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COMEDY: Nancy Pelosi Praises Biden For 'Strong And Decisive' Exit From Afghanistan (VIDEO)
August 19, 2021 Jimmy Brown Latest News 0
Joe Biden's execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a disaster.
Even people in the liberal media are criticizing the way Biden handled it. The Taliban took control in a matter of days and thousands of Americans are now trapped there.
Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, just loved it and lavished praise on Biden.
The Daily Wire reported:
Pelosi Doubles Down On Praise For Biden's 'Strong' And 'Decisive' Afghanistan Withdrawal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday doubled down on her praise for President Joe Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the president was "strong" and "decisive" in his action.
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX asked Pelosi whether the Biden administration should have had a "stronger U.S. military presence" for the transition.
"Well, first may I just say that I commend the president for the action that he took," Pelosi responded. "It was strong, it was decisive, and it was the right thing to do. We should have been out of Afghanistan a while back."
"Unfortunately, one of the possibilities was that it would be in disarray as it is," the House speaker added. "But that has to be corrected."
Pelosi said that her understanding is that the military will negotiate with the Taliban for the safe exit of American citizens as well as America's Afghan allies there.
Here's the video:
Nancy Pelosi on Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal: "I commend the President for the action that he took. It was strong. It was decisive." pic.twitter.com/8D5f9VuA1E
— Amy Tarkanian (@MrsT106) August 18, 2021
The game Nancy Pelosi is playing here is so obvious.
If this disastrous exit happened on Trump's watch, she would be trying to impeach him again.
Even she knows this.
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The Quilcene School Garden was started by a group of community members, parents and teachers who wanted to introduce fresh, healthy food, local food producers and garden education practices into our school. In 2009 a successful coalition was formed who gathered and received a generous grant from Jefferson County Public Works. In addition, they were able to secure direction and a garden teacher, which was made possible through Jefferson County Farm to School. The coalition was able to work with a supportive school board, administration, and food service director to implement these goals and interests. After the success of this collaboration and with the continued interest of the school board, school administration and staff members, the garden program became a solid and permanent feature of our school.
Our School Garden is located in the SW corner of our school campus and is surrounded by fencing to delineate the space as a classroom. We have around 1800 sq feet of growing space that includes a greenhouse, a classroom shelter, annual garden beds, an orchard with grassy areas and a perennial garden. We produce fresh and nutritious food to use in the cafeteria, to eat during garden class time, to take home to families, to share with those in need or to sell as a fundraiser for the garden or related student projects. In addition, our garden helps beautify the school grounds, attract butterflies and other pollinators, and create native plant and animal habitats.
The school garden is committed to using organic methods of growing plants and produce and will not tolerate the use of pesticides or chemicals. The school garden will always be a welcoming place for students, staff members and community members to congregate and explore.
The Quilcene School Garden aims to enrich the K-12 curriculum, and support project-based and experiential learning. We also aim to inspire students to learn about good nutrition and environmental stewardship through weekly class time exposure in the school garden and through access to local and garden grown foods in the school cafeteria. Lastly, we provide opportunity for community members to connect with students and the garden through interaction during class time, care and maintenance of the garden grounds and student projects that could reach out into the neighborhoods surrounding our school in Quilcene.
The school garden is an extension of the classroom. The program intends to reconnect students with the natural world, the source of their food. The school garden is a place where students can learn valuable gardening and agricultural skills, test concepts that apply and integrate other educational subjects such as art, math, science, health, physical education, social studies and STEM/STEAM and understand personal and social responsibility.


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HYENA ROAD (2015)
March 17, 2017 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment
HYENA ROAD (2015) is a Canadian war film that tells the story of three men fighting different wars in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It's a highly realistic and compelling drama, with great action and an interesting inside look at the complexity of the military occupation of that war-torn country.
The film begins with Warrant Officer Ryan Sanders, leader of a rifle squad that finds itself heavily engaged while patrolling the road. They fall back to a village where a tribal leader shelters them and sends the Taliban away. This event catches the interest of Captain Pete Mitchell, an intelligence officer who sees a potential ally. The tribal elder may be a legendary fighter who wreaked havoc on the Soviets. Sanders agrees to help Mitchell track him down. The tribal leader, however, is embroiled in his own problem with a local Afghan leader who is nominally an ally of the Americans but is secretly encouraging Taliban attacks.
Sanders views the war personally–you see a problem in front of you, you act, and you make a difference. Mitchell is playing a bigger game that focuses on factions, not individuals, and puts the moral issues aside to achieve a greater good. The Afghan leader has put war behind him but is sucked into confrontation with another leader, forced to fight a very personal war.
The movie has a simple message–war is bad, soldiers are good–and fails to reach for pathos or moral lessons. That being said, it has a low-key style and deep authenticity punctuated by natural dialogue, touches of military life and overall realism. The action sequences are plenty thrilling and involve people you actually care about. I enjoyed the movie as much for what it isn't as what it is. The characters aren't earnest cardboard cutout heroes, the war is presented as complex, and the moral issues aren't spoon-fed to us as black and white.
HYENA ROAD is a refreshing take on the War on Terror, recommended for fans of war films that make an extra effort to get character, story and world-building as right as its action.


