Scammers commonly work by offering people hope in the form of job placement, access to free government grant money, get-rich-quick plans, phony debt-reduction services, or the chance to work at home. Once you sign-on, these scammers do nothing but put you further in the hole by taking your money and doing nothing in return or even worse: using the information you provided to steal your identity.
I recently received an email from the FTC making me aware of a new program they have called Operation Shortchange. Operation Shortchange is an effort by the FTC to aggressively educate consumers on how to spot a scam. They are also significantly increasing law enforcement of scamming operations. They recently announced 15 FTC cases, 44 law enforcement actions by the Department of Justice, and actions by at least 13 states and the District of Columbia in order to make a significant and positive impact. You can read all about the cases in the FTCs detailed article.
Of course law enforcement can only do so much, and the best way to attack this ever growing trend is by educating the public. The FTC knows this, and as a result has created a video that teaches people how to spot scams and scammers. The new video features two scam victims and a former telemarketer of fraudulent business opportunities who explains exactly how he got people to part with their money. Check out the cases and the video at www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/07/shortchange.shtm.
The FTC has also created a resource to assist you with avoiding business opportunity scams. You can read all about those at www.ftc.gov/bizopp.
Don't be a victim of slimey scammer. Spend a few minutes viewing the FTCs site watching the video and reading up on their resources. Spread the word too as I think everyone can benefit greatly from this information.
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Thanks. I'm sure I'm like many people who think most scams are pretty easy to spot and avoid with a little common sense, but it never hurts to refresh yourself on some of the less-common tactics that you might not notice if you weren't paying attention.


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Mrs. Aisha Oyebode is the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation and Group Chief Executive Officer, Asset Management Group (AMG) Limited. Having trained as a legal practitioner, Aisha has experience in corporate and litigation matters with Ajumogobia, Okeke, Aluko and Oyebode. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989. She has completed several assignments with global financial institutions which include Caisse Privee Banque, Brussels; Banque Rivaud, Paris; and Banque Privee, Geneva.
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Olalekan ("Lekan"), has over 20 years' experience in the oil and gas industry and investment markets, most recently with Alliance-Bernstein L.P. in New York where he spent six years as a research analyst and portfolio manager covering Energy and Materials worldwide. Lekan graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering and also holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.
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Sam is a broad-based Geoscientist with over 25 years of experience in asset management and field development, reservoir management, seismic data processing and interpretation with several oil majors. He has managed numerous major projects, delivering excellent project conceptualization and implementation under difficult conditions and tight schedules. Experienced in project management and assurance tools, Sam has a proven ability to build and lead diverse teams to deliver in performance driven environments in Nigeria, Europe, the Middle-East and Asia.
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Ed has a track record of leading and developing high calibre finance and commercial teams in challenging environments. UK Chartered Accountant, with over 30 years UK and international experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to Lekoil, Ed served n various leadership positions at Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited i, including General Manager Business Services, Director Finance and Administration and CFO for all Addax companies in Nigeria
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Gloria Iroegbunam is General Manager, Legal and Company Secretary for Lekoil Nigeria. She has over 10 years of experience as a legal practitioner, starting her career with Aelex in 2005 working in the Oil and Gas division, advising on alternative tax structures for the financing of upstream activity, joint ventures, compliance matters, oil and gas field agreements, legal due diligence, legal issues in business acquisitions, corporate management, and drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements. She has also advised companies like Herbert Smith LLP's Energy division
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The four main varieties of olives grown in California used to be: Mission - originally cultivated by the Franciscan missions; Manzanillo - the most prevalent; Sevillano and Ascolano - the larger sizes. There is now a very wide diversity of olives found in California.
We recommend reading the "Olive Varieties" section on pages 7, 8, and 9 in Paul Vossen's book, Organic Olive Production Manual, University of California. It provides an excellent description of the most common varieties.
Differences between the thousands of varieties can be very subtle. It is now possible to use DNA fingerprinting to identify specific varieties. Some of the laboratories listed on our Testing Laboratories page provide this service.
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Q: How de find bower version? Incredible, I can't handle how to find bower version. Is a comand exist?
I tried to find a command first, secondly, un file showing the version whitout success.
Thank you in advance for your help.

A: That's an excellent question Joachim. Could you please show us which commands you tried and the file you are talking about ?
Normally you can find bower version in the .bowerrc file https://bower.io/docs/config/ .

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Q: Apache FOP applet error Unknown function: gatherContextInfo I'm trying to use FOP to generate a pdf file in a signed applet, but, i got these errors:
Dez 10, 2013 2:09:45 PM org.apache.fop.fo.properties.PropertyCache <init>
Informações: Unable to access org.apache.fop.fo.properties.use-cache due to security restriction; defaulting to 'true'.

ERROR:  'Unknown function: gatherContextInfo'

I tried the same code in a desktop application, and everything works fine, the problem is just in the applet.

A: Problem solved!
I had to add the provided xalan.jar in fop-bin.zip to the classpath.
I guess it includes the unknown function while the built in implementation in JRE not.


