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package org.gradoop.flink.model.impl.operators.layouting.util;

import org.apache.flink.api.java.tuple.Tuple4;
import org.gradoop.common.model.impl.id.GradoopId;
import org.gradoop.common.model.impl.pojo.EPGMEdge;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Lightweight version of {@link EPGMEdge}. Contains only data necessary for layouting.
 */
public class LEdge extends Tuple4<GradoopId, GradoopId, GradoopId, List<GradoopId>>
  implements SimpleGraphElement {

  /**
   * Position of the ID-property in the tuple
   */
  public static final int ID_POSITION = 0;
  /**
   * Position of the sourceId-property in the tuple
   */
  public static final int SOURCE_ID_POSITION = 1;
  /**
   * Position of the targetId-property in the tuple
   */
  public static final int TARGET_ID_POSITION = 2;

  /**
   * Create LEdge from raw data
   *
   * @param id       Edge-id
   * @param sourceId id of source vertex
   * @param targetId id of target vertex
   * @param subEdges IDs of sub-edges contained in this edge
   */
  public LEdge(GradoopId id, GradoopId sourceId, GradoopId targetId, List<GradoopId> subEdges) {
    this.f0 = id;
    this.f1 = sourceId;
    this.f2 = targetId;
    this.f3 = subEdges;
  }

  /**
   * Construct LEdge from regular edge
   *
   * @param e The original edge to copy values from
   */
  public LEdge(EPGMEdge e) {
    super(e.getId(), e.getSourceId(), e.getTargetId(), new ArrayList<>());
  }

  /**
   * Default constructor. Needed for POJOs
   */
  public LEdge() {
    super();
    f3 = new ArrayList<>();
  }

  /**
   * Gets id
   *
   * @return value of id
   */
  public GradoopId getId() {
    return f0;
  }

  /**
   * Sets id
   *
   * @param id the new value
   */
  public void setId(GradoopId id) {
    this.f0 = id;
  }

  /**
   * Gets sourceId
   *
   * @return value of sourceId
   */
  public GradoopId getSourceId() {
    return f1;
  }

  /**
   * Sets sourceId
   *
   * @param sourceId the new value
   */
  public void setSourceId(GradoopId sourceId) {
    this.f1 = sourceId;
  }

  /**
   * Gets targetId
   *
   * @return value of targetId
   */
  public GradoopId getTargetId() {
    return f2;
  }

  /**
   * Sets targetId
   *
   * @param targetId the new value
   */
  public void setTargetId(GradoopId targetId) {
    this.f2 = targetId;
  }

  /**
   * Get amount of edges that this edge represents. As this edge counts as sub-edge the returned
   * value is always at least 1
   * @return The number
   */
  public int getCount() {
    return (f3 != null) ? f3.size() + 1 : 1;
  }

  /**
   * Get the list of sub-edge ids for this edge
   * @return A list of ids
   */
  public List<GradoopId> getSubEdges() {
    return f3;
  }

  /**
   * Set the list of sub-edge ids for this edge
   * @param edges The new list of sub-edges
   */
  public void setSubEdges(List<GradoopId> edges) {
    f3 = edges;
  }

  /**
   * Add a sub-edge to this edge
   * @param edge The sub-edge to add
   */
  public void addSubEdge(GradoopId edge) {
    f3.add(edge);
  }

  /**
   * Add amultiple sub-edges to this edge
   * @param edges The sub-edges to add
   */
  public void addSubEdges(List<GradoopId> edges) {
    if (edges != null) {
      f3.addAll(edges);
    }
  }
}

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<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Charlotte.Views.Renderer</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />

Charlotte v0.1.0 → Overview → Charlotte → Views → Renderer

        Charlotte.Views.Renderer

Summary

Functions

  The Views Renderer simply encapsulates helper logic for rendering eex templates associated with Controller Actions.

