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This Family Doesn't Agree On Trump — But They Await His Presidency Together
By Jennifer Ludden
Danny McNeish, his stepmother, Julie, and his father, Phil, on the front porch of Julie and Phil's house in Roanoke, Va.
The most contentious presidential campaign and election in memory has many people dreading the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Some have even canceled plans, unwilling to face family members on the other side of the country's hardening political divide.
Not so for the McNeish family of Roanoke, Va., though they still differ mightily on what to expect from a President Trump over the next four years.
"I have no faith in him whatsoever," says Danny, 35, who works with a company that supplies and services restaurant equipment. He considered Trump's campaign a "joke" and cast a reluctant vote for Hillary Clinton.
His father and stepmother both voted for Donald Trump. Phil McNeish, 57, is a machinist who calls himself a left-leaning independent; his wife, Julie, is a schoolteacher who was raised a Democrat. Before Trump, both voted for President Obama in 2008 and then Mitt Romney in 2012.
Phil, who grew up in New Jersey, says he gets Trump's style. "He's brash, he's in your face," he says. "Rough around the edges."
But he likes that Trump is toning down his campaign rhetoric and pulling back from some promises, as Trump appears to be doing in saying he wants to keep parts of Obamacare.
"I mean, he's been a Democrat most of his life. He's going to go more liberal than any of the other Republican candidates," he says.
Phil thinks that can help break the gridlock in Congress, but his son is not buying it.
"The Republican party doesn't support him!" says Danny. He thinks a President Trump will do exactly what President Obama has done: issue lots of executive orders, and "if you don't like it, too bad."
Danny is bothered by Trump's positions on climate change and abortion, and appalled that he has no political experience. Throughout the campaign, he'd argue with his stepmother, Julie, reciting to her the latest controversial comments Trump had made.
Julie admits she was rattled repeatedly, thinking each comment was going to be the end of Trump's campaign. But in the end, she couldn't get over her frustration that after eight years of a Democratic administration, "we're worse off than we were."
"You have to just believe in Trump," she tells Danny, as he shakes his head and laughs.
Julie says her son, his girlfriend and their three children recently moved in with her and Phil to save money. Even though both have jobs, she says they were having trouble affording childcare and making ends meet. She says Phil also works two jobs. "How can we be working this hard, and you see we live modestly, and we're having a hard time just making our bills?" she asks.
When Phil went into manufacturing in his 20s, he says he couldn't believe the money — and companies would call up and offer even more to hire him away. But since moving to Virginia more than two decades ago he's seen things change, and he blames a lot of it on NAFTA.
When one employer moved to Mexico, Phil says he was flown there to help train the workers. He found other work, but says meager raises have not kept up with the cost of living. "I think I peaked out in 2000," he says. "I'm currently making $12,000 less a year than I was making in 2000."
To make up for falling wages he has started his own company on the side, working nights and weekends in his basement. There, Phil shows me the hulking pieces of used equipment they bought by dipping into Julie's retirement fund. He creates steel molds that are used to form plastic parts, grinding them smooth to microscopically precise measurements.
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Phil McNeish works at a surface grinder in his basement, smoothing the surface of a plastic mold he fabricated. McNeish started his own company on the side as a way to make up income he says he's lost since NAFTA took effect. These days, he says every week he has to submit a bid competing against a manufacturer in China.
These days, Phil's clients are up front with him, and he's competing with more than Mexico. "They'll tell me ahead of time, we're gonna quote this out to China," he says. He almost never gets those bids, since he says a Chinese company will do the work for about a third of what he charges.
In some cases, Phil says he has actually been hired to fix a shoddy part from China. But even after paying him a few thousand dollars for that, the client still came out ahead. Phil is counting on Trump to impose a tariff on Chinese imports.
"I'm just hoping there's a way to return to the days when we were a manufacturing power," he says. "I believe that's what brought us where we are today. I hate to see it just gone."
Back upstairs, Julie says she hopes the country will eventually rally around President-elect Trump and give him a chance. Phil's son Danny says he worries Trump might spark controversy when speaking to some foreign leader without a teleprompter.
But this family, including other children nearby, will keep their disagreements civil, even calm. I ask again them again: Were there really no Facebook feuds or flaring tempers? No tensions that will play out at Thanksgiving dinner?
Well ...
"That's not our whole family," says Julie, and they all laugh. She hastens to add that extended family is far away, but if they could make it for the holiday, they'd be welcome.
Jennifer Ludden
Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.


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Inbound Marketing Speaker, I was telling a friend the other day that I people have started to invite me to give talks about inbound marketing and that I am looking forward to this. The other thing I found myself saying was that I would like more inbound marketing speaking opportunities. That reminded me about the advice I give to a lot of people, blog about what you want. That simple? Yes.
I am a big fan of blogging about what you are looking for and writing to connect with the audience you are seeking to communicate with. That is inbound marketing. Blogs like this one rank well in search engines, by blogging about that you are looking for you enable others to find you when they are searching for whatever it is they need, in this case a "Inbound Marketing Speaker".
Where I am next speaking?
Q. Do you speak only in the USA or worldwide?
A. Actually I am in the UK much of the time: the USA speeches just happen to be two examples.
Q. Do you charge money to speak?
A. Depends – Will it be fun for me? Will I be helping people?
Q. We are a small networking group – will you come to talk to us?
Q. We are looking for an Inbound Marketing Speaker, how do we make contact?
It's great to see more qualified inbound marketing speakers out there.
I'll be speaking at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas as well. Would love to meet-up.
Nice to meet you and thanks for dropping by, look forward to meeting you at Affiliate Summit in Vegas .


