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Natasha Kennedy-Read and Vince Scopelliti - Friday, February 14, 2020
It is not unusual when investigating allegations such as sexual harassment, bullying or theft for the person accused of the misconduct to make a counter allegation.
This in turn can generate further counter allegations, making it difficult for investigators to keep track of a growing litany of wrongdoings!
Steering through the sea of counter allegations means handling each complaint separately, being mindful of procedural fairness and adhering to the civil standard of proof.
Divide ALLEGATIONS into separate incidents
It is important not to conflate cause and effect when it comes to counter allegations. If the allegation is that person A slapped person B, who, according to A, retaliated by stealing A's smartphone, these two allegations must be investigated separately.
It may be that that person B had nothing to do with the smartphone's disappearance, or the slap never happened.
By looking at them as two unrelated incidents, investigators will not 'miss' important evidence, such as A accidentally leaving their phone in a meeting room.
keep procedural fairness top of mind
The smartphone theft/disappearance may only come up when B is being investigated for the alleged slap. The alleged wrongdoer makes the counter claim in an interview that was up to that point unknown.
In effect, this means there are two allegations under investigation. Depending on the circumstances, this new information may require the interview to be suspended while further inquiries are made by the investigator.
While it may be tempting to view the counter allegation as 'tit for tat' failing to investigate this new complaint could be viewed by a court or tribunal as a denial of procedural fairness by the employer.
Many unfair dismissal claims are successful because the employer in question failed to afford procedural fairness to the alleged wrongdoer.
The civil standard of proof
While investigating allegations and counter allegations, compartmentalising each alleged incident, its timings and events ensures impartiality and clarity.
This means taking care with unwitnessed and testimonial evidence (hearsay). Vivid descriptions of events may sometimes be compelling yet have no bearing on actual events. Finding an impartial witness to an event can short-circuit this problem, but it can be difficult. Just because person C saw B running from the bathroom crying does not mean the cause was a slap from A.
Investigators should apply the civil standard of proof when assessing evidence. This means that for an allegation to be substantiated, the evidence must establish that it is more probable than not that the incident occurred.
The strength of evidence necessary to establish an allegation on the balance of probabilities may vary according to the:
Relevance of the evidence to the allegations.
Seriousness of the allegations.
Inherent probability of an event occurring.
Gravity of the consequences flowing from a finding.
The likelihood that the required standard of proof will be obtained.
Employers and management must at all times remain unbiased. Just because a counter allegation is made during an investigation does not mean it lacks substance. It may be that the counter allegation carries more weight and is of a more serious nature than the initial claim.
It can be challenging for investigators when presented with counter allegations. If you want to ensure that you are undertaking investigations effectively, WISE provides a range of skills-based short courses for investigators, as well as formal qualifications such as Certificate IV and Diploma in Government Investigations.
Rules of Evidence in Workplace Investigations
Vince Scopelliti - Wednesday, December 04, 2019
Although workplace investigations are not expected to be conducted in the same way as a police investigation, it is essential to keep in mind the principles of evidence which might apply. This is particularly important against a backdrop where many workplace investigations end up in the Fair Work Commission or otherwise in a contentious, litigated setting.
We examine the rules of evidence which should be followed to improve the chances of successfully defending against a claim.
What are the rules of evidence as a whole?
The most important rule for workplace investigations is whether the evidence to be presented is relevant to the matters at issue. As the decision of Robinson v Goodman [2013] FAC 893 demonstrates, this is determined by considering whether the evidence is of such relevance as to be "important or of consequence". In other words, it should "affect the probability of the existence, or non-existence, of a fact in issue".
The principle of hearsay evidence is also important to workplace investigations, as is the introduction of tendency evidence.
Hearsay relates to information obtained via rumour or through a second party. In a courtroom setting, information is deemed to be hearsay in virtually any circumstance where it has not been directly conveyed to the person testifying about it. In the investigatory setting, any hearsay evidence can be damaging to the weight placed on that evidence or testimony as a whole.
Tendency evidence considers whether past behaviour should be used to prove the current matters in question. When determining whether to rely on tendency evidence, it is important to weigh up the potential advantage against the possibility of causing damage to an accused by suggesting that their past behaviour dictates their future behaviour.
why do the rules of evidence matter
Any workplace investigation should be conducted having regard to the possibility that the matter could end up in the Fair Work Commission or a court. In the event that this occurs, any investigation which has clearly failed to observe basic rules of evidence may result in an adverse finding against the employer.
If an investigation relies on evidence that is ultimately inadmissible, then the employer might find itself in a position where it cannot back up its defence in any way which the commission or a court will take into account.
An additional factor to be taken into account is the Briginshaw principle. This notes that, depending on the seriousness of any given allegation, the strength of the evidence required to establish proof may change. This means that a tribunal must be satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that the information before it and on which it is being asked to decide is based on clear, cogent and strict evidence.
The requirement for a matter to be determined on the balance of probabilities is reaffirmed in section 140 of the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth).
The importance of following the rules of evidence in workplace investigations cannot be understated. All investigators should consider these rules when collecting and analysing evidence that arises from a workplace matter.
WISE investigators are experts in the field, and with years of experience in undertaking even the most complex workplace investigations, are able to ensure your investigation is fair and legally sound. If your organisation needs assistance with a workplace investigation, WISE provides full as well as supported investigation services.
Interview Techniques for Workplace Investigations
Vince Scopelliti - Wednesday, July 24, 2019
In any workplace investigation, there will be multiple competing factors for an investigator to consider. One core issue is developing the appropriate interview strategy.
Investigative interviewing requires careful consideration of the purpose of the investigation, and exactly who will be interviewed. There is also the question of tone - ensuring that the interview remains cordial and does not begin to resemble an interrogation.
At WISE Workplace, we have a wealth of experience in investigative interviewing, including the best practice interview techniques to bring to the task.
the purpose of the investigative interview
The purpose of the investigative interview is to glean relevant information about a workplace allegation in a manner that is professional and fair.
In devising a good investigation strategy, the interviewer will carefully select who is to be interviewed during the process.
People with first-hand knowledge are the key - not those who simply heard a rumour or were told something second-hand. Such statements constitute hearsay, and can reduce the weight of the evidence and the overall value of the investigation if relied upon. It is important for the investigator to identify and interview those people who were directly involved, or who witnessed a situation first-hand.
Ideally there will be enough witnesses available to corroborate evidence. If facts such as the identity of an alleged bully can be verified between witnesses, or certain actions can be adequately cross-checked, the resulting findings and report are likely to be sound.
Having a support person available for witnesses is always recommended. Being interviewed for a workplace investigation can be stressful for any of the parties. The presence of a trusted support person can help to calm the witness.
interviewing or interrogating?
It is vital to create the right environment for the interview. At a fundamental level, the interviewer should avoid any method of questioning that could be seen as interrogating rather than interviewing.
Keep the tone conversational and allow enough time to develop rapport across the interview. Inviting questions around how the interview will work, plus describing procedural aspects like recording and note-taking can assist in reducing anxiety.
State the obvious. For example: "This is a difficult situation involving certain allegations in the workplace, and we appreciate your help here today".
Offer the witness the option to stop and clarify any questions and to take comfort breaks if needed. Firing off questions and requiring immediate answers is no way to develop rapport and will not illicit the best information and or evidence.
Adopting a stern or hostile demeanour is unproductive and can also lead to claims of bias. A professional interviewer should never see themselves as a TV detective with a rough attitude and a light shining in the respondent's face! The interview is not seen as a technique used to extract a confession from a witness. Building good rapport is the key to a quality investigative report that stands the test of time.
high-quality interview techniques
The experienced interviewer understands how to conduct the workplace interview with transparency and objectivity. While the personal information of others needs to be protected, the witness should be informed of all relevant material relevant to the allegations. Even alarming or distasteful allegations should be dealt with professionally and objectively.
Building rapport with a witness is essential for effective interviewing. Structured processes such as the PEACE model of interviewing can help interviewers to cover all aspects of a professional interview.