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The City of Campbell River has decided that one of its old fire trucks, while no longer fit for purpose here in Canada, could still be used in a developing nation.
Retired Campbell River fire truck to get new lease on life in developing country
City council approves the donation of 1986 Mack to Firefighters Without Borders Canada
Mike Davies
Nov. 27, 2017 2:20 p.m.
The truck, a 1986 Mack, will be donated to Firefighters Without Borders Canada and deployed somewhere it can be of help as a front-line service vehicle.
"In Canada, a fire apparatus is considered front-line for the first 20 years of its life, at which time the apparatus may move into a reserve role (used as a backup apparatus to cover repair-downtime and training) for an additional five years," reads the donation request from the fire department to the city. "These dates are driven by the industry standard documents of the National Fire Protection Association. The city has kept this apparatus in service as a reserve unit to cover the extended refurbishment of the 1993 Aerial Apparatus which has recently returned to an 'in service' state. The city's fire department has now retired this 31-year-old apparatus and is seeking council's support to donate it to a less developed nation where it can be of service as a front-line fire truck."
Firefighters Without Borders Canada, based in Delta, delivers training and equipment in less developed countries around the world. Since 2008, they have donated 63 fire apparatus and ambulances to places like the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and the Philippines. That have also sent over 700 tons of donated equipment to 14 countries that have requested their assistance.
The truck being donated, the report says, is "of no use to the Canadian fire service and therefore do not generate significant revenue at auction."
The report also states that the truck is entirely paid off and "holds a residual value of $19,573."
With this summer's B.C. wildfire situation still clear in everyone's memories, Charlie Cornfield asked Fire Chief Ian Baikie about whether this truck could be kept in reserve to be used in the event of a wildfire situation here in the future, to which Baikie responded, "It's not good in the bush," as it's too cumbersome to maneuver.
The truck will now be delivered to Vancouver at no cost to the city so Firefighters Without Borders Canada can find a suitable place for it to be redeployed and ship it off to be put back into service.
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Do you know where your coffee really comes from? Many people may think they can answer that question with a resounding "yes," but in reality, there is far more that goes into a fragrant bag of fresh beans than meets the eye. Subtext Coffee is here to change the narrative around coffee and educate Torontonians, and consumers as a whole, about the importance of integrity, justice and representation within the coffee industry.
Subtext Coffee, a group of passionate coffee professionals in Toronto who ventured into roasting their own beans at the beginning of 2020, found themselves launching (and pivoting) their business at the start of the pandemic. Co-owner Alex Castellani, who is also part of the Boxcar Social founding team, says that Toronto's underdeveloped coffee scene (in terms of quality) and lag to bring in micro-roasters were motives behind the formation of Subtext, and the existing connections and capital tied to Boxcar made it financially feasible. More importantly, after years of sourcing coffee for the cafe, Castellani felt a lack of direct involvement with the farmers and a desire to contribute to and understand the roasting process in a more concrete way. However, he maintained underlying hesitations in starting a micro-roastery of their own due to production difficulties and concern over impacting the relationships with Boxcar's existing partners. Ultimately, though, he and his team felt that the need for connectivity to responsible coffee production, their desire to show transparency and the opportunity to educate the public outweighed the risks. Thus, Subtext was born.
The goal of Subtext Coffee is multi-faceted and nuanced, as evidenced by chatting with Alex. His passion for coffee clearly reaches far beyond the taste (though he notes the critical importance of delivering a sweet and complex cup of coffee) and stems from aspects like community building, financial security, responsible sourcing and regional transparency. "It's a complex industry," he explains, "and we are still just scratching the surface. It is intimidating in a way, but it's also exciting - to have that kind of agency is empowering." The educational aspect of the beans that they roast at Subtext is crucial not for the purpose of tasting notes or exclusivity, but rather as a way to use the sensory experience to connect people to the regional representation, origins and human labour behind the bean production. Building that connectivity is integral to the values of Subtext and the purpose that drives their business.
With significant experience in both the food and wine scenes, Castellani acknowledges their striking similarities to the coffee industry, both in production and sensory experience. What many people likely don't think of when it comes to coffee is the fact that it is an agricultural product, thereby making crop biodiversity and sustainability as relevant in this sense as it is for ingredient-driven, farm-to-table restaurants or low-intervention wines. In contrast to the wine industry in particular, however, Castellani makes a point to mention his desire to decouple coffee from the elitist reputation it has gained over the years. High-quality coffee, he says, can simply be regarded as a sweet and flavourful beverage, even if you can't pick up on the particular complexities of the bean.
In terms of the product, Castellani describes the wide range of bean offerings at Subtext, from wild, tropical and funky (again, thinking of parallels to the natural wine movement) to smooth and chocolatey. "The beautiful thing is that we don't have to be put into a box," he explains. "We are inherently open to the widest flavour articulations possible." Cost is one facet that may raise eyebrows, but Castellani reiterates their insistence on paying fair prices for a product that comes from a destination rooted in slavery and injustice. Their purpose extends far beyond the end product by influencing the entire community that it comes from, contributing to long-term relationships with the producers to build financial security in those regions.
The micro-roaster coffee industry is surely growing by the numbers, but how people react to and understand it is a deeper discussion. As Castellani points out, "some people don't care and never will, and some people are already into it. But there is a huge middle ground -- the people who are accessible, but haven't yet been reached in a mass sense." He explains the misunderstanding brought on by an industry that lumps various parts together with little clarification. To illustrate this, he asks, "what is the connection between a cappuccino [that showcases] beautiful latte art, and a black coffee that is all about the regional transparency behind it?" They are extremely different on a value level, as latte art gets people in the door and brings a sense of "craft" to the industry, whereas the value proposition behind the black coffee can be far more pronounced. Consumers have learned to use trivial markers to decide which cafes to visit, meaning that they are often led to whoever can afford fancy machines and deliver the prettiest latte art. But what are the core values behind the cups we are drinking? In Castellani's eyes, there is a need for coffee roasters within the industry to "reposition and articulate transparency with what we want to accomplish in the industry, and hope that that is meaningful enough for people to get on board." It's about breaking through the noise and the façade, gaining stronger agency and properly articulating value propositions and orientations, all of which Subtext strives towards.
The initial plan for Subtext was to double as an educational space where they would host workshops and courses for the public. Of course, due to the events of 2020, they had no choice but to open as a warehouse-only space. Still, Castellani can appreciate the positive angle of this and chooses to see it as a sort of "blessing in disguise" that allowed them to build their brand and get a strong handle on their production capabilities. Clearly, the company has some hefty goals geared towards consumer education and industry restructuring, but none of it can happen overnight. In a sector that has been influenced by many years of culture and tradition to reach its current standing, we can't expect (nor should we want) things to change quickly. At Subtext, the hope is to move with trepidation and remain conscious of uprooting an industry while providing the right resources, highlighting the people and processes behind roasting, and teaching consumers exactly what constitutes their morning cup of coffee -- because knowledge, in this case, is most certainly power.
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Half a Stack
By Emmet Rosenfeld — October 23, 2008 3 min read
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Emmet Rosenfeld is an English teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia.
I thought teaching only two English classes a day would give me more time, but somehow I feel twice as busy as when I taught a full load. Here are a few things that keep stealing my attention away from the partially graded stack of mock application essays on my desk.
International Day Rehearsal
103 flags in a row, and a kid to go with each one (in most cases, one tall enough to hold the flag unfurled so it doesn't brush the floor). Then a cadenced march across the gym floor to stand in orderly rows spilling off the stage. Next, run throughs for fashion and talent shows, complete with a slightly frantic teacher, a semi-functioning sound system, and a gaggle of cross-legged kids fidgeting on the hardwood until it's their turn to morph into whirling Indian dancers or musical savants at piano.
Enter a darkened office where the rep from the company that's going to give our online presence a facelift sits along with a changing cast of school characters, all of us staring at the projected screen of his laptop as he tours sample sites and clicks through an endless array of forms to define the specs. The high end talk is cool: what sort of experience does a student, a parent, or an alum want at our website? What do we wish we could do online that we can't do right now? The nitty gritty boils down to details like, "3.34.3. Number of Search Columns… okay, you can have 1-5 columns here. I recommend 3. Is everyone okay with 3?"
Montage (thoughts and walkie-talk): Why didn't anyone tell me there was a fire drill scheduled? I'll sweep the first floor, you sweep the second. Wait, this isn't a drill? All clear on the lower level. Why did this have to happen today? Is the fire department here yet? Is that worker running into the building? Hold on, I'm checking the boiler room. Man, it smells steamy in here. Confirmed, we had an issue in the boiler room. Glad this guy is okay! On my way to the alarm box now. Should I have reset this thing or will this fire captain do it? All clear, everybody back in.
New Uniforms
Skorts, Peter-Pan collars, front-button cardigans… a world of gradeschool chic has opened up to me as I select and codify a new school uniform for next year. Sharpening our brand on the school's 70th anniversary has turned into a far more challenging task than I originally anticipated. Fashion forward planning is only half the battle: there's the pitch to parents, coordinating the roll-out, rewriting the handbook. And all that's before the first kid shows up with his new shirt untucked. One unexpected benefit is that our Director of Development and I have both mastered the document review function in Word 2007.
New Languages
Strategic planning committees are looking at what we do well and where we can improve, and one of the answers to both is foreign languages. My colleague, Suzanne, and I speakerphone with a board member to brainstorm. Can we offer foreign language instruction in grades before 1st ? What other languages, besides the French and Spanish and smattering of Latin we have already, should we consider offering? Is the IB Middle Years Program for us? How about Mandarin immersion for summer school? By the end of the conversation, I've got a page of scribbled notes that look vaguely like English, and the task of writing up a proposal for an upcoming board retreat.
In the midst of my busy week, kids keep doing silly and not so silly things like getting their feelings hurt, planning a school-wide mock election, skipping homework assignments to play in the big soccer game, making tombstones for a character from a book in English class, spraying Axe in the locker bank, and… well, you get the idea. The stuff kids do at school, day in and day out. Never a dull moment, that's for sure. If there were, I'd get the rest of those essays graded.
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Bankers Warn Fed Of Farm, Student Loan Bubbles Echoing Subprime
A group of bankers that advises the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors has warned that farmland prices are inflating "a bubble" and growth in student-loan debt has "parallels to the housing crisis."
The concerns of the Federal Advisory Council, made up of 12 bankers who meet quarterly to advise the Fed, are outlined in meeting minutes obtained by Bloomberg through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Their alarm adds to a debate on the Federal Open Market Committee about whether the benefits from their monthly purchases of $85 billion in bonds outweigh the risk of financial instability. While Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has argued the program is worth pursuing, Fed Governor Jeremy Stein and Kansas City Fed President Esther George are among those who have voiced concerns that an extended period of low interest rates is heightening the risk of asset bubbles.
"Agricultural land prices are veering further from what makes sense," according to minutes of the council's Feb. 8 gathering. "Members believe the run-up in agriculture land prices is a bubble resulting from persistently low interest rates."
The Fed first lowered its target interest rate to near zero in December 2008 and has pledged to hold it there until the unemployment rate, currently 7.5 percent, falls to 6.5 percent. The U.S. central bank has also engaged in three rounds of bond purchases, known as quantitative easing, driving the Fed's balance sheet to a record $3.32 trillion as of May 1.
Cropland Prices
Data compiled by the regional Fed banks have documented the rapid run-up in farmland prices, particularly across the Midwest's Corn Belt. The Kansas City Fed said irrigated cropland in its district rose 30 percent during 2012, while the Chicago Fed reported a 16 percent increase.
"Investors who are seeking a positive return on their funds have shied away from bond markets," the council said. Instead, they opted for real estate "as both a hedge against inflation and a means of achieving better than the negative real return associated with fixed-income securities."
The land-price gains have continued even as commodity prices have softened. The S&P GSCI Agriculture Index reached a record in March 2011 and has since fallen 25 percent.
The Federal Advisory Council dates back to the Federal Reserve's founding in 1913. Current members include Joseph Hooley, chairman and chief executive of State Street Corp. (STT) in Boston; James Gorman, chairman and chief executive of Morgan Stanley in New York; Kelly King, chairman and chief executive of BB&T Corp. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and D. Bryan Jordan, chairman and chief executive of First Horizon National Corp. (FHN) in Memphis.
The council regularly advises the Fed on an array of lending, economic and regulatory topics. The bankers last year shared their view of the growth in student lending.
"Recent growth in student-loan debt, to nearly $1 trillion, now exceeds credit-card outstandings and has parallels to the housing crisis," the council said in its Feb. 3, 2012, meeting. The trend has continued, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau saying in March 2012 that student debt had topped a record $1 trillion.
The bankers said student lending shares features of the housing crisis including "significant growth of subsidized lending in pursuit of a social good," in this case higher education instead of expanded home ownership.
Discipline Lacking
The lending has put upward pressure on tuition, just as the mortgage lending boom led to rising home prices, they said, calling both examples of a "lack of underwriting discipline."
Bernanke dismissed parallels between student lending and the subprime mortgage crisis at a town hall meeting with teachers last year.
"I don't think it's a financial stability issue to the same extent that, say, mortgage debt was in the last crisis because most of it is held not by financial institutions but by the federal government," Bernanke said of student debt in Washington on Aug. 7.
At their February meeting this year, the council said it supports the Fed's monetary policy and that the recovery in interest-rate sectors like housing and auto sales is "especially encouraging." Yet the council said there are "collateral consequences of current policy."
The low interest-rate environment has helped cause "many to seek higher returns by accepting greater interest rate or credit risk," the minutes said. "As the period of low rates is extended, these pressures have increased."


