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A man was killed after Philadelphia police said he was shot while sitting in a car in the Nice Town neighborhood of the city.
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Officers responded to the scene to obtain a report of a person carrying a pistol when they found the 36-year-old victim inside a Chrysler 200 with multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
Police took the victim to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly.
The victim has since been identified as William Elliott.
No weapon was found and no one was arrested. The investigation is underway.
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A Montgomery County neighborhood will finally trade dozens of daily blasts from a train horn for the sound of silence.
The Forest Glen Road railroad crossing in Silver Spring is Maryland's first Quiet Zone. As of Nov. 1, trains will no longer be required to blow their horns as they approach the crossing.
Under a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rule that went into effect in 2005, trains are required to sound their horns when approaching street-level crossings. But the Forest Glen Road crossing, about a quarter of a mile north of I-495, has minimal pedestrian and vehicle traffic and heavy train traffic. The tracks are used by CSX Transportation, Amtrak and MARC commuter trains.
Almost 60 trains a day pass through the road and rail intersection. That's a lot of whistles. Neighbors have been begging for an end to it for years. They are finally getting it.
"Residents living near this at-grade crossing will finally have some noise relief," said Council Vice President Valerie Ervin, who represents District 5, which includes Kensington, Silver Spring, Takoma Park and Wheaton.
Ervin first wrote to the State Highway Administration (SHA) in October 2008 to convey residents' concerns. She was eventually able to get state and federal regulators to agree to the Quiet Zone. County officials note that FRA accident reports show there have been only three vehicle-train crashes at this location in the last three decades. Two of the three crashes (in 1977 and in 1985) involved a vehicle driving around the lowered automated gates. The third accident (in 2000) consisted of a backhoe being struck while working on the tracks.
Still, the FRA cannot designate an area as a Quiet Zone until specific safety improvements are in place to provide the same calculated level of accident risk reduction as a train locomotive horn.
"Safety is paramount at train crossings, and locomotive engineers still have the discretion to use their whistles, even in a Quiet Zone, " Ervin said.
In terms of the required safety improvements, the county has added protection for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers. Lighting and signage near the Quiet Zone have been enhanced. In addition, the County installed new lights above the tracks. A median barrier was installed to keep cars from going around the gates that are deployed when a train is coming. The County's Department of Transportation is planning to put a sidewalk on either side of the tracks to make the area more walkable.
News of the Quiet Zone could make residents of a northeast D.C. neighborhood somewhat wistful. They have complained in recent weeks about being plagued by train whistles at all hours.
FRA safety regulations require that Amtrak test the horns on all 74 of their electric motors, at high and low decibel levels, to ensure the horns are audible. The tests have been conducted as the trains come into the Ivy City yard in the 1200 block of W Street Northeast. In response to neighborhood complaints about pre-dawn awakenings, Amtrak has limited the testing hours to Monday through Friday, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The tests will probably be finished by Jan. 1, said Amtrak spokeswoman Barbara Petito.


