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Q: Maven: non-parseable POM when using jenkins Hi I'm new to jenkins & nexus so, I'm trying to push the jar file to nexus. but when I building the job I'm getting the error like this:
The project  (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\job5\pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR]     Non-parseable POM C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\job5\pom.xml: Duplicated tag: 'repository' (position: START_TAG seen ...\r\n\t... @47:14)  @ line 47, column 14 -> [Help 2]
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.scmgalaxy.mavensample</groupId>
  <artifactId>yoodle</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>5.0.0</version>
  <name>my-maven</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<properties>
  <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>attach-javadocs</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
    </build>

<distributionManagement>
    <repository>
        <id>sample_nexus</id>
        <url>http://localhost:8081/repository/sample_nexus/</url>
    <layout>default</layout>
    </repository>
    <repository>
    <id>maven-releases</id>
    <url>http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-releases/</url>
  </repository>
  <snapshotRepository>
    <id>maven-snapshots</id>
    <url>http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-snapshots/</url>
  </snapshotRepository>

</distributionManagement>

A: Your POM file is not a valid XML file. The error message hints on a duplicate repository tag.
The <distributionManagement> section specifies where your Maven artifacts should be uploaded. You can have only one repository section in here. Otherwise, it's not clear to which repository the generated artifacts should be uploaded.
Try to remove one of the repository sections from the POM and re-run the Maven build.


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Credits for The Gryphon Trio
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929, Op. 100 / II. Andante con moto
Ensemble/Orchestra
Divertimento in B flat Major K. 254 / I. Allegro assai
Divertimento in B flat Major K. 254 / II. Adagio
Trio in G Major K. 496 / I. Allegro
Trio in G Major K. 496 / VI. Variation 3
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929, Op. 100 / I. Allegro
Divertimento in B flat Major K. 254 / III. Rondeau – Tempo di Menuetto
Trio in G Major K. 496 / II. Andante
Trio in G Major K. 496 / IV.Variation 1
Trio in G Major K. 496 / V. Variation 2
Trio in G Major K. 496 / VII. Variation 4
Trio in G Major K. 496 / VIII. Variation 5
Trio in B flat Major K.502 / I. Allegro
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929, Op. 100 / III. Scherzo: Allegro moderato
Notturno, Piano trio in E-flat Major, D. 897, op. post. 148 / I. Adagio
Trio in G Major K. 496 / IX.Variation 6
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929, Op. 100 / IV. Allegro moderato
Piano Trio in D minor, Op.49 / I. Molto allegro ed agitato
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Trio in G Major K. 496 / III. Thema
Trio in B flat Major K.502 / II. Larghetto
Trio in B flat Major K.502 / III. Allegretto
Trio in E Major K.542 / I. Allegro
Trio in E Major K.542 / II. Andante grazioso
Trio in E Major K.542 / III. Allegro
Trio in C Major K.548 / I. Allegro
Trio in C Major K.548 / II. Andante cantabile
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 / I. Allegro
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 / II. Adagio cantabile
Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3 / I. Allegro con brio
Piano trio No. 1 in B-flat, D. 898, Op. 99 / II. Andante un poco mosso
Trio in C Major K.548 / III. Allegro
Trio in G Major K.564 / I. Allegro
Trio in G Major K.564 / II. Thema (Andante)
Trio in G Major K.564 / III. Variation 1
Trio in G Major K.564 / IV. Variation 2
Trio in G Major K.564 / V. Variation 3
Trio in G Major K.564 / VI. Variation 4
Trio in G Major K.564 / VII. Variation 5
Trio in G Major K.564 / VIII. Variation 6
Trio in G Major K.564 / IX. Allegretto
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 / III. Scherzo (Allegro assai)
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 / IV. Finale (Presto)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3 / II. Andante cantabile con Variazioni
Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3 / III. Menuetto (Quasi Allegro)
Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3 / IV. Finale (Prestissimo)
Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2 / I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2 / II. Largo con espressione
Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1 No. 2 / III. Scherzo (Allegro)

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After living in your home for so many years you may think it's time for a change. For some people this means buying a new home, but that can be avoided. Remodeling your kitchen may be a great way to give your home that new feel you've been wanting.
Some homeowners don't know if they really need to remodel their kitchen. If you're one of them then you should continue reading to learn the things that will show you your kitchen needs to be remodeled. If any of the things mentioned below apply to your kitchen then you should consider remodeling your kitchen.
If any part of your kitchen is falling apart, or is about to fall apart than it may need to be remodeled right away. For the most part falling apart is defined as cheap quality, breaking apart, and showing severe signs or wear and aging. When something is falling apart not only is usually ugly to look at, but it could also be a major safety risk. You should at least take the time to repair the items that are falling apart.
If you're beginning to get bored of the look of your kitchen then remodeling should be considered. Remodeling your kitchen will give it a completely new look and feel. You can make it fresh, exciting, and more modern. Even if you decide to remodel just a part of it your kitchen will look significantly newer.
If you have a lot of excess money saved up and your kitchen is beginning to look dull and old, why not freshen it up by remodeling it. For most people remodeling their kitchen is a major financial hole, but if you have the extra money why not put it to good use? Especially if your kitchen is in bad shape. Make sure you don't over do it and only take on a project you're willing to fund.
If any of the three things mentioned above applies to you or your kitchen then it may be time to remodel your kitchen. It's a big decision so make sure you make the right choice, and don't rush your choice.
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In January, Halff led a three-day public visioning session, which included input from the public, as well as stakeholders and city committees. The aim was for Halff to take that information when drafting the plan.
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Kakuzi issues profit warning
Kenyan avocado producer Kakuzi has issued a 'procedural profit warning', predicting a drop in full-year earnings due to lower production and exports of avocados.
The notice was issued as per the Capital Markets regulatory requirements and stated that the firm's earnings would be at least 25 per cent down on the year ended 31 December 2020.
According to Kakuzi chairman Nicholas Ng'ang'a, earnings were impacted by lower yields, as productive orchards entered their bi-annual production cycle, leaving the firm's international orders far in excess of available volumes.
In addition to the alternate bearing phenomenon, Kakuzi was also affected by lower market prices in Europe due to significantly higher volumes from Peru and Colombia and a drop in consumption as a result of Covid-19.
Ng'ang'a relayed the Board's direction to management to accelerate the firm's strategy of diversifying its products and markets, including enhancing domestic sales.
'The strategy aims to mitigate the global market volatility and over-reliance on the flagship export product,' Kakuzi stated.
Ng'ang'a said that such a strategy had been vindicated by the solid performance of Kakuzi's other crops and revenue streams, not least the macadamia business.
'As a responsible listed entity, we are taking this early opportunity to issue the profit warning notice, which is also consistent with the half-year earnings statement and commentary issued in August last year,' Ng'ang'a said.
Kakuzi revealed that the issue of alternate bearing was being addressed through effective canopy management strategies on the company's mature avocado crop.
The company also has a new immature avocado development of around 373ha, which is expected to further mitigate yield risks in the coming seasons.
Kakuzi commented: 'As part of the diversification strategy, Kakuzi has enhanced its forestry, blueberry and livestock production. The firm has also ramped up its legacy crop production with its avocado and macadamia production capacity, with several recent investments valued at more than KSh100m (€774,000). Land preparation for a new avocado crop is also underway in a crop area previously under pineapple production.'


