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One thing we learned about each NFL team in Week 16 of 2021 season: Chargers, Saints are in trouble
Week 16 of the 2021 NFL season is officially in the books. The Colts edged the Cardinals. The Rams survived the Vikings. The Bills trounced the Patriots. The Bengals beat up on the Ravens … and that was just a fraction of the action from this week.
But what did we learn about each of the 32 teams in the process? We're so glad you asked. As Week 17 draws near, we take a look below at one thing we took away from each team:
Kliff Kingsbury teams always collapse. The Cardinals started 7-0, but have now lost five of eight, becoming on Saturday the ninth straight team coached by Kingsbury to start strong and close with a whimper. The NFC West is no longer theirs.
They need to figure out the run game. Cordarrelle Patterson worked just fine as the lead back for a while, but those days appear to be over. Mike Davis is not the answer. Whomever is starting at QB in 2022 deserves a better plan.
They're in real trouble. At least one of Lamar Jackson or Tyler Huntley will be back eventually, but man, the injuries keep hitting them, and their defense is getting worse. The AFC North is ugly and crowded, but they're no longer front-runners.
Josh Allen is back in the MVP race. Or at least he probably should be. His arm and legs were both hard at work in Buffalo's much-needed revenge game against the Patriots. It's safe to say he's proven 2020 wasn't a fluke.
Matt Rhule should not be safe. Yes, program-building takes time, but Rhule has consistently whiffed on his QB gambles. Rotating Sam Darnold and Cam Newton? It almost literally could not be worse.
Nick Foles deserves better. And he has for a while. Justin Fields obviously belongs under center if he's healthy, but Foles brings just as much as, if not more than, Andy Dalton as the veteran reserve. His clutch finish against Seattle was fitting.
Teams should be afraid of their passing game. When they're clicking, like they did against the Ravens, Joe Burrow and the Bengals' trio of top wideouts are a big-play machine. How on Earth can you defend Ja'Marr Chase on this offense?
Kevin Stefanski needs to wake up in regards to Baker Mayfield. He stayed committed to No. 6 earlier this year even when the QB was limping through bad outings. He then inexplicably kept dialing up passes on an awful night for Mayfield in Green Bay.
They're back. The defense had been faring well for a while, but playing beat-up Washington enabled them to fire on all cylinders. When Dak Prescott is on the money, and their "D" is making plays, they look like a real contender.
The offense needs an overhaul. Chiefly at QB and on the sidelines, where they've too often schemed themselves into trouble. Drew Lock predictably struggled in place of Teddy Bridgewater, but the run game was also absent against Vegas.
Amon-Ra St. Brown will be a household name. He's quietly had a heck of a rookie year, emerging as the Lions' top wideout even with mostly mediocre QBs throwing him passes. Get him some help, and he'll break out even more.
Rasul Douglas is clutch. The Packers have cut it close a few times during their road to the NFC's top seed, but their journeyman corner is a big reason they've stayed on top. His picks have come at all the right times.
Davis Mills: real QB prospect. The longer Mills has played for an otherwise underwhelming team, the more promising he's looked. Rex Burkhead's huge day helped against the Chargers, but the rookie signal-caller was never rattled.
Only COVID stands in their way. That's an exaggeration, but imagine if they also had Darius Leonard and Quenton Nelson against Arizona. They've been finding different ways to win on both sides of the ball. Playoffs, here we come.
The problems won't end in Week 18. There are still two games to go, but Trent Baalke is already set to return as GM. Trevor Lawrence, who might've legitimately regressed because of this season, must be thrilled.
The offense is in full form. And they're not even at full health. When Byron Pringle, Derrick Gore and Mecole Hardman can lead you in receiving in a blowout win over a fellow AFC playoff contender, you're in good shape.
They're gritty again! Appropriately left for dead after their offensive slide, the Raiders won in bruising fashion against Denver, leaning heavily on Josh Jacobs and a suddenly stout run "D." At least they can play spoiler.
They're not ready for the big stage. How else are we to read their embarrassing loss to Houston? Justin Herbert is often magic, but he was disheveled. More concerning: Brandon Staley's defense once again failed to show up.
Sony Michel needs the rock. He saved a bad day from Matthew Stafford in Minnesota. And he's really been money with most opportunities since he arrived. L.A. shouldn't abandon the run just because it has toys in the passing game.
They must keep feeding Jaylen Waddle. Tua Tagovailoa is already targeting him a lot, but he shouldn't stop. Miami's offense isn't exactly a world-beater, but Waddle is a one-man machine out there.
Mike Zimmer's defense isn't up to the task. Yes, his front disrupted Matthew Stafford early in their big game against the Rams, but it also had no answer for Sony Michel and got more vulnerable in crunch time. Their run appears to be over.
They need perfection to win. OK, maybe that's a stretch, but eventually leaning on a rookie QB and old-school approach was going to hurt them. Mac Jones has now had three straight starts with minimal or negative impact.
Defense can only give them so much. Dennis Allen's unit successfully got the "W" against Tom Brady, but it turns out you need something on offense to string together victories. Ian Book was a deer in headlights against the Dolphins.
They are doomed. Not just for the rest of 2021 (it's almost over, New York, we promise), but perhaps for longer. Why on Earth would they be guaranteeing a return for Joe Judge and Daniel Jones right now?
Zach Wilson can scramble. We knew this before, but it looks a whole lot better when he's playing a hapless Jaguars defense! In all seriousness, his legs were a big reason New York overcame the absence of its own head coach.
They're almost certainly bound for the playoffs. The path is clear now, with Week 17 bringing realistic clinching scenarios. They can't keep starting slow, but they also keep finding a way, especially with game-sealing defensive takeaways.
The offense needs an overhaul. And the warning signs have been obvious all year: Ben Roethlisberger isn't who he once was, the O-line isn't built to play ground-and-pound, etc. Will Matt Canada be back to fix this?
It's Trey Lance time (perhaps for a while). Jimmy Garoppolo wasn't great in their close loss to the Titans. Now he's hurt. With a good showing down the stretch, Lance has the potential to steal the job at a crucial point in the season.
They need help all over the field. Who knows if Russell Wilson will be back, but boy does their defense need reinforcements. The entire unit was gassed by the end of a battle with Nick Foles and the Bears' offense (!).
Antonio Brown still has it. Maybe his off-field history is — and remains — tattered. But every time Tom Brady has needed him, he's proven he can still be a No. 1 wideout. The Bucs will be fine with their current setup.
They are a Derrick Henry away from a surprise run. Somehow, they won't die under Mike Vrabel, even as their lineup has been decimated by injuries, COVID and veteran disappointments. A power ground game would set them back on course.
They've packed it in. And can you blame them, considering the losses they've suffered? Taylor Heinicke might be chucking it still, but to what avail? Ron Rivera needs a QB upgrade — and a healthier supporting cast — like no one.
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Salty air, beachy hair and something perfect to wear. Beachwear outfits are all about trying to achieve an effortless, flowy cool-girl look. It's best to go for something that's both easy to throw right over a bikini that still will work later on as a cute boardwalk outfit to wear while grabbing a bite to eat or ice cream with friends as the sun goes down. Here are 10 different beachwear outfits you can copy next time you hit the sea shore.
The perfect top to grab and slip over a bikini. Soft crochet tops are not only stylish, trendy and cute, but they are also extremely comfy and cozy, which is perfect to snuggle up in after a day out in the sun or after a quick dip.
As seen on Bella Hadid, Kylie Jenner, and Jordyn Woods, these Andi Bagus "Bowie" crochet pants are ALL the rave when it comes to fashionista beachwear outfits. These pants will have heads turning all day long and wherever the night may take you.
Looking for a little bit more coverage? A flowy and slouchy dress will do just the trick. This style of dress is perfect for acting as a cover-up over a bikini and can also double as a day or night outfit while keeping you warm.
Show off your tummy in a wrap top this summer. Whether it's crochet or not, wrap tops are a great beachwear option. They cover your bikini top just enough while also keeping your arms warm after the sun goes down.
Out of all the beachwear outfits, this one is by far the easiest and my favorite go-to every time I hit the beach. You can't go wrong with a slouchy and over-seized T-shirt or hoodie. Keep it comfy while also keeping it stylish. This look will instantly give you that cool-girl beachy look you've been aiming for this summer.
This look can be achieved with either a bandanna or scarf. Switch up your look and tie the material around your bun for a unique and fun beachy look. Some bikini brands even sell sashes and bandannas that match their bikinis.
That comfortable feeling while also keeping is stylish. A thermal boyfriend long sleeve is great for those cooler summer nights spent huddled around a beach bonfire.
Flowy printed shorts are a classic summer staple. This style of shorts is super easy to throw over bikini bottoms and will also look cute and feel comfy all throughout your beachy adventures.
A kimono is a great staple piece to toss over a bikini. There are so many different styles of kimonos such as lace, crochet, and fringe that would all be a great match for your next venture to the shore.
A beautiful and delicate wrap skirt or sarong can top off any beachwear outfit you are planning. Wrapping one of these around your bikini bottom will have you feeling very mermaid princess-esque.
Out of these 10 different beachwear outfits and options, which will you be strutting your stuff in during your next trip to the shore? Let us know in the comments below!


