend to take the first couple weeks of the year getting a little rest from the holiday season as it is the busiest for us all. Everyone is slowly starting to pop back onto your screens with new ideas to share. Since there isn't a whole lot of new to choose from yet, a few of these things I'm sharing today as my Friday Favorites were from last year that I loved.
If you have anything that you think reader's of anderson + grant would enjoy seeing, feel free to send me an email or a message on Facebook for a chance to possibly be featured in an upcoming post.
These pictures are being shared with the permission of the talented bloggers who created them. As a courtesy those bloggers, please visit the links to their posts below to pin rather than pinning from here. Thank you!
In case you don't follow Lucy from Craftberry Bush, let me be the first to say that she never ceases to amaze me with the creativity of the projects she creates. She recently posted this idea of a watercolor painting of evergreens done on a wood slab and even shared a video of how to do the project yourself. Wouldn't this look so pretty hung on the wall for winter?
I am actively out there searching right now for simple decorating ideas and this mantel from Plum Pretty Decor & Design Co. is just what I love. After all the Christmas decor has come down, many of us are craving pretty simplicity and this fireplace shows that a few plants, mirror, and candlestick are enough to create a cozy space.
And while we're on the subject of decorating for winter, this handmade wreath would look so perfect hanging on the front door or over the mantel. It is made with fresh fir and eucalyptus so I imagine it smells about as good as it looks.
I am a fan of chocolate AND any food that is presented in a beautiful way so this Triple Chocolate Ombre Cake from Also the Crumbs Please caught my eye the minute I saw it. My mouth waters just thinking about how delicious this must taste.
| Have you been taking part in this Simplicity Challenge? I am such a fan of Emily Ley and she always has the best tips for making life (seem) a little bit easier to handle.
| I'm so happy the winter season has come back with some of my favorite shows....This Is Us, of course, and my new favorite this year has been the first season of A Million Little Things. I always love shows that keep my attention throughout the entire episode and this is definitely one of them.
| If you've been searching for a little more power of positive thinking and believing in your dreams, then you must follow this Instagram account. I swear that she says exactly what I need to hear on the exact day I need to hear it.
| If you like raspberries and blackberries, these candies are the most incredible thing ever. I picked them up at Home Goods last month and am now wondering when I can ever find them again.


Understanding how to Share Folders.
In the privious session you learned about sharing files, now let's touch upon sharing folders.
Sharing a Folder is fundamentally different than sharing a file. If I share a Folder with you, we both see and have the same access to the content within that Folder. If I make an edit to a document within the Folder, the new version of that document will immediately sync to your computer. If you add a new file to that Folder, that new file will immediately sync to my computer. If you delete that presentation that I spent all weekend working on, it will be deleted from my computer too. This construct is great for multiple people working on, or collaborating on, a project together. Oh, and don't sweat that deleted presentation, Syncplicity gives us access to old versions of files, and deleted files, and restore them in just a few clicks, so you can share folders without worrying about someone wreaking havoc on your stuff.