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Hakon Stene
Normally I wouldn't be telling you now about an album that's several weeks away from its release date, but in the case of Hakon Stene's Lush Laments for Lazy Mammal I can't wait that long. Since I first put an advance copy on the CD player, it's been a struggle to listen to anything else. No space — workroom, car, outdoors — seems complete at the moment without its shimmering textures.
Stene is a Norwegian percussionist of considerable experience in all kinds of music. He was a founder of a group called asimisimasa, performing the work of modern classical composers such as Brian Ferneyhough and Alvin Lucier, and he's currently a research fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, developing new repertoire for multi-percussion. I went to see him at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last week, performing the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen's Black Box Music with the London Sinfonietta, and I'm sorry to say I didn't enjoy it at all. But the experience didn't change my feelings about his album.
Lush Laments for Lazy Mammal — to be released next month on the Oslo-based Hubro label, also the home of Huntsville, one of my favourite bands, and the interesting experimental guitarist Stein Urheim — consists of six compositions by the British composer Laurence Crane and one apiece by Gavin Bryars, Christian Wallumrod and Stene himself. They're played by Stene on regular and quarter-tone vibraphones, bowed marimba, electric guitar, acoustic guitar with e-bow, electric keyboards and piano, with appearances by Tanja Orning (cello), Hans Christian Kjos Sorensen (cembalom) and Heloisa Amaral and Wallumrod (pianos).
I suppose you'd call this minimalist music, in the sense that there isn't much going on here in terms of incident and gesture. What the pieces have in common, apart from the overall texture imposed by the keyboards and tuned percussion instruments, is a desire to isolate and exalt the process of modulation. This is a strongly tonal music from which virtually everything has been removed except the simple and repetitive chord changes, which are allowed to occur regularly but free from an explicit pulse, exposing the harmonic shift as the principal trigger mechanism for the emotions, as it is in so many kinds of music.
Here is Stene talking about his decision to play instruments other than the percussion for which he is known: "I am definitely not to be regarded as a guitarist any more (and absolutely not as a pianist!), but all my experience as a contemporary percussionist, where one must constantly adjust oneself to new playing situations and instruments, somehow makes it feasible. I don't approach these instruments, for example the piano, as an altar, but as a tool for playing these relatively simple pieces. This is the kind of attitude that percussionists often have: instruments are tools one uses in order to produce a particular sound."
It's hard to find a language in which to write about this music. In its meditative tone and the beauty of his textures, it reminds me strongly of my favourite pieces by Morton Feldman, "Rothko Chapel" and "For Samuel Beckett". It's also reminiscent of some of the Necks' work. And some of it (like Crane's "Blue Blue Blue" — here's a snatch of it) reminds me of what happens when the Beach Boys' more experimental records are stripped right down to the basic rhythm track. So it might be best just to leave you with a couple more examples. Here's Crane's "Prelude for HS", the first track from the album, with Stene on vibraphone, Orning on cello and Wallumrod on piano. And here's Stene's gorgeously ecstatic version of Crane's "Riis", on which he plays everything. You'll get the idea pretty quickly. To me, this is a wonderfully pure distillation of what music can do.
* The photograph of Stene is from his website: http://www.hakonstene.net.
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Dear Richard
Many thanks for your very interesting post on Hakon's new CD. Just to mention that 'Prelude for HS' – for which you provide a link – is not actually written by Christian but is in fact by me!
Laurence Crane
Thanks, Laurence. Sorry about the misattribution. I was writing about it from an advance copy, without full credits, and made a bad deduction. Now corrected. It's an exceptional record.
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Game warden at work
Published: Mar. 7, 2020 at 9:53 PM CST
Considering North Dakota's changing seasons, landscapes and diversity of outdoor pursuits, a game warden's life on the Northern Plains is certainly one full of variety.
"It's a fun job. You get to meet a lot of great people. You get to come out here and see a lot of different scenery. You get to work in the Badlands, you get to work on the lake. I mean, what other job can you have where you get to be in the badlands one day and out on the boat the next," said Johnston.
On this day, game warden Johnston is checking folks who are fishing and spearing on lakes in central North Dakota.
"They're just normal people you're just there to have a conversation and you obviously check licenses, make sure to see if they have any fish if they do count them, verify that they're not going over their limit or anything like that," said Johnston.
And when game warden Johnston walks up to a fish house, he never knows what to expect, yet most of the time it's a positive experience.
"Usually most times when you check people within the first five seconds, you kind of have an idea of how they are, how they answer the door, if they're shuffling around hiding things or if they're just sitting in there just relaxed and, hey, how's it going? You know, they're just very much typical North Dakota nice," said Johnston.
North Dakota has a rich hunting and fishing heritage and that makes Johnston's job more rewarding.
"They have the same passions and interests as you do. And 99 percent of the time, there's nothing wrong and you just have a conversation. And you go on with your day and they go on enjoying what they're doing," said Johnston.
Game warden Johnston knows when he goes to work, regardless if he's checking hunters or anglers, he's safeguarding North Dakota's natural resources for future generations.
"Knowing that I'm doing everything that I can to help protect the resource so there's something for my kids and everyone else's families to enjoy," said Johnston.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will be testing game warden applicants in late May. For information contact Game Warden Supervisor Scott Winkelman at 701-328-6785 or visit the Game and Fish Department's website at gf.nd.gov


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Q: Any good iOS 5 books out yet? Are there any recommended books for developing iPad apps using iOS 5 specifically covering features like storyboards and segues with different examples.
Mainly working on the iPad 2 here but any good iOS 5 book would be welcome.
Many Thanks
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A: One book has been released recently:
iPhone iOS 5 Development Essentials

A: I found Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK by Mark, Nutting and LaMarche useful, and it now has an iOS 5 edition: Beginning iOS 5 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK (though I haven't read that version). (There's also a followup text, More iOS 5 Development: Further Explorations of the iOS SDK.)

A: Head First coming out in March.  Its an interesting way to learn from these books.

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Florida Woman Beaten With Mallet and Set on Fire By Appliance Delivery Man Dies
By Scott McDonald On 8/20/19 at 8:50 PM EDT
News Florida Best Buy Assault Arson
An elderly woman in South Florida welcomed two men into her Boca Raton home who were delivering a washer and dryer from Best Buy. After one of the men walked outside to call the office, he heard screams come from inside the home.
The man outside on his phone rushed into the home and saw the 75-year-old woman on the floor and covered in blood. The man who discovered the scene called 911 while the other man, 21-year-old Jorge Luis Dupre Lachazo, fled and drove away in the delivery truck.
Boca Raton police found a 75-year-old woman burned and badly beaten when they arrived. A responding officer pulled Lachazo over not far from the scene, according to a report by NBC 6 in Miami. Lachazo was "very sweaty and was shaking, as if he was nervous" as he was taken into custody. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, arson and aggravated battery to a person over the age of 65.
According to the police report, the woman's legs were badly burned, and it also noted that the surface of Lachazo's legs had what appeared to be ashes on them. Police said Lachazo admitted to beating the woman and dousing her with a chemical that caught fire.
"Lachazo made a physical motion with his hands indicating that he doused [the victim] and room with the chemical agent," police said. "He then made a motion with his hands that the chemical spontaneously combusted. He denied knowing the ignition source that was used to start the fire."
Police found a blood-soaked mallet with a wooden handle on top of the washing machine, which also had blood all over it. A wine bottle was also found in the area.
The woman was taken to a hospital Monday and was being treated for her injuries before she succumbed to them on Tuesday.
"We offer our sincere condolences to her family and loved ones," a police statement read. "We will work with the State Attorney's Office and the Medical Examiner's Office as we continue to investigate."
Lights from police vehicles flash in the background on February 4, 2010. Photo by PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images
Police also stated in their report that Lachazo, who is being held without bond, admitted to using cocaine and marijuana earlier that day before the alleged attack.
Lachazo and the other driver were subcontracted by Best Buy for deliveries, according to the report.
In a prepared statement, Best Buy said its Boca Raton store was closed throughout Tuesday.
"Beyond working with law enforcement in any way we can, we have suspended our relationship with the small, local company that was subcontracted to deliver to the customer's home," Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said.
"In the hours after we initially learned what happened, we immediately revisited our delivery and installation programs and, in the coming days, will do two things: 1) ensure all our processes were followed and 2) work with our delivery partners to do anything more we can to help ensure that this type of tragedy will not happen again," Barry continued in his statement. "Additionally, we are hiring an independent security firm to review our existing screening, audit and safety programs and share with us their assessment on how we can improve."
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In light of the New Year, we want to take a look at what we can do to continue to grow and improve, and how to help our artisans do the same. We took notice in how popular Snapchat has become and wondered what we could do as a business to hop on the fastest growing social media platform. We're not going to lie, it was a little intimidating. We've seen snapchat used on a more personal level, posting stories for family and friends, but as a business how do you make that connection?
We are no Snapchat pros. However, as we begin our journey we thought we would share what we have learned so far in case you would like take the plunge as well.
First, make sure Snapchat is for you. According to Hootsuite, the largest Snapchat age demographic is 18-24 year olds, making up 37 percent of users. Followed by 25-34 year olds, with about 26 percent of Snapchatters, and about 12 percent of users are aged 35 to 54. Each company has a target demographic so look into whether or not yours is on Snapchat.
What makes Snapchat stand out between other social media platforms is that you can utilize individual snaps (photos/videos) to create an overall snapchat story, or in other words, a video narrative. Each snap only lasts 24 hours which creates a sense of urgency and exclusivity which is always good when trying to engage your audience. Instead of demonstrating product photography, you have the chance to be more immediate and personal.
1. Use it in real-time! This can include doing product launches, or snapping live events. Creating something new? Make it a story! Your first snap can be a mysterious "Stay Tuned" post or an incomplete snap teasing what is to come. Building excitement for your audience so that they keep coming back. Doing any live events/fairs, snap your day!
2. Deliver private content, exclusive for your snapchat audience. This creates a sort of VIP status. This can be a sneak peak, a look behind the scenes, and/or contest. You can even post on your other social media pages that you will be doing a first look via Snapchat, to encourage your fans to join Snapchat and follow you in order to achieve VIP status ;) (make sure to include your Snapchat username so they can find you!).
3. Offer a contest, perk, or promotion. Offer promo codes or discounts to the fans who watch your entire Snapchat story. Tease them to watch it until the end. This would especially be good for a product reveal, or perhaps promoting an event you will be at. Snap how you are preparing for the fair, or a new product that is coming. At the end of the story, maybe they get a discount code they can use at the fair or for that product?!
4. Feature your followers. Snapchat is more personal then other outlets so help engage your followers by enticing them. A great way to do this is to ask them to take a snap while utilizing your product! You could even create a contest utilizing this method. Post a photo with "______" and be entered to win "_________"
5. Demo your product. Use it as a guide for your followers, create a tutorial with your story. Have fun with it, since it is so personal, don't be afraid to be goofy.
6. Reward new followers with exclusive previews! "The next 25 new followers will get an exclusive peak at a new product or giveaway." Again post on your other social networks to entice them to join you on Snapchat.
Snapchat can be tricky and we are still figuring it out ourselves. So far, these are the things we found to be most relevant. We hope this helps, and if you do join Snapchat make sure to follow jackalopearts!


