The ATF Rarely Busts Unlicensed Gun Sellers. Obama's New Plan Isn't Going to Change That.
Bureau insiders dissect the downsides to the president's action on private dealers who should be running background checks.
This past Sunday had it all for Texans in San Antonio — before tuning in to watch the Super Bowl, they could check out a gun show. That afternoon, vendors filled the San Antonio Events Center, a 55,000-square foot space in a strip mall on the west side of the city. The center of the room was dominated by booths run by brick-and-mortar gun shops, or retailers who have a federal firearms license (FFL) and must perform background checks on purchasers. When asked where to find any unlicensed dealers, who aren't obligated to perform background checks, the gun shop reps suggested checking out the rim of hall, where bare-bones booths displayed a large stock of handguns.
Unlicensed dealers were one of the key focuses of the executive actions on gun safety that President Barack Obama announced in January. Through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), his administration has moved to more sharply define who's engaged in the business of gun selling, and therefore must register as a licensed dealer or face criminal prosecution. The calculus is that clearer rules will raise the risks of being engaged in the business without a license — and nudge more sellers into the background check system.
But in San Antonio, at least one unlicensed gun seller said he had no plans to heed that warning.
At a booth on the outer edges of the center's floor, a middle-aged man who declined to give his name shrugged off Obama's executive actions. The president has made "a lot of speeches and talked a lot but I haven't seen anything official come down," he said. The man claimed that even though selling guns is his full-time profession, he doesn't have a federal firearms dealer license. He seemed to be exactly the sort of seller the president's actions aim to address — but the White House's measure has not been forceful enough to change how he runs his business.
Nor has the White House convened a task force to assemble a plan for stronger enforcement of the clarified rule, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, none of the 92 U.S. Attorney's offices, who employ the prosecutors that actually bring ATF investigations to court, are assigning more attorneys to unlicensed dealing cases.
Relative to the fanfare that accompanied their announcement, Obama's actions are having at best a modest impact at closing the so-called private sale loophole. That's because, despite the force of Obama's rhetoric, he did not actually change how the law defines who is engaged in the business of selling guns, leaving reluctant federal agents to work with a law they say confounds enforcement.
The biggest obstacle to enforcing the law against unlicensed dealing is the vague wording of the law itself, which is notoriously subject to interpretation. Only those "engaged in the business" of dealing firearms must get licensed; hobbyists are allowed to sell off parts of their personal collections without registering with the government and running background checks. To prove that someone is in violation of the law, investigators and prosecutors have to prove the dealer was motivated by profit and made a substantial portion of their livelihood from gun sales. What qualifies as substantial? Does making any money on a sale constitute a profit motive? The law doesn't say.
Policy expert Chelsea Parsons at the Center for American Progress has highlighted possible alternative definitions, all of which would use a quantitative threshold as opposed to the current qualitative one. That could be number of guns sold per year, or amount of revenue generated. There's precedent for such approaches: State governments, for instance, use sales tax schemes to decide which individuals count as engaged in certain kinds of business and therefore subject to regulation.
According to the Washington Post, after the Sandy Hook shooting and the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey bill, Attorney General Eric Holder and the White House Counsel's office told the president that he had the authority to use a numerical threshold to rewrite the rules for private gun sellers, setting the licensing bar at either 25 or 50 guns sold in a year.
Going that route would have given the ATF a stronger enforcement tool, but it would also have likely meant enduring legal challenges, much as the administration has after using executive power to attempt reforms of deportation policies and coal fired power plant emissions. To attempt such a rule change, Obama would have had to kick it off well before the beginning of 2016, since the process can take more than a year without lawsuits.
Instead, Obama opted to work with the existing definition, by spelling out certain behaviors that have been found to go along with being illegally engaged in unlicensed gun dealing: printing business cards, taking out advertising, selling a lot of firearms in their original packaging. He also took another step, asking Congress for the money to hire 200 more ATF agents and investigators in his 2017 budget. Pete Gagliardi, the ATF's director of legislative affairs in the mid-1990s, says that if the funds were authorized, Congress could "tie budget money to reporting requirements," wonk-speak for asking the ATF to make more cases against unlicensed dealers in order to receive more generous appropriations.
But such budget-driven initiatives depends on a Congress that shares the president's priorities. And this Congress, it is safe to say, does not.
Indeed the reception in the Capitol to Obama's final budget has been harsh even by recent standards: The House won't ask the White House budget director to testify, the first time that invitation has not been extended since the funding process was shaped in 1975.
The upshot is that the ATF is likely to be left at its current enforcement muscle. In 2014, the last year for which figures are available, the Bureau had 2,490 special agents and 780 investigators. The Violence Policy Center, a group that advocates for stronger gun laws, estimated there were anywhere from 2,000 to 5,200 gun shows per year during the Clinton era, but they have not updated that number since then. Assuming that at least that many gun shows are still held around the country each year, there simply aren't enough agents to survey them all for evidence of unlicensed dealing. As it is, the ATF manages to inspect just 7 percent of existing licensed dealers per year.
No influx of manpower and an only marginally less open-ended engaged in the business rule means that from the perspective of the ATF, the status quo reigns. And according to some former ATF agents, the status quo includes a general disinclination to go after everyday unlicensed gun dealers.
One reason, say sources, is that the cases eat up enormous chunks of time and resources for what former special agent John Risenhoover labels as essentially "tax and title violations." As a consequence, agents tend to only investigate "slam-dunk cases," where the violations are flagrant and can be tied to other, more violent crimes. Take the example of David Lewisbey, a Chicagoan who regularly bought duffel bags full of guns in Indiana to resell back in his city, often to gang members. Though he claimed he was just a hobbyist maintaining his personal collection, he admitted on the stand that he had an idea the guns he sold would be used in crimes. Lewisbey was successful prosecuted for his offense, but had he quietly sold those duffel bags full of guns at a markup to lawful gun owners, he may never have been caught, even as he would have been just as guilty of violating the engaged in the business rules.
Cases like the Lewisbey bust begin not with sweeps of gun shows, but rather with the recovery of crime guns, says former ATF special agent Jay Wachtel. The weapons are traced to their original retail sale; if along that chain of custody an unlicensed dealer transferred the weapon, agents might consider a case. It's a highly targeted approach that focuses on investigations where agents can demonstrate that gun dealing created a threat to public safety. Wachtel says this makes the investigation more appealing to prosecutors who actually decide whether to press charges. But because this process depends on waiting for a gun to be used in a crime, it almost certainly misses many instances when dealers openly flout the law.
The wan effort to give teeth to Obama's executive action could change, of course. ATF administrators could decide to broaden their criteria for making cases against unlicensed dealers. But there's no evidence yet that the Bureau intends to do so. Wachtel says Obama's guidance will function like a speed limit sign, reminding the public of the rules. It will "discourage those who can be discouraged" but little more. To the unlicensed dealers at the gun show in San Antonio — held in a state where drivers think nothing of pushing 85 miles per hour on the highway — the president's new guidelines failed to register as even a speed bump.
Additional reporting by Christopher Hooks.


