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Q: Hierarchical data structure: pull requests + pull request reviews + pull request review comments GitHub has:

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BitBucket has only:

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So there are three kinds of objects.
I write code which receives, processes, and stores in a DB these things from both GitHub and BitBucket. So I should have three kinds (A, B, C) of objects, representing different "levels" of the hierarchy of objects and subobjects, right?
For GitHub the mapping from the GitHub objects into my A, B, C is clear:

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*pull requests - A

*pull request reviews - B

*pull request review comments - C

But how to map these objects for BitBucket? I think of two variants:
1.

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*pull requests - A

*pull request comments - C

2.

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*pull requests - A

*pull request comments - B

The variant "1" has the advantage that comments always map to the same object C.
The variant "2" has the advantage that the direct children of A are always B (and never C).
Which of these two variants to choose?

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Oil officials deny responsibility for quake that shook Kuwait
The location of the earthquake on the map.
KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corp officially denied allegations on Wednesday that its excavation and production operations were responsible for a strong earthquake that hit the country on Saturday, head of the budgets committee said. MP Adnan Abdulsamad said KPC officials told the committee during a meeting to discuss its budget that Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), the affiliate responsible for excavation and production, will issue an official statement to explain the situation.
A powerful earthquake measuring five degrees on the Richter scale hit Kuwait at dawn on Saturday, causing buildings in many areas to shake but causing no casualties or damage. Some local experts attributed the earthquake to hydraulic fracturing drilling or fracking, which involves pumping huge quantities of water in oil reservoirs.
But Abdulsamad said that KPC officials stressed that the deepest drilling in Kuwait is only for two kilometers, and no earthquakes take place at this depth. KPC also denied using the hydraulic fracturing technology in Kuwait, saying such technology is used in the US to extract shale oil and gas and even there does not lead to earthquakes, the lawmaker cited the officials as saying.
Meanwhile, Abdulsamad said the budgets committee discussed on Wednesday the budgets of KPC and its affiliates for the 2022/2023 fiscal year which already started on April 1 and will end on March 31, 2023. He said KPC has decided to raise the price of oil in the budget from $65 a barrel in the last fiscal year to $80 a barrel in the current budget after sharp increases in international oil prices, which had skyrocketed to over $120 a barrel.
The lawmaker said KPC estimates to post revenues of KD 24 billion, a 50 percent increase from last year. Spending is also estimated to rise sharply by 50 percent to KD 23.18 billion because of the rise in the price of oil KPC purchases from the state. This will leave KPC with net profits estimated at KD 823 million. The committee called on KPC to exert more efforts to contain the increase in the cost of production of oil, which is estimated at KD 2.849 a barrel in the new budget.
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I read these instructions and I recognized them. I recognized them because they are the principles by which I live my life now, or at least (on the less great days) am striving to live it. And I recognized them because I've read them before, somewhere, sometime in the last decade or two of my circuitous journey to get to where I want to be. And I knew reading these words today that the last time I read them--whenever exactly it was--they did not resonate with me in this affirming, satisfying, yes kind of way, because I was not at that time following most of them with any regularity or even any understanding that they were important. I was desperate to be a writer and I was lacking a practice--I did not work regular hours, I did not protect my time, I yearned and tried and talked about being a writer, and I gave up when it was hard and when I was afraid of the blank page and the blank screen and the great empty swaths of time all by myself in the quiet.
And I'm pretty sure, sitting here now at the bistro table, that I owe everything to the fact that I eventually stumbled and struggled and landed into the way of being and living and writing outlined in these simple instructions.
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For the Christian Repository. MR. EDITOR, "In the 2d No. of the Repository, it will be recollected, that I gave a brief account of a modern scheme of sacred criticism ; a scheme which is distinguished for its conciseness and facility. The grand object of this scheme, as would appear from my last communication, is, to expunge the doctrine of future punishment from Christianity.
Perhaps your readers may be entertained with a further view of this system, also of the ability and ingenuousness of its advocates. This is the design of the present communication.
Tho the principal design of this scheme is to explain away, every passage of scripture which relates to a punishment beyond death, yet its advocates, in order to preserve consistency, carry it to a greater length.
They deny any future reward of present virtue. All persons, the most abandoned as well as the most virtuous, are placed on the same footing at the commencement of a future existence. The same key-texts, which are alledged to prove that all punishment is confined to this world, are brought to prove that all reward of virtue is in this life. Example. Such passages as Matt. xix. 28 ; 2 Tim, iv. 7,8 ; Rev. xiv. 13, were all fulfilled in the age of the apostles. See Matt. xvi. 27, 28. xxiv. 34, &c.
Thus every person must perceive, that it is easy to prove by the aid of this scheme, that there will be no future reward of present virtue.
There is another advance which I expect the advosates of this seheme will make shortly; and that is, that the doctrine of a future existence is not to be found in the Bible. Should they make this advance, they will unquestionably maintain it by the assistance of the same scheme of interpretation. For there is as much evidence to believe, that all the passages of scripture which speak of a future existence, apply to the apostolic age, as those which speak of a resurrection, judgement, and future punishment, do. Besides, there can be no doubt of their succeeding in this point ; (in their own imagination) for, of all men, they are the most discerning and powerful reasoners. Such are their wonderful talents, they can show with the greatest case, that every thing which is alledged by their opposers is absurdity and folly.
How soon this advance will be made by the advocates of the scheme under consideration, I cannot say; but, from the following hints, we may expect it very
"Why then, should we believe, that divine wisdom, with an intention to engage us in the service of virtue, should place its reward in a future state of existence, in a world we know nothing of, from which no traveller ever returned." "But all this must be carried on in a secret place, out of sight of all the living, and none to report it to us, only those who know nothing about it."
When this scheme is carried to its full extent, we shall then have Deism and Christianity in perfect coincidence, and all the doctrines of the Bible will be found to have a relation only to this state of existence.
From the Universalist Magazine.
THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION,
According to appointment, the Southern Association of Universalists met at the house of Br. Capen in Stoughton, on the evening of Tuesday, the 12th of June, 1821 ; and chose Br. Hosea Ballou, Moderator. Adjourned to Wednesday morning.
Order of public service Wednesday, A. M.-Br. H. Ballou, the introductory prayer. Br. Paul Dean, the germon from Isai. xxvii. 20. Concluding prayer by Br. Thomas Whittemore.
In the afternoon, Br. Thomas Whittemore was publicly and solemnly ordained to the work of the christian ministry. The order of service was as follows : Br. J. Flagg, the introductory prayer. Br. H. Ballou, the sermon from Psalm cxxxii. 15, 16. Br. P. Dean, the ordaining prayer. Br.R. Carrique, the charge. Br. P. Dean, the right hand of fellowship. Br. Crossman, the concluding prayer. Br. T. Whittemore, the benediction.
These services were performed in the Rev. Mr. Gay's meeting house, in the presence of a respectable and solemn audience.
The Southern Association stands adjourned to the second Wednesday of December next, to be holden at: Milford, Mass.
MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE WESTERN ASSO
CIATION OF UNIVERSALISTS IN THE STATE OF NEWYORK, 1821.
The Ministers and Delegates composing the Wes-, tern Association, convened agreeable to adjournment, at Bainbridge, on the 6th and 7th days of June, 1821, and opened the Council with solemn and devout prayer, by Br. N. Stacy.
1.' Appointed Br. William UNDERWOOD, Moderator. 2..
Br. N. STACY, Clerk. 3.
Br. P. MORSE, Assistant Clerk. 4. Received the letters from the several Societies, and the certificates of their several Delegates.
5. Requests from the Societies of Smyrna, Henderson, Brownville, Otsego, Norwich, and Auburn, for the fellowship of this Association. 6. Voted, That the above requests be granted.
Order of morning service on Wednesday, ,
Br. O. ACKLEY, introductory prayer.
Br. I. WHITNALL, sermon-Isaiah Ixi.-5, 6...
Br. A. FIELD, concluding prayer.
8. Appointed Brs. N. Stacy, S. R. SMITH, and SS. Jones a committee to receive requests for fellowship and ordination.
Order of afternoon service.
Br. S. R. Smith, introductory prayer.
Br. WM. UNDERWOOD, sermon-2 Cor. iv. 5.
Br. P. MORSE, second sermon-1 John v. 16, 17.
Br. S. JONES, concluding prayer.
10. Voted, That Brs. STACY, SMITH, UNDERWOOD, CRANDAL, and WHITNALL, be a committee of discipline the ensuing year,
11. Instructed the committee of discipline to attend to the difficulty existing between Brs. Miller and Gowdy.
12. Voted, To adjourn the Council to Thursday morning, 6 o'clock. "Prayer by Br. A. CRANDALL.
13. Thursday morning, resumed the business of the Council. Prayer by Br. S. A. SKEELE.
14. Appointed Brs. A. CRANDALL, S. ADAMS, J. S. FLAGLER, and A. VANDENBURGH a committee to visit the Genesee branch of the Western Association, to be holden in Riga, Genesee county, on the first Wednesday and Thursday in October next.
15. The committee appointed to take into consideration the requests for Letters of Fellowship and Ordination, reported in favor of giving Letters of Fellowship to Brs. Oliver Ackley, Job Potter, Geo. B. Lisher, and Samuel A. Skeele.
16. Voted, That the above requests be granted.
17. Appointed Br. Geo. B. Lisher to write a Cireular, and superintend the printing of the Minutes.
18. Voted, That one thousand copies be printed, and that an insertion of the names of all the Preachers belonging to this Association, be made in said Minutes, with the place of their residence.
19. Voted, That a General Conference be holden in Otsego, on the 23d and 24th of September next.
Order of public service-Thursday morning.
Br. N. STACY, introductory prayer.
Br. S. JONES, sermon-Eph. iv. 11, 12, 13.
* The above committee are requested to send the Editor of the Christian Repository an account of that meeting.
Br. G. B. LISher, concluding prayer. .
Afternoon service.
Br. P. MORSE, introductory prayer.
Br. S. R. Smith, sermon-Eph. ii. 17.
Br. N. STACY, concluding prayer..
22. Voted, That this Association be adjourned to * meet in Lee, Oneida county, on the first Wednesday and Thursday in June, 1822.
23. Br. S. ADAMS offered humble and devout thanks to the Parent of Goodness, and the Association ad-journed.
WILLIAM UNDERWOOD, Moderator.
NATHANIEL Stacr, Clerk.
PITT MORSE, Assistant Clerk. Ministering Brethren, in fellowship-Present. Nathaniel Stacy, Hamilton... William Underwood, Litchfield. Stephen R.. Smith, New-Hartford. Seth . Jones, Lancaster. Isaac Whitnall, Camillus. Pitt Morse, Henderson.. Amos : Crandall, Lisle. Arthur: Field, Lancaster. Salmon Adams, Lisle. Oliver Ackley, Hamilton. Job Potter, do. Geo. B. Lisher, Otsego. Samuel A. Skeele, Greene.
John S. Flagler, , Scipio. Thomas Gross, Williamstille. Liscomb Knapp, Victor.
Calvin Morton, Murray. Archelaus Greene, Locke. Andrew Vandenburgh, Pompey. James Foster, Lee. Cornelius G. Parsons, Ellisburgh... Stephen Miles, Auguste.. Stephen Cook, Hadley. Edwin Ferris, Unadilla. Lewiş Pitt, Danby. Lewis Beers, do. Ministering Brethren, present,
13 absent,
18 Societies in Fellowship,
53 Churches in Fellowship,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF UNI
VERSALISTS, AT WINTHROP, JULY 27, 1821. The Ministers and Delegates composing the Eastern Association of Uniyersalists, met, agreeable to


