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3 Under-the-Radar Cryptocurrencies With Far More Potential Than Shiba Inu
By Sean Williams – Oct 29, 2021 at 6:04AM
Shiba Inu's SHIB token has gained more than 16,100,000% in 15 months.
However, Shiba Inu lacks differentiation and a real-world use case.
This off-the-radar crypto trio offers much more long-term potential.
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CRYPTO: SHIB
These lesser-known cryptocurrencies have real-world applications.
Historically, the stock market is one of the greatest wealth creators on the planet. There have been short periods of time where housing, gold, or other commodities have outperformed stocks, but no other investment vehicle has delivered a higher average annual return over the long run than the stock market.
But in the short run, cryptocurrencies have emerged to leave the broader market eating their dust. The most jaw-dropping outperformance can be seen from meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB 0.10%), which launched at the beginning of August 2020.
Over the past 15 months, the benchmark S&P 500 has gained a healthy 39%. Meanwhile, Shiba Inu's SHIB tokens have gained (I hope you're sitting down for this...) 16,119,508%, based on a price of $0.00008221 per token. That's not a typo. That's a gain of better than 16.1 million percent in 15 months.
The Japanese Shiba Inu dog breed has inspired a couple of successful cryptocurrencies. Image source: Getty Images.
Shiba Inu's short-term gains are historic, but its future looks bleak
How on Earth does an investable asset rise over 16,100,000% in a little over a year? For SHIB, it's a confluence of factors. In no particular order:
More cryptocurrency exchanges are allowing SHIB to trade on their platforms. More accessibility means improved liquidity, better brand recognition, and a growing community.
The launch of decentralized exchange ShibaSwap in July 2021 will almost certainly encourage some investors to stake their coins. This should increase the average holding time for SHIB.
A lack of derivative options to bet against Shiba Inu has given it, and many other cryptocurrencies, an inherent buy bias that's lifted valuations.
Yet, in spite of these life-altering gains, Shiba Inu has a fatal flaw: It doesn't stand out or do anything particularly well.
The expectation with cryptocurrency projects is they'll make financial and nonfinancial transactions faster and cheaper than existing infrastructure, and they'll democratize the process so everyone can participate. While Shiba Inu may have that last part down, it's not a standout network or payment coin. In fact, only around 100 merchants globally accept it as a form of payment despite the fact that it's now the 10th-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market value.
Without any true competitive advantages or differentiating factors -- sorry, Elon Musk's tweets of his Shiba Inu-breed dog don't count -- Shiba Inu's future looks bleak.
Over the long run, these lesser-known cryptocurrencies can outperform SHIB
On the other hand, a number of under-the-radar cryptocurrencies look far more intriguing than Shiba Inu and may offer significant long-term upside. Keeping in mind that I remain highly skeptical of digital currencies as a whole, this crypto trio has far more utility and potential than Shiba Inu.
One off-the-radar cryptocurrency that's consistently had my attention for years is Stellar (XLM -0.17%). As of Oct. 28, Stellar was the 25th-largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of $7.9 billion.
What I'm looking for in financially focused blockchain projects are efficiencies that stand out. Using existing banking infrastructure, cross-border payments can take up to one week to validate and settle, which isn't very efficient. With Stellar's blockchain, more than 180 fiat currencies can be converted to Lumen coins (XLM, the protocol token on Stellar's network), transferred across borders, and converted back into a preferred fiat currency. The time to completely validate and settle said cross-border transaction? A couple of seconds.
But speed isn't the only advantage for Stellar's blockchain. The average transaction costs 0.00001 XLM, which equates to $0.00000334 per transaction. To put this figure into an easier-to-understand number, it would take approximately 300,000 transactions on Stellar's blockchain before a party would rack up the equivalent of $1 in fees.
And that's still not all. Stellar's development team claims the network can handle up to 3,000 transactions per second. Though this is far cry from the 24,000 transactions per second payment-processing giant Visa (V 3.00%) can handle, 3,000 transactions per second is an exceptionally high number for a digital currency-tethered blockchain.
Stellar has tangible partnerships, too. Back in 2017, it partnered with IBM to help facilitate blockchain-based cross-border payments for a dozen banks in the South Pacific region. More recently, in May, the Stellar Development Foundation announced it would be part of a collaboration by Visa and Tala to bring financially focused blockchain solutions to underbanked emerging markets.
Another under-the-radar cryptocurrency that looks to have far more long-term potential than Shiba Inu is Nano (NANO 0.64%). According to data from CoinMarketCap.com, Nano is the 119th-largest cryptocurrency ($669 million market cap).
Nano aims to revolutionize digital payments, and there are three things about this cryptocurrency project that really stand out. To begin with, Nano's developers shunned an open-source network with a central blockchain. Instead, the network utilizes a block-lattice blockchain. With the block-lattice, every user has their own blockchain that they can add to. This means no competing with other users to add blocks and no hassle in gaining consensus. Since only the sender and receiver of a payment are needed for consensus, verification is quick. In theory, the block-lattice should also allow Nano to scale rapidly without the networks' performance being adversely effected.
Secondly, Nano's network is lightning-fast, with transactions processing (this means validation and settlement) in under a second. Assuming the network can be effectively scaled to increase transactions per second well into the four digits, like Stellar, Nano could become a popular digital payment option.
The third and most intriguing aspect of Nano is that its transactions are free. As noted by Nano:
The consensus mechanism, called Open Representative Voting (ORV), also provides useful differentiation from other networks. Consensus is reached through representatives voting on the validity of individual blocks shared on the network. The voting weight for each representative is assigned to them by the account owners and is in proportion to the Nano in those accounts.
In short, ORV helps keep Nano free from a transaction standpoint, which could give it real long-term appeal.
A third and final cryptocurrency with significantly more real-world potential than Shiba Inu is Qtum (QTUM -3.67%), which is pronounced "quantum." According to CoinMarketCap, Qtum is the 88th-largest cryptocurrency, with a market value of $1.2 billion.
Although Qtum has financial applications, it's really designed to be a quick and secure blockchain solution for businesses.
The standout aspect of Qtum's blockchain is the combination of Bitcoin's (BTC -0.49%) UTXO security protocols with Ethereum's (ETH -2.11%) Virtual Machine. Qtum's developers have taken the best aspects from the top two digital currencies by market cap and created a network that incorporates smart contracts. Smart contracts are protocols that facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation of a contract between two parties. Since smart contracts are transparent on blockchain and legally binding, they're the perfect tool to attract businesses.
To build on this point, Qtum further separates itself from other blockchain projects with its Account Abstraction Layer (AAL). The AAL is what allows applications to be decoupled from the underlying protocol in order to add new smart contract capabilities down the road. It also allows Qtum's blockchain to remain backward compatible with Bitcoin's secure UTXO model, no matter how many updates Qtum's developers put out.
To add, Qtum has had little issue attracting enterprise partnerships. In mid-March, prediction markets platform and exchange Value Network announced it would be migrating away from Ethereum to Qtum's smart contract and decentralized applications platform. Just a couple of weeks later, Qtum founder Patrick Dai noted that developers were working with Filecoin to enable smart contacts through the Qtum network.
The point being that, unlike Shiba Inu, Qtum has demonstrated real-world potential.
Sean Williams has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Visa. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Commonly known as sweet leaf or sugar leaf, stevia rebaudiana is a widely grown plant, which belongs to the sunflower family, native to Central and South America. Studies have shown it to be a safe and natural, calorie-free sugar substitute and is commonly used to sweeten a number of foods and beverages. The compound responsible for the plant's sweetness is a glycoside found in the plant's leaves. Steviol glycosides are said to be up to 300 times sweeter than sugar.
Fresh leaves from the stevia plant can be used in hot or cold drinks or on their own as a herbal tea. The leaves are dried to form a powder, which can be used in baking - two tablespoons of stevia powder is the same as one cup of sugar. It is important to note however that stevia does not caramelise. Stevia-based sweeteners can be found in products including yogurts, chocolates and fizzy drinks.
With no calories, no sugar and no carbohydrates, stevia's GI score is 0. Stevia was only approved for sale in the EU in 2012, and it was hoped it would prove useful for diabetics looking for a naturally derived, low-calorie sweetener.
In tests, pure stevia extract has been found to have no effect on blood glucose levels (and may even improve your bodies ability to metabolise glucose). Studies that have attempted to show that stevia can improve insulin sensitivity and benefit diabetes have not been conducted on humans as yet, but do show some promise.
However, pure stevia extract has a bitter aftertaste, which means that stevia-based sweeteners are often blended with other sugars and artificial sweetners to improve taste. By blending them with other sweetening ingredients such as dextrose, maltodextrin and sucrose, some stevia products are then capable of raising blood glucose levels. It is therefore important to read the labels on products which claim to be stevia.
Unfortunately, many commercial stevia products are highly purified stevia extracts and are not always as healthy as some of their 'natural' labels would lead you to believe. Like with other sugar alternatives, it is the extraction and processing methods that change the properties of the whole leaf into something quite different.
In the sense that pure stevia doesn't add calories, affect blood sugar or insulin levels, or contribute to tooth decay, it is a better choice than sugar. However, highly refined extracts perpetuate the desire for sweet-tasting foods and drinks and therefore over consumption is not recommended. As the long term effects of sweeteners are still unknown there is a clear need for further experimentation with respect to the metabolic processes involved.
Pure stevia tastes terrible, if its in something and tastes good you have been conned, if you buy the sugar substitute and it tastes good, you were conned, read the label next time. If stevia could be made palatable it would have been in use b4 they invented the wheel.
I have at times used stevia. I find it needs to be used moderately because of the bitter aftertaste and also because I needed to cut down on the sweet taste in order to not crave more sweetness. It is amazing how quickly one can change ones expectation of sweetness.
I have tried different stevia sweeteners, but alas so far they've all got something else added, very misleading when you're trying to quit sugar. I've been on the internet and so many suppliers are out of stock or are not pure stevia. I wanted stevia granules or drops, they have them only in the U.S.A. but it's pretty expensive when you add postage, don't know who to try, any ideas anyone.
I buy stevia drops in our local health food store. I think most good H F stores carry them.
Hi Geraldine - I buy Stevia on Ebay from Lovingsugarfree. They sell drops, concentrated powder and stevia mixes as well as Xylitol products. Hope this helps.
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Q: JSR352: Annotation @Named doesn't work in Java SE I'm building a demo of JSR352 (Batch Applications for the Java Platform) under Java SE, using the JBoss implementation JBeret. And I want to run the integration test for this job. In this batch job, there're 3 components:

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*io.mincong.batch.MyItemReader

*io.mincong.batch.MyItemProcessor

*io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter
They're all named beans with annotation @Named, e.g.
@Named
public class MyItemProcessor implements ItemProcessor {
     // ...
}

Thanks to this annotation, I can use the job classes without typing the package name prefix io.mincong.batch in the my job file myJob.xml. And this works fine in Java EE container, like WildFly 10. However, in Java SE, it doesn't work anymore, I must add the package prefix. Here the job xml myJob.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<job id="myJob" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/jobXML_1_0.xsd"
    version="1.0">
    <step id="printID">
        <chunk item-count="5">
            <!-- This works :
            <reader ref="io.mincong.batch.MyItemReader"/>
            <processor ref="io.mincong.batch.MyItemProcessor"/>
            <writer ref="io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter"/> -->

            <!-- This doesn't work -->
            <reader ref="myItemReader"/>
            <processor ref="myItemProcessor"/>
            <writer ref="myItemWriter"/>
        </chunk>
    </step>
</job>

And you can find 2 mvn install log in annex, with and without package prefix. In other words, use and not-use @Named. Why this error happens ? Am I missing some dependencies ? Any idea ?
You can see my pom.xml below too. Additional informations :

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*JBERET: Set up JBeret

*JBERET: Minimal application dependencies

*JBERET: Additional dependencies for Java SE batch applications

*JBERET: jberet/jsr352/test-apps on GitHub

Maven install failed when @Named is used
Mincongs-MBP:batch mincong$ mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building batch 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ batch ---
[INFO] Deleting /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ batch ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ batch ---
[INFO] Compiling 3 source files to /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ batch ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ batch ---
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/test-classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ batch ---
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (default-jar) @ batch ---
[INFO] Building jar: /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/batch.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:integration-test (default) @ batch ---
[INFO] Failsafe report directory: /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/failsafe-reports