text:
<?php

namespace Tugel\TugelBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Template;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Cache;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormError;

use JMS\Serializer\SerializationContext;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

use ssko\UtilityBundle\Core\ControllerHelperNT;

use Tugel\TugelBundle\Form\SearchType;
use Tugel\TugelBundle\Form\SimpleSearchType;

use Tugel\TugelBundle\Entity\Package;
use Tugel\TugelBundle\Entity\Platform;

use Tugel\TugelBundle\Model\PackageManager;
use Tugel\TugelBundle\Model\AbstractPlatform;
use Tugel\TugelBundle\Util\Utils;

use Elastica\Client;
use Elastica\Index;
use Elastica\Type;
use Elastica\Document;

class DefaultController extends ControllerHelperNT {

	/**
	 * @Route("/", name="home")
	 * @Template
	 * @Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function indexAction() {
		return array();
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/search", name="search")
	 * @Template
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function searchAction(Request $request) {
		if (!$request->query->has('q'))
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('home'));
		$q = $request->query->get('q');

		if ($request->query->has('platform'))
			$q .= ' platform:' . $request->query->get('platform');

		$pm = $this->getPackageManager();
		$query = $pm->parseQuery($q);
		$results = $pm->find($query, $request->query->get('c', 10), $request->query->get('page', 0) * $request->query->get('c', 10));

		/*foreach ($pm->lastResponse['hits']['hits'] as &$hit) {
			unset($hit['_source']['namespaces']);
			unset($hit['_source']['classes']);
			unset($hit['_source']['combinedTags']);
		}*/

		$params = array(
			'results' => $results,
			'query' => $query,
			'el_query' => $pm->lastQuery,
			//'el_response' => $pm->lastResponse,
			'time' => $pm->lastQueryTime
		);
		return $this->render('TugelBundle:Default:search.html.twig', $params);
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/suggest", name="suggest")
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function suggestAction(Request $request) {
		if (!$request->query->has('q')) {
			return false;
		} else {
			$q = $request->query->get('q');
			if ($request->query->has('platform'))
				$q .= ' platform:' . $request->query->get('platform');
			$pm = $this->getPackageManager();
			$json = $this->container->get('serializer')->serialize($pm->find($pm->parseQuery($q), 10, 0, true), 'json', SerializationContext::create()->setGroups(array('name'))->setSerializeNull(true));
			return new Response($json, 200, array('Content-Type' => 'application/json'));
		}
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/suggest_prefetch", name="suggest_prefetch")
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function suggestPrefetchAction(Request $request) {
		$pm = $this->getPackageManager();

		$platforms = array_map(function($v) { return 'platform:' . $v->getName(); }, array_values($pm->getPlatformManager()->all()));
		$languages = array_map(function($v) { return 'language:' . $v->getName(); }, array_values($pm->getLanguageManager()->all()));

		$items = array_merge($platforms, $languages, array('platform:', 'language:'));
		foreach ($languages as $a)
			$items[] = $a . ' platform:';
		foreach ($platforms as $a)
			$items[] = $a . ' language:';
		foreach ($platforms as $a)
			foreach ($languages as $b)
				$items[] = $a . ' ' . $b;
		foreach ($languages as $a)
			foreach ($platforms as $b)
				$items[] = $a . ' ' . $b;

		$transformer = function($v) {
			return array('name' => is_array($v) ? join(' ', $v) : $v);
		};
		$data = array_map($transformer, $items);

		return new Response(json_encode($data), 200, array('Content-Type' => 'application/json'));
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/search.json", name="search_json")
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function searchJsonAction(Request $request) {
		$groups = array('Default');
		if (!$request->query->has('q')) {
			$result = array(
				'success' => false,
				'message' => 'Missing query',
			);
		} else {
			$q = $request->query->get('q');
			if ($request->query->has('platform'))
				$q .= ' platform:' . $request->query->get('platform');

			$pm = $this->getPackageManager();
			$query = $pm->parseQuery($q);
			if ($request->query->has('g'))
				$groups[] = strtolower($request->query->get('g'));
			$results = $pm->find($query, $request->query->get('c', 10), $request->query->get('p', 0) * $request->query->get('c', 10));

			$result = array(
				//'success' => true,
				//'query' => $query,
				//'results' => $results,
				//'el_query' => $pm->lastQuery,
				'el_response' => $pm->lastResponse,
			);
		}

		$json = $this->container->get('serializer')->serialize($result, 'json', SerializationContext::create()->setGroups($groups)->setSerializeNull(true));
		return new Response($json, 200, array('Content-Type' => 'application/json'));
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/info/{id}", name="info", requirements={"id"="\d+"})
	 * @Template
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function infoAction(Request $request, $id = null) {
		if ($id == null)
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('home'));
		return $this->renderInfo($request, $this->getPackageManager()->getPackage($id));
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/info/{platform}/{package}", name="info_named", requirements={"package"=".*"})
	 * @Template
	 * -@Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function infoNamedAction(Request $request, $platform, $package) {
		//echo "$platform\n$package\n"; exit;
		if ($platform == null || $package == null)
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('home'));
		$platform = $this->getPackageManager()->getPlatformManager()->get($platform);
		return $this->renderInfo($request, $platform->getPackage($package));
	}

	public function renderInfo(Request $request, Package $package) {
		if (!$package)
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('home'));

		// Get total tags based on classes and namespaces
		$tags = Utils::splitTags($package->getClasses() . ' ' . $package->getNamespaces());
		arsort($tags);

		$params = array(
			'platform' => $package->getPlatform(),
			'package' => $package,
			'tags' => $tags,
		);

		if ($this->container->getParameter('kernel.environment') == 'dev' && $request->query->has('q')) {
			$pm = $this->getPackageManager();
			$query = $pm->parseQuery($request->query->get('q'));
			if ($request->query->has('g'))
				$groups[] = strtolower($request->query->get('g'));
			$results = $pm->find($query, 1);

			$client = new Client(array('host' => 'localhost', 'port' => 9200));
			$index = $client->getIndex('tugel');
			$type = $index->getType('package');
			$document = $type->getDocument($package->getId());

			unset($pm->lastQuery['size']);
			unset($pm->lastQuery['from']);
			unset($pm->lastQuery['explain']);

			$path = $index->getName() . '/' . $type->getName() . '/' . $document->getId() . '/_explain';
			$response = $client->request($path, \Elastica\Request::GET, $pm->lastQuery);
			$params['explain'] = $response->getData();
		}
		return $this->render('TugelBundle:Default:info.html.twig', $params);
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/stats", name="stats")
	 * @Template
	 * @Cache(expires="+1 hours", public=true)
	 */
	public function statsAction() {
		return $this->getPackageManager()->getStats();
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/about", name="about")
	 * @Template
	 * @Cache(expires="+1 days", public=true)
	 */
	public function aboutAction() {
		return array();
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/log")
	 */
	public function crawlLogAction() {
		$html = '';
		//$html .= '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">';
		$html .= '';
		$html .= '
' . $this->tailFile(WEB_DIRECTORY . '../var/logs/tugel.log', 1000) . '
';
		$html .= '';
		return new Response($html);
	}

	/**
	 * @return PackageManager
	 */
	public function getPackageManager() {
		return $this->get('tugel.package_manager');
	}

	/**
	 * @Route("/form_test", name="form_test")
	 * @Template
	 */
	public function formTestAction(Request $request) {
        $builder = $this->createFormBuilder();
        $choices = array('choice a', 'choice b', 'choice c');
        $form = $builder
            ->add('submit2', 'submit', array('attr' => array('formnovalidate' => true)))
            ->add('submit3', 'submit', array('attr' => array('formnovalidate' => true)))
            ->add('text1', 'text', array(
                'constraints' => new Assert\NotBlank(),
                'attr' => array('placeholder' => 'not blank constraints')
            ))
            ->add('textarea', 'textarea')
            ->add('email', 'email')
            ->add('integer', 'integer')
            ->add('money', 'money', array(
                'currency' => 'EUR',
            ))
            ->add('money2', 'money', array(
                'currency' => 'USD',
            ))
            ->add(
                $builder->create('sub-form', 'form')
                    ->add('subformemail1', 'email', array(
                        'constraints' => array(new Assert\NotBlank(), new Assert\Email()),
                        'attr' => array('placeholder' => 'email constraints'),
                        'label' => 'A custom label : ',
                    ))
                    ->add('subformtext1', 'text')
            )