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GM has reversed course on its emissions policy, saying it now recognizes California's authority to set its own vehicular pollution standards, TechCrunch as reported. The automaker previously supported efforts by the former Trump administration to force the state to abandon its own standards in favor of federal emissions policies. However, it began to reverse course shortly after Biden was elected president, withdrawing from the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state.
As the most populous state with the strictest rules, California often sets the emissions agenda for automakers and other states. In 2018, however, the Trump administration challenged California's ability to set its own rules independently of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Volkswagen, BMW, Ford and Honda all agreed to work with California on voluntary targets, but GM, along with Fiat Chrysler and Toyota, sided with the Trump administration.
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The stamp BEC or BEC115 will be found on the shell of individual eggs, not on the carton.
NSW Food Authority CEO Dr Lisa Szabo said thanks to mandatory egg stamping required in NSW, the Food Authority has been able to isolate the particular batch of eggs.
"All other eggs are safe to eat, provided people exercise the usual caution required for a special care food like eggs such as washing your hands and avoiding raw egg products particularly if you are a vulnerable population such as the immune compromised, under two or over 70 years of age or pregnant," Dr Szabo said.
(That means asking at a restaurant or catered meal if the aioli or mayonnaise served with many dishes, especially great Australian seafood, was made with raw or pasteurized eggs, or was commercially purchased.)
"It is important to know that not all eggs are impacted but if you have any stamped with BEC or BEC115 we recommend as a precaution that you discard them.
"We typically see a rise in Salmonella during the warmer summer months, so this is an opportune time to remind people to practice good hygiene generally when preparing food and to always keep their hands, surfaces and utensils clean and dry before and after handling eggs."
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The UK is fast becoming a nation full of obsese children living in polluted cities. Cycling to school is often mentioned as a great way to get more kids active and reduce the number of cars on the road. However, being brutally honest the prospect of cycling to school is terrifying for most parents because the roads often aren't safe and the air quality is poor. Numbers are low, with very few children (less than 5%) actually cycling to school.
So what to do? Do you shrug your shoulders and continue to drive them to school? Or do you stand up and demand that your child has the right to cycle safely to school? After all, in The Netherlands 49% of primary school children and over 75% of secondary school pupils bike to school.
But how do you go about this? Every school is different and there is no one-size fits all solution. It takes hard work and perseverance, but as more parents, teachers and children are standing up and demanding change, we thought it would be useful to collate the techniques that have worked for others, and provide links to resources you can use in your school.
If you have any additional experiences to add, please leave a comment at the end of the post.
Whilst it's possible to do some or all of the suggestions on this page by yourself, it's much easier, effective and fun to have a group of people working on it. Setting up a small steering group can help drive change much more quickly. Depending on the size and type of school, you could draw membership from parents, school governors, staff, pupils, PTA, local residents and local cycling campaign groups.
Lots of work has already been done to make it easier to cycle to school, so don't reinvent the wheel. Reach out to others, learn from their mistakes and take forward their successes. Share, collaborate and give credit where it's due.
Sustrans School Mark is a national scheme to encourage cycling to school. Make sure your school is signed up and aiming for Gold accreditation. For schools in Wales, there are additional resources available.
In Scotland, register your school for the Cycle Friendly Primary School or Secondary School awards, which will provide you with lots of useful resources.
In Northern Ireland schools can sign up for the Active Schools Travel Programme.
If you are in London ensure your school is signed up to the TFL STARS scheme (Sustainable Travel: Active, Responsible, Safe) and help them work towards being a Gold accredited STARS school.
All other schools in England (outside London) can sign up free for the Modeshift STARS national schools awards scheme.
You can check to see whether yours is one of the 2,000 schools around England and Wales which are located near roads with illegal and dangerous levels of emissions from diesel cars. If it is, use this fact to add urgency to your campaign.
If your school entrance is a chaotic mass of cars and SUVs, making it dangerous for children arriving on foot or by bike, then there are a steps you can take to try and improve things. If you can sort out the school entrance, then you may find it easier to get parents to consider more active travel choices.
Some councils have started to implement no-parking zones around some of the worst affected schools. There is currently no national scheme for this, but examples can be found in Havering, Croydon, Hackney and Edinburgh.
Does your school have safe routes to walk or cycle to school that aren't being used? Sometimes a lack of confidence, perceived lack of time, or just plain inertia stops people from choosing more active travel choices. Making cycling and walking easier and fun can help to create momentum.
Sustran's Big Pedal - a nation wide competition to get kids cycling to school between Monday 25 March and Friday 5 April 2019.
Get a pump track built on the school grounds, so children can ride their bikes during and out of school hours.
In an ideal world every school would have a safe cycle route from every home all the way to the door, and of course this is something we should all aspire to. Getting investment decisions takes time, and it's best to work in collaboration with other schools and with active travel / cycle campaigning organisations in your area. This is the most important part of getting more children to cycle to school. If there was a national cycling infrastructure, such as in the Netherlands and Denmark, then most of the actions above would be obsolete. This post by Rachel Aldred has details of what makes cycling infrastructure safe for children to ride on which can be helpful with any discussions you have with your local authorities.
These are just some of the many things that can be done to help increase cycling to school. If you have any more examples, or would like to share a case study to inspire others, please leave a comment below.
With thanks to cycling campaigner and mum of two Sylvia Gauthereau for the majority of the content for this article, and to Sally, Clare, Eleanor and Sarah from the Family Cycling UK Facebook Group for the photos.
This post was first published in November 2017 and updated in January 2019 to update the links and dates for 2019 events.