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Comparison the Criminal Justice System Between Sweden and
of the Criminal Justice System
Sweden and the United States
Angela Tucker
of Texas at Arlington
prison population in the United States has been an issue for a very long time.
The concern currently is where and how new prisons can be built with respect to
finances and the community. This will only add to the concern of the prison
population in later years. If the United States could look at the current
criminal justice system and compare it to that of another country with a lower crime
rate the United States may learn something that could eventually solve the
problem. The best country to compare it to would be that of Sweden. Sweden has
a population of close to ten million people according to the World Bank and "Sweden
is closing prisons and reducing the prison population" (James, 2017).
To begin, some of the policing
aspects of Sweden are similar to that of the United States. Sweden has an
emergency number of 112, which is just like that of the United States emergency
number, 911. Citizens can report a crime or pass on some information they think
may be helpful to the authorities. The Swedish Police Authority is similar to
that of the United States. There is the police region that is broken down by
regions and is the immediate police response like the United States has the
local patrol officers. The Swedish Police work with other foreign police and
they also work with the European Union to plan strategies to jointly fight
organized cross-border crime. If the United States and Mexico would work closer
together to fight the war on drugs, I believe there would be some improvement
in crime in both countries.
Swedish police are also involved with the development of police agencies in
nearby countries. "In the partner country, the Swedish Police help to create a
police organization that respects and protects human rights, follows the rules
of a state governed by law, and which can be held accountable and prioritize
the needs of the citizens" (Polisen, 2017). The Swedish police
also "participate in peace and security operations as well as
conflict-preventing activities" (Polisen, 2017). Overall the local police in Sweden are
there to "prevent crime, monitor public order and safety, conduct
reconnaissance and carry out criminal investigations (Polisen,
As stated in the Police Act (1984:387). Every year the Government of Sweden
will provide some goals for the police to achieve each year. The National
Police Commissioner will produce a document that explains how these goals are
to be systematized and met as well as mentioning areas that need more attention.
The National Police Commissioner of Sweden is similar to the United States
Attorney General.
Above all, there is the National Operations
Department which has the authority to ensure and enforce that funds and resources
are being used appropriately. This department is also the point of contact for the
Swedish Security Service, Armed Forces and other departments of the like. This
department is also responsible for "coordinating, planning and monitoring the
special efforts undertaken by several authorities against serious organized
crime (Polisen, 2017)." The United States
Department of Justice is similar to the National Operations Department in
Sweden. The Department of Justice includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and other federal law enforcement
agencies. The law enforcement departments of Sweden seem to work closer
together than those of the United States. The Government really invests in law
enforcement not only within Sweden but also with surrounding countries.
with all the training the Swedish Police have and continue to go through, there
will always be crime and criminals to catch. In the United States everyone has
the right to a fair due process and is innocent until proven guilty in the
court of law. The citizens of Sweden also have those same rights. In Sweden
there are three different types of courts; the general courts, the general
administrative courts and the special courts. The general courts include the
district court, the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. The general courts
try both criminal and civil cases. The
general administrative courts include the administrative courts, the
administrative courts of appeal and the Supreme Administrative Court. The
general administrative courts try cases such as Social Services, tax cases,
immigration cases, care for minors and substance abusers. The special courts
include the Labor Court and Patent and Market Courts. "The courts have an
independent status within the Swedish constitution. Neither the Riksdag nor any
other authority may decide how a court should adjudicate in a particular case" (Sveriges
Domstolar, 2017).
United States has many courts which are also broken down but in a different way
than Sweden. Sweden is broken down by the type of case, whereas, the United
States is broken down geographically. In the State court system there are the
local courts, State Appeals court and then the State Supreme Court and
eventually the United States Supreme Court. The Federal court system starts
with the District Courts and then there is the Federal Court of Appeals and
then the United States Supreme Court.
like in the United States, when a person gets caught committing a crime in
Sweden there is a preliminary investigation done. If there is enough evidence
to suggest the person is guilty then a court date will be set. During this day
in court, the prosecutor will speak their case. In the United States, there is
a jury panel made up of citizens that will decide based on the testimony and
evidence if a crime was committed by the accused. In Sweden, lay judges
represent the citizens. They are the ones to decide if a crime was committed by
the accused after hearing the testimony and seeing the evidence. When a decision has been made the lay judges and
chairperson will give their answer and their reasoning behind it. They will
also provide details on how to appeal if anyone chooses to do so. This is
something that the United States should adopt. Some people are so closed minded
it is hard for them to look at the bigger picture which could lead to the truth
and others discriminate. Having someone that sees things in a different way,
such as a judge, will makes things fair. Knowing the reasoning behind the
decision may also lead to new ways in the investigation process. If the lay
judges believe the person is guilty they will provide the punishment that they
believe should come with it. This could include fines, forfeit of property,
community service or imprisonment. It appears everything is on a case by case
basis. The United States does not do things that way. Each charge carries a
certain punishment. Regardless of the circumstances on the case if a prosecutor
is able to sway the jury on a certain charge than the accused will receive the
punishment that comes with it.
a person has been convicted of a crime in the United States that carries a
prison sentence, that person is taken into custody. There are prisons for males
and prisons for females. There are even juvenile facilities. Once in prison, a
person loses a lot of their freedom. Meals are served at the same time every
day and everyone is given a job to do such has laundry or cooking. There is a
lot of down time and some inmates chose to better themselves by going back to
school or learning a new trade. There are programs and volunteer groups that
rehabilitate inmates who want the help and prepare them for life in the free
world. These programs may include drug or alcohol addiction programs. Once time
has been served the inmate is released. Some may be released early due to good
behavior or to finish serving their time in the free world with some
stipulations such as parole. On parole, there are basic guidelines the parolee
will have to meet. This includes living at an approved place with random checks,
maintaining a job, meeting with the parole officer on a regular basis, and
possibly random drug tests.
Sweden, the main focus of prison is rehabilitating. The authorities believe in
treating the problem that an inmate may have. This may include but is not
limited to mental illnesses, drug addiction and alcohol addiction. Sweden
invests in its' prisoners and provides them with the care they need so they can
return to society. "The rehabilitation method is achieved through giving the
inmates sufficient library access, access to university courses, and apprentice
courses in learning a range of skills" (Rehabilitation, Not
Incarceration, 2017). When
a person is released from a prison in Sweden they are able to find a job and
make ends meet. This makes it as if their life on the outside had never stopped.
Otherwise, they'd walk right back into the lifestyle they were living before
and this creates a cycle.
re-incarceration in the United States is extremely high while that of Sweden is
extremely low. Sweden focuses more in their inmates, while the United States
let them do what they want within in reason. If a person in prison in the
United States wants to better themselves then they can do so with the few
resources that are available. That will take a lot of self-dedication to make a
true improvement. In Sweden, the inmates are given more than just resources but
encouragement too. Showing some respect and having a willingness to help
someone can set a person on a whole new path. The guards that are there treat
the inmates with respect. There are stories about the prisons in the United
States and the prison guards are always on their toes because they have no idea
what may happen. The inmates tend to take out their anger on the guards just because
they are doing their jobs of keeping people in line and doing what they are supposed
to be doing.
think one of the biggest reasons for the difference in the incarceration rates
between the United States and Sweden is the Criminal Justice System. In the United
States there are people serving hard time for first time petty offenses like theft,
whereas in Sweden, the lay judges will likely agree on a sentence that is not as
harsh like a fine or community service. There are some major similarities between
the two countries when it comes to the Criminal Justice System. The differences
between the two seem small but show to have a huge result.
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'Prison is not for punishment in Sweden. We get people into better shape'.
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Many people decorate their binders with stickers, washi, clips and drawings. I don't and I never have, though I love looking at decorated binders. I think the ones with themes and colour schemes are really pretty and inspirational but to me they are more like a scrapbook or journal than a planner. I am glad other people like decorating though, because it gives me something pretty to look at and always makes me smile. Many people decorating have real talent, particularly the ones who themes and drawings every day.
Other people want to write as neatly as possible, using the same special pen or pens all the time. This is not for me either.
Other people use their planner to record social time, chores, television programmes. And once again, not for me (which shows how an organizer can be many things to different people, none of them less or more valuable to those who use them). Prettiness makes some people more productive and motivated, though for me scribbles are better.
Mainly because my planner is a tool. That is all. I scribble things with whatever writing instrument I can find and don't care what my writing looks like. I throw my pages away when I am done with them. I need my organizer as a second brain. I literally do not know where I have to be without it. If I lost it I would, quite literally, not know where I was going.
I work as a translator, interpreter, speechwriter, mentor, coach, teacher, social media manager and language consultant. I am in up to eight different places a day and I go by foot.
I do not work in an office. I work out in the field all day most days. When I do work in one place it is because I am translating. Every time I book something it is booked in my calendar and my client's calendar. Then for me I have to book it in two room booking systems, client record system, invoicing system and the client's system.
Above you can see my planner (a custom-designed personal-sized undyed leather binder from Van Der Spek, which I have been in for 8 months solid) and my inserts – Burde Interplano and Interplano Regent week on two page vertical in personal size. I like these because they have the time on each day, which is vital for my scheduling (the Filofax equivalent only has the time on Mondays), and the little blocks of time are perfect for me. I have been using Burde for about ten years now.
The other days you can see I am out in the field all day. I have changes of times, cancellations and new bookings which are all written in on the fly as I move from place to place.
11.30 – 12: Quick lunch at a nearby cafe – I usually don't have time to stop for lunch so I eat on the fly. During lunch I catch up on emails, check Facebook and update my bookings on the electronic calendar my company uses – I do this on my iPad. I also check off completed items from my lists and add any new items. If I have time I make notes of what I did with the client and what they want to do next time. If it is confidential I use TeeLine shorthand.
12.15: Walk to the nearest underground station and catch the train to my next meeting. There is a 20 minute walk from the station and it is icy so I have to plan accordingly.
16.15: Walk to next meeting. Get through reception, to meeting room.
19.30: Play with cats, unpack shopping, do emails, printing and preparation for tomorrow, get outfit ready, work on lists.
Thursday 19th was similar but less stressful as the lessons are longer so I am not running from place to place so often.
and in between I do the same running from place to place, listening to voicemails and updating bookings on the fly.
If you look at Tuesday 27th you can see that I had a few changes and cancellations. In this case I often have to strike through the booking and move things around a bit. I grab whatever pen is near and don't worry about neat handwriting.
I use Burde week on two page vertical layout for my bookings as it gives me an overview of the week. These weeks I had early starts so I did not teach after 6pm. If I am teaching until 9 or 10pm I make sure that that is not followed by a 7am start the next morning. I like Burde as the times are written on each day. Filofax week on two pages vertical inserts only have the times on Monday which means you continually have to scan back to Monday to make sure you have the time right. If I get a time wrong it is disastrous because I have busy people who pay huge sums for my services waiting for me.
At the end of each month I invoice for the hours so it is important that my calendar is correct because I am so busy with so many different things that I cannot remember everything.
I don't use last names or any other detail in my calendar as I work in high security environments with high profile clients.
Once things are invoiced and there are no questions I throw away the pages. I don't keep any of my pages unless they have information I am going to need again. As I throw away pages at the beginning, I add pages at the end.
Sometimes I use the tiny Moleskine, Filofax or Etsy stickers to denote pay days, due days for bills/forms/travel cards. When I am on holiday I sometimes put washi over the pages to show I am not taking any appointments. I do not schedule any 'me' time over weekends, holidays and evenings because I work so strictly with scheduling during working hours.
I walk about 10km a day so I carry no supplies with me apart from spare pens. I usually work for 2 to 2.5 hours when I get home, doing administration and preparation. This I do not schedule as I can choose how I want to do it – relax a bit first and then work or vice versa.
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Hi Janet, thanks so much for showing us how you use your planner pages! I would like to know more about your tasks lists: do you keep them in your binder, or electronically? What categories of lists do you have (for example work and home, or more detailed categories)? Thanks for any info!
I keep my task lists in my binder. I tend to make a list every night for the next day and then scribble things down as they come up during the day. I cross them off each evening and make the list for the next day. I tend to use plain lined notepaper for it. At the moment it is Eurotime. I clear out old notes once a week and transcribe things I have not done yet to a new sheet.
Thanks for the info! Do you have longer-term lists, or just your daily to-do list? I'm interested because I've just changed the way I keep my lists and I'm looking for inspiration.
I have longer term tasks on a separate sheet behind my main daily task list. For a while I had a week on two pages calendar behind my scheduling calendar to carry urgent to dos for each day but I found I was not referring to it enough and therefore missing things. So now I have short term to dos on the front of my task list and the longer term ones at the back.
Great, thanks so much Janet!
Yes of course I remember you! You were the one who explained how the PP Nova system worked and I love it to bits! I even bought a second one!
I had a problem with the 2015 Burde refills in personal size – they were punched too close to the edge. I had to send them back twice before they sent me some that worked. I have not looked at my 2016 ones yet (they are still sealed in their plastic packets) but it will be a pity if I have to send them back too – I should check them now.
Thanks so much and it is lovely to hear from you again!
Not getting paid for the first day you're sick must all but eradicate instances of people taking days off just for the sake of it!
Yes indeed – it was designed to eradicate things like people calling in sick on Monday because they had a hangover.
Hi…I saw this post noted on Facebook and came here. Thank you so much for this post. I don't decorate either very much and have felt like a planner flunkie for that reason. I too am very attached to the tool of the planner. If I leave home without it I am lost…so again Thank You!
Thanks for coming over to say hi!
They are Burde Interplano holed inserts for personal sized. I think right now they may be sold out for 2015 as they only make January – December as far as I can remember. I buy mine from Staples. I will see if I can find more pictures for you.
Absolutely love the pure functionality shown here, that's true beauty.
What planner/organizer is that? It would be perfect for my budget system!
Janet, your weeks are like my weeks! I don't decorate either as it would distract my eyes from my schedule & tasks, plus I don't have time to decorate.
I am tired from reading about your week!!!! I am totally exhausted now and ready for bed!!!!
I write them over the weekends and schedule them to publish at regular intervals during the week. Best blog software feature ever!
Very interesting. I love seeing people's schedule and how they use their planner. I'm surprised you throw away the old pages but I guess that makes sense since the information is entered into a permanent system. I used to work at a law office and all the appointments were done on the computer. But at the end of each month, it was my job to print off all the schedules onto paper for a permanent record. And we actually used those paper records from time to time.
Do you ever find that the weekly pages aren't enough?
Yes I do – quite often – and then I usually use a post-it or an extra page for the day/s with all the extra info written in it.
Yay, someone who doesn't decorate 🙂 but uses her planner the way it was meant to be used. Loved this post. So pleased I found it over on Facebook.
I agree, it's a great post and I love seeing how she uses her planner. But just because someone decorates, doesn't mean they are not 'using her planner the way it was meant to be used'. I heavily decorate, but my planner is every bit a tool for me as this one is to her. It works for me. This one works for her. Why the judging?
I think if you have space and time to decorate, that's good. But mine is full, and I could never find the time to decorate even if I could afford the space. I suppose I do think of it as a working tool, not a fun thing. Though I do like it.
"Like it was meant to be used". What does that mean? Since I use color coding to plan and stickers to keep track of my mood or the weather – that means I'm using my planner the "wrong" way? I don't agree with that.
I know what you mean about the scrap booking thing. I love seeing all the decorated pages people do, but I started using a Filofax about 25 years ago when they were just large diaries, and I wouldn't have the space or time to decorate. If I didn't need a large diary for work, I wouldn't have one. I think I'd use a journal and decorate/illustrate. I'm not sure I'd ever use a diary for scheduling TV and so on. Life's just too short. If I'm in, I'll watch TV if I want, I don't need it in my diary. And I know the dog needs walking, I don't need to write it down. I can remember before I had a job like this, wishing I needed a diary with lots of appointments, but really didn't, just a handful of hospital spots and so on, which worked on a family calendar. Oh for those days back again!
You work like a crazy woman! I hope you love what you. 🙂 Thanks for sharing how you use your planner. Sounds like you have a system all worked out.
I adore my job. But it is very tiring sometimes. That is why I tend to stay at home and potter about when I am free.
i think that's fantastic I don't keep my pages either as most of the last seasons info is so irrelevant. I'm constantly traveling too from designer to designer and everything is also backed upto a main frame.