            ->add('number', 'number')
            ->add('password', 'password')
            ->add('percent', 'percent')
            ->add('search', 'search')
            ->add('url', 'url')

            ->add('choice1', 'choice', array(
                'choices' => $choices,
                'multiple' => true,
                'expanded' => true,
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Michael Vitti (1963 - 2009) was the founder of The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC. Schooled as a Marine Biologist, Michael switched careers to become a Still Photographer and then moved into Videography, editing, and color correction. From wedding videos to music videos to documentaries, Michael always moved his career forward through constant learning.
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Start English Seawater Desalination: Water solutions without a grain of salt
Seawater Desalination: Water solutions without a grain of salt
Salt Crystals (Source: Monash University)
Monash University researchers have developed technology that can deliver clean water to thousands of communities worldwide. This solar steam generation system produces clean water from salty (ocean) water with almost 100 per cent salt removal. It provides a solution to water shortages in regional areas where grid electricity isn't available.
An estimated 844 million people don't have access to clean water, while every minute a newborn dies from infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment. Seawater desalination and wastewater recycling are two ways to ease the problem of water shortage, but conventional approaches are energy-intensive and based on the combustion of fossil fuels. In fact, water treatment uses about three per cent of world's energy supply.
Researchers at Monash University have developed energy-passive technology that's able to deliver clean, potable water to thousands of communities, simply by using photothermal materials and the power of the sun. Led by Professor Xiwang Zhang from Monash University's Department of Chemical Engineering, researchers have developed a robust solar steam generation system that achieves efficient and continuous clean water production from salty water with almost 100 per cent salt removal. Through precisely controlling salt crystallisation only at the edge of the evaporation disc, this novel design also can harvest the salts. The feasibility and durability of the design have been validated using seawater from Lacepede Bay in South Australia. This technology is a promising solution to water shortages in regional areas where grid electricity isn't available. The findings were published in the international journal Energy & Environmental Science.
"Water security is the biggest challenge the world faces in the 21st century, especially as population grows and the effects of climate change take shape. Developing and under-resourced communities feel the effects of these factors the most," Professor Zhang said. "Utilising solar energy for water treatment has been widely considered as one of the sustainable solutions towards addressing the scarcity of clean water in some communities, without sacrificing our environment or resources. Despite the significant progress achieved in material development, the evaporation process has been impeded by the concentration of salt on the surface, which affects the quality of water produced."
Also great potential in other fields
Researchers created a disc using super-hydrophilic filter paper with a layer of carbon nanotubes for light absorption. A cotton thread, with a 1 mm diameter, acted as the water transport channel, pumping saline water to the evaporation disc. The saline water is carried up by the cotton thread from the bulk solution to the centre of the evaporation disc. The filter paper traps the pure water and pushes the remaining salt to the edges of the disc. The light absorbance was measured to 94 per cent across the entire solar spectrum. The disc also exhibited a rapid temperature increase when exposed to light in both dry and wet states, rising from 25 to 50 C and 17.5 to 30 C respectively within one minute.
This technology has also great potential in other fields, such as industry wastewater zero liquid discharge, sludge dewatering, mining tailings management and resource recovery. Future studies will look to extend the technology to these applications with industry support.
"Our study results advance one step further towards the practical application of solar steam generation technology, demonstrating great potential in seawater desalination, resource recovery from wastewater, and zero liquid discharge," Professor Zhang said. "We hope this research can be the starting point for further research in energy-passive ways of providing clean and safe water to millions of people, illuminating environmental impact of waste and recovering resource from waste."
Professor Zhang is the Director of the ARC Research Hub for Energy-efficient Separation (EESep), which aims to develop advanced separation materials, innovative products and smart processes to reduce the energy consumption of separation processes that underpin Australian industry. He has just received a $50,000 grant from Perpetual for a separate project looking at securing better water for rural Australia and the South-east Asian region.
Source: Monash University
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Johannes Ippen
«Make sure you have a good idea that can survive, even badly designed» – Interview with Erik Spiekermann, Part I
Are designers really that important? What does it take to be a designer? A good idea is always to ask someone who has a lot of experience, who has been working in design for a long time. I wanted to know from the best designer I know: Erik Spiekermann.
Photo credit: Norman Posselt
Erik Spiekermann is based in San Francisco and Berlin, he has founded successful design companies like MetaDesign, FontShop and Edenspiekermann, to name just a few. He has not only taught ze Germans what a design system is but created also dozens, if not hundreds of popular typefaces, used by Deutsche Bahn, Bosch or Firefox. I have worked with Erik's types since the beginning of my career: ITC Officina as a working student for the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, later FF Axel for my diploma thesis and just recently his HWT Artz for a gaming brand.
I am visiting Erik in his p98a studio in Kreuzberg, where he has the biggest collection of working letterpress printing machines north of the Alps: "I want to die as the person with the most letterpresses", he jokingly says. With 72 years, Erik is officially retired, which does not keep him from still showing up at work every day.
Erik, You've just come back from San Francisco – would you recommend this jet-set lifestyle to anyone?
No. It's not a jet-set lifestyle by the way. My wife has a house there, I go there once or twice a year for eight or ten weeks. I wouldn't call it jet-set. Last year we had a workshop in Los Angeles for Adobe MAX, we might do the same again – I do get around, but America is mostly because of private connection. Tomorrow I'm jet-setting to Düsseldorf though (laughs).
Do you have a favorite place?
At home!
Where is home?
Wherever – the house in San Francisco is by the lagoon, it is more like a holiday thing. I don't have to leave the house, I do conceptual work there. No disturbances, nobody comes to see me there, like today, where I have a visitor every hour. In Berlin it is more the real work, in San Francisco, I do more of the long term thinking.
Do you enjoy traveling?
I hate it. The more I travel, the more I hate it. I like riding the bicycle, I don't mind driving long distances, but traveling on a plane, I hate it. I was in Brussels last week, even that was meh. It's an hour-long flight, but it takes away four or five hours of your life. It's never enjoyable.
A lot of your work has been centered around travel – when you're on the road, do you see a lot of work? How does that feel?
It's nice! Last year I was in Austria and they introduced a typeface I designed - with the help of Ralph de Carrois - way back for the European road network. It's now on the signs all over Austria – if you go out of Vienna to Bratislava, you see my typeface, which is pretty cool. They must have changed all the signs in Austria overnight, it seems.
Photo credit: Ralf Herrmann
The same for Berlin public transport. If I take the tram or bus, I see our typeface FF Transit. It's about time we overdid the information system, after 30 years, it needs a refresh!
In Düsseldorf though, where we designed the airport signage in 1996, they have redone it and I think that made it much worse. We had a special typeface, special colors. Now it's really boring. It's never just me, it's always a team, but I think we gave them a better brand, had better signage. Now it doesn't have a sense of place – you don't know if you're in Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg or any city in Germany. Before it was a lot more specific, it was better.
Are you ever fed upon seeing your work or recognize details that you don't like anymore?
The thing about the Austrian road network typeface: I don't like that typeface very much. We did the bitmaps first and then we drew over them, so it's not very sexy. Then I made two mistakes: We had to do a condensed version – that is normal, German has a lot of long words, but then they persuaded me to do a compressed version, condensed-condensed. The narrower a typeface gets, the less legible it becomes. We do also know that we have long words in Austria, like "Gumpersdorfer Straße" in Vienna – so now they only use the compressed version, even for short words, because it's easier for them. Then I get blamed because it's not legible, but that is not my fault.
Maybe it is because I should have said no. When you're supposed to work for a bad company, like weapons or tobacco, the argument is: "If I don't do it, somebody else will, so I might as well do it." If I wouldn't have done the compressed version, somebody else would have done it, maybe even worse.
That is the crux of making the tools: You don't know what people make with them.
That is it: It's out there, by definition it is public. What other designers do with it, that is the risk we live with. Even with Berlin public transport: We design the system, but we don't implement it. Certainly not in detail. Even a good system can be badly implemented, or a bad system can be well implemented. Especially with typefaces: I had bad typefaces look really good, and I've had good typefaces look really bad.
You said you'd wanna redo the Berlin public transport one – what would you change?
It's grown so much. There are more lines than after reunification. There are new buses and trams that hardly existed before. There are new services and a new quality in service as well. It's way more complex today. Berlin was two smallish cities back then, today it is one large city. Our main thought was to get it going. There was nothing when we started, so it was quickly done.
Photo source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/427701295843446760/
The system still works, but it would be good to have an audit – going around, saying what works and what doesn't. The client does realize it, but they haven't bothered doing anything about it.
Wayfinding has changed – everybody looks at their phones nowadays. Signs play a different, a secondary role. The stations have been redesigned, repainted and relit – some of the issues don't exist anymore, signs don't need to be backlit anymore. That is good because you don't wanna look at a lamp.
The color still works, the type still works, the arrangement still works. A lot of the hierarchies don't work anymore. They improvise, but you can't improvise after 25 years – it starts falling apart.
Speaking of change – what has changed for design as a discipline? A lot of your work is around the perception of design. What has changed?
There are two big changes: The first one is in the 70s and 80s when it was still called "corporate identity", which has now become branding. The thing to impress clients was that all their communication was under one visual idea, one conceptual idea, one message: What does Audi stand for, what does Deutsche Bahn stand for?
Taking this idea and expressing into all levels of communication was easy when we printed stuff: We had guidelines, and even the early days of online stuff made it easy to follow these guidelines.
Now that it's all branding and you as a designer can't decide who sees what where – it might be on the phone, it might be on a poster, I don't know. That's the most difficult part.
The second thing is that now clients have a much bigger awareness of how important the brand is. We don't have to sell the brand to a CEO anymore, they know that they need a strong brand. 25 years ago, we would tell them: "Look at all the details, the details are important." Now we tell them the exact opposite, we don't have an influence on the details anymore. Make sure you have a really good idea that can survive, even badly designed. It is a lot more ambivalent today.
Is focus on detail, is craft less important today?
It's still what we have. The talent that the McKinseys or Boston Consultings don't have, they can't visualize anything. They give you 100 pages of whitepaper which takes you a day to read and you don't understand half of it. We can simulate what things look like with a few sketches.
Photo source: https://www.p98a.com/workshops
You can't buy a pair of shoes on the phone, you'll have to try them on – that is the great thing we have, we can prototype very fast and cheaply. It helps to persuade people.
Take the Berlin Public Transport project for example: When we started, they said: "Our signage is good – when we lock our stations at 2 AM, there is no one left over, they all find their way home." Convincing them to do new things was hard, like designing the train line diagrams inside the trains. The initial reaction was: "We have no space for it, we can't fit it in" So we took a day making one for the U1 in 1:1 size – for the presentation, we held it up in the train, and all the Naysayer changed their opinion – and they all became my best friends.
"Shit, Spiekermann, you are right – you make us look better!" – that was my big lesson here: You make them look better, that is your job. We have the skill of showing them, not just complaining about things that don't work. My Dutch friend Lucas de Groot put it nicely when he was learning German: "We have to verglücklichen our clients", we have to make them happy.
That nails it.
