Animal experimentation is used across the world to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. The history of animal experimentation dates back to the ancient times when scientists made use of animals principally to satisfy anatomical curiosity. They would examine sensory and motors nerves to gain a deeper understanding of their functions. The testing of these animals is not a widespread topic that we are talking about in today's society. We seem to have just accepted the fact that animal testing goes on, and we really do not take any further notice towards it. We do not take into consideration that more often than not, many of these experiments do inflict pain on these animals and reduce their quality of life in many other ways. Animal experimentation should be abolished because it is torturous to animals and unethical to destroy an animal's life.
Essay on Should Animal Experimentation Ever Be Permitted?


POWER LIVING® TV: Can women really have it all? Can we ever truly achieve balance? What's the value of focus? In this edition of Power Living® with Dr. Terri Kennedy, get inspired by power advice from four of the dynamic speakers at the 2012 WIE Symposium. Highlighted speakers include serial entrepreneur Amilya Antonetti, J Brand Jeans Co-Founder Susie Crippen, award-winning journalist Kimberly Weisul, and beauty & style expert Mary Ann Stephenson.


text:
Almost nine million
passengers at airport
Up by seven percent
The total number of passengers, including arrivals, departures, and transit at the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (BRHIA) went up by seven percent to reach 8.8 million in 2018 compared to 2017, according to statistics released by the airport.
"The peak month was December, when we received on the 23rd and 29th around 30,000 passengers each," said Tony Ghostine, Head of Economic Division at BRHIA.
The average number of passengers that the airport receives per day is 17,000.
Aircraft movement also went slightly up by three percent to 73,626 landings and take-offs.
BRHIA is set for an emergency expansion starting this year, as it has surpassed its maximum capacity of six million passengers and is being readied for 20 million in 2030.

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text:
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Vintage Books, 1989 - 468 páginas
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings that marked the reigns of Agustus, Tiberius, and the mad Caligula to become Emperor of Rome in 41 A.D. I, CLAUDIUS, the first part of Robert Graves two-part account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, is written in the form of Claudius's autobiography and stands as one of the modern classics of historical fiction.
... me incapable of any useful service ; perhaps he was merely annoyed at my
coming forward with this request when his son Castor had hung back and had
persuaded Augustus to send him to raise and train troops in the South of Italy .
Tiberius improved on his advice by recalling the remaining six battalions from
their stations in other parts of Italy and making the new camp big enough to
house them all - nine thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry . Apart from the
four ...
by imposing a yearly tribute in his name on all the horses in Italy : if they did not
pay they would be sent to the knackers . He helped Cæsonia to raise the money
by imposing a tax in her name on all married men for the privilege of sleeping
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Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, and critic. His first volume of poems, Over the Brazier (1916), reflects his experiences in the trenches, and was followed by many works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is best known for his novel, I, Claudius (1934), which won the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes, and for his influential The White Goddess (1948).
Título I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Avon Red Gold Library
Vintage international
Autor Robert Graves
Edición reimpresa, reeditada
Editor Vintage Books, 1989


text:
package automation

import (
	"flag"
	"testing"

	"vitess.io/vitess/go/vt/worker/fakevtworkerclient"
	"vitess.io/vitess/go/vt/worker/vtworkerclient"
)

func TestVerticalSplitCloneTask(t *testing.T) {
	fake := fakevtworkerclient.NewFakeVtworkerClient()
	vtworkerclient.RegisterFactory("fake", fake.FakeVtworkerClientFactory)
	defer vtworkerclient.UnregisterFactoryForTest("fake")
	flag.Set("vtworker_client_protocol", "fake")
	fake.RegisterResult([]string{"VerticalSplitClone", "--tables=moving1", "--online=false", "--offline=true", "--chunk_count=2", "--min_rows_per_chunk=4", "--write_query_max_rows=1", "--write_query_max_size=1024", "--min_healthy_rdonly_tablets=1", "--max_tps=100", "--max_replication_lag=5", "dest_keyspace/0"},
		"",  // No output.
		nil) // No error.

	task := &VerticalSplitCloneTask{}
	parameters := map[string]string{
		"dest_keyspace":              "dest_keyspace",
		"shard":                      "0",
		"tables":                     "moving1",
		"vtworker_endpoint":          "localhost:15001",
		"online":                     "false",
		"offline":                    "true",
		"chunk_count":                "2",
		"min_rows_per_chunk":         "4",
		"write_query_max_rows":       "1",
		"write_query_max_size":       "1024",
		"min_healthy_rdonly_tablets": "1",
		"max_tps":                    "100",
		"max_replication_lag":        "5",
	}

	err := validateParameters(task, parameters)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Not all required parameters were specified: %v", err)
	}

	newTasks, _ /* output */, err := task.Run(parameters)
	if newTasks != nil {
		t.Errorf("Task should not emit new tasks: %v", newTasks)
	}
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("Task should not fail: %v", err)
	}
}