One is asked to remember but one cannot remember.
Remember Wounded Knee, they say.
Among the clumps of snow, a few blades of grass.
Reading your daughter a story, put your hand to the plaster.
Feel the cold pressing against the wall.
They'd have had only hides.
As if the world bled beneath them.
As if they were bandages pressed to the hemorrhage.
As if they survived on that wound.
Between the bodies of women.
The soldiers stand with their bayonets among the dusted dead.
The puddles cannot find the drain and so freeze.
Bits of garbage in their hair.
I turn on the kitchen tap, the water runs cold.
As my mother did mornings I dressed for school.
See me standing in the cold waiting for the bus.
I am going to learn the history of America.
The color of late December bunchgrass.
Skittering before the spinning blades.
We go to the fence to cut back the bird-dispersed pokeweed.
The shears stained berry red.
Willows are bent for the sweat lodge.
Willows like crooked talking sticks choking from the powdered rain.
Each teacher and politician will assure us exist.
Carrying bags of discarded beer cans to the grocery stores.
Shooting a cashier at the Gas n' Go.
Five glacial blankets and a beaded shawl of snowmelt lakes.
And baked them, and left the oven door ajar.
Once I did a sweat lodge on the reservation.
You may use, I suppose, any number of stones to heat.
Go on stomping the ghost dance forever.
At the noise of your gathering puddle.
Bloody waves fall over us for seven generations or forever.
Are not unlike those that made ground for the dead.
Cramped fingers holding that pose forever.
Cold feathers on the glass.
By summer the sky looks promising.
They could not find the ravine and so froze.
See the tanagers perched in the cold waiting.
They are going to learn the history of America.
And leave tailings over the whole of the Dakotas.
Once I did a sweat lodge in the Oregon forest beneath Seekseekqua.
To burn villages and pumpkin fields.
And wrote in their journals of how fine the land would be for cultivation.
A blind woman they found stirring the sooty dirt with her finger.
A dog hung on a wampum post.
A white child in a field.
Must get tired of crying out with blood.
Reading the story of Wounded Knee, put your hand to the plaster.
Feel the cold pressing against the hide.
Wounded Knee Creek runs cold.
The mind's photographs, willow-thin and brittle.
Pour water over them and they crack but do not bleed.
Sean Patrick Hill is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA program, and the author of three books of poems: Hibernaculum (Slash Pine Press, 2013), Interstitial (BlazeVOX, 2011), and The Imagined Field (Paper Kite Press, 2010). He has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Kentucky Arts Council, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Author photo by Deena Fitzpatrick.


