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American Soldiers Persecuted by American Government
November 16th, 2010 7 comments
Veteran's Day was last week, but despite the holiday for government workers it is clear that the American government does not care for its soldiers. You would do well to remember that American soldiers put their lives on the line to fight to defend a country that treats them as criminals and slaves who are worthy of nothing but poverty and death. As a result, the leading cause of death for these soldiers is suicide.
In a video from 2009, CNN reported that the number of military suicides (354) outnumbered the number of soldiers killed in combat (335). This trend has continued in the years since 2009.
Military Suicides on Rise: More US Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2012
Why is that so many soldiers are killing themselves? Soldiers have to deal with the trauma of combat and resulting PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and depression. On top of that, then they are frequently denied contact with their children and are accused of being murderers and child abusers thanks to their time in the military. Then they are forced to pay ridiculous child support levels set by black-robed criminals in family law courts while their ex-spouses enjoy vacations and luxury goods as they eat MREs and camp in battlefields if fighting to defend the nation that enslaves them or are homeless except for bunking on a buddies' sofa if they are not.
Child Custody, Child Support, Children, Civil Rights, Courts, Crime, Divorce, Family, Federal Government, Government Abuse, Politics
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ACFC Seeking Ideas for Graphics and Slogans for Campaigns to Support Shared Parenting
September 10th, 2010 1 comment
We recently received notice that the American Coalition for Fathers and Children is working on putting together graphics and slogans for signs, banner, brochures, flyers, and other literature to support its goals of enacting shared parenting legislation and reform of child support and domestic violence laws across the United States. They are putting together working groups to create this content and have some people with professional backgrounds in graphic design already on board. They would like to get more skilled volunteers involved. They are also seeking ideas to develop into signs and other materials to help parental rights and family law reform groups get their messages out to the general public.
We've seen some of the signs and banners similar groups have created (California Coalition for Families and Children comes to mind) and would like to encourage them to share their work and ideas with ACFC. ACFC aims to build a library of such content and share it with like-minded groups and individuals.
Child Custody, Child Support, Children, Civil Rights, Domestic Violence, Family, Politics
Child Custody, child support, Children, Divorce, Domestic Violence, shared parenting, United States
Donald Bren's $3 to 9 Million in Child Support Enough, Says Jury
August 28th, 2010 No comments
California billionaire Donald Bren had two children with former girlfriend Jennifer McKay Gold. They had a 13 year long affair, but they never married and he had little involvement with the children. Gold claims that Bren promised he would be involved in the children's lives and that his failure to do so is a violation of agreements between them. Therefore Gold and the children, David Bren, age 18, and Christie Bren, age 22, decided to sue Donald Bren for $134 million in back child support.
Donald Bren is Rich
Bren is very secretive and media-shy about his life, income, and assets. Estimates are that his assets may be worth around $12 billion, largely derived from real estate development in Southern California. Forbes Magazines has placed him 16th on its list of the 400 richest Americans.
He and his attorney claim he paid about $10 million in child support, vacations, cars, and other payments and gifts to Gold and the children during their childhood. He felt obligated to ensure they would receive advanced education through graduate school if they wished, received luxury German cars when they started to drive, and live in an upper middle class standard of living well beyond that of most of the US population. Clearly these children were not in need of more money.
Is Gold a Golddigger?
Gold disagrees on the amounts. She and the children also claim that he owes far more because he didn't stay involved in their lives.
Child Custody, Child Support, Children, Civil Rights, Courts, Divorce, Family, Government Abuse, Legal, Marriage
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Escaping Sociopathic Abuse Almost Impossible When Children Are Involved
August 20th, 2010 14 comments
In my previous article Extreme BPD / NPD Behaviors Are Internally Triggered, I discussed the puzzling ways in which normal circumstances seem to trigger abusive behaviors from Borderlines, Narcissists, and other personality disordered abusers. My advice to those who can do so is to get away and stay away from these people as they are a serious danger to your own mental health, even your freedom and your life, if you continue to have anything to do with them.
Unfortunately, not everybody can easily extricate themselves from the abuse without severe consequences. This is particularly true for parents of children whose other parent is a Borderline or Narcissist. Staying in the children's lives means staying in the line of fire of the abuser. Leaving is likely to subject the children to even more abuse. Often the abuser has focused most of her or his rage against their former partner or spouse. But if that parent leaves, the rages, abuses, and emotional manipulations are not going to stop. They will probably be redirected at somebody else close to the abuser as loved-ones are the tops targets for these sick people. The children are a likely target for even more abuse than they have already received. This chronic abuse with no escape (as the healthy parent has disappeared) is likely to create severe psychological damage, even personality disorders, in these children as they have even less means to defend themselves against one of these sociopaths than an adult does.
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Corrupt Judge David Yaffe Jails Political Prisoner Richard Fine
January 9th, 2010 7 comments
Los Angeles Judge David Yaffe
Judicial failure to file financial disclosures can be an indicator of a serious problem. The judges involved may be attempting to hide payments they received that could bias them. This at the heart of the controversy over judicial corruption involving allegedly illegal payments by the County of Los Angeles, California, to judges in the county. In that case, judges are being paid money directly by the county as "bonuses" in a manner viewed as subverting their objectivity. Despite the payments of around $46,000 per year per judge, the judges in Los Angeles County have allegedly systematically failed to file financial disclosure form 700 required by state law. One of these judges, David Yaffe, has also jailed Richard Fine, a leading critic of corruption in California courts. He's been in jail for nearly a year, without any charges or trial, in apparent retaliation for his campaign to clean up the Los Angeles courts.
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Website: Friends of the Family
April 21st, 2009 1 comment
Bay City, Michigan is the home of website author Douglas Richardson. He's chosen to focus his website on the incompetence, negligence, corruption, and fraud endemic to the child support system in Bay County, Michigan, in the 18th Judicial Circuit Courts. This system forces child support payments by men who are not the fathers of the children and denies them rights of visitation to their biological children as well.
Friends of the Family — Children Need Both Parents
Richardson's website it particularly interesting in part because he posts a lot of scanned court and child support system documents to prove his points. From looking through the information he's posted, it appears he makes a good case that the system in Michigan has abused him and his family.
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Donald Bren's $3 to 9 Million in Child Support Enough, Says Jury


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Edo targets 55, 000 youths for agripreneurprogramme
The Edo state government says more than 55,000 youths are expected to benefit from its agripreneur programme, which will be fully implemented in 2018.
The Special Adviser to the Edo Governor on Budget, Joseph Eboigbe, said this in Benin, while speaking with journalists on Thursday.
He said that the agripreneur programme was part of the state government's strategies to boost micro-, small- and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) and sustain current youth-focused agricultural initiatives in the state.
"In 2017, the state government launched the pilot phase of the agripreneur scheme and by the first quarter of 2018, we will roll out the programme fully.
"The agripreneur programme will target more than 55,000 youths, who have indicated interest in agriculture through the Edo Jobs Scheme," he said.
"Each person will be allocated five-hectares of land to de-risk the process.
"We intend that, in one or two planting seasons, these youths would have developed the capacity to cultivate, manage the farms and harvest their produce.
"We anticipate major economic growth in the agriculture value chain; from production and cultivation to crop harvesting and processing stages," he added.
agripreneur Edo state government Joseph Eboigbe Special Adviser on Budget 2017-12-28

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Beans kootu is a very simple Tambrahm dish which can be done in just 15-20 minutes. It can be had as an accompaniment with rice or with chapati. I have make few alterations to the recipe, so it tastes slightly different from the regular South Indian kootu. Today we will learn how to make beans kootu following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.
Pressure cook dal with 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder for 3 whistles or until soft. Mash it well and keep it aside.
Pressure cook beans with a little salt, 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder and little water for 1 whistle. Once the pressure subsides, open the cooker and keep it aside. Alternatively, you can also steam beans or cook covered in a pan but make sure you do not overcook it.
Soak tamarind (take less than what you take for rasam) in a cup of boiling water for 20 minutes. Extract the juice and discard the pulp.
We have the cooked beans, cooked dal, tamarind extract and coconut paste ready (picture below). Now making this kootu is just a breeze.
Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add cumins seeds, red chillies, fenugreek seeds and curry leaves.
Once cumin seeds sizzles, add tamarind water, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, hing and salt needed.
Add the beans and cook until the raw flavor of the tamarind goes or around 5-6 minutes on medium heat.
Then add the cooked dal and the ground coconut paste. Mix well and boil on low heat for a few minutes.
Remove from heat. Beans kootu is ready to be served. It goes well both with rice and chapati.
can raw plantain be used for this kootu?
I have not experimented with raw plantain. You can experiment and give the feedback here.
Yes, avarakkai, karamani (long beans), cluster beans will all be good.
This is somewhat similar to the 'porichcha kuzhambu' my mother used to make for mixing with rice when we wish to avoid spicy dishes like sambaar or vathal kuzhambu. Anyway koottu is tasty and can be used as a side dish as this is nutritious too.
Thank you Padhu, for this excellent recipe. I tried it with white pumpkin and it was delicious. My husband asked me.never to make any OTHER type of kootu again !!!
You Are A Wikipedia of cooking Mam. Daily before cooking I used to check you blog. So everyday I new receipes. Thanks a tonne Ms.Padhu.
Thanks a tonne Ms.cookipedia . Excellent receipes, with ease.
Excellent why don't you Develop an app !!!!
Hi, should I use coriander leaves or seeds? Thank you for the recipe.
Coriander leaves. I will update it.
can i replace coconut with any other item to make this?


