Summary: A young american woman travels to Burman in search of her missing father. What she finds is a story of resilience and heartbreak and enduring love. It also shows us the side of Burma that gets lost in the global news bulletins. Not for the action hero types, a MUST for anyone that loves to feel.
Sendker is German-born (Hamburg 1960) and worked as American correspondent for Stern (1990 to 95) and then as its Asian correspondent from '95 to '99. He now lives in Berlin. This probably gives him enough global insight to write about a US-born high flyer with an Asian heritage heading off to Burma to find out the truth of her father's disappearance. It probably also gives him the language skills to do it in English without recourse to a translator.
I'd be envious if I didn't know that I never had the talent, tenacity or ability to use whatever connections I might stumble across to get there.
I'd be critical if… if the language wasn't perfectly rendered, if the tale weren't quite so bittersweet and yet stripped of the acrid lace of false nostalgia.
What I would be isn't important. What I am is utterly delighted with this book, Sendker's debut work in English.
OK I will admit to the bias that regular readers will recognise: I do have a penchant for stories from the far east: that part of the world I have yet to explore for myself and which I only know from the art and literature and political writing and biography that depicts a tract of the globe as difficult as any other: a place full of glory and beauty and romance and treachery and brutality and corruption. Like the rest of the world, it is, after all, peopled by people.
Julia has travelled to Burma. Off the beaten track to a remote village. In search of her father. One day, four years ago, the successful lawyer left for Boston and simply didn't come home. Eventually, they had assumed him to be dead. Then in clearing out the house they come across a letter. A love letter. Pre-dating their family but echoing down the years all the same. Could he still be in love with this woman? Would she even still be alive?
And, more intriguingly, who was he during the first twenty or so years of his life that he'd never talked about with his American family?
That is the background that finds Julia Win sitting in a tea shop in a very backwater Burmese town and listening to a complete stranger: It took you long enough… he says Julia Win. Born August 29 1968 in New York City. American mother. Burmese father. Your family name is part of my story…I will explain everything…but first let me ask you a question: Do you believe in love?
The gentleman in question is an elderly (by appearances at least, and to an American, Burmese appearances can be deceptive) man. He is clearly local. Known and apparently respected and trusted if first impressions are to be relied on. As a traveller you have nothing else to rely on. Julia is staying in the best (the only?) hotel in town, but is utterly reliant on the locals for getting to understand the place she has come to.
Exactly who he is may be deduced during the story and will ultimately be revealed, but his function is ~ I'm not sure how to explain this. He narrates much of the story that is the backbone of the novel, but there is a tradition in the older parts of the world where the narrator is both 'within' and 'without' the story. In some ways it feels like a modern device but it isn't. The true role of the narrator rests on the fact that what he says MUST be believed, because somehow he MUST know the truth of it. In the old tales this varied between him/her having been part to the action to having simply been an observer, but crucially they were there or never more than one step removed. They may have been the sacred recipient of a trusted oath to hold a truth – but never further than first in line of that trust.
That's the word. The narrator knows things that only one with true proximity could know.
U Ba also serves the function of enabling Julia to tell her part of the story. Interestingly, she doesn't tell it to him. She recounts it to herself, in her memories, in her escapes to her hotel room, with the hot air being languidly swirled around the room by an ancient ceiling fan.
If you've never been to the far east, these descriptions of heat and fans and languidity and torpor… they do become clichéd. If you have been. And especially if you have broken all your personal rules about travel and just crashed out in a hotel room in the middle of the afternoon in the bliss of the rotating blades creating a tepid down draught… it suddenly seems like the height of rationality.
For a young lawyer from New York… too true!
For a young female lawyer on a wild goose chase for her missing father on the back of a half-century old love-letter… it's a wonder she didn't flee in terror the moment U Ba spoke her name.
From that first meeting, U Ba patiently waits and slowly explains. Julia tries to resist, but pushed by the good and not-so-good memories of her family life in New York and particularly her personal relationship with her father, finds herself compelled to listen.
U Ba tells a tale of a young Burmese man from a poor family… hardship befalls him and he becomes blind… but he is (in a way, to an extent) rescued. He joins a monastery. He learns about love.
Julia has no way of knowing how this story has anything to do with her father.
But the story has only just begun, and she cannot resist the telling of it.
Under the title on my proof copy it says A Novel. What an understatement. Are we so unwilling these days to say A Love Story? Do we fear that this will reduce our potential market?
Possibly, and more's the pity. For this is a love story. In every sense of that expression.
It is a story that follows the love between two people, but it is also a story about love, about its redemptive power, its creative power, its ability to grant freedom to the person loved and not be diminished. It's about all of those aspects of love that get lost in our modern, grabbing, possessive world.
The fact that along the way it paints a beautiful picture of the best of a rural Burma that we're unfamiliar with and that may have survived the worst of the political mistakes of the country that we do know about adds to the romance of the novel and, if true, can only add hope to the country as it makes its way back into the modern world.
This book isn't for everyone. You have to appreciate gentle story-telling. You have to be able to truly feel love. Yes, I know how sanctimonious that sounds, but many people love, genuinely and to their best intent and extent, without feeling it in a real guttural, heart-wrenching, fundamental-to-their-being way. And many others subside into drama-queen mode and think they're feeling this when, it's really all about them. You have to understand that love isn't about you, it's about them.
If there is a message in this book: that's the one I found.
If you have loved and lost and still love regardless. That's good.
... look, just go read it!
If this book doesn't get some kind of award, there is no justice.
You can read more book reviews or buy The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker at Amazon.com.


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Q: Problem in killing activity I have developed a small android app with 3 activities. In first activity there has a button(Next_Button). If i click the button then the second activity will appear. In second activity there also a button which will forward to third activity after clicking it. In third activity there is a button (Home_Button). If i click this button(Home_Button) then first activity will appear. Now i want to kill second activity when i click the Home_Button in the third activity to make first activity visible. How can i do this?
Please help.
Best wishes
Md. Fazla Rabbi

A: In third activity, write the below code for your Home button click event:
  btnHome.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
        {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                startActivity(new Intent(this, firstActivity.class)
                 .setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
            }

        });

For example, for back key pressed, we can override onBackPressed function:
@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
 startActivity(new Intent(this, first firstActivity.class)
 .setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
 return;
}

Update:
For your reference, this one is the same as your requirement: Android Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP AND Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP,
And one more example:
Go home feature with FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP

A: You don't need to "kill" your activity.
In your third activity, if you start the first one with startActivity, you first activity will be shown.
The system will decide if your second activity (or your third) should be paused or destroyed.

