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Omega in your Body
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How to maintain fatty acid balance
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Omega-6/Omega-3 Balance
Literature - olive oil
Literature - fish oil
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Fish oil in diet
Fish oil was originally consumed to get enough vitamin A and vitamin D, which for many years have been known to be important micronutrients for the bodys normal fuctions (homeostasis). It was not before the well-known publication by Dyerberg and Bang and their work on the Inuit diet in the mid-1970s, that the interest and awareness of the significance of the marine omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in human health increased. Inuit's living in the arctic region had quite an unusual health pattern. Despite a high intake of both fat and cholesterol, their heart health was extremely good. These findings were quite controversial, since a high fat diet previously had been correlated to poor heart health. However, there was one difference between "other" high-fat diets and the Inuit diet; the source of the fat. In "other" high-fat diets, the fat and cholesterol were mainly of animal and vegetable origin, while the diet of the Inuit's was mainly marine based ("Sushi" from raw whale, seal and fish meat). The positive effect of the Inuit diet was partly explained by the high intake of the two marine omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, C20:5) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C22:6) [1]. Similar effects have later also been observed in other communities, like the Japanese and Mediterranean countries, known for high intake of natural antioxidants like polyphenols and marine foods [2].
Genetic factors determine susceptibility to many diseases, while environmental factors such as nutrition and physical activities influence which genetically susceptible individuals will be affected. The spontaneous mutation rate for nuclear DNA is estimated to be 0.5 % per million years. Thus, our genetic profile today is very similar to the one of our ancestors that was formed 40,000 - 50,000 years ago and shaped around their diet. During the last 150 years, there has been a substantial change in the food components included in our diet, mainly due to industrialisation of agriculture and food production, increasing the intake of vegetable plants and fats [3].
Limitations in the availability of marine resources, combined with an increase in aquaculture, have led to an increase in the use of alternative protein and lipid sources in aquafeed. For instance have vegetable oils been recognized as suitable alternatives to fish oils in fishfeed [4, 5]. However, replacing oils of marine origin with vegetables oils in fish feed changes the fatty acids composition of the fish, increasing the level of omega-6 fatty acids such as linoleic acid (LA, C18:2) and arachidonic acid (AA, C18:3), and decreasing the amount of omega-3 fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, C 20:5) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, C 22:6). As summarized by Alvheim [6], these changes, being a result of both increased availability of vegetable oils and public recommendation of replacing saturated fatty acids with vegetable oils [7-10], have led to an unfortunate imbalance between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids in our diet [11].
Fish oil production
Fish oil is a very delicate product due to the high content of the long chained polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Hence, it is important that the quality is ensured in every step from catching until the final product is consumed, and even after. Critical processes and relevant parameters which need to be considered when producing fish oil is the content of omega-3 fatty acids, crude oil processing, refining of the oil, packaging, analytical methods, avoidance of lipid oxidation, antioxidant content, storage and application of the fish oil [12].
Before modern technology was introduced to food processing organically sourced and unprocessed oils were the only options available for dietary consumption. Nowadays most oils that we consume have been processed or refined. The refining process makes the product palatable and guarantees that it complies with regulations regarding contaminants. Fish oil refining comprises the following steps: neutralisation to remove free fatty acids that give off-taste; bleaching to reduce colour and remove contaminants; winterisation to improve clarity at low temperatures; and deodorisation to removes volatiles compounds that give off-flavour as well as contaminants. As described, the refining process eliminates all flavours, odours and contaminants that might be harmful or spoil the quality of the product. However, the refining process also removes compounds like natural antioxidants, vitamins and other minor components. The removal of these important nutrients and compounds is only partly compensated for by re-introducing antioxidants for stabilization purposes, such as tocopherols (vitamin E). Tocopherols may contribute to stabilize the fish oil on the shelf, but it does not work properly in the body. On the other hand, the addition of polyphenols from olive stabilizes the fish oil both on the shelf and in the body. This is the reason why BioActive Foods selected polyphenols from olive as the main antioxidant in the 1Life Active products. In Norway, vitamin D is also commonly added to fish oil supplements, because more than half of the adult population have a lower vitamin D intake than recommended by the nutritional guidelines. Hence, fish and fish oil supplements are considered good sources of vitamin D in Norway [17].