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Running io.mincong.batch.JobIT
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup <clinit>
INFO: WELD-000900: 2.3.4 (Final)
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.environment.deployment.discovery.DiscoveryStrategyFactory create
INFO: WELD-ENV-000020: Using jandex for bean discovery
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup startContainer
INFO: WELD-000101: Transactional services not available. Injection of @Inject UserTransaction not available. Transactional observers will be invoked synchronously.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.KafkaItemReader because of underlying class loading error: Type org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.KafkaItemWriter because of underlying class loading error: Type org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.HornetQItemReader because of underlying class loading error: Type org.hornetq.api.core.HornetQException not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.JasperReportsBatchlet because of underlying class loading error: Type net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRAbstractTextDataSource not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:16 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.HornetQItemWriter because of underlying class loading error: Type org.hornetq.api.core.HornetQException not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:17 PM org.jboss.weld.environment.se.WeldContainer initialize
INFO: WELD-ENV-002003: Weld SE container STATIC_INSTANCE initialized
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:17 PM io.mincong.batch.JobIT setupJobEnv
INFO: setup env finished.
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:17 PM io.mincong.batch.JobIT shouldStart
INFO: executionId=1
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:17 PM org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner run
ERROR: item-count=10, time-limit=0, skip-limit=-1, skipCount=0, retry-limit=-1, retryCount=0
Jun 26, 2016 1:21:17 PM org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner run
ERROR: JBERET000007: Failed to run job myJob, printID, org.jberet.job.model.Chunk@4256e00a
java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBERET000600: Failed to create artifact with ref name myItemReader.  Ensure CDI beans.xml is present and batch.xml, if any, is configured properly.
    at org.jberet.runtime.context.JobContextImpl.createArtifact(JobContextImpl.java:185)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.AbstractRunner.createArtifact(AbstractRunner.java:156)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner.run(ChunkRunner.java:134)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.runBatchletOrChunk(StepExecutionRunner.java:226)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.run(StepExecutionRunner.java:147)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runStep(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:164)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runFromHeadOrRestartPoint(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:88)
    at org.jberet.runtime.runner.JobExecutionRunner.run(JobExecutionRunner.java:60)
    at org.jberet.spi.JobExecutor$1.run(JobExecutor.java:99)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBERET000600: Failed to create artifact with ref name myItemReader.  Ensure CDI beans.xml is present and batch.xml, if any, is configured properly.
    at org.jberet.creation.ArtifactFactoryWrapper.getClassFromBatchXmlOrClassLoader(ArtifactFactoryWrapper.java:65)
    at org.jberet.creation.ArtifactFactoryWrapper.create(ArtifactFactoryWrapper.java:41)
    at org.jberet.runtime.context.JobContextImpl.createArtifact(JobContextImpl.java:183)
    ... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: myItemReader
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at org.jberet.creation.ArtifactFactoryWrapper.getClassFromBatchXmlOrClassLoader(ArtifactFactoryWrapper.java:63)
    ... 13 more

Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 4.416 sec <<< FAILURE! - in io.mincong.batch.JobIT
shouldStart(io.mincong.batch.JobIT)  Time elapsed: 4.366 sec  <<< FAILURE!
java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<COMPLETED> but was:<FAILED>
    at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:91)
    at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:645)
    at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:126)
    at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:145)
    at io.mincong.batch.JobIT.shouldStart(JobIT.java:47)

Weld SE container STATIC_INSTANCE shut down by shutdown hook

Results :

Failed tests:
  JobIT.shouldStart:47 expected:<COMPLETED> but was:<FAILED>

Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:verify (default) @ batch ---
[INFO] Failsafe report directory: /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/failsafe-reports
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 7.863 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2016-06-26T13:21:20+02:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 31M/273M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:verify (default) on project batch: There are test failures.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Please refer to /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/failsafe-reports for the individual test results.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Maven install success when @Named is not used
Mincongs-MBP:batch mincong$ mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building batch 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ batch ---
[INFO] Deleting /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ batch ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ batch ---
[INFO] Compiling 3 source files to /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ batch ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ batch ---
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/test-classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ batch ---
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (default-jar) @ batch ---
[INFO] Building jar: /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/batch.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-failsafe-plugin:2.17:integration-test (default) @ batch ---
[INFO] Failsafe report directory: /Users/mincong/Documents/workspace/batch/target/failsafe-reports

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Running io.mincong.batch.JobIT
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:25 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup <clinit>
INFO: WELD-000900: 2.3.4 (Final)
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:25 PM org.jboss.weld.environment.deployment.discovery.DiscoveryStrategyFactory create
INFO: WELD-ENV-000020: Using jandex for bean discovery
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.WeldStartup startContainer
INFO: WELD-000101: Transactional services not available. Injection of @Inject UserTransaction not available. Transactional observers will be invoked synchronously.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.KafkaItemReader because of underlying class loading error: Type org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.KafkaItemWriter because of underlying class loading error: Type org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.HornetQItemReader because of underlying class loading error: Type org.hornetq.api.core.HornetQException not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.JasperReportsBatchlet because of underlying class loading error: Type net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRAbstractTextDataSource not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.MissingDependenciesRegistry handleResourceLoadingException
INFO: WELD-000119: Not generating any bean definitions from org.jberet.support.io.HornetQItemWriter because of underlying class loading error: Type org.hornetq.api.core.HornetQException not found.  If this is unexpected, enable DEBUG logging to see the full error.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM org.jboss.weld.environment.se.WeldContainer initialize
INFO: WELD-ENV-002003: Weld SE container STATIC_INSTANCE initialized
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.JobIT setupJobEnv
INFO: setup env finished.
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.JobIT shouldStart
INFO: executionId=1
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter writeItems
INFO: 0
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter writeItems
INFO: 1
...
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter writeItems
INFO: 95
Jun 26, 2016 1:25:26 PM io.mincong.batch.MyItemWriter writeItems
INFO: 96
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Results :