A Colorado man can now control two prosthetic arms with his mind.
Les Baugh lost both his arms in an electrical accident 40 years ago. But with the help Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), he's able to control a set of Modular Prosthetic Limbs with his nerves. All he has to do is think about moving his arms, and they move.
Nothing is permanently attached to him; Baugh wears what is called a "socket," which connects the prosthetics to his body. The researchers measured the way his muscles and nerves react when Baugh thinks about moving his arms. Then, when he thinks about moving his arms and hands in a certain way, the prosthetics move.
Baugh is the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear two Modular Prosthetic Limbs at once, according to the researchers. He's spending a lot of time practicing different tasks.
"Maybe I'll be able to -- for once -- be able to put change in a pop machine and get the pop out of it," Baugh said in a video about the breakthrough. "Simple things like that that most people never think of." He can only use the arms in the lab for now, but someday he will have two of his own.
"I think we're just getting started at this point. It's like the early days of the Internet," Mike McLoughlin, the program manager at Johns Hopkins' Revolutionizing Prosthetics, said in the video. "There's just a tremendous amount of potential ahead of us, and we just started down this road. I think the next five, 10 years are going to bring some really phenomenal advancements."


A new tri-service youth participation project which aims to improve support and services for children and young people from armed forces and veteran families living in Scotland has been given the green light today thanks to funding from ABF The Soldiers' Charity.
The national youth participation project, which will run for 3 years is being launched by Scotland's Armed Forces Children's Charity, the Royal Caledonian Education Trust (RCET). The project has been informed by the success of a pilot series of mini-conferences, as well as a number of other 'listening to the voices of children and young people from Armed Forces families' initiatives that have been rolled out by the charity in recent years.
RCET Chief Executive, Colin Flinn explains: "Last Autumn, we held a series of Teen Talks events which brought together over 100 high school pupils from Armed Forces and veteran families to share their experiences and tell us about the challenges they face. Lack of stable education, friends moving around and losing touch, not seeing parents when on deployment, moving to unfamiliar countries, different educational systems, civilians not understanding their challenges, scary deployments and not knowing if and when a parent was coming home – were just some of the issues our young people highlighted.
"The feedback we received aligned with independent research * which recognises military lifestyle can come at a price; it can undermine friendships, impede academic performance and personal development. Left unchecked, this can last long into adulthood.
The funding for the initiative, which will target 12-24 years olds, has been given a significant jump start thanks to a £40k grant award by The Soldiers' Charity, which means RCET can recruit a Youth Participation Project Manager.
During the first year of the project, RCET will be rolling out participation events and working with partners in communities across Scotland. There will also be a particular focus on identifying and encouraging participation from children and young people from hard to reach groups, including children with disabilities, children living in vulnerable families and children struggling with mental health. Therefore, the charity will be offering places on a new outward-bound programme for young people from more vulnerable families who may lack the self-confidence and esteem to join the project.
In addition to recruiting a Youth Participation Project Manager, RCET is also looking to recruit volunteers who will be trained to support the implementation of the initiative. If you are interested in any of these roles, please click here to register your interest or for more information.