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The most recent city-fringe apartment located in Prime District 15 is where Grand Dunman is situated. It is the Grand Dunman is a brand new residential mega launch situated on Dunman Road that can create around 1040 housing units and has a variety of between one and five bedrooms. With the huge space, SingHaiYi Group will be in a position to show their imagination in landscape and architectural design. to provide beautiful views, and plenty of cross-ventilation
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SingHaiyi is based on principles of morality and commercial knowledge. It's committed to establishing an image that is built on and lasts. At SingHaiyi We invest a lot of time in building a reputable brand that will last for many years and will be able to sustain continuous expansion.
It is located right next it is nearby Dakota MRT Station along Dunman Road. The residents of Singapore can immediately access every part of the city due to the Circle Line's path having interchanges that connect to each MRT Line in the country and the connection through Dakota MRT Station and the Circle Line.
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Multiple videos posted on social media show the chaos that broke out at a tribute to "Fast and the Furious" star Paul Walker.
WEST COVINA, CA (KCAL/KCBS/CNN) – It's been nearly five years since actor Paul Walker died in a car crash.
Wednesday marked the "Fast and the Furious" star's birthday, and fans honored him by doing dangerous car stunts in a mall parking lot.
Multiple videos posted on social media show the chaos that broke out at the tribute.
Two mall security guards were assaulted.
Videos show a member of the crowd shoving one guard. The shoves turned to punches before other crowd members stepped in to break up the fight.
The guard then returned to his damaged truck amid chants from the crowd to tip it over.
No one carried out that suggestion, but some people did jump on the windshield.
Police soon arrived, and most of the crowd took off.
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The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has always been a much-loved photography subject. And now, with drones becoming smaller, increasingly capable, and ever more affordable, even more people are using their unmanned aircraft to photograph the famous landmark. Most of these flights, however, are illegal drone flights, and there have also been several drones that crashed into and onto the renowned bridge causing dangerous situations for motorists.
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If a Body Corporate Management firm has been engaged many of the secretary's duties will be undertaken by the the Body Corporate Manager for your complex, acting with the authorised powers (really on behalf of) the elected secretary.
The contract that your complex has with the Body Corporate Manager will detail just which services that will be performed on behalf of the elected secretary.
It is important to note that the elected secretary has the responsibility to oversee that the Body Corporate Manager has performed the duties. The Body Corporate Manager should not be in charge – they are meant to work for, and with, the elected executive committee. The Body Corporate Manager, in turn, under the Code of Conduct provisions, may have their contract terminated if they do not carry out the role professionally and if they do not demonstrate a reasonable knowledge of the Act and Regulations.
Meeting Matters
The secretary must send notices to each lot owner inviting nominations for executive and committee positions.
Nominations must be given to the secretary by the end of the body corporate financial year.
The secretary must acknowledge that the nomination has been received by forwarding a written notice to the candidate.
If a ballot is necessary (ie more than one person has nominated for a particular executive position or more people have nominated than the required number of committee positions) then after nominations close, the secretary must prepare ballot papers for committee positions.
The ballot can be either secret ballot or an open ballot. This is decided at the previous AGM. Many complexes choose to have an open ballot because the process is simpler and cheaper and is perfectly suitable when there is normally community goodwill and harmony.
The secretary must forward the ballot papers for committee positions, in an envelope marked "ballot paper", and, if it is a secret ballot, either a separate particulars envelope or a particulars tab that forms part of the ballot paper envelope) with the notices for the AGM.
Lot owners (or other people entitled to vote) must give their ballot paper envelope, with ballot paper enclosed to the secretary to be received before or at the AGM.
Before the meeting it is the secretary who holds the completed ballot papers received before the AGM. The secretary works with the independent returning officer (when there is one)
At the meeting the secretary must pass any ballot papers and particular envelopes for the ballot to the person chairing the meeting or to an independent returning officer for opening and counting.
Committee meetings are called by the secretary. If enough members of the committee to form a quorum at a committee meeting ask for a meeting, the secretary must call it.
The committee must ensure that full and accurate minutes of meetings are taken. Traditionally that role is secretarial and therefore is included in these duties.
If half or more of the lot owners object to a decision of the body corporate meeting within 7 days of receiving the minutes, the secretary must advise the committee that the decision taken has been opposed
The secretary calls general meetings of the scheme, normally as a result of a majority decision of the committee or because 25% or more of the lot owners request such a meeting in writing.
The secretary invites lot owners to submit motion for inclusion in the agenda for the AGM and then compiles and distribute the agenda containing the motions
The secretary receives details on voter categories including the names and addresses of family members who have been authorised to act on behalf of lot owners; names and addresses of company nominee in the cases where lots are owned by corporations and any details of people acting as a power of attorney for a particular lot owner. The secretary also receives any details when there is a mortgagee in possession for a lot and whether that mortgagee in possession is exercising his right to vote for that lot, displacing the right of the person normally entitled to that vote.
The secretary should have available for inspection at any general meeting the body corporate roll; a list of persons who have a right to vote (see previous paragraph) including details of lot owners who might owe a debt to the body corporate at that date; proxy forms; voting papers
It is implied that a secretary must keep records of the total votes counted for each motion, the total votes counted against each motion; total number of abstentions for each motion. A list of votes rejected from the count and the reasons for that rejection should also be kept
Proxy forms can be given by post, facsimile or personally
It is implied in the Act and Regulations that the secretary (particularly if there is no body corporate manager) must know where all body corporate records are kept and must ensure that the records, registers and rolls are kept for the correct specified time.
(For further information go to the Act and Regulations)
It is important for the body corporate secretary (and other committee members for that matter) to know that certain notices, meetings and processes have to happen within certain time frames. The date for the end-of-financial-year is important since that date is the date on which to base many of the procedures for the Annual General Meeting. For instance, the AGM must be held within 3 months of the end-of-financial-year; the closing date for nominations for committee positions and for motions for the AGM is the end-of-financial- year date, therefore the time to send out nomination forms and notice requesting motions for the AGM has to happen between 6 and 3 weeks before the end-of-financial-year.
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When I write short stories, they usually end up being fantasy of some sort. However, my only WIP that I think I'm actually planning to finish right now is more sci-fi-ish, so I don't know. My advice is this: Start with the ending. Pick a prompt for the ending if you have to, just start. with. the. ending. It will save you SO much trouble. And I have not had MY dog wake me up in the middle of the night (mostly because I don't have a dog) but here where I live there are a TON of strays, and I have been kept awake by them before.
Start with the ending – that's great advice! Fodder for a blog post, I believe . . . I've heard others talk about that before. It does save a lot of headache. 🙂 I've been so stuck in my writing before when I'm trying to devise an appropriate ending, when some authors build their entire story off the ending!