New Zealand is like any part of the world and it has its own collection of insects. Many of these insects can bother you during the summer and some of them can even harm you. With this guide you will be better able to identify any insect problem you have on your hands.
Mantis are stick like bugs that look very unusual and you are probably familiar with them. You might think that these little creatures should be removed from your yard but they are actually pest eaters. As mantis grow up they start to eat crickets, beetles, and other insects of that size.
Most people know cockroaches and know how hard they are to kill. These pesky pests will eat your food and spread disease if they are not eradicated from your property. Cockroaches scurry around and love dark places. Commonly roaches will start to appear when food has been left behind or there is a dead animal.
Bed bugs have been around for a while but were recently brought to light when a wave of infestations spread around the world. Like the name implies, bed bugs can be found on beds as well as other cushions. Each bug is tiny and will feed off your blood and the blood of your animals. Diseases and irritation can be spread by these creatures.
Animals are the biggest carrier of fleas but once they have them, they will quickly spread them to humans. A flea infestation should be stopped as soon as possible to prevent it from getting out of hand. Fleas won't live for long off a human but can be transmitted to others.
There are multiple species of flies that can be found in New Zealand. Gadflies are one type and they bite animals and can spread disease. The Queensland Fruit Fly is another one, these eat fruit and devastate crops instead.
Ladybirds are very cute and many kids collect them but you shouldn't encourage it. Ladybirds are pests. The Harlequin Ladybird is an invasive species of ladybird that has been introduced to New Zealand. While the species likely can't be eradicated from the whole country, you should keep them away from your yard.
Mosquitos are a problem around the world and are found in damp areas. If you have standing water of any significant size, they will be attracted. Certain types of mosquitos are more likely to carry disease than others, but all should be treated as if they can harm you.
Snails and slugs leave behind a wake of destruction in addition to their slimy path. You will find that both snails and slugs will eat parts of your garden and can damage whole plants. These insects are considered to be amongst the most bothersome of all pests.
Ticks live in tall grass and can cause a number of health problems. Not only can they affect humans, but they can affect animals too. Any time that you go in tall grass in a tick infested area you should inspect yourself for ticks. A tick will look like an unusual bump on the skin.
Traditionally, wasps aren't from the New Zealand area. They were introduced to the area by the airplane and boat. These pests live in hives and will attack anyone they deem to be a threat. Wasps eat local plants and can take the food away from native animals. Unlike bees, wasps can sting multiple times but many people are still allergic to them.
As you can see there are a number of insects in New Zealand. The majority of the ones on this list are pests that can harm animals, humans, or food. Keep an eye out for these pests on your property during the summer.
Should you happen to spot one of these pests on your property you need to contact a pest control specialist. Pests that are given time to live on your property will grow and attract more pests. Stopping the problem early, prevents you from having a bigger situation on your hands.