A: just call finish() method of the second activity on Home button click.

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Boyle's/Mariotte's Law Calculator Calculate pressure volume.
24/04/2012 · If you know the initial volume and pressure, you would use P 1 V 1 =P 2 V 2, where P 1 and V 1 are the initial pressure and volume and the other side of the equation is the pressure and volume after the piston has moved. how to change sensitivity on iphone 5 A higher pressure drop acting on a pipe creates a higher flow rate. A wider pipe also produces a higher volumetric flow, and a shorter pipe lets a similar pressure drop provide a greater force.
Why does temperature change with pressure?
• Gay-Lussac's Law applies only when pressure and temperature change. As a practice example, 8 liters of a gas has a pressure of 760 torr and a temperature of 600 Degrees Kelvin. Calculate the temperature when the volume is 2 liters and the pressure is 1520 torr.
When you change the volume, with the same initial pressure, the slope of the curve changes (mostly evident when looking at the more linear section). THAT is a change in spring rate. The steeper curve takes greater force to compress the same displacement as the shallower curve.
So, at constant pressure, work is just the pressure multiplied by the change in volume: This is positive because the force and the distance moved are in the same direction, so this is work done by the gas.


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The road from male to female
Robyn Boudreau will speak about her male-to-female transition at the AAUW luncheon.
The road from male to female Robyn Boudreau will speak about her male-to-female transition at the AAUW luncheon. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2015/11/06/road-male-female/75329714/
Nichole Osinski, nosinski@thespectrum.com Published 7:28 p.m. MT Nov. 6, 2015 | Updated 10:19 a.m. MT Nov. 7, 2015
Robyn Boudreau.(Photo: Submitted)
Robyn Boudreau's earliest memories of wanting to be a girl began when she was around the age of 3.
She was born a male but for the majority of her life has identified as female.
Now in her 60s, Boudreau has finally come out as a male-to-female transgender.
However, the road getting here has not been a smooth one.
"I was chronically unhappy and miserable and unfulfilled because I didn't do the one thing I wanted to," Boudreau said.
She describes her younger self as a "confused 3 or 4-year-old who thinks he's a girl."
Boudreau eventually married before enrolling in a transgender transition group at the University of Minnesota when she was around 40 years old.
She attended for about eight months before dropping out because of concerns about her career and a marriage that was about to end.
Boudreau said that was also a time when being transgender was not as openly discussed as it is today.
"The 1990s are very different than they are now," Boudreau said. "We were totally not accepted, we were freaks, we weren't even accepted in what later became the LGBT community, that didn't happen till around the 2000s even."
Eventually, Boudreau retired and finalized her divorce. She moved to St. George about nine years ago.
It was after that move that she decided to make a full transition.
"Once I realized I could do it and could appear as a decent appearing woman in public then I went kind of full speed ahead," Boudreau said. "Most people keep this stuff very, very private…but I feel it's important people become more aware of us and get to know us and feel a little more comfortable around us."
Boudreau legally changed her name May 12 and started living as a woman fulltime in March.
She will have to live fulltime as woman for at least one year before being eligible for surgery. Now she is just waiting for the year to be up.
And while she knows many people that haven't gone through with having surgery, she said this is very important for her.
Since she has started living as a female, Boudreau said she has been surprisingly well-accepted.
She teaches organic chemistry at Dixie State University and said her students have also been very receptive when she told them she is transgender.
"I actually thought when I was thinking of doing this I should probably move but I'm glad I didn't," Boudreau said.
In hopes of raising more awareness about being transgender, Boudreau will be speaking at the St. George American Association of University Women's luncheon Nov. 9.
Transgender: A Personal Perspective will be the topic for Boudreau's presentation.
Along with sharing her experience with gender dysphoria, Boudreau said she also wants to discuss the difficulties for the transgender community.
Boudreau said 41 percent of transgender people attempt suicide at least once in their lifetime.
She said more than 40 percent of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community are committed against transgender individuals.
This luncheon is part of the AAUW's Women and Courage program for this month. St. George AAUW President Donna Howell said they chose Boudreau to come and speak because she has exemplified this characteristic throughout her life.
"She's a very genuine, a very bright, articulate woman and she has had the courage to move her life into the position it is now," Howell said. "We're expecting it be enlightening and hopefully all of us will come away with the courage to move forward as well."
Follow Nichole Osinski on Twitter, @nrosinski, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/osinskireporter. Call her at 435-674-6231.
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General News of Monday, 10 September 2018
Source: Graphic.com.gh
Government to supply one-off items once - Director-General GES
Students who may require items under the one-off fees after they have been supplied, will be required to inform their parents to buy those items for them.
The one-off items under the Free SHS policy are normally procured for the first year students and it is expected that the students would use them for the three years they are expected be in school.
One-off items
The items include admission fee, maintenance fee, cumulative records, school uniforms, house dress, Physical Education (PE) kits, school cloth.
The rest are medical exams, ID card, one supplementary reader, three core literature books, nine exercise books and four notebooks.
For those offering technical education, aside from the above, they also receive technical drawing instruments, technical drawing board and Tee square.
The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa announced this at a press conference in Accra today.
The press conference was to explain aspects on the Free SHS policy introduced last year, the double track system and the placement of qualified candidates under the double track system as well as how the GES is dealing with the challenges emanating from the placement system.
The press conference was also to update journalists on the Free SHS policy, the double track system and steps being taken to ensure the smooth take-off of the double track system as the Green Track begins the academic year tomorrow September 11, 2018.
Prof Amankwa explained that those items were one-off and that the onus was on parents to provide subsequent ones for their wards if the need arose.
PTA dues
On Parent Teacher Association (PTA) dues, he said based on discussions with stakeholders, "we have resolved that PTA is an association for parents and also for teachers and not for students.
"So under no circumstance should a student be deprived of academic work or any school activities because his parents had not paid or contributed his or her quota to PTA levy,» he explained.
Prof Amankwa said the PTA had the free-hand and the latitude to operate to support the schools and government, «but just as the alumni of schools do, they have their own association, they have their own bank account and then at the end of the day, they go to the school, they interact with the governing council of the school and heads and then they agree on the things that they need to support the school and we want the PTA to equally go along those lines."
He admitted that the PTA partnered schools to help in the development of the schools, but insisted that it was a voluntary organisation and its operation should not affect the students, adding, "as association members, we should not visit our liability on our children."
For more news go to: www.graphic.com.gh
Free SHS is our most successful programme – Education Minister
Free SHS has improved education in zongo communities - Mustapha Hamid
Auditor, Peki SHS bursar in custody over alleged foodstuff 'bribe'
Akufo-Addo's free SHS has saved me troubles – Coach Opeele Boateng
Akuapem North Assembly to end Double Track System
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In big soup pot, add all of the ingredients,(EXCEPT NOODLES, OLIVE OIL, PARMESAN CHEESE AND BREAD) stirring well. Bring to boil then turn heat down and simmer for about an hour to and hour and 1/2. (Just a note if using fresh veggies see note,WAIT TO ADD THE MEATBALLS) & simmer for about an hour then add the meatballs and simmer for about 30 minutes more then proceed with recipe.
Turn heat back up and bring to a rolling boil, add noodles and cook until noodles are done. Sometimes I have to add a little more water cause I tend to like lots of noodles so before I add the noodles I check the fluid level and also I taste for correct seasonings because you want the noodles to absorb the yummy broth flavor.
Serve with a little grated parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil (both are optional). I like to serve with bread but crackers will work fine too.