  If a layout is specified then the view content is injected at the @content tag in the layout.

  ```</p>
<pre><code>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <%= @content %>
  </body>
</html>
</code></pre>
<p>  ```

  If no layout is specified (nil) then the view will be rendered as is.

  render/4 should always return content suitable for immediate inclusion in the response body.

Summary
↑

  render(controller_mod, view, bindings, template)

Render the specified view.  If a template is specified then the view content is injected into the @content tag in the layout.  Render always returns a binary

Functions

    render(controller_mod, view, bindings, template)

      (function)
      #
      ↑

  Render the specified view.  If a template is specified then the view content is injected into the @content tag in the layout.  Render always returns a binary.


Convenient table for outdoor use. Top is made of strong wood slats that are hinged inside waterproof fabric. Gear pouch provides a practical place to store cooking utensils and gear when table is set-up and holds frame securely inside the table when it is rolled up. Tubular aluminum legs screw on in seconds.
Opens to a 32 in. square, 28 in. high table.
Folds to 32 in. x 6 in.
Very nice! Very solid table, ez to build it only took a minute. I love how it rolls up for ez storage. I need it for a laptop and work area while traveling and it looks to be perfect. Nothing underneath the table to catch on your knees, the height is perfect for a camp chair or office chair. I did a lot of research and this table looks to be perfect. Campmor shipped quickly!
I love that it is the largest approved table size This is my second time buying this table. I have been using it for Diner en Blanc. I love that it is the largest approved table size.I love how portable it is, and I LOVE that there are no cross hatch supports so I can sit (with knees) under the table. I am 5'11 and when wearing all white, do not want to have to lean into my meal. The set up is easy and it provides a good stable surface. Next year we will be a group of 8 and I will get my third of this table.


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package io.vertx.ext.discovery;

import io.vertx.codegen.annotations.DataObject;
import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;

/**
 * @author Clement Escoffier
 */
@DataObject(generateConverter = true)
public class Record {

  public static final String ENDPOINT = "endpoint";

  private JsonObject location;

  private JsonObject metadata = new JsonObject();

  private String name;

  private Status status = Status.UNKNOWN;

  private String registration;

  private String type;

  public Record() {

  }

  public Record(JsonObject json) {
    this();
    RecordConverter.fromJson(json, this);
  }

  public JsonObject toJson() {
    JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
    RecordConverter.toJson(this, json);
    return json;
  }

  public Record(Record other) {
    this.location = other.location;
    this.metadata = other.metadata;
    this.name = other.name;
    this.status = other.status;
    this.registration = other.registration;
    this.type = other.type;
  }

  public JsonObject getLocation() {
    return location;
  }

  public Record setLocation(JsonObject location) {
    this.location = location;
    return this;
  }

  public JsonObject getMetadata() {
    return metadata;
  }

  public Record setMetadata(JsonObject metadata) {
    this.metadata = metadata;
    return this;
  }

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }

  public Record setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
    return this;
  }

  public Status getStatus() {
    return status;
  }

  public Record setStatus(Status status) {
    this.status = status;
    return this;
  }

  public Record setRegistration(String serviceId) {
    this.registration = serviceId;
    return this;
  }

  public String getRegistration() {
    return registration;
  }

  public String getType() {
    return type;
  }

  public Record setType(String type) {
    this.type = type;
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Checks whether or not the current {@link Record} matches the filter.
   *
   * @param filter the filter
   * @return whether or not the record matches the filter
   */
  public boolean match(JsonObject filter) {
    for (String key : filter.fieldNames()) {
      boolean match;
      switch (key) {
        case "name":
          match = match(getName(), filter.getString("name"));
          break;
        case "registration":
          match = match(getRegistration(), filter.getString("registration"));
          break;
        case "status":
          match = match(getStatus().name(), filter.getString("status"));
          break;
        default:
          // metadata
          match = match(getMetadata().getValue(key), filter.getValue(key));
          break;
      }

      if (!match) {
        return false;
      }
    }

    return true;
  }

  private boolean match(Object actual, Object expected) {
    return actual != null
        && ("*".equals(expected) ||
        (actual instanceof String ?
            ((String) actual).equalsIgnoreCase(expected.toString()) : actual.equals(expected)));
  }

}


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Jeremy Corbyn to join anti-fracking protest to demand immediate ban
Over the weekend, the Labour leader said his party would focus its campaign on the environmental agenda
By Richard Vaughan
Dame Vivienne Westwood, centre, joins anti-fracking protesters at the Preston New Road site (Photo: AFP/Getty)
Jeremy Corbyn will join protesters on Tuesday to demand Boris Johnson deliver an immediate ban on the controversial process of fracking.
The Labour leader warned that fracking, the method of shale gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing underground, will have a damaging effect on the environment.
Green Shoots: i's Guide to Helping the Planet in your Everyday Life
Research published by Labour shows if the UK fully exploited its shale gas reserves, the amount of carbon released would "eliminate any hope of the Government meeting its 2050 net-zero target".
It comes as Mr Corbyn kicks off a summer of campaigning as he puts his party on an election footing amid growing speculation the Prime Minister could call a snap election in the autumn.
Environmental agenda
Jeremy Corbyn has hinted at holding a vote of no-confidence in Boris Johnson
Over the weekend, the Labour leader said his party would focus its campaign on the environmental agenda, and highlighted Mr Johnson had failed to announce any policies to address the "climate emergency".
Labour highlighted comments made by Mr Johnson in 2015 in which he said that global warming was a "primitive fear" that was "without foundation".
How families can tackle climate change by giving up cars as it's 'three times as good as veganism'
The party also pointed to the Prime Minister's newly appointed Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom who was an outspoken advocate for fracking during her time as an energy minister in 2016.
Before stepping down as prime minister, Theresa May changed legislation to commit the UK to having net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Climate change targets
But Labour believes the target would be missed if the UK continues to frack. Speaking ahead of meeting anti-fracking protesters at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site in Lancashire, Mr Corbyn said: "We need urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, and that means the Prime Minister immediately banning fracking. Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now.
"It's the next generation and the world's poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people."
A Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spokeswoman said: "Independent climate experts have recognised that natural gas has a role to play as we meet our 2050 net-zero emissions target."

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Karaage is a Japanese version of fried chicken. It's true that usually Japanese like to eat healthy, but karaage is our guilty pleasure! In fact, it's so popular that some moms even put karaage in their kid's bento box several times a week. Garlic, ginger and black pepper meet soy sauce and sake in a sensory explosion that gives this crispy treat more flavor than most fried chicken recipes. Best of all, you can do it all at home with this simple Japanese recipe.
Besides the ingredients used for seasoning, there are some basic differences between Japanese karaage and American style fried chicken that make it just a bit more yummy. First of all, Japanese karaage uses more dark meat than white, and they also use pieces of the cartilage (nankotsu), that are not normally used in the west. Secondly, karaage is also cut into smaller pieces meant to be even in size and skin-to-meat ratio. This is because of the third difference: a serious marinade.
Smaller chunks soak up the marinade better and make sure it is more evenly distributed. Thus, while fried chicken is seasoned from its outer layer (flour, salt, etc) karaage has flavor from the inside, and less salt on the outside than regular fried chicken. The result is a more tender, juicy and flavor filled creation that is even a bit healthier than western style fried chicken. One bite and you will be hooked! There are many different marinades possible for karaage in Japanese food culture, so also check out our regular karaage recipe.
Make sure you get boneless chicken no matter which parts of the chicken you use. This allows you to cut it into uniform pieces.
If you can't get katakuri powder, you can use potato starch instead to dredge the chicken. This gives the karaage a crispier finish that locks in the marinated flavor.
After frying, lay the chicken on a paper towel to soak up excess oil. It will also help it get dry and crispy.
In a large bowl, mix chicken and the seasoning. Rest it in the fridge for at least one hour.
Sprinkle katakuri powder and mix well.
Carefully fry chicken until done.


Justin Chenette poses outside the Journal Tribune. A Maine Examiner report shows Chenette gave the paper more than $4,500 in taxpayer funds for advertising for his Senate campaign in 2016. Chenette also sells advertising for the paper. The Journal Tribune did not respond to questions about the nature of the advertising or if Chenette was paid a commission for the advertising he appears to have sold to himself. Photo courtesy Justin Chenette's Facebook page.
SACO – Senator Justin Chenette of Saco is fond of making statements about fighting the influence of money in politics or speaking about the improper use of money in Maine elections, but documents reviewed by Maine Examiner raise questions about Chenette's use of taxpayer money for his campaign and the possibility of unethical personal benefits Chenette may have received from his use of taxpayer funds for his State Senate campaign.