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text:
Miami: A Beginning
Posted by Jessica Lynne
William Gottlieb / Getty / Design by Katie Kosma
Read an introduction to the series.
Jessica Lynne | Longreads | February 2020 | 10 minutes (2,737 words)
Hive is a Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them.
Much has been written about certain cities and their landscapes that conjure a particular sentimentality or feeling within those who live there or those who chose to visit. At times, the lore is so great that it overwhelms. New York, for instance, ignites a peculiar sense of inertia, a stagnancy that cannot be perfectly described even though when you are there, it presses itself onto you and it is hard to ignore. We have come to know Paris as a city of love; it seems impossible to escape a looming sense of romance. The poems and the essays and the paintings and the photography and even the songs have given to us this mirage. As any young, eager traveler to Paris might be inclined, I once searched, many years ago, hoping to find love in the first, sixth, or 13th arrondissement.
I did not, however, fall in love in Paris. I fell in love, instead, in Miami.
When I tell people that I fell in love in Miami, I have noticed a reaction that first takes the form of surprise then quickly turns to intrigue. One friend responded with a smile and a curt, Sexy. I imagine, for most people unfamiliar with the vastness of Miami-Dade County, when one hears love and Miami, one might be inclined to think of Miami Beach — a denizen of glamour, glitz, nightlife — and thus picture a scene incongruent with that which we dream up when we say love. This imagining does not include the walks I have taken throughout Opa Locka, ambling along without a plan. It does not include Adelita's Café on NE 2nd Avenue where dear friends once took me to eat breakfast while Honduran music videos played in the background. It does not include the many concerns of climate catastrophe that hover. Perhaps, it is because I grew up in a region defined, in part, by swampland and coastline, beaches and a nebulous hurricane season — a region that in certain aspects of its topography reminds me of Miami — but I have never been surprised by what happened to me. I have always understood the water to carry forth potencies.
Time is a mysterious phenomenon because when I fell in love in Miami, I was floating through a period of depression and having difficulty communicating this to friends and loved ones. I had traveled to the city for a research residency hoping to read or write or work myself out of it. That moment in my life feels as though it was decades ago and also as though it just happened last week. It, in actuality, unfolded in the middle of a Lenten season about two years ago. As I packed my suitcase, anxious to leave a still winter New York, I texted the person with whom I would eventually fall in love a selfie of me wearing a wool winter coat, frowning in the back of a taxi, on my way to JFK airport. When I look at that photo now (I have not been able to, not wanted to delete it), I wonder if that Jessica knew what awaited her.
Miami humidity is a familiar sensation to me, comforting in fact. It reminds me to move slowly. To breathe deeply. It reminds me that water, in each of its three states, has something to teach us about how we should be in our bodies, what we should do to best care for ourselves. There are those who loathe the excess of moisture in the air. I revel in the stickiness.
It is possible that as I texted the person with whom I would fall in love on my way from Miami International Airport to the residency home in Little Haiti where I would spend the week, I said something like this to them about the city. It is possible that they responded back to me with an affirmation of sorts, because though they did not live in Miami either, they too were from a place of humidity and hurricanes. They too understood the ways in which those forces rumble through the body. Maybe this is why, on that night, the night that feels like it occurred both decades ago and just last week, as we settled into a nervous then tranquil video chat, I knew that love was happening to us.
As I packed my suitcase, anxious to leave a still winter New York, I texted the person with whom I would eventually fall in love a selfie of me wearing a wool winter coat, frowning in the back of a taxi, on my way to JFK airport.
Isn't love just as mysterious as time? I am not sure how to recount the beginning except to say that our beginning was cliché even if I knew it was special: We met on social media. Isn't this how it tends to go nowadays? They think you're cute. They follow. You think they're cute. You comment. The dance ensues until that first encounter or touch or night spent together. That night, the person with whom I would fall in love and I laughed through our screens because we did not yet know what or when that first encounter would be and somehow that was alright for the moment. Even then, I recognized that serendipity rarely shows up in relationships of distance. So instead, we talked about other things: sargassum, the sea, salt-water, roosters, the moon.
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This is another thing I have come to love about Miami when I visit: the moon. Though Miami is a big city and it is sometimes difficult to see the stars, the moon that night was a waning crescent. In this phase, the moon is most visible right before sunrise as it points eastward. A waning crescent moon is seen right before a new moon which is in itself, a time for clarity, rebirth, revision. During the new moon, the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon are aligned and if you are near coastline, you will notice the extremities of high and low tides. That night, we were both, quietly, preparing to receive each other, in spite of the distance — moon, water, heart in dialogue.
On February 12, 2019, as NASA's Mars rover, Opportunity, died, the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory effectively gave the robot a resting tribute by playing Billie Holiday's rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You." Opportunity first landed on Mars in 2004 as the search for water on the red planet began in earnest. Engineers last received a communication from the robot during a dust storm on the planet in the summer of 2018. According to one NASA dispatch from that June, high amounts of dust prevented Opportunity from receiving the solar power necessary for recharging:
NASA engineers attempted to contact the Opportunity rover today but did not hear back from the nearly 15-year-old rover. The team is now operating under the assumption that the charge in Opportunity's batteries has dipped below 24 volts and the rover has entered low power fault mode, a condition where all subsystems, except a mission clock, are turned off. The rover's mission clock is programmed to wake the computer so it can check power levels.
If the rover's computer determines that its batteries don't have enough charge, it will again put itself back to sleep. Due to an extreme amount of dust over Perseverance Valley, mission engineers believe it is unlikely the rover has enough sunlight to charge back up for at least the next several days.
By February, it had become clear that Opportunity's data transmission from the summer of 2018 would be its last. Holiday's voice became the voice of final goodbye.
I was in New Orleans, another coastal ecology always contending with the water, when I read this news. Away from this person I now loved as Valentine's Day crept up, I had never considered Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You" to be a song of farewell. It has always been, for me, an amorous sonic epistle, a way of saying, here, you are where my heart belongs. Away from this person I loved as Valentine's Day approached, unable to figure out how to be in person together, separated still by an ocean and time, I played this song if only to remind myself that distance would not become a permanent impasse. By that February, we had almost perfected a system: one month here, one month there. There being, at first, the small island where the person I loved was born, a short trip from my Brooklyn home. This was our rhythm soon after Miami. Then, as the person I loved relocated for school, there became a big, gray European City. Here morphed into a series of different cities in which I took up residence after moving out of Brooklyn. I had decided I needed to travel as I figured out the terms of a book project I wanted to take on.
And so, guided by the desire to sharpen ourselves, we leapt in different directions as we still attempted to hold onto each other, transience best understood as the context for our love.
If you have heard "I'll Be Seeing You" at any point in your life (and chances are that you have), you have most likely listened to the version Holiday recorded in 1944 — the version played for Opportunity, in fact — though it was not originally her song. Composer Sammy Fain and songwriter Irvin Kahal wrote the song in 1938 and as WWII began, it gradually personified the ache and hope of a generation that watched their loved ones leave without an assurance of return. Fain and Kahal's tune was a hit; Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra each recorded their own renditions. Yet, it took a Black woman to lend the song its gravitas.
If Aretha Franklin is the singer who first taught me how to see God, it has been Holiday who has taught me how to name a kind of romantic love.
I was a few months shy of 14 when I first heard Holiday's version of "I'll Be Seeing You." It was summer 2004 and the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's novel The Notebook had just been released in the U.S. The film tells the story of an unlikely pairing of two white South Carolinians — Allie and Noah — in the 1940s who, in spite of their class differences, fall in love one summer against the backdrop of the Second World War. We learn of the drama of their romance via flashbacks of an older couple eventually revealed to be the elder Allie and Noah.
That night, we were both, quietly, preparing to receive each other, in spite of the distance — moon, water, heart in dialogue.
In the scene I found most striking, the scene that defines the film for me, Noah and Allie are on their first date and begin to dance in the middle of the street. Slowly, they move as Holiday starts to croon. I did not know anything profound about romance then as a teenager, but I knew that I had never heard a love song like that before. I'd heard few voices that hummed through me like Holiday's did that afternoon.
Kahal's lyrics embody the familiar longing that occurs between lovers separated. As Holiday's voice eases into that opening horn melody, steady and deliberate, each lyric pronounced and clear, she carries those words into a significant emotional, poetic plane. Holiday's lento performance stands in for all of us who have just as slowly and tenderly opened that anticipated letter with "I love you," or "I am always thinking of you," awaiting. And in the distinctive fortitude that defined a hallmark era of jazz and the blues as musical genres, it was Holiday who offered an unmatched vocal rhythm and inventiveness. Perhaps she has taught us all how to love: her 1956 rendition of Vernon Duke's "April in Paris," evoking sentiments I once hoped to find in that very city but could not quite grasp at the time. Her version of Duke's similarly classic standard, "Autumn in New York," conjuring the lurking beauty of the fall season in a city that can be hard to embrace in moments. To listen to Holiday is to listen to a woman who has lived and loved, and that acute transmission of heartache, of a resolute knowing, is her potency, like the water.
"I'll Be Seeing You" is not about one city. It is about the moon; it is about everywhere. It is about all the locations in which we have yearned. When I think of the person I loved, I fold myself inside of Holiday's transmission.
There is so much about a long-distance relationship that can seem fleeting, and because the moments of physical togetherness and intimacy become planned in a meticulous manner, it always feels as if you are chasing time. Trying to get it to not just slow down, but to stop. Trying to extend a day into a week, a week into a month. In a long-distance relationship you are constantly grappling with the tension between aloneness and loneliness because the threat of being overwhelmed by nostalgia feels palpable. That night in Miami, under the waning crescent moon, when I knew that I would indeed love the person who I loved, in spite of a distance that I could not yet see reconciled, I thought to myself, Billie will steady us.
I carried that song with me everywhere. On the New York City subway, at the Acropolis in Athens, in a quiet bar in Bonn, at the Souk of Marrakech. I learned how to find the person I loved in the poetry section of a New Orleans bookstore, that vintage shop in Baltimore, a Lisbon pastelaria. Each new place, Lady Day in my head, on my heart, reminding me to look at the moon before sleep, that I would always find a reflection of the person I loved there, too, until the next visit.
An Ending
I keep coming back to three lines in Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging:
When you travel everything goes with you, even the things you do not know.
They travel; they take up space; they remain the things you do not know;
they become the things you will never know.
I tell myself that when you are in a long-distance relationship, especially one that requires crossing water as commute, travel can become burdensome and exhausting and the last thing you want is to carry excess. Brand does not speak of romantic love, I know, but recently, I cannot read these words without thinking about the unknown excesses that traveled with me as love took me back and forth across an ocean. I only knew, instead, how to name what was becoming my loneliness. I am sure the person I loved was unraveling in this way too.
Here are some items that I would regularly pack: a raincoat, two books, a comfortable pair of sneakers, a laptop, a purple caftan, five T-shirts, a few sweaters, three pairs of jeans, multiple love notes.
Even now, I am worried that I have exposed too much.
I didn't know what to do with myself after the person I loved and I decided that it had become too heavy to carry the distance anymore, so I went back to Miami.
Greeted by friends at the airport, I temporarily swallowed the lump in my throat that had swelled as I stepped off the plane that August morning. Even in my delusional attempts to not think about my last visit — the visit when I fell in love — my body remembered the humidity which meant it wouldn't let me forget what this city held for me. I wasn't ready to divulge the details of the breakup, so I smiled my widest smile and let my friends take me to Jimmy's Diner for breakfast. The entire conversation, an exercise of restraint for me. When you travel, heartbreak travels with you, whether you want it to or not.
I didn't unpack my suitcase when I arrived at my hotel later that day. A storm was lurking, I knew, but I wanted to wander about Little Havana for a moment, even if it meant getting caught in the rain. I grabbed my clutch, my phone, my headphones. I greeted the older women having lunch in the lobby before exiting and turning left on SW 9th Street. I pressed play and let Billie wash over me, and I walked and walked and walked.
Jessica Lynne is a writer and art critic. She is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Art in America, The Believer, BOMB Magazine, The Nation and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a collection of essays about love, faith, and the American South.
Editor: Danielle A. Jackson
Fact checker: Matt Giles
Copy editor: Jacob Z. Gross
Categories: Arts & Culture, culture, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Tags: Billie Holiday, black music, Hive, jazz, Jessica Lynne, music, women's history


