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Aquakultre's feast of a lifetime
How the band's debut LP Legacy sets the table for excellence.
By Morgan Mullin
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Lance Sampson began Aquakultre as a solo project aiming to help him find—and raise—his true voice. Now, it's a band of decorated Halifax musicians who are dropping a contender for album of the year on May 8.
It's clear from the very first guitar strum that opens Legacy—the long-awaited debut LP from neo-soul superstar-in-the-making Aquakultre—that the table is set. The CBC Searchlight winner's record asks upon entry that you taste its opulence. There are pomegranates strewn on the linen; deep bowls of cold-skinned grapes; flaky sea salt swimming atop combs of honey. A platter of horns carries you through the album while the soft crash of cymbals cleanse the palate. Make no mistake, not that there's room for your ears to: This is a feast.
And no one's arrived hungrier than the golden-throated voice behind it all, the band's front person and driving force: Lance Sampson.
"Music shouldn't be hard. It's your creation, you just do it as you do," Sampson says of his band's 10-course meal for your ears, out tomorrow via Black Buffalo Records. Dive in and you'll taste everything from the freewheeling futurism of Sun-Ra to the lyrical deftness of Common to the blues-stained soul of Sam Cooke. Sampson himself is the first to say Legacy's roots grew out of his love of the likes of Erykah Badu and D'Angelo. "When you start making music with good frequencies it makes people feel good. Lyrics that are relatable: As long as I'm doing that, as long as I'm being true to me—that's all I care about," he adds.
It's good you brought your appetite.
There's a moment on Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Live/1975-85, a five-LP odyssey that chronicles a decade's worth of live performances by the blue-collar troubadour, where the song "Growin' Up" fractures and fissures. As the band pauses, Springsteen is left giving a small monologue to the silent crowd. "My father always said: 'You know, you should be a lawyer. Get a little something for yourself,'" he narrates. "Then my mother, she used to say 'No, no, no, no. He should be an author. He should write books. That's a good life, you can get a little something for yourself.' Well, what they didn't understand was that I wanted everything."
The same feeling given by that crowd's roar reaches out in the snapping drumbeat of Legacy's second track, "657." Sampson gives Springsteen's sentiment a 21st-century update, spitting the hook "657 to the four/I just wanna give more, I just wanna give more, I just wanna give you more"—harmonizing with the waterfall of bright piano rolling off his back.
He's waited for his table. He wants the whole menu. And, Sampson gets just that with an offering that's a veritable buffet of tastes—what collaborator Nick Dourado (who Sampson bills as a sort of "artistic director" of Aquakultre) describes as an album that ranges from "soaring, emo-pop songs and country ballads." Fuelled with a tangible hunger for more noise, more feeling and more meaning, it all leaves the listener's stomach grumbling with the sudden realization of how big a song or a voice can be.
"You wanna have a guess of what '657' means?" Sampson asks with an audible smile, speaking by phone a week before Legacy's release date. He entertains three guesses (A ticket number? An amount of money? A phone number fragment?) before explaining what's behind his record's first engine roar: "'657' is actually complete gibberish. It has no significant meaning. The reason why I named it '657' is because if you know me real well, I just say the randomest shit all the time. We'll be playing cards and I'll say something crazy and you're laughing but you don't know why you're laughing. But I just feel like naming the song '657' goes to show how silly I am."
Legacy was recorded in a breakneck seven days at Calgary's National Music Centre, a place where Searchlight winners get sent to cut their next single. It's also a place where many of Elton John's pianos and the synthesizer TONTO—of Stevie Wonder fame—sit atop quiet altars.
"Most people who get that residency usually leave with one pro song, to three—or just a bunch of demos. And we finished a whole album," says Dourado, the piano, horns and co-backing vocals in Aquakultre (and accomplished musician in their own right, performing in Century Egg, Budi and Beverly Glenn-Coupland's band). "From the minute we got there—and even before we got there—we were just so focused. It's not an opportunity we usually get…In terms of creative residency kind of thing, we were just so prepared. And, there's no computerized sound on the record at all. So we pretty much went and made Lance—whose message we all think is really important—a 1970s Marvin Gaye record."
But don't let the speed at which recording poured forth fool you into thinking a single part of the album wasn't simmered and sure. As Dourado puts it, Sampson is "so fearless when it comes to music and writing and trusting his own ideas and stuff." To them, Sampson's knowledge of songs borders on innate: "If he sings something, whatever the blues is, or whatever regular song form is, it's usually somewhere present in it. He's just so intuitive." They later circle back to this, adding: "Because I don't even think that Lance necessarily thinks he's that good or that he's even convinced by it. He just doesn't have to doubt the meaning of his words. And we don't have to doubt if the songs are worthy—there's just nothing to think about. It's like, yeah, we want everyone to hear what Lance has to say to his beat."
It's as if each track stewed inside Sampson's bones before tumbling forth. And, after all, aren't a stir-fry and a braise both fully cooked?
I Doubt It by Aquakultre
Sampson came to music late. "I used to listen to hardcore street rap: I'm talking AR-Ab. If anyone's not familiar, AR-Ab is one of the hardest people to come out of Philly. All that hardcore street rap and all that stuff that was really toxic," he says. "I have a love-to-hate thing for trap music. You can't deny the feeling it gives you. But the thing I hate is the crazy shit they be talking."
He learned guitar and began penning his first songs in prison (though he had been rapping since age 15), refining his talent between stints at Burnside's Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility and the Springhill Institution. A little before that, when Sampson was 16, Chicago rap legend Common's seminal album Like Water For Chocolate blew the doors off Sampson's ideas what music could be.
"Once I started opening up my palate to listening to different music and how it made me feel, it started opening my eyes," Sampson says. "Listening to different music is what started changing my personality, changing my patience for things."
Over the next few years he became voracious, listening to album after album by everyone from Jeremy Dutcher to Leon Bridges to vintage soul singers ("that 1960s, old G's whip car music like The Sinceres," he adds).
The need to devour spread to books, too: "When I went to prison and started seeing the dudes I really looked up to in the streets, guys that were like the ultimate hard-asses, that were feared, that I was trying to emulate? Once I saw them in person and realized OK, they're reading books? What? OK wait a minute, they're playing instruments? They're reading about Indigenous culture? They're actual scholars," Sampson remembers. "The OGs I used to look up to, they're just trying to figure out who they are."
He would go on to finish writing the song "Sure"—yes, the one that snagged him the 2018 CBC Searchlight competition, one of the country's biggest opportunities for unsigned artists—while winding down his time at Springhill Institution.
By March 2017, he'd drop the five-track EP Water Temple, which, as Sampson told The Coast that same year, was named "from a Zelda game I know and love, and for me it also means the versatility I manifested with this project, because I used to rap and I thought that's all I knew."
The songs shuddered with the same audible emotion of neo-soul legend D'Angelo's breakthrough record Brown Sugar. Romance? Sex? A Groove so deep you could swim in it? Sampson brought it all on his debut, a solo iteration of Aquakultre that saw his singing and rapping backed by either his own acoustic guitar or beats he built himself.
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Jeremy Costello, Nathan Doucet, Nick Dourado and Lance Sampson are Aquakultre.
"We"—begins Dourado, meaning themselves and fellow now-members of Aquakultre Nathan Doucet and Jeremy Costello—"were sort of fortunate because we were some of the first people that saw Lance perform when he was in Halifax. We saw one of his first shows, just by chance, and he's a very powerful performer. The very first time I saw Lance sing I was like wow, that's crazy. I bet he could sing over a drum kit—most people don't project like that."
"Lance's family is from Africville," they continue. "There's an entire city of people who were dislocated from the place that they lived and had ancestry for hundreds of years, and the street that their project is put on, is the same street as the only venue where the concerts happen. And yet, for the first decade I was in Halifax, I never saw anybody from the square play The Seahorse. Literally never—and I went all the time. It's sort of unrelated but that's kinda how we all came in touch with Lance, too: When Lance showed up and was so ready to perform and represent where he's from, there was no question that we were gonna try and find him as many platforms as we could of the highest calibre for him to be like 'yo, this is what's up'."
And so, they did—first by asking Sampson to play as part of a 12-piece band at the 2017 indie music event Sappy Festival. ("When everyone was just together enjoying that same moment at the same time, it made me high as heck. And I'm like, I'm chasing this," recalls Sampson of that early August performance, his first with a band.)
After that test drive, it was on to the recording studio, where Legacy captured the proverbial lightning in a bottle in a live-from-the-floor tape.
Sampson's emotive delivery and measured message (he wants you to know yourself the same way Lizzo wants you to love yourself), paired with the kaleidoscope of Dourado, Doucet and Costello's musical prowess, became the powder keg for a record so explosive it demands to be heard—to be understood. The best part of all, though, is that it also makes you dance while you do so.
"Jeremy is like an operatic singer drone musician; I'm primarily a free jazz musician and Nathan is like a punk, hardcore drummer," Dourado explains of the group's twisted sonic lineage. "And we're all coming together to make just whatever it is that Lance hears."
The perfect case study of this is track four, "Wife Tonight." Originally released by Sampson in 2017 as a make-out jam for the Soundcloud generation, Dourado and co. reworked the song into something unrecognizable: A funk-infused tune that now sounds like a lost Stevie Wonder track.
The song is a favourite of Dourado's: "'Wife Tonight' is awesome because there was a Hohner Clavinet, which is the exact keyboard Stevie Wonder uses. He used it to record 'Superstition' and I was like whoa, icon!—and that's what 'Wife Tonight' is recorded on," the musician adds.
"Can you imagine what it's like for people in this industry to wrap their heads around Lance?" says Dourado, who calls Sampson one of the most positive people he knows. "We got to CBC at eight in the morning when Lance won the Searchlight and had to do the Q interview. And the minute we walk into the CBC building, Lance is walking the halls singing Shania Twain's 'Up!' at the top of his lungs. You can hear him through the entire building. He jokes around with every single person we meet. It would take me hours to recount the amount of times I saw Lance do things like that where you're like this is like a movie, this is unreal."
In the same way that Outkast carved a spot on the music landscape between party jam and social commentary, the lyrics of an Aquakultre track will melt across your mind with the intensity of a sour candy: You pucker. You're surprised. You reach for more, instantly and instinctively.
While Dourado's horn section on the album's lead single "I Doubt It" (recorded live in a marathon session before their time at the NMC ran out) is what hooks into your eardrum first, Sampson's lyrics prove, within the same second, to be on an equally high level: "Wait a minute/Capitalism and prison systems, I can't tell the difference/Meanwhile, I'm too busy bigging up my people, encouraging them to speak loud," he thunders in a tone that'd awe Andre 3000.
Yes, the musical range is its own buffet. Of course, you'll be going for seconds.
If we're wondering what legacy Legacy could act as a sequel to—which appetizers this feast follows—a fair bet to entertain would be Gil Scott-Heron's Pieces of a Man. Sampson, after all, proves the revolution was meant to be a crooned, not televised. This is the sort of thing that'll nourish you, even as you gorge on it.
Says Dourado: "Kind of what the whole Aquakultre project is about for me, in a particular way, is being how can we get people to focus on what this person is saying? Because the message about family and treating other people with respect is so worth talking about in the world that we live in today."
Lick the honey from your fingertips. Wipe the running juice from your chin. Then, fill your plate again. "I always come back to a line by Common," begins Sampson, referencing the lyric "Affecting lives is where the wealth and the merit is," from "Nag Champa (Afrodisiac For The World)," but perhaps doing it one better: "He says: 'Inspiring the life of the youth: that's where the merit is.' That's what I do it for: As long as I'm touching people and helping them change their life in any kind of way for the better, that's what I'm here for."
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The Washington family: West Athens, California
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Daniel Goh Ji Xiong (born 13 August 1999) is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays midfielder for Singapore Premier League club Balestier Khalsa.

