This Family Edition acts as an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation essay for Shemini 5779 which you can read here.
In the 25th chapter of Exodus we read of the command to build the Sanctuary. Shemini represents the conclusion of that story with the celebration of the first services in the Tabernacle. But what would have been a joyous occasion turns into tragedy when two of Aaron's sons die because they brought a "strange fire" as a sacrifice to God. The parsha then continues with a description of the dietary laws (kashrut), specifically describing which animals, fish, and birds may be eaten.
It should have been a day of happiness and celebration. The Tabernacle, the Children of Israel's first house of worship, was finished. For seven days, Moses had performed the ceremony that declared the Tabernacle open for business. Now, the eighth day had finally arrived on the first of Nissan. The Priests, led by Aaron, were ready to begin their service.
The psychology behind these two conversations is fascinating. Moses tries to comfort his brother, who has lost two of his sons. He tells him that God has said, "Among those who are near to Me, I will show Myself holy." According to Rashi, this means, "Now I see that they [Nadav and Avihu] were greater than you and me." The holier the person, the more God demands of them.
It is as if Moses said to Aaron: "My brother, do not give up now. We have come so far. We have climbed so high. I know your heart is broken. We thought that our troubles were behind us, that after all we suffered in Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the battle against Amalek, and in the sin of the Golden Calf, we were finally safe and free. And now this has happened. But Aaron, don't give up, don't lose faith, don't despair. Your children died not because they were evil but because they were holy. Their act was wrong but their intentions were good. They just tried too hard." But despite Moses' words of consolation, "Aaron remained silent," because his pain was too great at that moment.
In the second conversation, Moses is concerned with something else – the community, whose sins should have been forgiven through the sin offering. It is as if he had said to Aaron: "My brother, I know you are in pain. But you are not just a private person. You are also the High Priest. The people need you to perform your duties, whatever you feel inside." But Aaron replies: "Would God have been pleased if I had eaten the sin offering today?" Perhaps Aaron is saying: "I know that in general, a High Priest is forbidden to mourn as if he were an ordinary person. That is the law, and I accept it. But had I acted today as if nothing had happened, as if my sons had not died, would this not seem to the people as if I were heartless, as if human life and death meant nothing, as if service of God meant denying my humanity?" This time, Moses is silent. Aaron is right, and Moses knows it.
Were the words of Moses to Aaron (regarding the death of his sons) inappropriate? If not, then was Aaron wrong to refuse to be consoled by them?
Is it fair to expect Aaron to ignore his pain and continue to perform his role as a spiritual leader for the people?
What is the message of the two conversations together, that we should continue despite the grief and pain and tragedy of life? Or that we must allow ourselves time to be human and to grieve?
The biggest miracle of all is the one that we, the survivors of the Holocaust, after all that we witnessed and lived through, still believe and have faith in the Almighty God, may His name be blessed. This, my friends, is the miracle of miracles, the greatest miracle ever to have taken place.
Why do you think the Klausenberger Rebbe chose a hospital to be his legacy?
Would you describe faith after the Holocaust as a miracle? Just for the survivors, or also for the generations that follow?
In the two exchanges between two brothers we saw in The Core Idea above, a momentous courage is born: the courage of an Aaron who has the strength to grieve and not accept any easy consolation, and the courage of a Moses who has the strength to keep going in spite of grief. It is almost as if we are present at the birth of an emotional configuration that will characterise the Jewish people in centuries to come. Jews are a people who have had more than their share of suffering. Like Aaron, they did not lose their humanity. They did not allow their sense of grief to be dulled, deadened, desensitised. But neither did they lose their capacity to continue, to carry on, to hope. Like Moses, they never lost faith in God. But like Aaron, they never allowed that faith to anaesthetise their feelings, their human vulnerability.
When all the explanations and consolations have been given, grief remains, refusing to be pacified. We would not be human were it otherwise. That, surely, is also the message of the book of Job. Job's comforters were pious in their intentions, but God preferred Job's grief to their justification of tragedy. Yet, like Moses, the Jewish people found the strength to continue, to reaffirm hope in the face of despair, life in the presence of death. A mere three years after coming eye to eye with the Angel of Death, the Jewish people, by establishing the State of Israel, made the single most powerful affirmation in two thousand years that Am Yisrael Chai, the Jewish People lives. Moses and Aaron were like the two hemispheres of the Jewish brain: human emotion on the one hand, faith in God, the covenant, and the future on the other. Without the second, we would have lost our hope. Without the first, we would have lost our humanity.
It is not easy to keep that balance, that tension. Yet it is essential. Faith does not render us invulnerable to tragedy but it gives us the strength to mourn and then, despite everything, to carry on.
If you were to ask what our response to the Holocaust should be, I would say this: Marry and have children, bring new Jewish life into the world, build schools, make communities, have faith in God who had faith in man and make sure that His voice is heard wherever evil threatens. Pursue justice, defend the defenceless, have the courage to be different and fight for the dignity of difference. Recognise the image of God in others and defeat hate with love. Twice a year, on Yom Hashoah and the Ninth of Av, sit and mourn for those who died and remember them in your prayers. But most of all, continue to live as Jews.
When I stand today in Jerusalem, or in a Jewish school, or see a Jewish couple under the wedding canopy, or see parents at the Shabbat table blessing their children, there are times when I am overcome with tears, not in sadness nor in joy, but in awe at this people who came face to face with the angel of death and refused to give it a final victory. The Jewish people lives, and still bears witness to the living God.
How does this quote sum-up the message contained in this week's Covenant & Conversation?
How has your life been a response to the Holocaust?
Were the words of Moses to Aaron (upon the death of his sons) inappropriate? If not, then was Aaron wrong to ignore them?
What are the two examples of courage found in the parsha? Which do you think shows more strength?
Where can the message of the bravery of Aaron and Moses be seen in recent Jewish history?
According to Rabbi Sacks, what can be found in "the two hemispheres of the human brain" and in whom are these embodied in the parsha?
Moses was right to try and console Aaron by explaining the context of the deaths of his sons – that they were holy, but they made a human error. Moses tried to give Aaron the strength to continue on, despite this tragedy and his grief. However, Aaron could not hear the words, because of his pain. Perhaps it was just a little too early for him to consider moving on and he needed at this moment to be in a place of pain.
Aaron is functioning on two levels – as a human being, who is grieving the loss of his sons, and as the spiritual priestly leader of the Jewish people. The people are relying on him, and Moses was reminding him of this responsibility. While it is not fair to disregard or dismiss his grief, and while Moses needed to allow him to mourn, Moses was correct to remind Aaron that he also had responsibilities to the people.
The message of the two conversations taken together is that we need to find a balance. Judaism always takes this approach to joy and grief. Sometimes, at the height of our happiness we still find room to grieve. Examples of this include saying yizkor on Yom Tov, breaking a glass to remember the destruction of the Temple under the chupah, and the transition from Yom Hazikaron to Yom Ha'atzmaut. In the Thinking More Deeply section Rabbi Sacks suggests this message was actualised in recent Jewish history as the generation that suffered the Holocaust went on to build the fledgling State of Israel. To ignore the suffering of Jewish history completely is to deny ourselves our very humanity. However, to become crippled by grief is inherently un-Jewish. We must move on with courage.
A hospital represents healing and life, the antithesis of the Holocaust. This particular hospital was founded on the principles of honouring the image of God in every human being no matter their religion or race. This was a profoundly fitting response to the Holocaust which was perpetrated by people who believed in a political philosophy based on the opposite ideals.
The Klausenberger Rebbe saw the worst of humanity in the Holocaust, enough to shake any person's belief in God. Many people who lived through the Holocaust lost their faith and no one is in a position to judge them for this. For the Rebbe, it goes against reason that anyone should maintain their faith in God after experiencing that. However, he and many thousands of other survivors did keep their faith, and he describes this as a miracle (an act that goes against rational reason). Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits in his book Faith After the Holocaust suggests that because of these survivors who managed to keep their faith intact, we the generations that follow cannot use the Holocaust as a reason to lose faith. However, this period of Jewish history is a difficult one to reflect on and understandably it does raise questions for many. Perhaps the miracle is the rebirth of the Jewish people in the years that followed the Holocaust, a testament to that generation's faith (see From the Thought of Rabbi Sacks).
For some things, true consolation will never come. But that does not mean there is no way to move on, and debilitating grief must be avoided. However, to not grieve at all, to ignore or dismiss tragedy, lacks humanity. This is an important lesson on an individual and national level. This quote shows how the Jewish people has found a place for its grief and pain (on specific days during the year) while showing tremendous courage and drive to rebirth.
To just live as a Jew is a victory against the forces of evil that were behind the Holocaust (and sadly can still be found in society today). To marry and have children, to live a proud Jewish life, based on the values of the Torah and of our ancestors, are all ways to respond to the Holocaust.
See The Core Idea answer 1.
See The Core Idea answer 2.
The courage of Aaron who has the strength to grieve and not accept an easy consolation, and the courage of Moses who has the strength to keep going in spite of grief. Sometimes facing grief, and not finding a way to explain it (for example "it is God's will") is as brave as moving past grief (the grief may never disappear – living with grief is what takes courage) and building a brighter future.
Post-Holocaust Jewish history demonstrates these two types of courage. "There were, and are, no words to silence the grief or end the tears" – there can be no explanation for the Holocaust. Yet, like Moses, the Jewish people found the strength to continue, to reaffirm hope in the face of despair, life in the presence of death. A mere three years after coming eye to eye with the Angel of Death, the Jewish people, by establishing the State of Israel, made the single most powerful affirmation in two thousand years that Am Yisrael Chai, the Jewish people lives.
Human emotion in one hemisphere, and faith in God, the covenant, and the future in the other. Without the second, we would have lost our hope. Without the first, we would have lost our humanity. Aaron represents the courage to embrace human emotion and what it means to be human, and Moses represents faith in God and the future, and the need to build and progress despite grief and pain.