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I'm new to working with Omnia, but in a way it feels like coming home - only to the home I wish I'd had, not to the one I really knew.
Back when I was a postdoctoral researcher doing molecular simulations (~2005), a colleague would often, perhaps half-jokingly, say that 90% of our job was converting data from one file format into another. We would spend a huge amount of time poring over documentation trying to make sure we got format specifications just right in order to put together a one-off conversion script to get data into the right format to apply the tool we needed to take us on to the next step. And if we weren't manipulating file formats, we were poring over documentation to figure out how to migrate our simulation protocol from one simulation package into another to take advantage of the latest algorithm we wanted, which was only available in a simulation package we hadn't already been using. And even worse was if we wanted an analysis tool designed to cope with a third file format, requiring multiple file format conversions which could be nearly impossible to validate.
Unfortunately, I think a substantial portion of my time over the last 10 years has been devoted to solving those same problems again and again. The science, in some ways, has seemed to be the easy and fun part, while all of the file format and software usage issues provide perpetual tedious time-sinks.
With Omnia, I'm finally seeing the future arriving. With tools like ParmEd and MDTraj, we're now able to convert between a wide range of file formats, allowing easy access to more simulation packages, and more analysis options (which can now be implemented in a general, rather than package-specific, way). And if algorithms we need aren't available, OpenMM provides an easier and more flexible way to get up and running with them without having to switch to a totally different simulation package. And the community arising around Omnia means that it now makes more sense to justify writing sound, reusable code rather than one-off tools which solve our specific problem but will never be used again.
While my group's involvement with Omnia is still in its early days, it has already been useful in helping us automate setup of simulations of solutes in arbitrary solvent mixtures for ongoing studies in the lab, via our SolvationToolkit.  And we're devoting substantial effort towards Omnia-related development, and shifting applications work towards using many of the Omnia tools.
I'm so excited to finally be moving away from reinventing the wheel and towards devoting more of my time to the actual science that excites me.


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Q: How to display the soft keyboard only on the click event of edittext in android? My android Activity has an EditText. Whenever the screen loads the soft keyboard automatically pops up. This obscures the visibility of my screen. I want to display the soft keyboard only on the click event of that EditText.
How can I do this?

A: In my code I got something like this:
 InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(password.getWindowToken(), 0);
 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(username.getWindowToken(), 0);

where password and username are TextEdit views.
And to show:
imm.showSoftInputFromWindow(username.getWindowToken(), 0);

A: Try with this..
EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

To Close u can use
 InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(yourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

This is how to show and/or how to close it.
So when you start the activity, use first the close code.

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And, a person could also come to appreciate the challenging, yet rewarding experiences of being encouraged to start a business in 2007, being laid off and then "making a go" of it. Making a go of it in Sterling Liddell and I's case has meant going from a very part-time business to one that now employs eight dedicated members of our team – all in the space of just ten years. We have clients that have been with us from the start (Iowa Farm Bureau and Feed Energy Company) and ones we've just begun our partnership with. Whether a legacy client or newcomer, one thing they all have in common is they're great to work with. We sincerely appreciate our clients' loyalty and the trust they've placed in the DIS team.
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Chances are, your mortgage lender knows a lot more about your finances than your best friend, your mother and maybe even more than you knew before you tallied your debts and assets to fill out the mortgage application.
We keep money matters relatively secret, because it's a subject we deem personal. If we don't share this information with our closest friends, would we want it spread to hundreds of computer databases?
Consumer advocates think financial privacy should be a legal right. And since a federal law, known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, was enacted a couple of years ago, mortgage borrowers have an opportunity, albeit a limited one, to shield their financial information.
Anytime you apply for a loan, look for a "privacy notice" that asks whether you would like to "opt-out" of having the money details you've submitted on the application from being sent to other companies.
"This privacy notice will probably be on a separate piece of paper, not part of the application itself," says Tena Friery, research director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego.
After you obtain the loan, the company holding the mortgage also will send a brochure once a year, outlining your privacy rights and giving you the chance to opt out. Companies don't have to send these notices if you've already opted-out or if they don't share data with outside companies, says Friery.
Privacy advocates recommend opting out. Having your information float through marketing database "can be an annoyance, because you're hounded with marketing offers," says Friery.
Worse, "there was a case where a brokerage affiliate of a bank was targeting people who were elderly and owned certificates of deposit to invest in riskier investments instead," Friery says.
Although Gramm-Leach-Bliley provides some protections, privacy advocates don't think it's enough. For one thing, they think businesses should only be able to use data from people who've "opted-in."
Moreover, even when a customer asks to opt-out, a company can share his information with affiliates.
"Many large financial institutions have hundreds of affiliates, so your information can still go a lot of places," says Friery.
Efforts to protect privacy are relatively new, and consumer advocates are scrambling to refine laws as quickly as businesses adapt new data mining techniques.
Though Gramm-Leach-Bliley isn't aimed at thwarting identity theft, the increase in that crime has put the focus on privacy in general.
In May, a "safeguard rule" took effect requiring financial institutions to make sure that only appropriate employees have access to customer financial data, says Laura Berger, a staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.
Different laws govern different aspects of financial privacy.
"When people take out a mortgage and opt-out, but then they still get a lot of pre-approved credit card offers right after their mortgage application, they think that opting-out didn't have any effect," says Karen Alnes, vice president of privacy policies at Wells Fargo Corp., San Francisco. "But that's from the credit bureaus sharing information about them."
The Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibits credit bureaus from sharing information about a consumer's creditworthiness if the consumer opts-out.
Call 888-5-OPT-OUT [888-567-8688], says Chris Hoofnagle, deputy counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington D.C.
The amount of your mortgage as well as the lender who holds it is public record, kept by county offices.
Marketing firms often access this data, "something that I wish was illegal," says Hoofnagle. "Several times I have gotten letters with the name of my mortgage company on the outside, but then when I opened it, it was a pitch from a different company that was just trying to get me to open the envelope."
Wrie to Financing, Chicago Tribune, Real Estate section, 435 N. Michigan Ave., 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail realestate@tribune.com.


The Lessee is fully responsible for the rented bicycle. The Lessee is instructed in the proper handling of the bicycle at the start, with the bicycle only being handed over once all questions have been answered. At this point in time, the Lessee also confirms that s/he has received the bike in perfect condition. (For e-bikes, the Intuvia and handling of the e-bike are explained to the Lessee). It is not permitted to pass the bike on to third parties. By signing, you state that you consent to adjusting the saddle height, brakes and bicycle geometry in the correct manner, in line with your personal details.
The Lessee has presented an official identity card, passport or driving licence, and consents to leaving this document as collateral/deposit.
The rental equipment is not insured. The Lessee must ensure that the bicycle is stored in such a way as to prevent it being confused for another, damaged, or stolen. The bicycle must be kept in a locked room or in a locked vehicle overnight.
The rented bicycle is not insured. In the event of theft, breakage or damage caused by improper use, the Lessee shall be liable for its fair value or the repair costs. Cycling through streams and sea water is not permitted.
In the event of theft or accident, the Lessee must inform the competent security authorities within 24 hours, and notify the Lessor of this. NOTE: Personal liability insurance often includes a "custodial care clause". This excludes claims for liability arising from damage to third-party items that the insured party has rented, leased or borrowed.
The Lessee must immediately notify the Lessor of all defects and damage to the bicycle without delay. If no such notification is given, the Lessee shall be liable for all additional costs arising from the failure to give notification, in particular, costs due to personal injury and material damage suffered by third parties.
By signing the check-in ticket, the Lessee confirms that his/her personal information is correct, that he/she agrees to the General Rental Conditions, and that the rental equipment is in perfect condition.
If the rented bicycle is not brought back in a timely manner, without just cause for this, the Lessee must expect that a theft report will be filed against him/her.
We recommend wearing a helmet, which can be rented from us, while cycling.
Cover against cancellation costs can be taken out online when rental equipment is booked. This cover against cancellation costs can be purchased for a supplement of 5% of the Lessor's list price. Bookings with cover against cancellation costs can be cancelled up to two days prior to the collection date of the booked equipment. The booking cannot be cancelled if cover against cancellation costs has not been taken out.
By signing these General Rental Conditions, the Lessee expressly confirms that he/she has received and understood the above information, and gives his/her consent to the processing (including transfer) of his/her data by the Lessor within the framework of the above information and with regard to the purposes detailed herein.
The Contract shall become fully valid after it has been signed. The Contract is not transferable to other persons.
The place of jurisdiction is Garmisch-Partenkirchen.