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How to mend the fences of a souring US-German relationship
By Desmond Lachman, opinion contributor - 05/30/17 02:00 PM EDT
The relationship between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Trump administration appears to be going from bad to worse. An important factor underlying this souring relationship is a fundamental difference of view between Germany and the United States as to how Germany should manage its economy.
Absent an early resolution of that difference, the prospects for continued economic cooperation between the two countries do not appear to be promising.
One indication of the souring in German-U.S. economic relations came at last week's G-7 Summit in Italy. At that meeting, President Trump labeled Germany's trade surplus as very bad and threatened that he might soon impose restrictions on German car exports to the United States.
Another indication came this weekend from Merkel. At a Bavarian beer-hall election rally, she warned that Europe could no longer rely on the United States as an ally and that Europe needed to take its fate into its own hands.
An important factor underlying the mounting tensions between the two countries is Germany's ballooning external imbalance. According to International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates, Germany is currently running the world's largest external current account surplus. At $300 billion in 2016, that surplus was around 8.5 percent of its GDP. As Trump does not tire of reminding us, Germany also runs a very large trade surplus with the United States.
The main charge of the Trump administration is that Germany maintains too cheap a currency that allows it to enjoy an unfair competitive advantage in the global economy. Germany does so by being part of a currency arrangement — the euro — with a group of Southern European countries like Italy, Portugal and Spain, which have significantly weaker economies than does Germany.
Those countries drag down the euro's value and, in so doing, give Germany an unfair competitive advantage in world markets. The Trump administration makes the valid argument that if Germany had its own currency, it would almost certainly be much stronger than the euro.
For its part, the German government maintains that Germany's strong external position is a reflection of the very sound way in which it runs its economy and that it would be unfair to punish the country for sound economic management. It also argues that Germany certainly does not manipulate its currency since it does not have its own currency to manipulate.
Rather, all exchange rate decisions regarding the euro are made by the European Central Bank. The German government is also insistent in its view that leaving the euro is not an option for Germany since doing so would almost certainly leave financial and economic chaos to Europe in its wake.
A possible way for the U.S. and German governments to bridge their differences would be for them to recognize that the fundamental reason for a country's trade imbalance is not so much the level of its exchange rate, as it is the difference between its savings and investment levels.
If a country saves more than it invests, it will have an external trade surplus, since it will be spending less than it produces. Conversely, if it saves less than it invests, it will have a trade deficit, since it will be spending more than it is producing.
Were the U.S. and the German governments to recognize that savings-investment imbalances are the main driving force for corresponding external imbalances, they might be able to fashion a cooperative solution to Germany's large bilateral trade surplus with the United States. The German government could commit itself to the pursuit of a more expansionary budget policy than it is doing now with a view to reducing that country's level of public savings.
For its part, the U.S. government might commit itself to a much more responsible budget policy than it is presently contemplating with the express purpose of increasing the level of U.S. public savings.
Hopefully, the U.S. and German governments will soon agree upon a mutually acceptable way of reducing Germany's large trade surplus. The last thing that the world economy needs right now is a further drift toward more protectionism and a breakdown in U.S.-German cooperation.
Desmond Lachman is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly a deputy director in the International Monetary Fund's Policy Development and Review Department and the chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.
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Activists call for halt to U.S. horse racing
Rory Carroll
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Animal rights groups on Sunday called for an immediate halt to horse racing following the high-profile death of a gelding in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic at Southern California's Santa Anita Park.
FILE PHOTO: Nov 2, 2019; Arcadia, CA, USA; Abel Cedillo aboard Mongolian Groom (9) races in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic in the 36th Breeders Cup world championships at Santa Anita Park. Mongolian Groom was euthanized after the race. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports
Four-year-old Mongolian Groom injured his left hind leg going into the final turn of the nationally televised $6 million race, was taken away from the track in an ambulance and later euthanised.
Thirty-seven horses, including three in the last nine days, have died at the famed race track since late December, shining a spotlight on a sport that lacks national regulation pertaining to the misuse of drugs, a leading culprit in horse fatalities.
In April, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced an investigation into why at that time 23 horses had died at Santa Anita over a three month period.
The results of the investigation have yet to be released, leading to frustration on the part of activists, who protested outside her office demanding answers on Thursday.
The Breeders' Cup, the sports richest event with some $30 million up for grabs over its two days, changes venues every year and its board had considered moving it from Santa Anita in light of the fatalities.
But in June it voted to keep it at Santa Anita as planned after track owners the Stronach Group implemented new rules governing the use of race day medications and hired a record number of veterinarians to examine the horses prior to their starts.
"The decision to hold the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita before the results of investigations into the spate of recent deaths was ill advised," Kitty Block, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, said in a statement.
"We believe that a suspension of racing at this track is warranted until the investigations of those deaths, and now the death of Mongolian Groom, are completed and released."
Animal rights group PETA went further, calling for a halt to horse racing nationwide.
"If the racing industry and state officials truly want to save horses' lives, they will suspend trainers and veterinarians of horses who die pending full investigations, install safer synthetic surfaces and CT scan equipment at all tracks, and ban all drugs in the two weeks before a race," said PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo.
"All racing nationwide must be suspended until these measures are put in place," she added.
"Any reluctance to do so will lead to more deaths and the self-destruction of horse racing."
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A video of the race released by PETA shows jockey Abel Cedillo whipping Mongolian Groom as he came around the final turn on the fast dirt surface before stopping and raising his left hind leg off the ground.
"So even if he was in pain and wanted to slow down, he could not have done so," Guillermo said.
"Striking horses during racing must be banned now."
The California Horse Racing Board has proposed a measure that would greatly limit the use of the whip. The measure is currently open for public comment.
Backers of the Horse Racing Integrity Act, federal legislation that would curtail the use of drugs and establish national oversight, said they hoped Saturday's tragedy would prompt Congress to act.
"American horse racing is at its greatest crossroads in history, and the death of Mongolian Groom underscores the need for Congress to pass the Horseracing Integrity Act," said Marty Irby of Animal Wellness Action.
The Breeders' Cup and the Stronach Group support the bill but is opposed by Churchill Downs, home to the Kentucky Derby, a state represented by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
McConnell has yet to announce his position on it.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein had said the Breeders' Cup would be "critical test" for the future of horse racing in the state prior to the event.
On Saturday the Breeders' Cup said measures had been put in place to ensure its athletes were racing under the "safest and most transparent conditions possible."
"The death of Mongolian Groom is a loss to the entire horse racing community," the Breeders' Cup said in a statement.
"Our equine and human athletes' safety is the Breeders' Cup's top priority. We have worked closely with Santa Anita leading up to the World Championships to promote enhanced equine safety."
The race track concludes its autumn meet on Sunday.
Editing by Christian Radnedge


Obstacle Course Racing is much more than just a run. So whether you are a first time runner or a seasoned professional, OCR Scotland is here to help. Through this page we will be offering nutritional advice, training hints & tips, as well setting fitness challenges. All this information can be found in the links to the right.