The PEACE model was developed in the United Kingdom to help investigators conduct the fairest and most productive interview possible. The model provides eight steps that should be undertaken which includes:
PLANNING: Examine what planning and preparation need to occur before an interview.
ENGAGE: Choose methods that assist in building rapport with the respondent, complainant or witness.
ACCOUNT: Gather interviewee accounts in a logical and effective structure. Seek clarification where needed.
CLOSURE: Complete the interview politely and professionally.
EVALUATE: Review the contents of your transcript and take any necessary next steps.
Other tools such as active listening and open questions are also excellent ways to gather the best information, without raising problems of biased interviewing - perceived or otherwise.
Don't rush the witness as they tell their story. Ask open questions, which allow the witness to provide a spontaneous and genuine description of events, rather than being fenced in by closed questioning or unnecessary interruptions.
Mastering the Investigative Interview
Obtaining first-hand witness evidence by way of interview is essential to uncovering the facts of a matter. However, conducting interviews into serious workplace issues such as bullying and sexual harassment can be a difficult and sometimes a daunting task.
WISE investigators have mastered key interviewing techniques and have extensive experience in conducting investigative interviews across industries. We have developed a comprehensive guide to steer HR professionals and investigators through the process. Purchase our book Investigative Interviewing: A Guide for Workplace Investigators for the best tips on successful interview techniques.
Can Employers Investigate if Complainants Ask Them Not To?
Vince Scopelliti - Wednesday, May 22, 2019
One of the more difficult aspects of managing an employment relationship is appropriately dealing with complaints, both from the perspective of the complainant and the accused. This is made even more complicated when a reluctant complainant brings something to the attention of Human Resources or management, then does not want it investigated.
We examine why a complainant might not want to take an issue further, and what an employer's rights and obligations are in these circumstances.
why a complainant might be reluctant
There are many reasons why an employee might be reluctant to have a complaint investigated. These include:
Fear of retribution - This is common in circumstances where the 'accused' holds a position of power over the complainant in the workplace. The complainant might fear reprisals and that their daily work life will become more difficult. This is particularly the case if the complaint relates to physical, sexual or emotional aggression.
Fear that the complainant will not be taken seriously - The complainant might be worried their complaint will be considered 'trivial' or won't be dealt with objectively because of the position of the other party.
Time commitments - It is well known that an investigation will require a significant amount of time commitment from all parties. A complainant might not wish to be involved in a lengthy and time-consuming process.
Lack of evidence - Complainants could feel that they are involved in a 'he said, she said' situation. The complainant might be concerned that an investigation will not ultimately support their version of events.
The best way to address these concerns is for Human Resources or management to make clear to staff that all complaints are taken seriously and are duly investigated. This is regardless of who made the complaint, against whom it is levelled, and how much evidence might be required to fully conduct an investigation.
is a complainant allowed to withdraw a complaint?
A complainant has the right to withdraw both the complaint and their support of any investigation. This generally spells the end of the investigation, because the person who receives a complaint is bound by confidentiality. This leaves the reluctant complainant as the only source of evidence to support an investigation.
employer obligations to investigate
But employers are obliged to balance their duties of confidentiality with their obligations under workplace health and safety legislation. This includes eliminating discrimination and ensuring that everybody is able to undertake their jobs without unreasonable impostes. In circumstances of accusations of significant misconduct or even criminal activity, an employer may be justified in or even compelled to pursue an investigation, notwithstanding that a complaint has been withdrawn.
For example, if the complainant has raised issues of conduct that may constitute the commissioning of fraud, then the withdrawal of the complaint will not immediately result in the conduct alleged not being able to be independently investigated. There are also other considerations and duties of care that need to be taken into consideration before an informed decision to not undertake or to cease an investigation can be appropriately made.
The dangers of a rigid policy structure
Although it is essential that all businesses have a complaints and grievances policy, there is some risk in having a procedure that is perceived as being too strict or rigid. If the general consensus amongst the staff is that there are only 'black and white' approaches toward dealing with complaints, this could result in staff being deterred from reporting incidents. This could ultimately result in employers breaching their legislative obligations and duty of care.
At WISE Workplace, we have expertise in dealing with investigations involving reluctant parties. Talk to our team about full or supported investigation services for your organisation.
Counter Allegations - Who Did What When?
Vince Scopelliti - Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Experienced workplace investigators are well aware that when two or more people are in dispute, there will inevitably be differing perspectives on what 'the truth' might look like. Contentious workplace issues can often play out in a 'he said, she said' fashion, with one allegation being closely followed up by a second person's counter-allegation. Such complications should be dealt with in a fair, considered and methodical way.
Separate allegations made by opposing parties will ideally be dealt with in discrete stages by workplace investigators, with each being handled in accordance with its individual merits. And as evidence comes to light regarding one or more of the competing allegations, investigators should aim to assess and weigh each piece of information with utmost care and objectivity.
When two tribes go to war
When a counter-allegation is initially made, it is important not to jump to conclusions regarding this development. It does not necessarily mean that the first complainant was misrepresenting events or indeed that the second complainant is somehow defensive, guilty or panicky. It is possible that both the original and the counter complaints are valid.
Let's take an example: perhaps she took his stapler and he wiped her hard-drive. Two complete denials on the same issue can require the workplace investigator to look more closely at the milieu of the counter-allegations. For instance, if two workers in a scuffle both identically calm that "I did nothing - she pushed me", an astute investigator will know that a pointed and methodical approach to the counter-allegations is certainly called for.
In each of these scenarios, both allegations should be investigated and dealt with separately. It can be tempting to create one big file entitled 'Stapler/hard-drive fiasco' or 'Smith and Jones stoush'. Yet clear delineations between people, events and timing will ensure that impartiality and clarity are maintained for the duration of the investigation and that the validity of each complaint is tested.
Seen and unseen allegationS
Very occasionally a workplace investigation involving counter-allegations will be easily settled. For example, the employee might not have been at work on the day that she allegedly stole the stapler - a simple mistake, evidenced by the work roster and now the complaint file can (on that issue at least) be finalised.
If only things were so simple... In most workplace situations, the investigator will need to step carefully through complex evidence attached to each allegation. Some events might be directly witnessed in a cut and dried way; Brown was in the kitchen with Smith and Jones on 7 December 2017 and can confidently say she saw Smith push Jones, who then walked away. Yet in many cases there are no witnesses to wrongdoing in the workplace and the 'he did/she did' scenario must be dealt with.
Further clarification in many forms becomes the best way to methodically tease out the knots of knowledge. This might take the form of documentary evidence, circumstantial evidence such as presence at a meeting that day, or a contemporaneous report such as an OH&S report involving counter-complainants. A tidy pattern of good circumstantial evidence can at times provide the clarity needed in the face of vehement counter-allegations. The workplace investigator must carefully assess the quality, reliability and utility of such material, being sure not to make assumptions and/or factual errors along the way.
Hearsay - treading lightly on complex terrain
As with all areas of law and investigations, hearsay evidence can provide helpful insights in situations where nothing more concrete is available. Hearsay is generally words or things observed by an individual who was not directly present when an event occurred. In other words, it is a type of indirect evidence. A simple idea, but surprisingly difficult to manoeuvre successfully during investigations.
Great care is needed in these situations, as hearsay evidence is notorious for causing problems later in post-investigation proceedings. Employees may go home and talk openly to their spouse about distressing events. Or they stomp back to their desks, muttering to a colleague about 'the stapler thief'. Yet the spouse or the colleague cannot tell us much about what actually happened. They are a friendly ear - after the alleged event.
Such indirect evidence can be the least helpful in many cases. However, experienced investigators will know how to gather and utilise such material when more direct evidence is difficult to obtain.
Workplace allegations and motivations
It is not unheard of that rather ulterior motives can exist in a workplace allegation. When stories are not gelling, it is natural for the workplace investigator to think - what am I missing? Why would this person make this up? It is important to consider the possibility that rivalries, emotional issues and/or collusion might unfortunately form part of the mix that has motivated an internal complaint. While it does not pay to assume such a phenomenon, investigators should be aware that such dynamics can and do arise in the workplace.
In workplace investigations, we find that it is never simple. If you have an investigation that has 'blown' out, or you are reviewing cross and counter complaints and could use some professional assistance, then contact WISE today.