Chenette, a first term Democrat Senator, is known for emphatic speeches framing himself as the virtuous watchdog over the interests of the people of Maine and appearing ready to fight any battle that can draw attention to issues of campaign finance, and as a result, to himself.
But documents reviewed by Maine Examiner show that in the 2016 campaign cycle, Chenette used taxpayer funds to purchase advertising from his private sector employer, the Journal Tribune, to support his own candidacy for Maine Senate.
The transactions, discovered in filings with the Maine Ethics Commission, show Chenette purchasing nearly $4,500 in advertising from the Journal Tribune, which bills itself as York County's only daily newspaper. Chenette is the sole Digital Advertising Executive for the paper and has promoted himself as being available to sell customers print, digital and other services at the paper on his personal Facebook page.
Recent online job postings indicate that advertising jobs such as Chenette's at the Journal Tribune are paid a commission on sales.
In total, Chenette spent more than $42,000 in taxpayer funding on his campaign, returning $17.34 in unspent funds to the MCEA fund on November 28, 2016, according to reports available from the Maine Ethics Commission.
The Journal Tribune did not respond to an inquiry about the details of Chenette's taxpayer funded advertising or any commissions Chenette was paid for "selling" advertising to his Senate campaign as a Journal Tribune representative.
Sources speaking on condition of anonymity have indicated they are aware of Chenette profiting from the sale of ads to his own campaign.
Maine Examiner waited three days for an official response before publishing this story.
A review of state laws and ethics guidance for the use of taxpayer money on political campaigns provides instruction to candidates using taxpayer money on avoiding personal benefit from the use of public funds in some cases, but does not appear to specifically address the potential of a candidate being paid a commission for buying advertising from themself at their sales job.
The guidance also does not specifically address the scenario of a candidate paying their employer with taxpayer money unless they are a sole proprietor or top executive of that company.


SWEETWATER, Fl. -- Crews have been working non-stop to reach and recover victims of the bridge collapse at Florida International University. The death toll is at least six, including 18-year-old Alexa Duran, a student at the school. Her car was crushed by the footbridge. Also, 37-year-old Navaro Brown, a bridge worker who was on the span when it collapsed, died. Two of his co-workers are among the nine injured.
The Florida Department of Transportation said someone from the engineering company left a voicemail for the FDOT that the bridge was "cracking" and "obviously the cracking is not good and something's going to have to be, ya know, done to repair that." The employee was out of the office and did not receive the voicemail until Friday, the FDOT said.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at a press conference late Friday that they are not currently aware of cracks in the bridge and they had not received any tips.
Surveillance video shows the moment 950-tons of concrete and steel collapsed, crushing at least eight cars and shearing others in half. Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez announced the search and rescue phase is over. Crews are now trying to recover bodies.
"We expect to find other individuals down there," Perez said. "So what's probably best is we wait to find all the vehicles and we'll give you a grand total of the fatalities and the magnitude of this event."
On Friday afternoon, crews started the risky job of demolition as investigators began their work, which includes looking into reports a stress-test was being done when the walkway collapsed.
"If this is the case, why was the road underneath open during the stress test," said State Rep. Carlos Curbelo.
In a tweet, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio offered this scenario: "The cables that suspend the Miami bridge had loosened and the engineering firm ordered that they be tightened. They were being tightened when it collapsed."
Plans for the bridge included a tower and cables attached to the walkway, but a week ago, the university and its builders celebrated the installation of the pedestrian span and the "accelerated bridge construction" method - partly developed at the school. It involves building bridge components off-site to minimize traffic interruptions and risk.
The purpose of the $14 million project was to provide a safe path over the busy highway after the death of an FIU student last year.
CBS News spoke to Carol Fraga, who was searching for her husband.
"It's very difficult, the waiting is so ... it's nothing I can imagine," she said.
It's clearly very early on and investigators had to wait for the rubble to stabilize before getting a closer look, but they have acknowledged this is a wide ranging investigation and any suspected wrongdoing could lead to charges.


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The Source Of The Nile Decoded 1
in Opinions July 12, 2014
Yet again, a possible answer, of course, is not so much a question of merely locating the source of Life's complexities as utilizing the locational source to tame or domesticate Life, O Great People of the World, if that were indeed remotely plausible. Thus, The Scarab Beetle gathers his scattered friends and leads them on a pilgrimage to The Congo Basin, the largest forest in Africa, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world. Meaning? That implies The Congo Basin finds herself in good company. In hindsight, The Scarab Beetle had wanted his friends to experience the complexities of forest life firsthand. Consequently, they, led by The Scarab Beetle, trip along serpentine paths to the palace of The Iroko Tree, the king of The Congo Basin, for an audience. As it were.
However, in the claustrophobic womb of The Forest they look around timorously with wrinkled faces of skewed astonishment. Suddenly arrows of shock make a dash for the din of their inert hearts, piercing them in moments of indecision. Yet there is no schizophrenia of opinion as regards which direction the sylvan audience should assume. The audience begins in earnest nonetheless. The Dolphin, The Scarab Beetle's totemic sobriquet, does all the talking. But what King Iroko Tree tells them shocks them to the hilt. "Life is not rosy here in the forest either," The Scarab Beetle intimates. "Sometimes The Sun does not reach deep into the pundic abyss of the near-impenetrable forest. And that makes Life unbearable particularly for those of our dwarf siblings."
For far too long, O Great People of the World, The Forest has been a psychological battle-playground for political self-determination. The colonial Lions and Tigers and Hyenas and Anacondas simply did not want to give up their firm purchase on economic and political power. What is more, political scarlet-sins did roam about the place, an already difficult situation not helped by The Brethren's clandestine collaboration with the vampiric Tigers and Lions and Anacondas and Hyenas to frustrate the untiring efforts of The Scarab Beetle's aimed at self-determination. It eventually did come, however. So long. Mriamba Bâ's "So Long a Letter."
Then, opportunely, Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," a literary-sister of The Scarab Beetle's juggernaut-mouthpiece "Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology Decolonization," fatefully materialized on the eve of the momentous arrival of Mariamba Bâ's belated "So Long a Letter," in 1957, Africa's belated spiritual birthdate. In point of fact, the vampiric Anacondas and Tigers and Hyenas and Lions, bestial as they were, turned themselves into blood-sucking Eagles and Crows scavenging for the living- and walking-carcass of The Scarab Beetle's ethno-animal people to devour during those turbulent moments of self-determination! In those days, just before the advent of The Scarab Beetle's political and organizational rootedness in the native soil of the Gold Coast, clouds soaring higher and higher over The Forest perennially appeared tantalizingly sanguine, a harbinger of gloomy tidings.
Yet, O Great People of the World, The Forest, a cloudy jungle, housed selfish political animals, the likes of which was The Brethren. That was The Forest then. But The Forest still lives on today as George Orwell's Animal-Farm in the body politic. Of the Gold Coast, a land of man-made poverty in the abundance of wealth. Those wraithlike reminiscences convulsively coursed through The Scarab Beetle's stilled yet heavily trafficked conscience, O Great People of the World, even as he delivers another apocalyptic punch line−as if on choral cue. He spews a verbal holocaust: "Occasionally we do have dangerous plants, floral or terroristic guests, as we call them, in our narrowly claustrophobic midst. From nowhere. Apparently. These wicked plants choke native citizens of this forest, The Forest, to death. At random. Though. More to the point, though, we are needlessly blamed and criticized whenever we complain of strange incursions into our forest. 'Xenophobic bastards' they have labeled us."
Hey, wraithlike reminiscences, O Great People of the World, you mean? Where is Heathcliff, the Byronic hero of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"? Wraithlike reminiscences! Inferiority complex! Psychological, cultural, spiritual neo-colonialism!
Wraithlike reminiscences, more like Charles Fuller's "A Soldier's Play"! In other words, was The Scarab Beetle not the Charles and David of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me in Old New York," with 'Freddie Johnson' taking on the figurative role of colonialism, of slavery? And 'Snatch' of the slaver, of the colonial master? What a coincidence! In no time the cold hands of pandemonium give under the crushing weight of silence. No hubbub of questions. No storms of protest. No oceans of lachrymose pretense. Just a twinkly blanket of unvarnished silential autocracy. Just flowing tears of naked gaiety. Surprising? Not so evitably! Something must always give, if you like, in The Scarab Beetle's conspicuous presence. The Greatest Gift. The Prophet…Expectedly. Audiencial rhetorical foibles dissolve into a knifelike sharpness of uninhibited spoken community of animality, of animalness. Before long.
Ideally de-colonialism has long been spoken for in the vanishing distance of intellectual and political actualities. Undoubtedly. How so? Let us go on! The palatial audience continues. The Scarab Beetle's perorational narrative goes like this: "Our detractors criticize us for what they believe is floral xenophobia, a legitimate, moral grievance, of course, which they believe is no different from America's anti-immigration policies, xenophobic biases. In fact, exogenous floral guests have turned our floral hospitality into a National Liberation Movement-like slaughterhouse, consequently snuffing the lives out of our floral siblings, our patriotic floral citizens. Exogenous guests such as Giant Hogweed, Garlic Mustard, Invasive Knotweed, and Tansy Ragwort−to name but a few examples−are the major culprits."