I recently taught a two-day bookmaking workshop at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center, and I wanted to share a few photos from the class. Aside from casually teaching a few friends how to make some simple book structures, this was my first time teaching a class and everything went incredibly well.
Before the class, I talked my husband and our friend into being guinea pigs for me as I practiced teaching the four binding structures I was planning to teach in the class and got a feel for how long it would take my students to make their own books. I also cut down all of the bookboard, bookcloth, decorative paper, and leather ahead of time that we would need in the class. This was a smart move because it saved a ton of time during the actual class, and allowed us to dive right into the fun part without worrying too much about measurements.
I started off the first class with a little show-and-tell. I brought in my collection of handbound books, both made by myself and other bookbinders I admire (like erinzam and minusplusminus), to inspire my students about the possibilities of bookbinding.
Then we started creating ourselves by making two accordion books, while learning the basics of paper grain and folding and tearing paper. The first book was a structure similar to this style, where the softcover books are assembled without adhesive or stitching. Next, we took it a step further and created a double concertina book with a hard cover, like this.
Day two of the class focused on sewn structures. First we made a simple one-signature pamphlet book to get the sewing basics down. Then we made Italian long-stitch books with leather covers, which were certainly more complicated but also more rewarding when completed. You can see examples of my students' books in the photos directly above and below. I've heard from several students who have continued to make a few books since the class, including one who just learned the Coptic stitch! It was so much fun for me to introduce some new people to the world of handbound books.


In this tutorial, we will learn how to control the brightness of a LED without using any sensors.
Since we all know how a LED works and what all can be done with it let us start the tutorial.
For those of you who are new kindly refer our previous blogs to explore LED's.
The circuit connection is very simple just connect the anode of the Led with the 11th pin of Arduino and connect the cathode with the ground.
After making the connections dump the code given below.


Join the American Hosta Society and receive The Hosta Journal free. These publications offer the latest information on care, feeding, and hybridizing; photographs of new cultivars; and news of upcoming meetings and conventions.
Attend regional meetings and receive regional newsletters for the area in which you live.
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Sounds like now is a perfect time to renew or join!
Information regarding the American Hosta Society can be found on its website, www.hosta.org.
The mission of the Midwest Regional Hosta Society (MRHS) is to promote education, research, development, and enjoyment of America's favorite perennial, the hosta.
Two year membership in the society is $20.00, and includes two issues per year of the society's newsletter, Hosta Leaves. This publication reports on society events, and provides information pertaining to hostas in general.
In addition, there are two meetings held annually. The Winter Scientific Meeting is held in January, in the Chicago area, and is a one day event with an assortment of speakers that present the latest information pertaining to hostas and gardening with them. All of this is offered in an enjoyable and down-to-earth format with something for everyone interested in gardening and learning more about hostas.
An annual convention, hosted by a local society, is held each summer in different locations throughout the region. This three day extravaganza features garden tours, a show of hosta leaves, vendors selling the newest in hosta plants, an auction of plants, a banquet, and an informational speaker. Foremost, however, is the fellowship of seeing old hosta friends as well as making new ones.
The MRHS is considered Region 5 of the American Hosta Society and encompasses the nine Midwestern states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
We hope you will find this information helpful and consider joining the AHS and the MRHS.


Frank Schleck reportedly to join Astana when his doping ban expires with the possibility of brother Andy joining him there next year.
Using performance as a proof of doping?
Presidential campaign should be about the future not the past, says McQuaid. Lance Armstrong is not an issue.


Introducing the all new AuraBox 2.0, the second generation AuraBox with so much more to offer. Built with a powerful 5 Watt Bluetooth speaker and 21% more pixels than the original to create smoother animations with more color options, this innovative device comes with a digital creative palette, social media desktop notification system, a smart alarm and more. The AuraBox 2.0s new and improved app allows you to share designs with friends. Use the Aurabox 2.0 to inspire, create and connect to your daily life in a way that ignites your imagination.