SpecForce is set in the future, when humanity, united in a Federation, begins to colonize subsequent planetary systems in search of natural resources and living space. Soon, the Federation's authorities, unprepared for the expansion, limit their actions to distributing the terraforming concessions among rivaling Exploring Corporations. Consecutive planets of the borderspace fall into the relentless rule of the mighty syndicates. The new worlds, devoid of the Federation's supervision, become a dreamland for criminal activity on a yet unseen scale.You act as an operative of future's special forces unit: SpecForce. Established to fight crisis situations that threaten the Federation's peace, equipped with the latest combat gear, the unit is the Federation's elite rapid reaction force.This demo of the sci-fi shooter SpecForce includes a playable mission from Episode II.


Welcome to the April 1st edition of Warehouse & Logistics News. The last few weeks have been tense for Britain's businesses, with the recently announced Brexit extension and before that, reports of our warehouses nearing capacity and around 75% of UKWA members saying they are unable to take on new business. In particular, UKWA's survey highlights the shortage of space close to our major cities for stockpiling goods in anticipation of holdups at our ports.
With warehouse space at a premium, there's a timely story on our front page from timber panel manufacturers MEDITE SMARTPLY, whose new SMARTPLY STRONGDECK is a high strength, lightweight, high-performance panel for mezzanine floors and other high loadbearing applications.
Mezzanine floors enable warehouse owners to create additional space above existing operations and scale up and down to meet demand. With food produce storage one of the critical concerns at present, MEDITE's floor panels are made of FSC certified timber. More durable and stronger than traditional chipboard flooring panels, they can withstand moisture and humid environments, ideally suited for food storage applications.
UK companies and their overseas counterparts are taking a longerterm view about the situation and continuing to invest here. In our Storage Solutions feature Dexion has carried out a million poundplus reconstruction and redesign at its Swindon premises, which is also its UK and Ireland distribution centre. A classic example of our enduring business links with Europe, Dexion is a prominent member of Gonvarri Material Handling (GMH), formed in 2018 after Gonvarri Steel Services acquired the Constructor Group, comprising Dexion, Constructor and Kasten.
Also in the Storage Solutions feature, Maidenhead-based AR Racking is the UK branch of Spanish-owned global business AR Racking, who recently worked with logistics engineering company ULMA Handling Systems to install the highest clad rack warehouse in Argentina for SINTEPLAST, the country's leading paints and coatings company.
UK retailers are another group who go on investing. In our Loading Bay feature sara LBS recently supplied all the loading bay equipment for the Co-op's new £6m Dalcross Distribution Centre at Inverness Airport Business Park.
Part of a sustained process of expansion and renewal for the Coop's convenience retail network in Northern Scotland, the Dalcross Distribution Centre is the latest addition to Sara's portfolio of successful projects in the country.
Demand for forklift trucks is regularly cited as a trustworthy barometer of Britain's business confidence. In our Forklift feature, there's fresh evidence that UK industry is continuing to invest in these essential machines, with substantial orders being placed in various industry sectors. In another encouraging development, parts supplier TVH is committed to keeping Britain's forklifts working with a new 130,000 square feet warehouse in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
Lastly, in one of the high spots of the industry calendar, all eyes are on the International Intralogistics and Forklift Truck of the Year Awards 2019, AKA the IFOYs. Presented in the historic surroundings of the Vienna Hofburg on 26 April, these recognise excellence and innovation in forklift technology.
Leading suppliers Clark, Combilift, Hubtex, Jungheinrich, STILL and UniCarriers are among the nominees. We wish them all well.


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About Frodsham...
Location, Access and Geography
Frodsham is a market town and civil parish located in the County Palatine of Chester in the North West of England. According to the 2001 census there was a population of about 9,000 people living in the civil parish of Frodsham.
Frodsham is located approximately three miles (five kilometres) from Runcorn, sixteen miles (twenty-six kilometres) from Liverpool, and twenty-eight miles (forty-five kilometres) from Manchester. The A56 Chester-Warrington road and the Chester-Manchester railway line pass through the centre of Frodsham and the M56 passes nearby.
There are quite a number of small, independently owned shops in Frodsham and a weekly market is held each Thursday. Frodsham was once an important port owned by the Earls of Chester and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.
The River Weaver enters the River Mersey near Frodsham and Frodsham and Lordship Marshes are well-known areas for bird watching. The Manchester Ship Canal runs parallel to the River Mersey near the marshes. Frodsham is overlooked by Beacon Hill, the northern end of the Mid-Cheshire Range, also known as Frodsham Hill or Overton Hill, and nearby is the scenic Delamere Forest which is managed by the Forestry Commission.
Frodsham Town Council
In 1982 Frodsham Parish Council became Frodsham Town Council and the Chairman became known as the Mayor. In 1998 the wards were rationalised and re-named as Frodsham North, Frodsham East, Frodsham South and Frodsham West.
In total there are sixteen councillors elected every four years and each year a Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected.
Frodsham Town Council's website can be found here.
Frodsham currently returns two councillors to Cheshire West and Chester Council. You can visit the Cheshire West and Chester website here.
Weaver Vale Parliamentary Constituency
Since 2017, Frodsham has been represented in the Houses of Parliament by Mr. Mike Amesbury. His website can be found here.
Economy and Voluntary Sector
Frodsham is a vibrant market town with more than two-hundred small businesses and opportunities for trades-people.
There are more than one hundred clubs, societies & voluntary sector organisations. The Community Centre and Frodsham Youth Association are located on Fluin Lane and the large Centre and surrounding playing fields are much used by the local community as a base for local groups, for rehearsals, classes, parties and meetings. In addition there are many other buildings operated for community use, for instance Overton Memorial Hall, 3rd Frodsham Sea Scout Headquarters, 4th Frodsham (Overton) Scout Group Headquarters, Beacon Explorer Scout Unit Headquarters, Frodsham Cricket Club, Castle Park Arts Centre and so on.
The town is well served for its health and education needs. A new health centre opened in 2011 on Princeway and there are four primary schools in the town itself: Frodsham C of E (Cont.) Primary School, Weaver Vale Primary School, St. Luke's Roman Catholic Primary School and Manor House Primary School. The closest secondary school is Helsby High School.
Frodsham has a number of facilities and opportunities for leisure and entertainment. The Community Centre and Castle Parks Arts Centre provide a focus for like-minded people and a place to meet.
There are a number of restaurants, bars and public houses as well as take-aways, a supermarket and newsagents. Sports and hobbies are often said to be at the heart of the town's life with, for instance, thriving Cricket and Football Clubs and Leisure Centre all important parts of town life.
There are a number of parks and outdoor venues as well as clubs and activities for young people.
There are pre-historic hill forts in the Frodsham area, the closest being on Woodhouse Hill, and a possibly Roman road ran through the Overton area. Frodsham, and its Parish Church of St. Laurence, was also noted in the Domesday Survey of 1086.
Frodsham as it is known today was established as a Free Borough Market Town around 1230. Long narrow 'burgage plots' of one acre were established along what is now known as Main Street and people were encouraged to earn their living from trade. Many of today's buildings stand on these original plots.
The town was badly affected by the Black Death but the market was re-established in 1661 and the current Thursday market is a continuance of those rights. In the mid-Victorian period the town also held a butter market.
Although Frodsham has expanded more recently to include other smaller settlements such as Overton, Bradley, Netherton and Frodsham Bridge, there are still many buildings of historic interest and the street pattern in the centre of Frodsham has remained largely unaltered.
Frodsham Town Council have provided a street map and brief history of Frodsham.