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Donald Trump (R) Earns Racist of the Year Award
He may well be the president America deserves
Dec 7, 2016·14 min read
Okay, the headline is a bit misleading. He didn't become "Racist of the Year." He was dubbed "Person of the Year," by Time Magazine.
But he did that by being the most successful person to divide an entire nation using disinformation, propaganda, biased media coverage, social media technology, racial pandering, secular and religious fear-mongering along with a healthy dose of good old-fashion lying to what has to be the most gullible and vulnerable populace to ever vote for the least-qualified person to ever become president.
While the conversations in moderate and conservative media camps is "give Trump a chance…" I am not among those who feel such a disgraceful character should be given the time of day, let alone the seat of the most powerful nation in the world.
Since the election has declared him President-elect and he has been choosing his own personalized Legion of Doom, a collection of the richest, most enabled predators of the capitalist plutocracy that is 21st Century America has to offer. And where they may lack the affluence, they are more racist than a Klan rally during the Jim Crow era South.
Watching Trump's early pre-presidential status as he caters to racism, old money, the establishment, Wall Street, furthering his own financial status by bring money into his own apartment building in New York, and just about any other fiduciary scheme he can pander to, has dimmed none of the zeal his poorest and least capable voters have for him.
His glamour, his Svengali-like power of charisma which convinced them to vote against their own interest does not seem to be dwindling even as he takes step after step away from the promises he made them. While he hasn't completely backpedaled on all of them, some of his promises seem to be losing their luster, faced with the real intricacies of running a nation. His stance regarding building walls, punishing Hillary, draining the swamp of insiders, prosecuting illegal immigration, and destroying that most evil of legislation, the worst thing to ever happen to America including slavery, the specter of the Affordable Care Act have softened probably out of fear of the responses he might trigger once the realities of his ideas affect the tens of millions of people nationwide.
People who have already begun to suspect he has sold them a bill of goods and he has never intended to do anything but feather his own nest and stick his name across the nation, just like another of his ostentatious hotels that only the very richest can afford to live in.
I suspect when he is done, the nation will look exactly like one of his hotels, gaudy, tacky and awaiting foreclosure. Which brings me to the nature of this particular document.
A friend on Quora asked me to reconsider my stance toward Trump recently because of my feelings on his racist rantings and catering to the White Supremacists as integral members of his cabinet. My friend said if I truly knew the man, there was no way I could say he was racist.
A second friend told me as I was conducting my research that Redditors had already done the legwork and gathered media articles from reasonable sources reporting on behaviors which would make one think Trump may more than a bit "racially-insensitive" and that his behavior had nothing to do with his rhetoric which he claims was just the way to reach his base.
His racist, under-educated, woefully misinformed, FOX news-absorbing base…
Anyway, I took a look at the Redditor's list and was blown away by its depth and completeness. I have no love affair with Reddit but in this case, I have nothing but respect for this work.
Like so many things I post, I don't ask for your belief. I don't ask you to change your mind. I instead ask you to remain open to the idea that none of the people who voted for overt acts of hateful racism, for the religious and cultural subjugation of women, the conversion-therapy of the LGBT community, the elimination of healthcare for millions, the dissolution of Medicare and Medicaid, perpetual warfare overseas, and any number of other Wall Street, Big Pharma, and taxpayer-sponsored shenanigans such as the Carrier plant recently, are aware of just how bad a deal with the devil we have made.
But after you read a number of the following articles, I am convinced you may see the man differently. But if you don't, he was the president you deserved. I just wish the rest of us didn't have to clean up after him and his Horsemen when he's done.
Don't compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.
Before their recent meeting - and I suspect a few times after - Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto compared Donald…
Redditors collection of links refuting Trump supporters claims that he is NOT a racist
"I just heard Trump speak live. I've never before witnessed such a brazen display of nativistic jingoism, along with a complete disregard for economic reality. It was an awesome experience, a perfect repudiation of all good sense and intellectual sobriety.
Since World War II, the ideology he represents has usually lived in dark corners, and we don't even have a name for it anymore. The right name, the correct name, the historically accurate name, is fascism. I don't use that word as an insult only. It is accurate."
— JEFFREY A. TUCKER
Trump security refuses to allow black Muslim woman into event despite her having bought a ticket and being a Trump supporter. Yet let white anti-trump protesters into event. When confronted over the racism security guard says, "If I'm told by Trump's campaign that some people can't come in they can't come in."
http://eoinhiggins.com/here-come-the-brownshirts-lionsguard-militia-the-latest-indication-of-outright-fascism-in-trump-campaign/
When asked for comments on two of his supporters who brutally beat and urinated on a Hispanic homeless man while yelling Pro-Trump Slogans, Trump responds by defending the men as just being "passionate".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/21/trump-says-fans-are-very-passionate-after-hearing-one-of-them-allegedly-assaulted-hispanic-man/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-calls-boston-brothers-who-beat-homeless-hispanic-man-his-name-passionate-1516392
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/20/after-two-brothers-allegedly-beat-homeless-man-one-them-admiringly-quote-donald-trump-deporting-illegals/I4NXR3Dr7litLi2NB4f9TN/story.html
http://gothamist.com/2015/08/20/trump_ugh_enough.php
http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1680630/trump-boston-hate-crime/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3204702/Boston-brothers-viciously-attack-urinate-homeless-Hispanic-man-inspired-Donald-Trump-responds-saying-passionate-supporters.html
A Long List of Prominent White Supremacists Who Support Donald Trump (source)
Until recently, Jared Taylor, one of the country's most prominent white supremacists, had never supported a presidential candidate. "There's been no one worth endorsing," he said. "I mean, was John McCain ever going to do anything useful as far as the legitimate interests of whites are concerned?" But Mr. Taylor believes he has finally found someone who will: Donald Trump. This year, Mr. Taylor's voice could be heard on robocalls to voters across Iowa and New Hampshire, urging them to support Mr. Trump. "We don't need Muslims. We need smart, educated, white people…" Then came Sunday — a banner day for Mr. Trump in the eyes of white-power advocates. In an early-morning social media post, Mr. Trump approvingly reposted on Twitter a quotation from Benito Mussolini ("It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep"). Then, in an interview on CNN, he refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan or David Duke, after Mr. Duke declared his support for Mr. Trump. "God bless this man," exulted the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website. source
How Donald Trump is breathing life into America's dying white supremacist movement: The national organizer for the Knights Party told The Post that the Republican presidential candidate has become a great outreach tool, providing separatists with an easy way to start a conversation about issues that are important to the dying white supremacist movement. source
White supremacist groups see bump from Donald Trump's race baiting; "He has sparked an insurgency," Stormfront founder says. source
Trump has become a champion for the American far-right and their anti-Muslim rhetoric. He makes the mood music to which white supremacists dance. Those with a propensity to violence need an atmosphere in which their views have become normalized, and violence has become considered an appropriate option to action those views. source
White Supremacist David Duke: Trump Has Said 'Some Incredibly Great Things' source
White Supremacist Wants To Name His All-White Town After Donald Trump source
The Nazi Tweets of 'Trump God Emperor': Trump supporters are mounting horrific anti-Semitic campaigns. This journalist spoke of a barrage of hate-filled tweets, including "the image of a smiling Mr. Trump in Nazi uniform flicking the switch on a gas chamber containing my Photoshopped face" and "a path of dollar bills leading to an oven." source
Donald Trump retweets neo-Nazi's insult of Jeb Bush source
US Neo-Nazi Leader Says Donald Trump 'the Real Deal' source
The GOP convention is going to be a white nationalist rally source
Inside A White Nationalist Conference Energized By Trump's Rise source
White Nationalists See Advancement Through Donald Trump's Candidacy source
White Nationalist Party Claims More of Its Members Are Now Trump Delegates source
The Trump campaign just selected a white nationalist leader as one of its delegates in California source
White nationalists back Donald Trump. Super PAC's racist robocalls may be hurting Trump more than helping source
White Nationalists Make Calls For Donald Trump In New Hampshire source
A White Nationalist Super PAC is Campaigning for Donald Trump in Iowa source
It's that time again!
Donald Trump violated the civil rights act by refusing to rent homes to black people.
http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-donald-trump/
http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/donald-trump-blacks-lawsuit_n_855553.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/15/doj-trump-s-early-businesses-blocked-blacks.html
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-death-and-life-of-atlantic-city
Trump continued to refuse to rent homes to black people three years after Justice Department ruling on the matter sides against Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/07/archives/trump-charged-with-rental-bias.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/realestate/for-starrett-city-an-integration-test.html?scp=4&sq=trump+discrimination&st=nyt&pagewanted=all
Trump ordered blacks to leave casino floor whenever him or wife arrives on property.
1991 book written by Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino President quotes Trump as saying:
"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day… . I think the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It's not anything they can control."
http://articles.philly.com/1991-05-10/news/25795529_1_trump-associates-trump-s-atlantic-city-donald-trump
Trump built a casino in black majority city and breaks promise to mayor about hiring locals, refrains to hire the minorities and opting to staff the casino with almost exclusively all Caucasian employees.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/money/trump-hit-race-suit-blacks-don-dealt-casino-jobs-article-1.726389
Trump was asked about replacing TSA's 'heebeejabis' with veterans, responded with:
"We're looking at it"
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/484229621/woman-asks-trump-about-replacing-tsas-heebejabis-with-veterans
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-response-anti-muslim-tsa-worker-question-veterans-2016-7
http://time.com/4039658/trump-obama-muslim/
Trump responded to accusations of racism by hiring a former aid for Joseph McCarthy to sue the government for half a billion dollars.
http://www.salon.com/2011/04/28/donald_trump_discrimination_suit/
Trump kept books of Hitler Speeches by his bed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/318664/trump-and-hitler/
http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-hitler-speeches-book