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Murder inquiry launched into roadside death of Ayrshire man
Body of Stuart Walker found on industrial estate with 'horrible injuries' amid reports he was tied to lamp-post and set on fire
Ben Quinn
@BenQuinn75
Sun 23 Oct 2011 19.48 EDT
Stuart Walker was found dead on an industrial estate with 'horrible injuries'. Photograph: Hemedia
A murder investigation has been launched after a man's body was discovered with what police described as "horrible injuries" on an industrial estate in Scotland.
Stuart Walker, 28, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, was found dead at the roadside at Caponacre industrial estate in Cumnock after a night out in the local area.
Reports suggested the hotel worker, who was last seen alive in the early hours of Saturday morning, had been tied to a lamp-post and set on fire.
Police are now checking CCTV and making door-to-door inquiries in a bid to trace the last movements of Walker, whose remains were found by a member of the public.
One focus of the investigation is on a number of house parties that were taking place in a nearby housing estate, while police were also looking at all aspects of Walker's life to establish if there was any motive to why he was killed.
The Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland quoted one local resident as saying: "There was a disturbance last night in the town near the industrial estate involving young people and this could be linked to this man's death. We have been told that the victim was tied to a lamp-post and then they tried to set him on fire.
"Some people are saying that they managed to burn him but not completely – and that he may have been beaten to death."
Detective Inspector John Hogg, from Strathclyde police, said Walker was last seen alive about two hours before his death. He said: "Stuart had been out with friends in the Cumnock area earlier during the night and was last seen alive by a family friend near to the fire station in Glaisnock Street around 0230 hours on Saturday – nearly two-and-a-half hours before he was found. It is imperative that we find out where he was between 0230 and 0450 hours, who he was with, and why this happened to him.
"At this time we do not know if these parties are linked to our investigation or not, so information on that is important."
Friends have been leaving tributes on Facebook pages that have been set up to remember Walker.
One post on a page called RIP Stuart Walker, which more than 3,700 people had joined by last night, read: "You were a good laugh and a great guy. I hope you are at peace now, and my thoughts and prayers are with your family. You may be gone but never forgotten mate."
Another, from Margo Greig, read: "These candles may burn out but the memories of you will last forever, such a fun loving, down to earth guy. A big softy at heart, will miss you loads hunnie, let that big cheesy smile of yours shine on!"
Margaret Brown wrote: "RIP Stuart. I only knew you when I went into the Royal for a meal, you were a very nice and pleasant young man. The world will be a poorer place without you and to all your family, my husband and I are so sorry."

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Brabersweg is een gehucht in de Hoeksche Waard in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland. Het dorp ligt in het westen van de gemeente Hoeksche Waard nabij Oud-Beijerland.

Geografie van Hoeksche Waard

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Filter plugin
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Manba中的很多功能都是使用Filter来实现的,用户的大部分功能需求都可以使用Filter来解决。所以Filter被设计成Plugin机制,借助于Go1.8的plugin机制,可以很好的扩展Manba。

# Request处理流程
request -> filter预处理 -> 转发请求 -> filter后置处理 -> 响应客户端

整个逻辑处理符合以下规则:

* filter预处理返回错误,流程立即终止,并且使用filter返回的状态码响应客户端
* filter后置处理返回错误,使用filter返回的状态码响应客户端
* 转发请求,后端返回的状态码`>=500`,调用filter的错误处理接口

# Filter接口定义
```golang
// Filter filter interface
type Filter interface {
	Name() string
	Init(cfg string) error

	Pre(c Context) (statusCode int, err error)
	Post(c Context) (statusCode int, err error)
	PostErr(c Context)
}

// Context filter context
type Context interface {
	StartAt() time.Time
	EndAt() time.Time

	OriginRequest() *fasthttp.RequestCtx
	ForwardRequest() *fasthttp.Request
	Response() *fasthttp.Response

	API() *metapb.API
	DispatchNode() *metapb.DispatchNode
	Server() *metapb.Server
	Analysis() *util.Analysis

	SetAttr(key string, value interface{})
	GetAttr(key string) interface{}
}

// BaseFilter base filter support default implemention
type BaseFilter struct{}

// Pre execute before proxy
func (f BaseFilter) Pre(c Context) (statusCode int, err error) {
	return http.StatusOK, nil
}

// Post execute after proxy
func (f BaseFilter) Post(c Context) (statusCode int, err error) {
	return http.StatusOK, nil
}

// PostErr execute proxy has errors
func (f BaseFilter) PostErr(c Context) {

}
```

这些相关的定义都在`github.com/fagongzi/manba/pkg/filter`包中,每一个Filter都需要导入。其中的`Context`的上下文接口,提供了Filter和Manba交互的能力;`BaseFilter`定义了默认行为。

# Manba加载Filter插件机制
```golang
func newExternalFilter(filterSpec *conf.FilterSpec) (filter.Filter, error) {
	p, err := plugin.Open(filterSpec.ExternalPluginFile)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	s, err := p.Lookup("NewExternalFilter")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	sf := s.(func() (filter.Filter, error))
	return sf()
}
```

每一个外部的Filter插件,对外提供`NewExternalFilter`,返回一个`filter.Filter`实现,或者错误。

# Go1.8 Plugin的问题
当编写的自定义插件的时候,有一个问题涉及到Go1.8的一个[Bug](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19233)。所以编写的自定义插件必须在`Manba的Project`下编译的插件才能被正确加载。

# Go1.9.2以上版本
支持插件项目独立目录,但是不能有自己的vender目录,否则加载的时候一样会出现1.8的问题。

# 自定义插件例子
可以参考这个例子实现自己的插件
[参考JWT插件](https://github.com/fagongzi/jwt-plugin)

# 启动自定义插件
`Proxy`组件有一个`--filter`选项来指定Manba使用的插件以及顺序。默认情况下Manba使用一下的内置插件顺序:`--filter WHITELIST --filter WHITELIST --filter ANALYSIS --filter RATE-LIMITING --filter CIRCUIT-BREAKER --filter HTTP-ACCESS --filter HEADER --filter XFORWARD --filter VALIDATION`。例如我们开发好了一个插件JWT,并且编译成为jwt.so文件,可以加上启动参数加载插件:`--filter WHITELIST --filter WHITELIST --filter ANALYSIS --filter RATE-LIMITING --filter CIRCUIT-BREAKER --filter HTTP-ACCESS --filter HEADER --filter XFORWARD --filter VALIDATION --filter JWT:/plugins/jwt.so:/plugins/jwt.json`,自定义插件的格式:`名称:插件文件:插件配置`