Grate paneer in a bowl. Peel potatoes and grate them as well. Add ararot and mix well. Also add salt, ginger and green chilly in the mixture and mix everything really well. Mash all ingredients and make a dough. Mixture for making vada is ready.
Preheat oil in a wok for frying vadas.
Make a small lump from the mixture and roll giving it a round shape. Now flatten in in an oval shape. Place vada in hot oil for frying. Place 3 to 4 vadas in oil and fry until they turn golden brown in color from all sides. Take out fried vadas in a plate with absorbent paper. Likewise fry all vadas.
Place 3 to 4 paneer vada in a plate. Pour curd over them and sprinkle black salt, roasted cumin and red chilly powder over the vadas. Now pour some sweet chutney and green chutney as well. Pour some curd again and sprinkle black salt, roasted cumin and red chilly powder as well. Mouth drooling Paneer Dahi Vada chaat is ready. Serve this tantalizing chaat and relish eating.
Make sure oil is nicely heated for frying the vadas. With this vadas soak less oil and don't splatter while frying.
If Vadas splatter while frying, then add some ararot in the mixture and make the vadas again.
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The Disney Pixar franchise Cars launched in 2006, telling the story of Lightning McQueen, a young rookie race car voiced by Owen Wilson who must learn that winning isn't everything. Even so, the franchise itself has done just that, making over $8 billion in merchandise alone. While Cars has long used its platform to teach its youngest audience members about the importance of nurturing personal relationships, the franchise never seriously tackled how tricky interpersonal relationships can be.
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Like the original Cars, the third installment is a movie, at its core, about finding fulfillment in what one does, day in and day out. Cars 3 features a now-aging Lightning McQueen, who suddenly finds himself losing races and, consequently, his sense of self. But the movie's central story isn't one about getting back to form—as Lightning desperately wants to do—as much as it is recognizing that there is more than one way to prevent one's own obsolescence.
In many ways, Cars 3 promises a fairly straightforward narrative where the former student learns he must now become a teacher, but it also grapples with the challenges that come with this transition. After Lightning survives a spectacular crash early in the film, he gloomily watches footage of his mentor, the late Doc Hudson, voiced by Paul Newman in recordings that never made the first Cars film, in a career-ending crash. Facing down the threat of his own forced retirement, Lightning seeks out Doc's own mentor, Smokey. Smokey's advice about racing frames much of the film's general philosophy on mentorship as he instructs Lightning "to look for opportunities you never knew were there" and to seize those opportunities when they appear.
Those opportunities, however, are ones that Lightning fails to see for most of the movie. The film's new heroine, Cruz Ramirez, voiced by Cristela Alonzo, is earnest and eager, but lacks confidence. After Lightning's crash, Cruz Ramirez is assigned as Lightning's trainer to help him get back up to speed. But Lightning has little patience for her help: He may be older, but he's also more experienced. Although Cruz has the latest technology at her disposal, which Lightning is completely out of touch with, he knows "real racing," something that Cruz has little knowledge of. That lack of experience requires more of Lightning's patience than he's willing to give: "If you were a racer, you'd know what I'm talking about," he lashes out. "But you're not."
In the film's emotional turning point, Cruz reveals that training others isn't the career she dreamed of. She too had wanted to be a racer, spending her younger years practicing, honing her talent, and idolizing Lightning in particular. Cruz admits that she gave up her opportunity to fulfill her big dream: "The other racers looked nothing like me ... It made me feel like it was a world in which I didn't belong." This is the primary dilemma of the Cars universe, in which personal identity and professional identity are inextricable from one another. While the franchise has generally played its stereotypes for laughs (with Larry the Cable Guy voicing a rusty old tow truck), Cars 3 finally gets serious about them: Lightning fails to see Cruz as a racer because she doesn't look like one.
Cruz's story surely resonates with many struggling to break into fields where they are underrepresented (Pixar drew upon Alonzo's own experiences as an actress for Cruz's backstory). But what's more, Cruz's story emphasizes the way that women, particularly young women of color, internalize external messages about not only what they can and can't do, but who they can or can't be.
Mentoring relationships between similar people can be professionally beneficial to individuals, but they can also be professionally harmful to a field as a whole.
Cruz's story embodies the well-documented confidence gap defined by both gender and race. The 1991 American Association of University Women's study "Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America" found that the gap between girls' and boys' self-esteem widens tremendously in adolescence. For Hispanic girls, self-esteem drops more than it does for any other group of girls, according to researchers. These anxieties and doubts seep into educational and career choices, the study found, as many girls believe that they are unqualified or unable to follow their dreams.
This leads to a dramatically unbalanced workforce, especially in the tech industry. As of 2016, Google reports that 19 percent of their employees in tech are women, while only 3 percent of employees identify as Latino or Hispanic. Apple boasts better numbers, with 32 percent women and 22 percent underrepresented minorities, but it's still a dramatic imbalance. Furthermore, it's not simply that women of color aren't going into STEM fields—it's also that many of them are choosing to leave. A 2017 study of "tech leavers" reveals that 24 percent of black and Latina women reported they had been stereotyped in the workplace (compared to 14 percent of white and Asian men), and 57 percent of all departees agreeing that "a more fair and inclusive culture" would have encouraged them to stay with their employer. It's a problem that the industry is now looking to tackle by recognizing the unique challenges that women and people of color face in the workforce.
Cars 3 presents these issues as common workplace misconceptions. Lightning makes assumptions about Cruz's career goals. And Cruz actively has to explain her anxieties in order for Lightning to understand how her professional and personal sense of worth are bound together. But it's not just about Cruz, having to explain the ways in which society can make her feel hampered, it's also about how society makes Lightning feel empowered. Lightning and Cruz are stand-ins for broader conceptions of white men and women of color in the workplace. In one of the more poignant moments in the film, Cruz asks Lightning how he knew he could be a racer; he responds, "I don't know—I never thought I couldn't." It's a revelation as much for Lightning as it is for Cruz, highlighting their fundamentally different mindsets.
The film's critique of the confidence of white men is relatively gentle. When Lightning and Cruz find Doc Hudson's mentor Smokey, they encounter a group of older racers, based on the real-life legends Walter Scott, the first black NASCAR driver, and Louise Smith, "the first lady of racing." As the two elder racers reminisce about their own breakthroughs into the sport, explaining the risks they had to take to get there, Scott notes that Hudson arrived on the scene "already calling himself the Fabulous Hudson Hornet" before he had even proven himself on the track. Like Lightning, Hudson's self-confidence was never in question, while his peers actively had to fight to justify their very presence. The movie doesn't scold Lightning or Doc Hudson for their bravado, but it does illustrate how similar Lightning and his mentor truly were.
Cars 3 thus offers a revision of the first film by focusing on the importance of difference. In the original Cars, Lightning starts out as a brash racer who declares that he is "a one-man show." When Doc Hudson tries to offer advice, Lightning initially dismisses him. Only when Lightning realizes that the grumpy Doc was the Fabulous Hudson Hornet is he willing to listen, gushing, "Under the hood, you and I are the same."
But it's often easier to both accept and give mentorship when the promise one sees in a mentee is similar to what they see in themselves. Mentoring relationships between similar people can be professionally beneficial to individuals, but they can also be professionally harmful to a field as a whole. The management professor Lauren A. Rivera's recent book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs suggests that individuals often base their perceptions of talent, skill, and competency in others by using themselves as the metric for comparison. As a result, this can lead to educational and professional gatekeeping, rewarding those who resemble the current culture, while resisting those who have different perspectives to offer. The opportunity for sameness, though, can be helpful in some cases. A recent study suggests that women in STEM benefit greatly from having female mentors with whom they can identify.
The Cars franchise revolves around the ways that relationships can enrich both private and professional lives. In the first movie, Lightning learns to accept a mentor and gains a friend. In return, Doc realizes that the great joy of his life was not racing, but teaching Lightning. The third installment is similarly optimistic about the benefits of strong mentorship: When Lightning's chance to come back and prove himself on the track finally arrives, he realizes halfway through the race that it's his time to bow out and Cruz's time to take her chance. In the face of protests from his sponsor, and intimidation from the story's villain, Jackson Storm—which reignites Cruz's self doubt—Lightning realizes that he can be the mentor Cruz needs to win. He knows that while she may be, under the hood, a racer just like him, she still struggles to see herself as one, which is the final hurdle that she must overcome, with a little encouragement from her mentor. Seeing her opportunity, Cruz takes it and wins.
The movie's ending is quite literal in its championing of good mentorship; because Lightning started the race and Cruz finishes it, they get to share the title of winner. In Cars 3's allegory of the workplace, mentorship can transcend the differences of make and model—or age, race, and gender—with an active awareness of how these differences inform relationships and experiences. Cruz is the future, but Lightning's career doesn't have to end, even if it does have to shift gears.