I've been hanging out in North Texas for a couple of days now, getting repairs done. Ended up talking to a ranch hand who mentioned how some of his boss' goats were ending up dead every couple of weeks and all of them were missing their left hind leg. The ranch hand was convinced it's the work of a chupacabra, but I had my doubts. For obvious reasons. Anyways, I eventually went and spoke to the rancher, mostly out of boredom. He gave me permission to hang out on his ranch for a few days.


Two powerful guided meditation sessions!
3. That the three wise men were from India and who they were!
6. How the book of "Revelations" is a based directly on yogic teachings!
9. Why Christ's real work was hidden from the public!
10What the real "blood of Christ" is!
You will be taken into two beautiful meditations!
What will the discussion be on?
...their instinct tells them there is something to learn from every Divine incarnation's teachings e.g. Krishna, Mohammed, Christ, Buddha, Moses etc.
Is this wrong, or is THIS the way forward?
In my opinion you cannot stop migration or communication so you will not stop integration.
Is it possible that Christ and Yoga were united at a point in history?
My job will be to OPEN THE DOORS between two popular cultures – The Yoga world and the world of Christ. I do this because as a yoga teacher of 20 years I have developed equal reverence for Christ and Krishna (a proponent of yoga as well as a Hindu God). I have studied and learnt how the two cultures can be integrated.
will lead to peace on our Earth" = idealism.
World peace begins in YOUR heart right now.
Two things will make you integrate successfully with other cultures and religions - One is knowledge (and the subsequent wisdom), and the other is love.
My job in this workshop is to demonstrate the undeniable links between the religion that historically dominates the country we live in, and the practise of yoga which I and many others have taken on as our spiritual way of life to varying degrees.
The workshop will focus on the life of Jesus in India, his practise of yoga, and the relationship between the Bible and the Himalayan Scriptures (Vedas) in DEPTH.
Be part of a PEACEFUL FUTURE or be a piece of the past!
Lyric sheets, pads and pens all handed out!


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Daddy DJ är en fransk dancegrupp bestående av sångaren David Le Roy och Jean-Christophe Belval på keyboard, tidigare även DJ:en Charly Merkiled.

Gruppens debutsingel "Daddy DJ" från 2000 blev en stor hit i flera länder runtom Europa. Låten gick in på topp 10 i åtta länder och fick även viss uppmärksamhet för sin animerade musikvideo. Låten "Daddy DJ" samt uppföljarsingeln "The Girl in Red" gavs ut på albumet Let Your Body Talk den 25 oktober 2001. Gruppen låg sedan lågt fram till 2008, då det andra albumet, Rock Machine, gavs ut. Ett tredje album, /Folder, släpptes den 10 december 2012 på iTunes och Spotify. Flera singlar med bland annat remixer av låtar från albumet /Folder släpptes under 2013.

2014 släpptes singeln "Free Your Mind" på iTunes och Spotify.

Gruppen hade en maskot som syntes både på omslaget till skivorna och på affischerna istället för medlemmarna själva, som en personifiering av Daddy DJ. Musikvideon till "Daddy DJ" är en animerad film om en pojke vars pappa jobbar som DJ på ett diskotek, men så en kväll sätter pojken själv på en platta som han själv har gjort och får ett skivkontrakt.

Bakgrund
David Le Roy, född i Nya Kaledonien, upptäckte elektronisk musik tio år efter att ha studerat klassisk musik och jazz. Vid 21 års ålder flyttade han till Paris.

Jean-Christophe Belval, född i Calais, spelade från början piano men övergick vid 15 års ålder till synth och elektronisk musik. Efter en första vistelse i en inspelningsstudio började han producera och mixa artister som Blondie och Gigi D'Agostino. Därefter började han undervisa vid l'ISTS där han träffade Le Roy.

Diskografi

Studioalbum

Singlar

Referenser

Webbkällor
 "Biographie de Daddy DJ" (på franska). Over-Blog. Läst 1 april 2013.

Noter

Externa länkar

Franska elektroniska musikgrupper
Musikgrupper bildade 2000
Musik i Paris

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What can we say… we love what we do! We love our job. TDANG has a young and impassioned team that is always ready to assist our customers. Every member of our sales team has one simple goal: to help you find the best solution for outdoor furniture business. Our team of sales professional team understands your needs and will ensure your success to start your business with us.
Jens H. Mortensen- Owner, Our contact person for Europe.
Tan Hoang – Co-owner, Sales manager.


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A New Partnership , Two New Projects
A New Partnership : Two New Projects
Trillium Development in partnership with Al-Dar Development has launched two of its new projects Avenue 781 and The Address, on June 21st 2016 in Eau De Vie Hall at Pheonicia Hotel in Beirut.
The two projects represent commercial centers made up of offices and commercial spaces satisfying the needs of all people with different business mentalities.
Avenue 781, located in Chiyah – Mar Mkhayel is special by its simple external architectural design. As it consists of 100 offices built on 20 story levels, with commercial spaces over viewing an external backyard with 2 restaurants and 4 showrooms.
However, The Address is built on 4600 square meters' land located in Jnah area. It is a center of 3 typical story levels, each level with 26 offices. The first two floors consist of showrooms overlooking an internal yard that could be invested as restaurants or cafes for both center visitors and employees.
During the launching ceremony, the CEO of Trillium Development, Mr.Mustapha Ahmad expressed the extent of his faith in the charm and beauty of the country Lebanon , stressing that : " we launch these projects to show the world that we do believe in our country , no matter what others think , we still believe in the great potentials of its people as it can result in incredible projects like those."
However, Mr.Musa Sharaf , the CEO of Al-Dar Development emphasized that " our company's projects in the capital Beirut were the result of our faith and hope in the capabilities of our country and nation Lebanon ."
Pointing out, that the delivery period for the two projects is going to be 3 years assuring that "delivery will be surely on time". As he stressed back to the respect and commitment of Al- Dar Development referring back to it as the permanent slogan of the company.
Through the final words of his speech, he thanked the Banking sector and specially Fransa Bank whom funded the two projects.
The ceremony included a third speech by Ali Kabalan, the General Manager of Al-Dar Development that presented the details of The Address project, showing the location as a strategic one for all businesses from clinics to law firms and others. The sizes of the offices at the center varies between 50 and 150 square meters, as it contains 18 showrooms of sizes between 67 and 220 square meters, in addition to parking spaces that fits for 327 cars.
Concerning the presentation of Avenue 781, it was explained by the Sales Manager of Al-Dar Development, Joanna Khatib, as she shed the light on the architectural specifications of the project, as it contains tenths of offices varying between 85 and 450 square meters and showrooms between 238 and 480 square meters. Referring that they specialized the first ground floor for restaurants investors.


Thank you for your interest in careers with Margaret River Busselton Tourism Association.
This type of role, in this amazing region does not come along every day – and the same can be said for the person we need to fill it. You'll be a rare individual with a significant blend of strengths and experience – and that's because the role is anything but typical or highly predictable.
In addition to being the person who ensures our members get ongoing and appropriate value from their Tourism Association membership, you'll also have a high priority focus on utilising and managing our comprehensive databases, office systems and a range of IT platforms.
So yes – you'll be someone who is fundamentally a relationship support and engagement officer but you'll also be fanatically organised, proactive and have natural comfort and competence with modern digital platforms. See – we told you that our ideal person would be a rare find!