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Craugastor lauraster is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae.
It is found in Honduras and Nicaragua.
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FBI ENTERS '88 CASE OF FROZEN BABY
By COLIN POITRAS And DAVE ALTIMARI; Courant Staff Writers
MERIDEN -- — The baby boy held his tiny hands near his face as if trying to fight off the cold that invaded his body.
Frost covered the short blond hairs on his head. His umbilical cord still dangled from his stomach, a raw red wound where someone crudely sliced him from the warmth of his mother's womb.
His tiny lips were as blue as his eyes. In the subzero temperatures of a frigid January day, the 7 1/2-pound boy later named David Paul froze to death in a matter of hours.
Now, 13 years after David Paul was left out in the cold to die, city police and the FBI are joining forces in a renewed quest to find his mother.
The freshly cleaned blankets in which he was wrapped were sent Wednesday to the FBI's crime lab in Quantico, Va., for DNA analysis. All told, 13 pieces of evidence will be tested, including blood, hair and tissue.
Investigators believe some of those samples came from the mother.
After years of frustrating dead ends, investigative missteps and a lapse in attention to the case, those tiny, fragile links to David Paul's past are the investigators' last hope of solving a case that has stymied them for years.
"Definitely, by what we have, we should be able to make some sort of identification as far as DNA goes," said Dennis Sullivan, one of two Meriden detectives now working with the FBI in reinvestigating the case.
But a DNA profile will take investigators only so far. Police still must find the mother to compare the results. They hope the passage of time, the lure of a $20,000 reward and, perhaps, a guilty conscience will make someone come forward and identify David Paul's mother at last.
A Huge Mistake
The sun was just coming up on Saturday, Jan. 2, 1988, when Vivian Parks left her home in the Village Lane public housing development in South Meriden to mail a few letters and buy some groceries.
It was bitterly cold as Parks wound her way along a wooded path that served as a popular shortcut behind the row houses on Evansville and Baker avenues.
As Parks entered a clearing at the end of the path about 9 a.m., she noticed pink and white blankets nestled against a tree in an empty employee parking lot near AGC Inc., a local manufacturer that was closed for the New Year's holiday.
"I thought it was a little doll at first but then I realized it was too big," Parks recalled. "It still makes me sick to think about it." The little boy was so frozen that the medical examiner had to wait a day for the body to thaw before doing an autopsy. The boy had been born alive and died of exposure.
Meriden Police Chief Robert Kosienski assigned 18 detectives to the case. While investigators chased phone tips, checked employee records at AGC and canvassed the neighborhood, others hastily organized a memorial service.
Distraught detectives vowed to give the little boy a proper burial. As publicity spread about the case, donations poured in. The Rev. Ralph Roy, then pastor of Meriden's First United Methodist Church,named the child David Paul, which means beloved little man.
Roy still thinks about the mother and the agony she must be living with.
"She made a huge mistake. She probably thought irrationally that someone would find the baby and save it," he said.
Whoever abandoned the child took care to make sure no evidence was left behind. The blankets clearly were used, Sullivan said, but they had been recently cleaned, washed and folded and the labels had been removed.
Investigators believe the person who left the child was familiar with the remote area.
Detectives initially focused on employees at AGC and people from the neighborhood. Some of the early phone tips led them to a woman on Village Lane. Investigators moved quickly. Ten days after the baby was found, they obtained a warrant to search the woman's house.
The investigation suffered a devastating blow when a DNA test ruled the woman out. The woman later sued the police department and won. All of her belongings were returned.
The court-ordered return of possible evidence in a homicide investigation is nearly unheard of. The resulting lawsuit derailed the investigation. Detectives would never come as close to making an arrest again.
For much of the past decade, police have operated on the premise that, sooner or later, someone would turn the mother in. As part of their renewed investigation, Sullivan and his partner, Det. Jennifer L. Shelton, are reinvestigating some of the anonymous tips the police received in the days and weeks after the baby was discovered.
Other leads may be lost forever.
Kosienski remembers receiving a note that said David Paul's case "may not be as it appears." The note implied that whoever had written it had some knowledge about the case. It is now missing from the case file, the author unknown.
After the Village Lane debacle, David Paul's case file sat in the Meriden Police Department's detective division gathering dust in a box. Officers who received tips, usually around the anniversary of the abandonment, put them in the box, but no one was dedicated to the investigation full-time.
Last year, two retired New York State Police detectives from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children spent a week poring over the case files, organizing leads and brainstorming new areas about how to pursue the investigation.
"I honestly can't rest knowing this case still exists," said Kosienski, who is planning to retire this summer.
"I made a promise: I'm not going to forget this baby."
'It's So Pitiful Now'
Tammy Mazzacarro has never forgotten about David Paul. She still lives in the house closest to the tree where the baby was found.
"I felt so bad when this happened. I think I've carried the guilt the mother hasn't all these years," Mazzacarro, 43, said. "I can't tell you how many times I've wondered what if we had let the dog out later that night or I had looked out the window and seen something."
She goes to the memorial service every year, one of the few who still does.
"It's so pitiful now. The first few years you couldn't get into the memorial service and this year there weren't even 10 people if you don't count the cops," Mazzacarro said.
For several years, police videotaped the memorial services and staked out David Paul's grave hoping the mother might show up. They may have missed a golden opportunity, though, on the first anniversary of David Paul's death.
A woman from the neighborhood said in an interview that she saw a woman remove a yellow ribbon from the tree where the baby was found on that first anniversary. The neighbor, who asked that her name not be used, was so disturbed by the act that she called police. An officer came and took her statement, but she never heard from the police again.
Sullivan said the woman's statement is not in the current case file and there is no record of her call to police that day. He and Shelton, who are working on the case in their limited free time, plan to talk to the woman soon.
Besides letting Meriden police use its state-of-the-art laboratory to test for DNA, the FBI has donated the assistance of Connecticut Agent Stephen T. Kives, who recently worked in the Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit at the FBI's National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime in Virginia.
"In many of these cases, a person deposits a baby in a place he or she is familiar with," Kives said. "She might have worked at AGC or one of the other commercial buildings in the area. Or she may have lived in the public housing area or been someone who lived in the neighborhood and used that path."
While investigators are not entirely sure the baby's mother is the one who abandoned the child, they suspect so for several reasons.
For one, Kives said, "this child was carefully wrapped, carefully left. It's not the signature of a male suspect."
Former Meriden police Capt. Dominick Colangelo, one of the initial investigators on the case, believes this is one mystery that will be solved pnly with a little help from the public.
"Somebody had to know this woman had a baby and we always hoped that their conscience would get to them," Colangelo said. "Maybe it still will."
Anyone who may have information about the birth or abandonment of the child known as David Paul is urged to call the Meriden police tip line at 203-634-3784. All calls are confidential.
Copyright © 2021, Hartford Courant


Compass will be moving to a quarterly publication, the next edition will be available in October.
This month, transfers are once again under the spotlight as we examine the updated Code of Good Practice on pension scams, designed to protect members' pension savings, and a new framework for pension transfers and re-registrations, which aims to speed up the process.
We explore the DWP consultations designed to: clarify and strengthen trustees' investment duties and create a stronger Pensions Regulator better equipped to protect members of DB pension schemes.
It has also been a busy month for the Courts with several legal cases coming to a head. We explore the judgments in the Pimlico Plumbers case, British Airways appeal and rights for transgender members set out by the CJEU.
The Government response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's Report on Pension Freedoms and a promise on a cold-calling ban.
The FCA's consultation paper focused on retirement outcomes; in particular, the investment options and charges associated with drawdown arrangements.
A round up of other pensions news.