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Is the born-again AN-124 ready for reconstruction?
It has been likened to raising the Titanic off the ocean bed. But the project to restart production of the modern-day Titan of the skies, in the shape of the AN-124-100 freighter, appears to be moving determinedly ahead.
As a precursor to that momentous step, Russia's Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Antonov Co. of the Ukraine have agreed to initiate a program to upgrade the first of Volga-Dnepr's fleet of AN-124-100s. Volga-Dnepr is the world's largest commercial operator of the heavy-lift transporter, with a fleet of 10 aircraft.
Under the terms of the agreement, the modernized AN-124-111VD will have an increased payload of 150 tonnes, compared to its previous 120-tonne payload. The primary change in the upgrade program will be achieved by re-equipping the AN-124 with new 3M-series D-18T engines. The environmental characteristics of the engines will be upgraded to meet international standards in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization's stated emission levels and noise requirements. Much of the aircraft's avionics and operating systems will be replaced with digital systems.
The engine lifetime of the upgraded version is to be extended to 50,000 hours. This is expected to be expanded to 60,000 hours, the equivalent of 12,000 flights, which, according to Volga-Dnepr officials, will give these reinvigorated aircraft a typical service life of up to 50 years.
Valery Gabriel, CEO of Volga-Dnepr, pointed out that the carrier has already undertaken extensive upgrade work of its AN-124-100 fleet in recent years. "This has included upgrading five aircraft in the fleet to 150-tonne-payload capability as well as installing new avionics and inertial systems," Gabriel said. "This has required an investment of up to $4 million for each aircraft."
He confirms that the agreement with Antonov will require Volga to commit $400 million to the further deep modernization of its entire AN-124-100 fleet, a program expected to take four years to complete. "It is planned that the upgrade of each aircraft will take six to eight months, with only one aircraft being taken out of service at a time," Gabriel said.
The investment by Volga-Dnepr will also help fund a major research and development program, which will be undertaken simultaneously. This, it is said, will act as the catalyst for ultimately relaunching serial production of a new-build AN-124-300 freighter. "The modernization of the AN-124-100 fleet and upgrade of the D-18T engine will provide the platform for production relaunch," Gabriel said. "We hope that will happen in 2016."
Volga-Dnepr Group's ebullient president, Alexey Isaikin, has already stated that he is ready to order up to 40 of the new-build AN-124-300s, based on the strategic requirements for oversize and heavy-cargo transportation. It is a market segment, according to company estimates, that is growing at a rate of 10 percent to 12 percent per year in cash terms. That means it will be valued at $3 billion by 2020 and $7 billion by 2030. Currently, Russian operators, with their monopoly of AN-124-100 lift, retain a 75-percent market share.
But what are the chances of the renovated AN-124-300 getting airborne?
"It is going to be a big task, requiring billions of dollars to get an aircraft production line like this going again," said one analyst. "Added to which, you need to ensure you have all your component suppliers in place." That level of investment, he added, could never be recovered by the relatively limited order potential of such a unique aircraft.
Typically, it has been revealed, restarting production may be hampered by the simple lack of tooling machines used to build the original aircraft. "The AN-124 has a unique wing design, manufactured from a single piece of aluminum, the tooling machine for which has been destroyed," one observer commented.
The only real hope for the comeback of the re-invented AN-124, commentators have said, would be if the Russian military saw a strategic need for such a transporter and were to place orders in significant numbers. After all, the aircraft was originally designed to serve in a frontline military role. "That is not the case today," said one analyst. "The current Russian military machine is designed to fight small local wars, without the need for an extensive strategic airlift requirement."
The only other alternative for the Russians, in seeking to offset new-build costs for the aircraft, would be to embrace a joint production program with a Western aircraft manufacturer. A project like this has been hinted at before, with talk of Boeing becoming involved in final assembly of the aircraft. But Russian build quality still has a ways to go to convince Western operators to grapple with such a beast as the AN-124, sources have said. Added to which, Boeing has its own potential heavy-lift contender with a possible commercial variant of the C-17, although its 80-tonne payload makes it a relative lightweight in the market.
Ultimately, questions are raised over the actual size and scale of the outsize market. "Realistically, around 75 percent of all project charters could be accommodated with an aircraft the size of a C-17, with only 25 percent requiring the capabilities of the AN-124," said one charter broker.
To add to Russian woes, it would also appear that the Western market now views the comeback of the airship as a genuine prospect for the handling and movement of outsize loads.
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In The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person (Jewish Encounters Series) (pp. 100-101). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, Rabbi Harold Kushner writes, "Job responds to Bildad in chapter 19 in an outburst that is more despairing than anything we have yet heard from him. This is no longer Job from the land of Uz crying out. This is Everyman who has had a pleasant life snatched from him and replaced with misery and loss."
Kushner is right, here Job bursts out with poetic words about how afflicted he is, that his sores smell and his own wife is repulsed by him.
He continues to blame God for striking him. He asks why his friends pursue him to afflict him like God (v. 22).
Rabbi Kushner points out something very weird in what Job saying: "He complains that God has afflicted him in every way possible, and then he reproaches his friends for siding with that cruel, unjust, powerful God rather than with their innocent, afflicted friend."
Then Job utters one of the most famous and challenging line in the Book of Job line: "I know my redeemer lives! I know that He will testify on the earth." Kushner says Job 19:25 can also mean, "Then I might find redemption in my lifetime, Vindicated while I am still here on earth."
Whether the Hebrew is translated in the more traditional way or the way Kushner translates, I thought what Kushner says about this idea of the redeemer, the go'el, is so important that I quote Kushner at length below about the go'el.
Predictably, the more traditionally inclined commentators are drawn to the former, more God-affirming interpretation, while those whose souls resonate more to Job's skepticism (like me, for one) prefer the "prove it to me" approach of the latter. Gordis, among the traditionalists, writes, "From the depths of despair, Job soars to the heights of faith … as Job appeals from God to God." Gordis sees a steady progression from chapter 9, when Job asks for an umpire to intercede between him and God and make God play by the rules, to chapter 16, where Job invokes God as an impartial witness to declare that there is no case to be made against him, to his seeing God here, in chapter 19, as his go'el, his Redeemer, who is so fundamentally committed to justice and fairness that in the end He will feel obliged to take Job's side to set things right.
Who or what is this Redeemer whom Job either believes in or longs to see? What is the role of a go'el in the Bible? A go'el is a fixer, a person who sees something that is wrong, something that is unfair, and feels obliged to do something about it. In today's world, a go'el can be someone who offers to pay off the mortgage for a neighbor or relative so that she won't lose her home, or someone who intervenes to stop a bully. In the biblical context, the concept of go'el as redeemer has three shades of meaning, all of them connected to the notion of taking an unacceptable situation and setting it right and none of them carrying the freight of the understanding of that term that would emerge in later Christianity, the notion of a Redeemer who saves sinful souls from the punishment of hellfire.
First, a go'el can be an avenger. In pre-monarchic Israel, at a time when there was no central judicial authority and every community had to impose justice in its own way, the custom prevailed, and is recognized in the Torah, that if someone murdered another person, a relative of the deceased was entitled, indeed obliged, to avenge the death by killing the murderer. He was known as the go'el ha-dam, the "blood avenger." It was considered a gross impropriety, an offense against God and against the dignity of the victim, to leave innocent blood unrequited (see Deut. 19:11–12). Biblical law further decreed that the killing stop there. The murderer's relatives had no right to avenge themselves on the go'el, whose act was considered morally and legally justified. It would be a significant step forward when later generations gave to the state that responsibility for putting murderers to death and took the element of personal vengeance out of it.
A second task of a go'el, unattested to in the Torah but alluded to in the prophetic and wisdom literature, was to ransom family members who had been taken captive in war or had sunk so badly into debt that they had to sell themselves as slaves (not Uncle Tom's Cabin–style slaves, where one human being owns another, but indentured servants for a fixed period of time to work off a debt). A family member who had the means could redeem his relative from servitude by paying his bills. Thus Jeremiah promises an exiled Judea, "He who scattered Israel will gather them.… The Lord will redeem [g'alo, from the same root as go'el] him from one too strong for him" (Jer. 31:10–11).
Kushner, Harold S.. The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person (Jewish Encounters Series) (pp. 102-103). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
How honest are you with others and in your prayers with what ails you, your afflictions?
LORD, will our lives be vindicated on the earth? Will justice only be done in the life to come? Why can't we see more justice done here in our times?