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4 Unusual Things to do in Philadelphia
If you have purchased one of the Philadelphia houses for sale and aren't sure what to do after having explored some of the top sights like the Museum of Art, the Liberty Bell and Independence National Historical Park, or if you just want to do something more unique during a visit, you'll have lots of options, including these.
Download an App for a Self-Guided Walking Tour
Old City Philadelphia is made up of 35 square blocks featuring buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of those have hosted famous historical events and can be visited via a walking tour. Download the Philadelphia Map and Walks app on the iTunes app store or Google Play, and you can follow in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers. Your smartphone will be transformed into your own personal tour guide using GPS to take you from one fascinating site to the next.
Experience the Dark, Creepy and Possibly Haunted Side of Philly After Dark
Philadelphia is home to the now-abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, which is often said to be one of the most terrifying, and most haunted buildings in the world. It was constructed in 1829, complete with imposing guard towers and castle-like walls, as the first prison to institute solitary confinement. These prisoners exercised, ate, and slept alone, which is what's believed to have resulted, at least in part, in the mental illness that ran rampant among them. Those who visit have reported all sorts of strange noises, and the odd cries, with lonely wails drifting through dark corridors. Cell Block 12 is one of the most famous, known for its disembodied laughter and shadowy figures.
For the daring who seek something particularly unusual, book the night tour called "Terror Behind the Walls."
Browse One of the Country's Biggest Public Art Projects
Art lovers will find a lot more than the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art to explore – there are works throughout the city, thanks in part to the city's Mural Arts Program, which has become one of the largest public art projects in the U.S. Buildings throughout Philadelphia have been used as a canvas for all sorts of impressive work with local artists who've created more than 3,600 murals. You also might want to check out the Barnes Foundation which holds one of the top collections of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings on Earth, including works by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, more than 180 Renoir pieces and nearly 50 Picassos.
See Einstein's Brain at the Mütter Museum
Located inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia headquarters is the Mütter Museum, which features all sorts of medical curiosities, including Albert Einstein's brain, or a slice of it anyway. A set of brain slides contain slivers of the scientist's brain, which look like tiny strands of kelp. While Einstein himself, who wanted to be cremated, would not be pleased, the pathologist who was on duty the night he died wanted to keep part of his brain away from the flames in case it could be studied in the future, providing clues to his genius. The museum also holds the skeleton of the tallest man ever to have lived in North America along with many other exhibits, displayed in Victorian cabinets, the very same cabinets that were installed here when the institution was constructed in 1858.
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Ancient Greenland gene map has a surprise Reuters – An artist's impression shows "Inuk" who is believed to have lived among the Saqqaq people, … .By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor – Wed Feb 10, 4:44 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters)
– Scientists have sequenced the DNA from four frozen hairs of a Greenlander who died 4,000 years ago in a study they say takes genetic technology into several new realms.
Surprisingly, the long-dead man appears to have originated in Siberia and is unrelated to modern Greenlanders, Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues found.
"This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit," the researchers wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
Not only can the findings help transform the study of archeology, but they can help answer questions about the origins of modern populations and disease, they said.
"Such studies have the potential to reconstruct not only our genetic and geographical origins, but also what our ancestors looked like," David Lambert and Leon Huynen of Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, wrote in a commentary.
The DNA gives strong hints about the man, nicknamed Inuk. "Brown eyes, brown skin, he had shovel-form front teeth," Eske Willerslev, who oversaw the study, told a telephone briefing. Such teeth are characteristic of East Asian and Native American populations.
He had the genes for early hair loss, too. "Because we found quite a lot of hair from this guy, we presume he actually died quite young," Willerslev said.
The man lived among the Saqqaq people, the earliest known culture in southern Greenland that lasted from around 2500 BC until about 800 BC.
Scientists have disagreed on who these people were -- whether they descended from the peoples who crossed the Bering Strait 30,000 to 40,000 years ago to settle the New World or whether they were more recent immigrants.
Willerslev's team pulled DNA from hairs found in a frozen Saqqaq site and sequenced it just as they would a modern person's full genome, looking for characteristic mutations.
"Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies have initiated an era of personal genomics," the researchers wrote.
"The sequencing project described here is a direct test of the extent to which ancient genomics can contribute knowledge about now-extinct cultures," they added.
The DNA links Inuk to modern-day Arctic residents of Siberia. He had almost none of the mutations seen in Indians living in Central and South America.
"We have an increasingly powerful forensic tool with which to 'reconstruct' extinct humans and the demographics of populations," Lambert and Huynen wrote.