With the departure of Darcey Bussell from the UK's most loved reality TV show Strictly Come Dancing, of course we had to find out the goss! Gary Edwards – rumoured replacement for Darcey – joined us from sunny California to give us his take on the situation and professional dancer Kristina Rihanoff placed her bets on who she thinks will fill Darcey's boots. Also on the show, we had the newest cast member of Geordie Shore, Natalie Phillips, who spoke openly about her sexuality and the show's decision to include an LGBT narrative. We also had Britain's Got Talent runner up Robert White in the studio to make us laugh all the way home. What a joy he is!


CLEVELAND, Oh. - Calvin punched its ticket to the national semifinals with a 3-1 victory over host Case Western Reserve Saturday night in a national quarterfinal match.
Calvin advances to the national semifinals for the third time in four years and for the fifth time in school history. The Knights will play at 11 a.m. against an opponent to be determined on November 30 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Calvin (21-1-0) picked up Saturday's victory over Case Western Reserve in come-from-behind fashion. The Knights dominated possesion during the first half but found themselves down 1-0 late in the first half as Case Western Reserve struck for a goal in the 37th minute against the run of play as Seldon Magruder broke free through the right side of the box and roofed a shot inside the near post.
Calvin pressed the attack, winning a pair of corner kicks in the closing minutes of the half. On the second corner kick, Case Western Reserve was whistled for a foul in the box, giving the Knights a penalty kick. Senior Jacob Witte (Grand Rapids, Mich./Grand Rapids Christian HS) made good on the spot kick, whipping in his 17th goal of the season to level the score 1-1 with just 1:18 left in half.
The score remained tied 1-1 into the second half but the Knights began to chip away at the Case Western Reserve defense. Calvin broke through the defensive wall in the 64th minute as junior Hunter Olson (Canton, Mich./Canton HS) took a back-pass from Witte and sent a laser from 25 yards out into the back of the net, giving Calvin a 2-1 lead in the 65th minute of play. The goal was Olson's 13th of the season.
Case Western pushed back, attempting to found the equalizer but the Calvin defense remained stout and its possession game steady. Calvin senior Lucas Albrecht (Plymouth, Mich./Plymouth Christian HS) then provided the clincher, cranking in a shot from the left-hand side of the box with just 9:26 remaining. The Albrecht goal - his 11th of the season - put a wrap on the Calvin victory and cemented a spot in the national semifinals.
"I'm really at a loss for words," said Calvin men's soccer coach Ryan Souders. "To be down a goal, come back, equalize and then get two goals in the second half against an extremely talented Case Western Reserve team is a great testament to our guys. From 1-26 on our team I thought we were completely bought in and committed. Even when we got down a goal I did not feel like there was any 'give' by our guys. There's a great sense of relief and a great sense of excitement with tonight's result."
Witte commented on the penalty kick that tied the score late in the first half. "I knew it was an important shot to take but I told myself that it was just a 12-yard kick in the end," said Witte. "I knew that I had my team behind me no matter what happened. That kind of support is big."
Albrecht's clinching goal was his second in as many nights. All 11 of his goals have come as a substitute off the bench. "My teammates had some great one and two-touches," said Albrecht. "I saw an opening at the near psot and just hit it."
Albrecht also commented on Calvin's third trip to the national semifinals in four years. "I think confidence is a big thing with our program," said Albrecht. "Coach (Souders) instills in us that we are the best team if we play the way we know we can. If we come out and play with fire we know we can get results."
Calvin finished the game with a 17-10 shots at goal advantage. Sophomore Chris Morrish (Bradenton, Fla./St. Stephen's Episcopal School) had three saves in goal for the Knights.


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1 Dual-Core Itanium Delayed
2 Vendors Join Forces to Boost Itanium
3 Hardware Today: Dual-Core Processors Saddle Up
Itanium Expansion Looms Large
By David Needle (Send Email)
Itanium is regularly slammed by competitors and dissed by some analysts as a processor with no future, but market research firm IDC sees solid growth ahead. IDC is now forecasting Itanium's growth rate will far outstrip that of the overall server market.
Based on results of interviews with some 501 members of its Enterprise Server Customer Panel, IDC reports high customer satisfaction and solid intent-to-purchase ratings for Itanium-based systems.
Also, more than two-thirds of HP PA-RISC server customers interviewed say they plan to migrate to Itanium systems.
Itanium is Intel's processor for servers and mainframe-class high performance systems. It was originally co-developed with HP, but is now solely by Intel. Billions of dollars have gone into its development, which began more than 10 years ago.
First positioned as a mainstream replacement to Pentium, Itanium has been repositioned for complex applications such as transaction processing and advanced scientific applications. Critics fault its high cost and complexity (resulting in a slower upgrade cycle than more high volume processors).
HP scoffs at the critics and has the numbers to back up its bullish outlook. HP's Integrity servers are the leading Itanium-based server platform; the company claimed to have have reaped more than $1.6 billion in sales of HP Integrity server solutions in fiscal year 2005.
According to IDC, the market for Itanium-based servers will grow to approximately $6.6 billion by 2009. In the next five years, IDC expects the compound annual growth rate for Itanium-based servers to be 35 percent, compared to 3.4 percent for the overall server market.
Still, HP has a base of PA-RISC customers it's been prepping for years to move to Itanium. A more salient question is how big the Itanium ecosystem is, and if there will be enough variety and competitive offerings from different vendors to keep it attractive to IT buyers.
SGI, the maker of high-end visualization systems used by Hollywood movie studios, scientific researchers and others, moved to Itanium a few years ago. But the company has been losing money and recently admitted it may have to seek bankruptcy protection.
IBM was the No. 2 supplier of Itanium systems a few years ago but moved away in favor of high-end systems built on its own line of Power processors.
Intel has been unwavering in its public comments of support for the continued evolution and development of Itanium.
But Intel had to eat a bit of crow when it was forced to push back the release date of the first dual-core Itanium, the "Montecito" Itanium 2, from late 2005 to the middle of this year.
Itanium supporters are banding together via the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA). Organized in September 2005, the group's aim is to boost Itanium's profile, share marketing costs and to better support developers.
Last month, ISA made a blockbuster announcement that its members are committing $10 billion to promote and support Itanium for the next five years.
The ISA says there are 75 Itanium suppliers including Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi, NEC, SGI, and Unisys as well as Intel, HP, and SGI.
Competitor AMD isn't phased.
"Itanium remains a niche play at the high end of the market," Randy Allen, AMD's corporate VP of server and workstations told internetnews.com. "If you look at the return on investment in Itanium it's a trail of tears. Pouring another ten billion dollars in makes the story that much sadder."
But HP, for one, isn't crying.
"Itanium has been the target of a lot of flaming arrows by our competitors, but real customers are really happy because there are things you can do with Itanium you can't do with the other choices, and they're looking to buy more," said Brian Cox, director of server marketing for HP's business critical servers.
"And software vendors are flocking to Itanium. There are now over 7,000 applications for Itanium, which is up from a base of near zero a few years ago."