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Socially responsible investing is incorporating an organization's mission into the organization's investment decision-making process.
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Statement of Philosophy:
The mission of CHA is to advance the Catholic health ministry of the United States in caring for people and communities, with special attention to our neighbors who are poor, underserved and most vulnerable.
Rooted in Gospel values, CHA seeks to work to bring alive the Gospel vision of justice and peace. CHA is a passionate voice for Jesus' mission of love and healing, a valuable resource for information services and programs, and a vibrant community of members joined in a shared mission.
CHA has the responsibility to exemplify this mission in all aspects of its work, including its investment activities.
In accordance with that responsibility, the Board of Trustees charges and entrusts the Finance Committee and Staff with developing strategies for deployment of the association's short-term and long-term investments that:
Exercise competent and socially-responsible stewardship of investment resources;
Maximize return for a reasonable trade-off of risk;
Support and leverage its members' work in furthering social responsibility and sustainability;
Leverage the socially-responsible and sustainability activities of investment professionals, other investment service providers, and coalitions of like-minded investors;
Communicate and highlight, where appropriate, the impact of CHA and its members' socially-responsible and sustainable investment activities; and
Utilize CHA's unique advocacy voice, where appropriate, to support dialogue with portfolio companies and influence regulatory change to enhance engagement in the business and financial community regarding social issues.
SRI Strategies – The following strategies may be implemented by CHA Staff, and/or in collaboration with other organizations, and/or via the investment managers and vehicles used to implement CHA's portfolio strategy:
Avoidance Screening –Securities issued by companies that violate CHA's social screens are eliminated from CHA's portfolio (see D under this Section for a listing of screens).
Positive Screening –Securities issued by companies that engage in activities consistent with CHA's mission and church teaching may be overweighted in CHA's portfolio.
Proxy Voting –Proxies are voted according to CHA's Proxy Voting Policy for all securities held by CHA. See E under this Section for CHA's Proxy Voting Policy.
Community Investment – Direct investments into poor communities via community development banks and microfinance institutions. These investments are long-term with stable but below-market return expectations.
Impact Investment – Investments, often in private markets, with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return, which can range from below market to market rate.
Implementing CHA's Voice
CHA may leverage its unique role as a membership organization, as an institutional investor, as part of a broader ministry, and as an advocacy organization to influence and raise awareness regarding key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues. Specifically, CHA may:
Utilize its communication vehicles to share and engage with the Catholic Health Ministry on ESG philosophies and strategies;
Collaborate with members and other mission-based investor organizations to engage corporate managers via dialogue and shareholder advocacy; and/or
Utilize our advocacy voice to inform policy makers of the importance of ESG disclosure, compliance, and to influence regulatory change on social issues of importance to CHA.
Social Screens
Respect for Human Life – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that do any of the following:
Manufacture abortifacient drugs or operate healthcare or physician management organizations that provide abortions;
Promote or encourage physician-assisted suicide, either through products, services, or dissemination of information;
Manufacture contraceptives or derive more than 2% of gross sales from the sale of contraceptive drugs or devices; or
Engage in embryonic stem cell research, cloning of human beings, and research using tissues from aborted fetuses.
Tobacco – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that do either of the following:
Manufacture tobacco products; or
Derive more than 10% of gross sales from the sale of tobacco or tobacco-related products.
Violence – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that:
Manufacture or distribute weapons of mass destruction (including, but not limited to chemical, nuclear, biological, cluster bombs) or land mines;
Derive more than 10% of revenue from the production or sale of conventional military weapons; or
Manufacture or derive more than 2% of revenue from the or sale of firearms.
Pornography – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that:
Produce pornography or adult entertainment materials; or
Derive more than 2% of revenue from the sale or distribution of pornography or adult entertainment materials.
Gambling – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies that derive more than 20% of gross sales from gambling activities.
Human Rights – CHA will not knowingly invest in companies with contracts, ties, or investments in countries for which global sanctions have been imposed related to human rights violations,
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Worldwide prayer in memory of the victims of the Pittsburgh massacre
Evyatar and Rachel Hacohen, who serve as emissaries in California, initiated a joint prayer of 300 students from 11 schools across the United States and South America.
By Yoni Kampinsky, Arutz 7 – 02/11/18
The terror attack in Pittsburgh left the entire world aghast, but ever since the horrific event, we have been witness to myriads of public initiatives offering support that just don't seem to end. One such initiative was the idea of Evyatar and Rachel Hacohen, shlichim (emissaries) of Ohr Torah Stone's Beren-Amiel Emissary Training Program and the World Zionist Organization working in California, who organized a massive joint prayer for 11 schools from the USA and South America, attended by more than 300 students.
In a conference call which took place this morning (Wednesday), students from each participating school sat in front of computer screens and sang in unison the famous Jewish words commending peace – "Oseh shalom bimromav, hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu ve'al kol Yisra'el" ("He who makes peace in High Places, He will make peace for us and for all of Israel"). Among those taking part in the Hacohen's initiative were schools from: Montevideo, Mexico, New Jersey, Washington, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
The Hacohens, who are shlichim in Palo-Alto, California, had this to say about the joint prayer initiative: "After the terror attack we contemplated how we as shlichim could help people feel empowered. Instead of focusing solely on the loss and the pain, we wanted people to feel a sense of unity. Through the Beren-Amiel emissary training program we got to know many other shlichim, and thanks to our broad network of connections and in our capacity as educational emissaries we were able to organize not only local events, but something far more encompassing which embraced many communities. In doing so, we were able to express our support of the Pittsburgh community, American Jewry and the entire Jewish People," said Evyatar.
"We brought together all the schools and sent out a clear message that despite all that has happened, we will continue to grow, we will stand united and spread love among us. More than 300 children sang in unison and conveyed a message of peace and solidarity – and that's the most important thing."
Many of OTS's 290 shlichim from the Beren-Amiel Program (which trains educational emissaries for the Diaspora communities), and the Straus-Amiel Program (which trains rabbis to work in communities across the Diaspora) also held vigils, meetings, prayer sessions and discussions around the world – all with the purpose of enhancing the sense of Jewish unity at this time.
"This is a time to stand together in solidarity in solidarity with the Tree of Life Synagogue and with the entire Pittsburgh community," said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone. "Kol Yisrael areivim zeh bazeh" – All Jews are responsible for one another. We stand united in times of grief and in times of sorrow; we must stand united in the fight against bigotry and violence, and we will remain united as the community builds toward recovery and strength."
Read the original article in Hebrew on the Arutz 7 website
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Motorola One Zoom is the most beautiful phone I've seen in years
Motorola's One Zoom is pretty, and has some very interesting specs.
Image: Stan Schroeder/Mashable
I did not expect this at all.
Lenovo's Motorola launched a new mid-range phone at IFA Berlin, and it changes the game in several ways. First, it has a powerful, quad camera on the back, which is really nice for a phone that only costs $449.99.
But even more striking is the phone's design. On the front, it's just another phone with a waterdrop notch — nothing fancy but not too bad, either. On the back, the four cameras are placed symmetrically, inside an unapologetically large bump that also sports a glowing Motorola logo. The bump is a dark shade of gray with a silver outline — a perfect match for the phone's brushed gunmetal back. It makes me want to have this phone just for its look, which hasn't happened since forever.
The Motorola logo on the back glows when you get a message or a call.
Maybe it's just me, seeing imaginary things. Or, maybe it's the fact that this phone comes at a time when Apple is about to launch a new iPhone with a rear camera bump that — judging by the leaks, rumors and renders — hits all the wrong spots. The design of Motorola One Zoom just feels right — I keep imagining an iPhone with a glowing Apple logo below a nice, centrally placed, symmetrical camera array, and it's the kind of phone I'd gladly (OK, slightly less reluctantly) dish out a thousand bucks for.
OK, on the front it's not that special.
Enough about the design; let's talk about those cameras. I haven't had time to test them out, but the specs are impressive. A 48-megapixel main sensor which collates pixels to produce bright, 12-megapixel photos, is coupled with a 16-megapixel wide angle sensor, an 8-megapixel telephoto one with 3x optical zoom and a 5-megapixel depth sensor. On the front, the 25-megapixel camera that can also produce quad pixel, 6.25-megapixel photos in low light conditions, should be enough to take some decent selfies. The only thing missing (and it is quite a big omission) is 4K video recording on the rear camera; oddly, the front camera can take 4K video at 30fps.
Apple, take notes.
The rest of the specs are flat in mid-range territory: A 6.4-inch, 2,340x1,080 pixel OLED screen, Snapdragon 675 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 4,000mAh battery and Android 9 Pie. A headphone jack is included, too.
At $450, the Motorola One Zoom is not the best bang for the buck, specs-wise; that honor goes to Xiaomi. But it's still a fair deal cheaper than many flagships, with its killer looks and awesome camera specs, it should find its way to quite a few buyers.
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About Welcome Rain Publishers
Welcome Rain is an independent general trade publisher. Now in our sixteenth year, Welcome Rain consistently offers a forum for classics of literature alongside the works of promising and unjustly neglected talents--our backlist comprises more than 200 fine titles.
Several recent releases have won high praise, including LONDON: HIDDEN INTERIORS, the third in a series of books published in conjunction with English Heritage. This stunning collection of more than 1700 color photographs demonstrates the full richness and diversity of London's architectural heritage--especially the city's hidden interior spaces. It's often thought that much of London's beauty was obliterated by World War II, or sacrificed to mindless urban renewal or insensitive post-war planning and architecture. This is not the case. Here we find, often behind the closed doors of offices, institutions, clubs, and private homes, some of the most amazing architectural interiors on earth. Each of the 180 venues is described in the gorgeous prose of architectural historian and preservationist, Philip Davis. Photography by Derek Kendall.
Also atop our list is A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS by Malachy and Frank McCourt. The legendary brothers were true "sennachies"--spellbinding storytellers in the Irish tradition. Anyone fortunate enough to have seen them perform their revue, A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS, knows that the geniuses who brought us their bestselling memoirs ANGELA'S ASHES and A MONK SWIMMING were in full flower long before they were famous authors. This new edition of their tragicomic stage play presents tales from their Dickensian childhood in Limerick, told with the acid-laced humor, pathos, and expansive humanity for which their writing is known. The play continues to enjoy frequent revivals.
Originally published in 1942 in wartime Tokio (sic), Japan, ZEN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ORIENTAL CLASSICS was immodestly pronounced by William Wilson, my college English professor, "the most beautiful book on English literature ever written." Doubtful this could be true, I bought a copy of the last trade edition (1960) and have never since laid the book down. Professor Blyth, who taught in Japan before and during the war, and then went on to become a leading roshi of Zen teachings, demonstrates brilliantly how the true spirit of Zen Buddhism infuses the great literatures of both East and West. In presenting his thesis that "all that is good in European literature and culture is simply and solely that which is in accordance with the Spirit of Zen," the author quotes extensively from Chinese and Japanese classics, from the whole range of English literature, and from German, French, Italian, and Spanish works. This critical tour de force, unavailable for far too many years, is now being restored to print by Welcome Rain.
Finally, SPIRITO, VENTO e ACQUA is the Italian-language version of SPIRIT, WIND & WATER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE JACUZZI FAMILY by Remo Jacuzzi, the epic saga of the astonishingly enterprising Italian immigrant family--thirteen brothers and sisters and their many descendants whose inventions transformed America. Remo writes, "For me a Jacuzzi is a person, not a machine. A Jacuzzi is a member of my family. " While they are a household name mainly for their invention of hydrotherapy for home use, during the last century the family revolutionized the airplane industry and remade the lives of rural Americans with their deep-water, immersible injector water pumps. Along the way, they also created a steam-driven windmill system for defrosting crops, a silkworm farm, a wine-making empire (Cline Cellars), a line of PT boats, and dozens of other entrepreneurial ventures.
While the primary purpose of our website is to present new and noteworthy, forthcoming, and active titles in our backlist, we have also built a "Library" to house previously published Welcome Rain books that we are particularly fond of. Although these titles are no longer available directly from us, if you see something you fancy, copies are probably available from the Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks.com) or the Amazon Marketplace.
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We want XD to help you design at the speed of thought, which is why we added a performance boost to zooming, as well as enhancements to color and export capabilities last month. We also made it easy for you to integrate workflows with 3rd party integrations that you depend on to get the job done.
This month, our release delivers streamlined vector workflows between Adobe Illustrator and XD along with a new way to express creativity on Windows using pen and touch.
Want to see this update and more in action? Check out Adobe Live from Feb. 13-15 to see top UX designers using the latest features in Adobe XD.
Do you use Illustrator to design icons and vector artwork? We made working with Illustrator and XD a lot easier with linked vector graphics. Linked vector graphics enable you to bring in vector content from Illustrator into XD. Make edits to your work in Illustrator and have them seamlessly update in XD.
It doesn't stop there. One of XD's core principles is build on the latest platform and leverage technological advances that hardware can offer. On Windows, we are thrilled to announce that XD now supports basic pen and touch gestures.
We are always looking for ways to improve the features we've shipped. This month, we made enhancements to the eye dropper and scrolling.
The promise of Creative Cloud is to enable you and your team to work efficiently between different CC applications. You often have assets like icons, illustrations and other vector artwork that you create in Illustrator but wish to reuse across applications like XD. Using vector graphics you can now reuse vector content from Illustrator and Adobe Stock with XD.
You can drag and drop a vector graphic from the CC Library window onto the canvas to place it as a linked vector graphic. Once you drop the graphic, you see a blurred preview with a spinner while XD performs a little magic trick to convert it to a fully scalable linked vector. Once that is complete, you will see the graphic which can be resized and rotated.


Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille welcomed the FNB and Silicon Cape partnership.
First National Bank (FNB) is partnering with the Silicon Cape initiative, a non-profit organisation aiming to improve the ecosystem for tech businesses.
The partnership, which sees the bank provide Silicon Cape with an annual amount of R1 million in finance and support over three years, was announced at an event held at FNB's offices in Cape Town last night.
In addition to this monetary investment, FNB is also making some of the facilities in its Cape Town offices available to Silicon Cape members.
The collaboration with FNB is a milestone for Silicon Cape, marking the initiative's first long-term partnership since inception.
According to Alexander Fraser, CEO and founder of Stone Tree and a chairperson at Silicon Cape, the endorsement from FNB functions as a vote of confidence for tech-entrepreneurs and start-up businesses in the Western Cape and across the country.
"South Africa needs an enabler and tech is it. As such, we can't afford to not have a vibrant tech community," said Fraser, stressing the importance of long-term partnerships for entrepreneurial networks like Silicon Cape. Fraser noted the important role big business plays in ensuring entrepreneurs have the support necessary to boost economic growth and create new jobs.
Stephan Claassen, provincial head for FNB Business in the Western Cape, echoed Fraser's sentiments. "The partnership with Silicon Cape advances our contribution to creating an enabling environment for SMEs in South Africa. Our aim is to really try to help others to grow." He continued that the partnership will allow the bank to contribute towards the improved positioning of tech businesses to potential investors.
When Tim Harris, the City of Cape Town's director of trade and investment, started working in Cape Town, the mayor, Patricia de Lille, took Harris to New York City to introduce him to a friend of hers. They met with former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who shared his vision of turning New York into the first digital city in the US. De Lille and Harris then shared their interest in turning Cape Town into the first digital city on the African continent.
For Harris, it is partnerships like the one between FNB and Silicon Cape that will catalyse growth in the tech sector and bolster Cape Town's potential to become a leading technology hub in Africa.
"Too often, ambitious plans can never be realised because the constraints are too high. That is why investments of this nature are so important," said De Lille, who was also at last night's event.
De Lille highlighted the extensive broadband rollout across the city as one way that Cape Town is working to boost its digital capabilities. In addition, Cape Town is keen to become a digital centre for the region through strategic policy decisions, boosting connectivity speeds and adopting an open data policy to encourage the use of government data by innovative entrepreneurs.
"The City of Cape Town wants to consolidate these interventions with good digital ideas, which requires partnering with groups like Silicon Cape and the private sector to make our dreams of making Cape Town a truly digital city become a reality.
"In doing so, we will work together to make good ideas, great ideas," concluded De Lille.