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I'm writing a blog post up for the next Patch 4.06 Good news for Jewelcrafters, Gold-makers/AH hounds, for epic gear crafters, for people who want 26 slot bags, and for Scribes who are fed up porting to Dalaran for their ink trader!
Talk to you tomorrow, enjoy your day on Warcraft!
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This beautiful hanging basket from H&M home which you can fill with house plants, or maybe it can serve as a sneaky hiding place for an Easter egg hunt.
There's nothing better than treating yourself to new skincare (apart from to a new pair of our shoes of course). Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish is a must-have product which leaves your skin feeling clean and fresh.
It wouldn't be a gift guide without adding in a pair of our shoes because... well why not? Our Burlington Breakfast Brogues are perfect for the spring weather.
Finally, a fresh spring scent is always a good idea. We're loving this Chloe perfume at the moment.


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Q: Call synchronized method from reflection I need to call some synchronized methods via Java's Reflection API.
Let's say that I have:
public final synchronized void doSomething() {
    Thread.sleep(1000);
}

If I called this method directly from two threads one thread would enter the method and the other thread would have to wait until the first thread has left the method block (after one second). Then the other thread could enter the method and any other threads would need to wait.
Is there any difference if I don't call the method directly but call it through reflection? Would the "blocking"-behaviour be the same?

A: The blocking behavior will be exactly the same as if you call that method without reflection. Basically JVM below will execute same logic. You can try it yourself with below code snippet:
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class SynchronizedReflectionTest {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SynchronizedReflectionTest test = new SynchronizedReflectionTest();

    for(int i=0; i<5; i++) {
        final int finalI = i;
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    Method someThing = SynchronizedReflectionTest.class.getDeclaredMethod("someThing", new Class[]{int.class});
                    someThing.invoke(test, finalI);
                } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }).start();
    }
}

public synchronized void someThing(int nr)
{
    System.out.println("Executing someThing from "+nr);
    try {
        Thread.sleep(1000);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println("Finished executing from nr "+nr);
}

}
From the print results you can see that method calls are synchronized.
Print results:
Executing someThing from 0
Finished executing from nr 0
Executing someThing from 4
Finished executing from nr 4
Executing someThing from 3
Finished executing from nr 3
Executing someThing from 2
Finished executing from nr 2
Executing someThing from 1
Finished executing from nr 1

JVM guarantee that code guarded by lock will execute in synchronized blocks and if it will depend from type of method invocation reflection mechanism will be completely not safe and useless.

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A newly restored country house build around the turn of the century, the House on Chase Creek offers a country home away from home for those looking for a relaxing getaway.
The house is located on a quiet lane overlooking an inlet. The rooms are furnished with antiques and there are yellow pine floors throughout. Three guest rooms are located on the second floor. The suite is on the first floor and comprises an adjoining sitting room with a cozy fireplace and a small outside patio. All rooms have private bathrooms. Downstairs we also have a sitting room as well as a sunroom.
An extensive continental breakfast is served daily in the sun room and, with its panoramic view of Chase Creek it is also an excellent spot for bird watching. Golf, cycling, swimming and tennis are all available nearby. Another favorite activity on Shelter Island is exploring Mashomack Preserve. This Nature Conservancy preserve encompasses almost a third of the Island.
We are open year round. The flowers of spring, the radiant colors of fall and the stillness of winter make Shelter Island a special place to visit any time of year. All New York transportation is within walking distance.