Trump's campaign Photoshopped a white model black.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-people-almost-definitely-photoshopped-a-white-model-to-make-her-black_us_56d872d5e4b03a405677a680
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/donald-trump-photoshopped-models-to-be-african-american-in-his-online-store/
Trump refused to disavow support from the Klu Klux Klan multiple times during interview only to change his mind later on twitter.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/3739/disgusting-trump-reverses-himself-refuses-disavow-ben-shapiro
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-kkk-cnn-tapper-154053871.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/28/468455028/trump-wont-condemn-kkk-says-he-knows-nothing-about-white-supremacists
http://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/david-duke-trump-219777
The KKK endorses Trump.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/a-lot-of-what-he-believes-we-believe-kkk-grand-imperial-wizard-endorses-trump/
http://www.snopes.com/2016/05/02/klan-leader-endorses-trump/
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/30/3774243/ku-klux-klan-imperial-wizard-endorses-donald-trump-for-president/
Trump retweets message from Pro-Hitler, white genocide conspiracy Twitter account.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-whitegenocidetm-retweet
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430201/donald-trump-retweets-white-genocide-twitter-user
http://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-retweets-white-genocide-account-based-in-jewmerica/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-retweets-neo-nazi-sympathizer-article-1.2506735
Analysis shows that 62% of the people Trump retweeted on the week of January 19th 2016 were white supremacist accounts.
http://www.getlittlebird.com/blog/data-62-of-the-people-donald-trump-rted-this-week-follow-multiple-white-supremacist-accounts
Trump picks famed white supremacist leader as delegate.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/donald-trump-white-nationalist-afp-delegate-california
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45928_Donald_Trump_Picks_Well-Known_White_Nationalist_Leader_as_a_Delegate_in_California
http://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-picks-white-nationalist-leader-as-delegate/
Trump's son gives interview with Holocaust denying radio show host who wants to bring back slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Cesspool#Donald_Trump_Jr._interview
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-son-pro-slavery-host-interview-220120?lo=ap_c1
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/271501-trump-grants-press-credentials-to-pro-white-radio-show
Trump's "my African-American" isn't even a Trump supporter.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/05/480864303/trumps-african-american-i-am-not-a-trump-supporter
Trump gives press credentials to white supremacist radio host.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/donald-trump-gives-interview-pres-credentials-to-white-supremacist/
Trump discriminated against Native-Americans as well.
http://www.courant.com/business/dan-haar/hc-haar-donald-trump-connecticut-indians-weicker-20150810-column.html
Six former contestants of The Apprentice blast Trump as a racist and sexist.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/former-apprentice-contestants-denounce-donald-trump-s-candidacy-n556306
Trumps father was arrested for attacking police officers at KKK rally.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/09/1927-news-report-donald-trump.html
http://addictinginfo.org/2015/09/09/donald-trumps-dad-was-arrested-during-kkk-rally-that-attacked-two-police-officers/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fred-trump-arrest-1927-kkk
Public Policy Polling polls Trump supporters and discovers:
60% Support banning Muslims from entering the United States
50% Support the Confederate flag hanging on the capital grounds
30% Support shutting down all mosques in the United States
30% Wish the South won the civil war
25% Islam should be illegal in the United States
25% Support the policy of Japanese Internment
20% Support banning homosexuals from entering the United States
10% Say Whites are a superior race
(11% aren't sure one way or another)
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_SC_21616.pdf
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/one_out_of_three_trump_voters_in_sc_would_ban_gays_from_entering_the_u_s
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/02/guess-how-many-donald-trump-supporters-want-gay-people-barred-from-entering-america/
Trump refuses to condemn violence against Muslims and African-Americans committed by his supporters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0WM0RJ
http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/trump-refuses-to-condemn-violence-at-his-rallies
The Economist polls Trump supporters and discovers:
15% disapprove of slavery being abolished (Another 20% aren't sure one way or another)
50% support the use of torture on foreign enemy combatants (Another 25% aren't sure one way or another)
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/ctucuikdsj/econToplines.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-supporters-for-intolerance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2
http://time.com/4236640/donald-trump-racist-supporters/
80% of Trump's supporters claim to have no problem with racist comments.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/12/8o-percent-gop-voters-trumps-racist-comments-totally-fine.html
Trump falsely claims 4 out of 5 white people who were victims of homicide were murdered by blacks.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/23/donald-trump/trump-tweet-blacks-white-homicide-victims/
Trump believes that Mexicans are rapist by default.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi33KkhKRWs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/
Trump tweeted an anti-semitic tweet likely depicting Hillary jewish.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-star-david-225058?cmpid=sf
https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.tfw8osmNX
The HRC David star tweet turned out to originate from a neo-nazi website.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DC_GOP_2016_TRUMP_TWEET?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-s-star-david-tweet-about-hillary-clinton-posted-n603161
Trump retweets quote from Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini.
http://time.com/4240330/donald-trump-benito-mussolini-quote/
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-retweets-post-likening-him-to-mussolini/
Trump uses picture of Nazi soldiers in official campaign poster.
https://news.vice.com/article/donald-trump-just-tweeted-and-deleted-a-picture-featuring-nazi-ss-soldiers?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
https://i.imgur.com/JDqBCXd.jpg
Trump's spokesman, Katrina Pierson, criticized Obama for being "a negro" and not "pure-breed".
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/29/katrina-pierson-donald-trump-spokeswoman-defends-t/
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/top-trump-official-defends-call-for-pure-breed-president-obama-is-a-half-breed-and-so-am-i/
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/266845-trump-spokeswoman-defends-pure-breeds-tweet
Opinions of his supporters
20% of Trump's supporters think that freeing the slaves was a bad thing. http://time.com/4236640/donald-trump-racist-supporters/
65% of Trump's supporters think Obama is a Muslim. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/05/gop-quickly-unifies-around-trump-clinton-still-has-modest-lead.html#more
64% of Trump's supporters think that "Muslims should be subject to more scrutiny" http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/trump-supporters-differ-from-other-gop-voters-on-foreign-policy-immigration-issues/
Trump supporters are more likely than supporters of other Republican candidates to have negative feelings towards feminists, Muslims, Latinos, Gays and Lesbians, and Transgender people. In contrast, Trump supporters have far warmer feelings towards whites than supporters of other candidates. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-voters-versus-republicans_us_573b0ec0e4b060aa781b32ce
Trump's "Muslim ban" is unconstitutional.
http://time.com/4139476/donald-trump-shutdown-muslim-immigration/
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/12/08/is-trumps-proposed-ban-on-muslim-entry-constitutional/
https://reason.com/blog/2016/03/03/donald-trump-enemy-of-the-constitution
Trump thinks that Muslims should wear "special ID badges", as well as having a database tracking muslims.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/trump-crosses-the-nazi-line-maybe-muslims-should-wear-special-id-badges/
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/20/opinions/obeidallah-trump-anti-muslim/
Trump lies about how "Muslims celebrated 9/11".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_us_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/22/donald-trumps-outrageous-claim-that-thousands-of-new-jersey-muslims-celebrated-the-911-attacks/
Trump wants to racially profile to "prevent criminality".
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN0Z50PV
http://fortune.com/2016/06/19/trump-racial-profiling/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/19/donald-trump-proposes-racial-profiling-gun-control-nra
Trump had a full-page ad promoting execution of a group of Latino and Black children, who later turned out to be innocent.
Trump continued to believe that they were somehow guilty dispite the DNA test.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/central-park-five-donald-trump-jogger-rape-case-new-york
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/donald-trump-and-the-central-park-five
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/325982969040879620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He believes that Obama was born in Kenya.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/07/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-president-obamas-grandmother-cau/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us/politics/donald-trump-obama-muslim.html?_r=0
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate
He attacked Judge P. Curiel for his "Mexican heritage"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-keeps-up-attacks-on-judge-gonzalo-curiel-1464911442
http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2016/06/30/greenpeace-more-dishonest-and-dangerous-than-the-mafia/#18d6cc541f44
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/no-judge-curiel-not-biased-against-donald-trump
Anne Frank's relatives thinks that Trump is 'acting like Hitler'.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anne-franks-step-sister-says-donald-trump-is-acting-like-hitler-a6838531.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/anne-frank-donald-trump-adolf-hitler/index.html
Trump was fined $200,000 in 1992 by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement for not allowing blacks or women onto his casino floor while a racist Mafia leader was gambling.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/donald-trump-scandals/474726/
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/downashore/Trump-ties-to-mobster-racist-casino-policies-resurface-in-new-report.html
Trump kicked the only black Republican official out of an Atlanta Trump event with no explanation.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/black-georgia-gop-official-booted-from-atlanta-trump-event-with-no-explanation/
So many lies, so little time: Investigate the horrors of the Person of the Year…
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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Q: Embedding into adjunction space without closedness assumption Let $A$ be a subspace of a space $Y$, and let $f:A\to X$ be a continuous map. Then we can form the adjunction space $X\cup_f Y$. It is well-known that the natural map $X\to X\cup_f Y$ is a (closed) embedding (for example, Embedding into Adjunction space.), if $A$ is closed in $Y$.
My question is, Is the map $X\to X\cup_f Y$ an (not necessarily closed) embedding even if $A$ is not closed in $Y$? This seems true because the quotient map $X\cup Y\to X\cup_f Y$ doesn't identify any two distinct points in $X$. But I can't prove that this is indeed true.