Wait. Listen up: Giant Hogweed; General Akwasi Afrifa. Garlic Mustard; K.A. Busia. Invasive Knotweed; The National Liberation Movement (NLM). Tansy Ragwort; J.B. Danquah! The redoubtable National Liberation Movement (NLM)! Poison ivies. Poisonous invasive plants making the usual Machiavellian rounds in the vaginal embrasure of The Forest, a colonized Gold Coast of yesteryear. The emotive stillness of moral stupidity in the sliding motion of mental subnormality. The Brethren's contrived tangentiality of exponentially expanding self-importance dangled on the precipice of de-personalized self-defeatism. Ernest Hemmingway's "A Farewell to Arms" caught between the CIA's femmes fatales and the National Liberation Movement (NLM), the blood-sucking godfather of the Nation of Poisonous Plants (NPP). The Scarab Beetle would have wished The Brethren had closely taken a second look at William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." Obviously death and bloated self-importance are immiscible in the crucible of phenomenology. And what if they had seen Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment"? Call it what you want!
Anyway, who was The Iroko Tree if not The Scarab Beetle? That probably constitutes the fuzzy temperament of The Novel, a psycho-emotional symbol of a nation's character. Yes, the infamous integral misbehavior of the National Liberation Movement (NLM) enjoys a similitude of thematic current with Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" and "The Sicilian," its literary sequel, with K.A. Busia playing Marlon Brando (Vito Corleone) and J.B. Danquah Al Pacino (Michael Corleone). Well, the Mafia, a socio-political tattoo of terrorism. Organized crime. As well, those two diabolical characters, Danquah and Busia, came across as the CIA's high-profiled femmes fatales, anti-heroines, if you will. Yet again, the Danquah Institute's none other than Tony Montana's "Scarface," the Corleone Family, that is. "Why have you not introduced a version of 'Preventing Destruction of Africa (PDA)' or "Preventing Destruction of Animals (PDA)' into your floral kingdom to root out the terroristic guests?" asks The Scarab Beetle, The Novel.
Just quiet, King Iroko Tree. "A Time to Kill." "The Chamber." "The Pelican Brief." "The Client." "The Runaway Jury." "The Testament"…Titular delineations of the National Liberation Movement's diabolic activities. Where is John Grisham? Grisham's "The Brethren" assumes a triumvirate of subversive personalities, of quislings: General Akwasi Afrifa, K.A. Busia, J.B. Danquah…The Brethren, the so-called evil, callous, irresponsible chiefs and kings in Ayi Kwei Armah's "Two Thousand Seasons." Kingly selfishness. Royal opportunism. "Two Thousand Seasons!" so saith Ayi Kwei Armah, a profound writer known for his creative literaryism. Two Thousand Seasons, the number of political scarlet-sins committed by way of the National Liberation Movement's millenarist terrorism.
Suddenly. Just talkative, King Iroko Tree. "It is either 'Preventing Destruction of Africa (PDA)' or "Preventing Destruction of Animals (PDA),'" King Iroko Tree replies, adding: "But since we are neither 'Africa' nor 'Animals,' what exactly do we do then? Besides, the terroristic floral guests will always complain about the PDA's implementation and subsequent execution. The Brethren…Opposed it every step of the way…A political ziggurat of sorts!" The Scarab Beetle, King Iroko Tree. Which is which? D.H. Lawrence writes of The Brethren: "But they had no daytime ambition, and no daytime intellect. They avoided, really, the rational aspect of life. They preferred to take life instinctively and intuitively." Life. The Life here again! Death. The Death, where is it? Daytime intellect, a flagrant absence of critical thinking, of clear thinking, of progressive thinking. On the part of The Brethren. Sinister cognition, of J.B. Danquah, K.A. Busia, General Akwasi Afrifa!
As usual, the palatial audience continues after momentary conversational interregna. On the other hand, someone hints at PDF. "Preventing Destruction of Fools." Rather than at "Preventing Destruction of Flora." The latter being The Scarab Beetle's brainchild, but instead gets ignored. Even rubbished. The history behind the PDA is an interesting one. Of course. As a matter of confused irony, The Feudal Dictators who immediately assumed the office of presidency after having demoralized the nation via their so-called sickly bombast of seismic pretense, had, as it should be expected, early on, blamed the progressive presidency of The Scarab Beetle for introducing the PDA in the new nation to counter, to curb, sort of, their mental backwardness, though, admittedly, it was Chief Justice Sir Kobina Arku Korsah, the Queen of England's representative, not The Dolphin, The Scarab Beetle, whose legislative acceptance of the PDA via royal imprimatur had imbued the PDA with explicit constitutional impetus.
It is also widely acknowledged that "the sickly bombast of seismic pretense" was the handiwork of the Conmen In America (CIA), a powerful organization headed by the Great Kweku Ananse. Importantly, The Dog, J.B. Danquah's totem, headed the local CIA chapter in the then-Gold Coast. It is also quite clear that Busia and Danquah had miserably lost their rusty case in the famous "What Kwame Nkrumah Stole from JB Danquah!" trial, because, again, manifestly, they had spent most of their political time sexually frolicking with the CIA, rather than with doing quality research, a solemn undertaking that should probably have stared them boldly in their facial caricatures with the historic truth, that, among other things, the 1951 Gold Coast Cocoa Marketing Board (Amendment), enacted under the able presidential chaperonage of The Dolphin, The Scarab Beetle, namely, had long since overthrown the hegemonic ignorance of the 1947 Danquah-esque Cocobod, possibly, an orthographic contraction of "cocooned body," a vivid expression describing Danquah's inferiority complex.
The end result is that socio-cerebral hemorrhage and politico-cognitive tuberculosis became the shadowy perquisites of Busia's and Danquah's socio-political promiscuity, intellectual dwarfishness, and emotional tomfoolery. Yet, when the Nation of Little Conmen (NLC), Busia's subversive, umbrageous client, took over the reins of government they immediately replaced the PDA with the Preventive Custody Decree (PCD). Sadly if ironically, three men, Magnus George, MO Kwatia, and EA Maclea, all members of the Conscientious Party of Patriots (CPP), died in the wake of the political implementation of the Preventive Custody Decree. In fact, Busia's party, or government, otherwise called George Orwell's "Animal Farm," would openly admit on October 1, 1969, that the Conscientious Party of Patriots (CPP), led by the visionary leader The Scarab Beetle, had 1377 political prisoners via the PDA as opposed to the Nation of Little Conmen's 1850.
The Hippocrocopig, Busia's totem, even reportedly labeled his rubber-stamp parliament "February 24, 1966—Ghana's and Africa's Day of Shame." The other confused irony is that, contrary to revisionist propaganda, K.A. Busia, R.R. Amponsah, and Modesto Apaloo, proactive animalized members of the main opposition party, an "Animal Farm" clade, had also been members of the parliament that passed the PDA, this, according to Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah; a well-respected international Nkrumah scholar; a Ghanaian political historian. Dr. Botwe-Asamoah even writes in a book "The Noble Lies of Animal Farm Politicians": "And if the PDA had been an undemocratic, dictatorial and tyrannical act, the Governor-General would have thrown it out, and probably dissolved the parliament and dismissed Nkrumah as Prime Minister. The Danquah-Busia gangsters were aware of the constitutional powers of the Head of State, but they simply ignored it in order to blame Kwame Nkrumah and his Government, other than themselves, for the PDA." Unfortunately this rich history is lost to posterity forever. This rich history is called "The Mousetrap"…Where is Agatha Christie?
Now to important matters of today, the palatial audience! The Seven Animal Friends soon realize that Life is not easy anywhere. They bid King Iroko Tree and The Forest goodbye. And take leave of them. Then, O Great People of the World, they retire to The Scarab Beetle's littoral existence where Apartheid, a Pride of Lions, has been anxiously waiting for them. The word "Pride" means "white supremacy" in Afrikaan, a language spoken by "Boers" in South Africa, a word whose existential etymology feeds on "Boa" constrictors. That makes Apartheid a mongrel of Snakes and Lions, a shady team of Busia- and Danquah-esque elements known for its political and intellectual paedomorphism. The Beetle Scarab tells them, The Seven Animal Friends, his own Life Story:
"Ancient Egyptians adored me and worshiped me as a deity," he begins. "In ancient Egypt they worshiped me as a spiritual symbol of regeneration, of rebirth. Or The Circle. Do you have any idea why beetles do not die?" No response. He continues: "In other words, I am the source of reincarnation, of Life itself. Life with me is like The Circle and The Straight-Line I drew on the coast. Both have no beginning. And no end. Indeed that source has kept my legacy alive." The Scarab Beetle then goes on to explain how industrious beetles generally are, even going to extreme extents to bear fecal weights heavier than their weighty selves, undertakings Hercules or Sisyphus could never have dreamt of accomplishing in their lifetimes. "Yes," he continues, explaining further: "We 'eat,' as in the 'E' of Nile, of Life; we eat dung; we also use dung as egg-laying brood chambers. Egg is Life. Which is represented in both Nile and Life as the letter 'E.' We also help Human Beings clean their environments by getting rid of their feces and, directly or indirectly, we contribute to positive health, private and public. Longevity is a natural byproduct of such salutary activities, you know."
"I heard you say 'I am the source of reincarnation, of Life Itself,'" Apartheid recalls, asking again: "And if I may ask, is there any relationship between the 'source' in 'I am the source of reincarnation, of Life Itself' and the 'source' in 'What is the source of the Nile?'"
"That is a simple answer!" says The Scarab Beetle. "'What is the source of the Nile? The source of the Nile is the tributary-letter N."
The room implodes into rhetorical quietude yet again. "What about it?" asks The Cobra, P.W. Botha's totem. There are shuffle of feet, snap of fingers, gnash of teeth, and clang of cutlery set. "What is the letter N for?" The Cobra rephrases his question, looking squarely into the watery eyes of The Scarab Beetle."