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Zenshin Asian Restaurant has opened inside the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa. At the helm in the kitchen is chef Terence Fong, who is known for his Island Sushi & Hawaiian Grill restaurants. The menu features authentic Asian cuisine, including miso-marinated black cod, oxtail soup, miso ramen with pork belly and a fire-grilled bone-in rib eye with a roasted garlic compound butter and a medley of Japanese mushrooms. The sushi bar serves a variety of fresh sashimi, nigiri and sushi rolls. Zenshin is open daily for lunch and dinner and until 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Zenshin Asian Restaurant, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89183, 702-796-7111.
Park on Fremont, a 5,000-square-foot gastropub, will open by the end of March, at 500 E. Fremont Street in the Fremont East Art District. The decor will feature an eclectic art collection; reclaimed herringbone flooring; a working 1940s-era jukebox; and an outdoor patio area with antique tables, lush garden, eight-foot archangel statue and a Cinderella-style carriage on the rooftop. The menu will offer signature items including chicken with red onion, arugula, tomato, Parmigiano-Reggiano and balsamic vinegar; grilled cheese served on brioche with American cheese or Brie with Serrano ham; stuffed burgers filled with smoked cheddar and bacon or Gorgonzola cheese and sautéed mushrooms; and 100 different beer selections from around the world. Hours will be daily from 11 a.m.-3 a.m. Park on Fremont, 500 E. Fremont St., Las Vegas, NV 89101, 702-798-7000.
After Bradley Ogden closed at Caesars Palace last year, many in Las Vegas lamented that they would no longer be able to enjoy what many consider one of the best burgers in the town. Word is out that Ogden will soon return to Vegas, as he will be opening up a new concept, Harvest and Hops, in the former space of Bottles & Burgers at Tivoli Village in Summerlin. The eatery will capitalize on Ogden's relationships with the area's top artisanal food producers. An opening date has not yet been announced.
ARIA's Zarkana Offers Show-dinner Packages
Las Vegas' newest Cirque du Soleil® Zarkana™ at ARIA Resort & Casino is offering three dinner-and-show packages at eight of the resort's restaurants. Named for characters in the show, "The Jovian" is offered at Julian Serrano or Lemongrass; "The Lia" at American Fish, Bar Masa, Blossom, Sage or Sirio Ristorante; and "The Zark" at Jean-Georges Steakhouse. Each package includes a prix-fixe meal before the show, premium orchestra seating and a complimentary "Zarkgria," a Zarkana-inspired sangria. Prices start at $128, $138 and $158 respectively. To book a package, call 855-927-5262 and mention "Zarkana Dinner & Show Package. ARIA Resort & Casino, CityCenter, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, 866-359-7757.
Hell's Kitchen Winner to Be Head Chef at Gordon Ramsay Pub
Chef Gordon Ramsay is narrowing the field of competitors who are competing on the 11th season of Hell's Kitchen, which airs Tuesdays on FOX. The grand prize will be a head chef position working under executive chef Jeremy Berlin at Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill at Caesars Palace. Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill, Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, 702-731-7410.
James Beard Award Nominations Announced
The nominees for the 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards have been announced. Picasso is up for Outstanding Wine Program. The annual Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception will take place on May 3 & 6, 2013, at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Find reviews for the restaurants nominated on GAYOT's James Beard Foundation Awards coverage.
Happy Hour at Due Forni
Due Forni has introduced a happy hour menu of gourmet appetizers priced at $5, including oven-baked goat cheese with bacon, apple and honey; duck confit over arugula, caramelized onions and ubriaco cheese; pork belly with smoked bacon polenta and red wine reduction; turkey meatballs with tomato and Parmesan; and braised oxtail served with gnocchi, cremini and parsley. The happy hour is offered from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. daily; add a glass of select wine for $5. Due Forni, 3555 S. Town Center Dr., Ste. 105, Las Vegas, NV 89135, 702-586-6500.
Confectionary Art on Display at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino has created a confectionary display for Easter composed entirely of chocolate. Designed by executive pastry chef Kamel Guechida, the creation took more than eight weeks to complete and is composed of 70 pounds of dark, milk and white chocolate pressed and shaped into polycarbonate molds. The display includes colorful sculptures of flowers, eggs of various shapes and sizes, bunnies, birds, dragonflies, butterflies and hens. The Easter display is available for viewing at the restaurant through Monday, April 1. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, 702-891-7358.
Jazz Sundays Brunch at MOzen Bistro
MOzen Bistro at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas has launched its Jazz Sundays Brunch. The weekly event features live jazz and an all-you-can-eat brunch priced at $58, which includes sushi, crab claws, Kumomoto oysters, traditional dim sum, Belgian waffles, live carving stations and dessert offerings. Free-flowing champagne is offered for an additional $35, and unlimited mimosas are $19 per person. The brunch is served from noon-2:30 p.m. Additionally, on Sunday evenings, the Mandarin Bar on the 23rd floor hosts live jazz bands from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. with light bites, domestic and imported beers for $6, and signature cocktails for $14. MOzen Bistro, Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, CityCenter, 3752 Las Vegas Blvd. S. , Las Vegas, NV 89158, 888-881-9367.
Chef Shuffle
Chef Kamel Guechida has announced he will be leaving his post as pastry chef of Joël Robuchon and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. The MGM has not yet announced replacement or when his final day will be. Guechida has been with Robuchon since the restaurants opened in 2005. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, 702-891-7358.
Josh Crain is leaving American Fish at Aria Resort & Casino and taking the chef de cuisine position at Bouchon at The Venetian, beginning April 2. Crain previously helmed the kitchens at Seablue and Nobhill Tavern at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, and also worked at the original Bouchon in Yountville, CA. American Fish, Aria Resort & Casino, CityCenter, 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, 877-230-2742.
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The Studio Café at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino closed March 16 for renovations, part of the overhaul of the property's restaurant. When it reopens in the summer, it will be open 24 hours and renamed Avenue Bar & Grill. Studio Café, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, no phone.
Both of Sammy DeMarco's Rattlecan and First Food & Bar restaurants at The Venetian/The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino closed without notice March 4. Rattlecan, a gourmet burger eatery, had only been open since November. VV Ventures, the restaurants' ownership team, issued a statement saying, "After years of enjoyment by our customers of First Food & Bar and the initial success of Rattlecan, we have entered a mutual agreement to relocate the restaurants from their current locations. Both restaurants are closed at this time and we look forward to announcing a new Las Vegas home for Rattlecan in the near future." First Food & Bar, The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino, The Shoppes at Palazzo, 3327 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109, no phone.
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Q: String theory and standard model in CERN I don't know how to say it, but in the TV dominatrices  and the popular science books we see the string theory as "the best theory to explain everything", and as  "the only game in town"... etc. And yet, in CERN -The largest physics laboratory-, they are just using the Standard Model (SM) as the only way to find the theory of everything (ToE), and sometimes they call it: "theory of almost everything".
Also, they didn't even mention anything about string theory. (as if it doesn't exist!)
So my question is:
Why? Isn't it easier for them to take the string theory as a Theory of Everything?
Also, the Standard Model is not able to explain the gravitational force from the SM equation! So, the SM is essentially incomplete! Why do they keep working on the SM? Am I missing something here?
-P.S.: I'm an engineer, not a physicist! So, I don't know much about the details.

A: The targetted collision energy of 14 TeV for the LHC is most appropriate to investigate physics around the electroweak scale about 246 GeV and somewhat above. For the up to now by the LHC probed energy of 8 TeV and considering the analysis of the data done so far, the standard model seems to work rather well at these scales so it seems natural to parameterize the observations by the standard model until new physics shows up.
String theory however is first of all a quantum gravity theory and large observable effects of it would most naturally appear at the quantum gravity scale which is much higher (about the Planck scale of about $10^{19}$ GeV) than the by the LHC directly reachable energy scale.
Nevertheless, it could well be that string theory and other higher energy BSM physics has low energy effects that can in principle be seen at the LHC. High energy phenomenology is the part of particle physics which tries to predict such effects. For example string phenomenology is a growing industry and this paper gives a somewhat broader overview about potentially observable low energy phenomenological effects of Planck scale physics.
Technically speaking the standard model is a good effective theory to describe physics around the electroweak scale, and it is expected to be linked by renormalization to a more general theory (for example string theory) needed to describe physics at the Planck scale. Any unified theory that is any good has to be able in principle to reproduce the standard model as an effective theory.
To come to the point, since the GUT or quantum gravity scale (where the strength of gravity is expected to become comparable to the other three forces) are widely separated from the energy scale probed by the LHC up to now  and no strong hints of new physics has turned up so far, I agree with Matt Strassler that it is better to focus on standard model physics in texts about CERN and the LHC targetted at an audience of non experts. But this does not mean that doing BSM physics to try to understand how our universe fundamentally works and looking for hints of it is not important and as Urs Schreiber nicely explains, string theory is even useful for doing standard model calculations that would not have been possible without these insights. And as Lubos says in a comment (if I understand him right), as string theory in principle contains the standard model as an effective theory at the electroweak scale, trying to apply pure string theory calculations to the observations at the LHC is just a more complicated reparameterization.
Of course books like the Elegant Universe linked to in the question (which is considered a good one by experts) have their legitimacy too, to give people who are curious about BSM physics, quantum gravity, black holes, early universe cosmology etc a good introduction to a possible way to describe these things theoretically.