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Q: In java, can one create a fluent extensible class hierarchy with methods that can be invoked in any order? Can one create an extensible class hierarchy in java whose methods are fluent and can be invoked in any order?  (YES! see answer below), even for existing classes when you don't have access to the source, provided the methods are fluant!
I'm retrofitting an existing hierarchy and hope to use a factory or at least a generic constructor and (eventually) immutable builder patterns (JB P.14).  The methods that set fields  return void - it would be better for them to return a generic T instead - that way we will gain the ability to do method chaining (they all call super now).
Goals:
1.  Avoid having to create a static getFactory() method in every class.
2.  Simple method signatures.
3.  Create a factory method that is generic, yet will catch problems at compile time.
4.  Get compile time errors instead of run time errors when mistakes are made.
As requested, the non-generic code is very simple, but doesn't work.
public class A {
    private String a = null;
    protected A setA(String a){
        this.a = a;
        return this;//<== DESIRE THIS TO BE CHAINABLE
    }
    protected static A factory(){
       return new A();
    }
}

.
public class B extends A {
    private String b = null;
    protected Foo setB(String b){
        this.b = b;
        return this;//<== DESIRE THIS TO BE CHAINABLE
    }
    protected static B factory(){
        return new B();
    }
}

Now a caller could TRY to call B.factory().setA("a").setB("b")//won't compile
But that can't compile because setA() returns an A, not a B.  You COULD make it work by overriding the setA() in B, calling setB() and returning B instead of the A.  To avoid delegating for each of those methods is the point.  I simply want an extensible group of chainable class methods that can be invoked in any order. B.getFactory().B("b").A("a") works obviously.

A: The answer (to my surprise and satisfaction) is YES.  I answered this question myself:
You can do this with a little work if the method invocations return instances of the class in question (see chainable below).  I also found an even easier way do this if you can edit the top level source:
In the top level class (A):
protected final <T> T a(T type) {
    return type
}

Assuming C extends B and B extends A.
Invoking:
C c = new C();
//Any order is fine and you have compile time safety and IDE assistance.
c.setA("a").a(c).setB("b").a(c).setC("c");

Example 1 and 3 are ways to make a existing class hierarchy fluent and to allow methods to be called in any order so long as the existing classes are fluent (but you don't have access to or can't change the source).  WAY2 is an example where you do have access to the source, and want the calls to be as simple as possible.
Full SSCCE:
import static java.lang.System.out;

public class AATester {
    public static void main(String[] args){

        //Test 1:
        for(int x: new int[]{ 0, 1, 2 } ){
            A w = getA(x);
            //I agree this is a nasty way to do it... but you CAN do it.
            Chain.a(w.setA("a1")).a(w instanceof C ? ((C) w).setC("c1") : null );
            out.println(w);
        }

        //Test for WAY 2: Hope this wins Paul Bellora's approval
        //for conciseness, ease of use and syntactic sugar.
        C c = new C();
        //Invoke methods in any order with compile time type safety!
        c.setA("a2").a(c).setB("b2").a(c).set("C2");
        out.println(w);

        //Example 3, which is Example 1, but where the top level class IS known to be a "C"
        //but you don't have access to the source and can't add the "a" method to the
        //top level class.  The method invocations don't have to be as nasty as Example 1.
        c = new C();
        Chain.a(c.setA("a3")).a(c.setB("b3")).a(c.setC("c3"));//Not much larger than Example 2.
        out.println(w);
    }
    public static getA(int a){//A factory method.
        A retval;//I don't like multiple returns.
        switch(a){
            case 0:  retval = new A(); break;
            case 1:  retval = new B(); break;
            default: retval = new C(); break;
        }
        return retval;
    }
}

Test class A
public class A {
   private String a;
   protected String getA() { return a; }

   //WAY 2 - where you have access to the top level source class.
   protected final <T> T a(T type) { return type; }//This is awesome!

   protected A setA(String a) { this.a=a; return this; }//Fluent method
   @Override
   public String toString() {
      return "A[getA()=" + getA() + "]";
   }
}

Test class B
public class B extends A {
   private String b;
   protected String getB() { return b; }
   protected B setB(String b) { this.b=b; return this; }//Fluent method
   @Override
   public String toString() {
      return "B[getA()=" + getA() + ", getB()=" + getB() + "]\n  "
      + super.toString();
  }
}

Test Class C
public class C extends B {
   private String c;
   protected String getC() { return c; }
   protected C setC(String c) { this.c=c; return this; }//Fluent method
   @Override
   public String toString() {
      return "C [getA()=" + getA() + ", getB()=" + getB() + ", getC()="
             + getC() + "]\n  " + super.toString();
   }
}

The Chain class
/**
 * Allows chaining with any class, even one you didn't write and don't have
 * access to the source code for, so long as that class is fluent.
 * @author Gregory G. Bishop ggb667@gmail.com (C) 11/5/2013 all rights reserved.
 */
public final class Chain {
   public static <K> _<K> a(K value) {//Note that this is static
      return new _<K>(value);//So the IDE names aren't nasty
   }
}

Chain's helper class.
/**
 * An instance method cannot override the static method from Chain,
 * which is why this class exists (i.e. to suppress IDE warnings,
 * and provide fluent usage).
 *
 * @author Gregory G. Bishop ggb667@gmail.com (C) 11/5/2013 all rights reserved.
 */
final class _<T> {
   public T a;//So we may get a return value from the final link in the chain.
   protected _(T t) { this.a = t }//Required by Chain above
   public <K> _<K> a(K value) {
      return new _<K>(value);
   }
}

Output:
A [get(A)=a]
B [get(A)=a, getB()=null]
  A [getA()=a]
C [getA()=a, getB()=null, getC()=c)]
  B [get(A)=a, getB()=null]
  A [get(A)=a]

QED.  :)
I've not ever seen anyone do this; I think it could be a new and potentially valuable technique.
P.S. With regard to the "elvis like usage", it is 1 or 2 lines vs 8 or more.

Book b = null;
Publisher p = null;
List books = null;
String id = "Elric of Melnibone";

books = Chain.a(b = findBook(id)).a(b != null ? p = b.getPublisher() : null)
                                 .a(p != null ? p.getPublishedBooks(): null).a;

out.println(books==null ? null : Arrays.toString(books.toArray()));

vs:

Book b = null;
Publisher p = null;
List books = null;
String id = "Elric of Melnibone";

b = findBook(id);
Array[] books = null;
if( b != null ) {
    p = b.getPublisher();
    if(p != null) {
        books = p.getPublishedBooks();
    }
}

out.println(books==null ? null : Arrays.toString(books.toArray()));

No NPE, and if the chain completes you get all the books published by the publisher of "Elric of Melnibone" (i.e. all the books "Ace" publishers has published), and if not you get a null.