text:
package com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.schema;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.entity.MetricSchemaRecord;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.CacheService;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.DefaultService;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.DiscoveryService;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.NamedBinding;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.SchemaService.RecordType;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.tsdb.AnnotationQuery;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.service.tsdb.MetricQuery;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.system.SystemAssert;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.system.SystemConfiguration;
import com.salesforce.dva.argus.system.SystemException;

@Singleton
public class CachedDiscoveryService extends DefaultService implements DiscoveryService {

	private static final ObjectMapper MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
	private static final int EXPIRY_TIME_SECS = 3600;

	//~ Instance fields ******************************************************************************************************************************

    protected final Logger _logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
    private final DiscoveryService _discoveryService;
    private final CacheService _cacheService;
    private final ExecutorService _executorService;

    //~ Constructors *********************************************************************************************************************************

    @Inject
    private CachedDiscoveryService(CacheService cacheService, @NamedBinding DiscoveryService discoveryService, SystemConfiguration config) {
    	super(config);
    	SystemAssert.requireArgument(cacheService != null, "Cache Service cannot be null.");
        SystemAssert.requireArgument(discoveryService != null, "Discovery Service cannot be null.");
        _cacheService = cacheService;
        _discoveryService = discoveryService;
        _executorService = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
    }

    //~ Methods **************************************************************************************************************************************

	@Override
	public void dispose() {
		super.dispose();
		_cacheService.dispose();
		_discoveryService.dispose();
		_executorService.shutdown();
		_disposeExecutorService();
	}

	private void _disposeExecutorService() {
		boolean terminated = false;
		try {
			terminated = _executorService.awaitTermination(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			_logger.warn("Await Termination Interrupted. Will force shutdown now.");
		}
		if(!terminated) {
			_executorService.shutdownNow();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public List<MetricSchemaRecord> filterRecords(String namespaceRegex,
			String scopeRegex, String metricRegex, String tagkRegex,
			String tagvRegex, int limit, int page) {
		return _discoveryService.filterRecords(namespaceRegex, scopeRegex, metricRegex, tagkRegex, tagvRegex, limit, page);
	}

	@Override
	public List<String> getUniqueRecords(String namespaceRegex,
			String scopeRegex, String metricRegex, String tagkRegex,
			String tagvRegex, RecordType type, int limit, int page) {
		return _discoveryService.getUniqueRecords(namespaceRegex, scopeRegex, metricRegex, tagkRegex, tagvRegex, type, limit, page);
	}