"Name. Good Name. A good name comes in a complete package: 'I' for "insight," 'intelligence'; 'L' for 'love' or 'willingness to listen, to 'learn; 'E' for 'equitable,' 'etiquette.' Always remember that Nile is water. And water is Life. Thus, the source of the Nile is simply Good Name. Go for it!"
"A good name does not come cheap!" says The Fox, the shadow of The Scarab Beetle. "It comes in a complete package—hard work, selflessness, critical thinking, philanthropy, condonation, self-reflection, foresight, intellectually bravery, moral uprightness, focus, patriotism, self-love, good attitude toward people of all races, religions, ethnicities, comity, progressive cultures…"
But? But what? But "good name" does not define the moral idiosyncrasy of the sovereign trajectory of today's leadership, Africa's. "Good name" is everything. Holistically everything. Good name is life and death. Life. The Life. Death. The Death. Hopefully, so to speak, "good name" should not be permitted to translate into a psychological bugbear in the cartilage of human socialization…Admittedly Geronimo Akwasi Afrifa is not such a "good name." The name "Geronimo" is a solid symbol of social justice, not of thievery, of ethno-racial inferiority, of senseless greed, of intellectual kwashiorkor!
"Then," begins The Scarab Beetle, adding: "what is in a name?"
The Novel. Ama Ata Aidoo. Juni'chiro Tanizaki. Cheikh Anta Diop. Wole Soyinka. Toni Morrison. Molefi Kete Asante. Shakespeare. Buchi Emecheta. Ayi Kwei Armah. Kofi Awoonor. Dennis Brutus. Jane Austen. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Head Bessie. J.M Coetzee. Tsitsi Dangarembga. Christopher Okigbo. Leo Tolstoy. Chinua Achebe. Herman Melville. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Derek Walcott. Charles Fuller. Lao Tsu. Maya Angelou. Richard Wright. Alexander Pushkin…The greatest writers of all time! The Scarab Beetle!
The Novel. Zeami Motokiyo. Taban Lo Liyong. Catherine O. Acholonu. William Faulkner. Ralph Ellison. James Joyce. WEB Du Bois. James Baldwin. Senghor Sedar Leopold. August Wilson. T.S. Elliot. Gwendolyn Brooks. Alice Walker. Cyprian Ekwensi. Charles Dickens. Peter Abrahams. J.P. Clark. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ishmeal Reed. Joyce Carole Oates. Frantz Fanon. Naguib Mahfouz. Leopold Sedar Senghor. bell hooks. Edith Wharton. Homer…The greatest writers of all time! The Scarab Beetle!
The Novel. Sōseki Natsume. Sembene Ousmane. Ezra Pound. Amiri Baraka. Oscar Wilde. Kahlil Gibran. Ernest Hemingway. Isaac Asimov. Nadine Gordimer. Marcel Proust. Emily Dickinson. Nuruddin Farah. Alex La Guma. Franz Kafka. Ben Okri. Alexandre Dumas. Julio Cortázar. Thomas Mann. Mariama Bâ. Geoffrey Chaucer. Salman Rushdie. Emile and Charlotte Bronte. Victor Hugo. Orhan Pamuk. Camera Laye. Langston Hughes. Kofi Anyidoho. George Orwell. Agatha Christie. Carlos Fuentes. Ayn Rand. Amos Tutuola. William Wordsworth. Virginia Woolf…The greatest writers of all time! The Scarab Beetle!
The Novel. Pablo Neruda. Zora Neale Hurston. Machado de Assis. Edgar Allan Poe. Okot p'Bitek. John Updike. Samuel T. Coleridge. Yvonne Vera. Edward R. Braithwaite. George Eliot. Mark Twain. Sophocles. Albert Cadmus. Mario Vargas Llosa. Toyin Fabola. Francis Marrash. Samuel Johnson. Walter Mosley. Ralph W. Emerson. Paulo Freire. Cao Xueqin. Lu Xun. William Hazlitt. George Bernard Shaw. Juan Rulfo. Vladimr Nabokov. Tu Fu. Cheikh Anta Diop. Noam Chomsky. Walt Whitman. Voltaire…The greatest writers of all time! The Scarab Beetle!
Question: The greatest writers of all time, who is he? Or she?
Answer: The Novel, The Scarab Beetle. A harmonious community of ethno-animal humanity. The Organization of African Unity. Ubuntu. The African Personality. The African Union. The Avoidance of Discrimination Act! Period!
Then! Then what next? The Japanese "haiku," The Scarab Beetle's strategic if economic dispensing with emotional outbursts; an ethno-animal man of clear thinking! The Japanese "kanshi"…Africa's oral literature. Pio Zirimu's orature. Literary oneness. Africa. Asia. Australia. South America. Europe. North America…An unbroken continuum of interlocking consciousness…"The Alchemist." "The Pilgrimage." Where is the world-famous Brazilian writer, the orphic literary-ballpen called Paulo Coelho? Coelho's "Manuscript Found in Accra." Coelho's "The Greatest Gift"…That? The Greatest Gift, The Scarab Beetle…Siamese twins…And so with Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"? The Prophet, The Scarab Beetle…The Novel.
"What is in a good name?" bellows the unpoetic, prosaic voice of Chinua Achebe, of The Scarab Beetle. Chinua Achebe, a protégé-child of Kahlil Gibran, of Lao Tsu, of The Scarab Beetle. "Ah ha! And here it comes, The Voice." It was, even still is, consciously interesting to observe the emotional cyclosis of animate-voice resolve into something else, the vaporific spoken rhetoric of coarse humanness. The Voice of The Scarab Beetle is the authoritative voice of incontinent creativity. The Voice, The Novel. The Scarab Beetle−simultaneously Gibran's "The Prophet," Coelho's "The Greatest Gift," The World's "Greatest African," Millennium Excellence Foundation's "Personality Of The Century," Lao Tsu's "The Way Of Life"…Yet John Grisham's The Brethren, the three CIA's femmes fatales, namely, the political yahoos−General Akwasi Afrifa, J.B. Danquah, K.A. Busia−hates The Voice of D.H. Lawrence:
"And this is because we have frustrated that instinct of community which would make us unite in pride and dignity in the bigger gesture of the citizen…" Where? D.H. Lawrence's essay "Nottingham and the Mining Countryside." Exactly. The abysmal pit of daytime-intellect thinking. Of General Akwasi Afrifa. Of J.B. Danquah. Of K.A. Busia. Collier-thinkers at best…The Brethren. What intellectual niggardliness! Meretricious intellectual and political amanuenses with no jot of moral economy flowing in the blue-blood of their obstipated collier-mindsets…What a tragicomedy! Let all ethno-animal humans, particularly ethno-animal political humans in George Orwell's "Animal Farm," read The Novel, the corpus of written works by The Scarab Beetle.
We shall return…
Francis Kwarteng


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The May 29 national strike and Argentina's economic, political and social crisis
By Rafael Azul
On May 29, Argentine workers carried out a 24-hour general strike to protest collapsing living standards, the closure of factories and destruction of jobs. The work stoppage involved key sectors of the working class, including teachers, and dock and transportation workers, as well as steel, auto and other industrial workers.
This was the largest strike to hit the government of President Mauricio Macri—the fifth since 2015—and came on the heels of one called on April 30. Economic activity in the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs that surround it, home to 15 million people (one third of Argentina's population) was nearly paralyzed. The strike was also widely observed along the industrial belt that borders the Paraná River, in Córdoba, Rosario and other large urban and industrial centers.
With its strike call, Argentina's trade union bureaucracy appeared to signal an end to years of a semi-formal truce with the Macri administration and a turn toward the Peronist electoral campaign of Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for president and vice-president in elections set for October. The reality, however, is that the Argentine trade unions have facilitated nearly 20 years of attacks on jobs and living standards, under both the Macri administration and the Peronist governments that preceded it.
Current surveys of voters strongly suggest that Macri's Cambiemos coalition will not be re-elected in national elections that will take place this October. Conditions of economic implosion that have resulted in plummeting living standards and pensions, increasing unemployment and attacks on working conditions, particularly for the youth, have turned the working class and the sections of the petty bourgeoisie against Macri's right-wing government.
The May national strike was made to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the historic Cordobazo, the working-class rebellion of May 1969 in the industrial city of Córdoba. The Córdoba rebellion, and other urban working-class rebellions, marked the beginning of the end of the bloody Onganía military dictatorship (1966-1970).
Lacking revolutionary leadership, and betrayed by Peronism, Stalinism, Castroism and Morenoism, in 1969 Argentine workers were not able to go further than ridding the nation of the Onganía regime. Within seven years, a far more repressive fascist-military regime was to seize power, killing, imprisoning and torturing tens of thousands of workers.
Last week's national protest strike and all those that have preceded it (under both the corporatist Peronist governments of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez, and the current right-wing Cambiemos administration) have taken the form of cynical rituals, designed to divert the militancy of the working class under the wing of the trade union apparatus and the ruling class.
Harsh government-imposed austerity policies, beginning in 2015 and worsened by a debt deal with the International Monetary Fund, have imposed budget cuts in combination with regressive food, utility and fuel price increases that exceed the rates of inflation with the purpose of shifting resources from the working class and lower middle classes to the Argentine oligarchy and the financial sector, nationally and internationally. Those policies have pushed millions of workers, young people and retirees below the poverty line.
This March, a study conducted by the Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) revealed the urgency of the situation. The report indicated that between 2017 and 2018 "multi-dimensional poverty" (using six criteria to measure poverty: food, health, education, employment and social security, education, and housing) increased from 26 percent to 31.3 percent of households—nearly 13 million people.
Agustín Salvia, who directed the UCA study, pointed out to the Buenos Aires news blog Infobae that "the study indicates a strong increase in multi-dimensional poverty in the context of inflation and economic stagnation. In essence, behind this increase is the collapse of household incomes, due to the fall in wages, increasing unemployment, and more temporary and part time jobs".
Salvia reported that 20 percent of workers do not have steady formal jobs: "This social layer, nearly 20 percent of the population, has been marginalized. While it is offered some monetary assistance, it is denied effective measures of economic, social and human development; measures that are absent from the political agenda and debate."
The UCA numbers paint a devastating picture.