A: Let $q:X\sqcup Y\to X\cup_f Y$ be the quotient map and let $C\subseteq X$ be any closed subset.  Note that since $f$ is continuous, $f^{-1}(C)$ is closed in $A$, so there is a closed subset $D\subseteq Y$ such that $D\cap A=f^{-1}(C)$.  Then $C\sqcup D\subseteq X\sqcup Y$ is a closed subset.  Note moreover that $C\sqcup D$ is saturated with respect to the quotient map $q$ because $D\cap A=f^{-1}(C)$.  Thus $q(C\sqcup D)$ is closed in $X\cup_f Y$, and its intersection with the copy of $X$ in $X\cup_f Y$ is just $C$.  Thus $C$ is closed in the subspace topology on this copy of $X$.  Since $C$ was an arbitrary closed subset of $X$, this proves the map $X\to X\cup_f Y$ is an embedding.

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Q: @After annotation doesn't work with parameters in Play! Framework with Scala module I'm encountering a problem with interceptors in Play! Framework (1.2.3) with Scala module (0.9.1).
I have a following code which should run whenSuccess method after invocation of 'index' method, but it doesn't happen.
@After(only=Array("index")) def whenSuccess = {println("I'm a hero")  }

def index={
     Html('Hello world')
 }

 def returnXML = {
     Xml("<helloinfo>Hello world in XML</helloinfo>")
 }
 ...

whenSuccess is not invoked when i specify 'only' parameter. without any param it works, but i want to restrict it to happen only when 'index' method fired.
May be I'm doing something wrong?
Many thanks for advises!!!

A: @After doesn't seem to work at all (@Before works, though). I found this ticket with an open pull-request:
https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/74274/tickets/24-after-controller-interceptor-doesnt-work Milestone is set to 0.9.2.


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Q: JMS JPA concurrency issue on Websphere App Server 7, EJB 3.0, OpenJPA EntityExistsException Use case is a Device sending JMS messages with GPS info processed by a MDB. If a Device doesn't exist in the database then it is created/inserted and the GPS record created/inserted. Everything works fine when messages are handled as they are sent. The issue occurs when messages from the same device build up and are processed within miliseconds of each other. There seems to be a race condition of one JMS message process inserting an entity inbetween the time that another JMS process checks for the entity (and it does not exist) and attempts to insert the entity (and it is already there).
The process is attempting to insert the Device entity multiple times because at some point the process finds no record exists. The following exception is thrown because the record has been inserted by a previous message being processed. I've tried changing the IsolationLevels to every value up to SERIALIZABLE with no luck. Any ideas would be much appreciated! WAS 7, OpenJPA 2.0.2, EJB3.0
[8/30/12 11:14:01:319 EDT] 0000002a RegisteredSyn E   WTRN0074E: Exception caught
  from before_completion synchronization operation:
  <openjpa-2.0.2-SNAPSHOT-r422266:1295351 fatal store error>
  org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityExistsException: The transaction has been
  rolled back. See the nested exceptions for details on the errors that occurred.

Caused by: <openjpa-2.0.2-SNAPSHOT-r422266:1295351 fatal store error>
  org.apache.openjpa.persistence.EntityExistsException: ORA-00001:
  unique constraint (SPW_OWN.PK_DEVICE) violated

SSB snippet doing the process:
                Device device = deviceManager.findDeviceByDeviceI(deviceString);

                //check to see if device entity exists
                if(device == null){
                    Log.logDebug(this, "device " + deviceString +" is null");

                    device.setDeviceI(deviceString);

                    //tried both create and update with no luck
                    //deviceManager.createDevice(device);

                    deviceManager.updateDevice(device);
                }

JPA SSB:
@Action(Action.ACTION_TYPE.UPDATE)
public String updateDevice(Device device) throws Exception {
    EntityManager em = getEntityManager();
    try {
        device = em.merge(device);
    } finally {
        em.close();
    }
    return "";
}

Doing some testing i have found a decent work around though I'm still not 100% satisfied. Any other suggestions will be welcome:

*

*Set the JMS MDB in a Bean Managed transaction type and keep the other subsequent SSBs in Container mode so that I can still have the actual data operations Container managed for rollback.

*Set a programmatic threshold in the MDB to retry and process the message X amount of times.

*Catch the EJBTransactionRolledbackException (caused by the EntityExistsException) when the SSB is invoked

*Retry to process the message again using the threshold (in my case the second time was successful because the previous transaction was committed and the retry found that the entity exists and sucessfully processed the message)

*I set my threshold programatically to try and process the message twice before sending it to an error queue.

I don't normally like to use exception catching as a control flow. I also imagine there is a way to keep the JMS MDB as Container Managed transaction and have the Java EE server re-process the message.