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Worldwide Support for Auroville
Unity Pavilion
Projects Needing Funding
Reports/News Items
National/Cultural Pavilions
Auroville International Centers
Peace Table for Asia
Hall of Peace Events
Working for Peace and Human Unity
Funding appeal for the Unity Pavilion
The Unity Pavilion Complex has been functioning since 2012. In 2014 the Hall of Peace, which houses the Nakashima Peace Table for Asia, was inaugurated. The facilities are much used and appreciated by the Auroville community. Activities and events include cultural programs, exhibitions, workshops and lectures as well as Auroville Community meetings. The Office also houses the International Zone Group, Auroville International, and Savi (Auroville's organization for receiving volunteers and interns from India and all over the world).
The way the Unity Pavilion project has emerged, the way we have proceeded with construction at a pace as quick as was possible – quite often slow owing to funding and other constraints – and the way the activities have developed had thrown up quite a few challenges. And now we are faced with some practical difficulties for the everyday smooth running and use of the building.
Present projects where funding is needed
Caretaker Apartment
Construction of the utility building which will house storage facilities and additional toilets is nearing completion. This is funded by the GOI through SAIIER. Further funding is needed to include a caretaker apartment on the first floor. This will give the Unity Pavilion team a stable support through 24/7 presence in the compound and contribute towards easing Auroville's housing shortage. The estimated cost of this project is $26,800.
The Hall of Peace Garden
Funds are still needed and welcome for the overall garden work to proceed and be completed.
Support for Volunteers
The Unity Pavilion regularly has young volunteers who participate in our projects, and often part-funding is needed to cover the costs for food and lodging. The Unity Pavilion has also over the years supported young people with limited means, mainly from African countries, who have been involved in the Africa House project and wanted to study and experience Auroville. One-time contributions or recurring monthly contributions are most welcome.
Educational Support for Employees' Children
We recognize that our three employees Kannan, Chitra and Poorani make a huge effort to provide their children with higher education. The Unity Pavilion wants to support the effort of the parents, for these youth to get proper education according to their talents and capabilities. To sponsor the education of one student comes to $950 a year. One-time or monthly contributions also help ease their situation.
General maintenance, events and workshops
The Unity Pavilion attempts to run on a "gift economy". The ideal and integrity behind the concept is participation and commitment, a way of working where money per se is not the deciding factor, but an element for enabling and making things possible.
We strive to have a friendly and generous environment with commitment – not a freebie situation, not tit for tat, but something which transcends that.
We often host projects that do not have the means to pay for the venue, but which do contribute with commitment to our Auroville society in other ways.
The Unity Pavilion also organizes and hosts events and workshops related to Peace and Human Unity, such as the work with the 12 Qualities or Aspects of the Divine Mother, Sourcing Our Oneness, etc.
Contributions to the upkeep and running of the Unity Pavilion are very welcome. All accounting is done through SAIIER and Unity Fund and fully transparent and accessible.
Contributions can be sent to Auroville Fund specified for "Unity Pavilion – project name" (e.g. "Unity Pavilion – Hall of Peace garden", "Unity Pavilion – General Maintenance").
To contribute now kindly follow the below links.
http://www.auroville.org/contents/2835
http://www.auroville.com/donations/


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Club Profile: Student Art League
President of the Student Art League Club, Savita Bansi, stands in front of the silent room and introduces the artist featured for this weeks Artist Talk, Professor Lucy Derickson. After a brief introduction, Professor Derickson begins her showcase, which focused on constructing unique art through metals and the room fell into deep concentration.
Club President, Savita Bansi, club Secretary, Maribel Romero, club Vice President, Victor Merino, and club Treasurer Juan Esparaza
The Student Art League is a club that encourages art students to build on techniques and gain knowledge on the different aspects of art. Through the club, individuals are exposed to a variety of artists, performance-building skills, and experiences that help build a firm foundation for their long-term goals.
Ultimately the Student Art League provides individuals with a range of opportunities that allows them to find and establish their interests within their fields.
"Student Art League is a club [not only] for art major students, [but for] anyone who wants to join," said Maribel Romero, secretary of the club. The club was established to allow students to have a place for artistic growth and development.
The Student Art League focuses on the idea of building a community that supports learning about art, and experiencing its different types as a means to advance one's artistic influence.
When discussing how the club helps students determine their educational paths, "much of what we do, involves [working with] the professors, [this way] each student has the opportunity to [have knowledge] about the class prior to taking it," said Romero.
The club gives students the opportunity to interact with areas of art that are outside their comfort zones, and introduces them to new concepts through events, trips and workshops.
The events set up within the club are created to target and introduce individuals to new elements and help them perfect their skills. "We take field trips to see amazing artists and get to see paintings we would [have] never imagined to see,"said Romero.
The Student Art League arranges trips and visits to various studios that allows individuals to have an understanding of art from different environments, thus expanding an individuals perspective.
They also produces a magazine every semester, called Spectrum. The magazine celebrates student art and the art community formed at Montgomery College.
The Spectrum magazine allows for individuals to write articles, carry out interviews, take pictures and create comics for publishing. The magazine is a platform where individual express themselves and share their artwork.
At the end of Professor Lucy Derickson's presentation, individuals crowded around her to ask questions, take pictures and view several of her art pieces.
The end of Professor Derickson's presentation. Individuals line up for questions and to see art pieces
"… the art community [allows us to come by] different new things, [things] that we would not be able to learn without this experience," said Romero.
Anyone interested in joining The Student Art League can reach the club at [email protected] or attend a meeting on Thursdays from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM in room 301 of the Paul Peck Building.
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Webber Targets Maiden Podium
Williams driver Mark Webber has vowed to put his cracked rib troubles and his Malaysian Grand Prix crash with Giancarlo Fisichella firmly behind him to land his maiden Formula One podium in Bahrain this weekend
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Raring to return to action after sitting out last week's test at Barcelona in Spain, Webber is upbeat about Williams' prospects at Sakhir and believes the team are firmly in the hunt with McLaren and Toyota to take the challenge to pace-setters Renault.
"I hope we can sniff for it," said Webber, when asked about his podium prospects. "Toyota are strong and with McLaren we haven't seen really what they can do yet - but they are the quick teams. I think it is Renault and then after that, Williams, Toyota and McLaren are very close. It would be nice to try and get ahead of that group and get ahead of the Renaults."
Although Williams bosses had predicted a tough start to the campaign on the back of problems with the team's new wind tunnel, Webber and teammate Nick Heidfeld have challenged at the front - with the latter taking third place in Malaysia.
"We are surprised at where we are, which is good, but you never want to lift off," added Webber. "We have got some stuff coming through which is obviously going to help us and the improvement is there. Williams have shown in the past that they can ramp up in the season quite well and BMW have done a good job of the engine, so it is going alright."
Speaking about the Ferrari threat, now that the team have decided to introduce their new car, Webber said: "It is impossible to say. They were very slow in Malaysia. It was very unusual and it was good to see them having a hard time. We all like to try and win but it is good that Ferrari are going through a bit of a lean patch. But that is when they are strongest and they will be back."
Webber remains confident that his rib injury, which required pain killing injections in the first two races of the year, is now sufficiently healed to not cause him any trouble in Bahrain.
"It's a lot better than it was the last few weeks," he said. "It has settled down now and gone. It was alright (in Malaysia) when the adrenaline got going. It is actually just pre and post, when you are out of the car.
"It didn't affect my driving at all, just the sleeping and all the boring little things like doing shoelaces up and things like that. It just does your head in."
Reflecting on his crash with Fisichella at Sepang, that robbed him of a chance of grabbing that first podium finish, Webber said: "I was disappointed, but that's what happens.
"It was just a split second decision that we both made together. We went in there and Giancarlo was the car underneath me and damaged my car. I am disappointed. It is not like we were scrapping for tenth position, we were scrapping for third. But we will have other opportunities."
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Alpine's signing of Pierre Gasly alongside Esteban Ocon revives memories of a famous all-French line-up, albeit in the red of Ferrari, for BEN EDWARDS. Can the former AlphaTauri man's arrival help the French team on its path back to winning ways in a tribute act to the Prancing Horse's title-winning 1983?
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OPINION: A system to score all the grands prix from the past two seasons produces some interesting results and sets a standard that 2023 should surely exceed
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He has more starts without a podium than anyone else in Formula 1 world championship history, but Nico Hulkenberg is back for one more shot with Haas. After spending three years on the sidelines, the revitalised German is aiming to prove to his new team what the F1 grid has been missing
The potential-laden F1 car that Ferrari neglected
The late Mauro Forghieri played a key role in Ferrari's mid-1960s turnaround, says STUART CODLING, and his pretty, intricate 1512 was among the most evocative cars of the 1.5-litre era. But a victim of priorities as Formula 1 was deemed less lucrative than success in sportscars, its true potential was never seen in period
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Q: How to add a spring-boot jar as a dependency in a new spring-boot project without changing the original pom In order to add azure app insights in an old spring-boot jar(which already has micrometer), I've created a new spring-boot project and added it as a dependency. However, after a successful Maven build, while executing it as spring-boot app, I'm getting Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.class] exception. Here are my two POM files,
POM of the old spring-boot jar:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <parent>
    <artifactId>microservice</artifactId>
    <groupId>my-app-service</groupId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <artifactId>microservice-my-app</artifactId>