3000 bananas and 1000 miles and a camel?
It initially seems that the answer is 0 since it would take 3 trips to the market and the camel will have eaten all 3000 bananas by then. But this doesn't take into account that his load is going to be reduced along the way as the camel eats the bananas.
Let's take it mile by mile. Since initially there are 3000 bananas and the camel only can carry 1000 at a time, the camel must make 3 trips forward: forward with the 1st 1000, back, forward with the 2nd 1000, back, and forward with the last 1000. Note that it takes 3 trips forward and 2 trips back to go the mile. For the 1st mile the camel carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, it eats 1 banana on the way back, carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, eats 1 going back, and 1000 bananas forward and eats 1. So, after the 1st mile there are 1000 – 1 – 1 + 1000 – 1 – 1 + 1000 – 1 or 2995 bananas left. So initially, for every mile traveled forward (in 3 trips), the camel eats 5 bananas.
However, after 200 miles the load will be down to 2000 bananas and the camel only needs to make 2 trips forward: forward, back, forward. For each of the next 333 and 1/3 miles the camel will eat 3 bananas to carry the load ahead. So after 533 1/3 (200 + 333 1/3) miles the load will be eaten down to 1000 bananas.
For the next 466 2/3 miles till the camel gets the market, it will eat 1 banana per mile to carry the load. 1000 – 466 2/3 = 533 1/3 bananas left. So the camel will eat a total of 200 * 5 + 333 1/3 * 3 + 466 2/3 = 2466 2/3 bananas to get the entire 3000 bananas to market so the grower will have 533 1/3 bananas left to sell. Maybe 533 because who would want to eat a banana 2/3 of which a smelly camel has eaten. The script accepted 532, 533, 533 1/3, 533.333, and 534 depending on rounding and fractions.
Also, he'll have to sell his camel there because he doesn't have the bananas to get it back.


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package com.emc.ecs.servicebroker.repository;

import com.emc.ecs.servicebroker.exception.EcsManagementClientException;
import com.emc.ecs.servicebroker.service.s3.S3Service;
import com.emc.ecs.servicebroker.model.Constants;
import com.emc.object.s3.bean.GetObjectResult;
import com.emc.object.s3.bean.ListObjectsResult;
import com.emc.object.s3.bean.S3Object;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.cloud.servicebroker.model.binding.SharedVolumeDevice;
import org.springframework.cloud.servicebroker.model.binding.VolumeDevice;
import org.springframework.cloud.servicebroker.model.binding.VolumeMount;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static java.lang.String.format;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class ServiceInstanceBindingRepository {
    static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ServiceInstanceBindingRepository.class);

    public static final String FILENAME_PREFIX = "service-instance-binding";

    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    {
        // NOTE -- ideally we would not need this code, but for now, the VolumeMount class has
        // custom serialization that is not matched with corresponding deserialization, so
        // deserializing serialized volume mounts doesn't work OOTB.
        SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
        module.addDeserializer(VolumeMount.DeviceType.class, new DeviceTypeDeserializer());
        module.addDeserializer(VolumeMount.Mode.class, new ModeDeserializer());
        module.addDeserializer(VolumeDevice.class, new VolumeDeviceDeserializer());
        objectMapper.registerModule(module);
    }

    @Autowired
    private S3Service s3;

    private static String getFilename(String id) {
        return FILENAME_PREFIX + "/" + id + ".json";
    }

    private static boolean isCorrectFilename (String filename) {
        return filename.matches(FILENAME_PREFIX + "/.*\\.json");
    }

    private ServiceInstanceBinding findByFilename(String filename) throws IOException {
        if (!isCorrectFilename(filename)) {
            String errorMessage = format("Invalid filename of service instance binding provided: %s", filename);
            throw new IOException(errorMessage);
        }
        logger.debug("Loading service instance binding from repository file {}", filename);
        GetObjectResult<InputStream> input = s3.getObject(filename);
        return objectMapper.readValue(input.getObject(), ServiceInstanceBinding.class);
    }