A year ago scientists sequenced the genome of a Neanderthal -- early humans who went extinct 30,000 years ago -- and other groups have sequenced DNA from dried-out mammoth hair.
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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RSWM 2.0 Riju Jhunjhunwala driving the next phase of growth through focus on technology, innovation and sustainability
Strong technology, innovation and sustainability focus are some of the initiatives that have triggered the company's growth curve over the years and it is now gearing up to meet the demand of the future.
Rajasthan Spinning and Weaving Mills Limited (RSWM Ltd.) is the flagship company of LNJ Bhilwara Group, founded in 1961 by the visionary entrepreneur L N Jhunjhunwala. RSWM is one of the largest textile manufacturers in India, exporting to more than 78 countries worldwide. The company has 11 manufacturing plants with 478,000 spindles and 172 looms, located at Banswara, Rishabhdev, Kharigram, Ringas, Mandapam, and Kanyakheri regions of Rajasthan, producing high-quality cotton, mélange, sustainable, value-added, greige, and synthetic and novelty yarns along with denim fabrics and knitted fabrics.
"Our Kharigram unit is one of India's most sophisticated plants with 52,000 spindles. It produces the finest polyester-viscose greige yarn in the Indian market, sold under the brand name ULTIMA®. We have more than two decades of expertise in producing superior quality mélange yarns sold under the brand name Melantra® and cotton-dyed yarns in various sparkling colours and shades. Annually we produce 18,000 metric tons of mélange yarns on 75,000 spindles," says Managing Director Riju Jhunjhunwala in an exclusive chat.
"Established in 2007, our denim division produces 25 million metres of fabric yearly in both traditional and innovative constructions and blends. Besides this, our recycled polyester unit located near Jaipur produces staple fibre that transforms waste PET bottles into Fibre Green, which is the company's certified recycled polyester yarn. We also manufacture fibre-dyed yarns and have spinning and draw fibre line capacity of 120 tons per day. Moreover, we also have solar roof top power plants that cater to our captive power consumption," Jhunjhunwala adds.
"We follow the standards set by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and the Fair-Trade Foundation for producing sustainable products and constantly strive to reduce the carbon footprint. With its constant effort, the company has been able to secure the prestigious status of 'Golden Trading House' and has received export awards from the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC)," Jhunjhunwala informs.
Giving an overview of the company's products and solutions, Jhunjhunwala says: "With the help of technically advanced spinning facilities and dedicated research and development team, we produce a diverse range of products as per the ongoing global future fashion trends. The yarns, knitted and denim fabrics produced at our units are unmatched by the competitors. With decades of experience in the textile industry, our expertise lies in manufacturing sustainable and finest quality cotton, mélange, synthetic, novelty and greige yarns, along with international quality denim and knitted fabrics. The superior quality yarns produced at our unit using high-end technology also extend to home and commercial interior applications like weaving fabrics for curtains, carpets, bed covers, upholstery, and a multitude of items."
"Our Mordi unit weaves sustainable denim fabrics like PCW, recycled poly, natural indigo, hemp, recycled fibres; selvedge denims; dobbies and knit look; premium blends like tencel, modal, bamboo, linen, mélange, etc.; performance denim with value-added fibres for moisture management, low growth and high recovery; classic stretch denims for men, women and children; ecru and colour denims across all weights; and top weight denim with various blends and weaves. Our unit at Kharigram produces the finest quality polyester-viscose greige yarn in the Indian market, which is sold under the brand name ULTIMA®," Jhunjhunwala informs.
Elaborating about the company's manufacturing and infrastructure capacity, Jhunjhunwala states, "Our 11 manufacturing plants located at six units in Rajasthan have a total capacity of 478,000 spindles and 172 looms. With the help of cutting-edge technology, we produce high-quality and sustainable cotton, mélange, and synthetic yarns, along with denim fabrics in these plants. To deliver a wide range of yarns as per the clients' needs and market trends, we have installed the best-in-class and innovative machinery sourced from world-renowned brands such as LMW, Truetzschler, Rieter, Savio, Luwa, etc. Our factory has a production capacity of 150,000 metric tons for yarns, 32 million metres of denim fabric and 44,000 metric tons of recycled fabric."
According to Jhunjhunwala, RSWM Limited is investing around Rs 410 crore in the expansion of denim, cotton melange yarn, knits business, modernisation and balancing equipments across all units. "The capex will be fully operational by FY23 and investment in denim, cotton yarns and knit is expected to increase our top-line by around Rs 700 crore. An additional capex of Rs 315 crore shall be invested in the expansion of our spinning capacity in Banswara, Rajasthan," he adds.
Speaking about the innovation and technology advantages offered by the company, he observes: "The textile industry consumes a huge amount of water and energy, along with other chemicals and harmful substances. These things have a major impact on the environment. To minimise the harmful effect on the surroundings and reduce carbon footprints, it is essential to switch to producing sustainable yarns and fabrics without compromising their quality. Keeping this in mind, we are making conscious efforts to introduce sustainability in fashion. For that we are using eco-friendly materials and consuming less energy and water at our manufacturing units. Moreover, we are focusing on reducing, reusing and recycling products."