A: I believe there is a way to do this with generics... Syntax is a little less clean than the desired...
Here is the client code...
    B<B> b = B.factoryB();
    b.setA("a").setB("b");

    A<A> ba = A.factoryA();

    ba.setA("a");

Top level (real) class
public  class A<S extends A> extends Chained<S> {
    private String a = null;

    protected A() {
        }

    public S setA(String a) {
        this.a = a;
        return me();
    }
    public static A<A> factoryA() {
        return new A<A>();
    }
}

Example Subclass
public  class B<S extends B> extends A<S> {
    private String b = null;

    B() {
    }

    public S setB(String b) {
        this.b = b;
        return me();
    }
    public static B<B> factoryB() {
        return new B<B>();

    }

}

Helper
public  abstract class Chained<S extends Chained> {
    // class should be extended like:
    // ... class A<S extends A> extends Chained<S>

    public Chained() {
    }

    public final S me() {
        return (S) this;
    }
}

It's far from perfect and can be made not to work (if you really wanted to)

A: If source code is accessible, by extending what Alan wrote, I would add supplementary classes to hide generics while allowing inheritance and very compact syntax. BaseA and BaseB do the hierarchy while A and B do hide the generics.
BaseA
 +- A
 +- BaseB
     +- B

public class BaseA<S extends BaseA<?>> {
    private String a = null;

    protected BaseA() {
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public S setA(String a) {
        this.a = a;
        return (S) this;
    }

}

public class A extends BaseA<A> {
    public static A factoryA() {
        return new A();
    }
}

public class BaseB<S extends BaseB<?>> extends BaseA<S> {
    private String b = null;

    protected BaseB() {
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public S setB(String b) {
        this.b = b;
        return (S) this;
    }

}

public class B extends BaseB<B> {
    public static B factoryB() {
        return new B();
    }
}

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        B.factoryB().setA("").setB("").setB("").setA("").setA("");
    }
}

A: A fluent interface is a different concern from the normal set of command-query methods that you already have. Separation of concerns makes it a good idea to separate them.
Since you have an existing hierarchy of code: Write a fluent facade that does the dirty work for you.
See also Martin Fowler: Domain-Specific Languages, 4.2: The need for a Parsing Layer.