Same with design prices: We once won the Slovenian Design Price for Bosch, which is not too famous – but it shows the client that your work is valued somewhere. Put your clients into a position where they are proud of us – that will make them loyal.
When clients change jobs or change companies, they will call you again and again. I had people who changed from Adobe to Autodesk and called me years later: "Working with Spiekermann was fun, let's do this again".
It's all about human relationships.
That's all it is about! You sell yourself. You don't sell green or blue. My filter is: If my client would go out for a beer with me tonight after work, they won't kill me.
That seems like a very low bar …
I've met enough people who I was afraid of going out with – and vice versa. They wouldn't go out for a beer with me if they didn't trust me.
In part 2 of this interview, we will talk about limitations, standards and poaching eggs. Don't miss out on when part 2 comes out, get notified on Twitter or Linkedin!
Johannes Ippen is a designer from Berlin, passionate about French punk rock, really strong espresso and writing about design. Follow him on Twitter for more of design-related essays. Full bio →
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Evidence against an "autism epidemic"
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One of the key arguments by advocates claiming a link between mercury in childhood vaccines is that there is an "epidemic" of autism. They'll claim that autism was unknown before the 1930's, when thimerosal was first introduced into vaccines. (Never mind that there are plenty of descriptions of autism-like conditions dating from as far back as the 18th century.) They'll then claim that there is an "epidemic" that accelerated in the 1990's, when additional vaccines were added to the recommended childhood schedule, and that it was the additional mercury from those vaccines that was responsible. It has been argued that a lot of that apparent increase was actually due to a widening of the diagnostic criteria for autism in the early 1990's.
Now there's more evidence to support that view. Just published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics is a study by Paul Shattuck at the University of Wisconsin, entitled, The Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education. (Hat tip to the "source" who informed me of this article.)
In the paper, Shattuck analyzes special education figures that are being used to bolster claims of an autism "epidemic" and finds them wanting. In essence, diagnostic substitution can explain nearly all of the apparent increase of autism as recorded by the number of children receiving special education services. What that means is that children that would have been diagnosed with something else 15-20 years ago are now being diagnosed with autism. Dr. Shattuck starts with an example from a different condition, mental retardation as one of his reasons for suspecting diagnostic substitution as a cause of the perceived "epidemic":
Second, prior research has established a precedent of diagnostic substitution in special education enrollment. From 1976 to 1992 the number of children in the mental retardation (MR) category decreased by 41%, whereas the number in the learning disabilities (LD) category increased 198%. There is considerable evidence that suggests this was because of a growing likelihood that schools would use the LD label for children with mild MR, presumably because a label of LD was increasingly seen as carrying less stigma than MR. Finally, a recent epidemiological study depicted a downward deflection in the incidence trend of other developmental disorders just as the trend for autism made a sharp upturn in the early 1990s, again suggesting the possibility of diagnostic substitution.
I was somewhat surprised to learn that autism was first listed as a primary diagnostic category for special education in the early 1990's, as a result of being mandated by part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 as part of Public Law 101-476.28. Before Public Law 101-476, there was no separate autism category. What that meant is that and children with autism enrolled in special education were lumped together for administrative purposes in the legal definition of the "other health impairments" (OHI) service category. Shattuck states: "However, no reliable data exist that would indicate how the enrollment of children with autism was actually distributed among other enrollment categories before the 1990's." States were required to begin using the new category in 1993, and 1994 was the first year that all states used it. Using a variety of statistical analyses, Shattuck looked at the rates of autism and a variety of other diagnostic criteria reported as special education recipients over a 20 year time period. He also used a method to correct for the possibility that diagnostic substitution was taking place simultaneously among several diagnostic categories. The findings were:
The average administrative prevalence of autism among children increased from 0.6 to 3.1 per 1000 from 1994 to 2003. By 2003, only 17 states had a special education prevalence of autism that was within the range of recent epidemiological estimates. During the same period, the prevalence of mental retardation and learning disabilities declined by 2.8 and 8.3 per 1000, respectively. Higher autism prevalence was significantly associated with corresponding declines in the prevalence of mental retardation and learning disabilities. The declining prevalence of mental retardation and learning disabilities from 1994 to 2003 represented a significant downward deflection in their preexisting trajectories of prevalence from 1984 to 1993. California was one of a handful of states that did not clearly follow this pattern.
So, in nearly all states, as the reporting of autism cases for special education administrative purposes increased, the reporting of mental retardation and learning disabilities declined correspondingly, suggesting that children who once would have been classified as mentally retarded or learning disabled were now more appropriately being classified as having autism or ASDs. He further comments:
The mean administrative prevalence of autism in US special education among children ages 6 to 11 in 1994 was only 0.6 per 1000, less than one-fifth of the lowest CDC estimate from Atlanta (based on surveillance data from 1996). Therefore, special education counts of children with autism in the early 1990s were dramatic underestimates of population prevalence and really had nowhere to go but up. This finding highlights the inappropriateness of using special education trends to make declarations about an epidemic of autism, as has been common in recent media and advocacy reports.
Indeed. Using such estimates is fraught with peril even using good statistics. If you use bad statistics, as the Geiers do, you can make such numbers seem to show almost anything you want.
Shattuck then issues a stinging rebuke to those who would use these numbers to support the concept of an "epidemic":
Steep growth in administrative prevalence after introducing a new category is a common pattern that was also seen in the other 2 reporting categories newly introduced in the 1990s (TBI and DD). As with autism, in the first few years these categories were used it was not uncommon for states to
report very few children with a primary diagnosis of TBI or DD. The prevalence for these categories also had nowhere to go but up. Suggestions that special education trends substantiate the existence of an autism epidemic would logically also have to either claim an epidemic of brain injury and DD or explain why the same pattern of growth in these 2 categories does not represent an epidemic as it does for the autism category.
(Emphasis mine; note TBI= traumatic brain injury and DD=developmental delay.)
While pointing out the number of studies looking for a link between mercury and autism that failed to find a link, Shattuck does emphasize that the results of his do not disprove a connection between environmental factors and autism. Rather, they simply show that you can't legitimately use numbers of children assigned to administrative categories for special education as a reliable estimate of changes in the true prevalence of autism, because you're comparing apples and oranges. The categories didn't even include autism before 1993. Consequently, for purposes of special education, autism did not exist as a major diagnostic category, and in the vast majority of states children diagnosed with autism had to be assigned a different category. Of course, autism rates as listed for administrative purposes in special education children skyrocketed after that.
As Dr. Shattuck stated in an interview (hat tip to Autism Diva):
In the case of special education counts for children with autism, the administrative prevalence is simply the number of students with a primary classification of autism divided by the total number of students in that given region, whether it's a state, district or county.
This means, among other things, that data collected in this manner often underestimate "the true population prevalence because, for instance, schools do not go out into the community and actively seek out and evaluate all kids for autism," Shattuck said.
For instance, consider data collected in Wisconsin: In 1992, 18 children were counted in special education programs as being autistic. By 2002, that number had jumped to 2,739.
"The conclusion is that the prevalence of autism has grown by 15,117 percent. This is ridiculous," Shattuck said. "No credible clinician or scientist in the field would ever suggest there were actually only 18 children with autism in all of Wisconsin in 1992."
The key word phrase here is "no credible clinician or scientist."
Clinicians have long suspected that the the apparent autism "epidemic" as detected using numbers of of children receiving special education in different categories was a sham. Now they have some hard data to support that view. Of course, this study is not the final word and is not without some problems. A commentary by Craig Newschaffer accompanying the article this issue points out some potential problems with the model that Shattuck used but in the end seemed to come to similar conclusions. The point of difference was that the rate of diagnoses of mental retardation may not be falling as fast as the rate of increase of diagnoses of autism. Dr. Shattuck includes a point-by-point response.
What both end up agreeing on is that epidemiologists may never be able to figure out if there truly has been an increase in the prevalence of autism over the last couple of decades. Near the end of his commentary, Dr. Newschaffer laments:
I also believe that the time has come to accept that, given the behavioral basis of the autism diagnosis, the lack of knowledge about autism's underlying etiology, and the limitations of retrospective analyses, we are not likely to develop a conclusive body of evidence to either fully support or fully refute the notion that there has been some real increase in autism risk over the past 2 decades.
Dr. Shattuck more or less agrees but points out that it is still important to study the epidemiology and gives reasons:
Second, Newschaffer concludes with a plea to turn from the intractable, and perhaps unanswerable, question of whether autism's true prevalence has increased over the past 2 decades toward a greater prospective focus on conducting epidemiologic and genetic research related to autism. I agree that we may never be able to fully understand the dynamics behind historical changes in autism prevalence and of course agree that we need more research into etiology. However, autism diagnosis is based on observing behavior rather than clearly identifiable biological markers, diagnostic agreement among clinicians is not perfect, black children tend to be identified later than white children, and clinicians have reported a willingness to give a diagnosis of autism for children with ambiguous symptoms if they know it will result in the child obtaining more services. Therefore, I also believe that we need to continue complementing research into etiology with careful examination of the sociopolitical context wherein processes of identification, referral, diagnosis, and intervention occur for children with autism and their families.
The bottom line is that, even if Newschaffer is correct and there has been an increase in the prevalance of autism, it is almost certainly not of the magnitude suggested by advocates claiming that mercury in childhood vaccines cause autism, who sometimes dismiss suggestions that the apparent increase during the 1990's was due to improved diagnosis and broadening of the diagnostic classification with ridiculous statements such as, "No child with autism ever went undiagnosed." The "autism epidemic" (or, as it is sometimes more offensively dubbed, "the autism tsunami") is nothing of the sort.
How long do you think it will be before the mercury crowd starts attacking Dr. Shattuck as biased or a pharma shill?
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Deli might be the most preferred fresh food and meals range of all the supermarkets here. Coles has also a great deli range like Woolworths and from Deli department you may reach nice platters of very good prices. I can observe that every weekly specials online always got a new product range of the deli department.
Half prices of the Woolworths for the top quality general shopping food products which everyone can reach with a simple search on the internet. Especially in Australia it is much more simpler to find such healthy food products for good prices.
Beverage offers are generally present with a nice selection of the products of confectionery, snacks and chocolate products. Great product range of the popular brands like Lindt, Cadbury are frequently sold products at Woolworths Catalogues. And for chips they mostly have Doritos, Smith's and similar brands.
Weekly specials coverage of the catalogue can always provide a good cleaning products including chemicals. Brands like Quantum Finish, Bio Attack, Kleenex are popular products of online catalogues of the retailer.
Other than these pet foods, personal care items are also among the frequently retailed items by the stores and online shop. In the future we will focus on the new release prices of the new products.
Please follow the reviews and posts to catch all deals of the stores for saving. You can save more as you browse more catalogue and products. Stay awake about the deals of supermarkets.