According to the official rate of joblessness, more than 9 percent of the labor force is unemployed. That is only the tip of the iceberg: over 34 percent of workers are underemployed and depend on contingent or temporary jobs, particularly young workers (up from 33.5 percent in 2017).
Six million Argentines, 7.9 percent, do not have enough to eat (up from 6.2 percent at the end of 2017). Another 28.2 percent lack sufficient resources for medical care and medicines (up from 26.6 percent).
The percentage of people living in inadequate housing (including shanties, crowded tenements, or lacking water and sewer services) rose to 27.1 percent in 2018.
The UCA report also raised the alarm in relation to the decay of Argentine education. Children are now denied the right to decent primary and middle schools. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of students go to school hungry every day.
The education crisis is not new; a 2018 statistical study by education historian Rómina de Luca reports that since 2012, under the Kirchner administrations, only 40 percent of seventh grade students complete twelfth grade. While this phenomenon is partially offset by a jump in adult-school attendance, rates of functional illiteracy have increased.
The most affected is the population of the industrial belt that surrounds Buenos Aires, where the rate of "multi-dimensional poverty" is now 41.1 percent (up from 34.9 in 2017). Forty-one percent of school leavers in Greater Buenos Aires are deemed functionally illiterate.
The official trade union federations organized no rallies for the May 29 strike. In Buenos Aires, there were marches into the city itself from the periphery, and confrontations with Buenos Aires police seeking to block the protests.
The demonstrators, many of whom rallied in downtown Buenos Aires, were organized by pseudo-left groups such as the Workers Left Front (FIT), the Workers Socialist Movement (MST) and trade union dissidents; they carried signs denouncing social conditions—one of them read "Macri equals Hunger"—and applauding the "green-wave" of pro-abortion activists that had rallied days before.
These tendencies are proposing the forging of a broad electoral front for the upcoming October elections, laying the foundations for the creation of an Argentine version of the Spanish Podemos or Greek Syriza parties in order to strangle and betray the struggles of the working class.
Workers in Argentina are confronting the same reality as workers across the world, in Venezuela, Mexico, Turkey, the US and Europe: joblessness, unemployment, hunger, and the destruction of democratic rights, which cannot be resolved with national protest strikes, nor with the national reformist programs advanced by the pseudo-left.
In the wake of last week's national strike, the class issues that were raised by the Cordobazo of 1969, and which are posed today in a far sharper form, urgently require building a revolutionary socialist leadership, based on the international unity of the struggles of the working class, to educate and lead the struggles of the working class, to put an end to capitalism and usher in a socialist society.
Toward that goal, the central task in Argentina and Latin America is the building of sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International
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Lien, Donald and Pi-Hsia Hung,* Trading Aggressiveness, Order Execution Quality, and Stock Price Movements: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Exchange May 25-26, 2018, International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hung, Pi-Hsia and Hung-Ju Chen,* Trading Price Ratios and Investment Performance: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Exchange, October 6-7, 2017, ISERD - 246th International Conference on Accounting and Finance (ICAF 2017), Kobe, Japan.
Hung, Pi-Hsia and Chiu-Ting Pan,* The Relaxation of Daily Price Limit and Stock Traders' Order Submission Behavior: Evidence from the Taiwan stock Exchange, October 6-7, 2017, ISERD - 246th International Conference on Accounting and Finance (ICAF 2017), Kobe, Japan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia and Ching-Yang Chen, Brand Visibility, Cash Flow Stability, and Firm Value, June 6-7, 2017, SIBR 2017 Osaka Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Research (SIBR 2017), Osaka, Japan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia, Investor Sentiment, Order Submission, and Investment Performance on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, June 3-5, 2016, International Conference on Business and Information (BAI 2016), Nagoya, Japan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia and Chung-Yueh Lin, Stock Traders' Order Aggressiveness and Investment Performance on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, May 27-28, 2016, International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia and Chung-Yueh Lin, Stock Traders' Order Aggressiveness and Investment Performance on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, March 11, 2016, Global Economics and Management Conference: Business Finance and Enterprise Management in the Era of Big Data (Nantou Session), National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan.
Lin, Lin, Pi-Hsia Hung,* and Pei-Jhen Su, The Role of Outstanding Foundation Awards in Fund Families, July 22-24, 2015, International Symposium on Economics and Social Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Hung, Pi-Hsia and Chun-Heng Lin,* Linear and Nonlinear Economic Exposures of Foreign Exchange Rates: Evidence from U.S. Multinational Corporations, May 21, 2015, Business and Management Academic Conference, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Hung, Pi-Hsia, Man-Yi Ting, and En-Hsin Lin,* Fund Rankings and Family Strategies, July 2-3, 2015, SIBR 2015 Osaka Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research, Ark Hotel, Osaka, Japan.
Lin, Lin, Pi-Hsia Hung,* and Chun Heng Lin, A Revisit to Economic Exposure of U.S. Multinational Corporations, June 5-6, 2015, International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hao, Ying, Pi-Hsia Hung, Kuan-Cheng Ko, and Lin Lin, Residual Momentum and Investor Sentiment, June 5-6, 2015, International Conference of Taiwan Finance Association, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Hung, Pi-Hsia and Chia-Lin Wu,* The Impact of CEOs and CFOs Incentives on Corporate Policies and Performance, December 19, 2014, NTUB Conference of International, Practive and Management, National Taipei University of Business, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lin, Lin, Pi-Hsia Hung,* and Pei-Jhen Su, The Role of Outstanding Foundation Awards in Fund Families, December 11, 2014, International Conference on Management and Application of Technology (ICFEM 2014), Toko University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsiaand Ruey-Shii Chen, Trade Sizes, Order Types, Investor Classes and Informed Trading: Evidence from a Pure Order Driven Market, June 27-29, 2014, International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE 2014), Verona, Italy.
Lin, Lin, Pi-Hsia Hung,* and Pei-Jhen Su, Do Fund Families Take the Discrepancy Strategies toward the Best Fund Awards? May 7-9, 2014, International Conference on Social Science and Management (ICSSAM 2014), Kyoto, Japan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsiaand Yun-Lin Wu, Do Active Stock Traders Create Better Investment Performance? Evidence from a Pure Order-driven Market, May 30 - June 2, 2013, The Economics, Finance, Accounting & Management Research Conference (EFAMR 2013), Honolulu, U.S.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia, Hsiang-Hui Chu, and Yun-Lin Wu, Order aggressiveness of traders: Evidence from Taiwan Stock Exchange, July 3-5, 2012, The International Conference on Business and Information (BAI 2012), Sapporo, Japan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsiaand You-Da Tsai, How does News of the Market Observation Post System Affect Stock Return? Evidence from Intra- and Inter-day Analyses in Taiwan Stock Exchange, September 20, 2011 International Business and Management Education Forum, Pingtung, Taiwan.
Hung,* Pi-Hsia, Ruey-Shii Chen, and Chai-Yang Wu, A Study on the Relationship between Family, Ownership, Institution Share Holdings and Firm Value, May 6-8, 2011, The International Conference on Business, Engineering and Information Technology Management (BEIM 2011), Shanghai, China.
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Hung, Pi-Hsia, 2013, Stock Traders' Order Submission Decision, Market Conditions, Investor Behavior and Investment Performance, National Science Council, Grant No: NSC 102-2410-H-260 -012 -.
Hung, Pi-Hsia, 2012, Traders' Order Choice Decision in a Pure Order-driven Market: Evidence from Taiwanese Intra-day Trading Behavior, National Science Council, Grant No: NSC 101-2410-H-260 -018 -.
補助國內大專院校購置S&P Compustat 企業財務分析資料庫專案, National Science Council, Grant No: NSC 101-2420-H-260 -001 -ED.
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Q: How to make EclipseLink MOXy ignore AspectJ fields? How do I make a bytecode-only Field be @XmlTransient?
When a class is woven by AspectJ, its bytecode (but not its source code) receives an extra injected static field:
private static final org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint$StaticPart ajc$tjp_0;

This extra field is not treated as XmlTransient by  MOXy, and causes an Exception  when trying to create a JAXBContext:
Caused by: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException:
Exception Description: The class org.aspectj.runtime.reflect.JoinPointImpl$StaticPartImpl requires a zero argument constructor or a specified factory method.  Note that non-static inner classes do not have zero argument constructors and are not supported.
- with linked exception:
[Exception [EclipseLink-50001] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.6.0.v20150309-bf26070): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.JAXBException
Exception Description: The class org.aspectj.runtime.reflect.JoinPointImpl$StaticPartImpl requires a zero argument constructor or a specified factory method.  Note that non-static inner classes do not have zero argument constructors and are not supported.]

Possible solutions
According to the EclipseLink MOXy example, it seems that I should be able to make this field @XmlTransient by creating a file called eclipselink-oxm.xml with the content below, and place the file within the directory src/main/resources/META-INF. However, this does not work.
How should I proceed here?
eclipselink-oxm.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
   <xml-bindings
        xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        version="${eclipselink.version}">
      <java-types>
        <java-type name="se.mithlond.services.organisation.model.address.CategorizedAddress">
            <java-attributes>
                <xml-transient java-attribute="ajc$tjp_0"/>