	@Override
	public List<MetricQuery> getMatchingQueries(MetricQuery query) {
		requireNotDisposed();
		SystemAssert.requireArgument(query != null, "MetricQuery cannot be null.");

		long start = System.nanoTime();
		List<MetricQuery> queries = new ArrayList<>();

		if(isWildcardQuery(query)) {
			String value = _cacheService.get(_getKey(query));
			if(value == null) { // Cache Miss
				_logger.info(MessageFormat.format("CACHE MISS for Wildcard Query: '{'{0}'}'. Will read from persistent storage.", query));
				queries = _discoveryService.getMatchingQueries(query);
				_executorService.submit(new CacheInsertWorker(query, queries));
			} else { // Cache Hit
				_logger.info(MessageFormat.format("CACHE HIT for Wildcard Query: '{'{0}'}'", query));
				try {
					JavaType type = MAPPER.getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(List.class, MetricQuery.class);
					List<MetricQuery> matchedQueries = MAPPER.readValue(value, type);
					for(int i=0; i<matchedQueries.size(); i++) {
						MetricQuery q = new MetricQuery(query);
						_replaceWildcardFieldsFromCachedQuery(matchedQueries.get(i), q);
						queries.add(q);
					}
				} catch (Exception e) {
					_logger.warn("Failed to deserialize cached data into metric queries. Will read from persistent storage.", e);
					queries = _discoveryService.getMatchingQueries(query);
					_executorService.submit(new CacheInsertWorker(query, queries));
				}
			}
		} else {
			_logger.info(MessageFormat.format("MetricQuery'{'{0}'}' does not have any wildcards", query));
			queries.add(query);
		}

		_logger.debug("Time to get matching queries in ms: " + (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1000000);
		return queries;
	}

	private void _replaceWildcardFieldsFromCachedQuery(MetricQuery cachedQuery, MetricQuery result) {
		result.setNamespace(cachedQuery.getNamespace());
		result.setTags(cachedQuery.getTags());

		//Set metric and scope using reflection.
		try {
			Method setMetricMethod = AnnotationQuery.class.getDeclaredMethod("setMetric", String.class);
			setMetricMethod.setAccessible(true);
			setMetricMethod.invoke(result, cachedQuery.getMetric());

			Method setScopeMethod = AnnotationQuery.class.getDeclaredMethod("setScope", String.class);
			setScopeMethod.setAccessible(true);
			setScopeMethod.invoke(result, cachedQuery.getScope());
		} catch (NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException e) {
			throw new SystemException("Failed to set metric name and scope using reflection.", e);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isWildcardQuery(MetricQuery query) {
		return _discoveryService.isWildcardQuery(query);
	}

	private class CacheInsertWorker implements Runnable {

		private MetricQuery _wildcardQuery;
		private List<MetricQuery> _matchedQueries;

		CacheInsertWorker(final MetricQuery wildcardQuery, final List<MetricQuery> matchedQueries) {
			_wildcardQuery = wildcardQuery;
			_matchedQueries = matchedQueries;
		}

		@Override
		public void run() {
			try {
				String key = _getKey(_wildcardQuery);
				if(key != null) {
					_logger.debug("CacheInsertThread: Inserting key = {}, value = {}", _wildcardQuery, _matchedQueries);
					String value = MAPPER.writeValueAsString(_matchedQueries);
					_cacheService.put(key, value, EXPIRY_TIME_SECS);
				}
			} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
				_logger.warn("CacheInsertThread: Failed to serialize list of metric queries.", e);
			}
		}
	}

	private String _getKey(MetricQuery query) {
		try {
			Map<String, String> sortedTags = Collections.emptyMap();
			if(query.getTags() != null && !query.getTags().isEmpty()) {
				sortedTags = new TreeMap<>(query.getTags());
			}

			String key = MessageFormat.format("{0}:{1}'{'{2}'}'", query.getScope(), query.getMetric(), MAPPER.writeValueAsString(sortedTags));
			if(query.getNamespace() != null) {
				key = query.getNamespace() + ":" + key;
			}
			return key;
		} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
			_logger.warn("Failed to serialize tags to string.", e);
		}

		return null;
	}

}


It is important to know the signs of alcoholism that indicate a drinking problem in yourself, a family member, or a friend. Health professionals claim that two to three drinks a day for women and three to four drinks a day for men are acceptable levels of alcohol consumption, but alcoholism is a destructive and fatal disease that can be harmful to others. If a friend or a family member is having difficulty controlling the effects of drinking and displays a combination of more than one or two of the seven clear signs of alcohol addiction listed below, that person may need a detox center that will help him or her learn to manage the disease and maintain sobriety and peace of mind.
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More benzene found in every day air than in e-cig vapor, says new PSU study
by Matt Rowland March 14, 2017
A new study recently released by scientists from Portland State University (PSU) refutes the controversial argument that e-cig vapor may contain alarmingly high levels of benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer. Reminiscent of the days when the FDA, the CDC, and several other anti-vaping organizations would spread false rumors of formaldehyde-inducing vaping devices, the PSU researchers attempt to make a similar deadly connection. However, their scientific conclusions ultimately prove the opposite point of view.
Published on March 8 in the online medical journal PLOS, the study is entitled "Benzene formation I electronic cigarettes." Almost simultaneously, the PSU scientists also published a press release claiming that e-cig vapor does indeed produce higher levels of cancer-causing benzene. To be clear, the results of the PSU study prove the exact opposite.
PSU benzene study manipulates heating temps
The basis of the study involves the measuring for trace amounts of benzene via e-cig vapor produced at a rate of 5-second puffs. The "5-second puffs" criterion is crucial to the scientific accuracy of the study because this is the typical length of an average vape, 5-seconds or shorter.
However, the trouble begins when the PSU scientists decide to toy with the heating temperatures of the e-liquids in an attempt to manipulate the resulting data to conform to their pre-determine conclusions that e-cig vapor is filled with cancer-causing benzene. In doing so, the scientists found the following conclusions:
Using e-liquids of 6 percent nicotine vaped at a recommended heating temperature of 6 W, the levels of benzene found in the resulting vapor were non-detectable.
When they turned up the heat to 13 W, the scientist found up to 24 μg/g of the chemical. The problem is that vaping at such extreme temperatures would likely never occur because 13 W would almost always produce excruciating dry hits.
(Related Article: NEW STUDY SHOWS E-CIG VAPOR CONTAINS NO MORE TRACE METALS THAT TYPICAL AIR)
Of course, the press release attempts to clarify the discrepancies by stating, "The power levels used in the study were still far below those accessible to users on some devices, which can exceed 200 watts". But this sort of blanket statement is intentionally misleading.
It's tantamount to the Ford Company claiming, "We conducted a crash test of the new Nissan Sentra. When driven at speeds of 150 miles per hour and crashed into a brick wall, everyone will die." Sure, a Nissan Sentra might be able to be driven at such high speeds, but no one in their right mind would ever actually do it!
Many in the medical community are taking issue with the latest PSU study. Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos from the University of Patras in Greece contends that more benzene is found in normal, everyday air than in the e-cig vapor as defined in the conclusions of this study.
"The authors calculated the concentration of benzene in inhaled air, and report levels up to 5000 μg/m3 air (at dry puffs of course). Compared to the ambient levels of 1 μg/m3 of benzene, everyone would think that this is a disaster."
"But not really, this methodology suffers from a major problem. Humans take about 12 breaths per minute, i.e. 17,000 (thousand) breaths per 24 h. The volume of air inhaled in 24 h is 20 m3. So, the daily exposure to benzene from ambient air is 20 μg. Even if you assume that Subtank at 25 W with 5-second puffs represent realistic conditions (they are not), you need to consume 105 mL e-liquid per day in order to be exposed to the same levels of benzene as breathing ambient air. For the EVOD under normal vaping conditions, you need to vape 125 mL e-liquid per day."
Luckily, the American vaping industry has a team of expert scientists of their own who have the amazing ability to dig deep into these types of research studies to identify and clarify the often indiscernible 'fine print." While the PSU scientists issued a press release that attempts to demonize e-cig vapor as something that is filled with cancer-causing benzene, scientists like Dr. Farsalinos uncover the real truth: E-cig vapor contains less benzene that every day air.
(Related Article: 'PERSONAL BLOGS IMPUGN THE OBJECTIVITY' OF E-CIG RESEARCH, SAYS TOBACCO CONTROL JOURNAL)