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Ramaphosa signs contentious Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill into law
News24 Wire
Chief Khoisan SA. Picture: Jacques Nelles
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the contentious Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill into law, amid warnings by some civil society groups that the law 'enables dispossession without consent'.
"The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act seeks to transform traditional and Khoi-San institutions in line with constitutional imperatives, such as the Bill of Rights, and restore the integrity and legitimacy of the institutions of traditional and Khoi-San leadership in line with customary law and practices," read a statement from the Presidency on Friday.
"It also provides for the protection and promotion of the institutions of traditional and Khoi-San leadership."
"Furthermore, the act directs that the kingship or queenship, principal traditional community, headmanship, headwomanship and Khoi-San communities must transform and adopt customary law and customs in a manner that is consistent with the principles contained in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
"While certain traditional structures and leadership positions have been recognised by law in compliance with constitutional prescripts, there has never before been statutory recognition of the Khoi-San.
"To this end, the formal recognition of the Khoi-San communities, leaders and structures required enabling legislation, to which the president has now assented."
'Bill brings back apartheid Bantustans'
While the bill was lauded by some claiming to be Khoi-San traditional leaders, its critics, however, fear it will "effectively bring back apartheid Bantustans".
The Alliance for Rural Democracy and its partners under the Stop the Bantustan Bills campaigned for the Presidency not to sign the bill.
Stop the Bantustan Bills patrons are former ANC NEC member and minister Pallo Jordan; Constance Mogale, the convenor of the Alliance for Rural Democracy; Aninka Claassens, the chief researcher at the University of Cape Town's Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC) and ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang.
On Friday, Claassens and two LARC colleagues, Nolundi Luwaya and Monica de Souza Louw, released a joint statement.
"When law enables dispossession without consent or expropriation, as the TKLB [Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill] permits, violence, including state violence, is the inevitable consequence. In the case of the TKLB, it is a consequence that the president could have prevented," it read.
They said civil society had anticipated Ramaphosa would refer the bill back to Parliament as two panel reports – the high level panel chaired by former president Kgalema Motlanthe in 2017 and Ramaphosa's own advisory panel into land reform – recommended.
"Numerous submissions warned that the bill undermines the customary and informal property rights protected by Section 25(6) of the Constitution and abrogates the decision-making authority that is the hallmark of citizenship for the 18 million South Africans living in the former homelands. The president, therefore, had strong legal grounds on which to refer the bill back to Parliament. He chose to ignore these," read the statement.
"The bill provides that traditional leaders and councils can sign deals with investment companies without obtaining the consent of those whose land rights are directly affected. No prior law in South African history, even during colonialism and apartheid, has enabled traditional leaders to dispossess people of their land rights without either their consent, or expropriation.
"While civil society has repeatedly lauded that the bill takes steps to recognise Khoi-San leaders and structures, there is a concern about the cost at which this recognition has come. Khoi-San communities, too, will be subject to the rights abrogations enabled by the bill."
They added the high level panel, on which Claassens served, detailed how the traditional leadership laws the TKLB would repeal and replace already enabled dispossession and deepening inequality.
"They shatter any hope of social cohesion by defaulting to the racially inscribed boundaries of the former homelands. Access to land rights, justice and decision-making is segregated based on the notion that those living within the former Bantustans are tribal subjects, as opposed to equal citizens."
Veneer of legality
They said the TKLB sought to provide a "veneer of legality to partnerships of extraordinary greed and complicity that already exist between the government and mining sector", and there already was an increasing scale of violent protest around mining in the former homelands.
Ramaphosa also assented to the Critical Infrastructure Act, which repeals the apartheid-era National Keypoints Act and provides for public-private co-operation in the identification and protection of critical infrastructure, and the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Amendment Act.
The latter, in the main, seeks to address failures to reconstitute the tribal authorities and traditional councils within the prescribed time, including aligning the term of office of the re-constituted tribal authorities and traditional councils with the terms of the National House of Traditional Leaders, read the statement from the Presidency.
SA is not dysfunctional, says Ramaphosa in first 2020 letter to the nation 20.1.2020
Ramaphosa declines trips to Davos and London to deal with 'local priorities' 16.1.2020
DA to submit application for cost of Ramaphosa's private flight to Japan 15.1.2020

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This time it's T.V. Trivia!!
1. Kate Jackson (who played on Charlie's Angels) also played the character Jill Danko on what early 70's Aaron Spelling cop show?
2. Miss Ellie Ewing's full first name is Ellen.
3. On the series Seinfeld, what was Kramar's first name?
4. On the series M*A*S*H* there was a crazy cross-dressing corporal Klinger, what was his first name?
5. In which state was the series Home Improvement set?


The assailants, travelling in as many as 10 SUVs, arrived at approximately 7.30 p.m. Sunday in the highland town of El Espinal, just north of the city of Mazatlan, said witnesses.
First, they shot and killed four people on one street. Thereafter they headed to a nearby home where they murdered two more people. The seventh victim was shot dead near a church, said officials Tuesday.
There have been no arrests so far, although army soldiers and state police were carrying out operations in the area to track down the assailants.
Sinaloa, the birthplace of the first generation of Mexican drug lords, remains the bastion of the Sinaloa cartel, regarded as the country's most powerful crime organisation.
The cartel's boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, escaped from a maximum-security prison in Jan 2001 and his life on the lam has reportedly included visits to expensive restaurants and a lavish wedding attended by Sinaloa notables.
With a fortune estimated at $1 billion, "Shorty" Guzman appears on the latest Forbes magazine list of the world's richest individuals.
Conflict among rival drug cartels and between the criminals and the security forces has claimed 35,000 lives in Mexico over the last four years.


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UNION CITY, Tenn. (BNc) by James D. Suiter — The Bishop St. church in Union City, Tenn., raised funds for a very special project for brother Edwin Inso.
Brother Inso works with five churches in Samar, Philippines. Bishop St. helped brother Inso and several college students at a nearby college, Eastern Samar State University (ESSU), to get a 32-inch TV for use in their discipleship class.
The TV will also be used as a power point screen to display lessons and songs for the group.
Brother Inso asks for prayers for this work. His goal is to teach and equip the students to teach people in the providence of Samar the gospel of Christ. Inso uses his motorcycle-powered "Gospel Chariot" to bring students to class.
Inso is a graduate of the Philippine Institute of Biblical Studies in Cebu and has worked with Jeremy Barrier of Heritage Christian University.
The Bishop St. church plans to equip each student with a set of WVBS DVDs to use in evangelism.