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Counting Slave Dwellings
Having some time on my hands one evening last week, I took the opportunity to do some counting. I was curious to see how many slave dwellings the 1860 Slave Schedule Census listed for Dinwiddie County and Petersburg. The 1860 Slave Schedule Census was the first, and the last, census to list the number of slave houses per owner along with slaves' age, gender, and color (black or mulatto).
For the Dinwiddie County part of the census it was quite easy. The county is divided into two districts and named as you might imagine, District 1 and District 2. Each of these districts contain a certain number of pages that enumerate the owner and the number of slave houses for that owner. The census taker for these two districts made it easy for me because each sheet has a place to total the page's number at the bottom each sheet. Simply adding the number of of slave houses on each page gives the total for each district. It came out as the following:
District 1 = 690 slave dwellings
The census taker for the four wards of Petersburg was not so kind to me. He didn't take the time to total the number of slave houses on each page. Therefore, I had to total up the various number of each owners' slave dwellings. It obviously took more time, especially for those wards that had a significant number of pages, such as the South Ward. The four totaled as follows:
Center Ward = 195 slave dwellings
East Ward = 210 slave dwellings
South Ward = 474 slave dwellings
West Ward = 215 slave dwellings
The grand total for Dinwiddie County and city of Petersburg shows as 2,547 slave dwellings. The census shows that there were 12,774 enslaved individuals in the same locations. So, if one divides the number of slaves by the slave dwellings. it comes to an average of about 5 slaves per structure. Naturally, the number of enslaved people in urban slave dwellings were often fewer than those in rural structures.
Today, only a very small percentage of the slave houses listed on the 1860 census survive. It is imperative that we do all that we can to ensure they remain on the landscape. They are after all some of the best pieces of evidence we have to teach us about important aspects of the lives of the enslaved.
A Johnny Reb's Political Last Will and Testament
To some the pain that Confederates felt upon being defeated militarily is easy to dismiss. Regardless of whether one sympathizes with the Southern cause, or one feels their decision to secede was unwise and traitorous, the hurt of being beaten on the battlefield was very real to those that served in the ranks.
That pain comes through loud and clear in some of the writings they left. One such account is provided by John Sergeant Wise, son of the Virginia governor, Henry A. Wise, who saw John Brown hanged and became a brigadier general in the Confederate army. John's brother O. Jennings Wise, was a noted honor-bound duelist and pre-war editor of the Richmond Enquirer, who was killed leading Rebel troops at Roanoke Island, North Carolina. John knew sacrifice and loss during the war, but not defeat until the end.
John S. Wise was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute during the war and he participated in May 15, 1864, Battle of New Market where the cadets made their famous charge. After the war, John returned to the home of relatives in Richmond where his mother and sister were staying. In his memoir he remembered sitting on the veranda of the house his first evening back watching what was during the war a loyal Confederate group of young ladies. Now however they were entertaining Union officers serving in Richmond's occupation. He wrote, "We looked upon the conduct of the girls, in making merry, singing, playing, and receiving the attentions of Union officers as grossly indelicate, heartless to our dead and us, and treason to their Confederate comrades."
John tells us he spent a restless night plagued with his thoughts of defeat. He awoke in the morning and penned a scathing political last will and testament:
"I, J. Reb., being of unsound mind and bitter memory, and aware that I am dead, do make, publish, and declare the following to be my political last will and testament.
1. I give, devise, and bequeath all of my slaves to Harriett Beecher Stowe.
2. My rights in the territories I direct shall be assigned and set over, with the bricabrac known as State Sovereignty, to the Hon. J___ R___ T____, to play with for the remainder of his life, and remainder to his son after his death.
3. I direct that all of my shares in the venture of secession shall be canceled, provided I am released from my unpaid subscription to the stock of said enterprise.
4. My interest in the civil government of the Confederacy I bequeath to any freak museum that may hereafter be established.
5. My sword, my veneration for Robert E. Lee, his subordinate commanders and his peerless soldiers, and my undying love for my old comrades, living and dead, I set apart as the best I have, or shall ever have, to bequeath to my heirs forever.
6. And now, being dead, having experienced a death to Confederate ideas and a new birth unto allegiance to the Union, I depart, with a vague but not definite hope of a joyful resurrection, and of a new life, upon lines somewhat different from those of the last eighteen years. I see what has been pulled down very clearly. What is to be built up in its place I know not. It is a mystery, but death is always mysterious. AMEN."
John shared his political last will and testament with his family later that morning at breakfast. They thought it was humorous, but he didn't. "I was dead. Everything that I ever believed in politically was dead. Everybody that I had ever trusted or relied upon politically was dead. My beloved State of Virginia was dismembered, and a new State had been erected out of a part of her, against her will. Every hope that I ever indulged was dead. Even the manhood I attained was dead. I was a mere boy again, - precocious, ignorant, conceited, and unformed."
John eventually gained his bearings and seemingly accepted defeat. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Virginia, was a practicing attorney in Richmond, served a term in the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran for governor - but lost to fellow former Confederate Fitzhugh Lee. He died in 1913 and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
Accepting defeat was not easy for the Confederate generation, or their children, or their grand children, or their great grand children, and some still struggle with that defeat to today. Hopefully those that still hold grudges and feel they have to carry their disdain for their ancestor's enemies can find a way to let the defeat go. Many of the original Rebels found a way.
The Eclipse and Nat Turner
Well, tomorrow marks the big day. For weeks now, people have been talking about the solar eclipse. Its path has been mapped, folks have purchased special glasses for viewing it, and some organizations and companies are giving time off for their employees to watch the infrequent heavenly occurrence. I don't want to sound like a humbug, but personally I don't get all of the fuss. I suppose it that infrequent thing that grabs most people's attention. I doubt many people will take the eclipse's appearance as an omen or sign, but that was not the case 186 years ago.
Nat Turner grew up enslaved. He knew what it meant to work a hard day. He observed the injustice of slavery, the passionate rages of slave owners, and the physical and mental suffering of African Americans. Through this Nat learned how to read. He felt a spiritual calling and became a preacher. He saw signs in his daily work, and in the heavens, telling him to do something against the injustice.
On February 12, 1831, an eclipse occurred. The path of this eclipse ran across southeastern Virginia, where Nat Turner's Southampton County was located. Like tomorrow, people knew of the eclipse's arrival. Men, women, and children turned out in great numbers to watch the seeming phenomenon in places such as Richmond, Virginia. Well educated people understood that science predicted and explained the eclipse. Most people did not see it as foreboding doom and destruction. However, Nat Turner did.
For Nat Turner the eclipse was a sign for action. In his jailhouse confession given to attorney Thomas Gray, Turner explained "I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams."
Turner had previous visions. As a young man he ran away for a time. Upon his return he explained that a vision told him to return to his earthly master. Later, he saw lights in the sky and had a vision of "blood on the corn, as though it was dew from heaven." He also saw messages in the leaves of the woods. Later he had a vision that he had been chosen to lead a fight where the "first shall be last and the last shall be first," and that he would receive a sign from the heavens telling him to start the work assigned to him.
That sign for Turner came in the form of the February 12, 1831 eclipse. He told those fellow slaves he felt he could trust that the time would arrive on the coming Fourth of July. Turner was ill when Independence Day rolled around. The rebellion was delayed. But an atmospheric occurrence on August 12, which turned the sky into a odd color, prompted Turner to see this as yet another sign to commence the job of overturning slavery. In the early hours of August 21, Turner and his followers started killing white men, women, and children on area farms and plantations. When it was all said and done about sixty whites were dead by the hands of Turner and his band.
White response was swift and decisive. Most of Turners followers were killed or captured by local men and militia troops, and although Turner escaped capture for about two months, he was apprehended by a local farmer named Benjamin Phipps. Turner was held in a Jerusalem (now Cortland) jail where he gave an account of his life and the events of the rebellion to Thomas Gray. After tired and being convicted, he met his death by hanging on November 11, 1831.
The Nat Turner rebellion put whites in the slave states on high alert. Their worst nightmares were realized. Virginia debated potential gradual emancipation in the wake of the affair, but decided instead to enact more stringent legislation directed at the enslaved as well as free people of color.
Nat Turner's rebellion was yet another historical event that helped create and widen the split between the North and South over the issue of slavery and put the nation on the path toward civil war.
James Redpath at Point of Rocks
Recently, while re-browsing through The Roving Editor, or Talks with Slaves in the Southern States by James Redpath, I came across his mention of staying in Chesterfield County in 1854. If you are not familiar with Redpath, he was a avid abolitionist, who traveled incognito into the slave states and wrote back to the New York Tribune on his observations.
But back to Chesterfield County. On his travels through the area he met the hospitality of John Alexander Strachan, who owned a plantation at Point of Rocks, which is on the north side of the Appomattox, just as short distance down stream from Petersburg. While there Redpath didn't mention his host by name in his writing. Instead, I suppose to protect the anonymity of his information source, the reporter called him "Mr. S------n, a planter and Baptist preacher." Redpath went on to tell his readers that Strachan owned "a farm of six hundred acres overlooking the Appomattox River. He has some thirty slaves, old and young."
Curious to learn more about Strachan, I looked him up in the 1860 census. He wasn't easy to find in the free schedules, but he was easy to find in the slave schedules. Lo and behold, he is shown as owning thirty-one slaves on his plantation and had four others on a neighbor's farm. The thirty-one on Strachan's land lived in three slave dwellings.
Strachan did not come up when I searched the free schedules. And, I found out why. After browsing through 103 pages of a total of 114 for the Southern District of Chesterfield County, I finally found him. His name was misspelled as Straughn. He is shown as a forty-five year old farmer with 17,000 in real estate and 24,833 in personal property. Also in the household is his much younger wife, twenty eight year old "E.", their six year old son, John Jr., and two year old son "B." This information was corroborated with that found on a couple of family history web pages.
Redpath mentions his conversation with Strachan about slaves and "Farming Utensils." He wrote:
"Mr. S. walked down his farm with me in the morning. I noticed a hoe, which was heavier, at least, than half a dozen Northern ones, and asked why he made them so clumsy.
He [Strachan] said they were obliged to make everything heavy that negroes handled. If you gave a slave a Northern hoe or cradle in the morning, he would be sure to break it before night, and probably in less than two hours. You couldn't make them [slaves] careful. Besides, he said, they preferred heavy implements; you could not get them to use an axe that was less than six pounds weight. They said that it tired them more to use a light axe or hoe.
I [Redpath] remembered, somewhere, to have heard of a slave who objected to the use of a light hoe, 'kase' he grumbled, 'you has to put out your strength every time you puts it down, and in a 'Ginny [Virginia] hoe it goes into the ground, jest so, by its own weight.'
Mr. S. said, he believed this was the real objection which the negro had to the Northern hoe.
I noticed the great size of his fields - one was over fifty acres. He said they called that a small field here."
A few years ago Chesterfield County purchased the Strachan house (pictured above), which was built about 1840 and its surrounding acreage. The lands of Point of Rocks became an important and strategic site during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign. A large hospital complex developed on Strachan's land around the house, which even hosted the famous Clara Barton in 1864. It is my understanding that Chesterfield County is interested in restoring the house to its period appearance as funds become available. I was fortunate enough to visit it a couple of years ago while on a National Park Service Historian's tour of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Chesterfield County offers tours of this historic location every so often, so if you get an opportunity to see the Point of Rocks site, please do so and help support their preservation efforts.
Historic photograph of Point of Rock courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Photograph of the Strachan House taken by the author June 2015.
Recent Acquisitions to My Library
While I gained a much better understanding of Civil War medicine from reading Shauna Devine's Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science, that volume focused on the efforts doctors went to document and gather knowledge from all of the deaths caused by both Civil War battlefield wounds and diseases. I am hopeful that Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs will particularly include additional information and define the symptoms of the many camp diseases soldiers suffered from.
If you've read many of my posts over the past several years, you probably know that I find anything related to John Brown fascinating. Just about every phase of the life of "Old Brown" has been examined rather thoroughly, other than his final days. Now with this volume by Louis DeCaro, Jr., even that topic has finally received the coverage it has so long deserved. I am looking forward to learning more about Brown's days in his Charles Town, Virginia, jail cell and his trip to the gallows. Myth has shrouded much of Brown's last days, but if DeCaro's other works on Brown are any indication, he will present solid evidence to help debunk those with this work.
A couple of years ago while making several trips back and forth from Kentucky to Virginia, I listened to The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks on audio CD. I found it an intriguing novel about some of the people affected by the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. If not totally based in fact, it was a rather good story. Hicks follows up The Widow of the South with a postwar story by following some of the same into the Reconstruction years.
So much of the interest in Civil War memory studies centers on how Americans have chosen to honor the dead of our nation's greatest tragedy since the guns fell silent. The loss of so much life and the need to commemorate their deaths naturally tears off the scabs of healing and exposes raw nerves, often limiting the success of reconciling the belligerent sections. Memorialization efforts and commemoration services still trouble us into the 21st century with many questions of inclusion, exclusion, unification, and division.
When I came across this title, my first thought was what a great subject for historical examination. My next thought was, why hasn't anyone explored this topic before? You don't have to read too many soldier's letters to encounter one that mentions the darkness they experienced, the sleep they were often deprived of, and the dreams of loved ones back on the home front. Dr. White, a professor at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, has graciously agreed to come to give a talk on this book at Pamplin Historical Park on October 7, so I'm looking forward to both reading the book and hearing his presentation on this fascinating subject.
"Anti-Slavery Jeremiads"
Seeking a Southern perspective on the Brooks-Sumner caning affair (May 22, 1856), I found an interesting editorial in the Richmond Enquirer in the May 27, edition under the headline "Anti-Slavery Jeremiads."
"The attempts of the Northern Abolitionists, in their numerous meetings, to make a martyr of Charles Sumner on account of his richly deserved thrashing for his foul-mouthed insolence and filthy slanders upon the South and her best and purest sons, cannot fail to produce an intense disgust in the communities where such ridiculous demonstrations have taken place. Is a man, because he happens to wear and to disgrace Senatorial robes, privileged to play the slanderer with impunity, and to go unwhipped of justice. however atrocious his conduct may have been? We do not so read the Constitution nor the spirit of our political and social institutions. It is undoubted that Mr. Brooks, impelled by the highest motives, sought to punish the offender elsewhere than in the Senate Chamber, but circumstances prevented him. Where was the mighty wrong in inflicting the punishment in the Senate chamber, which was then like any other place, as the body was not in session? The proposition adopted by the Massachusetts abolitionists, that the House should expel Mr. Brooks, is the most ridiculous that can be imagined. The good sense of the nation will soon regard the whole matter in its true light, and the people will view with disgust an attempt to create an awful excitement throughout the confederacy, because Senators, who outrage decency and propriety, are punished as they deserve. The attempt to make a martyr of Sumner will prove a monstrous abortion."
It is easy to see that the Enquirer felt Brooks was justified in his actions due to the slanders Sumner heaped upon Brooks's kinsman, South Carolina Senator Andrew Pickens Butler. The paper felt that no one, no matter their class or status was above being checked for egregious verbal outrages, especially when directed at one who was not present to make a defense. It mattered little to them that the incident occurred on the floor of the Senate, especially since it was not in order at the time of the incident. The editor felt that Brooks should not face censure from the body of the House of Representatives, and that in their line of thinking, reason would prove them correct when passions died down and the situation was carefully considered.
However correct the Enquirer was in the eyes of Southerners, they were totally wrong from Northerners' perspective. Sumner did become a martyr. From Kansas to Boston, antislavery proponents used the caning incident as motivation to strengthen their fight against the "peculiar institution."
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.