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Ao Kuang is the Dragon King of the Eastern Seas. It is a real god from the chinese mithology and it was later designed by Hi-Rez Studios for its videogame Smite. In this costume we have used leather and natural fabrics, some of them were embroidered for the big skirt and back that the character wears. In addition diferent modeling, molding, casting and prosthetics techniques were used for craft the armor pieces, intrincate deatails and complete de make up.


The pressure on emerging market assets has escalated in the past month, with Argentina bearing the brunt of the investor fallout. Of course, South Africa did not completely escape unscathed, as best evidenced by the weaker rand and higher local currency bond yields.
Our internal Emerging Market Risk Monitor, which tracks the fundamental health of a basket of emerging market sovereigns, has highlighted Argentina's economic and financial market fragility relative to its emerging market peers for the past year, particularly pertaining to the country's endemic inflation rate and twin deficits. This research has guided our big short in dollar denominated Argentinian bonds over this period.
Worth noting for South African investors are the parallels in Argentina's and South Africa's external account vulnerability to dampening financial market risk appetite. With large external financing requirements, both nations remain exposed to the threat of tightening financial market liquidity as the hunt for yield trade fades. Those nations with high foreign currency debt exposure are particularly vulnerable – and herein lies an important distinction between the two nations.
South Africa's National Treasury liability management policy has been constructive in keeping a tight rein central government's foreign currency debt levels. Further to this, our well-developed local currency bond market has been able to accommodate government's funding requirements, resulting in South Africa's foreign currency denominated debt amounting to just 5% of GDP. In contrast, Argentina's foreign currency denominated debt ratio sits significantly higher at 22%* of GDP. Equally important is the gulf in monetary policy management – wherein South Africa ranks favourably relative to Argentina. While we highlight the threat posed to emerging markets broadly by tightening financial market conditions, these noteworthy difference will be telling for the eventual weathering of this storm.


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Q: Invalid range error in Jtable when i use TableRowSorter When I use TableRowSorter on my table I get an invalid range error, but when I delete jTableWells.setRowSorter(rowSorter), all it works successfully.
this.rowSorter = new TableRowSorter(jTableWells.getModel());
jTableWells.setRowSorter(rowSorter);

searchTextField.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener(){
    @Override
    public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
      String text = searchTextField.getText();
      if (text.trim().length() == 0) {
      rowSorter.setRowFilter(null);
      } else {
          rowSorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)" + text));
      }
   }
   @Override
   public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
      String text = searchTextField.getText();
      if (text.trim().length() == 0) {
         rowSorter.setRowFilter(null);
      } else {
         rowSorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)" + text));
      }
   }
});

When I try to update the table with displayTableWells() after adding a new row, I got the error of Invalid range:
private int addNewRecord() {
    try{
            ...
            st.executeUpdate(sql,Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
            rs = st.getGeneratedKeys();
            if ( rs.next() ) {
                ...
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Saved ");
            }
            displayTableWells();// for update the table
        }
    }
    ...
}

private void displayTableWells() {
    int i;
    int count;
    String a[];
    String header[] = {"col1","col2","col3"};
    count = header.length;
    DefaultTableModel tm = new DefaultTableModel();
    //First set the Table header
    for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        tm.addColumn(header[i]);
    }

    a = new String[count];
    try
    {
        st = conn.createStatement();
        rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT col1,col2,col3 from table ORDER
        BY createdon DESC");
         while (rs.next())
        {
            for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                a[i] = rs.getString(i+1);
            }
            tm.addRow(a); //Adding the row in table model
            jTableWells.setModel(tm);
        }
    }
    catch (SQLException se) {
     ...
    }
}

The error as bellow :

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
  java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid range
      at javax.swing.DefaultRowSorter.rowsInserted(DefaultRowSorter.java:864)
    at javax.swing.JTable.notifySorter(JTable.java:4270)    at
  javax.swing.JTable.sortedTableChanged(JTable.java:4118)   at
  javax.swing.JTable.tableChanged(JTable.java:4395)     at
  javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel.fireTableChanged(AbstractTableModel.java:296)
    at
  javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel.fireTableRowsInserted(AbstractTableModel.java:231)
    at
  javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel.insertRow(DefaultTableModel.java:376)
    at
  javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel.addRow(DefaultTableModel.java:350)
    at
  javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel.addRow(DefaultTableModel.java:361)
    at
  org.geotools.geophysicsdbmaven.NewWell.displayTableWells(NewWell.java:474)

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QuickTIme No, there's no QuickTime inside tappr.tv. But ever since I learned about this fantastic temporal framework, I've been fascinated with the idea of tools and communities for music visuals. tappr.tv is the culmination of my thoughts spanning almost 15 years.
Inspired by the filmstrip concepts of QT, a "dance" in tappr.tv ultimately boils down to a long list of events. "Inputs" normalize data from various hardware services, "recorders" capture and play back those event streams, and "outputs" render. All the parts are loosely coupled, making it easier to leverage into new feature directions.
UIKit I'm aiming the UI as be as invisible as possible. One thing Photoshop did right in their UX is try to disappear. The real genius of UIKit is all the input capabilities: touch, accelerometers, and audio are all enabled in v5, and more are already being built.
Cocos2D Particles-based wands are just the first feature when it comes to visuals. By leveraging OpenGL, tappr.tv is prepared to add more wand types, more depth, and interactive spatial experiences. I'm still on OpenGL and Cocos2D v1.x though, unsure if I can still render UIKit at the same time as the CCDirector in v2.
CoreData The structure of dances is rather complex, by design. Each dance is comprised of 1 or more tracks of normalized input data, which is recorded by a user using a wand. By separating all these elements out, I'm laying the foundation for a future release of tappr.tv that includes a variety of Remix features.
The granularity also enables sophisticated MVC architectures for various areas of the app. For instance, the Studio has a list of tracks on the left, and a "stage" view on the right, where the various tracks can be touch recorded and played back. Both views are actually using NSFetchedResultsControllers to dynamically detect changes. So, changing the input or mirror attributes on the left get saved and propagated to the view on the right, which actually handles the implementation of those two features. Creating a new track on the left similarly propagates to the right, where an appropriate CCLayer is instantiated and managed.
Parse.framework I've written several Heroku/RoR servers to work with iOS apps, and its laborious. Creating synchronization engines requires replicated schemas on both sides, and there are few general frameworks for creating truly asynchronous CoreData-Social model layers.
When I finally got to the social release of tappr.tv (v4, Nov 2011), I probably spent a month staring at the task at hand, while also wondering if the brand new Parse team had the chops to deliver a solid platform. I took a chance on them, and have been thrilled ever since. Stupid simple schema development, support for synchronous APIs (YEAH!), server-side logic, REST/JSON for websites, third-party social authentication… good good stuff.
I'm particularly thrilled with their support for APNS and their "channels" feature. In tappr.tv, each artist has a channel, and as tappr.tv scans your music, subscribes you to the top 100 artists in your music collection. Then when someone else publishes a dance to a song, a push notification is broadcast on that artist's channel. Similarly, each user in tappr.tv has her own push channel, so when others watch, rate, and share dances, tappr.tv sends a push notification back to that user.
NSOperations Because of the complexity of a dance structure, I needed to write rather complex synchronization logic, which was best accomplished using NSOperations as wrappers for long strings of synchronous calls to Parse. For instance, publishing a dance involves up to 3 network saves for song and artist info, up to 6 network saves per track, and 2 additional network saves for the dance record itself. I just can't imagine how complex this 11-step pseudo-transactional logic would be if I had to string together a set of asynchronous calls with delegate+selector or block-based callbacks.
AQGridView This class enabled so many of us to jump into iPad with experiences like Apple's updated apps demonstrated. Of course, now that Apple has released UICollectionView, AQ and I must bid adieu soon. Big kudos to Alan Quatermain for releasing this grid implementation.
AirPlay In tappr.tv, Spotify premium members can watch just about any dance in the Theater. tappr.tv uses song information in each published dance to find a matching song in Spotify, and choreographs the two. This, along with continuous playback and AirPlay support, brings a dance party to any room in the house.
Demetri Miller These two gents provided source online that enabled the tappr.tv audio input feature. In the Studio, I convert songs from iTunes into a local audio file, then set up an AU chain in order to play and detect at the same time.
MGSplitViewController I was drawn to this class because it would work inside a UINavigationViewController, thus enabling me to have different UXs in certain areas of the app. I am, however, interested in developing a column-view navigation view controller, where the columns can adjust as they move from primary to indexed layers.
ASIHTTP This class provided a solid S3 API. But, as you probably know, its been superseded by the likes of AFNetworking. I was so saddened to see the abuse the originator of this repository received. I hope AllSeeing-i lives long and prospers.
iVersion stupid simple implementation of release notices with notes. The +load class method does all the work, so you literally just add the code to your project and you're done.
JSONKit Man, this JSON lib screamed in its day. Like so many things though, Apple needed and did provide a native API, which will eventually take over.
Mugunth Some nice blocks-based categories for various Apple foundation and UI classes.
QuickDialog Used in the Settings area of the app.
ShareKit Kudos to all who contributed to this open source project, clearly a need and Apple seemed to agree with the overall approach to the API in iOS 6.
CMPopTipView This is used in all of the bubbles that present themselves during the first launch UX.
Airship This is what manages the store for Wand Packs. Unfortunately, I am considering an entirely different approach to the freemium store UX.
Trevor Harmon Thanks for sharing with us the best way to resize images.