    ServiceInstanceBinding removeSecretCredentials(ServiceInstanceBinding binding) {
        Map<String, Object> credentials = binding.getCredentials();
        credentials.remove(Constants.S3_URL);
        credentials.remove(Constants.CREDENTIALS_SECRET_KEY);
        binding.setCredentials(credentials);
        return binding;
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From the Spring 2017 edition of The Bretton Woods Observer
Guide to the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office
IMF & World Bank decision-making and governance
IMF resources: quota, NAB and GAB
The IMF's special drawing rights (SDRs)
Who pays for the Fund and the Bank?
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This Inside the Institutions looks at the funds available to the IMF and the World Bank, including the origins of IBRD and IFC resources and an overview of the most recent changes in the IMF and IDA's funding streams and mechanisms.
The IMF and the World Bank's financial resource base is mainly made up of member states' contributions. These resources allow them to make initial loans and draw income through two main streams. The first derives from their lending operations, while the latter comes from the income on investments in financial markets.
As of October 2016, the IMF has approximately $964 billion of of capital, which it can make available to its 189 member countries. The principal purpose of IMF lending is to assist countries with balance of payment problems so that these do not threaten global financial stability. This crisis resolution role is at the heart of IMF lending. The IMF can also support countries to cope with adverse shocks, such as those that resulted from the 2008 financial crisis.
Approximately 46 per cent of IMF resources come from contributions of its member countries, through the payment of quotas. The current quota formula is a weighted average of GDP (weight of 50 per cent); openness (30 per cent); economic variability (15 per cent); and international reserves (5 per cent). The IMF's resources are denominated in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), an international reserve asset created under the Bretton Woods fixed exchange system to supplement the member countries' official reserves (see Observer Winter 2016, Update 65).
Apart from determining the country's contribution to the Fund, the quota system also defines the voting power and the maximum amount of resources a country can borrow in normal circumstances. The 2010 reform of the quota system, which was approved in 2016, resulted in a doubling of the Fund's financial resources from $330 billion to $660 billion and a slight increase of the quota shares of emerging countries (with minor decrease of US shares). China was the major beneficiary of the quota revision, becoming the third largest member country in the Fund. As of October 2016, quota resources added up to $447 billion (see Observer Winter 2016). Two other credit lines exist to augment the financial position of the IMF in case of exceptional situations that pose a threat to the stability of the monetary system.
The New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), which was proposed after the 1994 Mexican crisis, entered into force in 1998 and was expanded in 2010 in order to supplement the Fund's quota resources. Following the increase in quotas resulting from the 14th quota review in February 2016, the NAB has been halved from about $500 billion in a move from NAB to quota resources. NAB amounted to $250 billion coming from 38 countries in October 2016. In November 2016 the IMF executive board approved the renewal of NAB for a five-year period beginning November 2017.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, in response to concerns about the IMF's response capacity arising from a lack of quota increase during the past decade, a line of borrowing was created with bilateral borrowing arrangements established in 2012 to ensure the IMF could meet its lending requirements. These arrangements totalled up to $360 billion in October 2016.
In 2016, the IMF's forward commitment capacity (FCC), the resources immediately available for new, non-concessional lending, amounted to $283.3 billion. The FCC is determined by the Fund's usable resources, including NAB and loan repayments over the next twelve months, minus resources already committed and a prudential balance.
Concessional lending to low-income countries is not financed through quota subscriptions, but through contributions from member countries and the IMF itself. The Fund provides low-interest loans under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT). Debt relief is provided under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, the Catastrophe Containment and Relief (CCR) Trust and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
IBRD is owned by the governments of its 189 shareholder countries and lends to middle income countries. IBRD is the one of the largest Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) in the world and is one of the five institutions of the World Bank Group. IBRD's main assets are its loans to member countries. As of December 2016, IBRD's net loans outstanding amounted to $171.1 billion. Approximately 22 per cent of IBRD's net loans are financed through equity, while the remaining portion is funded by proceeds of borrowings from capital markets. Thanks to its consistent triple-A rating since 1959, IBRD can borrow at low interest rates and offer access to capital to creditworthy middle and low income countries on favourable terms.
Funds raised through capital markets that are not deployed for lending are kept in the investment portfolio to ensure a prudential level of liquidity for its operations. As of December 2016, the liquid asset portfolio amounted to $57.1 billion, while the borrowing portfolio totalled $190.2 billion, made up of debt securities in a variety of currencies.
IBRD's business model is not based on profit maximisation, but on prudent management in order to generate enough revenue for its operations; for balance sheet consolidation (through accumulation of reserves); and to provide income transfers to the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's low-income country arm.
IDA complements the work of the IBRD by providing loans, called "credits", and grants to the world's poorest countries when they are not eligible to borrow from IBRD. Eligibility for IDA support depends on the country's relative poverty measured and updated annually in terms of Gross National Income per capita, with the threshold for fiscal 2016 set at $1,215, as well as its creditworthiness and ability to borrow on market terms. IDA also supports some countries that are above the threshold but lack the creditworthiness to borrow from the IBRD. Additionally, "blend countries", such as Vietnam, are eligible for IDA support based on income levels but are also sufficiently creditworthy for some IBRD borrowing.
IDA lends money on highly concessional terms, with interest rates as of 1 January 2017 varying from 3.125 to 6.7 per cent on loans. Countries at high risk of debt distress ("red light" countries) receive 100 per cent of their support in grants. Together with the IMF and the African Development Fund (ADF), IDA also provides debt relief though the HIPC initiative and MDRI. In March 2016 the board of directors approved the establishment of an IDA Scale-up Facility (IDA17 SUF) to provide additional support to IDA countries for the remainder of the IDA 17 period. The SUF finances IDA operations approved before the end of FY17. The SUF credits are offered at non-concessional lending terms to eligible clients – those at low or medium risk of debt distress – to ensure consistency with the Non-Concessional Borrowing Policy (NCBP) and the IMF Debt Limits Policy.
Unlike the IBRD, IDA raises most of its funds through contributions by its 173 shareholder countries. Contributions to IDA are also used to calculate voting shares at both IBRD and IDA. Replenishment rounds take place every three years.
IDA 17 funding featured member state contributions of $31 billion, internal resources/carry-overs of $19 billion, member loans of $4 billion and WBG transfers of $3 billion. The last IDA replenishment round (IDA 18) was finalised in December 2016, and expects IDA to use its triple-A credit rating to raise a third of the committed $75 billion through capital markets. Another third will come from the Bank's own resources, with transfers from IBRD's net income and grants from the IFC.
Other forms of income include borrowers' repayments of earlier IDA credits, service charges and investment income. IDA's fixed service charge has been set at 0.75 per cent and covers administrative expenses. Additional revenues for administrative expenses derive from a commitment charge that ranges between 0 and 0.5 per cent. IDA 18 also includes a plan to create a new $2.5 billion Private Sector Window (PSW) managed together with the IFC and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA, the World Bank's political risk insurance arm) (see Observer Winter 2017).
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The IFC is one of the world's largest development institutions primarily focused on the private sector and is owned by 184 member countries. Apart from the contributions from member states, the IFC relies for its resources on capital markets and retained earnings from previous operations. As the World Bank's private sector lending arm, it raises virtually all its funds by issuing debt obligations in international capital markets. For this reason, maintaining a high credit rating is important in order to keep borrowing costs low. During FY 2016, the IFC borrowed in 18 currencies. In 2016, out of a total capital of $22,766 billion the IFC held $20,475 billion in undesignated retained earnings and $2.58 billion in authorised capital (contributions from member states). In addition, the IFC maintains a small borrowing window with IBRD, although it rarely uses this facility.
During the past 60 years, the IFC has used the capital from member states to generate about $245 billion in financing for its activities. In FY 2016, the IFC invested nearly $18.8 billion, including $7.7 billion in funds mobilised from other investors. The highest portion of long-term commitments, 45 per cent ($5 billion), comprised investments in financial markets and funds. Latin America and the Caribbean was the region with the highest level of IFC investment, amounting to $2.7 billion, or 24 per cent of long-term commitments. While in 2016 the IFC had income before grants to IDA of $296 million, it made grants to IDA totalling $330 million, leaving it with a net loss of $33 million.
This article has been adapted since publishing to reflect input by the IFC and the World Bank.
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Political economy of structural reforms
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17 June 2015 | Minutes
DFID Financing for Development and infrastructure meeting
Minutes from a meeting with UK NGOs and DFID on Financing for Development and infrastructure.
16 March 2015 | Minutes
UK civil society meeting with UK World Bank Executive Director Gwen Hines
Notes of a meeting with UK World Bank Executive Director Gwen Hines 25 February 2015.
Financing for development: What actions are needed on debt and illicit capital flows?
Notes of a meeting on financing for development at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2014
30 May 2013 | Minutes
Notes of a meeting with World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey
Civil society meeting with Steve Field, UK IMF Executive Director
Minutes of CSO meeting with Steve Field UK IMF Executive Director, 9 April 2013
IMF reform in developing country perspective
Notes from IMF 2013 Spring meetings civil society forum event
From the Arab revolutions to global austerity trends
This session examined issues thrown up by the Arab revolutions, including the fiscal, monetary, tax and investment policies being considered by governments facilitating, or hindering countries in the Arab and other regions in building an inclusive economy and supporting socioeconomic recovery, the impact on public expenditure for the strengthening of education, health, and other social sectors as well as the management of chronic and high unemployment and high food and fuel prices.
Leveraging private finance with public money: Positive Innovation? Corporate Welfare?
This event explored how modalities to "leverage" the private sector are beginning to appear in different ways in the World Bank and donors' agenda, and the challenges they pose.
CSO meeting with Ms. Ksenia Yudaeva, G20 sherpa, Russian Federation
This event featured a discussion between CSOs and the Russian Federation G20 sherpa covering topics including food & nutrition security, jobs and the post-2015 development agenda.
After recent court decisions: how can sovereign debt workouts become fair, comprehensive and account
This session examines the challenges which recent court decisions pose to sovereign debt workouts that allow for burden-sharing and take into account the social development needs of debtor countries.
Discussion on IMF jobs and growth policies
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) sponsored discussion on macroeconomic policy in the Eurozone, and the challenges to restoring employment and growth.
18 February 2013 | Minutes
UK Civil Society Meeting with Minister of State Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP
This was a meeting on 1 October 2012, between the Minister of State of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and civil society representatives, focusing on the World Bank.
13 October 2012 | Minutes
World Bank Inspection Panel at 19: Some Lessons for Safeguard Policy
This panel discussion centered on the possible policy lessons for the Safeguard Review of learning from the emblematic or most frequently registered cases of non-compliance with Bank safeguard policies, particularly project supervision, environmental assessment, and involuntary resettlement.
Citizen-Led Accountability at the World Bank Group: experiences of independent recourse mechanisms
This session aimed to gather CSO views, suggestions, and concerns on how to improve the current guidelines, including IMF consultation processes on policies, strategies, and Art. IV consultations.
Facilitating international adjustment through timely debt resolution
This session highlighted the perspectives of finance ministers, policy makers, and academics on the need to ensure timely, effective international adjustment in a manner consistent with sustained global growth and continued adherence to the system of open, dynamic international trade and payments constructed over the past 65 years.
World Bank safeguard review and CSOs approaches in their engagement
Interaction between the Bank and CSOs on the approach paper through this panel provided an opportunity for the Bank and CSOs to highlight areas of importance and provide input about the direction of the safeguard review.
Global financial regulations and their Impact on major campaigns
This event was a collegial information-sharing and strategy session to explore the linkages between financial regulations and grass roots campaigns.
From country systems to DPLs: understanding the World Bank's approach to social and environmental ri
This session will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Bank's approaches with respect to different financial instruments and evaluate the challenges of ensuring coherence in environmental and social sustainability outcomes across instruments.
9 October 2012 | Minutes
CSO Roundtable with World Bank executive directors
This was a roundtable discussion between IMF and WBG Executive Directors (EDs) with accredited civil society representatives to promote an exchange of views and discussion on key issues of the 2012 Annual Meeting agenda: global economy, disaster resilience, social and environmental safeguards, and global health.
Regulating Global Capital Flows for Development
Seminar at the Brookings Institution on capital flows regulations - 19 April
UK civil society meeting UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs
Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in April 2012
UK civil society meeting with HM Treasury and UK IMF Executive Director
Notes meeting Alex Gibbs September 2011
23 September 2011 | Minutes
Scaling up Climate Finance
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 22, 2011
Financial Transaction Tax implementation
Notes of a meeting, Washington DC, 22 September 2011
13 June 2011 | Inside the institutions
The IFC's approach to international trade finance
Trade finance refers to financing arrangements that support international trade transactions. It is one of the central parts of a new ten-year strategy paper on international trade currently being developed by the World Bank for the period between 2011 and 2021.
IFC and Financial Intermediary Lending
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, April 15, 2011
The Green Climate Fund: discussion of principles and design
30 November 2010 | Minutes
Private sector investment in energy lending and climate finance
Meeting notes of 'Private sector investment in energy lending and climate finance'
Held in reserve: can a new approach to monetary policy transform the global economic outlook?
Minutes of an experts seminar held on the sidelines of the 2010 Annual Meetings of the IMF, 7 October 2010
Post MDG Summit
Notes of the seminar of annual meetings 2010
Future of the global financial and monetary system
Global economic governance
Meeting on the World Bank between DFID and UK NGOs
Notes of a meeting between UK civil society and DFID staff.
6 April 2010 | Minutes
Meeting between UK civil society and Susanna Moorehead, UK Executive Director to the World Bank
Minutes of a meeting between UK civil society, UK World Bank Executive Director Susanna Moorehead, and DFID staff
Meeting between UK civil society and Alex Gibbs, UK IMF Executive Director
Minutes of a meeting between UK civil society, UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs, and UK Treasury staff
15 February 2010 | Inside the institutions
IDA replenishment
This year, donor countries will decide on their financial contributions to the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) for 2011-2014.
Future of the Global Financial System
Notes of part of a panel debate chaired by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, Istanbul, 4 October 2009.
The UN conference and the G20 summit
Minutes from The UN conference and the G20 summit, civil society policy forum discussion on 3 October 2009. Istanbul, Turkey
Critical debate on the World Bank and IMF
Summary of a presentation made by Professor Anwar Shaikh, the New School for Social Research, on "Monetary Policy and the Global Crisis"
Global economic governance roundtable
Summary of a discussion with German government representatives, Jomo KS of the UN and civil society organisations.
G20 Summit and impacts on developing countries
Summary of IMF and World Bank presentations and the discussion afterwards
1 April 2009 | Inside the institutions
The special drawing right (SDR) is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement the existing official reserves of member countries.
The IMF and the World Bank derive their income mainly from their lending operations, charging borrowing countries, and from their investments in financial markets.
27 November 2008 | Inside the institutions
International financial architecture
National and international financial bodies frequently overlap both in function and membership. Below are some of the main regulatory or influential bodies within the financial system. In most, the IMF is a participant, and in some, a central player.
Minutes from Video conference of UK NGOs with UK Executive Director to the IMF
Meeting exploring the IMF
Combating tax flight: ending evasion and reducing avoidance
Norway, Germany, IMF, WOrld Bank and experts discuss tackling tax evasion and capital flight.
1 February 2008 | Inside the institutions
The IFIs and Islamic finance
The World Bank Group and the IMF have become more involved in assistance to and oversight of Islamic financial institutions.
4 December 2007 | Inside the institutions
The IMF and financial sector reform
While the World Bank has done a lot of work on financial sector reform, the IMF is also a key actor. Since facing criticism over its lack of understanding of financial markets in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the IMF has significantly increased its capacity for analysis of the financial sector.
European CSO meeting with European IMF EDs
Incomplete minutes of European CSO meeting with European IMF EDs, 13 April 2007
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The World Bank is set to reappoint president Jim Yong Kim for another five year term, despite persistent concerns from Bank staff and renewed calls for a merit-based process based on principles of transparency and diversity.
What is left of the rise of the South?
While the recent reforms to the IMF and World Bank governance reforms and the establishment of new Southern-led IFIs are symbolically important, they are thus far not a rupture with the Western-dominated international financial architecture.
5 April 2016 | Guest analysis
World Bank and AIIB sign joint co-financing agreement
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World Bank rolls out the carpet for "troubled megaprojects" and PPPs
The World Bank and other multilateral development banks continue to push for public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects, despite concerns of debt risks and lack of transparency.