'Over the top' services such as WhatsApp provide many of the same services as telecommunications providers and broadcasters but are not subject to the same regulatory frameworks, Telstra chief executive Andy Penn today told the CommsDay Summit in Sydney.
Penn noted the decision of Telstra (as well as Vodafone and Optus) to block access to a number of sites that hosted footage of the Christchurch terror attack.
Last week the government rushed through parliament new legislation compelling social media platforms to remove "abhorrent violent material" from their services in an "expeditious" manner.
Penn used his speech to call for "pro investment" policy settings for the telco sector. Telco networks require "an incredible amount of capital investment," but "returns in the industry on that capex are reducing," Penn said.
Telstra's profits have been battered by changes in the industry, particularly the NBN rollout. Penn in late 2017 said that Telstra estimated the NBN rollout would have a $3 billion negative impact on EBITDA. Telstra's chairperson has estimated that the NBN will cut the telco's net profit after tax by "close to half" when the new network is completed and described the process as effectively a renationalisation of Australia's fixed-line infrastructure.
A key concept underpinning the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's oversight of the telco sector is the long-term interests of end users (LTIE).
"It is appropriate for regulators to look at the profitability of the telecommunications sector and ask whether customers are getting a good deal, but it has to be done through the lens of the amount of capital invested," Penn said in his remarks prepared for the CommsDay event.
Telstra believes there should be a level playing field for all telecommunications technologies, Penn said.
"When we look at the volume of data we need to provide for in the future and the demographic and topographic challenges Australia presents for telecommunications infrastructure, there is no one technology solution," Penn said.
The CEO noted his past criticism of NBN wholesale pricing levels.
"Everyone here has heard my comments on NBN wholesale pricing so I am not going to repeat them again here today. But this is exactly the dynamic that that problem is creating - an unnatural bias to one technology over others as well as a disincentive to invest," he said.
Penn also used his speech to defend the Universal Service Obligation (USO) scheme, which is delivered by Telstra under contract with the government.


Interviewers - What Are They Looking For Anyway?
And if you answer those four questions "Yes"
When you answer all five of these questions affirmatively, you have a shot at the position. Other job seekers may pass the criteria, too. Failing to pass any one of these hurdles will result in the employer pursuing other job seekers for the opportunity.
This is the threshold question. Anything less than a clear and convincing "yes" to this question results in you being by-passed for the position. Questions in this portion of the interview will be about your technical skills, ability, and knowledge, as well as your transferable skills and possibly your professional values. It is an evaluation of your qualifications for the job and a determination of whether you can actually perform the functions of the position. Emphasize your skills and abilities and match the basic elements needed to perform the job functions.
Motivation is pivotal to success in any job position and is a professional quality all hiring executives want to see in a job seeker. The hiring executive needs to know whether the job seeker is motivated to actually perform the job functions to levels required to be successful. This is an area where some hiring executives grumble about younger professionals.
As a job seeker, you must convince the hiring executive that you have the required abilities and are motivated to use them! This is achieved by educating the hiring manager about your passion for the job, work ethic, internal drive, and examples of taking the initiative and going the extra mile. Revealing that you have researched the company, position, and perhaps the hiring executive's background can also be a reflection of your motivation.
If the hiring decision comes down to two equally qualified candidates, the one that has demonstrated motivation and enthusiasm wins.
Will your performance have a positive impact?
Here, the hiring executive will attempt to predict your future performance on the job, compare you to others who have been successful in the job, and other job seekers. You may have the necessary skills and be willing to use them, but will your performance have a positive impact and advance company goals? Will you be an improvement from the previous person in the position? Improve team performance, and so on?
This is where competition for the position takes place in the mind of the hiring executive. It's about proving results and convincing the hiring manager that you can make things better. They want to hire the best!
It is imperative during the interview to stress accomplishments, your history of success, and work ethic. Ask about how you will be measured in the position, position goals, and projects. Then reference your accomplishments to match and exceed expectations.
Cultural fit with the organization and personal chemistry with those you will work with is a big deal. Statistically, 60 percent of new hires are based on personal chemistry. Employers tend to hire who they like even when more qualified candidates are available.
Cultural and personal chemistry questions explore likeability, connection, communication, values, interests outside of work, and dress/appearance. When the hiring executive shifts gear into more personal topics, they are assessing your cultural fit and personal chemistry.
For more, read What Kind Of A Company Culture Are You Most Comfortable With?
To land an offer, your compensation must fit within the hiring range for the position. The more qualified you are and the more they like you, the more justification exists to move you to the higher end of that salary range.
Sometimes, if your qualifications and cultural fit are strong enough, employers will go beyond the original compensation range to capture extraordinary talent. It does happen, but don't pursue positions in the hope that the employer will do so. All employers are conscious of budgets and parity issues.
Let's conclude our discussion with the Strategy for a Successful Interview.
You achieve this through reading job descriptions, listening, research, and asking probing questions.
You achieve this by matching and relating your skills and experience to the needs of the company.
You achieve this by emphasizing your past accomplishments and relating those accomplishments to the company's need. Not only can you do the job, but you can also do it well! Differentiate yourself.
It is proven that top qualified candidates who show enthusiasm for the position are more successful in receiving job offers. Simply put, everyone wants to be wanted and the more you convince an employer you want the job, the more likely you are to get it.
For more on interviewing check out the 50 Top Job Interview Questions And Answers.
Brian Howard, JD, CCMC, CJSS is the author of The Motivated Job Search and The Motivated Networker.
It is extremely important that you customize your URL when using LinkedIn. It could mean the difference between "getting found" or "getting ignored". Why is customizing a LinkedIn URL so important? We explain in this quick helpful post for job seekers using LinkedIn.