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Sagay: 'Atiku Has No Records To Run With Except Empty Promises'
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Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Tuesday said there is no basis for comparison between President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar as far as the 2019 presidential election is concerned.
Buhari emerged as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend while Atiku also defeated 11 other aspirants to become the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Sagay, who is currently in the United States, said he didn't perceive Atiku as a threat to President Buhari because as a former Vice- President, Atiku has no records to run with except making promises, which he may not fulfil if elected president.
On the contrary, he said President Buhari's record of integrity, his management of the economy, tackling challenges of insecurity especially the Boko Haram menace and his social investment programme, which has uplifted many poor Nigerians will get him re-elected by appreciative Nigerians.
"No. I don't see Atiku as a threat to President Buhari. We are talking of records here. Buhari has a record-extending from 1984. He has integrity, not only that, he has sustained the fight against corruption. It is unprecedented.
"We also have the social investment programme, which monies recovered from corrupt people are being applied for the improvement of the lives of the most vulnerable members of the public. The economy is going up; oil subsidy fraud has been eliminated.
"The Boko Haram militants have been seriously decimated, I can go on and on. Talking of records, former Vice-President Atiku has nothing to run on except the words of his mouth. So, there is no basis for comparison between the two".
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import jetbrains.buildServer.issueTracker.*;
import jetbrains.buildServer.issueTracker.errors.RetrieveIssueException;
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.InvalidProperty;
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.PropertiesProcessor;
import jetbrains.buildServer.serverSide.impl.LogUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReadWriteLock;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/*
 * This class specifies class file version 49.0 but uses Java 6 signatures.  Assumed Java 6.
 */
public class AxosoftIssueProvider
extends AbstractIssueProvider {
    public static String accessToken;
    private static final Logger LOG;
    private static final ReadWriteLock LOCK;

    public AxosoftIssueProvider(@NotNull IssueProviderType type, @NotNull IssueFetcher fetcher) {
        super(type.getType(), fetcher);
    }

    @NotNull
    protected Pattern compilePattern(@NotNull Map<String, String> properties) {
        properties.put("pattern", "\\[\\s*(ot|axo)(d|f|t|i)\\s*:\\s*([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\\s*(wl\\s*:\\s*(([0-9]+(\\.[0-9]+)?)\\s*([a-zA-Z]+)|(0*\\.[0-9]+)\\s*([a-zA-Z]+)))?\\s*\\]");
        Pattern result = super.compilePattern(properties);
        if (this.myFetcher instanceof AxosoftIssueFetcher) {
            AxosoftIssueFetcher fetcher = (AxosoftIssueFetcher)this.myFetcher;
            fetcher.setPattern(result);
            fetcher.setApiToken(properties.get("apiToken"));
        }
        return result;
    }

    @NotNull
    protected String extractId(@NotNull String match) {
        Matcher matcher = this.myPattern.matcher(match);
        matcher.find();
        return matcher.group(2) + matcher.group(3);
    }

    /*
     * WARNING - Removed try catching itself - possible behaviour change.
     */
    @Nullable
    public IssueData findIssueById(@NotNull String id) {
        LOCK.readLock().lock();
        try {
            IssueData issueData = this.myFetcher.fetchIssue(this.myFetchHost, id, this.getAuthenticator());
            return issueData;
        }
        catch (RetrieveIssueException e) {
            LOG.info("Failed to fetch the some random useless texts: " + id + ", reason: " + e.getMessage() + ", " + "connection: " + LogUtil.describe((IssueProvider)this));
            LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), (Throwable)e);
            throw e;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.info("Failed to fetch the issue some random useless texts: " + id + ", reason: " + e.getMessage() + ", " + "connection: " + LogUtil.describe((IssueProvider)this));
            LOG.debug(e.getMessage(), (Throwable)e);
            IssueData issueData = null;
            return issueData;
        }
        finally {
            LOCK.readLock().unlock();
        }
    }

    /*
     * WARNING - Removed try catching itself - possible behaviour change.
     */
    @NotNull
    public Collection<IssueMention> getRelatedIssues(@NotNull String comment) {
        if (this.myPattern.equals(EMPTY_PATTERN)) {
            //LOG.warn("Invalid issue-tracker connection " + LogUtil.describe((IssueProvider)this) + " settings: " + "the pattern should not match empty string");
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        if (!this.quickCheck(comment)) {
            return Collections.emptyList();
        }
        LOCK.readLock().lock();
        try {
            Object foundGroup;
            Matcher matcher = this.myPattern.matcher(comment);
            ArrayList<String> processed = new ArrayList<String>(3);
            ArrayList<IssueMention> result = new ArrayList<IssueMention>(3);
            int lastMatched = 0;
            while (matcher.find(lastMatched)) {
                foundGroup = matcher.group();
                String id = this.extractId((String)foundGroup);
                id.substring(1);
                if (!processed.contains(id)) {
                    processed.add(id);
                    result.add(new IssueMention(id, this.myFetcher.getUrl(this.myHost, id)));
                }
                lastMatched = matcher.end();
            }
//            foundGroup = result;
            return result;
        }
        finally {
            LOCK.readLock().unlock();
        }
    }

    @NotNull
    public PropertiesProcessor getPropertiesProcessor() {
        return new PropertiesProcessor(){

            public Collection<InvalidProperty> process(Map<String, String> properties) {
                ArrayList<InvalidProperty> result = new ArrayList<InvalidProperty>();
                for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : properties.entrySet()) {
                    String key = entry.getKey();
                    if (key.equals("accessToken")) {
                        AxosoftIssueProvider.accessToken = entry.getValue();
                    }
                    String value = entry.getValue();
                    if (key.equals("host")) {
                        if (value.length() == 0) {
                            result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "Server URL must be specified"));
                            continue;
                        }
                        try {
                            new URL(value);
                        }
                        catch (MalformedURLException var8) {
                            result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "A correct URL must be specified"));
                        }
                    }
                    if (key.equals("accessToken") && value.length() == 0) {
                        result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "The Access Token must be specified"));
                    }
                    if (key.equals("name")) {
                        if (value.length() != 0) continue;
                        result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "The connection name must be specified"));
                        continue;
                    }
                    if (!key.equals("pattern")) continue;
                    if (value.length() == 0) {
                        result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "The pattern must be specified"));
                        continue;
                    }
                    if (!AxosoftIssueProvider.safeCompile((String)value).equals(EMPTY_PATTERN)) continue;
                    result.add(new InvalidProperty(key, "A correct reg.exp. pattern must be specified"));
                }
                return result;
            }
        };
    }

    static {
        LOG = Logger.getInstance((String)AbstractIssueProvider.class.getName());
        LOCK = new ReentrantReadWriteLock();
    }

}

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On that rare occasion when Tim Woodard has some free time, he likes to attend church, travel to great places to go fishing and hiking. He also enjoys following University of Tennessee and Notre Dame basketball and football. That is because being a good mediator means leading a good life and a good life means insisting on a relatively high quality of life. His career sprouted from humble roots in the gorgeous-but-poor Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee and he has never forgotten where he came from. He will never forget that and he will always be grateful for the values his upbringing taught him.
When in work or when he does anything else, Tim Woodard is always sure to include a large dollop of integrity, loyalty, and consistency with his practical work. This is because he feels that he can't ask anything of others that he is not prepared to do himself. Therefore, he insists that everything he does contains all those qualities because no good legal work can be done without them. He wants to be the best, after all, and those features are a requirement in all the best legal minds.