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    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>io.github.mincongh</groupId>
    <artifactId>batch</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>batch</name>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
        <maven.compiler.testSource>1.7</maven.compiler.testSource>
        <maven.compiler.testTarget>1.7</maven.compiler.testTarget>
        <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
        <arquillian.version>1.0.0.Alpha5</arquillian.version>
        <wildfly.version>10.0.0.Final</wildfly.version>
        <jberet.version>1.3.0.Beta2</jberet.version>
    </properties>

    <build>
        <finalName>batch</finalName>
        <plugins>
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                <version>2.17</version>
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                <executions>
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                      <goal>verify</goal>
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                <version>2.3.2</version>
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                    <target>1.7</target>
                </configuration>
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    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jboss.spec</groupId>
            <artifactId>jboss-javaee-7.0</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0.Final</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!-- Write test in JUnit 4.x -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
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        <dependency>
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            <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0.Final</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
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        <dependency>
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            <artifactId>jboss-batch-api_1.0_spec</artifactId>
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        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
            <version>1</version>
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        <dependency>
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            <artifactId>jboss-transaction-api_1.2_spec</artifactId>
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            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
            <version>19.0</version>
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        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jboss.weld.se</groupId>
            <artifactId>weld-se</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.4.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- contains all classes of JBeret batch runtime. This library is
             required to run batch applications in both Java SE and Java EE
             environment. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jberet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jberet-core</artifactId>
            <version>${jberet.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- contains implementation classes of JBeret batch runtime
             specifically for Java SE environment. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jberet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jberet-se</artifactId>
            <version>${jberet.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- a zip file containing the following content, and provides a
             good start to write and run batch applications with JBeret in
             Java SE.
             *  All libraries required to run batch applications in
                Java SE environment
             *  default configuration file, jberet.properties for
                configuring JBeret batch runtime in Java SE environment
             *  jberet-support library and its common transitive
                dependencies
         -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jberet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jberet-distribution</artifactId>
            <version>${jberet.version}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.191</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

A: After many hours comparison, I finally find out the difference !! The bean discovery mode in beans.xml was annotated and should be all :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- <beans bean-discovery-mode="annotated" version="1.1" -->
<beans bean-discovery-mode="all" version="1.1"
  xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_1.xsd"/>

According to Javadoc - Enum BeanDiscoveryMode:

*

*ALL: All types in the archive will be considered.

*ANNOTATED: Only those types with bean defining annotations will be considered.

*NONE: This archive will be ignored.

A: You should add the @Dependent annotation to you Reader, Processor and Writer.

To ensure that Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) works in your batch artifacts, follow these steps.

*

*Define your batch artifact implementations as CDI named beans using the Named annotation.

*Provide a public, empty, no-argument constructor for your batch artifacts.

*Specify the CDI name for the batch artifacts in the job definition file, instead of using the fully qualified name of the class.

*Ensure that your module is a CDI bean archive by annotating your batch artifacts with the javax.enterprise.context.Dependent annotation or by including an empty beans.xml deployment description with your application.

@Dependent
@Named("MyItemReaderImpl")
public class MyItemReaderImpl implements ItemReader { ... }

<step id="stepA" next="stepB">
  <chunk>
    <reader ref="MyItemReaderImpl"></reader>
    ...
  </chunk>
</step>

More infos on:
https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/batch-processing005.htm