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Here I recount my experience of the Arba'īn pilgrimage to Karbala, annually attracting over twenty million pilgrims, known as the world's largest human gathering.
I recount the journey with my madrasah's caravan across the Iranian border towards the holy city of Najaf.
A key highlight of the trip was the hospitality and brotherhood of our hosts and what this taught me about the essence of Islam. The experience of the three-day walk from Najaf to Karbala was breathtaking, as was the ziyārah of the shrines of Sāmarrā and Kāzmayn. The solidarity of the Muslims during this holy pilgrimage and their commitment towards the mission of Imam Husayn (AS) amongst the threat from Daesh makes one hopeful for the coming of the Imam of our time (AS), the subsequent liberation of the Muslims and the establishment of Allah's government, completing the mission of the prophets.
This year I was blessed with the opportunity to go to Karbala for the ziyārah of Imam Husayn (AS), the saviour of Islam. I wanted to go to Karbala to become purified, to answer the Imam (AS)'s call, and to fight an ideological war against Daesh, as I did not know of a time in history when the ziyārah of Imam Husayn (AS) has been threatened by the enemies of the Ahl al-bayt (AS) like it is today. I remember being anxious about having to miss classes in the hawzah for two weeks due to this trip, but I realised that Allah (SWT) wanted me to be well rounded and that becoming a scholar without a strong, heartfelt connection to the Ahl al-bayt(AS) was of no use to myself nor to any of the communities back home.
Due to her strong faith, my mother encouraged me to go. She said that the threat of Daesh yielded no importance, because she had asked the Imam (AS) to watch over me, and if Allah SWT had decreed that I should be martyred along the way, then that was a source of pride for her. Even before I had left home to begin my studies in Qom, I used to tell my mother that she was like Umm al-Banīn, the mother of Abbas (AS), as she had been granted four sons from the offspring of Imam Ali (AS). One day, she would need to sacrifice her sons for Islam. Saying this to her would make her tearful.
Our caravan consisted mainly of the students and administrators of Amīr al-Mu'minīn (AS) Islamic Seminary. We travelled by coach from Qum to the Shalamcheh border crossing. At Shalamcheh, I remember soldiers with Qurans in their hands, ushering the pilgrims to pass under the Qurans, kissing them as they passed into Iraq. This was the tradition of the soldiers during the war between Iran and Saddām Husayn, and experiencing it was very emotional for all of us as we recounted the blood that had been spilt for the cause of the Islamic Revolution. The check posts were decorated with "Yā Husayn" flags, and the soldiers were kind and smiling. It was here that we started encountering mawākib (refreshment stations) with lots and lots of hot rice, curry, fruit, tea etc. all in servitude of the pilgrims of Imam Husayn (AS).
We then journeyed from the Iraqi border towards Baghdad. I remember stopping along the way in a mosque to say our prayers. Just as we turned around to leave, we saw that the caretakers of the mosque had laid out a tablecloth on the floor with hot soup and fresh bread. The hospitality of the Iraqi Shias was unbelievable; many of them would go through the extra effort to speak in broken Persian with us, just to try and make us feel more at home. I regretted even bringing a single chocolate bar with me; why should I have? Should one take food with himself when invited as a guest to his brother's house? If the people of Iraq were really my brothers and I was really their guest, then why did I take my own food?
We reached Baghdad in the middle of the night. A wealthy Iraqi man in one of the Shia neighbourhoods of Baghdad had organised for us to stay at his house. I remember feeling slightly uncomfortable with my dusty clothes as I walked into his mansion filled with beautiful glasswork, ornate paintings on the walls, thick silk carpets and embroidered curtains. He, nonetheless, welcomed us in without placing even a single rū-farshī (rug protector) on the floor, and invited us to sit on his expensive couches. It was clear that he had been anxiously waiting for us throughout the night. Straight away he served us a hot meal and at the same time asked his sons to prepare our beds for us. He then showed us a collection of flags that he had collected from the shrines of the Ahl al-bayt (AS); I grasped them, kissing them, feeling warmth enter my heart. I could smell the scent of the shrines of the Ahl al-bayt (AS), and my heart melted when my thoughts strayed towards the destroyed shrine of Sāmarrā.
The following morning, I woke up early to study some philosophy, not wanting to leave my studies even though I was on ziyārah. Around noon, we went to a nearby masjid for congregational prayers. The local people were very hospitable and extremely keen to speak with us. Just as I rose from prostration after finishing my prayers, an old man next to me took off his abā (cloak) and threw it over me, giving it as a gift, and asked me to pray for him in the shrines. I was in awe, thinking about the greatness of Imam Husain (AS) and how people's respect for his sacrifice drove them to show such respect and hospitality to their believing brothers, just as Islam had envisaged. We were then offered a massive lunch by our host after which we bade him farewell, and then began journeying towards Kāẓmayn.
As we entered Kāẓmayn my heart became ignited due to the presence of the holy shrine. I walked through the old market, taking small steps, reciting praise of Allah (SWT), as recommended in Mafātīḥ al-Jinān of Shaykh 'Abbās Qummī. I was then confronted by the sight of tall brick walls surrounding the brilliant sanctuary of the Kāẓmayn (AS). There were so many pilgrims, so many believers thirsty for blessings, overflowing with prayers for themselves, the sick, the oppressed, their loved ones, neighbours and friends. I too came to the holy shrine, ready to present my needs before the Imam. In light of what Imam Ali (AS) has said: "Surely we will intercede and also those who love us will intercede."  It was the sinless Ahl al-bayt (AS) that I wanted to ask to intercede on my behalf with my Creator.
Following our ziyārah in Kāẓmayn, we left towards the holy city of Najaf. I observed what I could of the country of Iraq along the way. It had changed in the five years since I had previously visited. There were pictures of Ayatollah Sīstāni, Ayatollah Khamenei and Imam Khomeini everywhere. It looked so much like the Islamic Republic of Iran. I even saw the famous sadqah boxes from Iran's Imam Khomeini Welfare Organisation dotted around the streets. The face of the country was turning Shia, and ties with the Iranian Shias were becoming undoubtedly stronger. Such are the blessings of the Arbā'īn pilgrimage. I prayed for a united block; a united Iran and Iraq, under the guardianship of the Islamic scholars, the inheritors of the Prophets; a force and a power to stand up against the enemies of Islam.
The next day, we journeyed towards Sāmarrā. My heart had been burning for Sāmarrā; the destruction of the tombs of the Ahl al-bayt (AS), including the father of our living Imam (AS), was a great tragedy for the Shias. I really did not care that Sāmarrā was located in the Red Zone and that there was a real security threat. No one had the right to block my path to visit the tombs of my grandfathers, the Ahl al-bayt (AS), the successors of the Prophet (SAW). It just amazed me; these terrorists had such enmity and fear of the Ahl al-bayt (AS) that they even insisted on destroying their graves to try and wipe away all memory of them. They had seen the power of the remembrance of the Ahl al-bayt (AS) in the strength that it gave to the Shia and the great Islamic Revolution that it gave rise to several decades ago in Iran.