Mapping and live VJing show at Transbordeur for closing night of Mirage Festival.
In collaboration with Adrien Jollivet, Matias Pagès and Dolus&Dolus.
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1 Preheat oven to 170C/Fan 150C/325F. Rub a gratin dish liberally with butter.
2 Peel the potatoes and celeriac and slice thinly, either with a sharp knife or a mandoline, submerging the celeriac slices in water with a little lemon juice to prevent them discolouring.
3 Whisk together the cream and garlic and season well. Toss the veg in the mixture and layer them in alternate layers in the gratin dish with the bay leaves, then pour over any remaining cream.
4 Bake for 75 mins, pressing down all over with a fish slice or spatula every 20 mins or so, to stop the spuds from drying out. It is ready when the top is bubbling and golden, and the vegetables soft and yielding when pierced with a knife.
Recipe and photograph by Mark Diacono, a green-fingered foodie who grows, cooks and eats the best of the familiar, forgotten and climate-change foods on his Devon smallholding. His book A Year at Otter Farm (Bloomsbury, £25) has inspiring recipes for every season.
Mark Diacono's regular feature - Postcards from the hedge - charts the changing of the seasons from his West Country plot. Turn to page 120 of January's The Simple Things for more. Not got the January issue? Buy, download or subscribe today.