Club career

Hougang United
Daniel signed with Hougang United's prime league squad in 2018, and was later promoted to the first team, he made 3 appearances for the club in the 2018 Singapore Premier League.

Balestier Khalsa
Daniel then signed with Balestier Khalsa for the 2019 campaign and became a regular starter for the club. He made his debut on 9 March 2019, against his former club Hougang United.

Albirex Niigata
Daniel then signed with Albirex Niigata Singapore FC to play in the 2020 season as one of the lightning fast players from his former club Balestier Khalsa FC.

International career
Daniel was first called up to the Singapore under-22 in 2019 for the 2019 Merlion Cup. Daniel made his debut and his first start for the under-22s on 7 June 2019, against Philippines. Daniel recorded an assist on his debut, providing the pass for Ikhsan Fandi to score.

Career statistics

Club

International statistics

U23 International caps

U23 International goals
Scores and results list Singapore's goal tally first.

U19 International caps

Honours

Club

Albirex Niigata (S)

 Singapore Premier League: 2020

International
Singapore U22
 Merlion Cup: 2019

References

1999 births
Living people
Singaporean footballers
Singapore international footballers
Singapore Premier League players
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Food products are subject to fine quality control. Many parameters such as shelf life and final product dimensions are dependent on water content, or, more specifically, water activity. Water that is chemically bound with either salt or sugar can lengthen the shelf life of a product.
The production of dried food products such as powders and pellets consume large amounts of energy to dry the product. Small improvements in efficiency can lead to large savings and a very quick return on investment.
Instrumentation and analysers are required to monitor food quality and improve the efficiency of the production process.