Bir is a quaint little village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, nestled in the Dhauladhar Range of the Himalayas. I had serendipitously landed at Bir and made it my home for 3 months. After quitting my job in Pune, all I had asked for was fresh air to breathe, fresh water to drink and fresh food to eat. After all, it's not just the job that I wanted to quit, I also wanted to leave the cities for a better life. God exists!
I had found my "Nirvana Moments" in the mountains. I was addicted to the Himalayas. I always found reasons to run away to the Himalayas, even if it was just to catch a glimpse of snow-clad mountains on a weekend. The next thing for me was to experience living in the mountains, live like a local and not like a visitor.
Bir holds a special place in my heart as it was my first move to living in the Himalayas. It was my first experience of living amongst the nature and close to humanity. I had a paradigm shift in my lifestyle after I moved to Bir. In this post, I would show you all the sides of Bir that I observed, learnt and enjoyed.
I didn't know what to expect when I first landed in Bir. "Beautiful" is the word I exclaimed when I had my first glimpse at my rented home. A brick-red walled house in the green fields stood against the dense forest slopes of the mountain leading to Billing on the top.
The house was basic, with no modern design. But it had a terrace that opened up to the clear blue sky and the snow-covered peaks of Dhauladhar mountains. I was jealous of my neighbours who lived in the traditional Himachali houses in my neighbourhood.
When I look up in the air from my terrace, I see colourful parachutes flying gracefully in the endless skies. I could spend hours observing them fly!
The traditional Himachali houses add a colourful tinge to the surrounding greens, which makes the land of Himachal vibrant.
The houses are made of local stones, mud and wood and roofed with slates. The new houses are roofed with red metal due limited availability of slates in the state.
My mornings that used to begin with a frustrating drive on the traffic-jammed roads to office were replaced with refreshing routines everyday.
I woke up to foggy mornings which made the place look prettier and cleaner, the perfect mornings to have my ginger lemon honey teas.
I started exploring the place on foot after I settled in. The silent roads gave me ample space to enjoy my solitude in the serenity of Bir.
The dry leaves made my way beautiful but tough for my hikes in the forested mountains. There were many trails in the mountains, going nowhere, but it gave me good options for my workout routines.
I fulfilled my long-pending wish of jogging in the mountains in fresh air. This is the time I interacted with lot of locals living in Bir. They all wanted to now where I was from, what I was doing in Bir, why was I running. Eventually the ladies in Bir had started sending their daughters with me to jog in the mountains.
I had relocated to Bir on 27 Mar 2016. Spring is the best thing that happened to me in Bir. The snow from the tops had melted and the land looked vivacious in lush green . I saw different colours on the trees and plants during my 3 months of stay in Bir. Nature brings a lot of delight to my life.
I was always of the opinion that bird-watching was boring for me until Bir happened to me! How could I keep my eyes off the pretty creatures who paid regular visits to me near my home. I have now started chasing the colourful pretty birds everywhere in the mountains!
Never before in my life had I seen geese guarding the house. These geese started screeching as I tried to go near a house next to the monastery.
I was so relieved that I no more had to struggle with wasting my precious time in the cities stuck on the traffic-jammed and polluted roads. The only traffic jams where caused by the cute goats and I bet no one would ever complain of such pretty jams. It was quite an exciting sight!
It was a delight to see the goats placing themselves strategically at places I didn't expect them to be.
Apart from the local Himachalis, Bir is a home to many other races migrated from different parts. There is a considerable segment of Punjabis and Tibetans refugees living in Bir. Bir also hosts paragliders from different parts of the country and few people who have left cities for a quieter life in the mountains (like me).
The official language of Bir is Kangri (Himachali dialect) but the locals generally speak Pahadi - a mixture of Kangri and Punjabi.
The traditional dress for women in Himachal is Pattu, which they wear during special occasions. Though most women are seen wearing salwar kameez, the older ladies still wear the traditional dress regularly.
The Himachali men are mostly dressed in casual sherwani with a waistcoat in winters. The colourful Himachali cap is a mandatory accessory for the men.
The kid walks through the fields to go to her school.
The girls here didn't shy away from greeting me with "Good evening" or "Hello" whenever we crossed our paths.
The women are very used to going to work with their kids tied on their backs. The lady in the picture below was my domestic help in Bir.
There are gypsies or nomadic tribes that move around in the jungles on the higher mountains. A lady had once come to my doorstep to sell Jungli Lingdi (Fiddleheads), organically grown vegetable which she collected from the mountain tops. She insisted me to buy it as it tastes good. It was cooked by my cook and it tasted really good and healthy.
A lot of monks live in Bir. There are institutes in Bir where kids are trained to Buddhist Monasticism.
Agriculture and farming is the main occupation for most of the people living in Bir. The locals are generally self-dependant for all the basic necessities. They grow their own food, raise their own cattle for milk and meat and do all the domestic chores on the own.
Pesticides are used for most of the crops, but there are people who grow vegetables organically. My neighbours provided me with farm-fresh organic veggies when I needed them. It was the season for green peas then. Green peas is my favourite vegetable and I got most of my meals cooked with green peas in the entire 3 months. They tasted very sweet in the mountains and I would pluck and eat them straight from the farms.
The major crops are wheat, rice, barley and lentils. I had seen the wheat fields turn green to barren after the harvest during my stay in Bir.
Threshing machines come to the fields during the harvest season.
As I entered Bir, I was welcomed with tea gardens on both the sides of the road. There is a tea factory in Bir. Women in Bir are often seen plucking green tea leaves for their livelihood.
Bir is a completely non-commercialised village. It had only small shops providing with the basic stuff. This place taught me how to live without the brands I was used to. I had to drive 15 kms to Jogindernagar to sometimes satisfy my craving for Pani-Puri (Golgappe)..
The Tibetan colony had few shops selling clothes and other basic necessities. Most of the Tibetans were busy focussing in their devotion to Buddhism.
Women owned small stalls to sell Tibetan food. Some of them even sold momos on the road-side.
There are tons of adventure shops selling paragliding, trekking, camping and cycling packages to the tourists, who come generally for a day trip to Bir from Mcleodganj for paragliding. The cars loaded with gliders on the roof frequented the roads in the mornings. They drive 16 kms uphill to Billing, the take-off site.
I had lot of knowledge exchange sessions with the local people of Bir. I had a lot to learn from them.
By the end of three months, I had accepted and blended in Himachali culture. On my last day, the lady who provided me with domestic help at my home, invited me for lunch at her place. She surprised me with wrapping a 'Pattu' on me before serving me the lunch.
Thanks Vivek. I would love to explore Chamba and Bharmour. I've already explored Spiti and Kinnaur.
Thanks Sushmita. That's where we met for the first time!
Really gutsy move! But soul filling days you had, I presume.Himalays are best thing that can happen to anybody! Lovely! I envy u! Enjoy!
Thanks Manish. It has been a year that I'm living in the Himalayas and I would confess that I'm happy! I love each day I spend in the mountains.
I really like your writings and love your posts.
Thank you Agastya. Keep visiting!
you settled in Himalayas that amazing and wonderful!! and everyone cannot do what you are doing, it requires lot of guts.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation, Mayuri!
I love your posts. Keep up the good work.
I am from Himachal and living in small town named Mandi, you have narrated the beauty of Himachal particularly of Tirthan valley and of Bir in a very beautiful and simple way. There are so many good places in Mandi District like Barot,Janjehli etcIf you find some time do visit you will be thrilled to saw the unexplored beauty of Himachal.
Wonderful blog with great photography. Simple and straight from the heart. Very Inspirational.
what a great blog! Exactly what I'm looking for. I am looking for a small simple house to rent in a place like this. Can you give me any recommendations on how to find a place like yours or how you find yours? Thank you!


Cinematic 1 minute short video of Tithal Beach, Valsad by my younger brother Kunj Dodiya.
From Wikipedia, Tithal Beach is a located near Valsad town on the coast of Arabian Sea, in the Indian state of Gujarat. The sand found at the beach is Black sand.
Cinematic 1 minute video of pastoral scenes of India by my younger brother Kunj Dodiya.
The video has been shot on DJI Mavic Pro drone over the summer of 2017. If you want to use this footage for you use, feel free to. Just give credits if you feel appropriate.
Cinematic Drone Video Log of Gira Dhodh Wanarchod by Kunj Dodiya. Gira Waterfall Waghai – you will always hear this name if you hear conversation regarding waterfalls in Dang, Gujarat area. Gira Dhodh, located in Wanarchod village near Waghai is one of the best places to visit in Gujarat during monsoon season.
Cinematic Drone Video Log of Koshmal Waterfalls, near Waghai Dangs by Kunj Dodiya. The Koshmal Village Story. One day, we were out in Dangs. We were wandering lavishly on the roads with no place in mind.
Cinematic Drone Video Log of Wilson Hill Station & Shankar Falls by Kunj Dodiya. Wilson Hill Station and Shankar Waterfall stand in an impenetrable forest area near Dharampur in the Valsad district of Gujarat.