  <dependencies>

    <!-- few dependencies -->

  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifestEntries>
              <Implementation-Version>${project.version}</Implementation-Version>
            </manifestEntries>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>repackage</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <classifier>app</classifier>
              <mainClass>com.my.package.MyApplication</mainClass>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

POM of the new spring-boot project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.my.app.appinsights</groupId>
    <artifactId>microservice-my-app-appinsights</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>microservice-my-app-appinsights</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <applicationinsights.version>1.1.1</applicationinsights.version>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <applicationinsights.version>2.5.1</applicationinsights.version>
    </properties>
<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <!-- Import dependency management from Spring Boot -->
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.6.RELEASE</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>my-app-service</groupId>
            <artifactId>microservice-my-app</artifactId>
            <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>applicationinsights-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
            <version>${applicationinsights.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
            <artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework.plugin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-plugin-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
            <artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
            <artifactId>springfox-spring-webflux</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework.plugin</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-plugin-core</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.plugin</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-plugin-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
            </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
              <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifestEntries>
              <Implementation-Version>1.0.0</Implementation-Version>
            </manifestEntries>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>8</source>
                    <target>8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <classifier>app</classifier>
                            <mainClass>com.my.app.appinsights.MicroserviceMyAppinsightsApplication</mainClass>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Exception stack:
2020-02-03 13:48:39.726  WARN 2420 --- [           main] onfigReactiveWebServerApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to process import candidates for configuration class [com.microsoft.applicationinsights.autoconfigure.ApplicationInsightsWebMvcAutoConfiguration]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.class] cannot be opened because it does not exist
2020-02-03 13:48:39.734  INFO 2420 --- [           main] ConditionEvaluationReportLoggingListener :

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
2020-02-03 13:48:39.742 ERROR 2420 --- [           main] o.s.boot.SpringApplication               : Application run failed

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Failed to process import candidates for configuration class [com.microsoft.applicationinsights.autoconfigure.ApplicationInsightsWebMvcAutoConfiguration]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.class] cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:596)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:302)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:242)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:586)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.access$900(ConfigurationClassParser.java:108)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorGroupingHandler.lambda$processGroupImports$1(ConfigurationClassParser.java:805)
    at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1257)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorGroupingHandler.processGroupImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:801)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$DeferredImportSelectorHandler.process(ConfigurationClassParser.java:771)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.parse(ConfigurationClassParser.java:185)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.processConfigBeanDefinitions(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:315)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.postProcessBeanDefinitionRegistry(ConfigurationClassPostProcessor.java:232)
    at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:275)
    at org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:95)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:705)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:531)
    at org.springframework.boot.web.reactive.context.ReactiveWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ReactiveWebServerApplicationContext.java:66)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:742)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:389)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:311)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1213)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1202)
    at com.my.app.appinsights.MicroserviceMyAppinsightsApplication.main(MicroserviceMyAppinsightsApplication.java:14)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.class] cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:180)
    at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReader.<init>(SimpleMetadataReader.java:51)
    at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:103)
    at org.springframework.boot.type.classreading.ConcurrentReferenceCachingMetadataReaderFactory.createMetadataReader(ConcurrentReferenceCachingMetadataReaderFactory.java:86)
    at org.springframework.boot.type.classreading.ConcurrentReferenceCachingMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(ConcurrentReferenceCachingMetadataReaderFactory.java:73)
    at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.getMetadataReader(SimpleMetadataReaderFactory.java:81)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.asSourceClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:682)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser$SourceClass.getSuperClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:995)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.doProcessConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:332)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processConfigurationClass(ConfigurationClassParser.java:242)
    at org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassParser.processImports(ConfigurationClassParser.java:586)
    ... 22 common frames omitted

It turns out that the azure app-insights needs spring-boot-starter-web to work properly. But since that jar is already present in the parent of the existing jar, I can not add it to my current POM file. This might mean I might not be importing the old jar in my new POM correctly.
How do I add the existing spring-boot jar as a dependency in my new spring-boot's POM file, without making any modifications in the existing jar or its POM?

A: Can you please check the packing of both the projects, if the child project has different packing then parent project, then you need to add component scan at your child main class from where you are running your project.
For example,
Parent project has package name

com.my.app

And
child project had package name
com.my.app.appinsights

then you need to add component scan in main class
@ComponentScan("com.my.app")

Spring boot by default scan beans from sub-packages of the main class. To override the component scan you need to add this annotation so that it will scan beans from given package also.

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Representative Chrissy Houlahan in front of her Washington, D.C. office on swearing-in day.
Sworn in to 117th Congress
Houlahan: 'We must crush this virus'
Rep. Houlahan: 'We must crush this virus'
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-6th, of Easttown was sworn in to the 117th Congress of the United States over the weekend. She released the following statement:
"The opportunity to serve my community in Congress continues to be the honor and privilege of a lifetime. Together, we are facing historic challenges as we battle a deadly pandemic while also heading into the new year intent on building a thriving and more inclusive economy. I am committed to meeting all of our challenges and to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
"We must crush this virus; rebuild our Pennsylvanian economy; continue to shape policy that allows for access to more equitable health care, jobs and education; and ensure a safer and healthier planet. I thank the people of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the faith they once again are placing in me. We are in this together. There's work to be done."