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Jack Nicklaus Makes Incredibly Generous Donation To Miami Children's Hospital
By Brian Warner on February 4, 2015 in Articles › Celebrity News
As Tiger Woods struggles to repair his deeply tarnished personal and professional legacy, Jack Nicklaus has just taken a step closer to achieving mortal sainthood status.
Yesterday, Miami Children's Health System announced it had received a $60 million donation from Jack and his wife Barbara through their Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation.
A large percentage of the donation will be used to build a 212,000 square foot hospital extension. The extension will be dedicated exclusively to advanced pediatric care cases. The rest of the pledge will be used to fund improvements to the existing hospital's emergency center, brain institute, cancer research center and heart facilities.
In recognition of this incredibly generous donation, both the main hospital and its eight satellite outpatient centers will be officially renamed the Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
For those of you who don't follow golf that closely, Jack Nicklaus is generally considered the greatest golfer of all time. During his career, Jack won 18 major championships, more than anyone else in history. Tiger is #2 on the list of most major wins with 14, but he hasn't won a major since 2008. In fact, ever since the infidelity scandals broke, Tiger's playing has been nothing short of horrendous. Last week, Tiger had the worst round of his professional career. Last month, he finished dead last on a course that many players consider easy.
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In 20 years, most people will probably remember Tiger more for his personal controversies than his golf game. Tiger is only 39 years old, yet many golf analysts are already asking if it's time to call it quits. In contrast, Jack was 46 years old when he won his final major tournament. He is also a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and a recipient of the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award.
There is a museum to honor Jack's achievements, both on and off the golf course, at Ohio State University (his alma mater). Scotland has even put Jack on a commemorative five-pound note. He is the only non-royal living person in history to appear on a British banknote.
In May 2014, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution that awarded jack with a Congressional Gold Medal "in recognition of his service to the nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship…[His] magnetic personality and unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have endeared him to millions throughout the world."
Jack and Barbara founded the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation in 2004 with a mission of providing all children in their community with access to world-class health care, and to support innovative programs focused on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of childhood illnesses. Jack and Barbara released the following joint statement related to their most recent donation:
"The health and well-being of children have always been a primary focus for us. Miami Children's Hospital has been a wonderful partner. Our collaboration with Miami Children's Health System in serving children in Palm Beach County has led us to seek additional opportunities to make a difference. We are proud and incredibly humbled by the decision to place our family name on the hospital. To us, there is no higher calling than to help children in need of medical care, hope and healing."
So there you have it. Jack Nicklaus is a pretty amazing human being. Oh and Tiger, if you happen to read this, following Jack's example by helping the less fortunate with a portion of your $550 million net worth would definifely go a long way to rehabilitating your image and legacy. Just a thought…
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by Frank T. Denton and Byron G. Spencer
National populations increase when the inflows of births and immigrants exceed the outflows of deaths and emigrants, and they decrease when the reverse is true. Substantial changes in any one of those components can have profound effects over the longer term on both the size of a population and its age structure. In the case of Canada the large increase in the number of births associated with the post-World War II baby boom, and the subsequent decrease associated with the baby bust, stand out; so too does the level of immigration, which has been very high by international standards.
The total fertility rate, the number of births per woman over the childbearing years, declined steadily throughout the early decades of the 20th Century, reaching a low of about 2.5 in the late 1930s. It increased sharply in the late 1940s and climbed to nearly four births per woman by the end of the 1950s.
Total Fertility Rate and Births, Canada, 1921 to 2007
Source: Statistics Canada
The "baby boom", as it came to be called, lasted for about two decades but by the mid-1960s it was over and the "baby bust" started to set in. Fertility fell below the natural replacement rate of about 2.1 in the early 1970s and has remained well below that level ever since. It was as low as 1.5 early in this century and is now around 1.7.
At its highest (in 1959) the total fertility rate in Canada was 3.9 births per woman, somewhat above the peaks attained in the US and Australia during their baby booms, and far higher than in most countries of Western Europe. Furthermore, the decline from the peak was especially sharp in Canada; the 2008 rate of 1.6 was below that in the US (2.1), Australia (2.0), and much of Europe.
While there has been a great deal of year-to-year fluctuation in the level of immigration, the total number of immigrants has averaged close to 250 thousand per year for the last two decades and has added more than one-half per cent to the population in all but eleven of the 64 years shown in the figure below. By contrast, the rate of emigration has been relatively low and stable. In consequence the proportion of the population that is foreign-born is about 20 per cent today, one of the highest in the world. In what follows we review the growth of the population and the labour force since the middle of the last century and consider what the future might hold to the middle of this one.
Immigration to Canada, 1946 to 2009
Growth of the Population
The table shows the population at selected intervals from 1951 to 2051; the figures from 2011 are projected. The population today is 2.4 times larger than it was in 1951. Growth was especially rapid before 1966, when the baby boom came to an end. In fact, the population grew almost twice as fast in the 15 years ending in 1966 as it did in the next 15, and the trend has been towards generally slower growth since then.
The Population of Canada, Selected Years, 1951 to 2051
Notes: Net in-migration is calculated as the increase in the population less births minus deaths. The figures for "% Annual increase" relate to the intervals shown. Source: Statistics Canada and projections by the authors using MEDS; see F.T. Denton, C.H. Feaver, and B.G. Spencer, 2005, MEDS-D Users' Manual, QSEP Research Report No. 400, McMaster University.
Population and Its Rate of Growth, Canada, 1951 to 2051
Source: Statistics Canada and projections by the authors using MEDS; see F.T. Denton, C.H. Feaver, and
The growth in the population can be thought of in terms of its components: natural increase (births minus deaths) plus net in-migration (immigration minus emigration). The rapid growth in the 1950s and 1960s resulted mostly from natural increase; the large number of births associated with the baby boom exceeded by a wide margin the smaller number of deaths. In consequence the population was very young. While natural increase accounted for three-quarters of the total increase before 1966, net in-migration has become an increasingly important component of population growth since then.
The average age of the population has been rising steadily since the baby boom ended. Even the very high levels of immigration of recent decades have had only a small impact on the age structure; instead the dominant factor has been the aging of the baby boom generation.
In 1966, when the boomers were young, 42 per cent of the population was under 20 and the median age was 25; that proportion fell to only 23 per cent by 2011, by which date the median age had increased to 40. As the proportion of young people declined the proportion old increased, from 7.6 per cent in 1966 to 14 per cent in 2011, using 65 as the standard marker of "old". Since the decline in the proportion young more than offset the increase in the proportion old, there was growth of the group in the middle. That is reflected in the total dependency ratio, the ratio of the total population to the population 20 to 64 (the "providers"). The ratio peaked at about 2.0 when the baby boom was young and fell sharply as that generation passed the age of 20. It has continued to decrease since, thereby providing the demographic dividend that Canada and other countries experienced by having an unusually large proportion of the population of working age.
Looking to the future, all those born during the baby boom will have passed their 65th birthday by 2031, and by 2051 the few survivors of that generation will be in advanced old age. The projected figures are based on assumptions about the future rates of fertility, mortality, immigration, and emigration. Our assumptions are that the total fertility rate will remain at about 1.7 births per woman, that mortality rates will continue to fall as they have in recent decades (with the result that life expectancy at birth will increase by about 5.8 years for males and 5.2 for females), that immigration will remain at 250,000 per year and that 0.14 per cent of the population will emigrate each year. The result is continued growth in the population: a 27 per cent increase by 2051 compared with 2011. However, the growth occurs at progressively slower rates after 2011, and by the last decade it is only 0.3 per cent per year. Associated with slower growth is continuous aging of the population; by 2051 the median age increases to 46. Again using 65 as the standard age marker, the old will outnumber the young within 20 years, by which time they will account for almost a quarter of the total population.
The projected number of births remains quite stable after 2011, at about 400 thousand per year. The sheer magnitude of the baby boom in Canada is evidenced by the fact that even though the population projected for 2051 is more than twice as large as it was in 1966, the projected number of births is smaller. Net in-migration remains nearly constant. What does increase is the number of deaths: the rapid aging of the baby boom generation results in twice as many deaths in 2051 as in 2011, even though the population grows by only one-quarter and mortality rates continue to fall.
Since the overall population is growing more rapidly than the "provider" component there is a marked increase in the dependency ratio; from its record low level of 1.59 in 2011, it increases to 1.81 by 2031, and 1.87 by 2051. However, even with those increases the ratios remain lower than 1.98, the value reached in 1966 when the baby boomers were young.
Growth of the Labour Force
The labour force has grown much more rapidly than the population: it was 3.5 times larger in 2011 than in 1951, as compared to the 2.4-fold increase in the size of the population. That was not only because the population of working age grew relatively rapidly but also because labour force participation increased.
The Labour Force of Canada, Selected Years, 1951 to 2051
Note: The labour force figures are annual averages. Following the definition in the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, they exclude persons living on reserves and other Aboriginal settlements in the provinces, full-time members of the Canadian Armed Forces, persons living in the Territories and
The annual rate of growth of the labour force peaked in the 1970s, about two decades after the peak in population growth, as one would expect. By 1981 27 per cent of the labour force was under 25, but the proportion declined to 17 per cent 20 years later as the boom generation aged. The decline was accentuated by the increased enrolment in higher education and the associated later age of labour force entry.
Increases in the participation rates of women were an especially important source of labour force growth. There was a 4-fold gain in the rates for women 25 to 54 between 1951 and 2011, and a 3-fold increase for women 55-64. That far more than offset the reduction in male (and especially older male) participation rates that continued until the mid-1990s. In consequence, the proportion of women in the labour force doubled, from 23 per cent in 1951 to 47 per cent today.
The participation rates of women under 50 have largely stabilized in recent years. However, those of older women have continued to rise and, since the mid-1990s, the decline in participation rates of older men has been reversed. The increases in both the male and female rates for those in late middle age combined with the aging of the baby boom resulted in a 70 per cent gain in the proportion of the labour force 55 and older between 2001 and 2011.
An alternative measure of dependency is the ratio of total population to labour force, rather than to the 20-64 population. Both ratios were highest when the baby boom was young, and both are currently at all-time lows. The decline in the labour-force-based measure is greater because of the increase in participation rates.
The labour force projection assumes that recent trends in participation rates will end by 2021, after which all rates will remain constant. In consequence the labour force grows by only 12 per cent by 2051, or less than half as fast as the population. Thus the labour-force-based dependency ratio rises. It is projected to be about 10 per cent higher by 2031, when the boom generation is in the dependent group, than it was in 2011. Whether that increase is a matter for concern is hotly debated, but we observe that this measure of dependency, as well as the previous one, is projected to be much lower when the baby boomers are in old age than it was when they were in their youth.
Labour Force and Its Rate of Growth, Canada, 1951 to 2051
Source: Statistics Canada and projections by the authors using MEDS.
While the increase in the total dependency ratio, however measured, is relatively modest, the increase in the old dependency ratio (shown in table "The Labour Force of Canada, Selected Years, 1951-2051" as Pop65+/LF), is much larger and attracts more attention. In the mid-1960s, when the boomers were young, the population that was old was one-fifth as large as the labour force. It is now one-quarter as large, and is projected to be more than half as large within two decades, as the population continues to age. That naturally gives rise to questions about the sustainability of the publicly financed health care and retirement income systems that are now in place.
While population aging is inevitable, a reality that must be faced, the concern related to the anticipated impact on government budgets is often greatly exaggerated. Public expenditures on retirement pensions and on health care for those 65 and older currently account for about one-fifth of all government expenditure in Canada. Thus one-fifth of total expenditure is directed specifically to the one-seventh of the population that is older. If those expenditures varied only with the size of the older population and all other expenditures varied only with the size of the rest of the population, overall government expenditures would increase by 35 per cent between 2011 and 2051, or by only a little more than the 27 per cent increase in the population. Put in those terms, the growth in the tax burden associated with population aging seems manageable. We observe also that the growth would be smaller if participation rates were to increase over time, and retirement were to occur at somewhat older ages. Finally, we note that even a modest increase in productivity growth would fully offset any of the negative consequences that population aging would have on the average standard of living. (For a further discussion of these points, see Denton and Spencer, 2000.) With such considerations in mind, in what follows we focus on overall measures of dependency.
Age Structure and Dependency Relations
We have reported two measures of overall dependency, both based on the ratio of total population to the "provider" population, with providers, in turn, defined either by age (20 to 64) or by being in the labour force. Here we give further consideration to those two measures and provide five alternative projections to assess the likely future range of values. Each of the alternative projections is designed to assess the consequence of more rapid population growth.
The projections are as follows: A, the standard projection discussed above; B, high immigration (300 thousand per year by 2010, and remains at that level; in the standard projection it remains at 250 thousand); C, high fertility (the total fertility rate increases from 1.7 to the replacement rate of 2.1 by 2016, and remains at that level; in the standard projection it remains at 1.7); D, longer life expectancy (mortality rates at each age continue to fall such that life expectancy in 2051 is 1.7 years higher for males and 1.8 for females than in the standard projection); E, more rapid growth, combines B, C, and D. The same rates of labour force participation are assumed in all projections. Note that each of the alternatives is designed to have a relatively large impact on the size of the population, and hence the potential to affect the dependency measures. Our purpose is to assess how great the impacts would be.
The population-based measure peaked in 1966, just as the leading edge of the baby boom was approaching its 20th birthday. The labour-force-based measure peaked five years earlier because the participation rates of women were already increasing sharply by that time. Both ratios fell until 2006, the only exception being a very modest increase between 1991 and 1996. Both ratios continued to decrease until 2011, when they will be at an all-time low, the first one-fifth below its peak and the other one-third. Both ratios increased through the 1950s and into the 1960s.
Population-based Dependency Ratios, Canada, 1951 to 2051, Alternative Projections
Labour-Force-based Dependency Ratios, Canada, 1951 to 2051, Alternative Projections
All five projections show increases in both dependency measures. Most of the increase takes place by 2031, by which time all those born during the baby boom will have passed their 65th birthdays and, unless current practices change, the vast majority will have retired. With the standard projection the dependency ratio will then be ten or 14 per cent higher by 2031, depending on the measure used, but both will remain well below the levels of the baby boom period. Greater life expectancy (projection D) or even higher immigration (B) would have little impact on the ratios. A return to higher fertility would have a greater impact, but even then the ratios would remain below historical peak levels.
Concluding Remarks
Both the population and labour force will continue to grow. However, slower growth of the population and even slower growth of the labour force are in prospect for the foreseeable future, and both will become older, on average. Furthermore, all growth will depend on continued high levels of immigration; without that both the population and labour force would soon start to decline and both would age even more rapidly.
Although considerable aging of the population is in prospect, we foresee only relatively modest increases in overall dependency ratios. The ratios will become higher as the baby boomers move into old age but they will not reach the levels observed when the baby boom generation was young. While any increase in the population-toprovider ratio suggests a possible decline in the average standard of living, we have suggested that the pressures in that direction are manageable and, in any event, could be offset by increased labour force participation, later retirement, and modest gains in productivity.
Literature / Links
Denton, Frank T. / Spencer, Byron G. (2000): Population Aging and Its Economic Costs: A Survey of the Issues and Evidence. In: Canadian Journal on Aging, Vol. 19, Supplement 1. Kingston.
Denton, Frank T. / Spencer, Byron G. (2009): Population Aging, Older Workers, and Canada's Labour Force. In: Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 35, No. 4. Montréal, Québec.
United Nations Population Division [ed.] (2009): World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. http://data.worldbank.org.
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Europe's Demographic Future - Growing Regional Imbalances (2008)


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Gerald Claude Eugene Foster (30 November 1885 – 25 February 1966), best known as G. C. Foster, was a Jamaican sportsman who excelled at sprinting, cricket, and tennis, and later became a well-known athletics coach and cricket umpire.