A: As with many discussions about string theory, it is sometimes good to recall some reality:
It was over 50 years ago that the Higgs mechanism was proposed. Compared to fully-fledged theories such as string theory, the Higgs mechanism is a tiny add-on to the observed standard model (as it was then). It took 50 years for experiment to get to the point of seeing it, and in fact so far just a first glimpse of it. For 50 years, the Higgs mechanism was speculation not confirmed by experiment. It had all theoretical backing behind it, theory all pointed to it being true, but it couldn't be checked experimentally for 50 long years. For 50 years, you were free to make TV documentaries about particle physics without mentioning the Higgs mechanism, if you thought it was too outlandish a proposal to have a chance of being confirmed. Then finally experiment reached its energy scale and there it was. 50 years later.
As you all know, there are scenarios thinkable where more beyond-the-standard-model-physics is right around the corner, but nothing to rule out that it takes another 50 years to see the next piece of "new physics". That's just a fact of our short life.
But that's not necessarily as bad as it may sound. While "new physics" may remain specuative for a long time to come, here is a well-kept secret to take note of: even old physics isn't fully understood yet. And string theory can help here, and theorists know (though TV stations may not yet have gotten the message).
For instance, computation of scattering amplitudes even in the known and confirmed standard model is still a challenge, if only you are ambitious enough. String theory has helped with understanding some subtle points in plain Yang-Mills perturbation theory. See the links at string theory applied elsewhere -- QCD scattering amplitudes. In particular check out the remarkable story linked to there, told by Matthew Strassler in his post From string theory to the large hadron collider, which is about how string theory insights into QCD scattering amplitudes helped raise the precision of loop computations to the level that it was possible in the first place to separate signal from background in the LHC. He cites people who were involved as saying that without these string theory insights the Higgs might have been produced, but not identified at the LHC. Have a look, it's an interesting story.
Another thing may be worthwhile to remember from time to time: while we are all fond of proclaiming that we understand fundamental particle physics via quantum Yang-Mills theory, fact is that quantum Yang-Mills theory is still an open theoretical problem. We know that we don't understand some very fundamental facts about qauntum Yang-Mills. It's a "Millennium problem" Yang-Mills existence and the mass gap.
Now, one thing that string theory has become after its "second revolution" is something like a map of the space of Yang-Mills like-field theories and various "dual" theories. Via D-brane physics, KK-reduction, AdS/CFT, etc. Yang-Mills like theories appear in various guises in various corners of string theory, and their embedding into string theory geometrically explains subtle equivalences between these, such as electric/magnetic duality, etc. If you haven't seen it before, check out at http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/gauge+theory+from+AdS-CFT+--+table at least part of this string-theoretic "map" of the space of quantum field theories related to Yang-Mills theory. While this hasn't solved the mass gap problem yet, clearly, one may start to feel that the deeper nature of Yang-Mills theory is slowly but surely being probed here.
The punchline here is the following: besides being a framework for models of quantum gravity and gauge unification, string theory is a piece of theoretical physics that sheds light on the nature of quantum field theory as such.  While experimentalists and public media are busy with indulging in the Higgs physics now that they waited for half a century, maybe theoreticians can use the time before the next accelerator to step back and think a bit more about the still open more fundamental issues of quantum physics. That's where string theory has already helped, and I think will help in the future. Of course you won't see this on public TV.
(Generally, it is surprising these days how not only the public media but also the broad community's attention is consistently attracted to the shallow and ignoring the deep advances that do happen in fundamental physics. For instance there is loads of excitement about, say, the firewall essay contest, but the really interesting advances, such as for instance in genuine mathematical characterization of string theory vacua here remains a topic among a tiny group of specialists. At the same time everybody has an opinion about the "landscape", and everbody else has the opposite opinion. What is needed instead is more decent theoretical work on the foundations of quantum field theory and, inevitably then, string theory.)

A: The Standard Model is a quantum field theory that explains almost everything we know about except gravity, and you can do very precise computations using it (even more precise, now that we know the mass of the Higgs).  However, there are good reasons to believe that gravity cannot be incorporated into a quantum field theory.
String theory attempts to incorporate gravity and the standard model in the Theory of Everything, and is supposed to predict everything if you can find the right way of folding the extra dimensions up. However, there are so many possible ways to fold these up that it currently cannot predict anything that can actually be measured with current or near-future experiments, and some people believe it may never be able to. Not everybody believes that String Theory is the correct Theory of Everything, but nobody has come up with another generally accepted way to combine gravity and quantum field theories.

A: I think I will add my two bits as an experimentalist.
The Standard Model is not the result of brilliant physicists thinking deeply and coming up with a theoretical self consistent formulation that miraculously fitted the data. It is the result of strong interplay between experiments and tentative models that coalesced to what is now the standard model. In its creation  it has incorporated a large number of constants from the experimental data, because the theory comes with a number of unknown constants. In a very real sense the standard model is a shorthand encapsulation of almost all the known data of particle physics, some incorporated, some predicted, and at the same time it is able to predict by calculations phenomena not measured yet. This is, for the energies available to us up to now with the LHC, quite sufficient.
There are indications that the SM cannot describe everything in elementary particles even at these low energies as with some CP violation discrepancies.
Theory follows its own path: theorists are not satisfied with the phenomenological success of the SM, as for high enough energies calculations break down due to infinities not wrapped up. Even before strings and string theory supersymmetry was seen as an attractive solution to resolve infinities at high energies inherent in the SM. At the same time because of cosmological data theorists are pursuing the quantization and consistent unification of all four forces at many fronts. String theory has the necessary group structures to accommodate the SM and Supersymmetry ( a  mirror of the SM yet to be seen experimentally) and is able to incorporate gravity in the whole scheme. At the moment it is the only scheme able to do all this. Hard working phenomenologists are trying to predict effects at LHC energies, but with no success at the moment, since the SM is enough to explain whatever has been measured ( or published, there may be exciting stuff down the pipe)up to now.
As an engineer you will understand that the experimentalists follow the SM blue prints  looking for discrepancies to announce new physics. At the moment there is none, so most of them are not talking about strings, although there are groups testing phenomenological predictions from large extra dimensions in string theory.

A: String theory cannot perform nearly any practical computations by itself. For example, you cannot predict what is the probability of producing some muons at certain angles from colliding electrons using String Theory - noone knows how to do it.
However, some people argue that ST reduces to standard model in most cases. It hasn't been explicitly computed, though.
And so, ordinary phisicists say they use standard model and they use standard model while string theorists use standard model and say they are using String Theory.