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The Numero Uno Sock Puppet
https://www.steynonline.com/7945/the-numero-uno-sock-puppet
The prime ministerial post-Ramadan Eid socks in close-up
When I first heard that Justin Trudeau had marched in the Toronto Pride Parade wearing Ramadan socks, my first reaction was that that was a bit under-dressed even for him. My mistake. It turns out the Prime Minister wasn't wearing just his Ramadan socks but also shirt and trousers.
Which, on reflection, is a bit boringly overdressed. Perhaps for next year's parade he could wear a niqab with cutaway buttocks and a crescent tramp stamp. Just trying to be inclusive here.
The official explanation here is that he wished to celebrate both Pride and Eid. Which makes you wonder why nobody thought to hold a combined Preid Parade that would march down Yonge Street and then up the CN Tower where a visiting Gayatollah from the Holy City of Qom would ceremonially hurl everyone off the EdgeWalk. Pride comes before a fall, as some infidel said.
Oh, well. Soon enough. Meanwhile, at the Chicago parade, the lesbians kicked out the Jewish gays because their Jewish LGBTQ flag "made people feel unsafe". There's no J in LGBTQWERTY. The Tablet reported this under the headline "Dykes vs Kikes". Which would make a great rumble in West Side Story. You might recall that a couple of years back Queers For Sharia - whoops, sorry, I mean Queers Against Israeli Apartheid - marched in the Pride Parade chanting:
Butch, femme, bottom, top
Israeli apartheid has to stop.
Which prompted me to offer the group a couple of bonus jingles:
Butch, femme, top, bottom
Gay bars in Riyadh? It's hard to spot 'em.
Top, bottom, butch, femme
With complimentary FGM.
Top, bott, butch, femme, trans
Quit your chanting and read your Korans.
Alas, there were no takers. Dykes vs Kikes is a pushover compared to Queers vs Emirs.
I'm a King James man, so I prefer the full version:
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Hard to imagine an haughtier spirit than Justin Trudeau. Almost (gosh) a decade ago, I was staring down the barrel of a de facto lifetime publication ban in Canada because a handful of cozy fluffy Muslim students had complained about my "Islamophobic" writing to three of Canada's "human rights" commissions. In fact, notwithstanding their serial misrepresentation in the press, the five students were not the plaintiffs. That role fell to Mohammed Elmasry, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress and a guy best known for saying on national TV that killing Jewish civilians was fine by him. So he wasn't exactly the poster boy for Islamic warmth and cuddliness. Which is why, despite his name on the complaints, he never showed up in court or in the media, preferring to operate through his telegenic quintet of students. So, because they were cozy and fluffy, as noted, and he had his hand waggling up them, I called them the Sock Puppets. As I mention in passing here, the Sock Puppet Five dwindled in numbers over the course of our battle, declining from a quintet to the Four Socks, then the Socktown Trio, Socky & Cher and eventually one Lone Sock.
Yet it never occurred to me during that war of attrition that within a decade Canada's head of government would be a literal Islamic socks puppet.
I thought of Justin's socks last night as I watched the American right take a victory lap across the news networks over the nine-zip Supreme Court decision on President Trump's travel ban. It's worth considering what the actual victory is here: the reversal of (most of) a court-ordered stay on an attempt to control immigration from five failed states plus the biggest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet (Iran). It was a hard-fought victory because the judicial left is so brazen and cocksure that you now have district judges presuming to remake US national security by interpreting bureaucratic administrative rules not by the plain meaning of their words but by things the President happened to let fly years earlier when he was one of 17 candidates stumping Iowa and New Hampshire.
Which, when you think about it, is at least as nutty as Justin's socks: In 2017, in order to impose even the most modest, footling and temporary restraints on unrestricted Islamic access to a western nation, you have to go all the way to the Supreme Court. And for every such minimalist victory there are a thousand virtue-signalling prostrations before the Islamic imperialists every day of the week. Over the weekend, The Washington Post claimed that Trump's disinclination to hold a Ramadan-a-ding-dong knees-up at the White House ended a presidential tradition going back to Thomas Jefferson's Iftar banquet in 1805. Oh, really? Did he wear his Iftar socks? Did Martha Washington have her Ramadan corset? Was Betsy Ross busy sewing an Islamic crescent on the flag? Did Stephen Foster show up to sing "Way Down Upon The Sunni River"? Was the first Thanksgiving held at Eid between the starving Pilgrims and the only halal butcher's on Plymouth Rock? Is that Trump play Julius Caesar by Sheikh Spear? Was Little Women written by Louisa May al-Cott as the sequel to Genitally Mutilated Girls? Did Henry Ford of Dearborn, Michigan invent the burqa (you can get it in any color as long as it's black)? Is the Pope Muslim? Does a bear self-detonate in the woods?
And so it goes, around the clock, every day, like Ramadan socks in a tumble dryer, the lop-sided valse macabre of the Iftar ball. [CORRECTION: I originally called it the Ishtar ball, which is a stinker of a movie with Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, and if they hold a commemorative dance every year, my advice is to steer well clear.]
Isn't it culturally appropriative for an infidel to wear post-Ramadan socks? When Burger King in Britain accidentally put a decorative swirl on top of their chocolate ice-cream tubs that looked a bit too much like Allah in Arabic, the usual excitable lads went bananas and Burger King was forced to withdraw them all and re-design the thing. Are those same chaps cool with having their socks appropriated for a parade of prancing gays? If not, Justin's being a way butchier butch than those kike-clobbering dykes.
But I think not. In the sock drawer of multiculturalism, we're all supposed to mix'n'match: gay and straight, butch and femme, bottom and Mohammedan, transitioning and unyielding, questioning and no questions permitted whatsoever. Meanwhile, in London's East End, the gay pubs close and the "sharia patrols" proclaim whole neighborhoods a "gay-free zone". In Amsterdam, the soi-disant "most tolerant city in Europe", there's an epidemic of gay-bashing, and the once famous Rainbow Palace, a landmark "homo-hotel" (relax, that's the Duch term for it), has turned Muslim.
In the Cognitive Dissonance Parade we are all marching toward the precipice in mismatched socks.
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Q: How to properly apply margins in Firefox on a Google Apps Script UI I am using margins to position elements (and add space between elements) in my Web App that I created with Google Apps Script UiInstance.
The margins are not being applied properly in Firefox or Opera. They are being applied in Chrome and Internet Explorer, so I feel that the code is correct.
Here is an example which I have published here.
function doGet() {
  var app = UiApp.createApplication();
  app.add(app.createLabel("Some Text").setStyleAttribute("margin-left","500px").setStyleAttribute("margin-top","25px"));
  return app;
}

Can anyone explain why this is happening? Is this a bug, or is this bad practice and I should do something else?
Note: Using the Firefox inspector, I found nothing that would indicate a margin was attempted.

A: Syntax issue, try it like this
function doGet() {
  var app = UiApp.createApplication().setStandardsMode(false);
  app.add(app.createLabel("Some Text").setStyleAttribute("marginLeft","500px").setStyleAttribute("marginTop","25px"));
  return app;
}

or like this
function doGet() {
  var app = UiApp.createApplication().setStandardsMode(false);
  app.add(app.createLabel("Some Text").setStyleAttributes({marginLeft :"500px",marginTop :"25px"}));
  return app;
}


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