Cycle your furnace on and off a few times (10 mins or so).
Lift off the register cover and gently vacuum down inside your duct. While you have your vacuum out you might want to check your return air vent. They can get really dirty. Use your brush attachment to clean them. Also remove any objects that might obstruct the air flow from your vents.
If you have a Gas Furnace or a Heat Pump set your thermostat to go down no more than 4*F at night and when you are away from home. If you have a Ductless unit we have a saying "Set it and forget it".
These tips will assure that you will be using the most energy efficient ways of operation and also help keep your utility bills manageable while putting the least amount of wear and tear on your equipment. If you think you're unequipped to perform these tasks, you can rely on us to help.
Remember, your comfort is our business. You can find out more about heat pumps here.


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Les Marins de Kronstadt (titre original , , en ) est un film soviétique réalisé par Efim Dzigan en 1936 sur un scénario original du dramaturge Vsevolod Vichnevski.

Synopsis
L'histoire se focalise sur les événements d' où une troupe de marins partisans de la Révolution livre un combat contre les Blancs dirigés par Nikolaï Ioudenitch, non sur mer mais sur terre. Le commissaire Martynov, dépêché pour organiser la défense de Petrograd recrute quelques marins du port de Kronstadt à l'attachement soviétique éprouvé, pour aller à repousser les Blancs. Ces derniers, victorieux dans un premier temps, jettent les prisonniers du haut d'une falaise, une pierre attachée au cou. On a alors un long plan sur les vagues de la Baltique, comme pour nous signifier un retour des choses. Après quelques secondes, l'un des marins, qui avait gardé son couteau, ressort de l'eau et regagne la berge. Il rejoint Kronstadt et prend la tête de la flotte qui débarque là même où ses camarades furent précipités. Les marins montent en haut de la falaise. Les Blancs, en train de lutter contre l'infanterie, sont pris sous un double feu. Leur fuite les mène au bord de la falaise, d'où ils se jettent pour échapper aux Rouges, finalement victorieux.

Fiche technique
 Titre original : Мы из Кронштадта
 Titre français : Les Marins de Kronstadt
 Titre anglais : We Come from Kronstadt
 Réalisation : Efim Dzigan
 Assistants réalisateurs : Alexandre Volkoff, Grigori Berezko
 Scénario : Vsevolod Vichnevski
 Photographie : Naoum Naoumov-Straj, Y. Berliner
 Son : P. Pavlov
 Direction artistique : Vladimir Yegorov
 Décors : Vladimir Yegorov
 Musique : Nicolas Krioukov
 Directeur de production : I. Vaisfeld
 Production : Studios Mosfilm de Moscou
 Pays d'origine : URSS
 Langue : russe
 Format : noir et blanc, , mono
 Genre : drame historique
 Durée : 86 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
  en URSS
  aux États-Unis

Distribution
 Grigorij Bouchouev : le marin Artème Balachov
 Raïssa Yesipova : Mademoiselle
 E. Gounn : le marin Anton Karabach
 Mikhaïl Gourinenko : le mousse Micha
 Nicolas Ivakine : un soldat de l'Armée Rouge
 Oleg Jakov : le commandant du régiment de Petrograd : Yane Draudine
 Piotr Kirillov : le marin Valentin Bezprozvani
 Fiodor Seleznev : un soldat de l'Armée Blanche
 Piotr Sobolevski : un lieutenant
 Vassili Zaitchikov : le commissaire du corps expéditionnaire : Vassili Martinov

Note

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cinéma russe et soviétique.

Liens externes
 L'analyse de Nicolas Plagne.

Film soviétique sorti en 1936
Film dramatique soviétique
Film sur la guerre civile russe
Film soviétique en noir et blanc
Film de Mosfilm


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Q: Examples of Object-Oriented Projects Help Procedural Programmers Please help me identify some small to medium sized open source projects that embody object oriented design (preferably in C++ or Java).  I would like to use these projects to demonstrate how real world problems (as opposed to contrived text book examples) can be solved with an object oriented design.  I want to be able to present a plausible explanation of why certain things were chosen to be objects and how they all work together to solve a problem.

A: The Unreal Tournament Public Source Code (432 Headers) contains the declarations of the Unreal engine class library written in C++. I found it to be a rich example of a large object-oriented program. It taught me a lot about how to modularize and object-orient my code. It also demonstrates many tactics for getting a handle on a large code base.
Also, because all you can read are header files, you'll have a fun (and educational) time trying to figure out how the whole thing comes together. (I actually ended up writing my own x86 disassembler so I could cheat and read some of the definitions!)
On the same note, the Doom 3 SDK contains a large chunk of the Doom/Quake engine written in very readable C++.

A: Google Chromium (C++): windows, tabs, plugins etc. are all classes.

A: Just about any large project designed in Java is object-oriented, almost by definition.  You can take a look at Apache Hadoop as a large-scale, open-source, objected oriented project written in Java.  Another is Apache Ant.

A: Eclipse would be a good example on the Java side: the plugin architecture is all object oriented.

A: I asked the same thing to my OO mentor.  He pointed me to the JUnit sources, with the recommendation to see how it evolved version by version.  This would show you how Kent Beck writes Java code.
Another example on this vein would be the sources of Fit by Ward Cunningham.


Tis the season to be branding.
This time each year I normally talk about re-branding, and use a familiar icon of the time to illustrate how brand can influence perception and help your audience to identify with your business.
So lets look at how we might re-brand that icon of the Christmas season which seems to have been taken over by the corporate and commercial world that is modern Christmas, Santa Clause.
Lots of opportunity here to fiddle with looks, colours, and audience perception.
Enter, hard rocking, hard drinking, Santa!
What about looking from a different angle? Teenage and early twenties males, older men in mid-life crisis mode, aspiring females (this is a perverse angle, true). What would attract this audience?
Yes, it's fat and friendly Santa Clause!
Of course it's, Oprah Clause!
Which Santa would you choose to take the brand into the next century?
Clearly there are pitfalls in several options. But is staying put therefore the best option?
Branding, and even more so, re-branding, are critical business decisions which need to be carefully thought through, planned and implemented.
To stand still could well mean irrelevancy and ultimately, failure. But make sure the change is done well and make use of professionals to guide you through the potential pitfalls.
I think Santa is safe for the time being, although Oprah does seem quite friendly and, if I'm not mistaken, seems to be getting fatter too!


Are you into astrology? It's not as light as it might sound — after all, we all require few words of encouragement every now and again. If users are searching for daily readings, or simply want to know what your future might hold in relation to your sign, then the top horoscope namely Zodiac by Relationship Rules would certainly assist you in many aspects.
If you trust wholly in the celestial bodies above, or users just like to have for any serious issues with horoscopes, having the right app would actually save you from having to look up your horoscope on the internet.
This popular app of Zodiac is a one-stop shop for all things astrological. So having to navigate your way through this complicated and complex world could be such a struggle sometimes. It doesn't always have to be so difficult. Moreover there isn't necessarily a handbook on how we should be going about our lives; at least the universe gives us valuable clues and details surrounding our Zodiac signs. Also don't miss out on the messages from the cosmos by making sure that the Zodiac app is installed on your phone for on-the-go usage.
Zodiac by Relationship Rules is one of the most familiar astrology apps where users could use effectively right on your iPhone. Astrology allows you to discover the meaning behind your sun, moon, and rising sign. You could also find out compatibilityby accurate compatibility meters based on astrological signs.
Finally though there's a whole realm of astrology-related mobile apps to explore. From popular ones that deliver straightforward daily horoscopes to ultra-informative apps that could turn beginner into an expert, this app of Zodiac by Relationship Rulessatisfies for every kind of astrological enthusiast.