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Cancer drugs discarded because of Brexit red tape, MPs hear
Head of Welsh CBI tells committee pharmaceutical firm has had to move production to Dublin
Ian Price, head of the CBI in Wales, has called on the UK government to resume talks with the EU about a relaxation in the rules over medicine supplies. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images
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Thu 4 Feb 2021 08.14 EST
Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 13.58 EST
A Welsh pharmaceutical company has been forced to throw out hundreds of packs of vital cancer treatments for EU patients because of Brexit red tape on exports, MPs have heard.
The company, which has not been named, has now moved production to Dublin.
Ian Price, the director of the Confederation of British Industry in Wales, said the "mountain of red tape" facing businesses because of Brexit was "terrifying" and had come as a real shock to companies.
He told MPs on the Welsh affairs committee that the UK government needed to resume talks with the EU about a relaxation in the rules over medicine supplies because financial support would not help several pharma companies that are having difficulties trading with the EU.
"One instance I'm aware of is that they've already moved the production of a particular item to Dublin – because they can't in the time allowed continue to make it in Wales because it's a time sensitive cancer drug that they were importing into Europe – sadly as a consequence of the arrangement of the deal.
"It's no good they've now got 200 or 300 consignments blocked somewhere in the system in Europe and they are having to be thrown," he said.
He was speaking as MPs on the Scottish affairs committee were told that the government had made "catastrophic decisions" on the fishing industry post-Brexit, one of which has led to a ban on live molluscs being traded.
It has been "a dreadful first few weeks of trading … there's no way of sugar coating it," James Withers, the chief executive of Scotland Food & Drink told them.
He was speaking just days after Politics Home revealed that the EU has told the UK shellfish industry that thousands of tonnes of oyster, mussel, clam, cockle and scallop exports were banned from the bloc indefinitely, spelling disaster for the Scottish fishing industry.
The government made "catastrophic decisions" on the fishing industry's post-Brexit arrangements, Scotland Food & Drink's @scotfoodjames tells @CommonsScotAffs
It's been a "dreadful first few weeks of trading... there's no way of sugar coating it," he tells MPs
— Adam Payne (@adampayne26) February 4, 2021
Elaine Whyte, executive secretary of the Clyde Fisherman's Association, said the EU ban on live shellfish was a "massive issue" as it could mean "losing live markets entirely and permanently".
There must a "political intervention" to save UK businesses, she said.
MPs on both committees heard of the fears that Brexit barriers would get worse in April when new health checks will be applied to all products of animal origin including meat, pet food, honey, milk or egg products with pre-notification of imports required by the authorities.
It means more disruption to the supply chain for food and fish processing production, which relies on elements of ready meals, confectionary and processed food coming from the EU.
"1 April is a concern for everybody and they haven't yet come to terms with 1 January," Price told MPs.
Ian Davies, the head of UK Port Authorities at Stena Line, talked of the devastating impact of Brexit on British-Irish trade.
Irish suppliers were bypassing the UK "landbridge" going direct to France or Belgium on new ferry routes laid on to allow truckers to avoid Dover.
Although the route added €400 (£351) a load and took six hours longer, Irish suppliers had opted for "ease over cost" amid fears they could be "tripped up" by barriers in Dover.
A reduction in traffic in the other direction had also hit Holyhead port where 30% of traffic to Dublin would normally be destined for Belfast. But there had been a "big deflection" with hauliers saying they are now opting to drive the length of the country to Scotland rather than face checks in Dublin port.
Price said he had seen "horrific stories of transport price increases since Brexit with one firm, which moves "large capital equipment" to the EU, seeing its costs rise £250,000 in the first month.