My name is Charu Goel and I am working as an Executive in the Private Sector. I have completed my MBA. I grew up in a Middle Class, Nuclear Family with Moderate Values.
I am making this profile for my daughter. She completed her bachelor's degree and is now working as an executive. We belong to an upper middle class, nuclear family with traditional values, currently settled in Delhi.
My son is CA and he is employed with top 10 MNC in Gurgaon. We come from an upper middle class, nuclear family background with moderate values. He has passed CFA I and will appear for CFA II.
I'm successfully employed as a Executive in a private firm. I belong to the Agarwal caste and am looking for a match from the same community. To describe about my family, we are a joint family with strong traditional values which belong to Rudauli Faizabad distt. I reside in Gurgaon.
Rishabh is our only son , and has no real brothers and sister . We are a family with good background and good family values .our son is tall handsome and gentle . We want a match for him preferably working in Delhi he is earning well his father is a buisness man and mother too and have own house in Chitranjan Park Delhi.
My son is successfully employed with a private firm as a Executive. We are a nuclear family with traditional values. To describe about our family, we belong to the Agarwal caste and looking for a match from the same community. My son resides in Delhi.
My brother is an executive with a bachelor's degree currently working in private sector in Chattisgarh. We belong to a middle class, nuclear family with traditional values.


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Michigan Health Chief Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter In Flint Water Crisis
By Amita Kelly • Jun 14, 2017
Jessica Owens holds up a baby bottle of water from her home in Flint, Mich., while attending a hearing on Capitol Hill about Flint's water crisis.
Molly Riley / AP
Nick Lyon, Michigan's director of Health and Human Services, is the highest-ranking state official to be criminally charged in connection to the Flint water crisis.
David Eggert / AP
Originally published on June 14, 2017 4:21 pm
The director of Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services, Nick Lyon, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office over the Flint water crisis. Both are felonies in Michigan.
The state's chief medical executive, Dr. Eden Wells, will be charged with obstruction of justice. Four other officials, including the former Flint emergency manager and former director of public works, were also charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Lyon and Wells are the highest-ranking state officials to be charged in the crisis. The charges stem from an investigation led by Michigan's attorney general.
"Mr. Lyon failed in his responsibilities to protect the health and safety of the citizens of Flint," Michigan's Attorney General Bill Schuette said at a press conference Wednesday.
"The families of Flint have experienced a tragic, tragic health and safety crisis for the past three years," he said.
The involuntary manslaughter charge stems from an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, a type of pneumonia, that spread in the city following its switch in water source. According to the indictment, Lyon knew about the outbreak but failed to alert the public. The disease killed 12 people and sickened more than 70 in 2014 and 2015, according to MLive.
Flint's water quality attracted national attention after lead seeped into the city's pipes. The city had switched its water source to the Flint River and failed to immediately treat it. Officials dismissed residents' concerns that the water was discolored and smelled.
Residents were forced to use either contaminated or bottled water.
The state's culpability is rooted in the fact that Flint was being run by state-appointed emergency managers at the time of the water crisis. Many say that state officials, therefore, were responsible for the health and safety of the city.
The state officials involved have contended that because the outbreak was contained to one county, the county health department held ultimate responsibility.
Schuette launched a probe of the water crisis in January 2016. The investigation is looking into "what, if any, Michigan laws were violated in the process that resulted in the contamination crisis currently forcing Flint residents to rely on bottled water for drinking, cooking and bathing as they fear for their health."
Former Flint Director of Public Works Howard Croft, one of the officials charged with involuntary manslaughter, maintains he is innocent. In a statement, his lawyer said Croft "continues to maintain his innocence on this forthcoming charge and the charges previously brought against him" and that he will be vindicated as more facts about the water crisis come to light.
In response to the charges, Rep. Dan Kildee, who was born and raised in Flint and now represents the district that includes it, said he supports the investigation and its attempt to "hold everyone accountable who did this to Flint."
"The state and the Governor created this crisis and they must do more to help Flint's recovery," Kildee said in a statement.
More than a dozen former state and city officials have been criminally charged in connection with the Flint water crisis.


Tawhiti Kindergarten is situated in Hawera, Taranaki. It is one of 24 kindergartens administered by the newly established Kindergarten Taranaki, formerly North and South Taranaki Kindergarten Associations. The governing board is responsible for setting overall strategic direction and policy for the organisation. A chief executive has been appointed. Four professional leaders are employed to support learning and development of teachers. The present management structure is under review.
The kindergarten is licensed for 40 children and has a roll of 34. Mixed-age sessions operate from 8.30am to 2.30pm. All teachers are qualified and registered.
Key features of the kindergarten include a focus on relationships, physical environment and building of a learning community. Inclusive and respectful practices nurture partnerships with children and their families. Teachers and whānau contribute items to a sharing table for all to access.
Ongoing development of the natural outdoor environment continues to evolve. The principles of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' are promoted through 'Education for Sustainability'.
The stable teaching team have worked deliberately to continue to improve the quality of teaching practices and centre operation.
Children's learning is well supported in an inclusive, spacious and vibrant environment. Natural materials and resources are provided and offer children challenge and encourage exploration and risk taking. The atmosphere is unhurried and purposeful. Morning tea and lunch are shared social times, when children and adults eat and talk together. Children are supported to take increased responsibility for the wellbeing of themselves, others and the environment.
Teachers are welcoming of parents and whānau. Relationships amongst children and with adults are caring and responsive. Children are independent learners who confidently approach others and share their ideas. They make choices about their learning and sustain their play. Teachers provide meaningful contexts for children to develop and learn about literacy, mathematics, and science and natural world understandings.
The bicultural curriculum continues to strengthen. Teachers use Māori symbols and artefacts to promote learning about Aotearoa New Zealand's dual cultural heritage. Teachers and leaders acknowledge that they need to further grow their knowledge and understanding of te reo me ngā tikanga Māori.
The centre has developed an effective process that supports planning and assessment. Teachers notice and recognise children's interests, strengths and needs. They plan collaboratively to provide opportunities and experiences for children's further learning. Children's continuity of learning and progress over time is very evident in portfolios. Parents and children contribute to these through sharing links between learning at kindergarten and home.
Strong partnerships with local schools support successful transitions for children and their families. A local network of early childhood and new entrant teachers helps them to develop shared understandings of continuity of learning and links between principles and concepts expressed in Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum and The New Zealand Curriculum.
Self review effectively guides improvement of practice, enhances learning opportunities for children and informs environmental developments. A comprehensive strategic plan clearly identifies the centre's goals and priorities for improvement. Review of this plan has noted ongoing progress in relation to expected outcomes.
The head teacher has identified a next step is to seek ongoing aspirations from parents about their children's learning. This should further strengthen partnerships to promote positive learning outcomes for children.
Strengthen self review by including a stronger evaluative focus on how change impacts on children's learning and wellbeing.


To reduce their energy consumption and lighting maintenance costs and also to redesign the offices to increase Lux levels inline with CIBSE guidelines. Carte Blanche also required microwave sensors to be installed in high bays in the warehouse helping to save energy, as unoccupied aisles would no longer have lights on all day unnecessary.
100W Kepler series LED High Bays, together with Hytronik Microwave sensors provided an outstanding solution to Carte Blanche's warehouse lighting request, combining high efficiency with exceptional performance.
We increased Lux levels throughout their offices with our LED panels, helping to ensure Carte Blanche meet CIBSE guidelines.
Plus, they received a £10,000 financial contribution from the Green Business Fund towards the project.
"The scope of the project gave us an amazing saving and a fantastic capital payback period and was completed in a very short time, with Infinity working around our operational hours and minimising any disruption.