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Wanda became Icardi's agent because of love?
Different from the others, where Wanda Nara only has full control and only one as a professional soccer agent. And the player held is Mauro Icardi, who is a client as well as her husband.
Interesting to be dissected here is when Wanda's confession in the world is due to her love for Icardi. If you talk the other side, then most agents overshadow many world-class footballers and not enough one.
It can be compared when mentioning the name of Mino Raiola, who oversees many world-class players such as Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, to Matthijs De Ligt. No different from Jorge Mendes, who is currently an agent of Cristiano Ronaldo, Joao Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, and seasoned coach, Jose Mourinho.
Wanda was different because she went through a different path despite being known as a player agent, but she only wanted Icardi alone. Although she wanted to be an agent for her ex-husband, Maxi Lopez, it only really happened when with Icardi.
Wanda also admitted that it was not only Icardi, he was also faced with the same situation regarding many world-class agents. When speaking at an event in Argentina titled Morfi Telefe that she had been asked to be an agent of her friend's husband, but refused.
"I have been offered the opportunity to represent other players, the husband of my colleague, but I cannot because taking care of Icardi's interests is already very intense. I did it for the sake of love for Mauro, "said Wanda.
The quality of Wanda as an agent of a professional player is quite evident, now she is preoccupied with the certainty that Icardi moved to Paris Saint Germain. As has been heard together, where Icardi has serious problems with Inter, to the point that his name is not included in the squad for the 2019-2020 season.
Although successfully docked to Ligue 1, but many claim this status is a failure of Wanda's strategy. But she claimed to still have a 'secret weapon'. "If I wait until the last moment, it's because I still have a secret weapon," continued Wanda.
Following Icardi's transfer opportunity, Wanda admitted that she was faced with three opportunities, and PSG itself was the last resort.
"From three options we have, PSG is the worst for me, because I have to go back to live in Milan with the children. But I also have to think of the best for Icardi. There are a lot of Italian clubs who want him, and everything can go easier, "concluded Wanda.
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WESTERVILLE, OHIO — T. Marzetti Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corp., has acquired Bantam Bagels, L.L.C. for $34 million. Based in New York City, Bantam Bagels makes frozen mini stuffed bagels and mini stuffed pancakes for distribution to retail and food service channels.
In addition to the $34 million purchase price, Lancaster said the transaction includes contingent consideration in the form of an additional earn-out payment that is tied to the future financial performance of Bantam Bagels.
"We are extremely excited to add Bantam Bagels to our specialty foods business," said David A. Ciesinski, chief executive officer of Lancaster Colony. "Bantam Bagels is a fast-emerging company that provides us with an entry into the large and growing frozen breakfast category. Their established relationship with Starbucks in the food service channel is another positive that positions Bantam Bagels for future expansion. We are thrilled to welcome Nick, Elyse and Bantam Bagels to our family of Lancaster Colony companies and look forward to a successful future together."
Husband wife Nick and Elyse Oleksak founded Bantam Bagels in 2013 as a retail shop offering miniature New York City bagel balls stuffed with cream cheese. A year after the shop opened, Oprah Winfrey featured Bantam Bagels on her Oprah's Favorite Things 2014 list. That following January, Mr. and Ms. Oleksak appeared on "Shark Tank," pitching the concept to the television show's celebrity panel of investors with the hopes of winning financial backing and support for the business venture. Following the "toughest, most rigorous interview we have ever experienced," the pair secured a deal with Lori Greiner, a prolific inventor dubbed the "Queen of QVC" shopping network. Ms. Greiner offered the company $275,000 in exchange for 25% equity.
Before appearing on the show, Bantam Bagels had sales of $200,000. Eight months later, the company's sales surged to more than $2.1 million. Today, the company's sales are approximately $20 million.
The company since has grown into an operation that has nationwide distribution in traditional grocery, club stores, e-commerce and food service.
Lancaster Colony said Bantam Bagels' mini stuffed bagels, pancakes and Egg Bites add "disruptive innovation" to Lancaster Colony's core portfolio of frozen bread products and provide "a strong complement" to the company's New York Brand Bakery and Sister Schubert's brands.
Lancaster Colony said the acquisition is expected to be neutral to its earnings per share in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.
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Q: Run custom callback without run_callback I am trying to create around initialize callback for benchmarks.
class BaseProcessor
  extend ActiveModel::Callbacks

  define_callbacks :initialize
  set_callback :initialize, :around, :run_benchmark

protected

  def run_benchmark
    @benchmark = Benchmark.realtime do
      yield
    end
  end
end

Then other classes are inherited from this BaseProcessor
class Child < BaseProcessor
  def initialize
    run_callbacks :initialize do
      # some stuff
    end
  end
end

So in every child I have to invoke run_callbacks. So my question is: can I avoid it?

A: If I understand you correctly. Something like this should work even without around callbacks.
class BaseProcessor