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Is the apartheid colonial settler state of Israel "reparations" for Jews? ADOS thinks so. »
"Don't tell my husband I have leprosy": Social stigma silences Marshall Islands' women
by STELLA PAUL
Meretha Pierson, a nurse in the leprosy clinic of Majuro, Marshall Islands, shows the medication to cure leprosy that are provided for free. PHOTO/Stella Paul/IPS
Meretha Pierson has been a nurse for the past seven years, working in the government-run leprosy clinic in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. Her patients come in all ages, from different economic backgrounds and different professions. But, aside from their diagnosis, they all have something else in common: everyone wants to keep their illness a secret.
"Everyone requests me not to tell their neighbours. But women who are young, request me to not inform even their spouses. 'Please don't tell my husband,' they say. Sometimes, such a request is really hard to keep," Pierson tells IPS.
Unwanted labels
There is a reason why Pierson, one of the handful of trained health workers who can detect a case of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, can't always promise full confidentiality to her patients.
Marshall Islands is believed to have 50 to 80 new cases of leprosy every year – a number that is very big for a population of only 60,000.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), if more than 1 in every 10,000 people are affected by leprosy, then it should be considered as a disease that has not been eliminated.
Marshall Islands, as classified by the WHO, is therefore far from eliminating the disease.
But it is a classification that the government is eager to get rid of. In mid-2018, the government and the country's Ministry of Health, ran a three-month long health screening campaign where over 27,000 citizens were tested for both leprosy and tuberculosis so that every affected person could receive treatment.
Concrete details on the number of leprosy cases are yet to be made public, but health workers like Pierson have already been instructed to keep a close eye on the patients who do not return to report on their health and who stop treatment in the middle of the course. And this is why it makes it really difficult to keep the promise of not alerting anyone to their illness as health workers are often compelled to seek out the patients.
Tracking these patients down and convincing them to restart their medication is both a necessity and a requirement that forms part of the government's new campaign to curb the disease.
But as they do so, the requests for confidentiality becomes more frequent.
"They do not want us to go to their houses. So, we make phone calls, call them to a place outside of their homes and their neighbourhood and that's where we do our counselling and advise them to return to the clinic for a check-up and continue the treatment. But it's hard," Pierson tells IPS.
Discrimination towards the caregiver
However, it is not only patients who are stigmatised on this island nation. Health workers themselves often bear the brunt themselves in a society where over 80 percent of the population are of Christian faith. Pierson, a Mormon, says that she has often faced discrimination from her neighbours and relatives who have suspected her of having leprosy.
"They think because I work in a leprosy clinic, I am carrying the germ or the disease myself. Some even ask why I do not give up this job. I have to always tell them that I am a nurse and I do not have leprosy myself. Even in the church, I get those stares," she says. Fortunately, her husband is supportive and has never asked her to leave her job.
The hotspots
There are around 30 atolls that comprise the Marshall Islands and about a quarter of them are known as the hotspots of leprosy, according to Dr. Ken Jetton, the main physician at the country's Department of Public Health.
Jetton officially diagnoses and confirms leprosy cases after Pierson detects a possible case and refers the patient to him.
He tells IPS that few of these 'hotspots' include the atolls of Kwajalein, Ailinglaplap, Mili, Arno, Wotje and Ebon. During the recent mass health screening, about 47 new cases were reported from these places.
The data sheet is yet to be complied, but once this is done, a proper plan will be drawn up to treat each patient until they are cured, Jetton reveals. The medication, Multi Drug Therapy (MDT), an oral medicine, is given free of charge in 6 packs for children and 12 packs for adults.
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John Sabelhaus, National Tax Journal 53, 865-876, December 2000 .
Empirical analysis of IRA accumulation and withdrawal patterns is limited because information about IRA balances and flows is not available for a sample of taxpayers. This paper combines survey data on IRA balances with individual tax return data on IRA flows to study IRA accumulation and withdrawal patterns across cohorts. The analysis shows that IRA rules such as penalties for early withdrawals and minimum distribution requirements have predictable effects on IRA flows. The estimated propensities to contribute to IRAs, rollover from pensions, and withdrawal from IRAs are used to project IRA flows and balances in the near to medium term.


the love of Jesus, Son of God?
compares with his redeeming blood?
I would be like a noisy gong.
what will I gain without his love?
not boastful, selfish, proud or rude.
but overjoyed when truth prevails.
its hope holds firm though fortunes fall.
and love's the greatest of them all.
but soon I'll see you face to face!


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Q: display local existing pdf file with pdf.js library into electron app context I have an Electron.js app project which already contains pdf files locally.
I installed pdf.js and I already test the pdfjs/web/viewer.html to render a pdf test file which render very well.
I need to render other pdf files of my project. But I don't understand how because all of explanations are based in a concept of file is remote or uploaded or app is a web app. In my case I don't have anything about web server or upload file or remote. Just local already existing file.
If a understand pdf.js library I need to create this kind of url for display my pdf into a BrowserWindow electron :
'web/viewer.html?file=' + url'

and I understand need to encode this url var because my file is not affordable by direct url. But I don't understand the steps for created that.
- I need to stream the content of the file ?
- I need to create a File Object ?
- I need to create a Blob or Base64 object ?
- If a can't use URL.createObjectURL(), how generate url that representing this pdf file ?
- What is the order process to respect ?
At this point I coding that :
function getFileObject(filepath)
{
    let filePath = path.join(__static, filepath)
    return fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8')
}

fileObject = util.getFileObject('../data/files/xxxxxx/xxx.pdf')
objectURL = URL.createObjectURL(fileObject)

But URL is not recognize by my node.js electron environment. And I don't sure that is the good way. It seems that is render pdf job is so tricky and I need a few advices community.