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A deadly earthquake has most of Puerto Rico with no power, no water and residents fear tremors will bring more destruction
Guanica, Puerto Rico (CNN) Hours after a deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked Puerto Rico, people on the southern coast fear more homes could soon collapse and most of the people on the island remain without power.
Tuesday's quake — the strongest and likely the most damaging of a series of quakes that have hit the island since December 28 — left a man dead, caused dozens of homes and structures to crumble and cut power and water service to swaths of the island.
Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced declared a state of emergency and activated the Puerto Rico National Guard as she pleaded with people to remain calm and prepare for aftershocks.
"We have responded to many difficult situations, and here we are once again … helping our people move forward," Vázquez said.
Engineers were working to reestablish service to close to 300,000 of the island's 1.1 million utility customers who were without water service Tuesday, Vázquez said.
The 6.4 quake struck at 4:24 a.m. (3:24 a.m. ET) while most were still asleep. It centered just off Puerto Rico's southern coast, about 6 miles south Indios, a town of a couple thousand people, the US Geological Survey said. Several aftershocks have followed, including a magnitude 5.6 temblor striking just south of Indios at 7:18 a.m., USGS said.
In the town of Guanica, families sat on white plastic chairs and cots in the parking lot of the Mariano "Tito" Rodriguez Municipal Coliseum. About 255 have been taking shelter there since a 5.8 magnitude quake shook the US territory on Monday but officials now fear the building it's not stable.
Hundreds of families are taking shelter outside a local coliseum in Guanica.
"My home is like a hammock," said Hector Cruz, a resident of Guanica. "It's like a drill coming from underneath the home."
The earthquakes come more than two years after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory in September 2017 and many in southern Puerto Rico said the earthquakes damage had been worst.
Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Henry Escalera told CNN there's not way to compare both disasters.
"There's no warnings for this," he said about the earthquakes. "A hurricane gives us time to plan ahead."
When asked about what concerns him the most about the aftermath of the earthquakes, Escalera said, "It's our homes… that homes will not be safe to live in and the possibility of a collapse that will cause a person's death or serious injuries."
1 dead, homes and church collapsed
In the city of Ponce, roughly 15-mile drive east of Indios, a 77-year-old man was killed and at least eight others were injured Tuesday, Ponce emergency management director Angel Vasquez said.
More than 400,000 of Puerto Rico's 3.1 million people would have felt strong or very strong shaking, the USGS estimates, though the entire island would have felt lesser effects.
Zulma Bracero, deputy mayor of Guanica, told CNN that authorities were providing tents to help residents sleep outdoors on Tuesday night. She said nothing seems safe and the situation is worse than the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Riko Gonzalez and his parents were sleeping in their home in Yauco, near Indios, when the 6.4 quake struck. They awoke to a rumble and scurried out of the house. China and glasses were smashed on the kitchen floor, he said.
It was "horrible, nothing compared to the (magnitude) 5s from yesterday," Gonzalez told CNN.
"People are afraid to go to bed, to then be woken up to worse earthquakes than the day before," he said.
In Guayanilla, just north of Indios, parts of the Inmaculada Conception church were in ruins Tuesday. Part of an exterior wall collapsed, and piles of rubble lay on the ground, pictures posted to Facebook showed.
Homes also were damaged in Guayanilla, Mayor Nelson Torres said in a phone interview with CNN affiliate WAPA.
The Guayanilla area already was counting its losses from a day earlier. A significant tourist attraction, the picturesque Punta Ventana rock formation and arch on the coast, collapsed because of Monday's shaking, the mayor said.
The Punta Ventana stone arch — a major tourist attraction in the Guayanilla area — collapsed Monday.
In Ponce, workers at Damas hospital were evacuating all patients Tuesday morning except for those in intensive care, the facility's Executive Director Dr. Pedro Benitez told WAPA.
"(Patients) were running around the hallways, so we had to get them out of the building for their own safety," Benitez said.
It could be the worst quake in more than 100 years
Tuesday's quake continues a series of seismic events that have shaken Puerto Rico across 11 days. Hundreds of small earthquakes have hit the island since December 28, the USGS says, including at least 29 over magnitude 4.0.
Monday morning's 5.8 tremor struck just south of Indios. While that quake damaged some homes in Guanica and Guayanilla, no serious injuries were reported.
The earthquakes since December 28 appear to have been foreshocks to Tuesday morning's largest quake, CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.
Tuesday's quake "will trigger aftershocks, but these will decrease in frequency over time," the USGS said in a news release.
It likely will be the island's most damaging earthquake in more than a century.
In 1918, a strong quake shook Puerto Rico and caused a tsunami, resulting in 116 deaths and economic loss of $4 million, two times the annual budget for the whole island at the time, according to the Puerto Rico Seismic Network. That's about $73.4 million in buying power today, according to the government's Consumer Price Index inflation calculator.
This is the largest earthquake to hit Puerto Rico since 2014, when a 6.4 magnitude quake struck 61 miles northeast of the island. That quake briefly disrupted power and caused only minor damage to Puerto Rico, as it was centered much father offshore than Tuesday's earthquake.
Puerto Rico could see billions of dollars in damage, expert says
It's unclear what the full extent of the damages in Puerto Rico be but experts say the island could need hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.
Chuck Watson, an analyst with Georgia-based Enki Research, a disaster research group, said the quakes could cost the island up to $3.1 billion in economic losses.
The estimate accounts for damage to both public and private property, as well as lost tourism, wages and business due to power outages. USGS has estimated the earthquake could cause economic losses greater than $100 million.
A building collapsed and crushed a car in Yauco, Puerto Rico. All the occupants of the home are reported to be uninjured.
Watson says his estimate includes how multiple aftershocks can potentially damage weak structures, as well as the lingering damage left by Hurricane Maria. Some of the infrastructure damage is still not rebuilt following the 2017 storm, the American Society of Civil Engineers has said.
Following the damage from hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, Congress appropriated $42 billion to the recovery effort in Puerto Rico, $16 billion of which went through FEMA, $20 billion through Housing and Urban Development, and the remainder through more than a dozen smaller agencies.
Only about $14 billion of these funds have been spent.
CNN's Leyla Santiago reported from Puerto Rico, Nicole Chavez and Jason Hanna reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Paul Murphy, Angela Barajas, Tina Burnside, Hollie Silverman, Joe Sutton, Ana Melgar Zuniga, Judson Jones and Roxanne Garcia-Bell contributed to this report.
PUBLIC NOTICE – City of Buffalo 2020 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Home Investment Partnership Grant (HOME) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG)
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The City of Buffalo Office Of Strategic Planning, on behalf of the Erie County Community Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership Consortia, has prepared an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report. The Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report serves as the basis for fair housing planning, provides essential information to policy makers, administrative staff, housing providers, lenders and fair housing advocates and assists in building public support for fair housing lenders. The Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report also serves as a point-in-time baseline against which future progress in terms of implementing fair housing initiatives will be evaluated and recorded.
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The studied areas for the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report is the thirty-seven municipalities of the Erie County CDBG and Home Consortium, the City of Buffalo, the Towns of Tonawanda, Amherst, Cheektowaga and Hamburg and the villages therein. The following municipalities comprise the Erie County CDBG Consortium: Cities of Lackawanna and Tonawanda; Towns of Alden, Aurora, Boston, Brant, Clarence, Colden, Collins, Concord, Eden, Elma, Evans, Grand Island, Holland, Lancaster, Marilla, Newstead, North Collins, Orchard Park, Sardinia, Wales and West Seneca; Villages of Akron, Alden, Angola, Depew, East Aurora, Farnham, Gowanda, Lancaster, North Collins, Orchard Park and Springville. The Erie County HOME Consortium includes the above communities as well as the Town of Hamburg and the Villages of Blasdell and Hamburg.
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Five (5) public hearings have been scheduled to discuss the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report mentioned above. The public is encouraged to attend these hearings, which will be held on Tuesday January 21 at 5:30 p.m., Delevan-Grider 877 E Delevan Ave, Buffalo, Tuesday, January 21 at 7:00 p.m., Lackawanna Public Library, Community Room, 560 Ridge Road, Lackawanna; on Wednesday, January 22 at 6:00 p.m., Hamburg Town Hall, Lobby, 6100 South Park Avenue, Hamburg; and on Thursday, January 23 at 7:30 p.m., City of Tonawanda, Court Room, 200 Niagara Street, Tonawanda. Meeting rooms are fully accessible. Persons with special needs and who are unable to attend any of the three (3) public meetings can participate in a Public Hearing Meeting and Conference Call on Wednesday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Edward A. Rath County Office Building, 95 Franklin Street, 10th Floor, Room 1004, Buffalo, NY. To participate by phone, call 716-858-2468; enter Meeting Number 6409 and Attendee Access Code 3690. Written comments on the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Report will be
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Many developing countries around the world apply progressive water tariffs, often structured in the form of discretely increasing block tariffs (IBTs). These tariffs have been criticized in the welfare economic literature due to their perceived inefficiency: many of the prices charged under IBTs do not correspond to marginal costs and thus violate the principle of allocative efficiency. In this paper we explore an alternative interpretation of the widespread use of IBTs, in terms of social preferences and fairness considerations. For this, we rely on an extension of the Fehr and Schmidt (1999) utility function, including inequality aversion, to which we add another parameter representing a preference for redistribution, which reflects a societal preference to correct for income difference perceived as unfair. In addition, the paper also includes household size in the analysis, finding that as poor households are on average larger (in per capita terms), a simple IBT tariff disregarding household size may not be "fair" at all. We conclude on a methodological note on the importance of addressing allocative and distributional issues simultaneously.