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May 1 The Bloodless Woman: Is it healthy to skip your period using birth control?
When was the last time you had a period? Most women can answer this question without hesitation, easily recalling the moment their last period began. With the help of new applications, they know how long it lasted, how heavy it was, and whether they experienced any side effects like cramps, bloating or mood swings.
But despite being the proud owner of a fully-functioning vagina and uterus, I have a hard time answering that question. For the past six years, I've been using birth control to skip my periods, ignoring the week of sugar pills and starting my next pack of pills right away. At this point, I've been doing it for so long that I literally can't remember the last time I had a period.
And that's fine with me. As a teenager, my periods were heavy and horrible, a source of pain, embarrassment, and crippling migraine headaches that lasted for days on end. These symptoms were curbed slightly when I started taking birth control at sixteen, but I still dreaded the first Sunday of every month when I'd have to start worrying about leaking tampons, cramps and feeling emotionally off. So when my doctor in college told me it was fine for me to skip them if I wanted, I took her advice and never looked back.
My current lack of a monthly bleeding cycle isn't exactly something I advertise, but when the subject does come up, people almost always react in one of two ways: women usually express casual jealousy ("Ugh, that must be SO nice!") and men typically tell me what I'm doing is "unnatural" or "unhealthy."
I find this gendered difference striking. As a feminist, I have to wonder: why are some men so hostile to the idea of a woman without a period? Although the men who feel the need to express these concerns are never medical experts, I've found myself getting caught up in their panic. "You won't be able to have kids!" exclaimed one ex-boyfriend, who was set on the idea of marrying young and having babies, like, yesterday. "Aren't you worried about getting cervical cancer?" asked a friend from my college work-study after he falsely assumed my bad mood was due to "being on the rag." "That CANNOT be good for your body," chided a casual acquaintance when he overheard a conversation between myself and a female friend.
Sure, I've had five separate doctors prescribe me the same birth control regime, and none of them have ever told me I needed to worry about these kinds of side effects. But I'll admit I don't know enough about the way birth control works to intelligently put these mansplainers in their place, and while my go-to response of "Oh! I didn't know you were a licensed gynecologist! Please, tell me everything you know about how hormonal birth control affects the female body!" usually shuts them up, I thought it was about time for me to educate myself on what, exactly, is going on inside my lady parts on a day-to-day basis. Here's what I found.
The Doctors Weigh In
I spoke with two OB-GYNs, Dr. Renee Cotter, who runs a practice in West Hills, California and also writes about women's health on her Well Woman Blog, and Dr. Teresa Tam, who runs a private practice in Chicago and is currently the president of the Chicago Gynecological Society. They both assured me that the practice of using birth control to skip my period is completely safe.
When you're on birth control, the period you get isn't a real period at all, it's what Dr. Cotter calls "withdrawal bleeding." The pill provides you with a daily dose of the hormones estrogen and progestin (a synthetic version of the hormone progestogen), which stop you from ovulating, because on a normal cycle, high hormone levels mean you've already produced enough eggs. When you get to the sugar pill week, your hormone levels drop, signaling to your body that it's time to flush out the uterine lining that would build up during a normal cycle. But when you're on birth control, there's not much there to get rid of.
"The pill keeps the lining thin the whole time, so there's nothing to clear out," said Dr. Cotter, explaining why periods are noticeably lighter and shorter for women on birth control, and why some women don't get them at all—even if they don't skip the sugar pill week.
So if you're on birth control, why do you have a period week at all? John Rock, the co-creator of the pill, was a devout Catholic who wanted the Church to sanction the use of hormonal birth control. In an effort to get them to see the pill as a "natural" contraceptive akin to the rhythm method, he developed a 28-day cycle that kept monthly menstruation steady in an effort to appease the Church. Sadly for Rock, the Church couldn't be convinced, and to this day they still condemn the use of the pill. Basically your monthly period, if you're on birth control, is only a thing because Mr. Rock decided it should be. It's not medically necessary.
There is no correlation between the continuous use of birth control and infertility.
This was a relief for me, as I've found "but you won't be able to have kids!" to be the piece of unsolicited advice most often chucked at me—despite the fact that I rarely (if ever) tell these people whether I even want children. For the record, I would like to have kids one day, but there are plenty of women out there who don't ever want to be pregnant, so these comments reek of sexist assumptions and standards about what women's bodies "should" be for. No one ever watched Jackass and worried about whether or not any of those groin hits would keep Steve-O from reproducing. But I digress.
Both Dr. Cotter and Dr. Tam told me that being on continuous birth control would not negatively affect my fertility.
"There is no correlation between taking birth control and infertility," said Dr. Cotter. "If anything, being on birth control can actually improve fertility. Women who take birth control are less likely to have endometriosis, a condition which causes infertility in about 15 percent of women. In fact, this condition is often treated with birth control."
When I do want to get pregnant, I won't have to wait long.
I was under the impression that, since I've been taking the pill continuously for six years, it would take me a while after going off birth control to be able to conceive. My impression was way off.
"We used to tell patients to wait three to four months after being off birth control before trying to conceive," said Dr. Tam. "But that is no longer the recommendation since there's evidence that ovulation could return almost immediately after stopping oral contraceptives."
Dr. Cotter echoed Dr. Tam's advice. "You can get pregnant right away no matter how long you've been on birth control," she said. "It leaves your system within two to three days and you usually start ovulating pretty quickly after that."
I now have a renewed appreciation for the daily birth control reminder alarm on my phone.
Birth control has been shown to reduce the risk of certain forms of cancer—and potentially increase the risk of others.
I've heard conflicting advice on this subject, and as these days everything from deodorant to Diet Coke has been deemed cancer-causing, it was hard for me to sort out the truth from the fiction. Dr. Cotter laid it out for me:
"Birth control does not prevent cervical cancer," she said. "Cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease, caused by HPV, and women who use birth control may actually be more likely to contract this virus, because they're less likely to use condoms during sex. What birth control DOES help out with is ovarian and endometrial cancer. Women who use birth control for five years or longer typically see a 25 percent reduction in their risk of developing these cancers, which is amazing."
Don't be afraid to ask your practitioner for clarification if you're confused.
I mean, it took me six years to actively look for answers to my many questions about the way my body is affected by birth control. And Dr. Cotter told me she gets questions like mine all the time.
"There's a lot of misinformation out there. I hear this all from my patients too, but at the end of the day if you're a healthy non-smoker without a history of blood clots or high blood pressure, you can safely be on birth control up until the age of 55."
The fact that it took me so long to seek out clarification on this issue is perhaps a result of the way society sweeps women's health issues under the rug. Despite being brought up by a highly feminist mother who did her very best to instill within me a sense of pride and ownership over myself, I still managed to internalize the idea that periods, birth control, and the inner workings of my female body were somehow shameful. I was so embarrassed when I got my first period that I didn't tell anyone—not my mom, not my best friends—for months. When I wanted to start having sex as a teenager, I went in secret to the doctor and paid for the birth control prescription on my own, even though my mother told me to come to her if I ever wanted or needed to go on it. I was empowered with choices and body-positive education, yet I still felt shame and confusion, and this is a problem.
My experience with hormonal birth control has been overwhelmingly positive, but the pill can cause serious side effects--from mood swings and weight gain to life-threatening blood clots--in some women. They're rare, but every body reacts differently to the synthetic hormones in birth control, so it's extremely important that we feel comfortable enough to discuss these issues, both with our doctors and our friends. There is actually a growing movement (headed by women, no less) which seeks to empower women with alternatives to hormonal birth control. Some women don't want to disrupt their natural cycle, and some just don't feel like themselves when taking a daily dose of hormones. This movement focuses on natural contraceptives, like Natural Cycles, a fertility tracking app which uses a daily thermometer reading to pinpoint the days when you're most likely to get pregnant, and providing education on how to best use condoms, diaphragms and the rhythm method.
Hormonal birth control works for me, and I like being able to stop my period, especially now that I know it's healthy for me to do so. But I see nothing wrong with flooding the market with other options, especially if those options help women become more aware and in control of their own bodies. What I've learned from my research into how my birth control method affects my body is that I'm not alone. Women need to feel comfortable discussing these kinds of things out in the open, and we need to be empowered with enough knowledge to know what's best for each of us individually. The first step to figuring that out is getting over any lingering fear, embarrassment or shame about our bodies and just asking the right questions. Once you have the answers, life is a lot less scary.
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6 Fun Financial Facts About Thanksgiving
Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November every year since 1863, but how much do we really know about this fall tradition? Sure, you're likely aware that the holiday's roots can be traced back to a shared meal between pilgrims and Native Americans. You've come to understand that you'd better show up hungry given the autumnal bounty that always awaits. And you probably realize that there's football to watch all day if you can fight tryptophan's sleep-inducing powers. But there's a lot more to the story than that.
Here are a few Thanksgiving money facts to chew on if you need some entertainment (or at least a distraction from extended family) this year.
1. $670 million: The monetary value of turkeys killed for Thanksgiving each year. That's based on an estimated of 46 million turkeys killed, the average Thanksgiving turkey's 16-pound physique and the 91 cent-per-pound going rate for whole frozen turkeys, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. And, by the way, the death toll includes the understudy to the turkey pardoned at the White House each year (since 1989).
2. $48,052: The average household income in the four U.S. towns that have Turkey in their names: Turkey Creek, Ariz.; Turkey Town, N.C.; Turkey Creek Village, La.; and Turkey City, Texas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That's 36 percent less than the $74,596 earned by the average American household.
For what it's worth, the median house in a Turkey town is worth less than half as much ($78,800) as the median house nationwide ($175,700).
3. $50.11: The average cost of a 10-person Thanksgiving meal, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Unfortunately, the five or so hours of exercise that it will take to burn off the 4,500 calories consumed by the average person (3,000 from the meal and 1,500 from snacking and drinks), according to the Calorie Control Council, figure to be worth even more.
In fact, five hours is worth at least $73, according to the Stanford University economists who peg the value of a year at a minimum of $129,000.
4. $299.60: The amount spent by the average Thanksgiving weekend shopper in 2015, according to the National Retail Federation. That accounted for almost one-third of the average person's whole holiday budget ($953), and the timing was no coincidence. Nearly one-third of Thanksgiving shoppers said they were motivated by sales and promotions.
Despite the discounts, it's important to keep spending under control during the holiday shopping season. Americans racked up more than $52 billion in debt during the final three months of last year, according to WalletHub's quarterly credit card debt reports, and we're expecting an even bigger buildup this year.
5. $2.06: The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline last Thanksgiving, when nearly 90 percent of Americans who traveled at least 50 miles from home drove to their destinations, according to the AAA. This marked seven consecutive years of growth when it comes to holiday travel. And if historically low gas prices have anything to do with it, Americans are in for something similar this year.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas, at $2.17 as of Nov. 14, is only 5 percent higher than the cost during Thanksgiving 2015 and more than 30 percent less expensive than it was three years ago. Just make sure to be careful if you decide to take a road trip this year, as more traffic fatalities occur around Thanksgiving than any other holiday period. An average of more than 505 such deaths happened each Thanksgiving from 1995 through 2014, according to the National Safety Council.
6. $28 million: The amount of property losses caused by home cooking fires each Thanksgiving, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Home cooking fires are actually three times more common on Thanksgiving than the typical day, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
What does that say about how often we eat home-cooked meals? Well, the average person spent roughly $7,023 on food in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and about 43 percent of that ($3,008) went to "food away from home."
At the end of the day, most Americans are thankful for the basics: family, both their health and our relationships with them. So enjoy your time off with those you love. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Blockley Mystery Plays
"This triumphant new version of the medieval Coventry Mystery Plays was as professional as any amateur production can be, ensuring that Blockley left the old Millennium in spectacular fashion." Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard, 1999
"….a wonderful production which is really worth seeing." The Cotswold Journal, 2004
Medieval m ystery plays began to be performed in the 1200's and were performed outdoors. The plays were written in verse and taught Christian doctrine by presenting biblical characters as if they lived in medieval times. The plays were performed by local amateur casts recruited from the trade guilds and were often rich with comedy.
On Dec 28th, 29th and 30th, 1999, the North Cotswold village of Blockley celebrated the turn of the millennium by presenting a production of the New Testament section of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
A cast and crew of fifty local amateurs laboured for over a year, raising finance, making costumes, building sets and transforming the local parish church into a theatre in order to present the plays for just three performances.
In 2004 the community repeated the trick with an outdoor performance of the Old Testament.
This website is a record of what they did and how and why they did it.
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Good luck – I used to love watching the MYSTERY PLAYS in Lichfield [Cathedral] some years ago now !
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This was the most sublime production I've ever been involved with. Thank you Blockley
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One may "make certain impressions upon the mind of a certain person, whom a certain set of men have been doing their utmost to betray into his grandfather's errors."
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Raised on a farm in Nebraska surrounded by an animal-loving family, I fell in love with the canine kind and became a dog trainer at age nine. With my parents' encouragement, I earned a BA in design and a BS in biochemistry.
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Take exit 281 for HWY 2 East/HWY 395 North towards Newport/Colville and Division St.
While headed north on Division/Ruby turn right onto E. Sharp Ave.
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Parking for visitors are on garage levels 2-4.
For parking at McCarthey Athletic Center, continue on Cincinnati St.
Take exit 282 for Trent Ave/Hamilton St/290 E. (Exit 282A if headed west on I-90).
While headed north on Hamilton turn left onto Boone Ave.
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Sneak preview–Orphan Black Season 2 coming soon to BBC America
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It was borg.com's pick for the best TV series of 2013, and our pick for the best performance by anyone in any TV series in years, Tatiana Maslany. BBC America just released the preview for Orphan Black Season 2, and it looks like we can expect more of the incredible intrigue that caught our attention last year. And even more Maslany playing several clones. And better yet, more Maslany playing clones posing as other clones. No other actor has the opportunity to practice such a broad range of roles in one project.
If you like great special effects, look no further than Orphan Black for that, too. The interactions between Sarah and the other clones will have you forgetting they're all played by the same performer.
Check out this preview for Orphan Black Season 2:
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Revisiting a classic scene from Miracle on 34th Street