Born in Spanish Town, Foster was educated in Kingston, and participated in organised sport from an early age. Aged 19, he set a national record for the 100-yard dash, becoming recognised as one of Jamaica's top sprinters. Foster unsuccessfully attempted to participate at the 1908 Summer Olympics, and subsequently defeated several competitors at post-games meetings. On return to Jamaica, he concentrated more on cricket, playing irregularly at first-class level until the mid-1920s. Foster would go on to become one of Jamaica's foremost athletics coaches, helping to train athletes for both the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games. He died in 1966, with Jamaica's principal sporting college, the G. C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, later being named after him.

Early life and athletics career
Born in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine Parish, Foster attended Wolmer's Boys' School in Kingston, where organised sport was an essential part of the school curriculum. He was very physically active from an early age, regularly hiking, cycling, and swimming across the Kingston Harbour. At the age of 14, Foster raced Kingston's leading sprinter, M. L. Ford, in the 100-yard dash, with a 10-yard handicap, and won by three yards. In 1904, at the age of 18, he was timed as having run the same race in 10 seconds, comparably favourably to the existing world record of 9.8 seconds. At Jamaica's first open track and field competition, held at the Kensington Cricket Club in 1906, Foster won both the 100-yard and 220-yard events, and went on to establish a Jamaican record in the 1908 championships. He later lowered his record time to 9.7 seconds, close to the then-world record of 9.6 seconds held by D. J. Kelly.

By the lead-up to the 1908 Summer Olympics, held in London, Foster was considered one of the top sprinters in the world, along with Reggie Walker, Robert Kerr, and James Rector. He booked passage to England on a banana boat, but on arrival was told that he could not compete in the games, as Jamaica was not affiliated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Jamaica Olympic Association was not created until 1936. Despite being unable to participate, Foster remained in England during the Olympics, having been persuaded to stay by British athletics coach Harry Andrews. There were ten athletics meetings held in Britain and Ireland after the Olympics, most of them featuring Olympic competitors. Foster would defeat several of these leading sprinters, including John Morton, A. J. Northridge, and Patrick Roche, the Irish national champion.

Cricket career and later life
On his return to Jamaica, Foster began to concentrate more on cricket, and made his first-class debut for the Jamaican representative side against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, during the team's 1908–09 tour of the West Indies. In the match, played at Melbourne Park in February 1909, he scored 21 runs in his only innings, with the Philadelphians winning the match by eight wickets after a first-innings century by debutant Reggie Conyers. Foster's next matches for the national side did not come until the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) toured during the 1910–11 season. He played three against the MCC in March and April 1911, usually batting in the lower order and bowling second or third change. Foster was one of Jamaica's better players, averaging 27.20 from six innings and taking five wickets at an average of 19.40. Due to Jamaica's distance from the other British colonies in the West Indies, its cricket team did not compete in the Inter-Colonial Tournament (featuring Barbados, British Guiana, and Trinidad), and consequently rarely played at first-class level throughout the rest of the 1910s and the early 1920s. Foster was often unavailable for these matches, and did not play again until the 1924–25 season, when Barbados toured for three matches.

With almost 14 years having elapsed since he last played at first-class level, Foster scored 61 runs in his first innings after his return, putting on 108 runs for the fifth wicket with Frank Martin (195). He was less successful in the other matches against Barbados, but was still selected for Jamaica the following season in two matches against the touring MCC, having celebrated his 40th birthday in November 1925. He scored 29 not out and took 3/79 in his last first-class match. In later years, Foster became a noted athletics coach, accompanying the Jamaican team to its first international tournament, the 1934 British Empire Games (held in Hamilton, Canada). He was also involved in the Jamaican team at the 1948 Summer Olympics, the country's first Olympic team. As well as coaching, he umpired cricket and served as a schoolteacher. Foster died in Kingston in February 1966. In January 1978, the Government of Cuba announced a grant would be made to the Jamaican government, to be used for the construction of three separate education institutions. One of these, the G. C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, was named in honour of Foster, officially opening in Spanish Town in 1980. In November 2012, a bust of Foster was unveiled at the college's campus.

External links
 Player profile from ESPNcricinfo
 Player profile from CricketArchive

References

G C Foster died 1 Oct 1966 Please see Gleaner newspaper 2 Oct 1966 page 11

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The Wright Brothers weren't the first humans to fly. That honor might go to men such as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier who flew the first manned free balloon flight in 1783. Neither were they the first to fly a "manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft". Clément Ader accomplished this over a decade before the events at Kitty Hawk, flying his steam-powered contraption 160 feet in 1890. Many even argue the Wright Brothers weren't even the first to fly a "manned, powered, heavier-than-air craft that could be sustained and controlled". Men like Augustus Moore Herring, John J. Montgomery, and very possibly Gustave Whitehead flew machines that may have technically qualified to meet this description all prior to Kitty Hawk. And this is not even to mention that Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first man to fly such a craft capable of "taking off under its own power", which he did three years after Kitty Hawk.
What the Wright Brothers did do was revolutionize the world of flight by designing the first true control system (three-axis control) that would result in the world's first aircraft capable of being controlled without requiring such primitive methods as the shifting of one's body weight. (In fact, their first U.S. patent, 821,393, did not claim invention of a flying machine, but rather, the invention of a system of aerodynamic control that manipulated a flying machine's surfaces.) The design invented by the Wright Brothers is used on essentially all aircraft today, and is what led to the first "practical airplane design" in the eyes of today's historians.
Here are some of the inventors who preceded the Wright Brothers, some of whom the Wright Brothers themselves studied and benefitted from along their path to being the first to truly "master the skies".
Englishman George Cayley is credited with the first major breakthrough in heavier-than-air flight. In 1799, George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern aeroplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control. Discovering and identifying the four aerodynamic forces of flight: weight, lift, drag, and thrust, he designed the first actual model of an aeroplane and diagramming of the elements of vertical flight. A young boy, whose name is not known, is reported to have been the first to fly one of his gliders.
Over 50 years he made improvements to the gliders, including modifying the shape of the wings so that the air would flow over the wings correctly, designing a tail to help with stability, and using a biplane design to add strength to the glider.
With the backing of the French War Office, Ader developed and constructed another bat-like designed aircraft, the Avion III. This one was larger, having a 15 m (48 ft) wingspan and propellers powered by a 30 hp steam engine. It also introduced a rudder to solve the issue of controllability. According to most sources, the first flight was a failure however as it crashed before ever leaving the ground due to a gust of wind. The French military also cancelled further funding.
This aircraft is notable for being the first aircraft incorporating flight controls and a shaped airfoil. On 28 August 1883, John J. Montgomery was reported to have flown his craft for a distance of 600 feet on its first flight. By moving the control level for the movable tail surface, he could control its flight to take advantage of wind conditions. The flight occurred at Otay Mesa near San Diego, California. This was the first reported instance of "controlled" flight of a "heavier than air" craft.
Over the next 10 years, John J. Montgomery (who had a Master of Science degree) continued to study the lift effects of various airfoil designs. In 1894, his design and experimental results were published in summary form in Octave Chanute's "Progress in Flying". The Wright Brothers read this book.
John J. Montgomery continued to focus on the stability and control of aircraft using empowered configurations. He was the first person to use the term "aero plane" and wrote a booklet with that title. He was granted the first "aero plane" patent in 1906.
Samuel P. Langley would add power to gliders by way of a steam-powered engine, allowing his (unmanned) model to fly for three quarters of a mile in 1891. A few years later, on November 28, 1896, his "Aerodrome No. 6" model flew 4,200 feet at about 30 mph. Though the aircraft was stable, there was no method of steering the craft. Still, the US War Department was impressed enough to contribute $50,000 toward the development of a person-carrying machine, along with $20,000 from the Smithsonian.
However, in 1914 the Aerodrome was modified and flown a few hundred feet by Glenn Curtiss, as part of his attempt to fight the Wright brothers' patent. Though the courts upheld the patent, the Smithsonian would go on to display the Aerodrome in its museum as "the first man-carrying aeroplane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight". This would remain the case until 1948 when the famous Wright Brother's "Flyer" would finally take its rightful place in the Smithsonian, and in history.
Working in conjunction with his brother Gustav, German engineer Otto Lilienthal made over 2,000 flights in gliders of his design starting in 1891. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights and to fly long distances. In 1891, Lilienthal's flights covered a distance of about 25 metres (82 ft) and by 1893, would achieve distances as long as 250 metres (820 ft).
Gustave Whitehead designed and built gliders, flying machines and engines between 1897 and 1915. There are articles and eye witness accounts supporting the claim that he successfully flew a manned, powered, controlled flight even prior to the Wright Brothers.
Whitehead's claim is supported by such respected sources as Jane's All The World's Aircraft, an annual aviation publication founded in 1909. And in the state of Connecticut, a law specifies that "Powered Flight Day" is established to honor the first powered flight by Gustave Whitehead, not the Wright Brothers.
Following his pioneering work in airships, Santos-Dumont constructed a heavier-than-air aircraft, the 14-bis. While mainstream aviation historians still credit the Wright Brothers with the creation of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine, organizations such as the Aéro Club de France and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), as well as the entire country of Brazil for the most part, recognize Santos-Dumont for this honor. The main reason for this is that the Wrights used a launching rail for their 1903 flights and a launch catapult for their 1904 and 1905 machines, while the aircraft of Santos-Dumont flown in 1906 had wheeled undercarriages and therefore was able to "take off under its own power".
Orville and Wilbur Wright, two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers, are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. Their fundamental breakthrough was their invention of three-axis control, which for the first time ever made fixed-wing powered flight truly possible.
To address the issue of control, the Wrights constructed their own wind tunnel with a measuring device capable of calculating lift and drag of the various model-size wing designs they created. This research led to their design of the first manned heavier than air flying machine that was mechanically controllable in all three axes: pitch (which they addressed via a forward elevator (canard), roll (which they accomplished through wing warping) and yaw (for which they used a steerable rudder). While some of the design elements themselves later became outmoded (such as wing warping and the canard), the innovation of combining these controls was a fundamental advance in flight control.
The achievements of the Wright Brothers would have an enormous impact on the future of aviation and the science of aeronautical engineering. And though Wilbur would sadly pass away in 1912, Orville Wright would continue to play an important role in the progress of aviation. This included the next phase of its development as man set out to conquer the world of global transportation and passenger air travel, as described in the featured article, The Birth of Commercial Aviation.
Orville helped oversee the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, which helped America recapture the technological lead in aviation during the 1920s, and was awarded the first Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1928. He was also offered the first official pilot's license issued by the U.S. Federal Government in 1927, though he deferred the honor to William P. MacCracken, Jr. Additionally, he was on the original board of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became the National Air and Space Administration (or NASA). Appointed in 1920, he served longer than any board member since.