Whanganui rider Richie Dibben was total class at the annual Burt Munro Challenge weekend in Invercargill winning everything put in front of him on his Barracks Bar/Total Span-sponsored Suzuki GXSR600.
After a disastrous start to his Formula 2 career, Dibben showed just what a talent he is winning all three races in his class in the E Hayes and Sons Teretonga Sprint Races on the Saturday, then all three events on the Southland Honda-sponsored Invercargill Street Race programme on Sunday adding the Golden Age Tavern and Anchorage Cafe Bar (up to 600cc) hill climb later that same day.
The pressure was on from the start with F1 and F2 classes combined in the street races, but none of that fazed the young Whanganui speedster who qualified third behind the father and son combination of Tony and Damon Rees on their Honda CBR 1000 F1 machines. Tony Rees ended the weekend winner of the F1 street races, while Damon finished fourth.
Dibben, however, showed his F2 and many of his F1 rivals a clean pair of heels and for most of the three races on the street programme was camped on the back wheel of Tony Rees machine. While he easily won the F2 class, he also posted the second fastest lap of the day clocking 40.267 seconds behind Damon Rees' 40.212 seconds. And in the second street race was actually second across the line behind Tony Rees.
The first two street races on Sunday were marred by red flags and had to be re-run. Again Dibben was unfazed and he continued on to victory in his class.
On the Saturday, racing against his own class in the Teretonga Sprint Races, Dibben again qualified third, but quickened enough to take the chequered flag in all three events on the day.
In the hill climb on Sunday Dibben beat all his rivals in the up to 600c class, more than a second faster than his nearest competitor.
"It was great to finally win on the 600,' Dibben said.
Dibben accepts he has been dogged by bad luck and events outside his control during his debut in F2, but the multiple Suzuki Series supermoto winner also concedes the weekend's success was down to him coming to grips with the larger machine.
"More time on the 600 and more confidence has helped immensely. Brian (mentor Brian Bernard) has set the bike up perfectly and we haven't needed to fine tune it much. It's just I'm getting better at guiding the bike to where I want it to go rather than pushing it hard. I feel a lot more comfortable and riding behind faster machines has certainly helped."
Although too far out of contention to win the national championship, Dibben will continue to race in the three remaining rounds staring with Hampton Downs at the beginning of March and then possibly some of the winter series before tackling the 2019/2020 Suzuki Series kicking off in December.


My Fairy Dawg Mother is a dog rescue here in Colorado. They were planning on having an untraditional Gala event. Instead of hosting a big party, they wanted to send out invites to invite people to stay at home with their fur babies, and instead of spending the money on the gala event, to make a donation instead.
I did research to find the best paper quality, and then get the invites printed, and then assemble each by hand. It was a great event and a fun way to volunteer my skills for a local foundation that needed help.


One of the leading US airlines, American has announced it is hiring more aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) around the US during the first half of 2019. The company's Line Maintenance team plans to hire more than 250 AMTs in approximately 30 cities as a result of increased demand for maintenance support in the U.S. as the airline's peak summer season approaches.
American is dedicated to promoting careers in the maintenance field and working to foster an interest in the industry in individuals as early as elementary school. The airline has been involved in several Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) initiatives geared toward reaching youth. For instance, American's Line Maintenance team in Los Angeles partnered with Project Scientist Academy and Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum as part of an initiative that supports aspiring young aviators from Compton, California. American also participates in and helps fund various programs geared toward young girls, such as Girls SOAR! Aviation Days and Girls in STEM, to offer fun, inspiring and educational activities related to STEM and aviation.
Working for American's Line Maintenance team is a rewarding career that offers the opportunity to support the airline's nearly 1,000 mainline aircraft and be a part of a great team that values, above anything else, the safety of its customers and team members. American offers competitive pay and benefits, including excellent health and flight benefits. Interested candidates can find the available AMT positions and requirements at jobs.aa.com.


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Yonkers Trivia Triumph: 16 Questions to Claim Victory
Total Questions: 16 | Topic: Yonkers, New York
Yonkers is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.
Brush up on your Yonkers skills with this difficult quiz! Featuring 16 questions on a variety of Yonkers topics, this is not for the faint of heart. Only the most dedicated fans will be able to answer them all correctly. Challenge yourself.
Who in the following pictures is the Mayor Of Yonkers, New York?
The Mayor Of Yonkers, New York is Mike Spano. Mike Spano took office on Jan 1, 2012. Mike Spano is a member of Democratic Party.
Mike Spano is an American politician who serves as the 42nd mayor of Yonkers, New York.
Yonkers History Fact
Yonkers's excellent transportation infrastructure, including three commuter railroad lines (now two: the Harlem and Hudson Lines), and five parkways and thruways, made it a desirable city in which to live.
Yonkers's flag is which of the following?
What was the population of Yonkers in 2020, given that it was 195,976 in 2010?
What was the founding date of Yonkers?
Which of the following maps best describes Yonkers's location?
Yonkers shares a border with The Bronx, Mount Vernon & Alpine.
Can you guess which has a larger population?
The place with a largest population is The Bronx. The population of the mentioned places is
Yonkers Fire Department Fact
The city of Yonkers is protected by 459 firefighters of the city of Yonkers Fire Department (YFD), under the command of a Fire Commissioner and 3 Deputy Chiefs.
In which country is Yonkers located?
What is the elevation above sea level of Yonkers?
Which is the seal of Yonkers?
How many households are there in Yonkers?
(information updated in 2020)
The number of households in Yonkers is 75,864 (updated in 2020) and this figure was determined by Survey Methodology. This statement is supported by 2016–2020 American Community Survey.
The Village of Yonkers was incorporated in the western part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854, and the village was incorporated as a city in 1872.
What is the per-capita income in Yonkers?
51,226 United States Dollar
The per-capita income in Yonkers is 36,590 United States dollar and this figure was determined by Survey Methodology. This statement is supported by 2016–2020 American Community Survey.
In 1873, the southern part of the Town of Yonkers, outside the City of Yonkers, was separated as the Town of Kingsbridge.
What is the local dialing code for Yonkers?
Which percentage of the area occupied by Yonkers is covered by water?
The percentage of Yonkers's area that is covered by water is 11.26%.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Yonkers developed a national reputation for racial tension, based on a long-term battle between the city and the NAACP over the building of subsidized low-income housing projects in the city.
Which of the following cities or administrative bodies are twinned to Yonkers?
Tagliacozzo
Verkhnee
Yonkers is twinned with:
Although the City of Yonkers had been warned in 1971 by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development against further building of low-income housing in west Yonkers, it continued to support subsidized housing in this area between 1972 and 1977.
Mount Vernon occupies an area of 11.40 square kilometre. What is the area occupied by Yonkers?
What administrative territorial entity is Yonkers located in?
Yonkers is located in Westchester County.
Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York.
Yonkers Neighborhoods Fact
Northeast Yonkers contains the upscale neighborhoods of Crestwood, Colonial Heights, and Cedar Knolls, as well as the wealthy enclaves of Beech Hill and Lawrence Park West.
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£1m Investment by Greater Anglia To Improve Services
Following significant recent disruption caused by severe weather conditions, fatalities and infrastructure issues, Greater Anglia has announced £1m worth of actions to improve things ongoing:
A contract with Direct Rail Services to provide locomotives and carriages to support service provision on its local routes and increase intercity service carriage availability up to the current franchise end date in July.
Recruiting additional maintenance staff at its Norwich Crown Point depot.
Review of contingency plans to improve recovery times in the event of disruption and minimise the impact of any short carriage formations which do occur.
Further modifications to West Anglia route Class 317 trains to improve door reliability.
Work with Network Rail to secure a reduction in speed restrictions and engineering work over-runs, and to ensure a more robust operation of the freight services using the Ipswich to Felixstowe line to lessen their performance impact on the passenger services operating on this route.
Additional fleet advisor working with the operations team to provide 24 hours cover to minimise the impact of any in-service faults.
Development of further targeted investment schemes to tackle the key causes of delays and disruption.
Work with Network Rail to improve the reliability of the cab-to-signaller communication system on the Class 315 and Class 317 trains used on services between Shenfield and London and on the West Anglia route.
Extension of remote train monitoring systems which help track train systems and identify faults before they cause delays or more serious problems.
Review of traincrew deployment and contingency plans to enable the quickest possible recovery from disruptive events.