            </java-attributes>
        </java-type>
        <!--java-type name="org.aspectj.runtime.reflect.JoinPointImpl$StaticPartImpl" xml-transient="true" />
        <java-type name="org.aspectj.runtime.reflect.JoinPointImpl" xml-transient="true" / -->
      </java-types>
   </xml-bindings>

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Bethel's local option failed. So, what's next?
Bethel voters have decided that their community should remain wet, for the time being, after the strictest form of local option alcohol control available failed in Tuesday's election. Sponsors of the petition drive that put the proposition on the ballot are disappointed, and are now seeking different options for moving forward. One thing is for certain: legal alcohol sales are still a go in Bethel, though for now there's only a beer and wine store and a restaurant selling alcoholic beverages.
While there is no one currently selling liquor legally anywhere in town, that could change quickly. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had tabled a discussion, and a vote, on the transfer of Bethel Native Corporation's liquor license to Sea Lion Corporation, which owns Swanson's. The ABC board will meet on October 15, and that transfer is likely to appear on the agenda. Should the transfer go through, there would be nothing preventing Sea Lion from going beyond BNC's decision to voluntarily limit sales to beer and wine. BNC decided to limit themselves voluntarily in the months following the denial of Alaska Commercial's liquor store license renewal and its subsequent closure.
Cezary Maczynski is the other liquor license holder in Bethel and currently has a one-year extension from the Bethel City Planning Commission for his plans to comply with parking lot requirements set in place for his proposed liquor store. The license was granted back in April but has been on hold, in part to await the outcome of this local option vote.
How best to move forward is a question that is on everyone's minds, and the next steps are not yet clear. Changes can come either through another type of local option election, or through city ordinance. But an ordinance to limit alcohol sales to beer and wine, like the one proposed this past June by council member Leif Albertson, might make the city legally vulnerable, Bethel City Attorney Patty Burley says.
That means the best path forward could come from another, less restrictive type of local option, such as Type 2, allowing import and possession and restaurant sales, or Local Option Type 3, which would allow the city to run its own package store, such as the one Kotzebue currently operates.


Representatives of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) met in Madrid on February 18th and 19th at the 2019 Perio & Cardio Workshop, to discuss the relationship between oral and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the meeting, sponsored by DENTAID, was to draw conclusions and recommendations for both oral and heart healthcare professionals and for patients.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, while severe periodontitis is the sixth most common chronic condition. Professor Mariano Sanz, Chairman of the EFP meeting assures us that "These two diseases affect many people across the globe, and one of the goals of this Workshop is to describe how periodontal health can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease".
Epidemiological evidence that links periodontitis and cardiovascular disease.
Biological mechanisms that show the increased risk of atherosclerosis in patients with periodontitis.
The effect of periodontal treatment on the risk of atherosclerosis.
The possible cardiovascular risks of oral interventions.
There is a large amount of scientific evidence linking periodontitis and cardiovascular disease. Patients with severe periodontitis are at greater risk of undergoing a heart attack or stroke, especially if they have previously suffered from cardiovascular disease. For example, bacteria in the mouth promote the development of atherosclerotic plaques; severe periodontitis can worsen inflammation in the entire body, which increases the severity of atherosclerotic plaques, and this can block or reduce arterial blood flow both in the heart and in other parts of the body.
"There is ample evidence that periodontal treatment reduces systemic inflammation and other factors indirectly associated with the development of atherosclerosis," according to Professor Sanz, who added, "we hope to reach a consensus on the value of periodontal health in the reduction of cardiovascular risk, especially in patients who have already suffered a cardiovascular event".
Professor Pablo Perel, Scientific Advisor of the WHF, assures us that, "The prevention of cardiovascular disease is one of the main objectives of the WHF. We hope to participate in this important workshop and contribute with evidence-based recommendations in relation to cardiovascular health and periodontology. Prevention is a neglected area in the field of cardiovascular disease, and we will communicate the recommendations from the Workshop to our members around the world".
Meanwhile, Dr Xavier Calvo, periodontist and Medical Advisor of DENTAID, has indicated that, "Most importantly, periodontal disease can be prevented mostly through good daily oral hygiene habits and regular periodontal examinations in the dental clinic. Eliminating this risk factor could bring about a substantial improvement in the management of patients, both at risk of cardiovascular disease, and those who have already been affected by it".
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These courses focused on discovering the characteristics of the oral cavity throughout the different stages of a child's growth and the dental care potentially needed during each of these stages. Some fundamental differences existing with regard to a child patient's dental treatment compared to that of an adult patient were also explained, with a special emphasis on managing a child's behaviour in the dental office.
Dr Xavier Calvo, DDS, Periodontist and Medical Advisor at DENTAID points out that "ineffective care of baby teeth leads to sequelae in permanent teeth, as these may erupt with caries and be affected by a greater risk of gingivitis in surrounding tissues due to tooth malposition, ultimately causing unnecessary pain and discomfort for children".
Children's oral hygiene must begin from the birth, by first cleaning the gums and then the teeth as soon as they first emerge, with specific products. The first check-up with a paediatric dentist is advised before a baby's first birthday, and it is recommended to visit this specialist once a year, or more often, if needed.
EuroPerio9 took place from June 20 to 23, at the RAI convention centre in Amsterdam. This global scientific meeting point served to announce the latest news regarding periodontal health and its impact on general health. The success of this event was reflected in the nearly 10,000 participants from more than 100 countries around the world who did not want to miss the leading event in the sector.
An oral communication: Beta lactamase genes and antibiotic multiresistance in amoxicillin resistant isolates obtained from patients with periodontitis.
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Planning underway for new West Ottawa elementary school
HOLLAND TWP. — With construction but to commence and redistricting conclusions to be made, there is nevertheless a whole lot to be determined for West Ottawa Community School's new elementary college that was involved in the productive 2019 bond.
The district is preparing to start internet site perform for the constructing later this year and participating the community for input on how the university will alter recent in-district boundaries and plans.
A person thing that has been decided, although, is the identify of the school — Riley Farms Elementary. The name is a nod to the planned area of the college — on 120th Avenue involving James St. and Riley St. — and the land's previous use.
"It's on a property that has been a functioning, working farm for a variety of several years," WOPS Superintendent Tim Bearden explained. "There's Riley Ridge subdivision proper there, Riley (Road) is on the north side. We resolved to go with Riley Farms to connect to the house and the home and its supposed use for all these a long time."
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A key query remaining for WOPS in the course of action is figuring out how Riley Farms suits into and improvements the latest district alignment. Conversations include whether to make Riley Farms the ninth elementary in the district, or to have it substitute a single of the eight existing elementary scho and repurpose a further creating.
One particular possibility, Bearden stated, would be transitioning a recent elementary building into an early childhood center.
"We could repurpose an elementary as an early childhood center and open Riley Farms as our new eighth elementary," he reported. "Or, do we open it as a ninth elementary in the district, and if so, what does that mean for the district? To make it monetarily sustainable, we have to be assured of attracting a reasonable range of new students to the district. We haven't manufactured some of those decisions still."
As aspect of answering those questions, the district has been assembly with various groups to assemble enter. Bearden claimed administration will satisfy with elementary school parent-teacher corporation boards up coming week.
The adhering to week, Tuesday, May well 10, the district will host an open up forum for the complete school neighborhood to focus on the redistricting system. It will be held at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria at Harbor Lights Middle University.
Main parts WOPS is seeking for input are how to provide the early childhood demands of the are and how the local community feels about specialised systems this sort of as Spanish immersion and Montessori schooling.
Bearden claimed the district has set a goal of January 2024 for obtaining elementary options finalized and shared with the community, nine months ahead of the opening of Riley Farms.
The initial web page work on the house is anticipated to commence possibly late summer time or early drop, Bearden said. He extra there will be "significant work" to do on the web-site, as the building will be set deep on the assets.
Building will also contain creating a bridge over a compact creek close to the front of the property. The building is at present envisioned to be done in time for the 2024-25 school calendar year.
Bearden observed the developing is currently being intended in a way that lends to out of doors, experiential learning.
"We're seriously enthusiastic about the design," he reported. "I assume it is genuinely flexible, adaptable and it blends properly into the organic landscape of the property."