Disc Golf, also called Frisbee Golf, is growing in popularity. It's a great excuse to be active, get outside, and have some competitive fun.
Here are five great places to disc golf on the western slope, with a variety of terrains and difficulty levels. All of these have concrete tee offs.
Watson Island Disc Golf Course. It's an 18 hole course that was established in 2013. The terrain is described as mostly flat and lightly wooded. This 58-par course is located behind the Botanical Gardens.
Little Salt Wash Park. This is a shorter, 9 hole course. It's tight, which makes it more technical and unforgiving to bad throws. The course is intertwined with willows, cottonwoods, and various other trees.
Matchett Park. This 18 hole course is hilly with cliffs and elevation, and thick brush. First tee off is just north of 28 3/4 and Patterson Rd. Not recommended to play this course if it's muddy.
Riverbend Park. This is a challenging 18 hole course in a more secluded location in Palisade. This beautiful course is surrounded by cottonwoods, but make sure to bring bug repellent because it is also located alongside the Colorado River.
Fruita Riverside Disc Golf Course. This course was built to host the Colorado State Championships in 2011. This is a more professional caliber 18 hole course, with water obstacles and multiple pin positions.
What other courses on the Western Slope should be added to this list?


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Ticket prices are specified next to each concert.
The asterisk* indicates discounted admission prices (lowest ticket categories) for people younger than 25, seniors 65+ and pensioners. Seniors 65 + and pensioners can claim 5% discount on all seat categories also at the CD Box Office.


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package mx.openpay.client.core.impl;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.UnsupportedCharsetException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;

import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.SneakyThrows;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient;
import mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceResponse;
import mx.openpay.client.exceptions.ServiceUnavailableException;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.StringUtils;
import org.apache.http.Consts;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.ParseException;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpDelete;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.HttpClientUtils;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.config.ConnectionConfig;
import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.HttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.ConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

/**
 * Uses Apache HttpClient to call the web service and retrieve the response information.
 * @author elopez
 * @see HttpServiceClient
 */
@Slf4j
public class DefaultHttpServiceClient implements HttpServiceClient {

    private static final String AGENT = "openpay-java/";

    private static final int DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 90000;

    private final CloseableHttpClient httpClient;

    private final String userAgent;

    private RequestConfig requestConfig;

    @Setter
    private String key;

    public DefaultHttpServiceClient(final boolean requirePoolManager) {
        this.httpClient = this.initHttpClient(requirePoolManager, DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
                DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
        String version = this.getClass().getPackage().getImplementationVersion();
        if (version == null) {
            version = "1.0.10-UNKNOWN";
        }
        this.userAgent = AGENT + version;
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#setConnectionTimeout(int)
     */
    @Override
    public void setConnectionTimeout(final int timeout) {
        this.requestConfig = RequestConfig.copy(this.requestConfig).setConnectTimeout(timeout).build();
    }

    @Override
    public void setSocketTimeout(final int timeout) {
        this.requestConfig = RequestConfig.copy(this.requestConfig).setSocketTimeout(timeout).build();
    }

    protected CloseableHttpClient initHttpClient(final boolean requirePoolManager, final int connectionTimeout,
            final int socketTimeout) {
        CloseableHttpClient httpClient;
        HttpClientConnectionManager manager;

        SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory;
        SSLContext tlsContext;
        try {
            try {
                tlsContext = new SSLContextBuilder().useProtocol("TLSv1.2").build();
            } catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
                log.warn("Could not force protocol TLSv1.2: {}", e.getMessage());
                tlsContext = new SSLContextBuilder().build();
            }
            sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(tlsContext);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

        if (requirePoolManager) {
            manager = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(
                    RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslSocketFactory).build());
        } else {
            manager = new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager(
                    RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslSocketFactory).build());
        }

        this.requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setConnectTimeout(connectionTimeout)
                .setSocketTimeout(socketTimeout).build();
        ConnectionConfig connnectionConfig = ConnectionConfig.custom().setCharset(Charset.forName("UTF-8")).build();
        httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create()
                .setConnectionManager(manager)
                .setDefaultConnectionConfig(connnectionConfig)
                .setDefaultRequestConfig(this.requestConfig)
                .build();
        return httpClient;
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#get(java.lang.String)
     */
    @Override
    public HttpServiceResponse get(final String url) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
        return this.executeOperation(request);
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#get(java.lang.String, java.util.Map)
     */
    @Override
    public HttpServiceResponse get(final String url, final Map<String, String> queryParams)
            throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        URI uri;
        if (queryParams == null) {
            uri = URI.create(url);
        } else {
            uri = this.createUriWithParams(url, queryParams);
        }
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
        return this.executeOperation(request);

    }

    protected URI createUriWithParams(final String url, final Map<String, String> queryParams)
            throws IllegalArgumentException {
        URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder(URI.create(url));
        for (Entry<String, String> entry : queryParams.entrySet()) {
            if (entry.getValue() != null) {
                builder.addParameter(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
            }
        }
        try {
            return builder.build();
        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#delete(java.lang.String)
     */
    @Override
    public HttpServiceResponse delete(final String url) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        HttpDelete request = new HttpDelete(URI.create(url));
        return this.executeOperation(request);
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#put(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
     */
    @Override
    public HttpServiceResponse put(final String url, final String json) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        HttpPut request = new HttpPut(URI.create(url));
        request.setEntity(new StringEntity(json, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON));
        return this.executeOperation(request);
    }

    /**
     * @see mx.openpay.client.core.HttpServiceClient#post(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
     */
    @Override
    public HttpServiceResponse post(final String url, final String json) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(URI.create(url));
        request.setEntity(new StringEntity(json, Consts.UTF_8.name()));
        return this.executeOperation(request);
    }

    protected HttpServiceResponse executeOperation(final HttpRequestBase request) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        this.addHeaders(request);
        this.addAuthentication(request);
        long init = System.currentTimeMillis();
        CloseableHttpResponse response = this.callService(request);
        HttpServiceResponse serviceResponse;
        try {
            serviceResponse = this.createResult(response);
        } finally {
            HttpClientUtils.closeQuietly(response);
        }
        log.trace("Request Time: {}", (System.currentTimeMillis() - init));
        return serviceResponse;
    }

    protected void addHeaders(final HttpRequestBase request) {
        request.addHeader(new BasicHeader("User-Agent", this.userAgent));
        request.addHeader(new BasicHeader("Accept", "application/json"));
        request.setHeader(new BasicHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"));
    }

    protected void addAuthentication(final HttpRequestBase request) {
        if (this.key != null) {
            String authEncoding = this.getBase64Auth();
            request.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + authEncoding);
        }
    }

    @SneakyThrows(UnsupportedEncodingException.class)
    protected String getBase64Auth() {
        // Impossible throw UnsuportedEncodingException
        byte[] auth = (this.key + ":").getBytes("UTF-8");
        return StringUtils.newStringUtf8(Base64.encodeBase64(auth, false));
    }

    protected CloseableHttpResponse callService(final HttpRequestBase request) throws ServiceUnavailableException {
        request.setConfig(this.requestConfig);
        CloseableHttpResponse response;
        try {
            response = this.httpClient.execute(request);
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            throw new ServiceUnavailableException(e);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new ServiceUnavailableException(e);
        }
        return response;
    }