In this paper, we propose an accurate numerical means built upon a spectral-Galerkin method in spatial discretization and an enriched multi-step spectral-collocation approach in temporal direction, for the transverse magnetic mode of Maxwell equations in Cole-Cole dispersive media in two-dimensional setting. Our starting point is to derive a new model involving only one unknown field from the original model with three unknown fields: electric, magnetic fields, and the induced electric polarization (described by a global temporal convolution of the electric field). This results in a second-order integral-differential equation with a weakly singular integral kernel expressed by the Mittag-Lefler (ML) function. The most interesting but challenging issue resides in how to efficiently deal with the singularity in time induced by the ML function which is an infinite series of singular power functions with different nature. With this in mind, we introduce a spectral-Galerkin method using Fourier-like basis functions for spatial discretization, leading to a sequence of decoupled temporal integral-differential equations (IDE) with the same weakly singular kernel involving the ML function as the original two-dimensional problem. With a careful study of the regularity of IDE, we incorporate several leading singular terms into the numerical scheme and approximate much regular part of the solution. Then, we solve the IDE by a multi-step well-conditioned collocation scheme together with mapping technique to increase the accuracy and enhance the resolution. We show that such an enriched collocation method is convergent and accurate.
The authors would like to thank both universities for hosting their mutual visits to complete this work.
The research of author Can Huang is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 11401500, 91630204, 11771363).
The research of author Li-Lian Wang is partially supported by Singapore MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant (RG 15/12) and Singapore MOE AcRF Tier 2 Grants (MOE2017-T2-2-014 and MOE2018-T2-1-059).


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Top 10 Boarding Schools in Nigeria
In this article I will be sharing with you top 10 boarding schools in Nigeria. If what you are looking for is how and where to secure your child's glorious future, give them the best form of education there need to excel in life. One of the best ways of inculcating independence in your child is to get them enrolled in the best schools where they will get healthy values for productive adult living.
Obviously, the boarding school settings enable your child to take up residence in a hostel facility, and learn to take care of themselves and it's really a great platform to socialize with other students. However, in terms of standards, there are different types and levels of boarding schools. Some of these boarding schools are really good while others are not so good owing to the administrative structure. So therefore, after a careful study and research I present to you top 10 boarding schools in Nigeria.
10. Chrisland College Lagos
Chrisland College is one of the best boarding schools located in Lagos. Also it is one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria specially designed for high borns. The school is filled and equipped with modern laboratories, air-conditioned classrooms, and lots more. Chrisland College has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
9. Atlantic Hall Lagos
Atlantic Hall is a private co-educational secondary school located in Epe, Lagos which holds about 600 students. The school was established in 1989 by the Educational Trust Council (ETC). It is one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria that is situated very close to the Atlantic Ocean in Epe, Lagos. Their facilities comprises of a medical center, well-equipped laboratories, sport facilities, things that are required for comfortable, versatile education and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria. The secondary school students are involved in many social activities including talent and dance shows, concerts and film making.
8. Hillcrest School Jos
Hillcrest School is a private, co-educational school situated in the city of Jos, Plateau State in the northern part of Nigeria which is sponsored by ten Christian mission bodies. The school is located at 13 Old, Bukuru Expressway, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The school was founded in 1942 and has a total number of 235 students. This school has an American pattern of education. It was founded in 1942 as a school for Christian missionary children. Hillcrest School has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
7. Loyola Jesuit College Abuja
Loyola Jesuit College is a classical secondary school for secondary school students. It was opened in 1996 and is one of the best boarding schools in Abuja. It is one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria. Loyola Jesuit College has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
6. Green Springs School Lagos
Green Springs School was established in 1985 in Anthony, Lagos State, Nigeria. It is obviously one of the prestigious boarding schools in Lagos, and one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria. Green Springs School has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
5. Whiteplains British School Lagos
Whiteplains British School is one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria and a school of British education style. Students who graduate from this school stand the chance of getting a university education abroad directly from this level considering its affiliation with those of British Universities. Whiteplains British School has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
4. Day Waterman College Abeokuta
Day Waterman College is a boarding school with an exciting and conducive learning environment for secondary school students. The school is situated in Abeokuta, the capital city of Ogun State in the south western part of Nigeria. The school has state of the art equipment and facilities that has been made available to create the best atmosphere for studying. Day Waterman College has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
3. Lekki British International School Lagos
Lekki British International School is one of the top private secondary boarding schools in Nigeria. It was established in 2000. The school has an all international standard of studying, with well-equipped laboratories, air-conditioned learning rooms, theatre room, and internet-connected computers for students. This is one of the best boarding schools in Lagos and one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria. Lekki British International School has outstanding teachers, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
2. British International School Lagos
British International School Lagos is an international school based in Oniru Private Estate in Victoria Island, Lagos in the south western part of Nigeria. The school was established in 2001 and provides a British curriculum today and has great boarding facility for students. The school was planned and built as a multinational English secondary school in 2000 and has grown to become one of the best boarding schools in Nigeria. The school has been equipped with music suites, multi-purpose halls, theatre, science suites, computer suites, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
1. Dowen College Lagos
Dowen College is a co-education college. The school is located in Lekki a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. The college takes both boarding and day pupils and admits them between the ages of 11–18 years. In 2015, the school organized a valedictory service where outstanding students in their academy performance were rewarded. Dowen College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for the children aged 11 to 18. Dowen offers a broad and balanced education within a friendly, caring and happy environment located in Lekki Phase 1, a quiet, serene and conducive environment in Lagos, Nigeria. The school has been equipped with music suites, multi-purpose halls, theatre, science suites, computer suites, sport facility, library, laboratory, beautiful structure and currently regarded as one of the top boarding schools in Nigeria.
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