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Annual Report 2017 Home
Chair's Message
A Policymaker's Reflections
1. The Limits of Fiscal Policy
2. Fear of a Deflationary Trap
3. QE3: Data-Driven, Not Date-Driven
4. A Preferred Approach to Normalization
5. A Regime-Based View of the Economy
6. A Push for More Transparency
7. The Road to an Inflation Target
8. Alternatives to Inflation Targeting
9. Conclusion: Lessons Learned
Crisis to Recovery Timeline
Another Role: Reserve Bank CEO
Bank Timeline
Our People, Our Work
Our Leaders, Our Advisers
Financial Statements (PDF)
Annual Report 2017 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"The St. Louis Fed has a long tradition of challenging the status quo. In 2016, Jim Bullard and the St. Louis Fed's Research division pivoted to a new approach for evaluating the U.S. macroeconomy, which also had implications for how it views optimal monetary policy. Rather than assuming the economy will converge to one long-run outcome—the conventional approach—the St. Louis Fed now assumes the economy can switch between different states, or regimes, and the regime will influence the outlook for the macroeconomy and monetary policy."
—Christopher Waller, Executive Vice President and Director of Research
The New Narrative
Forecasting the macroeconomy is important for setting monetary policy, but when the forecasts are often wrong, something should change. In mid-2016, the St. Louis Fed changed to a regime-based way of thinking about how the economy works.
James Bullard shared some reflections on his first 10 years as Bank president during recent conversations with staff. The following are excerpts from those discussions.
Coming out of a recession, a typical forecast would suggest that the economy will grow faster for a while than it otherwise would, that job growth will be higher than normal for a while and that inflation might start to pick up and possibly go above the Fed's 2 percent target. Then, these variables would settle back to their steady-state rates of growth. That is, they would return to their average historical values. This approach to forecasting assumes that the economy will ultimately converge to a single, long-run outcome. It was the common approach used by many FOMC participants, including me.
Given that viewpoint, and since the Fed's dual mandate (of stable prices and maximum sustainable employment) was close to being achieved in 2014, I had been an early proponent of moving forward with the normalization process, which included the policy rate's returning to its steady-state value.
But, by mid-2016, the Research team here at the Bank and I had become increasingly frustrated because our forecasts of the macroeconomy under this approach turned out to be wrong for four or five years in a row. Similarly, the "dot plots" in the FOMC's quarterly Summary of Economic Projections (SEP)—including the St. Louis Fed's dots, or projections for the policy rate—repeatedly projected many more increases in the policy rate over the forecast horizon than actually occurred. The conventional approach wasn't useful.
Therefore, at the St. Louis Fed, we changed our approach to near-term forecasts of the macroeconomy and monetary policy in June 2016. The new approach required us to think differently about the possible long-run outcomes of the macroeconomy. Instead of having only one such long-run outcome, as was the thinking behind our previous narrative, the macroeconomy could switch between regimes (or steady states) and, therefore, could have a set of possible long-run outcomes.
The basic idea behind the new narrative was that there are three fundamental factors that can determine the nature of the regimes: productivity growth (which could be high or low), the real interest rate on short-term government debt (which could be high or low) and the state of the business cycle (expansion or recession).
The current regime appears to be characterized by low growth, low interest rates and also low inflation, which could be a relatively long-term outcome for the U.S. economy. The regime idea suggests that a situation like this could persist for many years and that we should not expect the same patterns from the previous decades to return, at least not in the near term.
This idea is particularly apt for the current environment. Safe, short-term real interest rates in the U.S. are extremely low and have been trending downward overall since the 1980s. Furthermore, the low safe real interest rates are a global phenomenon. For more recent trends in real-interest-rate regimes, see the presentation I delivered in Washington, D.C., on this topic.1
As of February 2018, the U.S. appeared to be in a regime of low productivity growth and a high desire for safe assets. The latter is indicated by the relatively large negative value for ξ.
SOURCES: Kahn, James A.; and Rich, Robert W. Tracking Productivity in Real Time. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance, November 2006, Vol. 12, No. 8; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Bullard's calculations.
For purposes of monetary policy, which is regime-dependent, the planning horizon is two to three years.2 Given that long-run trends affecting the economy are unlikely to turn around in two to three years, we assume in our new narrative that the current regime will continue over that horizon.
The St. Louis Fed's projections for monetary policy are, therefore, calibrated for the low regime. Hence, our projected policy rate path is relatively flat over the forecast horizon, which stands in contrast with the FOMC's median path. If a regime switch were to occur, our forecasts would then be calibrated for that new regime. Upside risks to our forecasts (e.g., higher inflation, an increase in the real rate or higher productivity growth) would lead us to steepen our path for the policy rate.
See my presentation from Feb. 26, 2018, R-Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. [ back to text ]
Under this regime-based approach, the St. Louis Fed stopped providing long-run projections in the FOMC's SEP because there is not a single, long-run steady state for the economy. [ back to text ]
"The St. Louis Fed's New Characterization of the Outlook for the U.S. Economy" (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis announcement on June 17, 2016)
"The St. Louis Fed's New Approach to Near-Term Projections" (Bullard's post on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis On the Economy blog, Aug. 25, 2016)
"An Illustrative Calculation of r†" (Bullard's presentation delivered on Amelia Island, Fla., May 8, 2017)
The Maverick Monetarist Tradition
For many decades, the St. Louis Fed has maintained a reputation in the Federal Reserve System for challenging the status quo, enhancing the rigor of the monetary policy debate, and pushing the frontier of research in academic and policy circles.
The Bank came to be known as the "maverick" Federal Reserve bank during the Great Inflation period of the 1970s, when there was double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment.1 "The famous misery index was off the charts," James Bullard said. The misery index, created in the 1970s by economist Arthur Okun, is equal to the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates.2
While this was a time of intense pressure on the Reserve banks to support System policy, the St. Louis Fed instead argued that Fed policies and excessive growth of the money supply were to blame for higher inflation.
For many decades, the St. Louis Fed has maintained a reputation in the Federal Reserve System for challenging the status quo ... [and] came to be known as the "maverick" Federal Reserve bank during the Great Inflation period of the 1970s.
"The St. Louis Fed stressed that the Fed really had to get this process under control," Bullard said, adding, "The monetarist experiment in the [Fed Chairman Paul] Volcker era was the ultimate outcome of that line of research, leading to much lower inflation, despite taking much of the 1980s to get it under control."
St. Louis Fed presidents were aided by analysis and data provided by research divisions led by Homer Jones, Leonall Andersen, Jerry Jordan and, later, Ted Balbach, who enhanced and expanded upon Jones' initiatives.3
"We were the first Bank in the Federal Reserve System to do academic-style research and try to use that research to influence thinking on monetary policy," Bullard noted.
Under Jones, the St. Louis Fed became the first Reserve bank to go public with its own viewpoints and began publishing data and analysis for the public. When the Bank began to use mainframe computers around 1967, McDonnell Douglas provided computer access for the Research division. In this era, computer programs were created line by line on punch cards, which were transported by taxi from the Bank to McDonnell Douglas for processing.4 The division developed its international reputation for economic research and monetarist policy views that remains to this day, and it continues to be well-known for its publication of data and economic analysis, including its popular, publicly available database FRED®.
"The ideas about how to run monetary policy that came out of here and influenced U.S. policy also helped influence monetary policy around the world. This led to lower inflation around the world and eventually to the inflation targeting era starting in the 1990s," Bullard said.
He added, "There are many different challenges today in monetary policy than there have been historically, but the basic story remains that research is not just scribbling on a piece of paper. The ideas can be profoundly powerful and have huge influence on real people's lives."
For more discussion, see Wheelock, David. Lessons from a Maverick: How the St. Louis Fed Helped Shape the Nation's Monetary Policy. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Annual Report 2013. [ back to text ]
The misery index can be constructed using FRED® economic data, retrieved from https://fred.stlouisfed.org. [ back to text ]
See Bordo, Michael D.; and Schwartz, Anna J. Monetary Economic Research at the St. Louis Fed during Ted Balbach's Tenure as Research Director. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, September/October 2008, Vol. 90, No. 5, pp. 499-504. [ back to text ]
See the St. Louis Fed Centennial Timeline, retrieved from https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/timeline/st-louis-fed-centennial. [ back to text ]
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Making each day count remains St. Margaret's priority when caring for patients and their families facing a life-limiting illness and has been for the last 37 years. Tuesday saw this being celebrated through artwork installed at the Yeovil In-patient Unit in the form of a Celebration Tree. The Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, Annie Maw, unveiled the tree, which is in the reception area for everyone to enjoy.
Ann Lee, Chief Executive of St. Margaret's Hospice thanked Annie Maw, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, for supporting the hospice "I would like to take this opportunity to thank Annie Maw for coming along to support the hospice. St. Margaret's will care for 1 in 3 people in Somerset during their lifetime. Our care is free, this does mean however we have to rely heavily on fundraising to ensure everyone who needs our care receives it.
The tree is made of Perspex and is a chance for anyone in the local community to celebrate life, love and friendship by making a donation and having a leaf or sunflower engraved in a dedication. The piece of art was designed by Artist Claudia Ashley-Brown. "It was a pleasure working with the team at St. Margaret's Hospice to create a wall mounted Celebration Tree sculpture. The Hospice reception is a great space with light, height and airiness which enhanced the reflectiveness of the metallic leaves. Being able to help people remember and celebrate their loved-ones in a beautiful way and to donate vital funds to the hospice is definitely a win-win." Says Claudia.
With the support of our local community St. Margaret's Hospice is able to continue caring and supporting over 3,200 people across Somerset each year.
You can make a dedication online or contact St. Margaret's on 0845 345 9671.