Bob Brown has always painted what excites him and this is what makes him get out his brushes. He believes that people like the vitality or energy in a painting. As much as possible, Bob likes to paint on the spot, and he often uses a sketchbook. He uses his pochade box a great deal, particularly when travelling. This is a small, portable studio for painting in oil, in which he can carry up to a dozen panels. He finds it essential to have a stool. He works up some of the studies in the studio where appropriate, and may decide to enlarge or develop them in some other way. He likes to work on groups of pictures at the same time, and to have them about him, so they 'talk' to him and to each other. Bob Brown loves structures, facades, buildings, people, water, trees and huge skies. But patterns of light and colour are what he loves to paint. The sun reorders the world throughout the day, and gives different images, depending where the light and shadows fall.


The H.J. Heinz III College of Carnegie Mellon University is seeking both tenure-track and research-track candidates at the assistant professor level with strong training in statistical machine learning and a demonstrated commitment to bringing methodological innovation to application-driven research.
Successful candidates will have strong interests in research and teaching which complement the research concentrations, activities, and graduate education programs at Heinz College and demonstrated expertise with unstructured text data, spatial data, graph/network data, or other data types.
Examples of key research areas include health care, consumer behavior, and smart cities (e.g., transportation, crime, and public health). Heinz College faculty have made recent advances in these areas through methodological innovations in fields such as machine learning, statistics, econometrics, operations research, network analysis, and pattern detection.
Within Heinz College, labs and centers such as the Living Analytics Research Center (www.larc.smu.edu.sg), Center for the Future of Work (www.heinz.cmu.edu/future-of-work/), Event and Pattern Detection Laboratory (epdlab.heinz.cmu.edu), Center for Health Analytics, and iLab (www.heinz.cmu.edu/ilab/) provide considerable opportunities for working with societal scale data sets and industry partners.
Applicants are expected to demonstrate outstanding academic and research credentials, and to have completed or be nearing completion of a doctoral degree. PhDs in machine learning, statistics, computer science, or related fields are encouraged to apply. CMU's Heinz College consists of a multi-disciplinary faculty and graduate students in the School of Information Systems and Management and the School of Public Policy and Management.
Heinz College seeks to continue to recruit and retain a diverse faculty as a reflection of our commitment to the excellence of the College. We highly value our collaborative research, innovation, and learning community. We welcome applicants who have a demonstrated commitment to supporting the diversity of our faculty and graduate student populations through, among other things, mentoring female and under-represented minority students. Carnegie Mellon University strongly supports and enables interdisciplinary research collaborations across departments and colleges.
Many Heinz College faculty members are actively involved in collaborations with CMU's School of Computer Science, Department of Statistics, and other departments across the university, as well as advising students in our joint Ph.D. programs with the Machine Learning Department and Department of Statistics. Initial funding for the research-track position will be provided by the Living Analytics Research Center (www.larc.smu.edu.sg), and it is desirable for candidates for this position to have a strong research interest in smart cities. We expect that this will be a long-term position and that continued funding will be obtained from other sources.
Research-track faculty at CMU's Heinz College share the privileges and responsibilities of tenure-track faculty, including full participation in promotion decisions, advising PhD students, and being PI on research projects (with no restrictions). They may and often do teach graduate-level courses for the College's various degree programs.
Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, 2-3 representative papers, and the names of three or more individuals who have been asked to provide letters of reference. In your cover letter, please state whether you are applying for the research-track position, tenure-track position, or both positions.
Review of applications will begin December 1st.
Carnegie Mellon considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, gender, race, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.