Continuing further, he states: "To reduce plastic waste and conserve the environment we have set up a division that produces recycled polyester staple fibre from PET bottles. The unit can recycle 122 MT of plastic daily. These PET bottles are procured from authorised waste traders and this also helps to generate employment opportunities in the region." Highlighting some of the key points of the company's export performance in recent times, Jhunjhunwala says, "FY 2021-2022 has been quite profitable for us. We registered the highest ever sales in the last fiscal year due to unrestricted festive gatherings and wedding seasons after two years of lockdown due to the pandemic. Our export quantity increased by 87% in FY22, touching the mark of Rs 1,419 crore. In addition, our domestic turnover increased to 27% year-over-year compared to the last quarter. Our key customers are JC Penney, H and M, Zara, Levi's, Wrangler, Diesel, Lee, Spykar, Hilfiger and many more."
Listing down the key reasons that offer the company its competitive advantages, Jhunjhunwala remarks: "We at RSWM are committed to providing the best quality yarns, denim and knitted fabrics. To fulfil our clients' requirements and stay a notch ahead of our competitors, we keep introducing new and advanced manufacturing technology. For example, we started commercial production of knitted fabric using high-end German Corizon™ technology this year. We are the first textile company in Asia to produce fabrics like polyester, nylon, cotton and cotton blends using Corizon technology. Going forward, we are also planning to start the production of synthetic fabrics like linen, modal, Pima cotton, viscose, recycled polyester and Ecovero LIVA."
"In addition, we also recycle 30 tons of fabrics per month. We are proud to say that we use recycled yarns for producing denim fabric. Our cutting-edge Garnett machine efficiently breaks down worn-out garment materials and turns them into new usable fibres, allowing us to weave fresh fabric. Through our constant effort, we have been able to reduce 800,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually," he adds. Elaborating on the total number of employees in the company, Jhunjhunwala informs: "We employ around 16,000 staff and workers in our textile units out of which 2,300 employees are women. We treat every employee of our company with dignity and respect. That's the reason why employees stay here for 17-18 years. Some have even spent their entire lifetime with the organisation till their retirement age."
Sustainability Driven
As mentioned earlier the company has always been a forerunner when it comes to adopting sustainability initiatives. "We support green energy and are committed to conserving energy and manufacturing yarns using eco-friendly methods. We are highly inclined towards using natural and eco-friendly resources for producing yarns. With our innovative methods, we have been able to reduce approximately 800,000 CO2 emissions annually. Apart from this we also transform waste PET bottles into FibreGreen® to reduce plastic waste and reduce land and water pollution," Jhunjhunwala states.
"The sustainability initiatives taken up by RSWM include rooftop solar power plants with a capacity of more than 25 MW, wind power plants with a capacity of 34 MW and 1,350 kilolitres of water conservation. Through various processes and ETP units, wastewater is re-treated for further use. We are currently a zero liquid discharge (ZLD) company. To eliminate excess landfill waste we recycle 30 tons of fabric per month with the help of our state-of-the-art Garnett machine. The high-tech machinery efficiently breaks down post-consumer waste fabrics and converts them into new usable fibres," he adds.
Growth through Automation
Shedding light on how the company is adopting automation and Industry 4.0 in its manufacturing process, Jhunjhunwala mentions: "The need for hybrid and highly fragmented value chains has increased in the past decade giving rise to new digital industrial technology, known as Industry 4.0. It is an interpretation and application of Industry Revolution 4.0 in textile technology and textile manufacturing sectors across the supply chain in spinning, weaving and finishing. Due to the rising cost, high-end consumers and the complex value chain led to the spike in global competitiveness making it imminent to upgrade."
"Increasing numbers of textile production facilities will transform into 'smart factories' in the coming years as automation and artificial intelligence make a covert entrance into the textile industry. The Indian textile industry will have no choice but to catch up to the rest of the world by transforming the production facilities into smart factories in light of rising labour costs, rising manufacturing and energy expenses, and process waste. Only by embracing Textile 4.0 will Indian textile manufacturing units be able to compete with major textile-producing nations like China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Industry 4.0 is being quickly adopted by the Indian logistics sector, and as a result, the textile industry's supply chain will profit from proper production planning and quick product transportation," he adds.
"To emerge as successful key suppliers, accepting Revolution 4.0 will become mandatory. The industry as a result will become a centre of progressive production technologies and a base for piloting and scaling up new digital solutions," he further states. Finally, sharing the future growth plans and vision of the company up to the year 2025 and beyond, Jhunjhunwala states, "We are seeking RSWM to have excellent solvency ratios in the coming years. We shall prioritize this above all else. Next on the list is modernisation of all spinning facilities as and when required. The vision is to double the capacity from what it is today with some degree of forward integration. Also, we will lay a huge focus on being a carbon neutral company."
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Q: Running future n times I'd like to run my future call n times, for example 5. Future "execution" will take some time and I want to call new one only when previous was completed. Something like:
def fun(times: Int): Future[AnyRef] = {
   def _fun(times: Int) = {
      createFuture()
   }