Refined fish oils should be almost free from impurities [13]. EU regulations provide the maximum allowed levels of environmental contaminants in foodstuff and marine oils, including heavy metals, dioxins and PCB`s (No. 629/2008 [14] and No. 1259/2011 [15]). In addition to the EU regulations, the Council for Responsible Nutrition and the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 (GOED) has developed a voluntary monograph for the industry to help ensure that omega-3 oils reaching consumers are of high quality [16].
The unique fatty acid composition of fish oils
The fatty acid composition of fish oils differs from both vegetable oils and animal fats. The most important differences being that fish oil fatty acids have a wider range of chain lengths (from 12-24 carbons), a higher degree of unsaturation (up to 6 double bonds), and a lower level of odd numbered and branched chains. Most importantly, fish oil contains significant quantities of the omega-3 bioactive long-chained polyunsaturated fatty acids EPA and DHA. The EPA content normally differs between fish species, while the variations in DHA content are smaller [13]. Fish oils contains between 100-300 g/kg omega-3 fatty acids. The exact level is affected by age, season, fish species and area of living. As an example; fish living in cold water have higher amounts of EPA and DHA than fish living in warm waters. The low melting point of long chained polyunsaturated fatty acids enables fish to move more easily in cold waters [18].
Triglycerides are the main lipid complex found in fish oils. Humans are able to digest triglycerides both rapidly and efficiently. If you want to learn more about the differences in digestibility and bioaccessibility of fatty acids found in different types of lipid complexes like triglyceridens, ethyl esters and phospholipids, you may read the capter "Digestion of lipids".
Bioactive properties of fish oil
EPA and DHA are two omega-3 fatty acids in fish oils that have certain bioactive properties. Many scientific studies have shown that these marine omega-3 PUFAs have beneficial effects on several metabolic factors [19, 20]. Furthermore, the inclusion of fatty fish in diet has also been shown to promote good heart health, and to be beneficial for both cognitive functions and in mental health [21, 22]. These beneficial effects have been linked both to the reduction of serum triglycerides and to the balancing effect on silent inflammation [23, 24].
Recommendation of omega-3 consumption
National nutritional recommendations are provided by public bodies regarding specific intake of macro- and micronutrients. In Norway, this is done by the National Board of Nutrition, which is a part of the Norwegian Directorate of Health. The aim of these recommendations is to promote public health by focusing on primary prevention of diet-induced chronic health issues within the adult population. Specific guidelines are made for this purpose. In Norway there are no specific dietary recommendations for intake of EPA and DHA, however, it is recommended that 5-10 E% of the total energy intake are derived from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Furthermore that at least 1 E% of these PUFAs should be omega-3 PUFAs. Norwegians are also recommended to eat 300-450 g fish/week (of which 200 g should be fatty fish) [25].
The recommendations mentioned above are based on minimum amount necessary to maintain apparently normal physiology [26]. However, as summarized by Alvheim [6], providing minimum requirement of nutrients may not be sufficient to prevent development of life style related health issues resulting from excessive intake of certain nutrients [27]. An actual example is the high intake of omega-6 fatty acids compared to the low intake of omega-3 fatty acids from our diet. As we are genetically disposed to eat approximately equal amounts of these fatty acids, this imbalance is suggested to influence the chronic inflammatory state of a body, and to be a driving force in the development of different lifestyle related health problems.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that it is safe to consume up to 5 g daily of marine omega-3 fatty acids (EPA+DHA). EFSA is responsible for approving health claims based on scientific evidence for bioactive compounds. There are presently restrictions in which statements may be used for marketing of products containing EPA and DHA. The following health claims for EPA and DHA have been approved by EFSA (Commission Regulation (EU) 1924/2006 and 432/2012):
DHA and EPA contribute to the normal function of the heart (0.25 g per day)
DHA and EPA contribute to the maintenance of normal blood pressure (3 g per day)
DHA and EPA contribute to the maintenance of normal blood triglyceride levels (2 g per day)
DHA contributes to maintenance of normal blood triglyceride levels (2 g per day in combination with EPA)
DHA contributes to maintenance of normal brain function (0.25 g per day)
DHA contributes to the maintenance of normal vision (0.25 g per day)
DHA maternal intake contributes to the normal brain development of the foetus and breastfed infants (0.2 g DHA plus the daily recommended intake of omega-3 fatty acids (EPA+DHA) for adults which is 0.25 g per day).
DHA maternal intake contributes to the normal development of the eye of the foetus and breastfed infants (0.2 g DHA plus the daily recommended intake of omega-3 fatty acids (EPA+DHA) for adults which is 0.25 g per day).