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Reps. McNerney and Jones Relaunch Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Caucus
Washington, DC – As political spending continues to break records – with the anticipation that the 2018 mid-term election will be the most expensive mid-term in American history – Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-09) and Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-03) relaunched the bipartisan Congressional Campaign Finance Reform Caucus to promote and facilitate a meaningful dialogue to address the undue influence of money and special interests on our political process.
"Within the last decade, two Supreme Court decisions have unleashed a flood of money into our elections," said Congressman McNerney. "The end result of the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases has been a great increase in campaign spending, much of which has come from undisclosed and unregulated sources. When dark money determines the outcomes of our elections, the American people become disillusioned and discouraged, and when the dollars in your pocket define the value of your voice, our democracy deteriorates. Now is the time to commit to reforms that will bring transparency to our campaign finance system and restore voter confidence. By bringing together members from both sides of the aisle, this Caucus can address these inequities and advocate for changes to repair our broken system."
According to a report by the public policy organization, Demos, the Citizens United decision opened the door for $1.3 billion in campaign spending in the 2016 election, while the McCutcheon decision – which struck down the contribution limits a single donor could contribute to all federal candidates, parties and political action committees (PACs) – resulted in just 1,724 individuals donating a total of $274 million in the 2016 election cycle. Across the board, political spending in the 2016 federal election cycle totaled almost $6.5 billion.
"Deep pocketed special interests have more power and influence than ever before," said Congressman Jones, "and I continue to see that influence, instead of the voices of American citizens, shape misguided policy in Washington. It is time to reform the system and return the government to the people."
At the Caucus's first meeting of 2018, Congressmen McNerney and Jones were joined by other Caucus members and were briefed on the impact of the Citizens United decision by featured guest speaker Tiffany Muller, the President and Executive Director of End Citizens United. The Caucus will hold regular meetings to educate members of Congress and staff about the influence of money in politics and to advocate for relevant policy proposals.
The Caucus is open to all members of Congress and will provide a forum to discuss and advance solutions to reform the way campaigns are financed in this country.
Rep. Jerry McNerney proudly serves the constituents of California's 9th Congressional District that includes portions of San Joaquin, Contra Costa, and Sacramento Counties. For more information on Rep. McNerney's work, follow him on Facebook and on Twitter @RepMcNerney.


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Huddle (1932) Sam Wood
Ramon Novarro was one of the great silent screen heroes though his career slowly vanished in the sound era, quite possibly through the influence of studio boss Louis B Mayer because he was gay and refused the lavender marriage option. Unlike someone like William Haines, Novarro could get away with playing tough manly roles but his voice was a litle high pitched to keep that going as sound took over. Here though he starts out playing someone that would nowadays be played by someone like Sylvester Stallone, which does seem a little strange.
He's Antonio 'Tony' Amatto, a working class Italian boy from Gary, IN, who leaves the ironworks on a company scholarship to go to Yale. Naturally he doesn't fit in right off the bat and ends up breeding an animosity to a character called Tom Stone, who happens to be the football captain, the college's prize boxer and the son of the ironworks chairman. Just as naturally the girl he falls for is Tom Stone's sister Rosalie, and the girl that falls for him is Tom Stone's girlfriend Barbara. Needless to say, he quickly turns into about the most unpopular student on campus.
Luckily when it comes to the sophomore year he makes one good friend and makes an impression on the football team, but he's still a pain in the ass. He has a knack of upsetting the wrong people at the wrong moments, getting drunk exactly when he shouldn't and playing dirty when there's really no need. He's definitely the hero but he's a hothead and an idiot and it's easy to understand why he's so unpopular. There's a lot of work done to point the reasons at the difference in class background, but that's a little unfair. Tony is just an ass, pure and simple, at least until he starts a fight with his football coach and sees the light. Even when the class thing becomes very apparent through Rosalie's father's influence, but even he wasn't born to riches.
The cast is good. Novarro always impresses, and just about gets by as a Yale student even though he was 33 at the time. He looks a lot younger than football coach Ralph Graves, who was only 32. It's good to see him in something that doesn't involve planes: I only know him from The Flying Fleet, Flight and Dirigible, which belies whatever diversity the man could bring to film. Una Merkel is always solid and Madge Evans is a fetching love interest. In supporting roles, Kane Richmond is just there as Tom Stone, but John Arledge and Frank Albertson get some good scenes. Henry Armetta and Ferike Boros are fine stereotypical Italian parents, as annoying as that makes them.
The story though is clumsy and doesn't do its players justice. The passing of time is terrible, the whole class thing is woefully mismanaged and the various subplots don't satisfy. The whole rivalry between Tony and Tom Stone is completely wasted. At the end of the day this is little more than an opportunity to watch Ramon Novarro in the sound era before his MGM contract was not renewed in 1935. For some people, there's opportunity to see a lot of Yale customs, with traditional songs all over the place, and even some stock footage of historic American football games. I really don't care about either so they don't add anything to my enjoyment of the film but they could be valuable to some.
Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock
Crime School (1938) Lewis Seiler
The Passionate Plumber (1932) Edward Sedgwick
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Kentucky Kernels (1934) George Stevens
Touch the Sound (2004) Thomas Riedelsheimer
Frisco Jenny (1932) William A Wellman
True Grit (1969) Henry Hathaway
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Joseph H Lewis
Conan the Barbarian (1982) John Milius
The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) Gordon Douglas
The Falcon in Mexico (1944) William Berke
The Spoilers (1942) Ray Enright
The Hatchet Man (1932) William A Wellman
Mr Winkle Goes to War (1944) Alfred E Green
Blood Rage (1987) John Grissmer
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (20...
The Falcon Out West (1944) William Clemens
Murder By Contract (1958) Irvin Lerner
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Federico Fellini
Love is a Racket (1932) William A Wellman
Bad Guy (2001) Kim Ki-Duk
Virtue (1932) Edward Buzzell
Cracked Nuts (1931) Edward Cline
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) John Ford
Travellers and Magicians (2003) Khyentse Norbu
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987) Louis Malle
Midnight Mary (1933) William A Wellman
Lilly Turner (1933) William A Wellman
The Women in His Life (1933) George B Seitz
Age of Consent (1969) Michael Powell
Heroes for Sale (1933) William A Wellman
Up the River (1930) John Ford
Nightmare (2000) Byeong-ki Ahn
They Call It Sin (1932) Thornton Freeland
Man Wanted (1932) William Dieterle
Transgression (1931) Herbert Brenon
The Falcon in Danger (1943) William Clemens
Four Mothers (1941) William Keighley
The Smart Set (1928) Jack Conway
Withnail & I (1987) Bruce Robinson
Gemini (1999) Shinya Tsukamoto
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) Roger Corman
Death of a Snowman (1978) Christopher Rowley
Black Christmas (1974) Bob Clark
Murder Ahoy (1964) George Pollock
Armored Car Robbery (1950) Richard Fleischer
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Amy Heckerling
Green for Danger (1946) Sidney Gilliat
Rembrandt (1936) Alexander Korda
My Life as a Dog (1985) Lasse Hallström