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KCB Bank Kenya Limited has commenced payment of funds to remaining eligible depositors of Imperial Bank Limited (in receivership) (IBLIR) in the current tranche of disbursements.
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Effectively, IBLIR depositors will be paid a total of Ksh.3.2 billion over a period of four years. This means that the depositors will have cumulatively recovered 37.3 percent of the deposits since 2015 when payments commenced.
Under the transaction—a part asset transfer—that commenced in 2019, the balances due to eligible depositors were to be paid out as follows; 12.5 percent on completion of signing of the agreement; 12.5 percent on the first anniversary of the signing; and 25 percent each on the second, third and fourth anniversaries respectively.
"This is significant progress in our efforts to ensure that Imperial Bank depositors receive their long-awaited dues. We remain committed to support the recovery of funds and we are optimistic that these efforts will be a success in the fullness of time," said KCB Group CEO and MD.
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Russia Deepens Middle East Military Footprint With Joint Exercises in Egypt
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By: John C. K. Daly
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Over the past two years, the most significant political development in the Middle East has been Russia's increasing political and military presence. Aside from its deepening military and political footprint in Syria, Russia is improving its relations with Egypt, where, beginning on October 15, the two countries will hold bilateral "Defenders of Friendship 2016" military exercises (TASS, October 6). Observers from over 30 countries will monitor the nine-day drills in the coastal city of El-Alamein. The exercises will simulate the destruction of terrorist groups in a desert environment, in the first-ever deployment of Russian Airborne Troops stocked with their own weapons and equipment on the African continent (Mil.ru, October 7).
Throughout the Cold War, Egypt was the Soviet Union's most prominent Arab ally. The Soviet government provided Egypt not only with advanced weaponry, but also massive infrastructure projects, most notably the Aswan dam, completed in 1970 (River-nile.info, accessed October 14). But following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, trade and diplomatic relations between the two countries declined as well.
Relations began to improve following the July 2013 coup led by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the commander of Egypt's Armed Forces, against the government of then-president Muhammed Morsi. The following year, el-Sisi ran unopposed for head of state; Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had earlier met el-Sisi while he was a defense minister, supported his candidacy. (Alarabiya.net, February 13, 2014). In early September 2016, a military delegation from Egypt visited Russia for meetings and discussions on bilateral military cooperation, building upon previous visits when Moscow and Cairo concluded several agreements on the renovation of Egyptian military production facilities (Daily News Egypt, October 12).
Cairo's deepening ties with Moscow are also impacting Egypt's relations with other Middle Eastern countries. On October 8, Egypt, a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, voted in favor of a Russian resolution that urged a ceasefire in Syria while allowing the continuation of bombing of Aleppo. A rival French resolution had demanded an end to air strikes and the implementation of a no-fly zone. Egypt's siding with the Russian proposal led Saudi Arabia to temporarily recall its ambassador to Cairo (Egypt Independent, October 10).
Beyond this month's joint military exercises, the Russian media is reporting that Moscow is negotiating with Cairo to lease military facilities, including the former Soviet base in Sidi-Barrani. The newspaper Izvestia quoted a source close to Russian military circles who noted, "The discussions centered around the year 2019. In case the parties reach agreement, the reconstruction of the base might be completed by this time" (Izvestia, October 10). The Soviet Union had a small naval facility there until 1972, which was used to monitor the United States' naval forces deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean. The candor of the Russian media reports was apparently too much for the Egyptian government, as on the same day they appeared, Egypt's presidential spokesperson denied the possibility of allowing foreign military bases in the country (Al Ahram, October 10).
While the truth of the Russian media reports has yet to be determined, Russia's military access to Egyptian facilities, combined with its presence in Tartus and the Hmeymim airbase in Syria (see EDM, October 13), would significantly alter the strategic picture of the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly with regard to naval deployments. Russian warships based at Sidi Barani, 475 miles west of the Suez Canal, would be in a position to interfere with the channel's northern outlet; while Russian vessels based at Tartus would be in a proximate position with the Mediterranean entrance to the Dardanelles. In the event of an open conflict, Russia's Mediterranean squadron would accordingly be in a position to obstruct passage of both the Turkish Straits and the Suez Canal, a strategic opportunity that has not existed for Moscow since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Further evidence that Russia is interested in establishing a permanent naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean is provided by an agreement reportedly signed in February 2015 between Cyprus and Russia. According to the bilateral agreement, Russian naval vessels are granted port access to this European Union member state (Sputnik News, February 26, 2015).
While a joint military exercise involving 500 paratroops is, on the surface, a minor deployment in a troubled part of the world, it could prove significant not only for Egypt, but for Russia's gradual reemergence as a major player in the Middle East. As such, it is a step toward reasserting a regional role—in scope and scale—that Moscow has not enjoyed since the Soviet era. As Russia's military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean grows, at the very least it complicates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) ability to conduct unilateral operations there. It bears noting that NATO's 1998–1999 aerial campaign against Serbia, the Alliance's subsequent deployment into Kosovo, as well as the 2011 operations in Libya, all had a significant maritime component. Given the worsening relations between Russia and NATO, this is a significant development, particularly as the North Atlantic Alliance prepares to welcome its 29th member—Montenegro.
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Henry Ford was once put on trial in a court of law. The attorney, trying to make Ford look foolish, asked him some basic American history questions.
That statement, as applicable then as it is today, demonstrates the difference between a CEO and a CTO, or the "Tech Guy".
What is the difference between a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and a CTO (Chief Technical Officer)? One leads a company and the other is a leader, but a leader of the technical staff.
I see more CTO's who think that they are also CEO's than I want to admit.
Sometimes with a small business, the founders have to wear multiple hats when they are first starting out. However, if the founding team was laid out properly, there will be an executive and a tech guy on the team. I wrote an entire article called The Perfect Formula For Cyber Startups if you are interested in my thoughts on this subject.
As the business grows, a smart founder will realize that they may not also be CEO material and will hire someone with experience who has actually run a company before.
The guys at Google were smart enough to realize this and quickly put a seasoned CEO at the head of the company. There is no shame in this. In fact, I actually find it to be the right move from a self-aware business person.
The problem begins when the guy or gal who founds the company has a great disruptive product, but fails to realize that they are a technical person and not an executive leader. This will sink a lot of small businesses and it's a simple mistake that can easily be avoided.
What Makes A Good Chief Technical Officer?
Augusta, GA has CTO's coming out of it's ears, they are everywhere. Some are better than others at their job. Large companies will have a CTO and a CIO (Chief Information Officer), but small startup companies can usually only afford one.
A great CTO is often the most important person in a growing small business. The person who understands the technical stuff and can also speak to potential investors and customers, without going 9 miles down a technical rabbit hole, is very hard to find.
These are the people that I am constantly on the lookout for when attending meet ups and other events in town. This is the person who understands the tech, but can also speak the language of business.
These awesome people are a rare breed. It's like being fluent in multiple different languages, the CEO speaks english, the CTO speaks english and nine other languages.
These people are so easy to spot it's just silly. They are all over social media posting things that a true leader of a company would NEVER put out into the public domain.
They see nothing wrong with posting garbage and arguing with others on social media. These postings are a result of their lack of personal and business skills.
The other tech guys on social media eat it up, and while they think this stuff is awesome, in reality, they are just very smart people who lack business communication skills. If you represent a company, then please realize, what you put on social media does matter to the bottom line of your company.
The contrast between an executive leader and a tech guy are very stark. If you ask the tech guy a question, you will get the answer, but it's usually so far down the technical rabbit hole that the average person gets lost after about 10 seconds.
A company needs a business leader and a tech guy to succeed. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were both essential to the success of Apple, but Wozniak was smart enough to realize that he was not the front man for the company, he was the genius behind the products.
Today, we see everyone in Augusta focused on technical training. Don't get me wrong, we need a lot more people trained to fill the growing market demands. However, we are also going to need CEO's to run the fast paced companies that are going to start sprouting up like weeds when the business ecosystem is filled out in another 24 months.
The high school star athlete is no longer getting picked to play and the class geek now lives in a high end neighborhood with the pretty girl that used to date the star quarterback. It's funny how things change in life.
Augusta is also going through a change. We are moving from a stagnant, old money town to a high tech, cyber juggernaut run by techies who will transform the world of cyber over the next decade.
Personally, I am going out and buying some high water pants and horned rimmed glasses because geeks now rule the school!


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Cheatham veterans advisory committee abolished
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The Cheatham County Commission voted Monday to abolish the county's veterans service advisory committee.
The committee was formed four years ago when the veterans service office was created, and members offer advice and input on the needs of the office.
Voting to abolish the committee were commissioners Walter Weakley, Eugene Evans, Jimmy Hedgepath, Ann Jarreau, Donnie Jordan, Connie Mayo and Dale McCarver. Voting no were Diana Lovell, Shanon Pickard, Betty Ramsey, Tim Williamson and Gary Binkley.
A large number of veterans and their supporters were in attendance and asked the commission to consider keeping the committee.
Veterans advocate James Cripps told commissioners he believes the committee was being dissolved, in part, because of "retaliation" for him asking questions about certain operations of the office.
Cripps added veterans were not telling the employees how to do their job. However, he asked that the officers be advocates for the veterans and consider their needs by getting input from the various veteran organizations in the county.
Weakley noted that Cripps came to the commission a few months ago, and he indicated that the office was doing a good job and even sought support seeking additional county funding for the office.
Veterans service officer Bob Counter said he hated that this issue has become a "personal attack" on his office and believes the veterans can be doing so much good in the county if there no "bickering."
"I think we are doing the job you (the commission) wants us to do," he said.
Counter added that many counties across the state don't have similar advisory committees.
Safari Park concerns
Two residents raised concerns about the proposed Tennessee Safari Park during the public forum.
The business is looking to open a second location on property in Joelton that once was home to the Nashville Zoo.
The 135-acre property is on Ridge Circle in Joelton off Interstate 24.
The business currently operates the Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo in Crockett County.
During the public forum, the residents questioned the company's treatment of animals as well as traffic, waste management and infrastructure concerns if the business locates in the county.
They also maintained that the business has received several animal-related violations in the past.
Jon Conley, the company's owner, introduced himself to the commission and told them a little about his business.
Conley said public safety is a top priority for the business, and the company operates as a professional organization.
Sawmill operation concerns
The commission is scheduled to vote on a zone change in September involving a small scale sawmill operation at 1027 George Boyd Rd. in Ashland City.
Two neighboring residents addressed the commission in the public forum, citing the traffic and noise the business might bring. They also shared concern about decreased property values.
Vance Mayo, the owner of the business, requested a zone change from an E-1 estate residential district to agriculture. The county's Planning Commission heard the case in in August and voted to deny the request.
The zone change will be considered by the commission at its Sept. 19 meeting.
Sheriff title changes
The commission did not take action on a request by Sheriff Mike Breedlove to change the titles for two employees from narcotic officers to investigators.
The salary difference for both title changes is $4,275. Breedlove is asking that the money come from the drug fund.
The new investigators will primarily be responsible for narcotic or drug-related cases, but they will also assist with other criminal investigations.
At last week's budget committee meeting, members questioned if the drug fund could be used to pay the salary differences since the investigators will handle more than just drug cases.
Money from the fund is to be used specifically for drug-related items.
The committee asked for an opinion from the state comptroller's office before making a recommendation to the full commission.
The office ruled that the drug fund could be used to pay for the title changes as long as the investigators will primarily focus on drug-related cases.
However, at another budget committee on Monday, members asked Breedlove to submit a job description for the positions so they can look at the salary scale before making a recommendation to the full commission.
Solid waste employee approved
The commission approved a request by the solid waste department to make a current part-time employee a full-time employee.
The employee will oversee inmates at the convenience center on Sams Creek Road in Pegram.
The total salary for the position is $42,314, which includes Social Security, insurance and retirement.
The difference from making the position part time to full time is $25,959.78. The money will come from the solid waste fund balance and part-time line item.
Currently, officials said inmates can't work at the center without supervision, and that's why the Sheriff's Office has not allowed them to work on a regular basis.
911 dispatcher position OK'd
The commission allowed the 911 department to re-title and transfer an unused mapper position ($31,615) to a dispatcher position.
The salary and all related benefits of the dispatcher position will be billed to the 911 board and reimbursed by board on a quarterly basis.
The board's assistant 911 director is now responsible for the mapper duties.
Jail upgrades planned
The commission OK'd $274,875 for upgrades in the jail. The money will come from the jail litigation tax account.
The upgrades and estimated costs include: intercom system ($24,875); cell doors and frames ($45,000); shower renovations ($102,500); shower access panels and frames ($27,500); and heating and air ($75,000).
Zone change approved
The commission approved a zone change for Lindsey McEntyre and Danny Stack from E-1 to R-1 (residential) for 2.58 acres on Ed Harris Road in Ashland City. The change was requested for the purpose of decreasing the size of a lot that contains an existing single-family dwelling.


On behalf of Parthemos & Curran, PLLC posted in Motor Vehicle Accidents on Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
Car accidents are far too common in the state of Virginia. According to an official report, 65,029 people suffered car accident injuries in the state in 2015, which was a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year.


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Admission: $70 – $105; purchase in advance by calling 780-483-4051 or online.
What: Enjoy a spectacular buffet followed by an entertaining and moving performance that chronicles the tale of The Beatles' success and turmoil during their 1967 – 1970 era.
Admission: $33 Adult; $30 Student/Senior; call 780-420-1757 or online.
What: This lively stage show explores what it would be like if original Beatles' music were performed in today's modern music scene — while expertly maintaining the original musical compositions and effects of the band's classic repertoire.
Admission: $58 – $70; purchase in advance by calling 1-855-985-5000 or online.
What: This immersive show will make you feel like you are actually watching the Fab Four themselves! This tribute band performs songs from the full range of The Beatles' discography — including songs that were recorded but never performed live. The stunning mastery of The Beatles' music and performances is absolutely captivating!
What: This local Beatles tribute band will have you dancing and reminiscing to covers of the Fab Four's most popular songs.
What: This touring tribute band has impressed audiences all over the world with their spot-on renditions of Beatles' songs and performances.


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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
Republicans Doubt Gun Background Checks & 'Red Flag' Bills Will Pass Senate
by Benjamin WuerschSeptember 1, 2019, 6:43 pmSeptember 1, 2019, 6:43 pmSeptember 1, 2019, 6:43 pmDaily Digest, News, News Feed, Trump News >
Even on the heels of yet another mass shooting in Odessa, Texas. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), the Senate Homeland Security Chairman, has expressed doubt about the possibility of passing a gun control law providing for universal background checks. He also said he thinks the likelihood that "Red Flag" laws will be passed is not much better.
He said that a law based on Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) and Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) background checks bill was likely to not pass this year.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump flip-flopped on the need for background checks. He told reporters, "we have very, very strong background checks right now."
Trump said that a lot of his supporters are skeptical of Democrats efforts to create gun control law, which is why his "meaningful" meetings with Democrats did not seem to change his mind.
"A lot of the people that put me where I am, are strong believers in the Second Amendment, and I am also. And we have to be very careful about that. You know, they call it the slippery slope. All of a sudden everything gets taken away," Trump added.
Last week, the president meet with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) to discuss gun control legislation. Murphy said that Trump seemed open to creating a bipartisan background check bill that could pass the Senate.
Trump has not clearly said that he no longer supports a bill for background checks and some Republicans, like Sen. Mike Braun (R-Indiana), are hoping that he will make more of an effort to help pass a bill.
Although some Republicans are eager to pass gun control legislation, lawmakers predict that any new gun control bill will have a hard time getting the 60 votes needed in the Senate.
Trump could help get more Republican senators on board, but with his fear of losing support from the National Rifle Association and its members, it seems likely that he will continue to resist supporting laws that restrict gun ownership.
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Article by Benjamin Wuersch


WELCOME TO THE NORTHWESTERN VOLLEYBALL CAMP WEBSITE.
The Northwestern Volleyball Camps are designed to teach and develop volleyball athletes with specific techniques and strategies. All camps will be led by Head Coach Shane Davis and will be fully supported by the NU coaching staff and players. In addition, we hire top level coaches from college, club, and high school programs.
Northwestern Volleyball camps are open to any and all participants. Please register below for our camps. Regardless of your skill level, we have a camp for you!


I never registered anything with mycredithealth.com. There was an email from freecredit report which said free trial for first few days, where i registered and then cancelled it. I was not using my account for past 2 months since i was in a business schedule and when i checked my account today, i saw that mycredithealth.com had charged me $29.9 without even me registering with them . I never got a mail nor any indication of their registration. Because of this my account had gone to negative and i had to face many problems. I have called them up and asked for refund. But they have not yet turned back to me.
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These are the procedures by which we loan our media collection to the BC Colleges and Universities that are represented on the BC ELN Media Resource Team.
The exchange of media among BC ELN partner libraries is for the benefit of the faculty, staff and students of BC Post Secondary Institutions. Requests for videos or DVDs from community borrowers or groups should not be processed.
BC ELN partner libraries provide service through the department responsible for media materials. In some institutions this is done through a Library Media Centre or Audiovisual Department while others use their Interlibrary Loan Departments.
Click the link below to access the directory of BC ELN partner library shipping addresses, media contacts, and Purolator account numbers. Only authorized users are able to view this page.
Login using your personal login. Click the Request New Password tab if you have forgotten your password. Contact the BC ELN Office if you do not have a login or need to be authorized to view the page.
Media resource sharing staff at BC ELN partner libraries are invited to join the BC ELN Media Resource Team and to use the Resource Team's listserv for discussion of media-related matters.
Every request for an item, whether for a booking or for preview, must be given a number. This number is used for Statistics and Request Identification.
Each library should number its request sequentially, starting with the number 1.
If you wish to renumber every year, you may precede the number with the year.
(e.g. FV 1301, FV 1302, FV 1303, etc.) or start again with the number 1.
E-mail is the preferred method of communication and reporting on requests, for media bookings.
Phone requests can be done but they should be followed up with an E-mail request.
E-mail should be sent to the media booking department e-mail address, rather than an individual person's personal e-mail address.
Your Name, Address and Contact Number should appear on your request, as well as your Purolator account number.
There is no formal request format.
Confirmation of booking should be done A.S.A.P. to allow the Booking Institution to make other booking arrangements.
Confirmations are sent to the requesting library even though the item may be delivered to another campus or other specified location.
Please make sure that the item arrives at the Borrowing Institution at least 3-4 working days before the show date.
The Borrowing Institution is responsible for any shipping charges incurred in returning the item to the Lending Institution.
Institutions within the Lower Mainland use Purolator Courier Ltd. or their own institutional couriers to pick up and return borrowed items.
For non-Lower Mainland delivery, the preferred method of shipping is: Purolator Courier Ltd. CAUBO member institutions fall under a special billing arrangement for Educational Institutions and are charged a lower rate by Purolator.
Items will be sent collect on the Borrowing Institution's Purolator account number.
Please return materials in the same package in which they were received.
Once the item is shipped it is counted as a statistic.
Loan periods are negotiated for each booking. Most items are booked for a 1 to 5 day period plus shipping time. Longer periods may be negotiated.
Requests for extensions must be made prior to the due date. Please give another Request number if an extension is for a new user.
If a borrowing institution wishes to cancel a request, it must be done before the item is shipped. Once the item has been shipped, the loan will be counted as a lending stat.
The borrower is responsible for any shipping charges incurred in returning the item to the lending library.
In the case of back-to-back bookings, items can be sent directly from one Borrowing Institution to another Borrowing Institution without being returned to the Lending Institution.
These requests should be coordinated through the Lending Institution (the owner of the item).
The lending library records the second transaction on the BC ELN lending worksheet.
The Borrowing Institution is responsible for returning materials to the Lending Institution by the due date.
If an item is NOT available by the DUE DATE – notify the Lending Institution immediately.
Notify the Lending Institution immediately!
Tracing the shipping of the item that has been lost is the responsibility of the institution that shipped the item.
The borrowing library must notify the Lending Institution as soon as the loss is discovered.
Note the title, shipping date waybill number, and any other information that will assist in locating the lost item.
The borrowing library is responsible for ensuring that items are returned in good working condition.
If damage does occur, enclose a note describing the damage when you return the item.
Let the Lending Institution know as soon as possible in case there are other bookings on the item.
The Lending Institution may charge the borrowing library for the replacement cost of the damaged item according to its policies.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) offers a disc repair service to our BC ELN Partner Libraries.
Purolator will be used for shipping and returning. Shipping and return charges are paid by the institution requesting the service. Lower Mainland institutions may have their courier drop off and pickup.
Complete and sign the Disc Repair Request from BC ELN Partner Library Form linked below and send it to KPU along with the discs. An invoice will accompany the repaired items.
Payment may be made by cheque, VISA, or MasterCard. Arrangements can be made to pay by credit card over the phone.


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package cass.toolbox.ioc.annotations.param;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Member;

import cass.toolbox.ioc.AnnotationHandlingException;
import cass.toolbox.ioc.AutoWire;
import cass.toolbox.ioc.IOCController;
import cass.toolbox.ioc.annotations.Force;
import cass.toolbox.util.Arrays_;
import cass.toolbox.util.Utility_;

/**
 * Priority 8.0
 *

 * Handler for Force annotation.
 *
 forces a value to be what the string represents.
 *
e.g. "null","nulptr","" represents null, numbers represents integer,
 *
number with dot in it represents double.
 * @author wkgcass
 *
 * @see cass.toolbox.ioc.annotations.Force
 * @see cass.toolbox.util.Utility_#stringToObject(Object)
 */
public class ParamForceHandler extends IOCController implements
		ParamAnnotationHandler {

	@Override
	public boolean canHandle(Annotation[] annotations) {
		for(Annotation ann:annotations){
			if(ann.annotationType()==Force.class){
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public Object handle(Member caller, Class<?> cls, Annotation[] toHandle,
			ParamHandlerChain chain) throws AnnotationHandlingException {
		if(AutoWire.DEBUG_MODE){
		System.out.println(this.getClass().getSimpleName()+"    "+cls);
		}
		try{
			return chain.next().handle(caller, cls, toHandle, chain);
		}catch(AnnotationHandlingException e){}
		if(AutoWire.DEBUG_MODE){
		System.out.println(this.getClass().getSimpleName()+"    start");
		}

		Force force=null;
		for(Annotation ann:toHandle){
			if(ann.annotationType()==Force.class){
				force=(Force)ann;
			}
		}
		String[] value=force.value();
		String[] in=force.in();
		String beanName=nameOfConstructingBean(caller.getDeclaringClass());
		//illegal parameters
		if(value.length==0 //no values
				||
				(in.length>value.length)
				||
				(Arrays_.contains(in, "") ? in.length<value.length : in.length<value.length-1)
				) {
				throw new TempAnnotationHandlingException();