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from ..remote import RemoteModel

class NotificationRemote(RemoteModel):
    """
    Configurable notifications on issues, etc.

    |  ``id:`` The internal NetMRI identifier for the notification.
    |  ``attribute type:`` number

    |  ``auth_user_id:`` User ID of the creator.
    |  ``attribute type:`` number

    |  ``category:`` A category of the notification. Possible values are 'issue','change','job','systemalert'.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``delivery_method:`` Delivery method of the notification. Possible values are 'email', 'syslog', 'snmp'.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``mime:`` Message MIME type. Possible values are 'html' or 'text'.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``subject:`` Subject of the notification e-mail.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``message_template:`` Notification message template.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``details_template:`` Notification details template.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``to:`` Notification e-mail 'To:' field.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``created_at:`` The date and time the record was initially created in NetMRI.
    |  ``attribute type:`` datetime

    |  ``updated_at:`` The date and time the record was last modified in NetMRI.
    |  ``attribute type:`` datetime

    |  ``from:`` Notification e-mail 'from:' field.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``from_name:`` Name for the 'from:' field.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``severity:`` Severity level from 1 to 3.
    |  ``attribute type:`` number

    |  ``all_in_category_ind:`` Notify for all in the category.
    |  ``attribute type:`` bool

    |  ``all_device_groups_ind:`` Do not restrict notification to particular device groups.
    |  ``attribute type:`` bool

    |  ``all_interface_groups_ind:`` Do not restrict notification to particular interface groups.
    |  ``attribute type:`` bool

    |  ``time_window_id:`` Time window id.
    |  ``attribute type:`` number

    |  ``event_type:`` List of events that we subscribe to. Default is all events.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``send_clearing_ind:`` Whether to send a notification on issue clearing.
    |  ``attribute type:`` bool

    |  ``cron:`` Schedule for summary notifications in cron format.
    |  ``attribute type:`` string

    |  ``last_run:`` Last run.
    |  ``attribute type:`` datetime

    """

    properties = ("id",
                  "auth_user_id",
                  "category",
                  "delivery_method",
                  "mime",
                  "subject",
                  "message_template",
                  "details_template",
                  "to",
                  "created_at",
                  "updated_at",
                  "from",
                  "from_name",
                  "severity",
                  "all_in_category_ind",
                  "all_device_groups_ind",
                  "all_interface_groups_ind",
                  "time_window_id",
                  "event_type",
                  "send_clearing_ind",
                  "cron",
                  "last_run",
                  )