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I don't want my son to pull a rickshaw like me.
If you have no money for education, what is your son going to do? So the child grows up seeing the father pulling the rickshaw, and for lack of having anything else to do he ends up doing the same job.
My family is illiterate. Nobody in my family has ever gone to school.
I do chores, like go to the store, get water from the pond for rice, and buy the firewood.
You realize that if you don't bring education there, you're never going to be able to break this vicious cycle. You need an external force, and that's what we're trying to bring in with Project Rhino. We are trying to bring education to children.
The first day of school he was afraid. But I told him to go to school and learn.
The first day of school I was scared. I didn't know anyone.
I think one of our biggest mistakes was not being prepared for the response. We were flooded with so many people. There is definitely a huge amount of potential. There are more than 100 students waiting to get in. We are not able to go in because of the resources. And that's hopefully our five-year plan, to be able to address and reach out to more people, more children.
I like going to school now. When I grow up, I want to be a doctor to help others.
My son wants to be a doctor. This is my heart's desire.
It costs one dollar a day to send Arjun to school. To send another child to school, visit www.projectrhino.com.


I hope everyone had a good week and a good fourth! Here's my recap!
I had a great Fourth of July with family and friends. It was great! Too much good food and some fireworks in the rain.
We started receiving our RSVPs back! Very exciting stuff, y'all.
Andre got a new car! It's beautiful and basically new and I can't wait to take it all over the place! He really deserved something really nice for himself.
I got a double doozie at the mall. Yum! They are the best but oh so sweet so I don't really eat them a lot. It was very good.
I took my lunch to work every day this week. It may not seem like a huge deal, but it really is for me.
Gorgeous firework picture and yay for a ne wcar!
Fun pics! I love the color of the new car.
Yes! It's a fun color but not over the top!
I did. Thank you so much!
Things get so real when those RSVPs come back, don't they??? So exciting!! Food + Fireworks sound like the perfect combo for the 4th to me! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
And it was a great fourth. Thank you. Hope you had a great weekend.
Those double doozies are so good!!! Now I'm drooling lol!! Great pictures lovely post!!!