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Jobs available at new juice retailer coming to Palmdale
by The AV Times Staff • April 2, 2012
PALMDALE – The South Valley WorkSource Center (SVWSC) has partnered with a new juice retailer coming to the Palmdale area for a special recruitment to fill open team member positions.
The recruitment will be held on April 3, 2012 at the SVWSC, located at 38510 Sierra Highway in Palmdale.
Orientation will be conducted from 12 to 12:45 p.m., and prescreening and applications will be processed from 1 to 3 p.m.
Qualifications for the positions are:
Like to be a part of a team and have fun
Enthusiastic and strive for excellence in everything you do
Care about the customer and the experience you are giving them
Ability to stand, bend, reach, scoop and regularly lift 30-40 pounds
Desire for a part-time schedule
Wage – $8/hr.
Interested applicants should arrive dressed for success, with their resume and prepared for a prescreening interview.
For more information, call (661) 265-7421 or visit http://www.cityofpalmdale.org/business/svwc.
(Information via press release from the City of Palmdale.)


4.1.1.2 Postdoctoral scholars, interns, residents and clinical fellows as defined in AR II-1.1-2.
4.1.2 All staff employment is at will: further, staff employees are either regular or temporary.
4.1.2.2 A temporary staff employee is defined as an employee having assigned duties and responsibilities in a temporary staff position or in a regular staff position that is being filled on a temporary basis. It is anticipated that an individual will not be in a temporary status beyond one year without review and a recommendation from the sector personnel office to the chancellor.
4.1.3 Regular and temporary staff employees are further identified by the number of hours worked in a normal work week (see Human Resources Policy and Procedure Number 70.0: Attendance/Hours of Work).
4.1.3.1 A full-time staff employee is one who is normally scheduled to work one hundred percent (100%) of the University's normal work week.
4.1.3.2 A half-time staff employee is one who is not full-time, but is normally scheduled to work fifty percent (50%) or more of the University's normal work week.
4.1.3.3 A part-time staff employee is one who is normally scheduled to work less than fifty percent (50%) of the University's normal work week.
4.1.4.1 A student employee is generally paid out of funds designated for student wages.


BlocBoy JB revives a classic track.
"Go DJ" is one of the essential Lil Wayne tracks. Released in 2004, it was one of the standout cuts from the original Carter. The song still gets airplay fourteen years later. The only thing that's a little different is that Wayne is now viewed as one of the greatest to ever pick up the microphone. Many have been bumping the fifth installment of the Carter series since its release and some were even influenced to try and recreate the Louisiana product's magic. Lupe Fiasco and producer Sango are two names that have thanked the legend in their own music. With his revisitation of "Go DJ," we can now add BlocBoy JB to the list.
The 22-year-old Memphis rapper decided to drop his own rendition of the Mannie Fresh-produced song, going in over the instrumental and sharing it with the world. As one of the most buzzing new artists this year, many sets of eyes have been on BlocBoy for the last few months. The popularity of the "Shoot" dance doesn't do anything to go against that either.
He becomes just the latest to remix an older Wayne song, paying homage to the artist and showing off his own skills in the process.


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Q: orbits in locally compact group As everyone knows if $x\in S^1$, then the set $\{ x^n \}$ is either finite or dense. Under which condition is true for any other locally compact group, i.e if $G$ is a locally compact group, and $x\in G$ is a non-trivial element, then the set $x^n$ is either finite or dense.

A: It is easy to produce groups $G$ in which the set $\{x^n\}$ is finite for every $x\in G$. E.g, let $F$ be any finite group; then $G=F^{\mathbb{N}}$ is a compact, totally disconnected group with this property. So in the OP we may assume that $G$ contains some element generating an infinite cyclic dense subgroup.
I claim that, in this case, $G$ is indeed isomorphic to $S^1$. First, $G$ is locally compact abelian. Here is a result I found in the book by W. Rudin, "Fourier analysis on groups" (Wiley, 1962). Say that a locally compact abelian group is {\it monothetic} if it contains a dense cyclic subgroup. Theorem 2.3.2: every monothetic group is either compact or isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}$ (as a topological group). Coming back to the OP, our group $G$ is monothetic. By the theorem just quoted, $G$ must be compact (as $\mathbb{Z}$ clearly does not satisfy the assumptions of the OP).
Let $\hat{G}$ be the dual of $G$, a discrete, infinite abelian group. By Pontrygin duality, it is enough to prove that $\hat{G}$ is infinite cyclic. Dualizing the assumptions in the OP, we see that every homomorphism $\hat{G}\rightarrow S^1$ either has finite image, or is injective. In particular, $\hat{G}$ is just infinite (infinite, but every proper quotient is finite). It is not very difficult to see that a just infinite, abelian group is infinite cyclic (see McCarthy, Donald, Infinite groups whose proper quotient groups are finite. I. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 21 1968 545–562).

A: I don't think ever for a Lie group $G$. If $G$ is not compact then it will have a closed subgroup isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}$, which rules it out. If it is compact, then it will have a proper subgroup isomorphic to $S^1$ which again rules it out.

A: For Lie groups, the only one with this property is $S^1$.
To see this, consider a one parameter subgroup given by exponential of a vector in the lie algebra, and the closure of this subgroup should be abelian.
Since the only abelian lie group with the property you are asking is $S^1$, this concludes.
For other groups, I believe it should also be true, but I don't know. The argument above, shows that if the group is not abelian, then it does not hold (since the closure of an orbit is an abelian closed subgroup), but I don't know if abelian topological groups are all known (the ones I know, the only one verifying your property is $S^1$).

A: This is not true even for compact abelian groups. If you take $G = S^1 \times S^1$ and $(x,y) \in G$ is an element such that the orbit of $x$ in $S^1$ is dense and the orbit of $y$ in $S^1$ is finite, then the orbit of $(x,y)$ in $S^1 \times S^1$ will be neither.


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