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package com.linuxtek.kona.remote.service;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Associates a {@link KService} with a relative path.
 *
 * Based on com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.RemoteServiceRelativePath
 */
@Documented
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface KServiceRelativePath {
  /**
   * The relative path for the {@link KService} implementation.
   *
   * @return relative path for the {@link KService} implementation
   */
  String value();
}

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The Royal is a stunning downtown Calgary condo building that was originally developed by Vancouver-based Embassy BOSA Inc. Specifically situated in the historic Mount Royal neighbourhood, living at The Royal certainly has a lot of upside, starting with being part of such a rapidly growing and evolving community. Calgary's Mount Royal is now where you'll find a number of the city's most highly-desired condo buildings, ensuring any investment in The Royal has a safe long-term outlook. The lively and energetic 17th Avenue SW is just steps away from condos for sale at The Royal, so you'll also never be too far from plenty of shopping, dining, and vibrant nightlife either.
The Royal condo building in Calgary stands 34 storeys high and is home to 223 individual condo units. Offering potential buyer a range of style and layouts, one-bedroom condos for sale at The Royal start right around the mid $300s, while larger two-bedroom condos usually start close to the mid $500s and go up from there.
View more information about condos at The Royal below, or start browsing any active MLS listings currently listed on the market (note: condos may not be listed on the MLS as of right now).
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Despite only having one and two bedroom layouts, condos for sale at The Royal are expansive and very livable. Floorplans are open and spacious, while the finishes and features are top-of-the-line to say the least.
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Q: How to properly deserialise ClientResponse entity to List of POJOs I am attempting to deserialise a response entity into a list of POJOs. When I do this directly, using a GenericType like so:
private List<UserRole> extractMembersDirectly(final ClientResponse response) {
    return response.getEntity(new GenericType<List<UserRole>>() {});
}

I get this exception:
com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException:    com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Unexpected token (START_OBJECT), expected VALUE_STRING: need JSON String that contains type id (for subtype of java.util.List)
However, I can deserialise successfully when I use an ObjectMapper directly:
private List<UserRole> extractMembersUsingMapper(final ClientResponse response) throws IOException {
    String json = response.getEntity(String.class);
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapperFactory().build();
    return mapper.readValue(json, new TypeReference<List<UserRole>>() {});
}

The POJO is just:
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
@JsonSnakeCase
public class UserRole {
    private UUID id;

    public UserRole(@JsonProperty("id") final UUID id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public UUID getId() {
        return id;
}

Is there a way to directly deserialise from the entity without first deserialising to String?

A: you can try having a custom serializer on the class itself
Writing the serializer
   public class UserRoleSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Item> {
      @Override
      public void serialize(UserRole userRole, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider      provider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
    jgen.writeStartObject();
    jgen.writeStringField("id", userRole.id);
    jgen.writeEndObject();
  }
}

Now registering the serializer to your class
     @JsonSerialize(using = UserRoleSerializer.class)
     public class UserRole {
         ...
      }