Happy post batman weekend everyone. Did you see the movie? FunBox did, and we made a video about it. Don't worry though: no spoilers.
Here are a few fun facts about the filming of "Shocking Heath Ledger Revelation"
*The part of Matt was played by Matt, while the part of Paul was played by Paul. This was done because it was 8 AM on a Saturday - much to early for it to be practical to memorize fake names.
*The book Matt is holding contains the complete works of Shakespeare because we were hoping to get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
*The National Endowment for the Arts did not return our calls.
*The black shirts worn by both actors are meant to symbolize mourning and signify the fact that both Paul and Matt are at similar periods in their laundry-doing cycles.
*Matt refused to work unless an untouched glass of orange juice was in close proximity at all times.
*Paul's religious preferences dictated that he stay seated as much as possible.
*This is the second film where Paul lovingly consoles a heartbroken Matt. Their girlfriends are starting to get jealous.
What's So Great About Your Fantasy?


Let's start with a definition. You might be surprised by what climate action covers.
Climate action is any activity that helps people cope with a changing climate, or that results in a decline in climate gas emissions.
Some examples are obvious, and they are the ones most people think of when talking about climate solutions: insulating your house, installing a solar panel, riding a bike or driving an electric vehicle, or becoming a vegetarian. They can be small, personal actions like switching to LED lights, or they can be major government initiatives, like investing in transit infrastructure or designing compact and complete urban communities.
Others are less obvious, and they show the tension between consumption and conservation: carbon offsets for air travel, energy-efficient large homes, or eating local, organic meat. There is clearly an effort to minimize the energy cost and climate emissions, but the action still has an impact.
Even more difficult to measure is the contribution of arts, culture and community, which are examples of a high quality of life based on experience instead of consumption. Theatre, community sports and recreation, volunteering with a community group, even relaxing at the local cafe, are examples of a low-carbon society where we value the quality of our time and experiences over material wealth and consumption.
In the end, they are all examples of climate action. We should celebrate them all.
The transition to a low-carbon society will not happen overnight. It took us a century to become the car-centric, oil dependent society we are now. It will take us at least half a century to change again as new clean technology is developed and renewable power continues to improve in efficiency and drop in cost. It takes time to work our way through the life cycle of products and purchase new technology. It will take time to retrofit our buildings and houses, to invest in transit, and to reshape our communities.
If we do it right, we will look back in fifty years time and see that we live in great communities, with a strong local economy, and a high quality of life.
This is why we want to link climate action with social benefit, and why voluntary action is important. Start now. Choose the actions that make sense to you. Find the products and services that help you take action. Pitch in and help in your community.
Let's create a nation of climate leaders.


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Q: constant error with bean name recently I decided to play with Spring. I did some tutorials and everything seems fine until the moment I am trying to use multiple properties files. As Internet says, it is enough to do something like
<bean  class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders" value="true"/>
        <property name="ignoreResourceNotFound" value="true"/>
        <property name="location">
            <list>
                <value>classpath:readData.properties</value>
                <value>classpath:sendMail.properties</value>
            </list>
        </property>
</bean>

Well, unfortunately It does not work. Surprisingly this version works (for one properties folder):
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
        <property name="location">
                <value>classpath:readData.properties</value>
        </property>
</bean>

The Console says as follows:
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer#0' defined in class path resource [Beans.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type 'java.util.ArrayList' to required type 'org.springframework.core.io.Resource' for property 'location'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [org.springframework.core.io.Resource] for property 'location': PropertyEditor [org.springframework.core.io.ResourceEditor] returned inappropriate value of type [java.util.ArrayList]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:529)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:198)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:657)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:461)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139)
    at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83)
    at corrected_reminder.Reminder.main(Reminder.java:25)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.TypeMismatchException: Failed to convert property value of type 'java.util.ArrayList' to required type 'org.springframework.core.io.Resource' for property 'location'; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [org.springframework.core.io.Resource] for property 'location': PropertyEditor [org.springframework.core.io.ResourceEditor] returned inappropriate value of type [java.util.ArrayList]
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertIfNecessary(BeanWrapperImpl.java:468)
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:494)
    at org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertForProperty(BeanWrapperImpl.java:488)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.convertForProperty(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1433)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1392)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1128)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:519)
    ... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot convert value of type [java.util.ArrayList] to required type [org.springframework.core.io.Resource] for property 'location': PropertyEditor [org.springframework.core.io.ResourceEditor] returned inappropriate value of type [java.util.ArrayList]
    at org.springframework.beans.TypeConverterDelegate.convertIfNecessary(TypeConverterDelegate.java:260)
    at  org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl.convertIfNecessary(BeanWrapperImpl.java:448)
    ... 16 more

Could anyone help me?
Edit
@Denis Makarskiy
I have tried it many times, but without satisfying results. Now I have
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Cannot locate BeanDefinitionDecorator for element [property-placeholder]
Offending resource: class path resource [Beans.xml]

A: You are using multiple properties file, use "locations" instead of "location". For single properties, you can use "location".
check the api doc:
https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/core/io/support/PropertiesLoaderSupport.html#setLocations-org.springframework.core.io.Resource...-

A: You can use context:property-placeholder tag to specify multiple property files.
Example:
<context:property-placeholder location="readData.properties,
                                            sendMail.properties"/>

Don't forget to add context schema to the beans tag, like this:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd>