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Enterprise-focused Alchemist Accelerator is back with another one. Today marks its 27th Demo Day, with more than two dozen companies expected to take the (virtual) stage.
Coming in at 25 companies, this is Alchemist's largest cohort so far. Meanwhile, Alchemist Director Ravi Belani tells me that applications to the accelerator have grown by more than 100%, and that their portfolio has raised a collective $1.4 billion to date.
In addition to debuting its Demo Day teams, Alchemist also shared some news: it has launched a new endeavor called "AlchemistX", which will tap the tools/network of the accelerator to help corporations (beginning with Japan's NEC) develop spinout companies from their in-house R&D. AlchemistX will be led by Rachel Chalmers, who was most recently a Director at Autodesk and a Venture Partner at Merian Ventures.
As with the last few Alchemist demo days, today's event is entirely virtual; you can find a livestream of it here beginning at 10:30 AM Pacific.
Here are the companies that will debut today, in the order they're expected to present:
Metabob: An AI tool meant to help you figure out where bugs could be in Python code. As a spinout of NEC, this is the first company to go through as part of the aforementioned AlchemistX program. Laundris: A platform meant to help hotels better manage their linens, predict needs, and handle procurement. Utrust: Helps businesses more easily accept and manage cryptocurrency payments EVE: A dashboard to help companies take their vehicle fleets electric, outlining charging status and costs. Measurecare: Building a dataset of radiology imaging meant for use with AI/Machine Learning. They've built a ReCaptcha-style system wherein their partner radiologists help to authenticate and label radiology images through "peer review" to further improve the data. Eunimart Crossborder: Automated tools to help small-to-medium sized businesses expand into new regions, determine the right pricing, and identify popular competing products in a region. Growfitter: An "incentivized wellness" platform for India. Growfitter works with local fitness centers to encourage users to become members, then gives them rewards/cashback incentives for physical activity. Bitreel: Builds customizable 3D showrooms to showcase products, effectively aiming to turn that IKEA trip into a more video game-like, at-home experience. The company says its 3D viewer works in any modern browser. Ahura AI: Ahura says it "recreates the one-to-one tutoring experience with machine learning"; more specifically, it aims to adapt employee training programs for each employee's learning style in real time. Ant Media: A low latency (~0.5 seconds) streaming platform meant to be easily deployed on AWS, Azure, etc. In-Pipe Robot: As the name suggests, it's a robot that goes in pipes. Focusing on industrial/utility/chemical companies, their robots are built to navigate complex pipe structures to more efficiently handle inspections, 3d mapping, etc. Refactr: An automation platform meant to help a company's cybersecurity and DevOps teams work together more easily. Stargazr: AI-heavy tools meant to help finance teams with forecasting Inanna Fertility: Applies machine learning algorithms to a patient's lab/health data with the goal of improving the success rate in in vitro fertilization. Chatalytic: Building AI to automatically gauge success in customer support conversations (voice/chat), and automatically identify "trending" support topics to potentially flag issues more quickly. Bloom Behaviours: A platform meant to help teams work better together, and to help team leaders identify what team members see as each other's strongest traits Sif Homes: Combining the concept of Powerline adapters and mesh networking to build Wifi hotspots that communicate over your home's existing electrical wiring. Verdi: Platform and irrigation hardware to help farmers water/fertilize based on an individual plant's needs, meant to reduce water waste and improve crop yield. Geecko: Building "programming games" meant to be incorporated into the hiring process. Delight: A platform meant to simplify the process of adding a referral program to your e-commerce shop. VIPFicated: "Verification as a service", aiming to handle product authentication for the increasing number of second-hand resale platforms. Siro: A tool meant to help sales managers more actively and efficiently coach their sales reps by automatically identifying "coachable moments" in client conversations. Stratodyne: Builds high-resolution aerial images from blimps; can help, for example, farmers identify issues that are more easily spotted from above. Navvisa: A telehealth concierge, paid for as an employee benefit, meant specifically to help those diagnosed with cancer navigate the care process. Neuronix AI: Aiming to reduced the cost and power consumption of computer vision-based AI.
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Energy from Biomass Combustion 2023
Dates of Event
18th April 2023 – 20th April 2023
Last Booking Date for this Event
This course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the status and developments in energy delivery from biomass combustion. The focus will mainly be on biomass for electricity and heat. This course looks at fuel supply options and the emissions and plant performance implications. The use of biomass for energy production has several associated technical, environmental and socioeconomic challenges. Some of these, particularly the technical challenges, will be addressed in this course.
How will I benefit?
The course will give you a sound understanding of the fundamentals and practicalities of:
the basics of solid biomass combustion
dedicated biomass installations
solid biomass for electricity generation
biogas and landfill gas for process heat and power generation
sustainability of biomass supply chains
https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/short-course/1/faculty-of-engineering-and-physical-sciences/984/energy-from-biomass-combustion
Attendee Category
1. Attend full three days £1060.00
2. Attend any two days £800.00
3. Attend any one day £470.00
Weetwood Hall Estate
Otley Road, Leeds, LS16 5PS
F: 0113 230 6095
http://www.weetwood.co.uk/
Harriet Wills
CPD Conference and Events Co-ordinator, CPD, Conference & Events Unit, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences,
School of Chemical and Process Engineering 3.11 University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
E: [email protected] W: https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/short-courses
Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring 2023
Chemical Plant Commissioning 2023

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Like many of my fellow business leaders, I do my best to stay current. I embrace social media, read the latest leadership books and stay abreast of trends in the marketplace. And from a workplace perspective, there is one particular conversation topic in full discourse across the country—Generation Y in Corporate America. It should be.
Over the next 15 years, we will witness the exit of almost half of our workforce, mostly from the retiring Baby Boomer generation. With so much written about Gen Y's challenges and overall lack of readiness to lead, we should be concerned … concerned enough to do something about it.
I am a product of Generation X which, along with Boomers, holds the vast majority of senior leadership positions in our country. We are the hiring managers, mentors, coaches and role models for the generation that follows behind us. What are our assets? I would like to believe we possess wisdom, experience and a strong commitment to the future. Our liabilities? We seem to have reservations about engaging with Gen Y and understanding how they think. For an insightful look at Gen Y expectations in the workplace, read Working with Generation iY by Dr. Tim Elmore, founder and president of Growing Leaders.
I sense that we have two "camps" looking at each other across a great divide with wariness, suspicion and frustration. The Gen X/Baby Boomer side is focused on the organizations they lead, profit & loss, revenue growth, filling open positions, developing employees, and improving work cultures among myriad other issues related to running a business. Gen Y seems to have vastly different work expectations compared to their predecessors. As Dr. Elmore writes in his article, the phrase "Pay Your Dues" is strongly disliked by this newer generation, whereas that was the working life mantra of my generation.
Gen Y covets, among other things, work/life balance, schedule flexibility, belief in the company mission, and access to and transparency of all information. There is a fundamental shift here from my entry into the workforce more than two decades ago when working 70-hour weeks, climbing the corporate ladder and the phrase "hard work will take you far" were the norms of the day.
So, where do we go from here? What is our call to action … what is theirs? We can't move forward with arms folded and fingers pointed at each other from our respective camps; following that path will lead to disaster for our companies and the economy. We need to reach across the divide and find common ground. It will take compromise, trust and commitment from each generation to make this work.
The conventional employee-manager relationship is not necessarily a thing of the past, but it is no longer the standard … or won't be for long. We need to recognize this as not just an adjustment in leadership, but a cultural shift in the workplace. While the roles of employee and manager will continue to morph, the dynamic will always be there. I have outlined five recommendations here for each group. My hope is that actions such as these will serve as a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and true progress.
It doesn't require a radical makeover of our beliefs, values and organizational structures to prepare Gen Y for leadership. They view the world differently, but so did we at the beginning of our careers. Remember to listen, engage and flex where appropriate and tap into the enormous potential of these young minds; but all in the framework of what the business needs.
Start listening, stop assuming – We have to engage with these newest employees and listen to what they have to say. Don't assume we have them figured out because we read a book about it.
Be present on college and high school campuses – Want to make a difference in how they view the workplace? Talk with this generation and share your expectations; help them manage theirs. Don't wait until they show up for their first interview and be shocked they don't act like we did at that age.
Start viewing Gen Y as a strategic business investment – Put resources and time where it is critically needed: engaging, hiring, training, developing and retaining our future leaders. They will someday run our organizations and if they are not ready, we only have ourselves to blame.
Scrap "do as I say, not as I do" – These young people are very bright; they watch and learn. If they desire reasons for why we do things, tell them. What does that hurt? If we can't provide them with an authentic experience, we have little chance of coming together … or retaining them.
Smart organizations will learn to tap into their potential – This generation grew up with advanced technology and instant access to information. They get social media. They want to make a difference and they will follow trustworthy leaders. Successful organizations of the future will find a way to harness their power.
You are the new kids on the block, vast in number and the future is yours. But, today's business leaders hold the keys to that future. They have experience and insights which you need to be successful. Listen, engage and be flexible … this advice applies to both camps.
Having perspective is important – Today's leaders grew up in a very different world. Much of what research says Gen Y wants out of your careers took most of us a long time to earn. Today's leaders have perspective that differs – that is a good thing, learn from them.
Be patient – It is human nature for managers to expect you to earn their trust, to impress them with your abilities and make a long term commitment to their organizations. You may have a different timeline and plan for your career, but be patient and stay long enough to maximize the opportunities in front of you. Change is normal but is sometimes met with resistance.
Look at relationships and communication differently – The explosion of social media has heralded the arrival of the "virtual" relationship and Gen Yers are leading the charge. Gen X/Baby Boomers are more likely to value fewer, more personal relationships over an extended network of affinity-based connections. The prevalence of texting to communicate is typically not well received in most businesses. Also, LinkedIn, not Facebook, is currently the preferred social network for making business related connections.
Convey respect while pursuing goals – It is appropriate to have goals and pursue them to your fullest, but cultivating positive and respectful relationships with company leadership and learning from their successes will help you achieve them.
Pursue mentors and advocates – Most business leaders will point to mentors and advocates early in their careers who played important roles in their success. There is enormous value in having experienced guides to help you navigate your career. Many leaders are willing to be a mentor, but you must win their advocacy first by showing your commitment to the relationship.
Compromise is inevitable as we hire, train and develop this next generation of leaders. Their day will come and there will be pain, tears and hopefully laughter along the journey, just as it was for us. Let's enthusiastically embrace this next generation of leaders, take them under our wing and teach them how business is done. I hope that in turn, Generation Y will be open, patient and accept our help. Here's to finding our way forward together.


Finding Kat Heckenbach: What kind of ketchup bottle are you?
What kind of ketchup bottle are you?
Writing is like pouring ketchup.
There are three ways, in general, to get ketchup out of a bottle--the old-fashioned kind, not the squeezie :P.
First, what I'm going to call the "pop and glop." Some people have this knack of being able to flip a ketchup bottle over, give it one well-aimed pop, and a perfectly-sized glop of ketchup comes out. There are writers who have mastered this method for their writing. They sit down each day--most likely always at the same time--and write for X number of hours, or pound out X number of words. This is great for disciplined writers who can through force of will or nature get into the zone.
Second, there are those that set the bottle upside down after they pull it out of the fridge, and leave it on the table until all the ketchup has run "down" to the "top." Then they carefully open the lid and pour. This is great for patient writers who ruminate on their work, "writing" it in their mind and then just heading to the computer to put the already formed work on paper.
Third, there are the people who grab the bottle, bang on the bottom over and over with nothing coming out, and then--either by the natural force of gravity--or through a fit of frustration and a knife crammed into the bottle's neck--a ginormous gush of ketchup floods out all over everything. This kind of writer sits at his/her desk, banging his/her head, wishing they were a "pop and glop" writer or a patient up-side-downer. They spend day after day thinking they're deluding themselves, that they're not a real writer, and the darn ketchup is NEVER going to come out--and then...glug, glug, glug...massive amounts of messy creativity come gushing forth.
This is...most of the time...me.
Great analogy. I think I'm all of the above, depending on the day and what mood I am in.
Ooh, yes, I am absolutely a glug-glug type, though there is often rumination beforehand.


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#include "timer.h"

#include <sstream>
#include <utility>

#include "../collective/communicator-inl.h"

#if defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)
#include <nvToolsExt.h>
#endif  // defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)

namespace xgboost {
namespace common {

void Monitor::Start(std::string const &name) {
  if (ConsoleLogger::ShouldLog(ConsoleLogger::LV::kDebug)) {
    auto &stats = statistics_map_[name];
    stats.timer.Start();
#if defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)
    std::string nvtx_name = "xgboost::" + label_ + "::" + name;
    stats.nvtx_id = nvtxRangeStartA(nvtx_name.c_str());
#endif  // defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)
  }
}

void Monitor::Stop(const std::string &name) {
  if (ConsoleLogger::ShouldLog(ConsoleLogger::LV::kDebug)) {
    auto &stats = statistics_map_[name];
    stats.timer.Stop();
    stats.count++;
#if defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)
    nvtxRangeEnd(stats.nvtx_id);
#endif  // defined(XGBOOST_USE_NVTX)
  }
}

void Monitor::PrintStatistics(StatMap const& statistics) const {
  for (auto &kv : statistics) {
    if (kv.second.first == 0) {
      LOG(WARNING) <<
          "Timer for " << kv.first << " did not get stopped properly.";
      continue;
    }
    LOG(CONSOLE) << kv.first << ": " << static_cast<double>(kv.second.second) / 1e+6
                 << "s, " << kv.second.first << " calls @ "
                 << kv.second.second
                 << "us" << std::endl;
  }
}

void Monitor::Print() const {
  if (!ConsoleLogger::ShouldLog(ConsoleLogger::LV::kDebug)) { return; }
  auto rank = collective::GetRank();
  StatMap stat_map;
  for (auto const &kv : statistics_map_) {
    stat_map[kv.first] = std::make_pair(
        kv.second.count, std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::microseconds>(
                             kv.second.timer.elapsed)
                             .count());
  }
  LOG(CONSOLE) << "======== Monitor (" << rank << "): " << label_ << " ========";
  this->PrintStatistics(stat_map);
}

}  // namespace common
}  // namespace xgboost

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Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Mix the oil, eggs and sugar well together. Sift in the flour and baking powder. Mix well. Mix in the carrots and the chopped walnuts.
Fill the cupcake tin with the batter. Bake the carrot cupcakes for about 30 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with Pure Toasted Nuts & Seeds granola and voilà!


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Happy Hour Aug. 7, 2013
Genius Scientists Figure Out How to Distill Alcohol From Coffee
By Hugh Merwin
Science. Photo: iStockphoto
Time to start stockpiling those post-brew, single-origin Stumptown grounds: Basically, researchers at the University of Minho in Portugal figured out they could create a novel "spirit from spent coffee ground" by drying the mush left behind in the filter, rehydrating it with yeast and sugar, then fermenting the mash and concentrating the liquid. The result is a beverage that's 40 percent alcohol and has all the "features of a pleasant beverage, with smell and taste of coffee." The authors of the study, which will be published in the December issue of LWT - Food Science and Technology, even posit that the coffee hooch could stand to be aged a little, like a fine whiskey. [io9]
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Lancaster County school board members tentatively approved acceptance of a bid for construction of Indian Land's new elementary school during its Tuesday, March 19, meeting.
The new school, which will be built on Harrisburg Road in Indian Land, is intended to serve students in the county's densely populated northern tip.
District officials hope to break ground on the new campus in mid-April for an August 2014 opening.
Lancaster County's official unemployment rate saw a slight increase in January, according to the latest data released Monday, March 18, by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
The county posted 11.9 percent unemployment in January, compared to 11.6 percent in December 2012.
In January, the county's official labor force was recorded at 32,486, with 3,877 of those people without a job.
In comparison, the January 2012 jobless rate in Lancaster County was 12.9 percent.
A grant that will fund almost a half-million dollars in equipment for local medics could mean the difference between life and death for critical patients.
The $490,000 grant, recently awarded to the county by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will cover the costs of several state-of-the-art cardiac monitors and laptop computers, all in an effort to speed up response times and treatment for county residents, said Lancaster County Emergency Medical Service Director Clay Catoe.
KERSHAW – The second time was the charm for Jody Connell.
The Kershaw resident bested his two opponents to win the District 3 seat in the town's election Tuesday, March 19. That district runs north to south, covering key roads such as Richland, Stevens and Church streets.
Connell received 38 (just over 53 percent) of the 71 votes cast Tuesday.
Charles Stroud got 24 votes (34 percent) and William "Bill" Walters II got nine (13 percent).
Springs Memorial Hospital has a fresh look.
On Monday, March 18, staff unveiled a new logo during a special gathering on the hospital's second floor. The logo features "Springs" written in sapphire blue with "Memorial Hospital" underneath it in chartreuse green.
To the left of those words is a continual square pattern that features the two colors.
The new look replaces the green umbrella-themed logo that had been used since the mid-1990s.
Two former Lancaster Bruins' football standouts, who produced solid college careers, will play in the inaugural South Carolina College All-Star Bowl at North Greenville University's Younts Stadium on Saturday, March 23.
KERSHAW – Quadarius Fair, Bre Wright and Haley Faulkenberry earned a major part of the orange spotlight at the Andrew Jackson High School fall and winter sports awards night Saturday, March 16 in the AJ High cafeteria.
The Lancaster Bruins posted their third straight win, rolling to a 12-3 win over county rival Andrew Jackson at LHS's Doomsday Corner on Wednesday, March 20.
The man accused in the death of his girlfriend's daughter on March 5 is trying to get out of jail.
Sixth Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield said a bond hearing is set for 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 22, for Phillip Bryan Gleason, 1791 Craig Farm Road.
Barfield said Circuit Court Judge Brooks P. Goldsmith will hear Gleason's request.
"That's all I can tell you at this time," Barfield said.
KERSHAW – Jody Connell is Kershaw's newest Town Council member.
Connell came out on top in the three-way race for the District 3 seat in the town's election Tuesday, March 19.
Connell received 38 votes (just over 53 percent). Charles Stroud got 24 votes (34 percent) and William "Bill" Walters II got nine (13 percent).
Connell succeeds Randy Seegars, who decided not to seek re-election due to health reasons.


A mostly-local, progressive and diverse group of comedians are raising money for five charities.
Leicester Comedy Festival is set to return for a 26th year with as usual big names aplenty descending on the month-long event known to many as a mini Edinburgh.
Students and staff members have provided positive feedback after De Montfort University launched a 'digital detox' last week.


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Electronic access offers features that traditional mechanical locks cannot. While these features may not be as fundamental as keeping doors secure, they can provide significant management, safety, and security advantages over locks and key alone.
We explain each of these features in depth inside.
One of the most powerful features of EAC is the time/date stamp associated with every event in a system.
Not only do systems log when door opens, they also record whose credential was used to open them, typically down to the second, making them ideal for keeping track of employee attendance.
Time Logging makes it possible to 'track' a user's movement through a system, and provide a concrete record of where a person was at a given time. These logs have even been used to solve murders and otherwise establish presence at certain times with high precision.
With relatively minor adjustments, most access systems can use 'time logging' with time clocks.
Many workers are paid an hourly wage. Clearly establishing when they start their job and when they stop working is crucial, as 'time' is indeed 'money'. Capturing this time has traditionally been the function of precise clocks, where workers insert cards to have a the time indelibly punched out on a given day. Indeed, "punching the timeclock" is a common saying.
However, the method is not problem free. First and foremost, abuse is a risk, where an employee punches more than only his/her card. This type of fraud is at the forefront of many HR and Corporate issues. Many seek to eliminate this risk/temptation entirely. While time clocks are primarily intended to protect the employer, the employee also benefits from having a clear record of attendance to lean on when calculating paid vacation days, sick days, or overtime pay.
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In regards to cloning cards, is there any system out there right now that has the ability to set a time interval between reader locations that will generate an alarm if the card is read at each location within that time interval.
The simple way to look at this...I should not be able to read my card at a Seattle location at 7am and also walk through a door in San Diego 15 minutes later. Perhaps before my card works on any reader in a building I need to scan it at a security check point to enable my access, where I smile and also get my picture taken.
In performing the above action either someone has cloned my card or I found a teleport machine.
With all the reports available on these systems does this exist? Especially after card cloning has run amuck for years now.
In other words I should not be able to go thru a door in one building on the tenth floor and then read in another building on the 10th floor again in a minute time span.
How can one use their EAC to analyze for cloned cards? Seems they should just build a report off of card trace...that looks at all cards in a chronological order.
Any cool features such as this?


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Roßbach ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Bischoffen im mittelhessischen Lahn-Dill-Kreis.

Geografie
Der Ort liegt von Wald umgeben im Niederweidbacher Becken an der Aartalsperre. Durch das Dorf verläuft die Landesstraße 3287.

Geschichte

Die älteste bekannte schriftliche Erwähnung von Roßbach erfolgte im Jahr 1304 unter dem Namen Rosbach.
Es lag an der jüngeren Köln-Leipziger Handelsstraße. Bis zum Jahr 1618 war Roßbach nach Altenkirchen eingepfarrt, danach kam es zur Pfarrei in Niederweidbach.

Das heute noch in Betrieb befindliche Backhaus wurde im 18. Jahrhundert erbaut. Vor diesem Backhaus steht seit alters her der Dorfbrunnen.

Die Statistisch-topographisch-historische Beschreibung des Großherzogthums Hessen berichtet 1830 über Roßbach:

Im Rahmen der Gebietsreform in Hessen wurde die Gemeinde Roßbach auf freiwilliger Basis am 1. April 1972 nach Niederweidbach eingegliedert, diese Gemeinde wurde wiederum am 1. Juli 1974 kraft Landesgesetz mit Bischoffen sowie weiteren Gemeinden zur Großgemeinde Bischoffen zusammengeschlossen.
Für alle ehemals eigenständigen Gemeinden wurden Ortsbezirke errichtet.

Territorialgeschichte und Verwaltung
Die folgende Liste zeigt im Überblick die Territorien, in denen Roßbach lag, bzw. die Verwaltungseinheiten, denen es unterstand:

 vor 1357: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Grafen von Solms
 ab 1357: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen und Hohensolms gemeinschaftlich, Amt Königsberg (1356: Zent Altenkirchen)
 ab 1567: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Marburg und Hohensolms gemeinschaftlich, Amt Königsberg (Gericht Altenkirchen)
 1604–1648: Heiliges Römisches Reich, strittig zwischen Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt und Landgrafschaft Hessen-Kassel (Hessenkrieg)
 ab 1627: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt, und  Hohensolms gemeinschaftlich, Amt Königsberg
 ab 1629: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt (durch Abteilungsvertrag), Amt Königsberg
 1787: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt, Oberfürstentum Hessen, Amt Königsberg
 ab 1806: Rheinbund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Oberfürstentum Hessen, Amt Königsberg
 ab 1815: Deutscher Bund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Amt Königsberg
 ab 1821: Deutscher Bund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Landratsbezirk Gladenbach (Trennung zwischen Justiz (Landgericht Gladenbach) und Verwaltung)
 ab 1832: Deutscher Bund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1848: Deutscher Bund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Biedenkopf
 ab 1852: Deutscher Bund, Großherzogtum Hessen, Provinz Oberhessen, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1867: Norddeutscher Bund, Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau,  Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf (übergangsweise Hinterlandkreis)
 ab 1871: Deutsches Reich, Königreich Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1918: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1932: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Dillenburg
 ab 1933: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Hessen-Nassau, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1944: Deutsches Reich, Freistaat Preußen, Provinz Nassau, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1945: Amerikanische Besatzungszone, Groß-Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1949: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen (seit 1946), Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden, Kreis Biedenkopf
 ab 1968: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt, Kreis Biedenkopf
 am 1. April 1972 wurde Roßbach als Ortsteil der Gemeinde Niederweidbach eingegliedert.
 ab 1974: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt, Landkreis Wetzlar
 am 1. Juli 1974 entstand die neu gebildete Gemeinde Bischoffen durch Zusammenschluss von Bischoffen, Niederweidbach, Oberweidbach und Wilsbach.
 ab 1977: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt, Lahn-Dill-Kreis
 ab 1981: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Land Hessen, Regierungsbezirk Gießen, Lahn-Dill-Kreis

Gerichtszugehörigkeit seit 1803
In der Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt wurde mit Ausführungsverordnung vom 9. Dezember 1803 das Gerichtswesen neu organisiert. Für die Provinz Oberhessen wurde das Hofgericht Gießen als Gericht der zweiten Instanz eingerichtet. Die Rechtsprechung der ersten Instanz wurde durch die Ämter bzw. Standesherren vorgenommen und somit war für Roßbach das "Amt Königsberg" zuständig.
Das Hofgericht war für normale bürgerliche Streitsachen Gericht der zweiten Instanz, für standesherrliche Familienrechtssachen und Kriminalfälle die erste Instanz. Übergeordnet war das Oberappellationsgericht Darmstadt.

Mit der Gründung des Großherzogtums Hessen 1806 wurde diese Funktion beibehalten, während die Aufgaben der ersten Instanz 1821 im Rahmen der Trennung von Rechtsprechung und Verwaltung auf die neu geschaffenen Land- bzw. Stadtgerichte übergingen. "Landgericht Gladenbach" war daher von 1821 bis 1866 die Bezeichnung für das erstinstanzliche Gericht, das für Roßbach zuständig war.

Nach der Abtretung des Kreises Biedenkopf an Preußen infolge des Friedensvertrags vom 3. September 1866 zwischen dem Großherzogtum Hessen und dem Königreich Preußen wurde der Landgerichtsbezirk Gladenbach preußisch. Im Juni 1867 erging eine königliche Verordnung, die die Gerichtsverfassung im vormaligen Herzogtum Nassau und den vormals zum Großherzogtum Hessen gehörenden Gebietsteilen neu ordnete. Die bisherigen Gerichtsbehörden sollten aufgehoben und durch Amtsgerichte in erster, Kreisgerichte in zweiter und ein Appellationsgericht in dritter Instanz ersetzt werden. Im Zuge dessen erfolgte am 1. September 1867 die Umbenennung des bisherigen Landgerichts in Amtsgericht Gladenbach. Die Gerichte der übergeordneten Instanzen waren das Kreisgericht Dillenburg und das Appellationsgericht Wiesbaden. Aufgrund des Gerichtsverfassungsgesetzes 1877 kam es mit Wirkung zum 1. Oktober 1879 zum Wechsel des Amtsgerichts in den Bezirk des neu errichteten Landgerichts Marburg.

Vom 1. Oktober 1944 bis 1. Januar 1949 gehörte das Amtsgericht Gladenbach zum Landgerichtsbezirk Limburg, danach aber wieder zum Landgerichtsbezirk Marburg. Am 1. Juli 1968 erfolgte die Aufhebung des Amtsgerichts Gladenbach, welches fortan nur noch als Zweigstelle des Amtsgerichts Biedenkopf fungierte. Am 1. November 2003 wurde diese Zweigstelle schließlich aufgelöst. Mit dem Wechsel von Roßbach  1974 in den Kreis Wetzlar erfolgte auch die Zulegung zum Bereich des Amtsgerichts Wetzlar.
Die übergeordneten Instanzen sind jetzt das Landgericht Limburg, das Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main sowie der Bundesgerichtshof als letzte Instanz.

Bevölkerung

Einwohnerentwicklung
 Quelle: Historisches Ortslexikon

Religionszugehörigkeit

Erwerbstätigkeit

Politik

Ortsbeirat
Roßbach verfügt über einen dreiköpfigen Ortsbeirat mit Ortsvorsteher. Nach den Kommunalwahlen in Hessen 2021 ist der Ortsvorsteher Ernst Dix.

Wappen
Am 31. August 1957 genehmigte der Hessische Minister des Innern das Wappen mit folgender Beschreibung:

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Kulturdenkmäler
Siehe Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Roßbach

Naturdenkmäler
 Dicke Eiche mit einem Brusthöhenumfang 7,25 m (2014).
 Alte Eiche mit einem Brusthöhenumfang von 6,02 m (2014).

Literatur
 Frank Rudolph: Roßbach im Lahn-Dill-Kreis. Dorfgeschichte. Kirchengeschichte. Regionalgeschichte 1304-2013. Selbstverlag, Niederweidbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043087-9.

Weblinks
 Ortsteil Roßbach. In: Webauftritt der Gemeinde Bischoffen.

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Bischoffen
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Lahn-Dill-Kreis)
Ersterwähnung 1304
Gemeindeauflösung 1972

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Home Nigerian News Politics ICPC Queries N5.6bn Constituency Projects In Foreign Affairs, Justice Ministries' Budget
ICPC Queries N5.6bn Constituency Projects In Foreign Affairs, Justice Ministries' Budget
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoya, has expressed dissatisfaction over N5.6billion allocated to the budgets of ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice for constituency projects.
A statement signed by the spokesperson of the commission, Mrs. Rasheedat Okoduwa, said the chairman spoke at a media roundtable in Abuja to promote the 'My Constituency, My Project' initiative of the commission.
It said he expressed concern that constituency projects, which principally were projects and empowerment programmes designed to bring development to rural communities nationwide, had been included the budgets of the foreign affairs and other non-relevant ministries and agencies.
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"What is constituency project doing in Foreign Affairs? We will ask questions with this kind of allocation," the ICPC boss was quoted as saying in the statement.
He also revealed that both the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice had the sum of N5.6 billion inserted in the 2019 budget for the execution of zonal intervention projects.
He also disclosed that a breakdown of the 2019 allocation for zonal interventional projects showed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) would spend N2.9 billion on constituency projects.
Owasanoye added that the allocation of N2.7 billion to the Ministry of Justice in the same budget brought to the fore some of the anomalies surrounding the implementation of constituency projects across the country.
He noted that only about 60 percent of constituency projects have been completed with a lot of them executed in shoddy ways due to poor technical designs, impositions and other sundry irregularities.
He stressed that the commission would not give up on tracking of constituency projects as long as government kept funding them and therefore called on local communities to own the projects for themselves.
Professor Owasanoye also called for the handover of zonal intervention projects to local government authorities upon completion for effective maintenance and sustainability of the projects.
He said, "If somebody had nominated a project and succeeded in getting the project to the community, it is not the duty of the person to maintain it. Communities need to understand that it was public funds that were used. They need to take ownership. We recommend that the project needs to be handed over to the local government for the community to take over."
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Our family law attorneys will work hard to help guide you through the divorce and separation process, while arranging for custody or visitation either via a mutual agreement with the child's mother or by seeking help from the courts. A top family law professional can also help to negotiate child support payments (or re-negotiate child support payments if your financial situation changes), offer representation in mediation proceedings and refer you to helpful resources.
One right that dads can count on is your right to an attorney. Cerritos father's rights attorney Paul J. Duron defends divorced fathers' entitlements, single father rights, and unwed dads rights. With attorney Paul J. Duron at your side, you can be confident that your parental entitlements will not be taken from you. If you're a dad who is divorcing, or if you need a child support, child custody, or child visitation order modified, get help from someone who routinely and successfully represents dads and defends their rights. Call family law lawyer Paul J. Duron today at 562-309-8520.
Cerritos father's entitlements attorney Paul Duron aggressively protects dads' rights in contested and uncontested divorces and in legal separations. Fathers and their children have a unique relationship that must be respected and safeguarded. As an attorney for fathers' rights, Paul Duron offers legal counsel and aggressive advocacy to dads and their children across Los Angeles County. A father's participation in a child's life – just like a mother's participation – is imperative in raising a healthy, happy, well-adjusted child. Nothing is more important than ensuring that you'll continue to be a part of your child's life. Let attorney Paul Duron help you deal with divorce and its aftermath while fully protecting your legal entitlements.
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Q: How to setup multi instance Websockets in AWS? Trying to build a websocket based application in Spring Boot to be hosted on ec2 instance of AWS. However, whenever I try to deploy it in a multi instance setup, some of the messages are not being received. I suspect that because of connection being made to a different server and of some of the request being processed by another server, those messages are not being received by the client. Once I run the application as single instance, it works fine.
I checked the documentation for Spring Cloud but that was not of much help iin case of AWS EC2.
How can I deploy websocket based Spring Boot application on AWS in more than one instance?
Websocket configuration is as follows:
@Configuration
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
public class WebSocketConfig implements WebSocketMessageBrokerConfigurer {

  @Override
  public void configureMessageBroker(MessageBrokerRegistry config) {
    config.enableSimpleBroker("/topic", "/user");
    config.setApplicationDestinationPrefixes("/app");
    config.setUserDestinationPrefix("/user");
  }

  @Override
  public void registerStompEndpoints(StompEndpointRegistry registry) {
      registry.addEndpoint("/websocket").setAllowedOriginPatterns("*");
      registry.addEndpoint("/websocket").setAllowedOriginPatterns("*").withSockJS();
  }

}

Sending the message to specific user using SimpMessagingTemplate:
simpMessagingTemplate.convertAndSendToUser(message.getUserId(), "/send",
                        message);

What changes should I do on the configuration side? or while deploying on ec2 instance?

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Webinar participants say wireless priority status essential for utilities
Utility companies have an increasing array of options to consider when charting a path forward for their communications systems, but the prospect of utilizing priority wireless access—especially on spectrum licensed to FirstNet for the first nationwide broadband network for public safety—remains a challenge.
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Elevating their wireless status will be a primary concern for utilities as they work with FirstNet to explore the possible role of utilities in the development and operation of the new network, utility-communications experts said during a recent IWCE's Urgent Communications webinar.
"During incidents where we depend on wireless communications, there is a huge impact on us, the fact that we come so low down on the totem pole on the FCC wireless priority access," Wendell Little, IT communications operations department manager for Con Edison in New York, said.
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Little noted that it was important to Con Edison to have priority access on its wireless communications system, which is why the electric provider opted to deploy a private iDEN system when it made the transition from analog to digital push-to-talk technologies several years ago.
Priority access will be just as crucial in the future. Some applications—for instance, automated meter reading—can be preempted in a case of emergency, but core functionalities used to monitor whether a utility network is working properly cannot be turned off, according to Brett Kilbourne, vice president of government and industry affairs and deputy counsel for the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC).
Kilbourne outlined several different spectrum options that utilities can consider, including buying airwaves on the secondary market and pursuing a partnership arrangement with FirstNet. In a recently concluded proceeding, public-safety groups were divided on the question of whether utilities should receive priority access as part of a sharing arrangement with FirstNet.
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Narrowing the design down for Pillow Talk. The interior decoration will make or break this show. I have been doing lots of research, now I must locate furniture and period fabrics. Going to to hit up Harry Hines Blvd fabric stores in a couple of weeks.


Once you have decided on the property that you want to buy, the process is this.
With this document from the Property Registry, you'll find out if the property is free of debt, if it really belongs to the seller, and if the description of the property matches what the buyer has been told (to avoid surprises about missing (or not declared) square meters).
The the seller and the buyer must sign a contract in place until the public deed of purchase is ready. It's usually a simple document in which the seller expresses their intent to transfer the property to the buyer, and the buyer expresses their intent to buy at the price and conditions agreed upon. At this time, the buyer also gives to the seller a percentage of the agreed-upon price. The typical agreement in Spain (called arras) is if the buyer backs out of the contract, they lose the deposit; if the seller backs out, they have to pay double. Of course, the buyer and seller may choose another type of agreement if they prefer. You should also know that in case you sign a purchase agreement (contrato de compraventa), and "not arras" the seller has the right to oblige you to buy, so we recommend the arras.
If you get a mortgage, you will become acquainted with an appraiser (tasador). The bank requires an appraiser to ensure that their loan to you is safe. You will need to pay for the appraiser's work, usually between 300-500 euros. Note that the tasador by law is a licensed architect, so even if you don't need a mortgage, but have doubts about the structural integrity of the house, you might want to hire an appraiser.
If the seller is an individual, the buyer pays a tax of 7% (8% in some regions) of the price specified in the deed. If the seller is a real estate developer and the building or land to be built on represents a first-time transfer, then the buyer pays VAT tax instead, meaning 4% for housing, 18% otherwise. If for housing, you have to add a stamp tax, in this case reduced to 0.5%, depending on the region (for Madrid it's 1.5%). Some special conditions apply for the Canary Islands.
If you want to be sure that your rights to the property are fully protected, you must register your title at the local office. (Some small towns don't have an office, some big cities have many -- check the original deed of the seller to find out which office corresponds to you). You will be charged a standard fee (about .4% of the first 6010 euros, going down to .02% for over 6,010,121 euros).


My sister Erin died on Memorial Day, May 26, 2008. She was 33 years old. She died of congestive heart failure due to intoxication of medication. At the time of her death she was not abusing any type of medication, but the combination of some of her meds did cause her death. She always told me that she felt her story needed to be told. She felt she was having this experience so that others could learn from her mistakes. She taught me so much about endurance, love, compassion and never giving up.
Erin was an amazing person. She was always serving. At home growing up, Erin wouldn't talk a lot, but she was always there serving us. When I got off my mission in 1994, Erin was my roommate at Ricks College. We did everything together. She became my new companion and it was hard to be away from her. When we moved to Utah we lived together for several more years. She was my best friend. She was always kind and loving to me. We had so many wonderful experiences together. Sometimes it is hard for me to drive around town now. I have memories of her everywhere. I see them before me and I feel this deep pain and ache for my sister.
Erin had health problems for most of her life, but she hardly ever complained. Most people would never know how much she suffered at times, including me. She had severe allergies that kept her from eating, chronic kidney stones and chronic bronchitis, just to name a few symptoms. After Erin moved to Ogdento attend Weber State, I didn't see her as often. She was always so busy. I really did not realize how sick she was until one time she called and asked me to be with her while she was waiting for a kidney stone to pass. I cried all night with her. I could do nothing but watch her suffer. I found out that night that she had suffered many times like that before, but on her own.
I think it was around that time, in 1999 that she might have started self medicating herself. She was a nursing student at Weber State and almost workedherself to death. Erin had a learning disability that made it hard for her to talk. She could think of things to say but couldn't always express those thoughts with words.Despite having the learning disability, she passed all of her classes. She endured a lot of harsh criticism from one of her teachers because of her disability. Her teacher even implied to some of the other students that Erin was "stupid." Erin fought hard against that teacher and brought more awareness to the school about learning disabilities. She endured that trial with amazing grace, but inside I really think it killed her. She started to change shortly after she graduated. She moved back to Orem to live with me and I could sense that something about her had changed.
After I got married in 2001, Erin moved to Salt Lake. She seemed so lost, but as always she worked hard and remained positive. She had roommates that were so mean to her. They would say mean things to her and steal her medication. She had throat surgery for some issues she had with hyperparathyroidism. They removed one parathyroid but her PTH was never normal. She had a painful recovery and needed pain meds, but one of her roommates broke into her room and stole the medication she needed. Erin eventually moved in with our older sister and got a great job at a hospital working with newborns.
I started to notice some significant changes in Erin. She didn't seem very happy and complained a lot. It was getting harder and harder to please her or find something to make her happy. She got irritated easily and her health problems really started to increase. She started to tell me about different medicines she had tried and I remember being concerned, but honestly didn't give it much thought. She often complained about our sister, who was nothing but generous and kind. After watching her struggle through several more health problems and financial issues, I suggested that she move home. I regret that I ever gave her that advice.
realized something really bad was happening. She did end up going home that day, but she was never the same person again.
To say the next 2 years were terrible is putting it mildly. Our family lived in constant fear that Erin would die. She became sneaky, dishonest, sloppy, angry and defensive. She lied, stole, ruined my parents property and figured out how to get medication on the internet. I couldn't tell you what she took now, but she took a lot of it. She had meds delivered to a Fed Ex store so my parents wouldn't know. She did a lot of things that I don't even know about. Things my parents have never told us because it was just too hard and painful to explain. My siblings that lived in Colorado close to Erin had to ban her from seeing their children. They didn't trust her. She got 2 DUI's, lost her license, totaled her car and couldn't keep a job. At one point my brother and sister confronted her and asked if she was suicidal. They wanted her to know they were aware of her struggles and they were there to help her. We didn't realize even then how much lower she would have to go.
Erin eventually ended up going to a place called Santa Fe house. My parents were ready to let her live on the streets and this was the alternative. It was a drug rehabilitation center. At this point in her life she really was trying to get better, but it turned out to be a disaster. They treated her terribly and she eventually left the program and moved back in with my parents. While she was in rehab, my second child was born. It was so hard not to have Erin there. I wanted her there, but felt grateful she couldn't come. It had started to become easier to ignore Erin. I wouldn't answer her calls because it was just so hard to talk to her. I didn't want to hear all the garbage and I just didn't have the energy to deal with the constant issues. I still did not even realize until after Erin died how terrible things really were. My parents endured some awful things during that 4 years. If only I could turn back time, I would have believed my parents and given them more support.
One good thing about rehab for Erin was that she finally decided she was going to make important changes in her life. She worked regularly with her Bishop and he suggested she go to the LDS churches 12 step program. She tried with all her heart to overcome her addictions. I learned that a lot of times with addictions, you can pick up other issues along the way. Erin continued to have severe health problems and developed severe anxiety. She had so many fears, but she tried to overcome them. She would go to the library and check out self help books. She would often make a small change, but then a health issue or sometimes a mental issue due to meds would cause a huge setback. I could see she was making some progress and felt hopeful, only to watch her fall again. It was so painful and upsetting to watch. When she came to visit me I had to hide all medication and give her strict rules. She did seem to be a little better when she would come to Utah to visit. She felt at home here and she loved being with my kids. She was working so hard to come back. She wanted to start over and be that amazing, hard working, talented and beautiful girl again. Each time she would fall, she would come back a little stronger. I have never seen anyone work as hard as Erin did to get better and to come back to who she really was.
I remember in January of 2008 Erin called to tell me that she had lost 10 pounds. She had been working out and eating better. She told me this was her year. She felt impressed that things were going to change and she was so anxious to get going. I felt so excited for her. I was so proud of her and finally starting to feel that it was possible for her to change.
Just as she started to get on that good path and establish good habits, she had another setback. She was walking outside after a snow storm and slipped on the ice. It caused her a lot of pain and she couldn't do much. She also got strep throat and bronchitus around the same time. I remember feeling so frustrated for her and asking Heavenly Father to just give her a break. She had been trying so hard! Why did these things always happen to her?
She continued to work hard for the next several months to come back. She always had setbacks, but she was making progress. Erin and my mom decided to come to Utah in May to attend a family wedding. I felt very nervous for Erin to come. I didn't know what to expect. But it was a wonderful visit. It was so nice to be with her. And I felt impressed not to make rules for her. There were also a couple of things that she did while she was staying at my house that bugged me. I almost said something to her, but felt prompted not to say anything at all. I am so grateful I didn't. When she was leaving, I remember thinking that our time together was just too short. I told her I wished she could have stayed longer. It was hard to see her go.
I was shopping with my sister's at Old Navy when we found out Erin had passed away. She had been very sick for 4 days with another case of bronchitus. I had called to talk to her but my mom said she was too sick. My parents were both with her when she died. She was walking down the hall with my mom and fell down on her knees and then fell flat on her face. She never caught herself so we believe that she died before she hit the ground. It was a tender mercy to us to have her die quickly. My mom dialed 911 while my dad tried to turn her over, but he could never move her. The paramedics tried to revive her for over an hour, but they could never even get any oxygen inside her body. My parents called us and the first thought I had was she is finally free of that sick body. Her body was like a prison to her. It all seemed to make sense to me at that moment. Erin had tried for so many years to do it on her own. She suffered through pain and sickness, disappointments, huge setbacks and trials. I know all of us go through those things, we all have trials, we all have hard things happen. It just seemed to me that Erin never, ever got a break. And after all those years of struggle, she took things into her own hands and started to medicate herself. My sister became a drug addict and she died because of the effects of medication.
When Erin died, I had to absorb myself in everything that was hers. And I had to see her. We went to the funeral home and I had to hold her hands and stroke her face. I smelled her hair and looked at her beautiful face. As weird as it sounds, I discovered that even though she had been embalmed, her earlobes were still soft. I would stroke them over and over. I had to put on her make-up for the day of the funeral. I had to help pick out her temple dress. I had to speak at the funeral. I had to go through her room and decide what to do with her things. I had to design and pick out her gravestone. And I had so much guilt. Why didn't I save her? Why didn't I take her away from the struggles she had? Why did she struggle with addiction when she was so strong? Why was I ever unkind to her? Why didn't I do more for her? Why didn't I listen to the promptings I had to serve her more? What was going to happen to her? What was she accountable for? So many questions still flood my mind. Sometimes I shut them out because they are so painful.
I miss Erin deeply. It feels like I lost her years ago, not just on the day she died. As her world became absorbed with medication and other influences, I lost her. I have read every journal, gone through every picture and every item in her room to try and find her again. I wake up thinking about her and not a day goes by that I don't want her with me. I miss her laugh, her dancing, her cooking and her hugs. She taught me so many wonderful things. Despite her addiction, she had a deep love and testimony of Jesus Christ that never waivered. Erin wanted others to know, so when they ask what happened to her, I tell them. I want to share her story so that maybe it will help someone else. It is painful to live without her but in her lifetime she taught me so much. I know I will continue to learn from her for the rest of my life.
I lost a very dear friend to addiction. She died when she was 26 yrs old. I asked many of the same questions you did and still do. I served as a 12 step missionary for the LDS Church and met many other people who had a substance addiction. I know first hand how difficult it is to deal with an addict's drug seeking, drug induced behavior. Even though they can behave so terribly, they still need to be loved. They are struggling with an almost impossible burden to overcome. I am inspired by the love you showed your sister. I am inspired by the love and care your parents gave to your sister. I hope that your family can find peace with her passing. I am positive that your sister loved you and wanted to change. With addiction, a person's love for others and desire to change, most of the time, are not enough to save themselves. Addiction is a terrible disease, no less worse than any other chronic, life threatening disease. Thank you for telling your story.
Wow. Thank you for posting this story. As I grew up in your and Erin's ward (hi!) I remember Erin just as you described her in the earlier paragraphs. Kind, tender-hearted, quiet. I had no idea she suffered so much. I do remember hearing about her last years and all I remember thinking was Erin??? It made no sense. Well it does now...as much as these things can make sense. You're a great big sister and I'm sure Erin knew and knows that. Thanks again for writing and sharing such a beautiful and heart wrenching story.
Thank you for your story. My sister passed away 5 months ago. She also was a nurse & the last year of her life, she was changing. A New boyfriend who wanted her to try drugs to relieve her constant pain. She had suffered from severe asthma since she was 4. She too collapsed on my moms kitchen floor and they never could revive her. Her autopsy showed no drugs & she died from bronchial asthma. she was only 38. Everything reminds us of her. I know we will be together again, but it's so hard to live on this earth without her. When I read about her soft earlobes, I too felt compelled to rub my sisters ears because they were so soft. Thank you for sharing your story. Our family is on a mission to make sure people know how serious asthma can be. We fund raise for the American Lung Association now in her memory. No one can take away a sister bond.
We have dealt with drug addiction for years with different family members. It is a horrible illness. There are times that I can't imagine they will ever get better... Be grateful that your beautiful sister is in the hands of the Master Healer. He and He alone has the power to help heal her and He will! Best wishes to you and your family. I truly feel your pain.
I felt such a strong pull to read this blog post. I'll be 33 next month. In January 2009 I was admitted to the hospital and was there nearly a month for parathyroid problems and had a parathyroidectomy, needed a walker for a while suffering short term osteoporosis all while recovering from having surgery on my foot. I had many more illnesses that year, got pregnant with my 4th child, dealing with mental illness issues for the past 10 years, had my 4th child and seriously felt like I needed a break, only to be told that my oldest child had terminal brain cancer. At times I think that I had a problem with medications, while other times I feel I just needed something for all the physical and emotional pain that I was enduring. My heart goes out to your family. I feel so much for your sister... I feel that maybe I'm not so alone in things that are happening in life. I felt I needed to respond to this post. Although I'm struggling with faith right now... you are in my thoughts.
Thank you for sharing your story. I lost my brother last month to what will probably be declared an over dose. He was my best friend and only sibling. I can't imagine going through life without my life long buddy, but now I'm forced to. The pain is immense.
It is comforting and wonderful to read the love spilling out onto the page,a very real picture of the suffering and the residual damage addiction causes to so many people around an addict. I myself am,I like to say, a recovered addict, since God has after 13 years of battling addiction, and depression caused by it self loathing to the point of considering suicide, lifted the desire to want ot self medicate. I still have ot watch myself constantly, not to cross-addict and feel my feelings that surround me when I feel the urge to take a tranquiliser,sleeping pill even though those were not what I was hooked on- they do offer a osrt of escape from terribly difficult feelings that are sometimes seemingly impossible to process, and dela with life on life's terms. I am a single mother to 2 beautiful daughters and fell pregnant at the height of my drug use- which I was tricked into trying by, who is now my ex husband, and th efather of my girls. H etold me that this stuff would take away my headache! yeah right! on a good day I thank God for my addiction as it brought me to my knees, and made me realize I needed God, who I previously didnt believe I needed. I had my life fully under control! So, in His goodness he sent me a brick to smash my windscreen at mach one speed to give me a wake up call! Life has not been kind and its one huge struggle currently but I DO BELIEVE that the best is yet ahead. With my drug of choice, there is evidently a 2% lifetime recovery rate, and I plan to be staying in that catagory and finishing strong in this life. You are all so correct about addiction-it is a demon that roars into your very depths of your soul and holds you prisoner, without a way out to be seen. its entrapment and utter destruction and its not wanted by the person trapped. A craving, I can only liken it for non addicts, to feeling so starving hungry and having no food to eat. It alters who you are and how you behave in that state. Its all you can think of and your mind begins to accelerate into fast, wildly, flinging thoughts all around getting the stuff to make the 'hunger to away".Its pure, unadulterated and undiluted hell! I like Winston Churchill quote "if you are going through hell, keep going". My heart goes out to all of you who have suffered such devestating loss in your life through this despicable, evil tool, used to prey on those with emotional issues and tricked into believing it will "heal' the hurts. God bless you one and all. Lets all keep hanging onto Jesus, He is the ultimate overcomer.. in my case.. clinging to Him for dear life, one day at a time to be here to raise my girls well and see all of us lead good, healthy and fulfilling lives.
what a beautiful lady Erin was!


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Q: How do I restore a plain text postgres .backup file I exported a postgres db from pgAdmin in a plain format because I wanted to search the whole db text. I then tried to restore the database back but it gives an error saying that the archive file is not valid archive file. How do I restore the db back?

A: It would appear that the PLAIN format is SQL. To Quote the documentation:

pg_dump does not support all options for all backup file formats.
  Particularly, to backup blobs the PLAIN format can not be used. Also,
  a PLAIN file can not be interpreted, and can not be restored using
  pgAdmin. The PLAIN format will create an SQL script that can be
  executed using the psql tool. For standard backup and restore
  purposes, the COMPRESS and TAR options are recommended.

I'm assuming you could restore using something like (on unix):
psql < backup-file

or from inside psql prompt (newdb is an empty db)
psql newdb
newdb=# \i backup-file

You might have to run as privileged user 'postgres' (on unix, say) or pass the appropriate credentials for the role to psql so that it can create the db and roles and other entities indicated by the backup-file. The create database and role statements might not be present in the backup depending on whether it has the entire server (it has) or just one database (you should create the db and role(s)). So you'd have to create them before restoring it.


So, as you can probably gather I am quite a big fan of Lindsey Buckingham. In fact I'm convinced I am the biggest solo career fan of his, due to me watching countless interviews, owning many promo copies, imported 45 solo singles, a copy of Out Of The Cradle on vinyl and many, many, many other things.
I come to you today to ask you one simple question. If you were to rank every song on all of his solo albums what would they be.
I'll give you mine so you can have an example.
So that's kind of an example of it. If you guys don't mind I'm really curious what your ranking of this album and other albums by him would be.
P.S. I'll post my other rankings in the comments of this thread.
I forgot to mention if you don't mind could you rank them from your absolute favorite from the album to the absolute worst, wouldn't piss on it if it were on fire, from the album.
thanks for starting the thread too. i need to do a search, but we had a number of related threads in the past, about each album (possibly?), so might consider resurrecting some of them now? i kinda vaguely remember ranking albums and songs on albums somewhere, but not sure whether it was here or in some FB group.
Law and Order is my least favorite LB solo album (Seeds is my favorite), and there are just a few songs on there that i love, for different reasons. i detest Trouble btw. here's my order from favorite and down the line.
we also have an album ranking thread, and also various threads discussing different types of LB songs.
it is really a time for new LB solo album - it's been way too long with this sitting around waiting on FM!
Ah! Thank you for such a warm welcome! You guys are too nice.
As for my other rankings, here they are in all of their Times New Roman glory.
Do not worry, there is still more to come!
I'm gonna skip "Out Of The Cradle" because no joke that's like my favorite album I've listened to, and I've listened to a lot of albums, and it is quite a task coming up with a definitive ranking. So, I will skip to Under The Skin which is another album that I love, but is less of a task to rank.
Shut Us Down is the piece de resistance of the Under The Skin Tour.


I have a set of chocks I took off my GB. Free to anyone who could use them. Just pay the freight. See attached photo. Contact me thru GB forum message.
I am very interested in these. My I send you my ups no.?
If these chocks are still available, I would be interested. BTW I sent two responses through the GB message system, but got no reply.


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Islamic State may finally efface the traces of lost empires at Palmyra
After witnessing the rise and fall of many empires, the ancient site of Palmyra is under threat from Islamic State.
Phillip George
Phillip George, UNSW
"Surpassing disaster" is a term the Lebanese artist, writer and film theorist Jalal Toufic coined as Lebanon emerged from years of catastrophic civil war in the early 1990s. When I asked him for the meaning of the term, he said it was when there is a disaster then things get much worse. "Surpassing disaster" is embodied by the surviving population of Syria.
News outlets in recent days have been reporting that the archaeological site of Palmyra – some 215 kilometres north-east of the Syrian capital Damascus – is under threat from Islamic State. News continues to mount of civilian casualties, conflict deaths and executions.
Before looking at the prospect of the destruction of this World Heritage site, however, the disaster the Syrian people endure every day must be acknowledged.
One of the most compelling images of the Syrian civil war so far is the photograph below credited to the United Nations and Associated Press. The image of Palestinian refuges lining up for food aid in the bomb-ravaged neighbourhood of Yarmouk, a refugee camp housing the largest Palestinian population in Syria, opens a small window into the nightmare that is contemporary Syria.
Palestinian and Syrian residents of Yarmuk Palestinian Refugee Camp crowding in a destroyed street as food is distributed, in Damascus.
EPA/United Nation Relief and Works Agency
Militarised factions from the Free Syrian Army to Islamic State have fought to claim the camp. As the disaster continues, these Palestinian refuges have now become Palestinian/Syrian refuges.
In Syria and across the Middle East histories have overlapped in this way for thousands of years. This cradle of civilisation is rich in landmarks, artifacts and the cultural traces of empires past and present. The citizens of Yarmouk, for example, find themselves in their current predicament thanks to a set of consequences set in train by the end of the second world war.
Ancient Palymra
Palmyra bears the traces of many histories. It is now witness to an attempt by Islamic State to establish the next empire, a 21st- century Caliphate.
In 2005 I travelled to Palymra, which is located adjacent to the modern city of Tadmur in the Homs province of Syria. One of the images I made then documents these traces of history: in the foreground, the rubble of multiple empires is mixed together and ground into dust.
Phillip George, Trace #1 (2005), Medium C type print, size 70cmx230cm.
To the left of frame, the fusion between the local and Greco-Roman colonnades, to the right on top of the steep hill, the Mamluk Castle named Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma'ani. On the hill to the left of the castle there is a Syrian Army communications tower, which was controlled by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad and is now in the hands of Islamic State.
Occupation of the oasis of Palmyra can be dated from Neolithic settlements; nomadic tribes made the area a station for trade. Later it became a caravanserai. The city is located on the major trade routes that ranged from Europe to China, north to the Black Sea and south to Yemen.
To list the peoples that passed through the area is to list half of humanity. Amorites, an ancient Semitic speaking tribe, were located in the area. The Assyrians, Hebrew tribes, the Seleucid Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, Crusaders, the Rashidun Caliphate, Ummayad and Abbassid Empires, the Maluks, the Ottoman Empire, Arameans and Amorites. Arabs, Jews, Greeks and Persians have all left their marks in Palmyra.
A second image (below), made from the vantage point of Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma'ani Castle, offers a panoramic vista over much of the extensive site.
In the far distance, left of the frame, are the famous Palmyra palm trees. Just to left of those are the colonnades and the agora, to the right of the agora excavation holes left by tomb robbers and archaeologists. To the right of frame are the towering tombs of the necropolis.
Standing at Fakhr-al-Din al-Ma'ani Castle it is easy to imagine the vast sweep of tribes, traders, invaders, pilgrims, colonisers and empire builders as they swept through the area. The view back in time stretches for millennia.
Phillip George, Palmyra (2006), Medium C type print, size 110cmx300cm.
Palmyra today
The site is now once again witness to an invasion – and this one could be its last.
American historian Robert D Kaplan argued in his 2013 book The Revenge of Geography that geography really matters. The mountains of Afghanistan neutralised American technological power. By contrast the vast flat lands of the Arabian Peninsula, according to Kaplan, need a "strong man" to rule them.
At Palmyra great empires sweep past and hold on for a time until they are supplanted by a stronger, more brutal empire.
Saddam Hussein was such a strong man. He was liquidated by Paul Bremer, George W. Bush's man on the ground in Iraq – who also sacked almost everyone in the Iraqi Ba'ath party, including the Army of Iraq and its Ba'ath party leaders.
History overlaps. The military leaders of the Ba'ath party are back – and now they lead Islamic State and are fighting the military wing of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Ba'ath party.
Palmyra is a desert town easier to capture than hold. The disaster for human history is that to take back Palmyra, it may well be destroyed in the fighting.
Smoke rises after a rocket attack near the ancient oasis city of Palmyra.
EPA/STR
Beyond Palmyra
The Northern Sinai is a site that is home to another Islamic State franchise.
Far from the control of Cairo, it's the location of a site significant to all the Abrahamic traditions: Mt Sinai, the place where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments. Located at the base of the mountain is St Catherine's Monastery.
Among its many treasures is the Achtiname of Muhammad, the testament of the Prophet Muhammad granting protection and other privileges to the Christian monks of Saint Catherine's. One wonders if or when Islamic State reach this place they will take notice of the Prophet's testament.
Phillip George, Associate Professor, UNSW Art & Design , UNSW
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In the spring, the sun gets stronger, flowers bloom and the trees get new leaves. Bees are everywhere and they move from flower to flower, collecting pollen and helping plants bear fruit by cross-pollinizing. The picture on the right shows a honeybee collecting the pollen from a dandelion (a type of yellow flower). When bees make honey, the taste of the honey depends on the type of flowers that they visited in order to get the pollen necessary to make the honey. In the United States alone, there are more than 300 varieties of honey. One of the most common types is made from the pollen of clovers. The clover is a white flower.
In the pictures below, the little, red bug (in the center of the picture) that is crawling across the white-flowering bush is called a ladybug. Ladybugs are very common in the United States. So much so that they have become a part of folk wisdom. It is said that the number and size of the black dots on a ladybug's back is a good predictor of the coming winter. Supposedly, the more black dots on the ladybug's back, the harsher (colder and snowier) the winter will be.
The summer is the part of the year when the sun is the strongest, the days are long and the nights are short. It is the hottest time of year. In the northern hemisphere, the summer months are June, July and August.
Fall is the season when it begins to get colder. The sun starts to get weaker and the leaves on deciduous trees begin to change their color from green to reds, oranges, yellows and browns. Below is a picture of a metal structure, adorned with red and orange lights, in the shape of the silhouette of a woman. In the background, the foliage (leaves) of two trees is well into its autumn discoloration.
Winter is the coldest season. Because of the tilt of the earth's axis and its relative position within its orbit around the sun, it is when number of daylight hours is lowest. At noon in the winter time, when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, it still makes a low angle with the horizon. The reduction in direct sunlight causes the temperatures to be much lower in the Northern Hemisphere in December, January and February and in the Southern Hemisphere in June, July and August. In some places, including most of the northern states in the United States and all of Canada, it will snow. It is when plants grow the least, if at all. Some animals – like bears – will go into hibernation (long periods of sleep).
Storm fronts occur when a low-pressure body of air carrying moisture pushes out a high-pressure, sunny weather system. This encounter can cause violent changes in the atmosphere, always accompanied by wind, sometimes bringing hail and very often causing severe thunderstorms.
During a sunset the clouds turn many shades of red, orange, pink, purple, gray and yellow. They are always beautiful when the sun is at least partially visible. This is a picture of the sun setting over the Carribean Sea.
Clouds can be light and fluffy, like the one in the picture on the left of a sunny day, or they can be dark and menacing, like those of the storm looming overhead in the picture on the right.
A rainbow occurs when there is rain in front of you and the sun is shining from behind your back. There are legends that tell of a pot of gold at the end of any rainbow. This is impossible since the rainbow has a position relative to the observer and moves as the observer moves.


Going on a course in Alicante? Read this first!!
Do you want to learn Spanish and meet a lot of people from all over the world? Then you have to take a Spanish course in Alicante! The city is full of international students and it's very easy to get to know to them, and not only in your language school. You only have to go out in the Barrio!
Of course there are many "barrios" but when you talk of THE Barrio then everybody knows what you mean. Although Alicante has about 320,000 inhabitants, it seems smaller because in the Barrio you always meet people you know.


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Q: Java JFreeChart with dynamic data I am facing some problems with JFreeChart with Java.
I am retriving data from remote database to make them display in a Panel from my application.

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*The problem: when I get the data, it does not display directly on the panel. I have to minimize and maximize the form to make the data being loaded.

*I need this data to be refreshing every minute. I was thinking about a Timer but I don't really know how to integrate it.
Here is part of the code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class GetRequest implements Runnable{

    public BufferedReader _input = null;
    public Socket clientSocket = null;
    public DrawChart draw;
    public List<Double> values_1, values_2, values_3, values_4;
    public JPanel _panel;

    public GetRequest(Socket socket, JPanel panel){
        clientSocket = socket;
        draw = new DrawChart();
        _panel = panel;
        values_1 = new ArrayList<Double>();
        values_2 = new ArrayList<Double>();
        values_3 = new ArrayList<Double>();
    }

    @Override
    public void run(){
        while(true){

            try{
                _input = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream ()));
                String line = _input.readLine ();

                String[] clineComat = line.split (",");
                for(int i = 0 ;i<clineComat.length;i++){

                    String[] clineSemiComa_ = clineComat[i].split (";");
                    System.out.println(">"+clineComat[i]);
                    values_1.add (Double.parseDouble (clineSemiComa_[0])+1);
                    values_2.add (Double.parseDouble (clineSemiComa_[1])+1);
                    values_3.add (Double.parseDouble (clineSemiComa_[2]));
                }

                EventQueue.invokeLater (new Runnable(){
                public void run(){
                    draw.displayPie (_panel, values_1, values_2, values_3);
                }
            });
            }
            catch(IOException e){e.printStackTrace ();}
        }
    }}

and this is the code of the DrawChart.java
import  org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import  org.jfree.chart.ChartPanel;
import  org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import  org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset;
import org.jfree.data.category.CategoryDataset;
import java.util.List;
import java.lang.Float;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class DrawChart {

    public void displayPie(JPanel jpanel, List<Double> values_1, List<Double> values_2, List<Double> values_3) {

        CategoryDataset data = createDataset(values_1, values_2, values_3);
        //create a chart...
        JFreeChart chart=ChartFactory.createBarChart ("", null, null, data, PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);
        chart = ChartFactory.createLineChart ("", null, null, data, PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);

        //create and display a frame...
        ChartPanel panel=new ChartPanel(chart);
        panel.setPreferredSize (new Dimension(700,300));
        jpanel.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());
        jpanel.add (panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        jpanel.setVisible(true);
        }

    public static CategoryDataset createDataset(List<Double> a, List<Double> b, List<Double> c) {

        String series1 = "Series1";
        String series2 = "Series2";
        String series3 = "Series3";

        final DefaultCategoryDataset dataset = new DefaultCategoryDataset();

        if(a.size () != 0 && b.size () != 0 && c.size () != 0 ) {

            for(int i=0;i<a.size ();i++) {
                dataset.addValue(a.get (i), series1, i+1+"");
            }

            for(int i=0;i<b.size ();i++) {
                dataset.addValue(b.get (i), series2, i+1+"");
            }

            for(int i=0;i<c.size ();i++) {
                dataset.addValue(c.get (i), series3, i+1+"");
            }

        }

        return dataset;
    }
}

How can I solve this ? Does anyone has done a similar ?
Thanks

A: I may be overlooking a JFreeChart problem, but drawing in Swing must occur on the event dispatch thread. In contrast, your call to displayPie() occurs from an anonymous Runnable in GetRequest. Common remedies include these:

*

*EventQueue.invokeLater, illustrated here.

*SwingWorker, illustrated here.

*javax.swing.Timer for periodic updates, illustrated here and here.