Then Just an idea, not sure if thats what you looking for

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Q: OpenModelica cannot run FMU? I have created a model in OpenModelica using some simple blocks and equations:
block ZapuniInterpolation
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput tableInput(start=190) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-68, 20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-68, 20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput sineGainInput(start=1) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-68, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-68, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput output1 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {22, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {22, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput output2 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {42, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {42, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput output3 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {62, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {62, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput alpha(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-8,-20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-8,-20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput beta(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {22, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {22, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput gamma(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {52, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {52, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput sineFrequency(start = 1) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-38, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-38, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
protected
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  import PI = Modelica.Constants.pi;
// -------------
  Modelica.Blocks.Tables.CombiTable1Ds modelDef(table = [180.0, 0.0, 0.125639618, 0.122496368, 0.152595123, 1.30134654, 7.03518772, 10.1638193, 11.777113, 12.5243101, 21.683424, 27.5360508, 34.4655838, 34.1353836, -0.000156808334, 0.000567958435, -6.16513252e-06, 5.07716331e-05, 0.000295116516, -0.00226303029, 1.72715359e-05, -2.76345825e-05, -0.000384722595, -1.60172176e-05, 2.38217144e-05, 8.43528748e-06, 2.26263523e-05, -0.0392020416, -0.0412239838, 0.000444312775, -0.00735736036, 0.083243988, 0.00416324186, 0.00528137589, -0.012360487, 1.24845228e-05, -0.196934738, 6.53376694e-05, -7.1772345e-07, -0.047993618;
  182.5, 0.0, 0.12338031, 0.121614441, 0.152516403, 1.28446889, 7.03372765, 10.160368, 11.7592869, 12.5243101, 24.4601326, 27.5334625, 34.4655838, 32.8034935, -0.000155028641, 0.000569061768, -1.06752777e-05, 4.43576736e-05, 0.000292540131, -0.00226327395, 1.87270737e-05, -2.94425335e-05, -0.000384721771, -1.95333481e-05, 2.38186722e-05, 8.43502998e-06, 2.18605156e-05, -0.038757122, -0.0399122047, 0.000745555359, -0.00661621618, 0.080380722, 0.00384176278, 0.00474613094, -0.010696907, 1.03946018e-05, -0.187355469, 0.000304825897, -3.04758026e-07, -0.0856405334;
  185.0, 0.0, 0.121165268, 0.120708992, 0.152441833, 1.26705885, 7.03220701, 10.1565781, 11.7394562, 12.5243101, 26.2911625, 27.5308762, 34.4655838, 33.3992195, -0.000153284882, 0.000568685425, -4.0209774e-05, 3.89236832e-05, 0.000290123566, -0.00226349735, 2.0346014e-05, -3.14919395e-05, -0.000384720856, -2.75364189e-05, 2.39696522e-05, 8.43503952e-06, 1.46955872e-05, -0.0383211823, -0.0385091896, 0.00271969485, -0.00597921848, 0.0775424423, 0.00357709074, 0.00436138248, -0.00955755329, 8.97015572e-06, -0.137678406, 0.000970456665, -8.64766174e-07, -0.156308731;
  187.5, 0.0, 0.118988342, 0.119786552, 0.152369507, 1.24918771, 7.0306282, 10.1524391, 11.7177658, 12.5243092, 26.049839, 27.5282478, 34.4655838, 37.3313332, -0.000151576111, 0.000570432922, 2.22414017e-05, 3.42602654e-05, 0.000287870667, -0.00226369929, 2.21327553e-05, -3.37703247e-05, -0.000384719849, -3.28333435e-05, 2.40614624e-05, 8.43494415e-06, 6.49287128e-06, -0.0378939934, -0.0372608452, -0.00145591199, -0.00542455482, 0.074719574, 0.00335672474, 0.00408232164, -0.00875357533, 7.95372009e-06, -0.080245285, 0.000683899231, 4.3715094e-07, -0.196699677;
  190.0, 0.0, 0.116858894, 0.118837822, 0.152297958, 1.23091626, 7.02899122, 10.1479139, 11.6941319, 12.5243092, 24.9532948, 27.5255089, 34.4655838, 43.7087631, -0.000149901413, 0.000571410095, 8.67566872e-06, 3.02129364e-05, 0.000285783508, -0.00226387715, 2.41047344e-05, -3.62895241e-05, -0.000384718781, -3.62359619e-05, 2.40104408e-05, 8.43495083e-06, 3.14631987e-06, -0.0374753189, -0.0359707489, -0.000549157532, -0.0049361062, 0.0719031982, 0.00317143512, 0.00388165021, -0.00817939949, 7.20596743e-06, -0.0537428932, 0.000341564392, 1.62058945e-07, -0.2088992;
  195.0, 0.0, 0.112727142, 0.116876053, 0.152152176, 1.19337523, 7.02551937, 10.1374197, 11.639926, 12.5243092, 22.4547005, 27.5198441, 34.4655838, 63.5006485, -0.000146650772, 0.000572308289, 3.85471559e-06, 2.35291004e-05, 0.000282106537, -0.00226414824, 2.87340622e-05, -4.21810608e-05, -0.00038471637, -4.2829483e-05, 2.39550076e-05, 8.43493652e-06, 1.15650666e-06, -0.0366626587, -0.0333576317, -0.00022747081, -0.0041120615, 0.0662582474, 0.0028797617, 0.00365292263, -0.00749141979, 6.22078133e-06, -0.0335395622, 0.00014459668, 7.19030685e-08, -0.2181745;
  200.0, 0.0, 0.10876281, 0.114828865, 0.151995438, 1.15478432, 7.02172279, 10.1242056, 11.5731678, 12.5243082, 20.1688595, 27.5138836, 34.4655838, 97.7778931, -0.000143526184, 0.000572750549, 2.4388926e-06, 1.82274666e-05, 0.000279082581, -0.00226427436, 3.46423569e-05, -4.95841827e-05, -0.000384713623, -5.03695107e-05, 2.39311123e-05, 8.4349184e-06, 1.23468935e-06, -0.0358815079, -0.030764555, -0.000133495087, -0.00343931985, 0.0605537033, 0.00266271996, 0.00360132694, -0.00721686459, 5.66029549e-06, -0.0255758495, 8.98340149e-05, 4.8260746e-08, -0.220523834]) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-18, 20}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  Real[13] omega2 = {modelDef.y[1], modelDef.y[2], modelDef.y[3], modelDef.y[4], modelDef.y[5], modelDef.y[6], modelDef.y[7], modelDef.y[8], modelDef.y[9], modelDef.y[10], modelDef.y[11], modelDef.y[12], modelDef.y[13]};
  // -------------
  Real[13] Ba = {modelDef.y[14], modelDef.y[15], modelDef.y[16], modelDef.y[17], modelDef.y[18], modelDef.y[19], modelDef.y[20], modelDef.y[21], modelDef.y[22], modelDef.y[23], modelDef.y[24], modelDef.y[25], modelDef.y[26]};
  // -------------
  Real[13] Ca = {modelDef.y[27], modelDef.y[28], modelDef.y[29], modelDef.y[30], modelDef.y[31], modelDef.y[32], modelDef.y[33], modelDef.y[34], modelDef.y[35], modelDef.y[36], modelDef.y[37], modelDef.y[38], modelDef.y[39]};
  // -------------
  Real[13] damping = beta * omega2 + gamma * sqrt(omega2) .+ alpha;
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  Real [1] ssu "input vector";
  Real [3] ssy = {output1, output2, output3}"output vector";
  Real [26] ssx "state vector";
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  // -------------
  Real[26, 26] ssA = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1;
-omega2[1], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[1], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, -omega2[2], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[2], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, -omega2[3], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[3], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, -omega2[4], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[4], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[5], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[5], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[6], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[6], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[7], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[7], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[8], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[8], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[9], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[9], 0, 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[10], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[10], 0, 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[11], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[11], 0, 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[12], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[12], 0;
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -omega2[13], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -damping[13]];
  // ------------
  Real[26, 1] ssB = [0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; 0; Ba[1]; Ba[2]; Ba[3]; Ba[4]; Ba[5]; Ba[6]; Ba[7]; Ba[8]; Ba[9]; Ba[10]; Ba[11]; Ba[12]; Ba[13]];
  // ------------
  Real[3, 26] ssC = [Ca[1], Ca[2], Ca[3], Ca[4], Ca[5], Ca[6], Ca[7], Ca[8], Ca[9], Ca[10], Ca[11], Ca[12], Ca[13], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  Ba[1], Ba[2], Ba[3], Ba[4], Ba[5], Ba[6], Ba[7], Ba[8], Ba[9], Ba[10], Ba[11], Ba[12], Ba[13], 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0;
  0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, Ba[1], Ba[2], Ba[3], Ba[4], Ba[5], Ba[6], Ba[7], Ba[8], Ba[9], Ba[10], Ba[11], Ba[12], Ba[13]];
  // -----------
  Real[3, 1] ssD = [0; 0; 0];
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
initial equation
  ssx = fill(0, 26);
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
equation
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  connect(modelDef.u, tableInput) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-30, 20}, {-68, 20}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  der(ssx) = ssA * ssx + ssB * ssu;
  ssy = ssC * ssx + ssD * ssu;
  ssu = {sineGainInput *sin(2*PI*sineFrequency*time)};
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
  annotation(
    uses(Modelica(version = "3.2.3")));
end ZapuniInterpolation;

Now I exported the model to an FMU using OpenModelica, using version 2.0 and Model Exchange - Co Simulation. When I import this FMU in another model and attach simple inputs and outputs, like:
model importZapuniFMUtest
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput alpha(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, 80}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, 80}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput beta(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, 50}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, 50}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput gamma(start=0) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, 20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, 20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput Length(start=190) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, -80}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, -80}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput Amplitude(start=1) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, -50}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, -50}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealInput Frequency(start=1) annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {-80, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {-80, -20}, extent = {{-20, -20}, {20, 20}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput Y1 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {70, 50}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {70, 50}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput Y2 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {70, 30}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {70, 30}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  Modelica.Blocks.Interfaces.RealOutput Y3 annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {70, 10}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0), iconTransformation(origin = {70, 10}, extent = {{-10, -10}, {10, 10}}, rotation = 0)));
  ZapuniInterpolation_me_FMU zapuniInterpolation annotation(
    Placement(visible = true, transformation(origin = {10, 10}, extent = {{-30, -30}, {30, 30}}, rotation = 0)));
equation
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.alpha, alpha) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, 32}, {-30, 32}, {-30, 80}, {-80, 80}, {-80, 80}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.beta, beta) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, 24}, {-40, 24}, {-40, 50}, {-80, 50}, {-80, 50}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.gamma, gamma) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, 16}, {-50, 16}, {-50, 20}, {-80, 20}, {-80, 20}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.sineFrequency, Frequency) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, 8}, {-50, 8}, {-50, -20}, {-80, -20}, {-80, -20}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.sineGainInput, Amplitude) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, 0}, {-40, 0}, {-40, -50}, {-80, -50}, {-80, -50}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.tableInput, Length) annotation(
    Line(points = {{-24, -6}, {-30, -6}, {-30, -80}, {-80, -80}, {-80, -80}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.output1, Y1) annotation(
    Line(points = {{44, 32}, {50, 32}, {50, 50}, {70, 50}, {70, 50}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.output2, Y2) annotation(
    Line(points = {{44, 24}, {52, 24}, {52, 30}, {70, 30}, {70, 30}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));
  connect(zapuniInterpolation.output3, Y3) annotation(
    Line(points = {{44, 16}, {50, 16}, {50, 10}, {70, 10}, {70, 10}}, color = {0, 0, 127}));

annotation(
    uses(Modelica(version = "3.2.3")));
end importZapuniFMUtest;

I get the following error:

[1] 13:28:34 Translation Error [ZapuniInterpolation_me_FMU: 1360:7-1360:39]: Operator reinit may only be used in the body of a when equation.