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The need for internet is high these days. Most people who have a Smartphone are connected to the internet non-stop. That's why it is easy to find Wi-Fi hotspots everywhere. Some people prefer to take advantage of free Wi-Fi, while others don't mind paying for mobile data. For your information, an Android phone can actually turn into a Wi-Fi hotspot. It acts as a router that transmits data to other devices. This feature is available in nearly every Android device. You just need to do a quick setup in order to make it work. Today we'll share how to turn your Android phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot.
As said before, some people prefer to use Wi-Fi especially when it is free. Once the hotspot feature is activated, you can share the internet data with many other devices. Let's say you want to browse on your laptop because the screen is much bigger than your phone. All you have to do is enable the feature on the Smartphone. This can also be used to help others who need internet connection, but for whatever reason fail to get connected. Although beneficial, it is still important to pay attention to data usage since when many devices use the same source of connection, the bandwidth will run out faster. Every phone has 'Data Usage' menu that allows you to see how much data has been uploaded and downloaded.
You should be able to find 'Tethering AND Portable Hotspot'. After that, go to 'Wi-Fi Hotspot'. You will be prompted to set up a new connection.
There are some fields you have to fill out. The first one is Network Name. As the name implies, the network name is a name that shows up when a device detects your Wi-Fi. If you type in 'My Free Internet', then it is the one that will appear when you try to search the connection using another device. And then, there is an option to choose the type of security. There are a few options, but you can go for WPA PSK. The last one is password. An unprotected Wi-Fi connection can be abused by those seeking free internet, so it is important to secure it with a password, so that not everyone can gain access to the connection. Type a strong password that only you can guess. It should contain at least 8 characters. Once all details have been added, tap on 'Save'.
The Wi-Fi hotspot has been activated. To let other devices detect the connection, toggle ON the slider located right at the top of this page. Also, make sure everyone that wants to join this connection knows the password.


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Q: Uses for the AKKA actors framework?
Possible Duplicate:
Good use case for Akka

I understand why using the AKKA actors framework for embarrassing parallel problems makes sense.
What about problems that don't involve heavy computation and don't need to parallelised at all but are still highly distributed. For example, thousands of distributed clients who can increment or decrement a specific counter?

A: Besides the obvious distributability and scalability arguments there are other aspects which are really nice about actors.

*

*The actor model allows the complete decoupling between message passing and error handling; these two are tightly woven together in traditional OO. When you call a method, you get the return value but you must also handle all possible errors. When you send a message to an actor, you only get the response back, while all failures are handled by the actor's supervisor.

*Another nice thing is the improved encapsulation: in "normal" OO you'll typically see too many things exposed on an object, and if not you can still go in using reflection. Akka actors are completely encapsulated (unless you cheat by sending around "this" references), nobody messes with the state but the actors themselves.

*Tying into the previous point, the fact that message reception is the only entry point into an actor's behavior makes them much easier to reason about than normal OO code, where each public (or protected) method may be used as an entrance. You don't need these invocations to be concurrent in order to miss unplanned interactions.

A: Actors are a model of computation that lends itself to both distribution and concurrency (and ultimately parallelism) (due to isolation and message passing). So Actors can be used where you only have 1 thread of execution on one single machine, or thousands of threads of execution over thousands of machines.

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'80s Christmas Tunes: Chris Rea, "Driving Home for Christmas"
Stuart Mostyn/Redferns
It's not often that a Christmas song can change your whole career, but for Chris Rea, that may have been just the case. "Driving Home for Christmas," a lovely B-side the husky-voiced British singer-songwriter first issued in 1986, has become one of England's signature modern Christmas songs over the decades.
Rea enjoyed a Top 20 hit in America with "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" in 1978, but found it difficult to follow up with a successful single either at home or abroad. Though his reputation as an album artist began to pick up in the mid-'80s, Rea at one point remembered having serious talks about moving on from music. "It was pretty rocky when we left Abbey Road that night," Rea later told The One Show. "We had been discussing opening an Italian restaurant and leaving the music business."
Nonetheless, when Rea's longtime wife drove to London to head to their native Middlesborough for a holiday at home, they did their best to feel the joy of the season - which not even a traffic jam and a snowstorm could stop. "I'd look across at the other drivers, who all looked so miserable," Rea recounted to The Guardian. "Jokingly, I started singing: 'We're driving home for Christmas…' Then, whenever the street lights shone inside the car, I started writing down lyrics." The pair finally arrived home to a real present - a generous royalty statement for "Fool" - and Rea stored the lyrics in a tin.
Years later, after his fortunes had turned around, Rea was in another session with longtime keyboardist Max Middleton, trying out a pair of Roland digital keyboards they'd recently acquired. "Max and I agreed that the only way you could tell this piano was any good...was if you played Count Basie-type stuff on it," Rea said in 2019. The light, catchy melody they improvised turned out to be a great fit for the shelved Christmas lyrics - and a modern classic was born.
Read More: Totally '80s Podcast Keeps the Christmas Party Going
But like some classics, it took awhile before audiences truly discovered its power. "Driving Home" was originally released as a B-side to the track "Hello Friend" in 1986, but earned modest airplay from British DJs when it was re-recorded for a compilation album, 1988's New Light Through Old Windows. This version, featuring a string section, was a modest chart hit that year, just missing the U.K. Top 40. Since Christmas of 2007, however, the song has reappeared on the charts every December: in 2018, it reached its highest peak of No. 11, and as of Christmas Eve 2020, it's sitting at No. 13 on the same chart.
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Margaret Cho Critiques 80's Fashion Trends
Queen of comedy Margaret Cho joins the Totally 80's podcast to critique 80's fashion trends as a true 'Fashion Police' woman. She brings the funny while discussing gender bending to Madonna-bes to New Romantics to Hair Metal. Tune in here!
Ebet Roberts/Redferns
November 1984: Chaka Khan Hits Big with "I Feel for You"
A cover of a Prince song gave Chaka her biggest hit.
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WATCH: Toto's Steve Lukather Battles Early Morning Leaf Blowers with Face-Melting Guitar Solo
The guitar legend has had enough, and now the whole neighborhood knows about it.