The shrine of Sāmarrā was located in a Sunni neighbourhood beside the Tigris River. We had been told that the road may be closed due to security risks and so there was no guarantee that we would get there. Along the way, we unfortunately found the road packed with a long line of buses. We were all worried that we would not reach Sāmarrā. My friend looked at me and asked me to recite Du'ā al-Tawassul. I began reciting, and everyone on the bus joined in. The windows were open and the passengers in the buses around us were also listening. As we reached the verses calling the 7th Imam (AS), our bus began to move, and by the end of the Du'ā, we were speeding along the motorway again.
Upon reaching Sāmarrā, I remember the city being in absolute shambles; no rubbish collection, broken roads, destroyed buildings and bullet holes in windows of houses. The area around the haram was in shocking condition. All that existed was a long road protected by tall concrete walls. The new shrine was still being rebuilt after its previous destruction. There was gold on the dome, and some glasswork inside, but the ḍarīh was still in Qom – a gift by the Iranians made for the Sāmarrā shrine. Out of my whole trip, Sāmarrā was the most painful experience for me; it symbolised the reality of the oppression of the Shias – a product of our failure to the Ahl al-bayt (AS); a product of the success of our enemies. I prayed for God to give us strength to come out of our oppression, to overthrow our enemies, and to establish a platform for the government of the Ahl al-bayt (AS).
After Sāmarrā, we stayed in the holy city of Najaf, the city of Amīr al-Mu'minīn (AS). We journeyed to Masjid Sahlā, Masjid Kūfā and the shrine of Maytham il-Tammār, as well as the haram of Amīr il-Mu'minīn (AS). I remember feeling saddened by the unawareness of many pilgrims; despite the fact that they were from the Islamic Republic of Iran, some had no knowledge of tahārah, no understanding of how to show respect in holy places, and what a'māl to do, often due to the fact that many had very little contact with Islamic scholars to guide them. I did not feel good just concentrating on my own prayers whilst others remained in ignorance about what mustahabbāt to engage in. I felt I had the duty to help the people in whichever way I could, and so I devoted half of my time teaching different people about what to do in each masjid, the significance of these holy places, and how to show respect whilst visiting them.
The following day, we began our three-day walk from Najaf to Karbala. I felt the spiritual effect of each step I took towards Karbala, recalling the hadith that for every one step taken for the ziyārah of Imam Husayn (AS), one thousand good deeds are written and one thousand bad deeds are erased . The purification I felt from the walk was immense. There were mawākib lined up next to each other for the entire 80 km stretch with not a single piece of land empty. There were mawākib for medical treatment, mawākib with free wifi, mawākib for charging telephones and even mawākib for answering shar'ī questions. Every single amenity required was provided. Every night, millions of people would be fed to their fill. Such are the blessings of the pilgrimage of Imam Husain (AS). I saw old ladies carrying suitcases on their heads, walking the entire way, men without legs making their way on crutches, small children, couples pushing several prams and sons pushing their mothers on wheelchairs.
We reached Karbala on the morning of the 19th of Ṣafar; more than half of the pilgrims were limping and tired, yet thoughtfully silent as they entered the borders of the holy city. Our hearts became heavy as we sensed the buried martyrs; the saviours of the religion that we value and treasure. Eulogies were being recited everywhere, and my eyes filled with tears as I fought through the crowds to catch a glimpse of the shrines. My feet were aching and full of blisters. The pain was unbearable but there was no possibility to stop. The ziyārah of Imam Husayn (AS) has no specific ghusl and it is in fact recommended to be performed in the very state that one enters Karbala. I yearned to go to the haram, but the crowds were too vast. As we entered the madrasah that had offered to host us, I threw down my bag, scrambling for my ziyārat nāmih, propping against a wall whilst welling with tears and beginning to recite the ziyārat of Imam Husayn AS. I was thirsty from the heat of the midday sun, my body was aching and my feet had completely given way. It was at this point that I remembered the struggles of Lady Zaynab (AS) and the children – what were my blisters after three days of walking, with hospitality and hot food along the way? The women and children of the household of the Prophet (SAW) after having seen the merciless killing of the grand children of the Prophet (SAW) were taken on a long journey through the Arabian Peninsula towards Syria, paraded through streets and markets with stones and boiling water thrown at them. It was an overwhelming experience that pushed my soul to its limits.
After some minimal rest, I gathered myself and left the madrasah, battling through the crowds to get close to the haram. I wanted to place my feet on the soil of heaven, the land of the shrine of Imam Husain (AS). I prayed in bayn–al–haramayn whilst a soft breeze blew between the shrines. The crowds would fall silent during the prayers and it was heart-shattering to hear praise of Allah SWT being emitted from the microphones of the golden minarets whilst millions of Muslims bowed down in submission to their Creator. Husayn (AS) had succeeded; Abbas (AS) had succeeded; the martyrs had succeeded; Zaynab (AS) had succeeded. The sacrifice of Ibrāhīm (AS) had culminated here in Karbala. The religion of Muhammad (SAW) was saved here in Karbala.
On our journey back towards Qom, I had fallen severely ill with migraines that I had developed since my time in medical school. We were travelling through mountain ranges, and there was no place to stop in sight. I felt sick and uncomfortable in our claustrophobic coach. The pain became so severe that it was becoming unbearable. Everyone on the bus, including the leaders of our caravan, was asleep, and so as I called out for assistance no one replied. I closed my eyes and spoke to the living Imam (AS); I said to him that it was part of his duty towards his Shia that he should not leave us on our own during our time of need. My head pounded and my neck muscles started to spasm. My eyes ached terribly due to their hypersensitivity to light. I was aware that my friend was reciting some verses over a glass of water, which he then gave to me to drink in hope that it would give me ease at a time when no medicine was effective or in reach. As I drank the water, I immediately felt my pain disappear. I was shocked. My neck muscles relaxed and I could open my eyes. My friend had prepared a bed for me on the floor of the aisle of the bus and laid me down there. The next thing I remember, I was waking up four hours later as we arrived next to the haram of Hazrat Ma'sūma(AS) in Holy Qom. The following day, my friend came to visit me in the dormitories, and asked me about what happened when I drank the water he gave me. He was also shocked when I told him of my experience. I asked him what he had recited over that. He said that he had mixed some of the soil from Karbala into the water and recited Al–fātiha over it seven times. My heart melted as I listened to his words. I had experienced the healing power of the soil of Karbala that has been mentioned in traditions .
In these recent years, where the scholars of Islam have revived Islamic civilisation through the Islamic Revolution, the effects of the sacrifice of Imam Husayn (AS) in Karbala have truly began to materialise. While I was on ziyārah, I remember looking around at the greatness, numbers and strength of the Muslim nation, and I became very hopeful that the time was close for the establishment of God's just government on this Earth, a paradise of tranquillity, peace and submission to Allah (SWT).