I have no idea what I have done wrong, since the initial model runs just fine in OpenModelica, I can change all of the inputs etc but the exported model does not work.


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Mark Patinkin: Homeless make a clean start through Amos House program
Mark Patinkin Journal Columnist markpatinkin
The program called "A Hand Up" gives those who've been living on the streets a chance to clean them for cash while gaining job experience, self-respect and a chance to break the cycle of homelessness.
Many of the 20 or so folks in yellow vests on Providence's Broad Street might otherwise have been panhandling, but had no interest. Because they had a job to do.
It was a simple job of picking up trash off the street, and they'd been at it now for six hours to earn $50.
You'd think that both the task and pay would leave them grumbling, but hardly.
Doreen Beeman, 60 and carrying a trash-picker stick, said she was thrilled to be out there. Without this, she might be panhandling, which she doesn't like, but has at times because she's had no choice.
Others said the same, explaining that it's difficult to get a job when you're homeless with issues like drug use and a police record — but this gives them a chance.
Their crew chief, Kali Otto-Gentry, explained they were part of an Amos House program called "A Hand Up." Teams of 20 or so people, most of them homeless, are put to work beautifying streets twice a week for three weeks. It teaches good habits and plugs them into Amos House social programs to help break the cycle.
I caught up with the crew Thursday afternoon and approached Doreen, who said this was her second three-week stint. Her husband, Alan Patrick, 55, was also working. The two live in a room in Olneyville and had gotten up at 6 a.m. to make the 45-minute walk to report for duty.
I've interviewed homeless folks before, and they often don't want their last names used. But this was different.
Tony Figuried, 56, joked that I shouldn't give the program too much publicity, because he wants to work more often and doesn't want competition.
"Makes me feel better about myself," he said.
Daniel Ortega, 43, said he's in a state shelter, and this has helped him stay clean.
"Everybody deserves a second chance," said Daniel.
A voice nearby said, "Don't forget me."
That was Michael Quinn, 48.
"Helps me get off the street," he explained. He said he's been an addict and has a record. Having a shot at work-for-pay breaks that cycle.
Addicts, he said, use because they feel bad about themselves; if you can give back like this, it changes that.
"It gives me a high I can't buy," he said. "It's better than drugs."
Heather "Smiling Dove" Rivera, 31, is a member of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe. She said she'd picked up a lot of used needles and beer bottles and felt good that she kept kids from seeing that.
Amos House CEO Eileen Hayes got the idea from an Albuquerque program with the same simple idea — put the homeless to work. She got seed money from a private donor, more from the Rhode Island Foundation, and then $200,000 from the City of Providence for equipment and crew staff.
Hayes said a lot of homeless folks are out there alone and have given up. "A Hand Up" plugs them back in.
Doreen and Alan, the married couple, said it's given them more than a paycheck.
"They help you with IDs," said Alan.
"Birth certificates," said Doreen.
"Glasses, medical and dental," said Alan.
So far, Eileen Hayes said, more than 400 folks have been on crews, 50 have found jobs and another 30 or so housing.
"It gives folks a sense of dignity," she said. "They really don't want to stand on the street corner."
She wishes she had funds to keep folks working longer, but "A Hand Up" is now so sought-after that there's a waiting list.
The shift ended, and back at Amos House everyone was in good spirits, with a lot of chatter as a staffer gave each their $50 in cash.
Many lingered, drawn by the camaraderie.
Michael Quinn said he's proud of his vest — it makes him feel part of something.
It's the most important thing, he explained — a sense that you belong again.
Mark Patinkin's columns run in the Journal on Sundays and Wednesdays.
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A sequel to the 1986 movie "Top Gun," titled "Top Gun: Maverick," is being filmed in the US.
A photographer in California spotted an pilot in a Navy F/A-18 fighter wearing what appears to be the same helmet worn by the character Maverick in the original move.
A sharp-eyed aviation photographer caught a photo of a US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet two-seat variant transiting through the Star Wars canyon, one of the most popular western US low-flying areas, earlier this month during what appears to be filming of in-cockpit sequences for the upcoming "Top Gun: Maverick" movie.
The photo, posted to Instagram by Christopher Lohff (@lohffingfoto), shows the pilot/front-seater wearing the same HGU-68/P lightweight flight helmet with custom graphics as seen in previously leaked photos from the production of "Top Gun: Maverick."
The upcoming film, slated for release on June 26, 2020 in the US, is likely entering the final stages of its production phase before going to post-production and editing.
Another interesting detail in the photo is the appearance of an array of what appears to be four of the new Sony VENICE CineAlta video cameras on the coaming of the rear cockpit.
The new Sony VENICE CineAlta is a full-frame, 36x24mm digital video camera that shoots at a maximum resolution of 6048×4032 and can be modified to shoot at even higher quality resolution. The cameras cost about $42,000 USD each without lenses or upgrades for higher resolution.
The Sony VENICE CineAlta array seen in the F/A-18 appears includes four rearward-facing cameras in the aft cockpit of the F/A-18 with various focal length lenses including at least two very wide-angle lenses. The camera array is fitted to the top of the rear cockpit coaming at the top of the instrument panel with a custom machined mount.
These photos give a clue about what some of the in-cockpit sequences may look like when the film debuts next year.
Just before the photos from the western low-flying areas appeared on Instagram, the Internet was filled with "spy" photos of an F-14 Tomcat being used in filming for the upcoming movie. The appearance of the Tomcat suggests a retrospective sequence, some kind of "flashback" to the original "Top Gun" in this upcoming release.
The F-14 Tomcat that was sighted around Coronado Island and North Island NAS also showed up on the deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) for some filming sequences. One sequence included the aircraft being stopped in the large net/arresting barrier used for emergency recoveries onboard ship.
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Ultraviolet pyrometer maps wafer temperature
GaN chip developers look set to benefit from an in situ pyrometer that can measure wafer temperatures with a precision of ±0.1°C. Richard Stevenson speaks to Thomas Zettler of optical sensor specialist LayTec to find out more about its ultraviolet pyrometer.
Profitable chip making demands low development costs and high production yields. To cut initial expense, growth recipes should be established using the minimal number of runs, since this optimization process can consume a large proportion of the development budget. To do this, process engineers must know as much as possible about the reactor's local environment, including the wafer temperature – a primary driver of epilayer growth rates and compositions.
Nitride material
Pyrometry is the standard and established method for measuring the wafer temperature within a reactor. The technique involves measuring the intensity of thermal radiation emitted by the wafers over a narrow wavelength band using a photodetector, and then correlating this intensity to a temperature.
The temperature of wafers based on InP and GaAs material systems can be measured with a pyrometer operating at 950 nm. However, this spectral region is less suitable for nitrides, because they do not produce any radiation at this wavelength, so only the susceptor surface below the wafer is measured.
To address this deficiency, pyrometers have been built specifically for nitride growth that operate at 400 nm. These devices measure the temperature of GaN directly, and more precisely, than their longer wavelength equivalents. The first of these was constructed by J Randall Creighton and co-workers from Sandia National Laboratories, US. Then at the end of 2006, optical sensor expert LayTec of Germany (see tinted box) introduced a commercial version of this tool, the Pyro 400, at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston, US. This instrument is primarily designed for Aixtron multi-wafer reactors, but could also be adapted for Thomas Swan tools.
Developing a pyrometer that operates in the near ultraviolet is a significant challenge, according to LayTec's president Thomas Zettler. "In a reactor at 1000 °C there is very intense radiation at all wavelengths, and it's a huge problem to measure 400 nm emission accurately," explained Zettler.
LayTec background
Emission at 400 nm can be many orders of magnitude weaker than that at longer infrared wavelengths, and the careful selection of several filters is required to block out this unwanted radiation. Operating in this wavelength range enables LayTec's instrument, which consists of collection optics, filters and a detector, to measure the surface temperature of multiple wafers with a precision of ±0.1 °C or less. This precision exceeds that of the company's EpiTT instrument and of all other commercial tools, claims Zettler.
Although the Pyro 400 can measure temperatures with a very high precision, it does not feature emissivity correction. This means that the instrument ignores the variations in emissivity between different objects, and that the growth of an antireflection film would produce a change in the value of the recorded temperature. However, Zettler believes that this weakness is not an issue. According to him, there is only a small difference between the emissivities of GaN and AlN layers and that the product is designed as a calibration tool to check the bare wafer surface temperature.
To drive sales, LayTec will have to convince its customers to add the Pyro 400 to other in situ instruments already installed in reactors, such as reflectance tools to monitor wafer bowing. These reflectance monitors can ensure wafer flatness, but they cannot reveal whether temperature variations occurred across the substrate during the growth. These differences can exist even before growth begins, says Zettler, as they come from slight variations in the susceptor's geometry.
Zettler believes that the Pyro 400 can deliver the greatest benefit during the development of new growth recipes for future products. These new recipes must produce wafers with uniform, high-quality active regions and a low degree of bowing. The number of runs required to fine-tune this growth can be reduced with the new 400 nm pyrometer, says Zettler. He adds that the in-house expertise generated from the development of the 400 nm instrument has also enabled the company to show its customers how to get more out of their wafer-bowing equipment.