    protected HttpServiceResponse createResult(final HttpResponse response) throws ParseException,
            UnsupportedCharsetException {
        HttpServiceResponse serviceResponse = new HttpServiceResponse();
        serviceResponse.setStatusCode(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
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Australia's nuclear waste policy shambles
In developing this plan, ANSTO had the option of choosing a different process.
They had the option of disposing of the wastes from O.P.A.L. to the USA, providing a cheaper alternative for ANSTO:
Australia's nuclear waste policy shambles https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australias-nuclear-waste-policy-shambles,15146B 2 June 2021 The Government is scrambling to figure out a solution to Australia's nuclear waste problem with a new bill before the Senate, writes Noel Wauchope.
TO BE FAIR, Australia is not alone in having a shambolic policy on nuclear wastes. Russia, China, India and even France and the UK are secretive about all aspects of the nuclear fuel chain. But the USA, the first and biggest of the nuclear countries, has openly described its struggles with this problem.
I've always thought that America summed up its nuclear waste policy best in its Nuclear Waste Confidence Rule — first promulgated in 1984 and upgraded several times since. This rule, charmingly optimistic, stated that a permanent nuclear waste disposal solution would be found (no details, they didn't know where, didn't know when). But therefore, the nuclear industry could confidently continue to make radioactive trash.
It's no surprise that Australia, too, is struggling with its relatively small amount of nuclear waste.
Indeed, as Griffith University Professor Ian Lowe has pointed out, Australia dodged a bullet in not having nuclear power:
"We were just lucky to avoid having nuclear power stations with mountains of accumulated waste, for which there is no effective permanent solution."
Still, Australia's one nuclear reactor, run by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) at Lucas Heights, Sydney, is now mired in problems about what to do with its nuclear waste.
The added problem is that by its licence for this storage facility, ANSTO was required to 'submit a plan, by no later than June 2020, for removal of the waste stored in the facility'. This has resulted in the Federal Government's rather frenzied efforts over recent years to draw up a plan for a "permanent" nuclear waste facility, culminating in its present bill before the Senate.
The National Radioactive Waste Management Amendment (Site Specification, Community Fund and Other Measures) Bill 2020 (NRWMA) specifies a farming property, Napandee, near Kimba, South Australia as the site for this still "interim" nuclear waste facility. The bill is cunningly devised so that when it's passed, there can be no judicial review of it, nor of the selected location.
Another impetus for this bill is consideration of the local community at Barden Ridge (formerly called Lucas Heights). When the original High Flux Australian Reactor (HIFAR) nuclear research reactor started operations in 1958, Lucas Heights was then a remote bushland site well outside the suburban area of Sydney. Nuclear development was meshed in secrecy and controlled by influential experts Philip Baxter and Ernest Titterton, without much understanding by the Parliament or the public. It was the time of British atomic weapons tests in Australia and heightened fears about the cold war. Little attention was paid to the subject of radioactive wastes.
As Sydney grew, Lucas Heights became more of a suburb and public awareness of the danger of ionising radiation grew. In 1992, local residents voted to rename the suburb of Lucas Heights and in 1996 it officially became Barden Ridge. It is widely accepted that this was done to increase the real estate value of the area, as it would no longer be instantly associated with the original reactor, the HIFAR nuclear reactor.
The local community supports the present Open Pool Australian Lightwater (O.P.A.L.) nuclear reactor but doesn't want its radioactive wastes. The Sutherland Shire Council in 2013 said that they liked having the nuclear reactor, but not the radioactive wastes. The presence of nuclear wastes is an issue. Local people and Council were relieved to learn of the Federal Government's plan to set up a waste facility in another state.
Nevertheless, this nuclear waste bill is contentious. Over 1,700 kilometres away from Barden Ridge, a Kimba community ballot resulted in 452 voters, out of 824 eligible voters, supported hosting the waste facility — hardly an overwhelming endorsement. And the Barngarla Aboriginal Traditional Owners, who were excluded from this ballot, held their own ballot, unanimously opposing the plan.
Local farmers opposing the facility set up their own group to lobby the Government — "No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land in Kimba or SA". There is also significant opposition to the plan from the wider Australian community. Of the 105 submissions listed on the Parliamentary website, the majority were opposed to the NRWMA Bill. (A breakdown of the submissions is here.)
The situation with the NRWMA Bill, passed in the House of Representatives but now before the Senate, is tricky and complicated. To start with, the proposed facility is in no way a permanent disposal. It is an "interim" storage, with the reactor wastes to be in big canisters just as at the Lucas Heights facility. If the Senate votes against it, the Government's nuclear waste plan is in disarray. Resources Minister Keith Pitt has the power to formally designate the Napandee site, but then the Government might be faced with a legal challenge against this.
The background of the nuclear waste management is that ANSTO contracted with the French company Areva, to send the first (HIFAR) reactor's spent fuel rods to France for processing and to take back the processed wastes. Later, in 2017, a similar treaty ensured that the O.P.A.L. reactor's wastes would go to France until 31 December 2030, with Australia accepting the return of radioactive waste arising from that reprocessing, with final return by 31 December 2040. So, a final resting place will be needed for this material.
'These wastes were [to] be retained in the U.S. without any associated return of equivalent wastes to Australia and the financial cost involved was only for the one-way shipment to the U.S. — significantly less than the now additional cost in reprocessing and in required in-perpetuity management and final disposal of this first decade of O.P.A.L.'
By now, this option looks like ancient history. Too late now? Probably so.
Yet, in a puzzling development, we learn that approximately 2,000 tonnes of radioactive material are to be excavated from the Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill and shipped to Idaho, USA. The radioactive soil is to be sealed in bags, loaded into shipping containers and taken to a secure facility in the Eastern Sydney suburb of Matraville before shipping overseas in scheduled consignments. ANSTO will oversee the process over an18-month-long mission.
Permanent export of radioactive wastes from a Sydney suburb can happen. There is very little information made public on how this latest decision was reached.
In the meantime, while everyone seems focused on the pandemic, the Senate is in no hurry to vote on the NRWMA Bill. Perhaps that is a hot potato best left for after the Federal Election. Labor is opposed to the bill and the votes of the cross-benchers will be critical. One of them, Senator Rex Patrick, is unearthing details of the negotiations between the Kimba District Council and the Federal and South Australian Governments. The South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has ruled that this information should not be kept secret.
Minister Keith Pitt has redoubled efforts to ensure the support of the Kimba community for the waste dump, announcing an extra $2 million to bring a new Community Benefit Program round up to $6 million.
Both the previous Resources Minister, Matt Canavan, and ANSTO's previous CEO, Adi Paterson, were forceful and enthusiastic promoters of the nuclear industry and the Kimba waste facility plan. In these uncertain times of pandemic, it's not easy to tell if their replacements can push this project along with the same fervour.
Meanwhile, the Kimba town community, the Barngarla people, the farmers and quite a few others wait in limbo.
June 3, 2021 - Posted by	Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Federal nuclear waste dump