    (1 to times).foldLeft(_fun)((a,b) => {
      println(s"Fun: $b of $times")
      a.flatMap(_ => _fun)
    })
}

So I want to call "_fun" function n times one by one. "createFuture()" will take some time, so "_fun" shouldn't be called again before previous future was completed. Also, I want to create a non-blocking solution. Currently, this code executes without waiting for previous future to end.
Any ideas how to make it work?
Thanks for your answers!

A: Without understanding what exactly you want the final future to return (I'm going to just return the result of the last completed future), you could try something like this:
def fun(times: Int): Future[AnyRef] = {
  val prom = Promise[AnyRef]()
  def _fun(t: Int) {

    val fut = createFuture()
    fut onComplete {
      case Failure(ex) => prom.failure(ex)
      case Success(result) if t >= times => prom.success(result)
      case Success(result) => _fun(t + 1)
    }

  }
  _fun(1)

  prom.future
}

This is a sort of recursive solution that will chain the futures together on completion, stopping the chaining when the max number of times has been reached.  This code is not perfect, but certainly conveys one possible solution for making sure the successive futures do not fire until the previous future completed successfully.

A: I think it will be nicer if you make it recursive using flatMap.
Let's imagine you have your createFuture defined as:
def createFuture() = Future( println("Create future"))

We can create a function to compose the result of createFuture with:
   def compose(f: () => Future[Unit])(b: Future[Unit]) = b.flatMap(_ => f())

And then you can define fun as:
 def fun(n : Int) = {
     def nTimes(n : Int, f : Future[Unit] => Future[Unit], acc : Future[Unit]) = if (n == 0) acc else nTimes(n-1,f,f(acc))
     nTimes(n,compose(createFuture),Future())
 }


Our Summer league fixture list is below. Links to race entries will be made available when they become available to us.
MAIN - in which all athletes can score points and which will be decided on the FASTEST times in each race.
AGE GRADE % - in which all athletes ages are taken into account and graded accordingly with the highest % in each race scoring the most points.
FEMALE - female only in which all of our female athletes are eligble to score points for the fastest in each race.
Athletes can score in 10 out of the 12 events plus one Park Run (Best time) throughout the season from April 1st up until the middle week in October. Scoring will be the same as in previous years. One half marathon must be attempted to qualify. It was felt that we should support local events and to also cut down the number of Permit races which we have applied for in the past.
In addition to these events we will be holding our own internal Summer Town races only for ADAC members.
"Town" runs based on the same format as our Winter league runs on. Provisional dates have not yet been finalised but we hope to clarify these soon.


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Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another; write an equation to express one quantity, thought of as the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, thought of as the independent variable. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation. For example, in a problem involving motion at constant speed, list and graph ordered pairs of distances and times, and write the equation d = 65t to represent the relationship between distance and time.
Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. For example, create a story context for (2/3) (3/4) and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (a/b) (c/d) = ad/bc.) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?
Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak. For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.
Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar. We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.


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First images of Cardiff's new bus station... it's designed by Norman Foster's firm and opens in summer 2018
The city's council has selected world renowned Foster + Partners as the preferred architect for the city's new bus station
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Artist's impression of the new look Cardiff bus interchange. The highlighted red area is the new entrance to the bus interchange
The proposed design for Cardiff's long-awaited new bus station has been revealed.
The city's council has announced world-renowned architects Foster + Partners has been chosen as the preferred architect for the Cardiff Transport Interchange project.
Below: The plans for Central Square with the railway station to the right and the bus station in front
Artist's impression of the new look Cardiff bus interchange. Picture shows the glass canopy linking the train station with the new bus station
The firm has already designed the new BBC development, which is expected to be completed in Central Square by mid-2018.
Below: A waiting area in the new development
Artist impressions of the new Cardiff Transport Interchange
Who is the prolific designer behind Cardiff's bus station and some of the world's iconic buildings?
The design will transform the area outside the city's central train station by demolishing the current Marland House and NCP car park and replacing it with a sleek new building which the council say will be a "spectacular new gateway" into the city and country.
Below: Cardiff's bus station as it looks now, with Marland House on the left hand side of the photograph
Cardiff bus station
'One of the most significant regeneration schemes'
It is being billed as one of the most significant regeneration schemes the city has seen in decades.
While the details of this concept design will not be finalised until the end of this year, this "concept design" includes:
A ground floor bus station
First floor concourse and airport style lounge, complete with restaurants and cafes
Hotel, apartments and office space in 11 storeys above the bus station
Bike repair shop and increased storage for 900 bikes
Separate building for drivers, with a first floor concourse to link to the main building
Glass canopy linking train station to bus station
Foster + Partners were selected from a shortlist of five architects.
'One-way system'
As part of their design visitors will enter the bus station at ground level and could see buses operate via a one way system in place for buses to enter and exit the station.
Video: See a fantastic clip showing the evolution of Central Square to date... and how the new plans will transform it
'Fantastic' and 'breathtaking' - Cardiff's new Bus Interchange plans met with approval
Inside the new station, there will be bus bays which buses will pull into to allow passengers to board via automatic doors.
Buses will reverse out, exiting via the one-way system.
Below: An overview of the Central Square development
Artist's impression of new look Central Square as it will sit in the city landscape, the bus interchange is in the far right
The council say this design will allow the station to stay open on event days but that on event days, buses will enter and exit on the south side when Wood Street is closed.
The transformation of the area is by developer Rightacres Property Ltd.


Alfred Jacob Miller is considered one of the most significant American artists to serve as a documenter of the early western travels in the United States. Along with being included on an expedition of the West with explorer Captain William Drummond Stewart, he also became known as the famed artist who chronicled the fur trade at its greatest activity in the Rocky Mountains.
Born in 1810 in Baltimore, Maryland, Miller was born to wealthy parents who encouraged his artistic skills at an early age. Thomas Sully of Philadelphia taught Miller portraiture at the age of 21. Portraiture was a reoccurring theme that he continued to pursue throughout his career.
In 1833, Miller went to Europe to study at the L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then went on to study at the English Life School in Rome. Miller went on to model much of his American Indian subjects after Greek sculpture figures and developed his renowned painting style of romantic, idealized, and dreamy landscapes that he learned from studying the old master's of European art.
In 1936, Miller moved back to the United States and set up a studio in New Orleans. It was there that he met the Scottish explorer Stewart who invited him to join in on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
In the spring of 1837, the grand expedition of 45 men and 20 carts set off on a trail that would later become known as the Oregon Trail. They came across various mountain men and Indians, inhabitants of the land, who would inspire Miller's engagement in portraying the romance of the wild landscape. The journey lasted until the fall, wherein Miller created around 200 sketches and watercolors.
Miller was invited back to Scotland and to Murthly Castle with Captain Stewart where he was encouraged to create a series of paintings from his various sketches for the captain's enjoyment and memory of his fantastic adventure in the Americas.
Miller spent the remainder of his life in Baltimore continuing with his sketches of the Rocky Mountains, producing oil paintings and portraits from his western adventures. He died in 1874.


Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. He is main interests are cytopathology and gynecological pathology. His research is focused on cancer diagnosis, metastasis, cell survival, and studies of prognosis and chemoresistance mainly in cancers involving the serosal cavities like ovarian carcinoma, breast carcinoma and malignant mesothelioma. He is an author of 280 peer-reviewed scientific publications and several book chapters, as well as the editor of a book on serous effusions. He is also a reviewer and a member of editorial boards for leading international peer-reviewed journals, as well as invited speaker on international and national meetings and conferences.
Senior Consultant and a Head of the Immunohistochemistry Section in the Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway. His professional focus is on diagnostic pathology, particularly hematopathology, pathology of the breast and cytopathology. He has been actively involved in teaching immunohistochemistry since 2000 as co-organizer of national and international meetings and courses as well as invited lecturer. Since 2009 he is a member of the core group and assessor in NordiQC organization. He is a co-author of more than 30 publications in the field of pathology.
Senior histotechnologist and project coordinator at the Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark. He has worked within the area of immunohistochemistry for more than 25 years. He has been actively involved in teaching immunohistochemistry since 1990 as an invited lecturer on various international and national courses and meetings. He is a co-author of more than 30 publications in the field of immunohistochemistry and since 2007 member of the NordiQC IHC Assessor Group.
Head of the Department of Tumor Pathology, Centre of Oncology – Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute of Oncology, Krakow Branch, a graduate from the Faculty of Medicine, Academy of Medicine in Krakow (1984), pathology board specialist (1991). His interests are focused on diagnostic pathology, especially of the breast and soft tissues, as well as research with application of immunohistochemical and molecular markers in growth and progression of tumors. He is a head and chief executive of several research grants awarded by the Committee of Scientific Research. He is the author and co-author of over 130 publications in medical journals and chapters in four pathology books, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of a quarterly Polish Journal of Pathology. Member of the Polish Society of Pathologists and the European Society of Pathology.
is an associate professor of pathology at the University of Uppsala, head of Laboratory Medicine Dalarna and head of the Department of Pathology and Clinical Cytology at the Central Hospital in Falun, Sweden. He is breast cancer expert of the Swedish Board of Welfare and regular course director of its breast pathology program. The last years he is also one of the faculty members in the breast pathology arm of the European School of Pathology, invited faculty member in European School of Radiology and one of the scientific directors in the European School of Oncology Certificate of Competence in Breast Cancer program. In addition to more than 80 journal articles and 20 book chapters, he published the book Practical Breast Pathology, an official teaching material of the European School of Pathology. He is also co-author of the Thieme Series on Art and Science of Mammography. With radiological – pathological correlation of breast diseases as the main field of interest, he is repeatedly invited lecturer at the European Congress of Radiology, European Congress of Pathology, and other international and national congresses, symposia, and teaching courses all over the world. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Virchows Archiv, Vojnosanitetski pregled (Belgrade), the Journal of OncoPathology, and the Journal of Solid Tumors, one of the editors of Case Reports in Pathology, member of the European Working Groups for Breast Cancer Screening Pathology and the past chair of the Working Group for Breast Pathology of the European Society of Pathology.
Emina Emilia Torlakovic (Canada) Graduated at the University of Zagreb Medical School and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Oslo Medical School. She is a professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and practices as a staff hematopathologist and medical director of Immunohistochemistry in the Department of Laboratory Hematology at the University Health Network. She is a co-founding member of the NordiQC and also co-founded CIQC, which she is currently co-directing. She is the Chair of the National Standards Committee for High Complexity Testing of the Canadian Association of Pathologists and works for International Council for Standardization in Hematology on development of standards for bone marrow IHC. Currently she is leading projects related to global standardization of controls in diagnostic IHC as well as development of new concepts related to validation of IHC biomarkers. She is also known for a discovery of a sessile serrated adenoma and her classification of serrated polyps of the colon is recently adopted for WHO classification. She is an author over 90 peer reviewed manuscripts and a book on Bone Marrow Immunohistochemistry. She has lectured widely nationally and internationally on immunohistochemistry, quality assurance, and hematopathology.
Professor of Clinical Pathology at Aalborg University, Senior Consultant and the Head of the Laboratory of Immunohistochemistry at the Institute of Pathology, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. His main research fields and expertise are immunohistochemistry and gastrointestinal, liver and brain pathology. He is author and co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and several book chapters in these fields as well as the text book Compendium of Applied Immunohistochemistry (Danish; English version scheduled for 2016). He is also a co-founder and scheme director of the Nordic Immunohistochemical Quality Control (NordiQC) with Aalborg Hospital as its domicile which is currently has more than 700 participating pathology laboratories from more than 40 countries.
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I'm Infecting You
From Fante to Bukowski to Towne to Cooper to me — and to you.
I'm transmitting the Virus of Writers.
See how it works.