Take us into your hearts; love us as we love you. You have nothing to fear. We have hurt no one, ruined no one, swindled no one. 3 I am not writing these things to condemn you, as I said before. Our hearts embrace you, so we stand beside you whether facing life or death. 4 I am completely confident and incredibly proud of you. Even in all this turbulence I am at peace—I am overflowing with joy.
5 When we came into Macedonia, we were completely worn out—under attack from every angle—nagging opposition on the outside, our own nagging fears from the inside. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, brought us comfort when Titus arrived from Corinth. 7 We were relieved, not just to see him, but because he told us how he was encouraged to learn about your longing, your grieving, and your continued enthusiasm for me. So these were all more reasons for me to rejoice!
Jesus said blessings come out of mourning (Matthew 5:4). The very thought is ridiculous to some; but from Paul's perspective, God uses weaknesses and is present in pain. This truth is revolutionary. In the midst of suffering, the mourner abandons pretense and self-consciousness. There we meet God and one another in honest ways that open the doors to redemption when we are willing.
God chose a people for Himself—a people that make up a body, bound together in a covenant. The forces of this world seek to divide and isolate, but God seeks to unite and reconcile. We must all learn to serve one another and hold our self-interests in abeyance to find a greater good in community.
The believers in Corinth were struggling to find unity and harmony in their local church. Some were living selfishly by eating all the food at their common meals or emphasizing issues that create division in the community. For Paul it was not enough that they learn to live well with one another, although that was important. They had to know they were part of a larger body—they belonged to the churches in Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, and the new frontier of Christianity. We are also part of a global church. What would happen if the church would begin to live this simple truth and generously share all it has with our brothers and sisters across the globe?
8 I knew you would be upset with my last letter, but I do not regret sending it. If there were times I did have second thoughts, it was because I could see that the letter did hurt you, even if only for a while. 9 Now I am glad—not because it caused you grief but because you were moved to make a permanent change[a] that can happen only with the realization that your actions have gone against God—I'm glad to know you suffered no long-term loss because of what we did. 10 Now this type of deep sorrow, godly sorrow, is not so much about regret; but it is about producing a change of mind and behavior[b] that ultimately leads to salvation. But the other type of sorrow, worldly sorrow, often is fleeting and only brings death. 11 Look at what is happening among you! Notice how authentic and diligent you have become because this godly sorrow has been at work in your community. But there's more: your desire to clear your name, your righteous anger, your respect, your longing, your zeal, and your concern for justice. All these demonstrate how you have been made clean. 12 So when I wrote my last difficult letter, it was not to comfort the victim or confront the perpetrator—it was to stir up your sincere devotion for us under God's watchful eye. 13 In the midst of all that has happened, though it has been difficult, we are comforted and encouraged. When we saw the relief and joy on Titus's face, we celebrated even more because his spirit had been totally refreshed by you. 14 Now if I have bragged in the past about you to Titus, I have nothing to be ashamed of. Just as we've spoken the whole truth to you, I'm glad to know that our boasts to Titus about you have proven true as well. 15 His love for you overflows even more as he recalls your obedience and how you respectfully and somewhat nervously, with fear and trembling, took him in. 16 I have great joy now because I have great confidence in you.


We were pretty excited when we were asked to participate in the blog tour for FROSH: First Blush by Mónica B. Wagner. This is a New Adult title, and there are definitely some steamy moments, but it's not too explicit.
FROSH: First Blush is the first book in a new series by debut author Mónica B. Wagner, and we are definitely in for the rest of these books! Four main characters whose lives are intertwined try to make their way through college and "real" life. The characters were realistic and the their romances were sweet and steamy.
This story is told in multiple Points of View, which we loved. Each of the characters had separate, distinct voices. We don't want to give too much away about the characters and who they end up with, but we really liked all of them. We were instantly smitten with Grant because hello! cocky quarterback, but there was definitely something that we loved about nerdy Charlie. We loved the pacing and the way the stories played out.
There were a few things that we didn't love, starting with the cliffhanger. We know that's spoilerish, but we would want someone to tell us. I mean, ugh. The other thing is–and we know this is just our personal preference–but we would have really really preferred this book to be in first person. Like we said before, the characters had distinct voices, but we just really wanted first person POV. It would have made so much more sense for the format of this book.
With complex, relatable characters and fun, realistic storylines, FROSH: First Blush by Mónica B. Wagner is a must-read for New Adult lovers.


Ferries from Swinoujscie travel north to the port of Ystad in Sweden with Unity Line or Polferries, and to Trelleborg with TT Line Ferries. All Swinoujscie ferries can be booked quickly and easily with AFerry.
Below you can find Swinoujscie ferry times, as well as our best deals.
Facilities onboard TT Line ferries include bars and restaurants serving a varied selection of freshly made delicacies, different types of cabins furnished to the highest standards, lounges with panoramic views of the Baltic Sea, various entertainment and leisure facilities and duty free shopping.
Swinoujscie (meaning "the outlet of Swina") is located the north western Poland at the mouth of river Swina opening into the Baltic Sea. Swinoujscie is situated mainly on the islands of Uznam, Wolin and Karsibor unlike any other Polish city. The island of Uznam is the town's main tourism island well known for fashionable spas and bathing resorts including salt springs and therapeutic mud baths.
If you catch a ferry from Swinoujscie, visit the fabulous Spa Park which is 170 years old, a neo gothic "Stella Maris" church famous for its picturesque stained glass windows, the tallest lighthouse on the Baltic Sea and many other fine resorts spread across the town's islands.
Swinoujscie ferry port is the largest and modern ferry terminal in Poland providing passenger and freight sailings to many destinations. Swinoujscie ferry terminal is equipped with all the facilities for the passengers.
The ferry port of Swinoujscie is well connected to the European route E65 running across from Sweden to Greece. The road connections to the port of Swinoujscie are very good from both within Poland and from Germany, just across the border.
From Szczecin, drive on road no.10 for 7 miles and turn right onto S4/E28 and drive for about 17 miles. Then take road no.3 or E65 and drive 37 miles to Swinoujscie - Wolin until you reach the city centre and follow the signs to the ferry port.
From Berlin, drive on E28 all the way to Szczecin and follow the above directions from Szczecin.
Swinoujscie has four railway stations, on Wolin Island with regular regional connections to Szczecin and long distance connections to other Polish cities. The railway station is just minutes away by foot from the port and general rail links are very good. The Odra Railway connects Szczecin and Swinoujscie with western and southern Europe.
Whichever company you choose for your Swinoujscie ferry journey, you will find booking easy and straightforward with AFerry.