  def self.new(*args)
    Benchmark.realtime do
      super
    end
  end
end


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Made in China Journal | Article | Counting Contention
Counting Contention
Written on 24 December 2017 . Posted in Article, China Columns.
Author: Manfred Elfstrom
Made in China: Balancing Acts October–December 2017
In August 2017, activist Lu Yuyu was sentenced by the Dali City People's Court to four years in prison for 'picking quarrels and stirring up trouble' (xunxin zishi zui). Together with his partner Li Tingyu, who was detained but then eventually released, Lu had collected information on thousands of 'mass incidents' (qunti shijian). These incidents encompassed a broad range of Chinese contentious politics, from pitched battles between farmers and thugs hired by development companies, to taxi drivers parking en masse along roadways in protest against high fuel prices; and from migrant workers threatening to jump from bridges, to retirees gathering to condemn pollution. Li and Lu posted the information they gathered on social media and blogs under the name Wickedonna (also known as feixinwen, non-news). Their reports usually took the form of short, two- or three-sentence descriptions of confrontations, paired with photos or videos. But the activists also calculated monthly and yearly totals of periods of unrest, accompanied by brief analyses.
It is impossible to know what, exactly, triggered the initial detention of the pair in June 2016. Drawing data of this sort together in one place was clearly unsettling for authorities. But what exactly was so troubling about it? One possibility is that making individual stories of conflict so accessible was dangerous. The activist Huang Qi was detained half a year earlier because of his work curating similar tales on his website 64 Tianwang. Most likely, though, the sheer number of incidents Lu and Li recorded undercut government narratives related to the creation of a 'harmonious society' (hexie shehui) and bringing about the 'great revival of the Chinese people' (zhonghua minzu de weida fuxing). After all, the government itself used to sporadically make public annual incident counts, but it stopped doing so in 2005, presumably because the numbers conveyed a negative impression of where the country was headed.
Wickedonna represented a particularly dedicated and courageous effort at counting Chinese unrest. However, a growing number of academics and activists have launched similar projects—albeit mostly from the safety of universities and non-governmental organisations located outside the mainland. These projects include an extensive dataset covering all types of disturbances put together by Chen Chih-Jou of the Academia Sinica; my Ash Center colleague Li Yao's dataset of all the mass incidents reported in Boxun between 2001 and 2012; the 'China Environmental Protests & Accidents' map covering 2005 to present; China Labour Bulletin's (CLB) strike map of workplace unrest from mid-2011 to present; my own China Strikes dataset covering the Hu–Wen decade; and the Global Labour Conflicts collection hosted by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands, which combines the maps from CLB and myself for its China section.
In this essay, I will explore the power and limits of such efforts with regard to Chinese labour issues. I will begin by contrasting the practices of digging deep (qualitative research) versus counting (quantitative research), and posit that both have their virtues. Then, I will detail the inevitable data problems involved in any quantitative approach to documenting protest in China, while arguing that these problems, although serious, should not deter researchers. Finally, I will examine the ethics involved in how we collect such data and the questions we ask of it.
Digging Deep versus Counting
Research about Chinese labour politics to date has tended to involve in-depth fieldwork (digging deep). Scholars have worked on production lines themselves or interviewed strikers in cafes outside factory gates. They have also put in less adventurous, but sometimes equally demanding, time navigating the Chinese bureaucracy to buttonhole labour officials and trade union leaders. This is as it should be. To a certain extent, you have to physically be 'there' to 'get it'. There are also good reasons to be suspicious of statistics in labour studies. Quantitative data introduces the temptation, often subconsciously, to begin to make the sorts of assumptions about rational individuals and limited options that have led mainstream economics astray. Numbers, moreover, necessarily omit the voices of workers themselves. No econometric take on the industrial revolution, for example, will ever have the humanity of E.P. Thompson's exploration of the many forces that 'made' the English working class. And most basically, with regard to China in particular, reliable quantitative data is simply not available for many aspects of the country's economy and society.
Nevertheless, counting unrest, where it is possible, serves at least two important purposes. First and most importantly, it can give us a sense of the general trends that underlie individual cases and how those trends interact—an imperfect sense to be sure, but a sense all the same. While a close analysis of a single strike at a single factory can challenge our ideas of how things 'work' in China and provide us with important clues as to the mechanisms of change at the grassroots level, we should not use a single case—or five or ten or twenty cases—to make claims about how most conflicts play out. Labour scholars generally include in their qualitative work various asides about limited external validity, but they nonetheless too often leave the distinct impression that they are really talking about where China as a whole is headed, caveats notwithstanding. You simply cannot do this with a country so big and complex.
Second, and this is maybe not so obvious, the process of counting itself is illuminating. Reading strike report after strike report can help you develop a rough sense of what the norms are for conflicts, something which is hard to come by if you are not yourself involved in activism on the ground. At the very least, you develop a feel for the norms of reporting a conflict. Thus, for example, I have noticed that coverage of public bus strikes in Chinese state media tends to take the following form: 'Today, many people waited for their buses for hours but none came. This reporter went to the bus station to investigate. Drivers were standing around. They had several important complaints. When asked about the issue, the transportation bureau said that they were putting together a team to investigate….' Then, when you read something that deviates from the expected story arc, it makes you take notice. You know that it is an outlier—and you wonder what has changed.
Counting contention has yielded useful findings in other labour contexts. For example, sociologist Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor, which describes how worker militancy chases particular industries around the globe, continues to be a touchstone for many scholars (and has been translated into Chinese, winning it a new circle of readers there). Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly's examination of the size and frequency of strikes in France from approximately the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries draws together national politics and shop floor dynamics in an illuminating manner. Graeme Robertson's study of Russian labour protests under Yeltsin and Putin similarly documents fascinating interactions between workers and elite actors in a hybrid regime. Works like these do not rely on perfect data (Silver's World Labor Group dataset uses articles from The New York Times and The Times of London to cover unrest the world over), but they are nonetheless revealing. There is no reason this work should not be extended to the world's second largest economy and largest working class. However, any quantitative approach to China must be balanced by extra close attention to the data problems and ethical issues involved in how we go about gathering and using numbers. I turn to these next.
Data Problems
If we are to begin counting, we must address the problems with the data available to us upfront. The most obvious problem is with totals. Everyone naturally wants to know how often, and in what numbers, workers are protesting in China. However, it is unlikely that any individual or institution actually has this information—not even the Chinese government. CLB has tried to be clear that their strike map likely only represents a small sample of the full 'population' of unrest occurring. Nonetheless, media outlets have repeatedly treated the CLB map as a more or less accurate measure of year-to-year changes in contention. This problem has sometimes extended to scholars. At one point in her thought-provoking 2016 article in the Journal of Asian Studies, which was the focus of a discussion in a previous issue of Made in China, Ching Kwan Lee contrasts CLB figures with numbers she obtained from the Shenzhen City Labour Bureau and Ministry of Public Security in the 1990s and early 2000s, concluding that 'the current period is actually witnessing a decline, not a rise, in strikes'. But surely the government sources Lee cites, while themselves imperfect, convey a more complete picture than CLB. Although her broader point stands—there was a lot of protest before, too, and academics are overstating today's conflict—the precise comparison made is thus inappropriate.
Other problems relate to more subtle issues of bias. Although a surprising amount of information is reported from poorer and more remote parts of the country, more data will always be available for a place like Guangdong than Gansu. Guangdong, in particular, is home to a relatively open press (especially the Southern Media Group), scores of bloggers and social media gadflies, and foreign journalists—and it abuts Hong Kong. Whether the imbalance in reports from different places is wildly out of sync with the imbalance in actual instances of unrest is a question that is important but almost impossible to answer. There are also biases in terms of sources. Dissident media outlets are unsurprisingly better at documenting violence against workers by police or thugs, whereas state media makes sure to always describe the steps taken by officials to resolve a dispute. There may also be biases that manifest themselves over time, as censorship tightens and slackens, and news cycles come and go. Statistically, these issues can be dealt with by using only one source for all reports (so that the biases are predictable), by including fixed effects, by zeroing in on dynamics in a particular region, or by seeing what happens when all observations with more than a certain number of incidents are dropped (to ensure that the story is not just related to one of the hotspots). The main thing, though, is to be honest about the data's limitations.
The Questions We Ask
Not all the dangers of counting relate to issues of samples versus totals or bias in terms of sources or cycles of reporting. We should also consider the real-world impact of what we are trying to learn with quantitative data. As with qualitative research, sometimes the easiest questions to answer are not the ones that matter most. Moreover, focussing on certain issues over others means serving certain interests over others. Traditional studies of strikes by labour economists have focussed on the number of incidents, number of participants, or the number of workdays lost. These figures are tracked by many governments (although not China's) and obviously have a big impact on an economy. But why not put more energy into rigorously documenting the different types of worker claims made? Claims may matter more to discussions of class consciousness. When you have thousands of 'dots' representing disputes marked on a map—the default of software programs like the one I use for my China Strikes map—it is natural to wonder why they cluster in some places and not in others. However, workers and their allies may not need lessons about what causes mobilisation. Instead, they may be more interested in its consequences: which tactics are effective and which are not, where in the country breakthroughs are possible, etc. In contrast, state authorities and businesses have an intense interest in understanding the roots of contention: they just want to stop protests! As has been well-documented in the media, big data is now being harnessed to track individuals and groups in China in disturbing ways, such as via the country's proposed new social credit system. The American military, meanwhile, is devoting substantial sums to predicting social upheavals with its Minerva grants. The protest maps assembled by labour researchers are unlikely to be as comprehensive as these projects and so should not raise the same level of concern. But research can always be turned to multiple purposes. It is important for scholars to ponder what purposes their research most easily serves. This sort of awareness is the least we owe people like Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu who have sacrificed their freedom to document what is happening.
Photo: Mesmerised by Numbers by Hsing Wei, Flickr. This article was originally published in Made in China Journal, vol. 2 no. 4, 2017.
Manfred Elfstrom
Manfred Elfstrom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Previously, he served as a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow at the University of Southern California's School of International Relations and a China public policy postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. His latest book, Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (2021), examines how rising industrial conflict is transforming the Chinese state from below.
The Effable Worker
Lest We Forget: The Missing Chinese Activists of 2021
Foreigner in China: Economic Transition and the Chinese State's Vision of Immigration and Race


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This year's Cure Bowl will make gender broadcast history
By John TaylorDec 14, 2019, 12:34 PM EST
Thursday evening, on the way to winter workouts for softball, my 13-year-old daughter brought this topic up, saying she had seen something about it on Facebook or some other social media website. "You're going to do something on it, right?" she asked, a string of words that were two parts question and 98 parts admonition.
How could I not?
Dec. 21, the Liberty Flames will take on the Georgia Southern Eagles in the fifth annual Cure Bowl. The postseason matchup will mark the first-ever bowl for the Flames, but that's not what makes this game unique. And historical.
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"The FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl has been working to take this concept to completion and team up with BowlDayRadio to bring together Jamie, Dani and Melanie for this historic broadcast," Cure Bowl executive director Alan Gooch said in a statement. "Jamie has been an ambassador for our game since its inception and was recognized as a Cure Bowl Community Service Soldier in 2017. Melanie provides a great perspective and has the first-hand experience covering the Liberty Flames this year, while Dani's experience speaks for itself as a sideline analyst for the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network and a former captain of a professional football team."
Kudos to the Cure Bowl for its forward-thinking.
And kudos to my daughter for being herself.