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Affordable space tourism 'in 10 years', predicts NASA astronaut
Would you pay £250,000 to go into space? You might not have to Credit: Alamy
Chris Leadbeater, Travel writer
11 March 2016 • 10:23am
Chris Leadbeater
Former NASA astronaut Don Thomas flew four missions on the Space Shuttle during the Nineties. He spent 44 days in space, orbiting the planet 700 times. He explains why we may see man on Mars as soon as 2041, how seeing Earth from above changes you forever and why space tourism will one day be as affordable as a trip to Antarctica.
When did you first decide you wanted to be an astronaut?
It was a childhood dream. I was six years old when the first American launched into space. May 5, 1961. My school ushered all the students into the gymnasium, and I watched the launch on TV. I knew there and then that I wanted to do that myself. The next year, John Glen orbited the earth. He became one of my heroes. A few years later, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Both Glen and Armstrong were from my home state, Ohio. That helped. As I grew up, my desire to go to space became more and more intense.
Space hotels
Did you always think it was an achievable dream?
I didn't know. But nobody told me I couldn't do it, and nobody tried to talk me out of it. When I reached high school, America launched the first space station, Skylab [in 1973] – and they had science astronauts on board. I loved science. I started to see that as my path.
How did you react when you were selected for the Space Shuttle mission in 1994?
I was first selected to be an astronaut four years before that. You receive the phone call, and they tell you that you have made it into the programme. I recall that day clearly. I was jumping up and down, yelling and screaming. I was 35.
What does a launch feel like?
It's incredibly exciting. That first launch morning, you almost can't believe where you are and what you're about to do. You strap into your seat. There's a little anxiety. You don't know how you're going to feel when it starts.
"Any astronaut tells you they are not scared – I say they are either lying, or they are crazy"
I remember my first time. I was lying on my back. I could feel the vibrations, hear the roar of the engines. Then I felt the push of the Shuttle as it was taking off. It felt like I had somebody's hand in the middle of my back, shoving me up into the sky. At that moment, I knew I was on my way. I was going somewhere, the engines weren't going to shut down. I had my helmet on, visor down, nobody in the world could hear me – and I was screaming with happiness. I bet Tim Peake did the same thing. It's an incredible moment.
We have a Space Shuttle launch simulator at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. I really wish I'd had something like that at the time of my training. It shakes you, it rattles and rolls. It puts you through something of the experience.
How does it feel to see Earth from above for the first time?
You can't believe the beauty of it. I'd seen pictures, I'd seen IMAX movies. But when you first look out of the window, you gasp. The sky is a darker black than you've ever seen. And up against that blackness, the blue earth, and a thin layer of atmosphere. Paper thin. It almost appears to be glowing, like a fluorescent blue. A really beautiful colour.
What was the first thing you looked for? Did you look for home, for Ohio?
On my first mission, I could look out of the window and just about tell whether we were over water or dirt. I had no idea where I was, even though I'd studied and I'd had a lot of classes. But later on, as I flew more, I could pick out landmarks. I would specifically look for the Panama Canal, for Mount Everest, for Victoria Falls.
The Space Shuttle above the earth Credit: Alamy
Your career was book-ended by the two Space Shuttle disasters. Was fear a big factor during launches – or did your training teach you to deal with that?
Every astronaut has an image of Challenger blowing up [in 1986] in the back of their head. There's no getting around that. It's in my wife's head, my family's heads. During my first launches, I was always a little scared. I told people I was 10 per cent scared out of my mind, and 90 per cent running on pure adrenaline. I flew before the Columbia accident [in 2003]. In my era, we always thought that once you made it to space, you were safe – you would definitely come home. We now know that you are not safe until you get back. I was never afraid on the way home. It was always comfortable. And fascinating, looking out of the window, seeing the fire as you re-enter. But if, at a launch, any astronaut tells you they are not scared – I say they are either lying, or they are crazy.
What is the future of space exploration? Have we reached our limits?
No. The future is incredibly bright. We're in the building phase right now, new vehicles and facilities. We have commercial space companies who will be sending tourists up. The more people who can get up there to see Earth, the better off our world will be. It takes 15 seconds to look out of the window, and it changes forever the way you look at the planet.