		}

		String o=null;
		int index=Arrays_.indexOf(in, beanName);
		if(-1==index){
			//cannot find corresponding value
			int defaultIndex=Arrays_.indexOf(in, "");
			if(-1==defaultIndex){
				try{
				o=value[in.length];
				}catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException e){
					throw new TempAnnotationHandlingException();
				}
			}else{
				//cannot find corresponding value && contains ""(default)
				o=value[defaultIndex];
			}
		}else{
			//found
			o=value[index];
		}

		return Utility_.stringToObject(o);
	}

	@Override
	public double priority() {
		return 8.0;
	}

}

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Kevin Leahey
Kevin Leahey is the founding principal of The Renatus Group LLC. Prior to founding The Renatus Group, Mr. Leahey was Vice President of Acquisitions and Asset Management for a New York-based joint venture partner of Kimco Realty Corporation, a multi-billion dollar REIT, who own and operate approximately 100 million square feet of mixed-use properties nationally and abroad. From 2002-2008 Mr. Leahey participated in the acquisition, management, and redevelopment of over a dozen properties comprising approximately $200 million in assets. Mr. Leahey graduated magna cum laude from SUNY Binghamton and holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law.
Stephen Matri Jr.
Prior to joining The Renatus Group in 2009, Mr. Matri was a Senior Investment Sales Associate at Marcus and Millichap where his primary focus was on commercial multi-family and retail assets. During his time there he sold well in excess of $100 million worth of Manhattan real estate and was an integral part of expanding the firm's NYC presence. Mr. Matri holds a B.A. from the University of Arizona and resides in Westport, CT.
Joseph Meyer
Vice President – Asset Management
Prior to joining The Renatus Group, Mr. Meyer worked as a broker at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Meyer was responsible for underwriting, marketing, and negotiating contracts on behalf of commercial clients. He evaluated and appraised investment properties including mixed-use, multifamily, office and retail and listed and sold over $75 million real estate properties. Joseph Meyer graduated from the University of Delaware in 2002 with a B.A. in communications.
Micah Salvesen
Director of Property Management
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Seminal work by Georgopoulos and colleagues (1987) showed that reaction time (RT) increased when a rotational mental transformation had to be calculated prior to responding. A loud acoustic stimulus can be used to trigger prepared responses, so this effect was used in the current experiment to determine how preparatory activation levels in the brain were affected by the requirement to mentally rotate the target prior to responding. The results show that regardless of the amount of time given to prepare in advance, the likelihood of the startle triggering the response was low. This suggests that preparatory activity level when a mental rotation is required does not reach a similar level as when no mental transformation is needed. Full publication below.
behavioral neuroscience, publication, Research, startle. Bookmark.
Publication: Using TMS to reveal cortical excitability during preparation for a RT task.


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In College Admissions Scandal, Families From China Paid the Most
Families that allegedly paid $1.2 million and $6.5 million show the reach of the cheating ring
Federal prosecutors detailed a more than $25 million scam to help wealthy families bribe their way into elite colleges. The scheme allegedly involved bogus exam scores and falsified athletic achievements.
Melissa Korn
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Melissa.Korn@wsj.com
Jennifer Levitz
@jenniferlevitz
Jennifer.Levitz@wsj.com
April 26, 2019 2:04 pm ET
Families from China were among those who allegedly paid the most in the college admissions scandal, a new sign of the reach of the cheating ring.
One Chinese family allegedly paid $6.5 million to William "Rick" Singer, the California-based college counselor who has admitted to masterminding the scheme, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Another was the family of a student—referred to in court filings as "Yale Applicant 1"—who paid $1.2 million to secure her admission to Yale University. The student is 21-year-old Sherry Guo, who moved to Southern California from China to attend high school, her lawyer confirmed.
The families have been of particular interest in the case because they allegedly paid far more than nearly all of the 33 parents currently facing criminal charges in the scheme. Many parents paid $250,000 to $400,000 for the illegal admissions services, including securing fraudulent test scores and bribing coaches to have their children designated as recruited athletes, prosecutors say.
Ms. Guo had her eye on Columbia University or Oxford University, said her lawyer, James Spertus of Spertus, Landes & Umhofer LLP in Los Angeles.


A company-wide carbon fee will hold divisions accountable for their own energy usage.
The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
This summer, Microsoft is launching a new green energy initiative in which all of the company's direct operations, "including data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings," will go carbon neutral.
The program will begin in July, at the start of Microsoft's 2013 fiscal year, and includes a company-wide carbon fee, whereby various divisions will be held accountable for their own energy usage.
"We recognize that we are not the first company to commit to carbon neutrality," said Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner in a blog post early this morning, "but we are hopeful that our decision will encourage other companies large and small to look at what they can do to address this important issue."
Other technology companies have made similar promises to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions in recent years. Google says that it has been carbon neutral since 2007, and it launched a new website last year detailing the ways the company has increased its energy savings. Both Facebook and Apple have also touted their own clean energy efforts, unveiling new, efficient data centers in the past year.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has been documenting its sustainable energy efforts on its Software Enabled Earth blog since 2009, which is run by the company's environmental sustainability team. In March of that year, company CEO Steve Ballmer made a commitment that by 2012, Microsoft would reduce its carbon emissions by at least 30 percent of its 2007 baseline. Last month, Robert Bernard, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, revealed on Earth Day that the company had met this goal.
Bernard listed a number of Microsoft strategies at offices worldwide that have contributed to reductions in carbon emissions. At the company's Puget Sound offices, for example, employees have eliminated "approximately 9.9 million miles of auto travel" each year by taking free busses to and from work.
And earlier this year, Microsoft opted to use CarbonSystems, a cloud-based Enterprise Sustainability Platform, to manage energy and environmental performance across "more than 600 facilities in more than 100 countries."
"During that time we have also accelerated the shift in our business strategy to cloud computing and invested more than $3 billion USD to build facilities and networks globally to support this strategy," according to the company's latest carbon neutral (PDF) white paper.
The goal is to improve key metrics such as power, carbon, and water usage effectiveness. One strategy Microsoft has employed at new and existing data centers is to run servers at higher temperatures, "within the range specified by the manufacturer but higher than is typical—so that we can use free air cooling instead of extensive air conditioning," according to the white paper. This is in addition to using more efficient LED lighting, HVAC, and airflow systems.
The three pillars of Microsoft's new carbon neutral initiative.
Perhaps the biggest change in Microsoft's strategy is establishing an internal "price for carbon." In other words, electricity or travel costs will now include the price of carbon offsets purchased by the company to balance carbon emissions incurred by such activities. "By embedding the cost of carbon in our financial systems," says the white paper, "we have a direct way to measure and drive behavior change in a company-wide, systems-based way.
The price will be based on market pricing for renewable energy and carbon offsets, and it will be applied to business operations in over 100 countries. The hope is that by exposing the cost of energy offsets to individual departments and teams directly, Microsoft employees will have more of an incentive to reduce energy usage.
This internal carbon fee will go into a central fund that Microsoft says it will use to transition the company away from non-renewable energy sources. For example, it is considering investments in wind farms and methane-capture projects to reduce the amount of so-called dirty energy it must purchase from the existing commercial electrical grid.
After all, carbon offsets alone aren't enough to reduce the environmental impact of Microsoft's vast data centers and business operations. The environmental group Greenpeace criticized various cloud providers last month—including Microsoft, Apple and Amazon—for not using more sources of renewable energy to power their operations.
But Microsoft is making a clear effort to change that. "The part I'm most excited about is our plan to infuse carbon awareness into every part of our business around the world," wrote Turner, "creating incentives for greater efficiency, increased purchases of renewable energy, better data collection and reporting, and an overall reduction of our environmental impact."


Consumer Bankruptcy Panel - Tuition Clawback: Whose Money Is It, and What Is It Worth?
Issue 2 of Volume 34 of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal will feature written contributions on this topic from these panelists, as well as from Susan Block-Lieb, Professor of Law and Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues at Fordham University School of Law.
Sacha Dyson, Thompson, Sizemore, Gonzalez & Hearing, P.A.
Information about the 17th Annual EBDJ Symposium will be available in the fall. Please check this page often for symposium details and registration.
If you have any questions about the symposium or if you are interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact us by email.