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Character Differentiation Analysis: Fleshing Out What You've Started
When it comes to crafting characters, you can't be too careful. Let Kris Spisak guide you in your character development.
Kris Spisak
Sometimes, we chase our characters across the page as fast as our fingers can move across the keyboard, and it's in the editing stages where we refine and invigorate them. Prewriting and planning can flesh out so much, but often, you don't know them as comprehensively as possible until their story is fully captured on the page.
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(And that's "flesh out," not "flush out," but you knew that already, right?)
How can you differentiate your characters after the first draft? Here are three areas of focus for character refinement.
Emotional "Tells"
Does your character have a poker face? Or do they have "tells"? Remember: every single person who walks the face of this earth gives away clues that show how they're feeling. Think about a person you know well. The moment they walk into a room, you likely can observe their mood. How? Well, it's not because they're holding up a sign that says, "I'm feeling nervous/happy/scared/zen." We all have our own unique tics, mannerisms, go-to actions, and expressions that say so much without any vocalized words.
Consider this concept for every major character on your page. Think beyond "smiles" and "sighs" and "biting their bottom lip." Go deeper and individualize them. Brainstorm it out—character by character, emotion by emotion—then bring these subtleties, these "emotional tells," onto the page for your readers to discover. If you do, your reader will feel more connected to your characters because they will understand them in a more complex way.
Beyond mannerisms that give away emotions, what is unique about how each of your characters moves? Do they all sit, turn, gesture, shrug, and nod in a way that mimics all the others? Or do you have one character who's always physically active, one character who is endlessly obsessed with his hair, and one character whose posture and poise defines her? People are different. Allow them to be. Allow your characters to seize upon the wonder of individuality captured within their physical, active presence.
Go to a park, a coffee shop, or any public place, and people-watch. Examine your own specific behaviors. Making a story come alive is sometimes as simple as capturing the specifics that humanize us as we're living our lives. Enable your characters to exist with that same level of personalized reality.
Readers should hear the characters' voices, not the author's. If your go-to phrasings, speech quirks, or favorite words exist across multiple characters, that's a bit like the author waving hello between the lines. (Hint: the author should not be waving hello from between the lines! Talk about a distraction from the story!) Instead, examine how different voices can come to light, how different speech patterns, verb styles, sentence structures, energy levels, and more can be captured so your readers won't even need dialogue tags to clarify who any given speaker might be. Maybe someone speaks in fragments. Maybe someone is prone to finishing everyone else's sentences. Maybe someone substitutes out swear words for hilarious nonsense. It's all up to you.
Human conversation seems so simple, yet dialogue is more than speech; it's elevated speech. If you include dialogue within your book, it needs to serve a purpose for the greater story, and characterization can be a driving force throughout the whole.
After a first draft, characters often remain only skeletons, but it's in the editing where you can add flesh onto their bones, enabling them to truly come alive for your readers.
You don't want your protagonist just to be "a guy" or "a girl" or "a soldier" or "a ghost" or whomever they may superficially be. You want them to be as vivid on the page as a loved one. It's in pushing yourself further as a writer and as an editor that your characters take on lives in your readers' imaginations. And isn't that the whole point of what we do?
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Haldor Topsoe signs €45 million funding deal with European Investment Bank to drive green energy transition
Haldor Topsoe AS signs €45 million loan agreement with European Investment Bank to support research into innovative green hydrogen technologies that can lead to carbon emission reductions.
Financing will also back Haldor Topsoe's R&D investments in new catalysts and catalytic technologies.
The transaction is supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments, the main pillar of the European Commission's Investment Plan for Europe.
In line with its strategy to become the global leader in carbon emission reduction technologies by 2024, Danish technology provider Haldor Topsoe has signed a €45 million loan agreement with the EIB to support its R&D investments in that domain. The EIB financing is supported under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the main pillar of the European Commission's Investment Plan for Europe. The European funding highlights the company's commitment to developing new technologies to support a wide range of energy intensive industries in their transition towards a low-carbon future.
Roeland Baan, CEO of Haldor Topsoe, said: "Transitioning society towards clean energy solutions is vital in the battle against climate change. This funding will support our research into innovative hydrogen technologies that will ultimately enable our customers to produce low-carbon products for society. We are thankful for the funding, which is a testimony to our strong cooperation with the EIB."
The R&D investments backed by the EIB financing support Haldor Topsoe's ambition to develop new technologies and catalysts to assist its customers in the transition towards the increased use of renewable energy, as well as the carbon neutrality of industrial operations. In line with this goal, the company specifically focuses on R&D activities with the highest potential for reducing carbon emissions.
"The development of innovative products requires sizeable and sustained investment, and I am glad that we can once again support Haldor Topsoe's R&D investments," said EIB Vice-President Christian Kettel Thomsen. "Supporting this type of cutting-edge research by a European company is of strategic importance in terms of safeguarding technology and know-how, but it obviously also benefits economic growth and employment. Haldor Topsoe's research and development tackles key challenges of our times by protecting our climate and the environment, which is fully in line with the EIB's climate action objectives."
A clear focus are R&D investments for the development of new catalysts, catalytic technologies, and innovative hydrogen technologies that are expected to reduce carbon emissions. Some of the most promising environmentally-friendly technologies in that regard are intended for the production of greener chemicals and renewable fuels, such as green hydrogen, green ammonia, biofuels, and electrified methanol.
Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Executive Vice-President responsible for an Economy that Works for People, said: "I welcome this agreement between the EIB and Danish company Haldor Topsoe AS, which benefits from a guarantee under the Investment Plan for Europe. The additional financing will go towards research to develop innovative hydrogen technologies and contribute to reducing carbon emissions. We need businesses and their innovation potential to deliver on the European Green Deal and our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. This example is a great contribution to these efforts."
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy goals. In 2020, the Bank provided over €600 million in loans for Danish projects in various sectors, including services, innovative industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. The EIB has previously supported Haldor Topsøe with financing agreements signed in 2013 and 2017.
The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) is the main pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe. It provides first loss guarantees enabling the EIB Group to invest in riskier projects. The projects and agreements approved for financing under EFSI have so far mobilised €546.5 billion in investments, benefiting over 1.4 million small and medium-sized enterprises across the European Union.
Haldor Topsoe is a global leader in developing clean energy solutions heavily engaged in developing solutions for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors including steel, cement, chemicals, shipping, and aviation. Topsoe's solutions produce essential renewable energy carriers, fuels, and chemicals of the future, such as green hydrogen, green ammonia and eMethanol. The company is headquartered in Denmark and serve customers around the globe. In 2020, revenue was approximately DKK 6.2 billion, with 2,100 employees. www.topsoe.com
Press contacts:
EIB Group: Tim Smit, +352 691 286423, t.smit@eib.org
European Commission: Flora Matthaes, +32 460 755148, flora.matthaes@ec.europa.eu
Haldor Topsoe: Ulrik Frøhlke, +45 2777 9968, ulfr@topsoe.com
Shchekinoazot and Haldor Topsoe sign an MoU to jointly discover opportunities for CO2 emission reduction
Haldor Topsoe and Shchekinoazot have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the objective to reduce the carbon footprint of Shchekinoazot's existing and future...
Covenant Energy chooses Haldor Topsoe's HydroFlex™ and H2bridge™ solution to produce renewable diesel with low carbon footprint
Covenant Energy Ltd. (Covenant Energy) has chosen Haldor Topsoe's HydroFlex™ renewable fuel technology to produce clean diesel from vegetable oil. The 6,500 barrels-per-day...
Topsoe and Fidelis New Energy form Carbon Neutral Hydrogen Technology Alliance
Topsoe A/S ("Topsoe") and Fidelis New Energy, LLC ("Fidelis") have entered into a global alliance for technology used for producing carbon neutral hydrogen. The alliance...


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Here's what I've been up to. After a short break from September's 30 paintings in 30 days project, I took up another 30x30 marathon, this time with a show at a local art gallery at the finish line. I continued my theme of flowers on Yupo and refined my process to a point where I became very comfortable with it. I feel like the next step should be growing these florals larger and abstract-er. Maybe sometime soon.
Closeup of a watercolor on Yupo in progress.
Working on this many panels in a short time created some logistical challenges. This last move left me without a studio and I get to be all kinds of creative around the dining room and living area. So, these ledge shelves from Crate & Barrel were my solution to the drying and storage issues. Well, not so much drying, since I usually keep watercolors on Yupo flat until they are dry, but these shelves do keep them all nice and away from forces of nature (like my kids).
I got six of these, three on each side of my dining room window.
Another curious part of this project was mounting it on a 41x41" board (the gallery's idea). I wasn't so sure about it at first but loved how it turned out. If nothing sells, I will welcome the whole panel back with joy. It is beautiful.
The show runs through Jan. 9, 2016 at Blue Line Arts Gallery (405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 Roseville, CA). Reception is on December 19, 7-9 pm.
30 Paintings in 30 Days, here we go!
I've been waiting to announce my participation in the 30 Paintings in 30 Day challenge until the last moment. These days, I can't plan things very far in advance, at least not without running a high risk of getting frustrated and disappointed. So. It starts tomorrow, and tomorrow I plan on posting painting number one :) . After that, we'll see what happens. I'm going to scratch the weekends off and shoot for 20 paintings. One month, 20 paintings. I'd be happy with that.
Let's see...Elijah was 3, Katia was 8 months old and I was pregnant with Ella. Fun times.
"What was I thinking?" Yep, that's what I'm thinking.
Challenge 2. September of the same year (2013).
I had a tentative landscape theme. Ella was born in early November.
For the third challenge, I kept things relatively low key. Two months after I had a baby and all that. This is how I keep myself (relatively) sane.
I skipped two challenges (September 2014 and January 2015). I just had no mojo. Or FOMO. Maybe a little bit of the latter, but really, not enough. My mind is already busy burying most of 2014 away from accessible memory. It sucked.
And so, gingerly, I am doing a 30-in-30 challenge again. Bring it on.
I decided to go with a theme this time, and the theme shall be bold and colorful flowers. Somehow, the fact that I paint a lot of flowers escaped me. It probably has something to do with me wanting to be a serious and important artist, not some tree-hugging, flower-smelling stay-at-home mom who paints watercolors for fun. Serious art is not fun.
Are you going to California State Fair?
...to the tune of "Scarborough Fair," of course! I am going, and I will be painting live as part of the Plein Air at the Fair competition. I thought, "Why not?" I like getting outside and painting or sketching, and there's going to be a ton of subject matter at the fair, and it only costs me $10 to enter a painting (I signed up for three), so why not?
I plan on being there on July 18 and 19, around 11 am - 6pm. Maybe later. If you're around and you want to come say hi, let me know ASAP.
As a small token of appreciation, here's a free shipping code for anything you want on my website: JUST4YOU (enter at checkout, ends 12/03).
Please join me at the reception for the 20/20 show at the Kennedy Art Gallery! This annual show features artwork submitted by Sacramento artists and reviewed by a professional panel of judges. Each artist created 25 pieces which conform to an 8" x 8" format, all in a selected theme. The most popular annual event at Kennedy Gallery, this year' 20/20 showcases over 750 pieces of art from 30 finalists!
I chose a very special to me theme for this project: Ukrainian cities and landmarks. As someone who was born and grew up in Ukraine, I have been deeply affected by the unfolding events in the country over the last several months. These 25+ paintings that I created for the show reflect my relationship with my homeland, my memories and my feelings while also highlighting the best of Ukrainian architecture. I hope you will enjoy them.
Kennedy Gallery, voted Sacramento's Favorite on KCRA's A-List and by Sacramento News & Review, is located at the corner of 20th and L Streets in the heart of Midtown Sacramento's Art Walk.
Well, Hello from the State Capital!
I cannot believe it's been over a month since my last blog post. Since we found out that my husband got the job in Sacramento and we decided to move, it was like someone pressed the "forward" button. Things moved fast.
Curiouser and Curiouser. 30x22" watercolor on paper.
...which was cool. This is my first award at a show that may mean anything (vs my ribbons from the San Bernardino County Fair, where I felt I had no competition to speak of). I feel good about it :) The show will run April 1 though April 19 with a 2nd Saturday (Sacramento's monthly art walk) reception on April 12 5:30 - 8:30 pm. Location is the Sacramento Fine Arts Center. You are invited!
Unfortunately, this also means that all the classes and happenings I had planned in the High Desert will not happen and somebody else will need to take over my High Desert Art Meetup group. It's bittersweet. I am hoping that I will be able to focus instead on developing the long-promised online courses, a regular plein air and figure drawing routine, and a solid body of work. I feel that this move is a step up.
You are invited to Art & Wine Lake Arrowhead!
Please come and enjoy this exclusive event with me and an excellent selection of other Southern California artists! The festival features painters, photographers, glass and ceramic artists, wood artists and more. There will be live music, food, and of course, wine! I plan on entertaining my booth visitors by painting demos and will be offering on-the-spot portrait paintings.
For map, parking directions, and other information, please visit the Art & Wine website.
To reach Tavern Bay, take Highway 18 to the Lake Arrowhead turn-off. At the 4-way stop sign, continue straight along 173 past the lake until you see the UCLA Conference Center sign where you turn left (Willow Creek Road), which takes you to the lake. The entrance to the festival is on the right around the conference center, at the first left gate.
Guess who's in the paper!
In April, I visited an art club in Phelan, CA, spoke a bit about myself and my art and did a watercolor painting demo of a little girl. It was a pleasant visit! I am often amazed at and very grateful to people who show interest in my art, and even more when they are willing to spend hours watching me paint. And, of course, my collectors, who spend their hard-earned money on a piece of art that I created. It's humbling.
Yep, just like that, we're expecting. Totally unexpectedly and against all odds (may the odds be ever in your favor ;)).
Incidentally, this is also the youngest baby I've ever painted :). Two months of gestation!
Venir en France avec moi! Come to France with me!
I have to trust Google Translate for the French portion of the title, so please forgive me if it doesn't sound completely French :) Now, what it's all about. A few weeks ago, a lady contacted me asking about the watercolor batik process that I used to make my French Windows painting. She was intrigued by the end result and, of course, by the labor-intensive process. So much so that she asked me if I would fancy running a workshop teaching this technique. In France! It turns out that she organizes and runs "painting holidays" at her part 12th-century monastery, part 18th-century farmhouse home in Bandouille, France.
I would very much like to run a painting holiday! As a matter of fact, I will learn French for this opportunity :) Now, if I can only find people to come and spend their vacation in France while taking a workshop from me, we're good to go! Check out France Painting Holiday and let me know if it's something you would like to do. Meanwhile, I want to create some videos on the watercolor batik technique to get you even more excited ;).
I think a Yupo workshop would be fun, too.
Do you like learning new things in a warm and friendly atmosphere? Have you always wanted to try watercolor painting but heard that watercolor is hard? Come and have fun! My classes are for beginner to intermediate painters and include step-by-step introduction to painting with watercolor. You will learn all about the tools and materials for watercolor painting, different ways to apply paint, and will make a few paintings of your own! Bring a friend to make it even more fun!
Cost: $99 (for a limited time). For a suggested supplies list, click here. A basic supply kit will be available for purchase at the first day of class for $35.
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My artwork is now on checks!
In early December last year, I was approached by a check printing company, CheckAdvantage, to see if I was interested in creating several sets of checks with my artwork on them (shout-out to Skinny Artist, I was found through their artist directory!). So I said, sure, and last week, we launched my CheckAdvantage products. I am tempted to buy my own address labels and checks :) (good sign, right?). There are nine themed sets with four images each, featuring my favorite artworks. Seascapes, cityscapes, flowers, trees, California, Europe, and even a separate set of sunflowers :). I'm pretty excited about all this. I always look for something artistic and, preferably, unique when I order checks and I love writing a check and thinking of the person receiving it and how they would say, "Oh, this is a very cool check! She has a great taste." Or something like that :). I can't wait to run out of my current boring checks!
Whatever winter holidays you celebrate, I wish you happy and merry ones! It has been a good year for me, both personally and professionally. Thank you for your interest, support, and encouragement! They mean a lot to me. As a small gift, please treat yourself to a desktop wallpaper with the image above. It's the new version of an older painting of San Bernardino mountains. To download the wallpaper, click on the image, then right-click and choose "Save Image as" or "Set as desktop background" (or something along those lines, according to your operating system). Enjoy!
Solo show opening this Saturday!
Remember "A Portrait A Day"? No? Well, it's been a while. It was a project I did in 2010-2011. I decided that I would paint a small portrait (most of them are 9x12") every day and limit myself to 30-60 minutes per painting. This upcoming show highlights the best of the 60+ paintings that I completed. It is my first solo show at a gallery, and definitely the first one of such a large scale. I would love to see you at the reception!
If you are interested in submitting your art for the Featured Artist of the Month, check out this Facebook page.