"In a decade or so, you will see flights to space for $10,000 to $15,000. Space travel will be more in line with an exotic trip to Antarctica"
NASA is building a new system of Orion spacecraft. The first test launch will be in 2018. These things are so powerful. It will be incredible to watch one of the launches. With these new vehicles, we will possibly send astronauts back to the moon, but maybe also onto asteroids – and, 25 to 30 years from now, to Mars.
You think man will land on Mars that soon?
It's within reach. It depends on budgets. But this new generation of rockets invites it.
The earth viewed from the International Space Station Credit: Alamy
Is space tourism really possible, or is it just a fantasy?
It's going to happen. Virgin Galactic may be the first. Sub-orbital flights that go to about 85 miles high – for five minutes of zero gravity, and to show you the black sky and the curvature of the earth. I would guess they will be launching in the next two years. And then there are other companies, like SpaceX, which has been sending supplies to the International Space Station, and is due to start sending crews next year. Shortly after that, I would anticipate they will send paying customers as well. It's beginning to open up. You're going to see the price drop. To go to the Space Station now, as a tourist – you pay the Russians $65million. With Virgin Galactic, the price comes down to a quarter of a million dollars. I would think that, in a decade or so, you will see flights to space for $10,000 to $15,000. Space travel will be more in line with an exotic trip to Antarctica.
Do you really think it will be that affordable?
Well, it will still be a lot of money. But it will be within reach. It won't just be for millionaires and billionaires.
Where do you go on holiday? And does everything on Earth seem a little dull from the ground once you've seen it from above?
NASA trains the fear out of you. So I don't go to theme parks any more. A rollercoaster is not thrilling for me – I know I'm strapped in, totally safe. That's something that NASA has ruined for me forever [laughs]. But Earth is still amazing. I was in Dublin a couple of days ago. It's nice to meet people rather than just gaze at them from space.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour on display in California Credit: Getty
Does flying on a plane feel awfully slow?
It does. I flew to Dubai recently. It took 15 hours. It used to be 35 minutes in the Shuttle.
Don Thomas is an ambassador for Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (001 877 313 2610; KennedySpaceCenter.com), in Florida – and leads regular tours of the site. Visitors can also see the retired Space Shuttle Atlantis, and try the 'Shuttle Launch Experience. Admission costs from $50 (£35) for adults – and from $40 (£28) for children aged 3-11.
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On Sunday, March 17th, Helen Palmer joined me for a marvelous and illuminating dialog entitled "Waking Up From the Partial Truths We Cling To". Helen presented a very precise and penetrating background of observations drawing from intuitive perception, psychology, and consciousness studies that frame her work with the Enneagram. I recommend it! This was a high level, substantive and penetrating discussion.
Our exploration of Helen's work ranged widely but returned often to the notion that it represents a fulcrum between the psychological and the spiritual. Helen defined a spiritual experience as a shift from conditioned consciousness to the ability to be with unknown of the present moment, such that it is received prior to analysis and projection. Thus, what stands between yourself and a received spiritual experience is, well, yourself; perceiving and responding to experience via your conditioning, patterns and natural tendencies — that is, your Enneagram type.
Helen's way of using the Enneagram typology focuses on the power of the witness, or Inner Observer. Helen noted that just being present for any extended period of time brings these psychological issues to the foreground.
Helen emphasized that the intention should not be to change our Enneagram types, which she declared is not possible, no matter how much we may grow or awaken. In fact, the constructive orientation of our Enneagram type, she says, is a critical tool in how we interface with and are effective in the world. A healthy intention is to awaken into freedom from the characteristic pattern of suffering of your Enneatype, caused by the contraction (or "vise") created when the reptilian brain warns us that we are under threat. This "emotional passion" resists the Mystery of the unknown (and the present moment) and blocks our life flow and our experience of love. And it does so in one of nine characteristic ways, which Helen says are depicted via the Enneagram with brilliant illuminating clarity.
As I reflected on the depth of this process and the time such work can take to effect real change on an individual, much less a cultural or global level, I wondered if the Enneagram could have the necessary timely impact we need to respond to our global crises.
Helen responded that the Enneagram is probably the best public education on the planet for the ordinary matter of how people relate to themselves and other people. Working with one's own suffering and recognizing one's character type using the witnessing part of the brain provokes a subtle, often unnoticed, but very powerful shift of consciousness and it prepares the ground for greater cultural change.
And it is not about changing others. It is about recognizing the type of person you are, in a simple, self-witnessing process and creating understanding and tolerance where it once seemed impossible. So for instance, the paranoid 6 no longer sees a threatening world and the obsessive 9 doesn't see a morass of confusing agendas. When this happens, a huge uprising of compassion comes up for ourselves and other people. We become able to understand the vast differences between ourselves and others.