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Reporting Web Consultancy Group Ltd to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for Email SPAM
Since I've received three unsolicited SPAM emails from Web Consultancy Group Ltd, decided it was about time I reported them to Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for email SPAM which could result in a fine of up to £5,000 (I wonder if that's per email?).
I did warn Stephen Hall to let the one bad review go (I was more than content with the original "DHL Web Consultancy Review "as a comment: the DLH company closed in October 2016), but he decided to be a clever bugger and got the review blocked from Google SERPs via a defamation claim.
Anyway, it's really easy to report unsolicited SPAM emails. Go to https://ico.org.uk/ find the "Report a concern" link and follow the instructions: in brief download a form (doc or PDF format), fill it in and email it back with a copy of the unsolicited SPAM emails.
My email to the Information Commissioner's Office:
Subject: Concern about spam emails
First time I've reported SPAM emails, let me know if I made any errors.
I've attached three supporting emails, saved them via the email program Mozilla Thunderbird, if the "eml" format isn't suitable let me know. All three emails were sent to ######@######.co.uk this is pretty much a dead domain of mine, not had a website on it in over 5 years. As you can see from the Whois data the registrant (me) is listed as a UK Sole Trader (what I am). If they checked the domain before emailing they'd have found it redirects to another domain.
The company in question is Web consultancy Group Ltd https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07924238 located at 21 Gosford St, Middlesbrough, TS2 1BB.
Websites linked in the SPAM emails:
:: www.adwordscompany.uk
:: http://webconsultancygroup.co.uk (unsubscribe domain)
:: www.webconsultancyltd.co.uk
:: http://b2b-data.co.uk/ (unsubscribe domain) if you look at this domain you'll find they are selling email lists, I assume my email address is on one of them!
If you require any further information or assistance feel free to contact me. Been having problems with the owner of the business (Stephen Hall). His previous company (DLH Web Consultancy Ltd) sent unsolicited SPAM to another email of mine in 2014, so I reviewed DLH Web Consultancy Ltd: https://seo-gold.com/web-consultancy-ltd-review/?cid=4879
During an update of the review I made the mistake of referring to the old (closed) business (DLH Web Consultancy Ltd) as the same organization as the new business (Web consultancy Group Ltd) and this allowed them to use Google's defamation policy to remove the review from the Google search results!
Fingers crossed Web Consultancy Group Ltd will get a large fine in the near future and will stop sending unsolicited SPAM emails.