At the MRS meeting Zettler's colleague Elizabeth Steimetz presented a poster that detailed the capabilities of the Pyro 400, which was co-authored by researchers from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute for Very High Frequency Technology (FBH) in Berlin. The 400 nm pyrometer was fitted to an Aixtron AIX2600HT planetary reactor equipped with LayTec's EpiCurve sensor, and mapped the temperature of a platter containing 11 different 2-inch substrates and epiwafers with a precision of ±0.1 °C and a ±3 mm spatial resolution.
These trials were conducted at 1100 °C and a platter rotation speed of six revolutions per minute. The tests showed that convex bowing results from the growth of GaN on sapphire and produces a 4 °C temperature variation across the wafer, which can be measured with a resolution of 0.1 °C. Switching to a SiC platform replaces a convex bow with a concave one, and variations in wafer temperature increase to 12 °C. According to the researchers, lowering the reactor's temperature to 800 °C dramatically reduced the bowing of both of these epiwafers, leading to growth of quantum wells with excellent uniformity.
• This article originally appeared in the June 2007 issue of Optics & Laser Europe magazine.
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Over the last year, SAT-7's Persian channel has seen a significant surge in responses from viewers in Afghanistan wanting to know more about the Christian faith.
The huge increase in viewer responses came after the channel launched on a second satellite platform, Yahsat, a year ago. Compared to Hotbird, the satellite platform SAT-7 PARS has been broadcasting on since 2006, Yahsat provides a much stronger signal into the Persian-speaking world, including Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. New Audience Relations data shows that the number of viewers contacting SAT-7 PARS has almost doubled – from around 1,000 to over 2,000 a month – since the channel began to broadcast on Yahsat, with significantly more Afghans responding.
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"My husband was telling me about Jesus and I was very stressed and worried about it," she said. However, Shahnaz soon noticed that since finding faith in Jesus, her husband was changing for the better.
Her husband's faith soon began to impact the whole family. Shahnaz has now also found a relationship with Jesus, and is encouraging her daughter to watch SAT-7 too.
Yahsat delivers SAT-7 PARS to a whole new audience, one which until now has not had the opportunity to access any Christian channels. In Afghanistan, where believers are often isolated and have very limited access to Christian resources, receiving support from our Audience Relations team and having 24/7 access to encouraging Christian programmes on the channel is a lifeline.
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Break from EU could bring problems
While economists say a British exit from the EU - or Brexit, as it is known - would be painful mainly for the country itself and to a lesser extent for rest of the Europe, the consequences for the global economy are harder to estimate.
By: Aaron Drew
When you wake up this Friday morning the UK may no longer be part of the European Union. Or not. At the time of writing the polls are very close and most political pundits are loathe to call the outcome.
Not so with the economics community. The chief economists at international agencies such as the OECD and the IMF, the boffins at the Bank of England, and various private sector bank economists are unanimous in saying leaving would be an economic mistake, one that would possibly lead to long-term stagnation of the UK economy.
The basic principle behind their analysis is that larger markets create more competition, which in turn fosters innovation, productivity growth, lower prices, and greater consumer choice. If Brexit occurs there is no doubt that UK goods, services and capital, as well as people, will enjoy less access to the much larger economy across the Channel. Its effective market size will shrink.
The NZIER penned a recent piece drawing out the implications of Brexit for New Zealand. It estimates that our exports to the UK could drop by $190 million per year due to slower UK income growth; negatively impacting the demand for agricultural produce such as sheep meat, wine, apples and pears, wool and honey, as well as crimping the number of UK tourists. This drop in exports is not a particularly big number in itself, but the bigger risk is that Brexit would negatively impact the chances of further global economic integration efforts. Especially at a time when ugly nationalistic, anti-immigration politicians are gaining traction across the global stage.
The basic trade-off voters in the UK face is how much they are willing to risk free access and economic prosperity for greater sovereignty, such as the right to determine immigration and regulatory policies?
The polling in this regard is fascinating.
The majority of young Brits want to stay, including a recent new hire in our office who voted by proxy last month.
In contrast the elderly (who are more likely to be against immigration) and the poor (who are most disaffected by globalisation) are the largest groups clearly in the leave camp. Curiously, global financial markets have not been particularly bothered by the impending vote, despite the catechism that markets hate uncertainty, and that there are no real political, legal or economic precedents to draw upon for Brexit. The pound has wobbled up and down with the polling numbers, and is quite weak year-to-date. But global market volatility remains muted - there was much larger swings when the Greek exit drama was playing out in 2011. London is the financial centre of Europe, Athens is a small out-of-the-way village by comparison.
The lack of volatility could reflect that whether the vote is stay or go nothing much will change on day one. If Brexit prevails the UK will need to go through a two-year, highly technical process to re-negotiate its trade and investment relationships with the EU. In the meantime, unfettered from the EU, the UK could better advance trade deals elsewhere - at least that is the promise of the exit camp. The full ramifications of exit will not be known until the 2020s, should the vote go that way. And of course it might not, the desire for young Brits to stay could prevail.
- Aaron Drew is chief investment officer with Hastings-based wealth management company Stewart Financial Group. His show RealWealth can be heard on Radio Kidnappers Tuesday afternoons and on podcast.
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14 November 2017 – Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), four Hong Kong fashion brands hit the runway in Tokyo, with support from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo. As part of the 20th anniversary celebratory events for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the Fashion Hong Kong Month series, which coincided with Amazon Fashion Week TOKYO Spring/Summer 2018 (16-22 October), unveiled the latest fashion from Hong Kong through a series of fresh initiatives throughout October. The event drew fashion experts, buyers, journalists, bloggers and celebrities, as well as the online fashion crowd to view the latest designs of some of Hong Kong's hottest designers.
Fashion Hong Kong Month Harrison Wong's namesake label HARRISON WONG and Polly Ho's LOOM LOOP returned to the Fashion Hong Kong runway show in Tokyo, which was held on 17 October. Two other brands, MEIKING NG by Meiking Ng and HEAVEN PLEASE+ by design duo Yi Chan and Lary Cheung, made their debut at the runway show. Staged at the retail skyscraper complex Shibuya Hikarie, the show unveiled the latest Hong Kong designs to an audience of fashion lovers, movers and shakers, buyers, local fashion bloggers, celebrities, as well as representatives from the international fashion media, including Vogue Talent, WWD Japan, Fashionsnap.com, gapPRESS.
The collections highlighted Hong Kong's design diversity. More than 900 attendees got an up-close look of fashion-forward styles, from LOOM LOOP's eco-initiatives and Chinese folklore motifs with a fancy twist, to MEIKING NG's cubic art-meets-architectural cut, and HARRISON WONG's brilliant interplay of lines and stripes, to HEAVEN PLEASE+'s revisit of inventive visuals and '90s subculture. A livestream of the show, organised by the HKTDC and media partner Fashionsnap on its official Periscope, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram platform, drew more than 10,000 views. Hong Kong online fashion retail start-up, Goxip also live-streamed the show via its official Facebook account. The collaboration allowed fashion lovers from around the world to purchase items soon after the show.
More than 200 industry elites attended an after-show party to have a closer look of the runway designs and mingle with the creative minds behind the collections.
Buyers-Meet-Designers at Fashion Hong Kong Showroom Numerous fashion buyers from around the globe visited the Fashion Hong Kong B2B Showroom at H3O Showroom. To match prospective business partners and counterparts, business-matching meetings were arranged between Hong Kong designers and buyers from renowned department stores and e-tailing platforms. On-site orders were placed by local fashion buyers.
Apart from the four runway designer brands, 10 other Hong Kong fashion accessory labels were also showcased around Tokyo during Fashion Hong Kong Month. The lineup included a o g p, BIG HORN, CECILIA MA, FAVEbykennyli, IIJIN, MARIJOLI, MASE, methodology, MIDOTI by SHARON5 and NOVEL. Their Fall/Winter 2017 and Spring/Summer 2018 collections were sold at pop-up stores in destination Tokyo and LaForet Harajuku.
Blending fashion and technology, Fashion Hong Kong partnered with local fashion tech start-up, Casetify to present a Fashion Hong Kong x Casetify crossover phone-case collection. Featuring motifs and patterns from the four designers' runway series, the phone cases were available for print on-demand, allowing trendsetters to carry Hong Kong fashion designs on accessories.
Extra Delight by Local Young Talent Another fashion show, Asia Fashion Collection, held on 15 October in Tokyo, showcased the latest SS18 collections of KA WA KEY, by up-and-coming Hong Kong designer Key Chow, alongside other designs from Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
For three consecutive years, the HKTDC has exhibited the strengths of Hong Kong fashion design via Amazon Fashion Week TOKYO. To nurture Hong Kong's economy and creativity, Fashion Hong Kong, launched by the HKTDC in 2015, aims to promote local designers and labels to the global fashion stage through a host of promotions. Various world-class runway shows initiated by Fashion Hong Kong have been staged in Tokyo Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Week.