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AMPC> Vol.5 No.3, March 2015
Physical Properties of Some Stoichiometric Rare Earth Nitride Single Crystals
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Peter Wachter
Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
The preparation and definition of large (3 - 5 mm edge length) single crystals of ScN, GdN, TbN, HoN, YbN and CeN is described. The Hall effect and the electrical conductivity are found to be metallic. The optical reflectivity between 30 meV (sometimes 1 meV) and 13 eV has been measured and the dielectric functions have been obtained. A plasma edge in the infrared confirms the metallic character. In GdN, a shift of this plasma edge with temperature through the magnetic ordering temperature has been observed as a new effect. GdN is in low magnetic fields antiferromagnetic, but becomes ferromagnetic in larger fields. The band structure is discussed. The magnetic exchange interactions have been derived. HoN in the relevant crystal directions has a spontaneous magnetic moment, but no saturation in fields up to 10 T. CeN is intermediate valent and exhibits a Pauli paramagnetism. The specific heat is measured down to 0.3 K and an enhanced γ value is observed.
Crystal Growth, Electrical Properties, XPS, BIS, Optical Properties, Magnetic Properties
Wachter, P. (2015) Physical Properties of Some Stoichiometric Rare Earth Nitride Single Crystals. Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 5, 96-131. doi: 10.4236/ampc.2015.53013.
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Bill Raises Cost of Global Business – Lawmakers Find Overseas Cash to Fund Border Security, State Aid
HomeArticlesBill Raises Cost of Global Business – Lawmakers Find Overseas Cash to Fund Border Security, State Aid
By Seth McLaughlin
With their usual sources for money drying up, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have started tapping the wallets of foreign workers and international businesses to pay for their pre-election wish list – moves that have put them at odds with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Indian government and possibly the World Trade Organization.
On Thursday, Congress passed a spending bill that raises visa fees on companies that bring in a large number of foreign workers, and earlier this week President Obama signed a second spending package that raises $10 billion in additional taxes on multinational companies that call the U.S. home.
The $600 million in new visa fees is being used to pay for a boost in border security, and the multinational tax financed an extension of parts of last year's stimulus bill, freeing up billions of dollars for cashstrapped states.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who wrote the border security bill, said Thursday that it makes sense to increase fees on companies that rely heavily on temporary workers brought here under so-called H-1B or L-1 visas, since some of those companies are violating the spirit of the law.
"First, it will provide necessary funds to secure our border without raising taxes or adding to the deficit," Mr. Schumer said. "Second, it will level the playing field for American workers, so they don't lose out on good jobs here in America because it's cheaper to bring in a foreign worker than hiring an American worker."
But India's trade minister, Shri Anand Sharma, sent a letter this week to President Obama's trade representative protesting that it is "inexplicable to our companies to bear the cost of such a highly discriminatory law." Indian Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar told the Indian press that the U.S. border bill "reflects an overwhelmingly protectionist frame of mind."
Indian officials argue that their high-tech companies will suffer an unfair burden in financing the bill because so many Indian skilled workers use the special visas to work for clients in the United States, while U.S.-based firms that issue the same visas typically will not face the higher fees.
On Tuesday, Mr. Obama signed the $26.1 billion aid package into law and praised "closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs overseas." He said Thursday that he planned to sign the border-security bill and that it would help protect the U.S.-Mexico border.
Heading into this week's votes, lawmakers insisted that in the current economic environment, imposing the taxes and fees on foreign workers and companies was the best way to raise the money needed to address two of the country's most pressing issues: unemployment and illegal immigration.
But, in doing so, Som Mittal, president of Nasscom, the high-tech association of India, suggested that Congress may have walked into the cross hairs of the World Trade Organization, which polices member nations' adherence to international trade pacts.
"The bill is … an indirect form of protectionism and runs contrary to the Obama administration's oft-repeated goal of opening markets and doubling U.S. exports," Mr. Mittal said. "What's more, provisions like these are contrary to the spirit and rules of the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement on Trade in Services."
R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of government affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, agreed.
"If approved, this legislation would not only risk potential adverse impacts on U.S.-based companies, but also retaliation by affected foreign governments, either in the [WTO] or directly at U.S.-based companies looking to compete in those markets," he said in a letter sent to Congress this week.
In his letter, Mr. Josten highlighted a recent study from the National Foundation for American Policy that, he said, "concluded that discriminatory measures similar to the Senate fee increases could bring action by other governments against the United States in the WTO."
While the study focused on a different immigration-reform bill that Democrats unveiled earlier this year, an author of the study said that the visa-fee increases passed Thursday share some similarities with parts of the immigration bill and could raise some "red flags."
"To the extent these provisions are purported to specifically limit the ability of foreign companies to bring nonimmigrant employees to the U.S., or to target companies in certain countries, that naturally raises red flags about a potential collision with U.S. obligations under the GATS," Marguerite Trossevin, of Washington-based law firm Jochum Shore and Trossevin, told The Washington Times.
"In bad economic times with high unemployment, trade rules and commitments can become inconvenient, but that is also when they become more important," Ms. Trossevin said. "The U.S. certainly expects its trading partners to be cognizant of the commitments they made, even when times are tough, and we need to do the same."
Yesterday, Mr. Schumer tried to dispel such concerns.
"It is simply untrue that the purpose is to target Indian companies," he said. "We are raising the fees for businesses who use the H-1B visa to do things that are contrary to the program's original intent. That will be on any company from any country that does it."
His bill increases the visa fees on companies whose work forces are more than 50 percent foreign.
It was the second time this month that Congress has looked to companies with extensive foreign ties to pick up the tab for new spending bills.
Last week, Democrats, with the help of two Senate Republicans, ushered through a $26.1 billion state aid package that relied on about $10 billion in additional taxes levied on multinational companies that call the United States home. Roughly $16 billion went to help states pay for Medicaid and $10 billion went to teacher salaries.
Democrats said they were closing a tax loophole that allowed multinational companies to sidestep some of their U.S. tax obligations.
"Large multinational corporations have been getting away with paying billions less than they owe in taxes," Rep. Chellie Pingree, Maine Democrat, said during the floor debate over the measure. "This bill will close the loopholes that have allowed this abuse to go on and allow American jobs to be shipped offshore."
But the National Association of Manufacturers, many of whose members may be hit by the change, warned that the extra taxes "will jeopardize the jobs of American manufacturing employees and stifle our fragile economy," and Republicans said the proposal needed further review and could result in 140,000 more jobs being lost.
"Most of these [changes] have never been the subject of any committee hearing or markup," said Rep. Dave Camp, the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr. Camp said the changes could make sense as part of a larger reform of the tax code to make U.S. firms more competitive in the global marketplace.
"But we never got the opportunity to hear from American employers or to offer any amendments," he said.
Source: The Washington Times, August 12, 2010