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Two Iranians Arrested For Espionage On Israeli And Jewish Facilities
September 20, 2018 Glynn Cosker
By William Tucker
Contributor, In Homeland Security
Just over one month ago, two Iranian-Americans were charged with espionage after they were discovered conducting surveillance on Israeli and Jewish facilities in the United States.
According to a criminal complaint, California residents Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani were "allegedly acting on behalf of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran by conducting covert surveillance of Israeli and Jewish facilities in the United States, and collecting identifying information about American citizens and U.S. nationals who are members of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)." MEK is an Iranian dissident group that has long sought regime change in Tehran.
Not the First Time Iranian Intelligence Has Conducted Surveillance in the US
This is not the first time that Iranian intelligence has conducted surveillance in the U.S. for the likely purpose of supporting terrorist-style attacks against Tehran's foes. Last month, the Washington Free Beacon ran an article that quoted U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) as claiming the arrests were "just the tip of the iceberg."
Iran and its proxy Lebanese Hezbollah have plotted to attack American and Jewish targets in the past, but they have also targeted Saudi interests. In addition, there have been operations by Iranian and Hezbollah agents to collect intelligence or purchase U.S. military assets that are typically prohibited from export to Iran.
For Iran and Hezbollah, these operations are quite familiar. From the 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) Jewish Center in Buenos Aires to the 2011 attempted assassination of the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Iran has not been shy about using terror tactics to further its national interests.
Attacking Dissidents Is Primary Focus of Iranian Intelligence
For the most part, however, Iranian intelligence has typically focused on protecting the revolutionary regime. As a result, the targeting of dissidents at home or abroad occupies the bulk of Tehran's attention.
In the early days of the revolution, the new Iranian regime sent its agents abroad to assassinate dissidents or expatriates who were considered an ideological threat. Many Iranians who were loyal to the Shah or who preferred democracy were gunned down worldwide over the course of 15 years. Iran ended this assassination spree in the mid-1990s, but there is evidence that the regime is once again targeting its foes abroad.
Iran under Pressure due to Failing Economy and Military's Over-extension in Syria and Iraq
The Iranian government is under immense pressure from its rapidly deteriorating economic situation and the over-extension of the military in Syria and Iraq. Considering this situation, the arrests of Iranian assets in the U.S. is ominous.
The U.S. has taken action against Iran by withdrawing from the nuclear deal and re-imposing sanctions, but these actions only serve to exacerbate an already bad political situation. Nevertheless, Tehran fully blames the U.S. for its problems and these recent arrests serve to demonstrate that Iran does have levers around the world that can exact revenge if necessary.
It is certainly a good sign that the U.S. has been able to disrupt these Iranian intelligence plots. But if Iran is as desperate as it appears to be, then we can expect more of the same types of operations in the future.
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I was reading this post over at Shutter Sisters about how hard it is for a photographer to turn the camera on herself. That struck me as odd because I don't usually have a big problem with it. I mean, I'm not in a ton of photos, I'm usually the documentarian. I tell everyone to go ride the four wheelers or pose with the tree or hold the dog and I'm OK. It's more important to me that the moment be preserved. I hoard the moments. Sometimes I wish other people were documenting me but again, it's the moment that's far more valuable in my system.
Then I thought about the photos I do take of myself. There are the ones I snap quickly here at work, the ones of my head surgery, the occasional party photo. I wondered why they didn't bother me the way this woman was bothered. It's not that I'm completely unselfconscious. I mean, if that were true I wouldn't be taking photos at all I'd be out riding the four wheelers and going on the auditions and singing the karaoke instead of greedily grabbing each moment to lock up tight inside my camera.
I think at least a part of it is that if I classify each photo as documenting the event then it doesn't matter what I look like. It's just recording for posterity. Here's the new ring I got, here's what I look like at this weight, here we are with Santa, here's what I look like with 20 stitches in my head. I, in essence, remove myself from the photos in order to make it OK that they're taken.
Dare to link to a photo of yourself? Something you don't normally use on the internet?
see i never thought of it as documentarian style. i guess since as a photographer i too am creating a memory when shooting others, forever preserving it via my image, so turning the camera around on me seems not for any real reason or moment. perhaps that is what makes it more difficult. your perspective of just documenting it does make it sound like that would ease some of the anxiety. thanks for your counter post. glad it made you think.
i love your photos. and I know, than when I need you to, I can grab you by the earlobe and force you to smile as my arm snakes out in front to push the button. I've got many a pic of us! and I love all of them!


A family's home is its safe place. That safety and comfort was almost taken from Amaranda and hundreds of other mobile park home residents in San Mateo County.
Amaranda, a single mother of two boys, worked cleaning houses to give her kids safe and stable housing and better opportunities. She used all of her savings to purchase a mobile home and signed a 25-year site lease, written in English legalese, with Bayshore Villa Mobile Home Park. Speaking to Amaranda in Spanish, her native language, the park manager had told her that the rent would only go up by 5% each year.
Initially, the park charged the appropriate amount but, after a few years, it began to raise the rent astronomically. Amaranda's space rent went up 79% in 5 years and became unaffordable. She could not afford to move her mobile home or move to an apartment in San Mateo and the surrounding counties. Moving far away would mean a different school for her youngest, interrupted medical care for her oldest, and losing her business clients. She would also lose the investment in her mobile home.
Amaranda was not alone. The park owner had been using incomprehensible leases and suddenly raising rents throughout the park. Amaranda and other Bayshore families decided to stand up to this injustice with the help of Western Center and our co-counsel, the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy. She filed a class action lawsuit, alleging that the park owner, one the nation's largest management companies, had violated state and local law, had breached its lease with residents, and had engaged in unfair business practices. A San Mateo Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction in Cruz v. Sierra Corporate Management, prohibiting the park owner from: increasing rents, evicting residents based on nonpayment of those contested amounts of rent, threatening unnamed plaintiffs with the risk of paying attorneys' fees for being class members, and from trying to offer residents new leases that purport to waive any rights under the lawsuit.


A growing number of uninvited guests are pushing their way onto your PCs. Here are the latest antidotes.
Like that unemployed brother-in-law who just wanted to crash on your couch for a few days, chances are, spyware has moved onto your business's PCs and won't go away. In fact, it's probably having adware and Trojans over for a few brewskies.
As with most uninvited guests, there doesn't seem to be a surefire way to get rid of spyware and its buddies permanently. Your anti-virus software will turn away its rowdier friends, and your firewall will keep spyware and its cousin, adware, from broadcasting your most personal details back to their puppet masters, which is no small thing. Trojans in spyware figured prominently in the $2.4 billion that Internet scammers stole from consumer bank accounts between spring 2003 and spring 2004, reports technology research and consulting firm Gartner.
But traditional security solutions can't prevent these intrusive programs from sneaking onto your PC in the first place through spam, supposedly legitimate Web sites, "free" host programs, and a limitless number of other ruses. Once comfortably ensconced, "intrudeware" can still rifle through your directories; hijack your browser; change your search engine; pop up ads; plant unwanted toolbars, cookies, favorites, DLLs and registry entries on your PC; and run enough junk in the background to trash your system resources.
Experts estimate intrudeware is already partying on 90 percent of all PCs, and Dell identifies it as its leading tech support problem. Large ISP Earthlink and spyware blocker Webroot Software teamed up to audit 1.5 million customer PCs; they uncovered an average of 28 spyware/adware exploits and three of the more dangerous Trojan vulnerabilities per machine. While it's been seeping into Internet-connected PCs for years, the leaks have turned into gushers now that thousands of Internet bots have been let loose to find vulnerable PCs to "blast into," says Roger Thompson, vice president of product development for spyware cleaner PestPatrol in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
And word's out that there's money to be made with pop-up ads and other contextual marketing schemes. While adware lawyers nuance the proposition that your teenager can give informed consent for the takeover of your system, adware companies mix serious financing with hacking techniques to produce new ways to mine your personal data and force-market you. These are commercial ventures with business plans, investment bankers and big-name ad clients, says Thompson. They may also have offshore addresses, front companies and third-party buffers so their ad clients can plead ignorance of their distribution methods.
Let this stuff build up, and it can open your computers to corruption or slow them to a crawl as it did to the PCs of several acquaintances of mine. When I sat down in front of one of these PCs, it took two minutes for a mouse click to produce action. After manually uninstalling the spyware clogging its memory and taskbar, it only ran as fast as an Intel 486.
A disabled Internet connection prevented me from downloading any spyware removal utilities. I've since run a dozen or more on a variety of infected PCs and found them remarkably easy to use, quick acting and technically innovative. But you'll need a combination, depending on the specific bugs attacking you.
The most popular adware antidote is Ad-Aware, while Spybot-Search & Destroy and Spy Sweeper stay memory resident to "inoculate" you against attack. You may find Spyware-Blaster more effective against ActiveX attacks, or that you need a single-purpose solution like CWShredder for certain browser hijackers (BHOs). When all else fails, scanners like HijackThis and StartupList (see "Find the Mole" for download sites) or Starter create snapshots of your system files to send to help blogs.
Fortunately, you can download and try most intrudeware antidotes before you buy, and many, like PestPatrol, have networkable versions. But bad code is mutating so quickly that an ultimate solution may never appear. That's not the fault of intrudeware killers. Holes in ActiveX, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine and other Windows components give most malware easy openings.
Don't hold your breath waiting for that to change. Ditto for the legal remedies that Congress, the FTC and state legislatures are formulating. They'll help a little, says Steve Thomas, founder and CEO of Boulder, Colorado-based Webroot, but history shows the government can't protect our PCs for us. We may as well resign ourselves to yet another security arms race, says Thomas, forcing us all to maintain firewall, anti-virus and now anti-spy scanners going forward.
Victim reports in online help chat rooms convince me we'll all need multiple intrudeware blockers constantly updated, frequent scans, and a more intimate knowl-edge of Windows system files.
These sites provide updates on new spyware threats, free antidotes and help.


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