In 1960 John Fante had no way of knowing that that work, most of it already behind him and long forgotten by the world, would one day be regarded as deserving a place among the finest achievements of twentieth-century American writing, would even come to be compared favorably to masterpieces of world literature written by the likes of Knut Hamsun and Dostoevsky. Fante's first two novels, "Wait Until Spring, Bandini" and "Ask the Dust," had been out of print for more than twenty years; he had not published a first-rate short story in over a decade; and the distractions of Hollywood, as always, still beckoned. But although he would not live to hear the praise of a later generation of critics, or to realize that his novels and stories would still be speaking to readers and writers in a dozen languages around the world long after his death in 1983, Fante was not finished yet. Screenwriting was one thing, but his fiction was another, and it was his fiction that as late as 1995 would lead Nathanael West's biographer Jay Martin to name Fante "our major meditative novelist." Strange praise, it might seem, for the chronicler of such sagas of the lower depths as "The Road to Los Angeles" and "Ask the Dust," but praise befitting the author whose works also defined the exalting strangeness of youthful desire. Before the critics rediscovered him, however, it was this rough aspect of Fante's work that would compel other writers to champion his legacy. As one of the first of many younger authors to acknowledge Fante's influence, renegade street poet Charles Bukowski would be moved to call "Ask the Dust" "the finest novel written in all time," a sentiment echoed by no less an aficionado of Fante's place and era than the screenwriter Robert Towne, who would affirm that "[i]f there's a better piece of fiction written about L.A., I don't know about it." But in late 1960 all such words of praise were still in the distant and unknowable future.
— Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante, by Stephen Cooper; pgs. 8-9
In the meantime, an up-and-coming young screenwriter by the name of Robert Towne had stepped forward to take up the cause of "Ask the Dust." Researching 1930s Los Angeles for an original screenplay he was then developing — Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," as it would turn out, the classic neo-noir detective film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway — Towne had come across "Southern California Country: An Island on the Land," and in it Carey McWilliams's favorable mention of Fante's long-out-of-print novel. When Towne read a copy of "Ask the Dust" from the Los Angeles Public Library he was so moved that in the best Hollywood tradition he contacted his agent, who connected him with Fante. Towne and his then-wife Julie met John and Joyce for dinner and soon Towne's Tortoise Productions had paid Fante $1,000 for the initial six-month option, which took effect in late 1971.
— Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante, by Stephen Cooper; pgs. 292-293
In the summer of 1974 I [Stephen Cooper, author of Fante's biography] was living in a rented room in Los Angeles. I was twenty-four years old, unemployed and unattached, and I was trying to teach myself how to write. I had a radio and for entertainment I listened to Dodger games, nothing else. There was a woman I knew who worked at the State Hospital in Camarillo. Once or twice I drove up there to see her, or so I told myself, though the real reason was to walk the grounds of the asylum where, as I understood it, my blood father had been institutionalized before getting out and shooting himself to death. Those memories were hazy — I had been a very young boy at the time of his death — but if only for that rented room and my typewriter and those trips to Camarillo, the summer of 1974 would have remained clear in my mind. But there was also something else.
One August day I came across an article in the Los Angeles Times about a new movie I had admired. The movie was "Chinatown" and in this article the screenwriter Robert Towne mentioned a novelist whose name was new to me, John Fante, and a novel of his called "Ask the Dust," which Towne said simply was the best novel ever written about Los Angeles. I could not rest until I had tracked down a used copy of that book to see if Towne's assertion was true; and when I had finished the book I could not sleep, so amazed was I at its beauty.
Without really knowing what I was doing I wrote what I took to be a review of a novel that had been out of print for over thirty years, and then I sent what I had written to the Los Angeles Times Book Review. I then went to the library and like Florence Carpenter I found John Fante's address in Malibu. I wrote him a letter saying how much I had been moved by the story of Arturo Bandini and how I wished everyone could read the novel. And when I went back to trying to teach myself how to write I could feel I was changing in some way that was important.
Time passed. The review I had submitted came back from the Times with a note thanking me for my effort but declining it. I wasn't too disappointed because deep inside I had expected it would be rejected. And besides, by then another letter had arrived.
Dear Steve:
Thanks very much for your generous thoughts about Ask the Dust. I wish I could spare a copy for you but they are rare indeed. . . .
Writing is a great joy but the profession of writing is horrible. I wish you all the good luck in the world.
John Fante
I have felt his wish with me all these years.
— Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante – Stephen Cooper; pgs. 328-329
And now, Robert Towne:
Robert Towne #1 Word Into Image 1984
Put down that vaccine. This is a good virus.
(Sidebar: In the second video, within the first eighteen seconds, Towne reveals part of the real secret. Which is not found in that drivel, The Secret.)
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Viewed from above, greater Monterrey, with its corporate headquarters and golf resorts, appears as one city stretching between the mountains that surround it.
Closer up, though, it becomes clear that invisible walls enclose Monterrey's wealthy core, creating a dividing line between its four million residents. For the people within those invisible walls, government is responsive and crime low. Those outside face rising murder rates, corruption and, activists say, police brutality.
As Mexico descends into its most violent year on record and the state proves incapable of responding, those with resources are taking matters into their own hands. Landowners, businesses and the rich are buying security by means legal and not.


Behind a green screen, a foreigner finds his way in an enchanting - and yet turbulent - Brazil. Where the streets are a stage for politics, art and affection, a gringo can only watch. The result is a mixtape-portrait of modern day Brazil seen through the eyes of the visitor.
Atrás de uma tela verde, o estrangeiro percorre os labirintos de um turbulento - porém encantador - Brasil. Quando as ruas são palcos de política, arte e afetos, cabe a um gringo apenas observar.
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