Grateful Dead: Orpheum Theatre, S.F.
THE FINEST GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW OF THE MID-1970s The natural gravitation to 1977 as the year of choice for many deadheads often leaves 1976 looking like the younger brother of the high school quarterback. But 1976 might just be the best kept secret in the world of Grateful Dead alternative recordings. 1976 had a number of things working against it that may have led to its bad rap. Historically there were few shows available to tape collectors, except for a handful of nights from June of that year, when a series of FM Broadcasts were made which subsequently changed hands in fairly reasonable quality. June has lots of fabulous moments, but taken in context the best of the year lurked in the much more hard to come by tapes from the rest of the year. This is not to say that June is bad - oddly the shows that didn't widely circulate from June are a good deal better than those that did. But, when you were a young taper, the easiest shows to score from '76 were from June, and they would tend to sound sort of the same. That would often cause one to back off from looking for more from that year. Because of all this, many people think 1976 is very sleepy and underwhelming. It might not be 1972, but it is by no means something to overlook.
The first set is a bit of a warm up. There's not much to write home about there. But to quote another great taper, Rob Bertrando, in his archive.org comments, "I rate the second set jam 5 stars, as good as anything the Dead ever did." It is hard to disagree. From the Dark Star like hush that casually blows into Comes a Time, through jam after inspired jam, you'll find this second set wastes no time grabbing the golden ring.


As I'm reading your post, I'm nodding, nodding and nodding some more. AGREE 100%! Kerry was the biggest NO-NO in that crop top. Its inexcusable to show up 'in that' to a red carpet. She is every designer's darling right now. Amy was the most improved in that beautiful royal blue. Jlaw, love her and she also looked better but I'm SO OVER her in Dior! Yawn already. Lupita has been perfection and can't wait to see what she will do for the Oscars.


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1. Send invites to group(pre-defined group) with deadline
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2. Delay reaction from group (individual buying)
3. Combined shopping list (with who buys what?) and confirmation
5. Purchase with single payment (?)
6. Show reciepts to all recipients