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Q: Python, failed to install. Exit code: 1 windows 10 So, I have going over this back and forth, I tried several of the solutions on this forum, none worked.
I have pip3 installed, Python 3.4, Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10.
Now whenever I run the installing for a new module manually or through pip3 I get the following error:
Say I use the cmdline as such:
pip3 install numpy

I get :
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\ariel\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\python.exe -c
"import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Ariel
\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-41rz6w_o\\numpy\\setup.py';
exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read()
.replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record
C:\Users\Ariel\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-vuq3ap0m-record\install-record.txt
--single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1
in C:\Users\Ariel\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-41rz6w_o\numpy

If I download it and run it from the folder
 setup.py install

I get
build_src
building py_modules sources
building library "npymath" sources
No module named 'numpy.distutils._msvccompiler' in numpy.distutils; trying from distutils
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Please help, considering to just use linux with python... less issues

A: This is based on @Jim answers in the comment section, basically make sure that you have the C++ compiler and windows SDK installed!
My problem was that when I installed Visual Studio, I did not select the windows SDK.

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Kilchoan Bay is a beautiful and quiet anchorage. The four moorings are regularly checked by the West Ardnamurchan Jetty Association and are maintained to a high standard. Kilchoan Community Centre has a tearoom, free Wi-Fi, and many other useful services, including tourist information. There is a public bar with food available at Kilchoan House Hotel 01972 510200 (1.2km). It is a six mile walk to Ardnamurchan Point, Britain's most westerly mainland point, complete with its lighthouse and visitor centre. Another road leads north west across the extinct volcanic crater at Achnaha to the stunning beaches at Sanna and the Viking burial at Port an Eilean Mhuir.


With The Family: "Problem Behaviors"
Someone contacted my husband asking if he would be willing to help them with their child's problem behaviors. When I mentioned this to my 14 year old daughter she laughed. Then she said something like, "To us the solution is so obvious." And what was the solution that was so obvious to a teenager? The child had needs that weren't being met. As I have written before, meeting the needs of children is the Easy Button of Parenting.
When parents seek help for their children's "problem behaviors" what they are really asking for is a way to make the behaviors stop. When parents focus on the behavior, instead of on their children, the solution is often staring them in the face unnoticed. On the other hand, some parents know what the solution is, but they are not willing to acknowledge it because meeting the needs of their children may seem daunting, inconvenient, or require them to make changes in their life. We must remember that we chose to be parents and we made a commitment to our children. When they are young, our children are completely dependent upon us to meet their needs. While our needs are important, we have a greater number of resources, and that includes the ability to delay gratification. Yes, our needs are equally important, but if we are not willing and able to occasionally put our children's needs ahead of our own then perhaps we should reconsider being a parent.
If you are struggling with "problem behaviors" start by asking yourself, "What does my child need and how can I meet those needs?" Be honest about what needs are going unmet even if you are not sure how to meet them or it seems the only way to meet them will be drastic changes in your life. If you need help identifying needs that need meeting reread this blog post. Also ask yourself if you are truly accepting and embracing your child. Notice if you say things like, "I love my kid, but I wish he wasn't so loud." "She's a great kid but she won't sit still for school/church/meals." "Why can't he be tidier, like his brother?" Perhaps the problem is not with the behaviors. Perhaps the problem with with your attitude about the behaviors.
Remember that there is a reason for your child's behavior. Usually the behavior is an attempt to get their needs met to the best of their ability. If you are proactively meeting your child's needs your child will not have to resort to "problem behaviors" in an effort to get your attention and get their needs met. If you stop a behavior without meeting the underlying need you are creating an unhealthy situation for your child. Your child may bottle up their emotions only to have them erupt in anger, depression, or physical illness later in their life. Your child may find other people to meet their needs, not always in healthy ways. Your child may develop learned helplessness: they know their needs aren't going to be met so they give up trying. See "My child doesn't mind" for more on learned helplessness.
When you find yourself thinking that your child has problem behaviors unhook yourself from the thought that you need to stop the behavior. Try looking at life through your child's eyes. Approach your child with unconditional love and compassion, and find ways to connect with your child. Include your child in figuring out what their needs are and how their needs can be met. Remind yourself that nothing is more important than your relationship with your child, and that includes stopping "problem behaviors."
I am a Professional Counsellor (Autism/Apsergers/Teens). So often I have seen teachers and parents grappling with the situations you describe in your post.
I am a parent myself, with 3 teens and "mum" to many others.
When one takes the time to listen to what is bothering a child (as they display 'behaviours'), the child usually feels valued and respected for the inquirer taking the time to care, notice and show empathy.
Great topic (discovered you in the Parental Intelligence Newsletter) and will add you to my blog list of 'links'.
Cheers, Louise Page (Heart and Soul of Autism).
I am so glad to have read this post! My son has a variety of "challenges", including (but not limited to) ADHD, OCD, SPD and very likely Asperger's. For the last 3 years he has been working with speech, occupational, physical and behavioral therapists. There have been many times I've had conversations with people who are of the opinion that "he doesn't need therapy, he just needs to learn". That answer has never been enough for me, and while it makes for a busy, complicated week sometimes, I have never regretted keeping him in therapy to get him the help he needs.
Does your child want to stay home from school?
What can your teen tell you?
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