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package io.joamit.credit.suisse.validators;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static junit.framework.TestCase.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
public class CounterpartyValidatorTest {

    private CounterpartyValidator counterpartyValidator;

    @Test
    public void testSuccessfulValidation() throws Exception {
        List<String> counterparties = new ArrayList<>();
        counterparties.add("Test customer");
        this.counterpartyValidator = new CounterpartyValidator(counterparties, "Test customer");
        Map<String, Boolean> validationResults = new HashMap<>();
        //since customer is one of the counterparties, this validation should pass
        boolean result = counterpartyValidator.validate(validationResults);
        assertTrue(result);
        assertNotNull(validationResults);
        assertEquals(0, validationResults.keySet().size());
    }

    @Test
    public void testUnsuccessfulValidation() throws Exception {
        List<String> counterparties = new ArrayList<>();
        counterparties.add("Test customer1");
        this.counterpartyValidator = new CounterpartyValidator(counterparties, "Test customer2");
        Map<String, Boolean> validationResults = new HashMap<>();
        //since customer is not one of the counterparties, this validation should fail
        boolean result = counterpartyValidator.validate(validationResults);
        assertFalse(result);
        assertNotNull(validationResults);
        assertEquals(1, validationResults.keySet().size());
    }

}


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» Merck sued in New Jersey court over osteoporosis drug
Merck sued in New Jersey court over osteoporosis drug
On Behalf of Dunn Lambert, LLC | Apr 11, 2013 | Commercial Litigation |
Most businesses make or produce some sort of product or service. When a business sells a product to the public there is the risk that the product could cause injuries to consumers. When this happens, business litigation — specifically a product liability suit — is likely to arise.
A New Jersey court has recently had to delay a product liability suit against Merck & Co. over its sale of the osteoporosis drug Fosamax. Fosamax came onto the market in the United States in 1995. Merck made an estimated $3 billion on the drug per year until 2008 when its patent protection expired. However, Merck has been sued by a variety of former users who claim that over time the drug caused femur fractures and jaw problems.
In the recent New Jersey suit, the first time the case went to trial it resulted in a mistrial and was the first lawsuit over femur fractures. The second trial date had to be pushed back after the plaintiff — a woman who had formerly used Fosamax — suffered from a "serious health complication."
In the case, the woman claims that Merck knew that the drug could cause bone weakening if used for long periods of time, especially for patients that didn't already have osteoporosis. Yet, the woman claims, the company still pushed the product. Merck, on the other hand, claims that all warnings about the medication were disclosed. Furthermore, the company argues that the Food and Drug Administration continually approved its use.
In order for a product liability suit, like this one, to be successful, the plaintiff must show that there was some sort of defect in the product that made it unreasonably dangerous. This can be a design defect or a manufacturing defect, among others. Without showing unreasonable danger the company is not likely going to be held liable for damages.
In the cases against Merck, the company has already won five out of the seven jaw cases. A new date for this case has been set for early April.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, "Merck's Fosamax on Trial Again After First Case Halted," Erik Larson, April 3, 2013


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"""Tests for sa360_reporting_hook."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
import mock
from google3.corp.gtech.ads.doubleclick.composer.common import test_utils
from google3.testing.pybase import googletest

HTTP_AUTHORIZED = 'authorized_http'

cloud_base_hook_mock = mock.MagicMock
cloud_base_hook_mock._authorize = mock.MagicMock(return_value=HTTP_AUTHORIZED)

gcp_api_base_hook = mock.MagicMock
gcp_api_base_hook.GoogleCloudBaseHook = cloud_base_hook_mock

def mock_build_method(api_name, api_version, http):
  return (api_name, api_version, http)

discovery_mock = mock.MagicMock
discovery_mock.build = mock.MagicMock(side_effect=mock_build_method)

SA360ReportingHook = test_utils.import_with_mock_dependencies(  # Mock dependency injection pylint: disable=invalid-name
    'google3.corp.gtech.ads.doubleclick.composer'
    '.sa360.sa360_reporting_hook.SA360ReportingHook',
    [{'name': 'airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_api_base_hook',
      'mock': gcp_api_base_hook},
     {'name': 'apiclient.discovery',
      'mock': discovery_mock}
    ])

class TestException(Exception):
  pass

class Sa360ReportingHookTest(googletest.TestCase):

  API_VERSION = 'v2'
  API_NAME = 'doubleclicksearch'
  CONNECTION_ID = 'sa360_report_default'

  def setUp(self):
    self.hook = SA360ReportingHook()

  def test_get_service(self):
    service = self.hook.get_service()
    self.assertEqual((self.API_NAME,
                      self.API_VERSION, HTTP_AUTHORIZED), service)

  def test_custom_api_name(self):
    self.hook = SA360ReportingHook(api_name='custom_api_name')
    service = self.hook.get_service()
    self.assertEqual(('custom_api_name',
                      self.API_VERSION, HTTP_AUTHORIZED), service)

  def test_custom_api_version(self):
    self.hook = SA360ReportingHook(api_version='custom_api_version')
    service = self.hook.get_service()
    self.assertEqual((self.API_NAME,
                      'custom_api_version', HTTP_AUTHORIZED), service)

  def test_exception_on_authorize(self):
    # Check that exceptions are properly propagated should they be raised.
    self.hook._authorize = mock.MagicMock(side_effect=TestException)
    with self.assertRaises(TestException):
      self.hook.get_service()

  def test_exception_on_build(self):
    # Check that exceptions are properly propagated should they be raised.
    with mock.patch('google3.corp.gtech.ads.doubleclick.composer.sa360'
                    '.sa360_reporting_hook.discovery.build') as build_mock:
      build_mock.side_effect = TestException
      with self.assertRaises(TestException):
        self.hook.get_service()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  googletest.main()


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Growing Brands in the Age of Anti-Consumerism
The following article by Bediz Eker, managing director of strategy and insights at VMLY&R New York, was published by The Marketing Society. Click here to read the article on The Marketing Society website.
One of our family's proudest success stories is that of my sister and brother-in-law. They raised the bar on the corporate employee dream of moving to the beach to set up a small hostel or restaurant. Instead, they leased a desert island on the other side of the world, in Raja Ampat in the Indonesian Papua region, where they built a boutique diving resort from scratch with their business partners. They didn't stop there, founding an NGO called Papua Explorers Foundation in order to preserve underwater life and restore coral reefs in the region.
After six years of hard work, their project not only won a Sustainable Tourism Award from the Indonesian Government but also got selected as the best scuba diving resort in the world by Dive Travel Awards. This success story does not only make me proud as a brother but gives me inspiration for how brands can survive in an age that is moving on from irresponsible consumption.
Clear as a bell for the woke
We won't go into conceptual details about the differences between post-consumerism and anti-consumerism and the historical evolution of these movements in this limited space. Instead, we should focus on their common enemy, unhinged consumption madness and the increasing social consciousness that aims to overcome it. By the end of the nineties, Naomi Klein started to raise awareness about this 'consumption madness' with her book, No Logo, also considered the holy bible of the anti-globalization movement by the New York Times.
During the same period, Fight Club and its philosophical character, Tyler Durden became pop culture icons that questioned our detrimental consumption mindset. Unfortunately, due to the young blood running through our veins in those days, we were busy punching each other after watching that movie, rather than ruminating on its underlying message. Until today, the bells continued to toll louder and louder, until they eventually dislodged from the belfry and crashed over our heads. Simply because we have drained our planet of natural resources.
Global Footprint Network and WWF's Earth Overshoot Day platform has been calculating the number of days per year that the Earth's biocapacity can provide for humanity's current ecological footprint. According to their studies dating back to the seventies, last year we consumed Earth's biocapacity in early August of 2019. While in 1970 we were able to make it until the end of December, during the 39 years since, we have gotten to the point where we consume the whole year's natural resources before the middle of the third quarter, due to our rising consumption habits and growing ecological footprint.
Luckily, there has been a backlash against the events that brought our planet to this point, meaning Gen-Z joined the game with a much higher level of social awareness than we did in our Fight Club days. Consequently, brands have also adopted more sustainable business models and purposeful marketing strategies, in response to a situation that brought diminishing natural resources and more socially aware consumers together.
There are a number of brands that successfully show that there is another way. One of the all-time bests is of course REI's multiple awarded Opt Outside campaign, that demonstrates how a brand can stand against this 'consumption madness'. While retailers pursued increased sales and consumers chased better deals on Black Friday, REI illuminated another path: closing its stores and giving paid leave to employees so that they could spend time outside. With its unforgettable "Don't Buy This Jacket" campaign for Black Friday in 2011, Patagonia is also a trailblazer, taking a stand against consumption madness.
While encouraging people to consume less and manufacturers to produce higher quality, more environmentally friendly products, Patagonia buys back its old products and, after cleaning and repairing, resells them on its Worn Wear platform. Consequently, the brand not only produces less waste, but also improves quality to increase its products' lifespan and satisfy customer demand. All while consuming fewer of the Earth's irreplaceable natural resources.
How do brands grow without selling products?
"But how are we going to grow these brands while people consume less?" I hear you ask nervously. It's no coincidence that today's telecommunication brands, for example, define their playground as the 'connectivity' category; or car manufacturers define their category as 'mobility' rather than 'automotive'. Brands no longer want to box themselves into a specific product or service corner. Instead, they construct solutions that address the whole ecosystem of the consumer experience. That's why arch-nemeses Mercedes and BMW joined forces with a billion-euro investment to develop solutions such as autonomous vehicles, carsharing and pay-per-ride, transcending the traditional automotive category.
This kind of move not only helps brands explore new territories beyond outdated product and service categories, but also creates additional revenue streams, offering new added value opportunities when consumption isn't growing as much as targets demand (if they are not slowing down altogether). Yet, time is the most valuable commodity consumers can choose to gift any brand. While some brands are still sweating over acquisition numbers, those in the know fill consumers' time with valuable experiences, while the bottom line looks after itself. Of course, even this experience-based brand ecosystem needs to be brought to life with a sustainable business model that protects natural resources. Just like my sister and my brother-in-law did in Raja Ampat.