— Get in touch with reporter Mitchell Boatman at [email protected]. Adhere to him on Twitter @SentinelMitch.
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As obesity grows to epidemic proportions, researchers are trying to halt the trend.
At first, Ahmed El-Sohemy was puzzled by his data—they were the complete opposite of what they should have been. It was supposed to be a straightforward study of cholesterol metabolism in rats and merely replicate the protocol from another, previously published study. El-Sohemy initially assumed the discrepancy had something to do with the rat chow; but, no, he had fed the rats the very same high-cholesterol feed as in the previous study, and the blood levels of cholesterol reflected that. Had he skipped a step? Taken the wrong measurement? He leafed through his lab notes, but, again, no, he had followed the previous study precisely.
This was in the late 1990s, just before the turn of the millennium, and the human genome was a few short years away from being completely sequenced. El-Sohemy (Figure 1) was close to completing his Ph.D. degree in nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, and, as he sat in his laboratory gazing at the rows of cages filled with frenetic rodents, he had a thought: "Maybe it's the rats themselves." Indeed, different types of rats are used for different types of research: the albino Wistar rat is spry and sometimes hypertensive, while Long–Evans rats, although physically identical to Wistars, are a bit more tame and lethargic—a great option for medical and nutritional research. In fact, the study El-Sohemy replicated had used a different strain of rat. Bingo!
Once the human genome was fully sequenced, El-Sohemy realized the impact this discovery might have. "This is definitely the future of nutrition," he remembers thinking. His subsequent studies revealed dramatic differences in nutritional responses between patients with differing genetic profiles—an excess of four cups of coffee per day can either help or hurt you, depending on your genes. Other genes affect satiety, the feeling of being full, as well as energy metabolism and taste. If we could predict an individual's response to particular activities and food choices, perhaps we could more efficiently tackle some of the most pressing health issues we face today, like obesity.
Much of the world has a troubling weight problem that has grown to epidemic proportions. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nearly 40% of Americans are considered obese, the highest percentage to date. This rate is alarming from a public health standpoint because obesity is taxing to the whole body and often leads to serious health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some forms of cancer. Michelle Obama, out of concern about the dramatic rise in the childhood obesity rate, famously launched the "Let's Move" initiative in 2010, declaring, "The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation are at stake." Indeed, the rise in obesity-related diseases has placed what the CDC deems an inordinate financial burden on our public healthcare system, costing upwards of US$147 billion per year in the United States.
El-Sohemy's early work tapped into the budding field of nutrigenomics, the study of interactions between genes and nutrients, and he has since become a leader in the field. Now a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, he sees the outliers in his data as the most interesting—it's the best place to look for biological root causes of health problems, including obesity. An assortment of genes lay the foundations for obesity, and yet others make it difficult to treat individual patients. Some people have carb cravings, metabolizing carbohydrates less efficiently than fat. Some don't respond to exercise or high-protein diets, while others do. "We're identifying many genes that can help us predict whether or not a particular intervention is going to be effective in terms of weight loss," says El-Sohemy. This, he claims, gives patients a leg up in treatment.
In 2011, he started Nutrigenomix, a company that provides individualized recommendations based on a patient's genetic profile gathered from a saliva sample. After one week of processing and screening, a patient receives a comprehensive report based on the most current science, which is interpreted by a licensed dietitian or other healthcare provider. Currently, the company works with over 7,000 authorized providers in 35 countries and provides reports in seven different languages, according to its website.
Some researchers claim this treatment strategy isn't quite ready for prime time. Cristiana Pavlidis, a dietitian at the University of Patras, Greece, and her colleagues write in a 2015 Applied & Translational Genomics paper, "Nutrigenomics: A Controversy," that "research on nutrigenomics and, in particular, obesity is still ongoing." It is their view that "there are steps that need to be considered in order for nutrigenomics to be applied: the genes, the gene/protein network, and the strategy toward the determination of the nutrients' influence on gene/protein expression." El-Sohemy agrees there is more to do on the research front, but, to him, "the future is here." The controversy, he argues, is more an issue for companies like 23andMe, which predict a patient's genetic risk for disease based on incomplete science. However, predicting nutritional outcomes is more straightforward, according to El-Sohemy. "There are hundreds of genetic markers that have been linked to obesity," he says, "genes that affect satiety, genes that affect energy metabolism, genes that affect taste, all having these tiny, tiny individual effects." If you're trying to lose weight, he continues, Nutrigenomix will merely tell you how you're most likely to succeed. And this is all communicated through a healthcare professional who helps relay and explain the results—something other companies don't offer.
Diet and exercise will never do the trick for some obese patients. That makes other strategies necessary. Most solutions that involve a procedure are not only invasive but often temporary—for example, gastric bypass surgery, which shrinks the stomach and reroutes the intestines to lessen a person's appetite, or fat removal procedures like liposuction, CoolSculpting, and laser treatment.
Li Qiang, an assistant professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University in New York, wanted to find a way to tackle problem areas, like love handles or double chins, locally (Figure 2). These areas are typically hard to treat because they contain white fat composed of large, harder-to-burn triglycerides. "It persists, no matter how hard you work," explains Qiang. Brown fat, on the other hand, is composed of smaller triglycerides and also contains a larger number of mitochondria, organelles in cells responsible for energy production and thus fat burning. Qiang had already developed a drug to convert white fat into easier-to-burn brown fat (the fat breakdown process is called lipolysis), but he wanted to figure out a good, noninvasive way to deliver the drug locally to problem areas. He read about a scientist, Zhen Gu, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who had recently developed a patch for delivering insulin, a technology that might also work with his drug (Figure 3).
Together, Qiang and Gu tested their obesity patch on mice, and it worked. "We also found it improved the metabolism of the mice," says Gu. The mice lost 20% of their fat in just a month.
Other new research shows promise as well, such as a potentially new class of drugs to help patients combat weight gain during middle age. Jay Chung, a senior investigator at the Laboratory of Obesity and Aging Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, was curious as to why middle-aged people seem to gain weight, even without changing diet and exercise habits (Figure 4). "Obesity is really age-related for most people. There are a lot of people that are as skinny as a chopstick in their twenties, but become quite heavy at their middle age," he notes. In an effort to tease apart the reasons behind this, he observed an interesting phenomenon in rats: two different types of rats—those bred to be "high-capacity runners" and "low-capacity runners" (or, as Chung refers to them, "marathon runners versus couch potatoes")—had different levels of an enzyme called DNA-PK. Couch potatoes, it turned out, had more of the enzyme than the marathon runners. DNA-PK suppresses another enzyme called ANPK, which is important for the production of mitochondria. More DNA-PK, therefore, means less fat burning. Chung observed the same phenomenon in mice and Rhesus monkeys.
Understanding what makes a person obese is important for reasons beyond vanity or even obesity-related health issues. Understanding the mechanisms that lead to obesity is providing a better sense of the human body in general and how it processes energy. And this only highlights the need to understand our differences. El-Sohemy envisions a world where everyone has a basic understanding of the interaction between his or her genes and the food he or she eats. He has already begun working with food companies and grocery stores to create labels for foods that will help people eat according to their genes. He's also communicated with supplement companies about creating customized supplements based on one's genetics.
In terms of the science, the future is bright. "We're going to be learning more and more how these different kinds of genetic markers affect our requirements for different nutrients and how that ultimately impacts a variety of different health conditions," says El-Sohemy. "Some people have a fatalistic view of their genetics—'it's in my genes, there's nothing I can do about it'— but that's not the case. We're looking at how to work with your genes." There are, after all, many ways to achieve a desired outcome.


Summary: The Asheville of today is a many-splendored thing. It's appeared on numerous "Best of" lists and received countless titles – like "One of the Best Places to Reinvent Your Life," "The Happiest City in America for Women," "The Hippie Capital of the South," "The Best City for Locavores," "The Most Romantic Place in U.S.A. and Canada," and, of course, "Beer City U.S.A." – and combined with its natural physical beauty, it offers many enticing features for newcomers. This week's guest remembers Asheville before all those awards, when it was really struggling to recover from the Great Depression. As a direct descendent of George Washington Vanderbilt, the man behind the Biltmore House, Jack Cecil* and his family have been in Asheville for generations. As we talk with Jack about how Asheville recovered, changed and grew into itself, we hope you'll listen for some of the ways he's learned what it takes to develop communities in the future in a way that lasts. Tune in to part one, and check back on Friday for part two!
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