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YES—ONCE AND FOR ALL— AMERICA IS A CHRISTIAN NATION
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by Don Feder
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote an article in the Jerusalem Post (February 10, 2005) charging that some well-known Jewish conservatives are doing incalculable harm to their people by affirming that America is a Christian nation.
In a rather kvetchy column about Jews who defend the public celebration of Christmas and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ," the rabbi rhetorically inquires:
"Is it not highly misguided, not to mention erroneous, for Medved and Lapin to openly speak of America as a 'Christian' nation, something bound to make Jews feel like they are guests in someone else's land?" The author here speaks of syndicated talk-show host Michael Medved and Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition.
Does Boteach also believe we shouldn't speak of America's Judeo-Christian heritage, because to do so will make Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus "feel like they are guests in someone else's land"?
Does "one nation, under God," in the Pledge of Allegiance (and "In God We Trust" on our currency) make atheists and agnostics feel like outsiders? Other than the ACLU, who cares?
Do Israel's Christian and Muslim minorities feel alienated living in a Jewish state?
Individual comfort-levels aside, is it "erroneous" to say that America is a Christian nation? That depends on what you mean.
If it's meant to signify a country whose people are overwhelmingly Christian, the characterization is correct. As a percentage, America's population is more Christian than India's is Hindu or Israel's is Jewish.
If by "Christian America," we mean that those who shaped our national consciousness subscribed to the tenets of Christianity, that too is true. From the earliest settlements on these shores until the last few decades, our leaders saw America as a reflection of a Christian worldview.
The Mayflower Compact (1620), precursor to the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, proclaimed that the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the Americas was intended for the "advancement of the Christian faith."
In a message to his troops (1778), George Washington observed: "To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to laud the more distinguished character of Christian."
The first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Jay, wrote in 1816 that it was in the interests of "our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
As late as 1931 (historical revisionism would set in a decade later), the Supreme Court observed in U.S. v. Macintosh, "We are a Christian people."
Woodrow Wilson told a campaign rally in 1911, "America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."
In a 1947 letter, President Harry Truman (who was instrumental in the establishment of the state of Israel) assured Pope Pius XII, "This is a Christian nation."
Even William O. Douglas, that most liberal justice of the liberal Warren Court, was forced to admit that Americans are "a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." By a religious people, Douglas did not mean Scientologists.
The foregoing is a very broad overview. Until the secular revolution of the 1960s, none of this was considered remarkable.
America has never had a state church. (Thank God.) At the federal level, there has never been a religious requirement for citizenship or test for public office. (Although the first Congress hired a chaplain and appropriated sums of money to support Christian missionaries to the Indian tribes. It was 1860 before a non-Christian clergyman opened a session of Congress.)
Clearly and manifestly, the American ethos is based on the moral code found in the Torah and New Testament.
Without Sinai there would have been no Philadelphia in 1776 and 1787. Absent Protestantism, there would have been no Pilgrims and Puritans. Without the evangelical Great Awakening of the 18th century, no Lexington and Concord and no "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
America was founded on the moral patrimony of the West—that Bible-based code called the Judeo-Christian ethic. Whether they do so out of malice or ignorance, those who attack the idea of a Christian America are really attacking this.
Finally, we must ask if America is a Christian nation—in the sense that our laws still are shaped by Christianity. Alas, no.
A Christian (or Judeo-Christian) America would not have legalized abortion. It would not be inching toward euthanasia. It would not be on the verge of homosexual marriage. It would not have no-fault divorce, rampant promiscuity, state-sponsored illegitimacy, government-condoned pornography or any of the other myriad delights of a post-Christian culture.
Everything must be something. As Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington pointed out in his seminal work, "Clash of Civilizations," all great civilizations are intimately connected to a religion. Culture is derived from cult.
In his most recent work (Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity) Huntington writes: "Americans have been extremely religious and overwhelmingly Christian throughout their history."
Huntington further observes that America's national identity is based on Anglo-Protestant culture, including "the English language; Christianity; religious commitment; English concepts of the rule of law, the responsibility of rulers, the rights of the individual; and dissenting Protestant values of individualism, the work ethic, and the belief that humans have the ability and the duty to try to create heaven on earth, a 'city on the hill.'"
Those who believe America can turn its back on our heritage and succeed as a secular civilization are sadly mistaken.
The choice isn't Christian America or nothing, but Christian America or a neo-pagan, hedonistic, rights-without-responsibilities, anti-family, culture-of-death America.
As an American Jew, I never felt like a "guest in someone else's land." America is a product of a process that began when a Mesopotamian named Abram (Abraham) left his land at God's behest.
That launched the Western world on a journey whose footfalls may still be heard. And here we are, almost 4,000 years later. We may worship the Master of the Universe differently, but I identify body and soul with my countrymen who share the lofty vision of Washington and Adams, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan.
And so, I feel very much at home here.
For more information on the group Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, contact Don Feder at 508-405-1337 or write to P.O. Box 4751, Framingham, MA 01704.
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The Ecology of Pooh
When Winnie-the-Pooh got stuck in the doorway of Rabbit's home after feasting on large amounts of honey, he was assisted by a great and very strange chain of being. In Ernest H Shepard's illustration, Christopher Robin can be seen tugging on the wedged bear, followed by four rabbits, a stoat, a mouse, Piglet, three more mice, and a hedgehog. Yet another mouse scampers to join the effort. A beetle is landing behind the mouse, and aloft are two more beetles, a dragonfly and, finally, a butterfly. In Disney's animated film, made four decades — and a hemisphere — away, the chain is foreshortened and adapted to a New World audience. Pooh remains stuck of course, and Christopher Robin still leads the effort, but lined up behind him are Kanga, Eeyore, Roo, and a Gopher! In the cartoon, the Gopher makes it clear, and Pooh reiterates it, that he 'is not in the book'. A translocation to a new place can be unnerving: though some things remain the same, alterations are inevitable.
I recently sat with pencil sharpened and notebook at the ready, like an anthropologist in exotic terrain, to watch Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), a feature-length collection of the earlier animated shorts. What happened, I wondered, when England's most famous fictional bear migrated across the Atlantic and settled into an American landscape? Like Pooh, I had grown up in the British Isles and in my ripe maturity emigrated to the US. Like Pooh, I had spent much of my time out of doors. Over the back wall of our family home in southern County Dublin were mile after mile of farm fields, interspersed with shrubby hedgerow. Not quite as bucolic as Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, perhaps, but there, until the summer dusk drove us home, was where we largely spent our childhood vacations. Like the transplanted Pooh, the terrain in which I now dwell in the New World is hospitable enough in many ways, and yet it is also uncanny. It is not quite home. The suspicion I am investigating here is that, from an environmental perspective, there is more to this bear of 'very little brain' than meets the eye.
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Glee: Showstoppers Tops Billboard Chart for Second Week, Journey to Regionals to Be Released June 8
Andy Propst
Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers has remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the second straight week, and has sold approximately 200,000 copies. The CD features vocals from such Broadway performers as Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Idina Menzel, and Jonathan Groff.
In related news, Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals, the newest disc featuring music from FOX's hit series Glee, will be released on June 8, to coincide with the season 1 finale of the show on that day.
Journey to Regionals will be a six-track disc and will feature the cast's take on Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," a mash-up version of Journey's hits "Any Way You Want It" with "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'," Lulu's hit "To Sir With Love, "and The Wizard of Oz classic "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," in addition to a special 'regionals' version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'."
For further information, visit: www.gleethemusic.com.


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'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times 'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head' Oliver Bullough, ProspectA revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times)In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia for decades, becoming one of America's preeminent scholars on the country during the first Putin era.
During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as "Reset," which fostered unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of hostility not known since the darkest days of the Cold War.
From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama to foment revolution against Putin's regime. This resulting insider's account - uniquely combining history, politics and intimate personal knowledge of the corridors of power - takes us from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers and the Oval Office, to explain how Russia really works, and why the world has entered a dangerous new era of confrontation.


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A: After the post i see a question that help me and my solution was this
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Business: Gender Quotas
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Favorite We have been fighting a battle for decades to bring women to the boardrooms where they are underrepresented, but Norway's government may have found a long-awaited solution. In 2003, the country instated a quota for publicly traded companies; the boards of these companies had to be 40%
World News: India's Economy Growth
Favorite India's economy is expected to grow this fiscal year, from 2014 to 2015. A gradual increase in investment has been proven to revitalize an economy, and development is expected in India. Furthermore, with the new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, faith has been somewhat restored in Indian
Health: Superfoods
Favorite We've all heard about the "superfoods" that promise health benefits, seemingly just by purchasing the (often expensive) fruits and vegetables. One of the new foods that have exploded in popularity is quinoa, which you may have heard pronounced as quinn-ow-wa at some point. The actual
Education: Student Employment
Favorite Millennials still make up 40% of the unemployed in America; two million of the 4.6 million unemployed millenials are long-term unemployed (in that they are not solely unemployed while transitioning between jobs or searching for better offers.) The reputation of the employment rate for
Technology: The Future of Technology
Favorite Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, recently authored a popular article on what the direction of the Internet should be. He envisions a future where the Internet is available to all, not only in America, but also in developing countries. Currently in America,
Politics: General Motors
Favorite General Motors has been under fire recently for taking nearly eleven years to recall older vehicles equipped with faulty ignition switches, and the U.S. federal legislative bodies are ready to get involved. Last month, the CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, visited Capitol Hill for a
Favorite You have been given $10,000 to develop an app for high school girls. What is the name of your app and what is its most important feature?
GenHERation is a network where young women and companies connect through our digital platform and national events. We are the go-to source for inspiration and access for high school and college women.
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Update NBI with latest Casper Imaging application.
This script was designed to run from the JSS against all OS X servers running NetBoot service. It requires the targeted servers to have the latest version of "Casper Imaging.app" installed in the /Applications folder, which can be combined in a single policy with the script. Each NIB is then interrogated and Casper Imaging is updated where appropriate.
1. Latest Casper Imaging.app installed under /Applications for each NetBoot server.
2. Server.app must be installed.
3. NetBoot service's status must be "RUNNING".
4. Images must be read\write (default).
We have more than 45 NetBoot servers (nationally and internationally) and I needed a way to update each of the NetBoot images installed on them with the latest version of Casper Imaging. This script allowed me to do this in less than a minute.


Capsule 5 is inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, two artistic movements that have shaped our capital, Brussels.
Arabesques, butterflies and plants that are typical of both trends come together in the prints for a highly colourful and extremely graphic effect. Retro-kitsch motifs contrast with vivid and modern colours, not to mention the slight touch of gold that can be found in each of the items in the collection.
For the first time, unisex clothing is also accompanied by a homeware range. Household linen, crockery, armchairs, cushions, wallpaper: a host of new products to complete this fifth collection, produced exclusively in Europe.
In collaboration with Le Bon Marché's artistic direction teams, we developed the "Mosaert Fabrique", a behind-the-scenes experience in the form of a fantasy factory that bears witness to our love for craft creation.
A factory where, through their surrealist mechanisms, the different showcases and installations illustrate our aesthetic approach and also, in the background, our vision of creation.
A circuit with floor signposting, control screens, pipes, rails, sales staff in white overalls; everything suggests that visitors are in the middle of a busy factory. All this in a fun, colourful and lush setting that brings to mind the motifs and colour range of capsule 5. The exhibition is open from 7 April to 13 May, 2018 at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche (Paris).


Marc Pouzet. "Zelus, a synchronous language with Ordinary Differential Equations". Talk or presentation, 11, February, 2014.
Zelus is a new programming language for modeling systems that mix discrete logical time and continuous time behaviors. From a user's perspective, its main originality is to extend an existing Lustre-like synchronous language with Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). The extension is conservative: any synchronous program expressed as data-flow equations and hierarchical automata can be composed arbitrarily with ODEs in the same source code. A dedicated type system and causality analysis ensure that all discrete changes are aligned with zero-crossing events so that no side effects or discontinuities occur during integration. Programs are statically scheduled and translated into sequential code by a sequence of source-to-source transformations and the final code is paired with an off-the-shelf numeric solver. During the talk, I will focus on a recent work showing some scheduling issues in the Simulink compiler and present a Lustre inspired type-based causality analysis to detect instantaneous loops. This is joint work with Albert Benveniste, Benoit Caillaud, Timothy Bourke and Bruno Pagano.


Hi fellow Pokemon fans! My name is Cubex and I'm developing a Pokemon fan game titled Pokemon Infinity, which is a game that will mix in both old and new features of Pokemon! As of writing this, the game is really early in development, and having a committed team on board to help would be absolutely awesome!
-A completely new region, characters, etc.
-And some more features along the way!
As of now I only have concept art and some sprite work.
I don't really want to reveal much about the game so far, but contact me if you're interested and want to receive more information! Thank you!
Hello Cubex, I just wish to say that the images for this project aren't fully shown, I assume that might've been an error when you attempted to publish the recruitment thread.
I think the other thing is potentially to say who exactly are you interested in recruiting, I think it'll help show who could help you with development along with helping fill in the gaps with certain abilities you yourself aren't the strongest at. Regardless, I hope for the best when it comes to development.


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Le Jardin is currently in the process of applying for an elementary charter to open for the 2015 - 2016 school year. Le Jardin Charter School will be focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; also known as STEM. Students that are enrolled in the VPK program with Le Jardin Community Center will receive preference for enrollment in the Charter School.
Updates on the Charter School
Le Jardin will be submitting it's Charter Application on May 1, 2014 for early submission
Construction for the new building where the school will be held is underway
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This super healthy Vegan energy bar recipe is great for a quick boost of sustainable energy when you're on the mountain, on the tube or just as an indulgent guilt free snack with a cuppa!
These bars contain just 5 grams of natural organic sugars but 15 grams of energy boosting, brain feeding natural fats along with 26g of slow release carbohydrates, meaning you won't suffer from the sugar crash you get from most energy bars and instead you'll be fuelled up and ready to rock 'n' roll!
If you're out Mountain biking or Hiking and you have a sugary snack or energy bar that quickly raises your blood sugar levels it will give you a boost, but it's short-lived. When you eat something with a high sugar content your pancreas starts to secrete insulin. Insulin triggers cells throughout your body to pull the excess glucose out of your bloodstream and store it for later use.
Soon, the glucose available to your brain has dropped. Neurons, unable to store glucose will experience an energy crisis. Soon, you feel spaced-out, weak and confused. Your ability to focus and think suffers. This is why we have developed these energy bars to be high in fats and slow release carbohydrates that will keep you going for a whole day riding singletrack, enduro or downhill mountain biking on some of the toughest energy sapping trails in the Alps!
Fats! I hear you say, surely they are bad for you? Not at all, everyone needs fat in their diet as a source of energy! Our body uses the fat we eat, and fats we make from other nutrients in our bodies to provide the energy for most of our life-functions. It helps to maintain healthy skin and other body tissues. All of our body cells contain some fats and it's important to obtain these from a healthy and balanced diet.
The key is focusing on the good fats. Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated fats that are found in lots of foods such as Avocado, Nuts, Fish & Olive Oil. The fats found in this recipe (Medium Chain Triglycerides or MCT's) have a long list of health benefits, and they will also be converted by the liver into ketones very quickly which will then provide plenty of energy for your body and brain (the brain is only able to use glucose and ketones for energy).
Coconut oil which is one of the tasty ingredients in this recipe is one of nature's richest sources of MCTs. Coconut oil has actually been shown to help optimize body weight, which can dramatically reduce your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Besides weight loss it can boost your metabolic rate and will improve your energy, accelerate healing, recovery from exercise and improve your overall immune function.
So, now you know the facts here's the recipe to my super easy and deliciously sticky bars of healthy love!
Add all wet ingredients (Honey, Coconut Oil and Orange Juice) and give everything a really good stir with a wooden spoon. The mixture should be fairly wet but hold together when pressed against the side of the bowl with a spoon.
Line a 9"x9" baking tray with greaseproof paper. You do not need to grease this as the oil from the mixture will keep it from sticking.
Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the centre feels firm to touch.
Allow to cool in the tin until you cut the bars. This mixture makes approx. 10 bars depending on how big or small you would like them!
Why not check out our other Vegan Recipes such as these vegan blueberry pancakes or our winter warming vegan chestnut & spinach tart!


New employment forms emerge as traditional working life changes. The line between actual employment and operating within a sharing economy is rapidly blurring as 'light entrepreneurship' (kevytyrittäjyys), operating mainly on digital platforms, gains ground.
The sharing economy means that goods and services are shared between service providers and service users. The sharing take place via digital platforms such as websites and applications. Well-known, globally operating platforms include, for example, Airbnb and Uber.
Most of the Finnish platforms are non-commercial and operate in social media. They offer goods and services on a private-to-private basis, although they are run professionally, much like businesses.
For many entrepreneurs who offer similar services, the platforms are seen as competition governed by different rules, explains development manager Markus Palomurto (Finnish Centre for Pensions). As the business grows and becomes more regular and more similar to ordinary entrepreneurship, those operating the platforms should take care of, for example, taxes and pension insurance. "As for statutory obligations, it makes no difference how the customers are contacted. What matters is the nature of the operations, the value of the work input and the duration of the operations," Palomurto states.
According to the earnings-related pension acts, a person has to take out insurance under the Self-employed Persons' Pensions Act when the annual value of their work input is over 7,800 euros and the operations continue for more than four months. "Operating over a platform does not eliminate the obligation to insure," Palomurto points out.
www.jakamistalousinfo.fi offers information on the statutory obligations relating to sharing economy (soon also in English).
"What is my pension pot? Can I work while I'm retired?" These are among the many questions that people who approach their retirement age often ask as they plan for their future, particularly now that the partial-old age pension and a more flexible working life mean that there are more options.
Pension providers offer answers and help via their web services. Product manager Pauliina Hilkamo (Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company) is approaching retirement herself and knows what she is talking about. She develops Varma's web services to better meet the needs of the customers.
"People over 50 actively use our pension calculator to estimate what their pension pot will be when they retire," Hilkamo states. Retiring from work means a big change in one's life. Pension providers help people see the whole picture. "That is why our websites provide a more holistic view of pensions. We don't focus only on euros," Hilkamo concludes.
Gender inequality in pensions is the result of many things. A forthcoming study by Kati Kuitto, Janne Salonen (Finnish Centre for Pensions) and Jan Helmsdag (University of Greifswald) of the labour market attachment of men and women born in Finland in 1980 shows that the early stages of working life are significant for men's and women's later employment and career development and for their pensions.
Although the wage gap between men and women is the main cause for gender inequality in pensions, breaks in working life due to unemployment and family leaves are of great significance. The study suggests that women, who tend to take much longer family leaves than men, are affected the most by the risks posed by breaks in early labour market attachment.
The notions that the home is the best place to take care of one's young children and that mothers are better caretakers than fathers need to change.
Disability pension retirees numbered 20,000 more in 2018 than in 2017. This unexpected increase can be explained in different ways, says senior researcher Mikko Laaksonen (Finnish Centre for Pensions).
The growing number of people suffering from mental disorders caused 47% of the increase in the number of new retirees on a disability pension. An ample one fifth (21%) was due to musculoskeletal diseases and 32% to other causes.
The improved economic outlook may also explain the unfavourable development. "When the economy is doing better, also people with poorer health are employed. In addition, when people are less afraid of losing their jobs, they are also less afraid of being ill," Laaksonen explains.
Finally, the rising retirement age that followed the 2017 pension reform may also have contributed to the rising number of new retirees on a disability pension. To avoid having to work longer, the elderly are more interested in retiring on a disability pension.


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Q: Split report parameters in stored procedure I work with CRM 2015.
When I try create report with multiply-values parameter, I can not split it on list id.
I tried many ways to do it like:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[pn_rep_LoadResources]
    (@Stage NVARCHAR(1000))

WHERE(stage.new_stageid IN (SELECT Value FROM dbo.FnSplit(@Stage,',')))
WHERE(stage.new_stageid IN (SELECT Value FROM dbo.Split(@Stage,',')))
WHERE(stage.new_stageid IN (SELECT Value FROM dbo.Split(@Stage,',')))
WHERE(stage.fn_GetGuidsFromString IN (SELECT Value FROM dbo.Split(@Stage)))

And other, but nothing works.
Have anyone problem like this?