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Q: $I$ proportional to $V$ or vice versa? I am confused whether Voltage depends on current or the vice versa. I always thought that the vice versa was correct. I tried to find the answers of some of my other conceptual doubts on the web but I was not able to understand the answers as people were saying things beyond school level. But the answers made me confused about the question about $V$ & $I$ mentioned above. Can you please tell which one is correct and why?
Also, please tell me why it is officially stated that $H = I^2RT$ not $VIT$.

A: Ohm's law, like many (most?) physical laws, does not involve the idea of cause and effect.
I admit that I usually think of V as causing I, but an electronics engineer might put a resistor in a current-carrying circuit in order to produce a pd which can be applied across (say) a voltmeter. The current causes a voltage drop across the resistor!
I don't think there's any right or wrong here.

A: They both depend on each other.If you have the IV diagram of a circuit element you can find the current for some voltage  across the element and you can find the voltage for some current through the element.

A:
I am confused whether Voltage depends on current or the vice versa. I
always thought that the vice versa was correct.

Both are true, but you have to know where the voltage and current are being measured to determine the dependence.

Also, please tell me why it is officially stated that $H = I^2Rt$ not
$VIt$.

Heat is only dissipated in resistance. For example, if the voltage $V$ and current $I$ are for an ideal capacitor or ideal inductor, there is no heating ($H=0$). Only the in phase components of voltage and current result in heating. So, for heating in an ac circuit, it would be
$$H=V_{rms}I_{rms}t \cos\theta$$
Where $\theta$ is the phase angle between the voltage and current and $rms$ is the root means square value of the current and voltage. For a purely resistive component, $\theta=90^0$, $\cos\theta=1$ and then $H=V_{rms}I_{rms}t$.
Hope this helps.


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How to test logic board and voltages?
Just bought a dead MacBook a1304 (emc 2334) that has cracked screen no power and swollen battery. The battery is only swollen a little, but I am going to replace it. If it is still dead, where would I test for voltages like pp5v0, pp1v8, etc. and does anyone have a schematic I could use?
Just bought a dead MacBook a1304 that has cracked screen no power and swollen battery. The battery is only swollen a little, but I am going to replace it. If it is still dead, where would I test for voltages like pp5v0, pp1v8, etc. and does anyone have a schematic I could use?


Emirates, Turkish Airlines and Etihad have all announced that they are no longer under the laptop ban, allowing travelers to bring laptops and other large electronic devices into airplane cabins.
Emirates and Turkish Airlines both announced Wednesday that they were no longer under the ban. Etihad was cleared to allow laptops in cabins Sunday, NPR reports.
According to Reuters, the ban on flights from Dubai International Airport was lifted after the implementation of the new security measures announced by the U.S. late last week.
NBC News reports that in Turkey, security officials are now using CT scanners to take cross-section images of passengers' electronics before they board airplanes headed to the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the new security measures late last week, avoiding a proposed expansion of the laptop ban to include flights from additional destinations that had caused much concern in the travel industry. While the new security measures will include elements both visible and invisible to passengers, according to a statement by the DHS, the new rules do not involve changes to items allowed in carry-on and checked baggage. However, passengers flying to the U.S. may experience additional screening of their person and property, the DHS warned.
When the new security measures were first announced, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it welcomed them as an alternative to expanding the laptop ban.


Quest Times: Zdravko Mamic sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for corruption.
Zdravko Mamic sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for corruption.
He is considered the most powerful figure in football in Croatia, but now Zdravko Mamic has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for corruption.
Mamic was found guilty of siphoning off millions of euros in transfer fees when he was an executive at Dinamo Zagreb.
On the eve of the verdict he fled across the border into Bosnia.
Among the ex-Dinamo players caught up in the trial is Croatia captain Luka Modric, who was charged with perjury.
The Real Madrid midfielder is suspected of having made false statements during the trial, when he was questioned about his 2008 transfer to Tottenham Hotspur. He has not commented on the charge.
The case will not affect his role in the World Cup in Russia later this month.


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Dental surgeries are usually day cases, which means your pet will be admitted in the morning and go home the same day, usually before 6pm.
A general anaesthetic is usually always required when having any dental treatment, as it is not possible to do a good dental procedure on a conscious animal. An anaesthetic is given for the pet's mental health and physical comfort and gives the vet a better chance to do a thorough investigation.
A popular procedure is a scale and polish when tartar can be seen on the visible part of the tooth. Sometimes when the teeth are diseased they will need an examination and sometimes an extraction of the tooth.
Some animals may need an x-ray to highlight any dental disease and decide the appropriate course of treatment. Cats are usually always x-rayed as they often have hidden changes below the gum line.
At Dave Cumber Vets we strongly feel that 2 hours is long enough for a general anaesthetic for a non-emergency procedure such as dental, unless there is a good reason to extend. Recovery time may be prolonged if the anaesthetic time was too long. Sometimes this may result in the procedure being carried out on two separate occasions. When you take your pet home it will need lots of love and hugs and just soft food for a few days.
If your pet requires pain relief this will be given during the procedure and additional pain relief can then be given at home. If a little bleeding occurs for a day or so, don't worry this is quite normal, but if you are worried please contact your vet.
Prevention is always better than a cure, so brushing your pet's teeth regularly is always a good idea from an early age.
If you would like to discuss any of these services further with our team of friendly and helpful staff, contact either or Weymouth or Dorchester surgeries for more information.


The all-singing, all-dancing comedy Menopause The Musical comes to Coventry for one week only!
The show producers have kindly agreed to a short post-show Meet the Cast event on Tuesday 11 June 2019.
Tickets for this exclusive event are just £10, and all proceeds will go towards the charitable work of the Belgrade Theatre.
Book online or at Box Office.
As a registered charity (number 219163), we are reliant on the continued support of our audiences, funders, donors and members, to use the transformational power of theatre to enrich communities and change people's lives for the better.
Entry to the event will be on production of a Meet the Cast ticket and a valid ticket for a performance of Menopause The Musical at the Belgrade Theatre.
This exclusive event has limited availability and is subject to change without notice. The appearance of specific cast members cannot be guaranteed.