It can go further. It can be, "I know your story because you spoke from an understanding of your patterns, and not just opinions and positions." Looked at in this way, the Enneagram is a revolutionary, transformative instrument that builds trust between people of all types and typologies.
Helen also facilitated a live exercise where she walked us through the categories of mind taking us out of the ordinary level of consciousness, into the present moment, illustrating the profound transformative power of deliberate recession from categories of consciousness.
your great synopsis I already relate to both the paranoid and the obsessive!
Would be to have these two brilliant woman talk together about their respective approaches. Would they find common ground or have radical differences?


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Design for visually challenged people
Karthik Mahadevan
Karthik Mahadevan is the co-founder and CEO of Envision, a company that helps the visually impaired to live more independently. He is passionate about designing tools that empower people and is an alumnus of Delft University of Technology where he completed his Master's in Industrial and Product Design.
Q. Can you tell us about your journey and how you founded Envision?
I first came to the Netherlands to study Industrial design in Delft University, before which I was studying engineering in India. But I've always been fascinated by Design, the reason being that Design is all about solving problems. When I was studying in the design school (At Delft), I was always interested in picking up early-stage projects that start with the problem itself instead of picking projects with a technology or a solution already in place and the designer trying to figure out how to push it out.
Towards the end of my masters in Delft, I was trying to look for a problem statement to work on for my thesis. At that time, I had gone back to India for my winter holidays and was invited by a school for the blind in Chennai, to give a talk about what career opportunities which students like them could have going forward. I was there to talk to them as a designer and was explaining to the kids about what it means to design and how to approach it. I remembered explaining to the kids that a designer is just somebody who 'solves a problem'. So if you're able to identify a problem and if you're able to put your skills and energy into designing a solution for it, you are also a designer!
Towards the end of the talk I asked a question to the kids in the audience that day - 'If all of you could be designers tomorrow, what would be the kind of problems that you would like to solve?' Almost all the kids in the room that day said things like - "I want to be more independent", "I want to be able to go and hang out with friends by myself", "I want to be able to go to school on my own", "I want to be able to pick up and read a book by myself".
This desire for independence was such a strong emotion that they all want to experience, and it's something that stayed with me. I thought - Why am I not doing something about this? I'm supposed to be a designer- somebody who solves a problem. Why don't I explore this and see if there is a solution to this problem.
I came back to university and spoke to a professor about it, saying I wanted to explore this area as a problem statement for my thesis. I wanted to understand - what is independence? What exactly do they mean when they say they want to be more independent, what does independence mean to them? As I started to interact with similarly challenged folks here, I started to understand that for a lot of them, independence almost always meant 'access to information'. This is because there is so much of information around us, and all of it in a visual format which leads to their inability to access it.
For example, when a blind person walks into a train station, the information is set up on a display. But because it is visual information, they cannot access it and they need to ask someone for help. In a way, it's a shortcoming of society that most of our infrastructure has been designed in such a way as to be only visually accessible due to which, we are excluding a big segment of the population. At the same time though, I also understand that it's pretty impractical to expect all the infrastructure to change overnight. Thus, I tried to approach this problem from another angle.
OK, all the infrastructure and information is going to stay the same, is there a way that technology can understand this information and have it be translated in an accessible way for the blind and visually impaired people?
I started exploring technologies like artificial intelligence, especially what they can do in terms of processing and extracting information from images and have them spoken out. A friend and I got together at nights to hack and explore the possibilities that we had with the AI technology of the time.
One of the very first things that we built was a very simple object recognition tool where it recognised simple objects. When we tested it with the blind and visually impaired people, they said, "OK, this technology is pretty cool but it's of no use to us. If you tell me, there is a plate on my table, I'm probably the person who put the plate on the table. So it's not useful information to me. It's cool that technology can do it, but there isn't a utility for me."
That's when things started to get interesting and we started to probe in new directions with respect to what information users are trying to look for and mapping it to a technology that can offer them the information. It's not very interesting to recognise 'a cup' but it is interesting if I can recognise it as 'your cup'.
Building such things is what added utility to our user instead of just building a journal with a technology aspect to it. From that point on, we spent our nights hacking a prototype on the basis of the feedback we received and then we'd go back the next day with with an updated prototype, for more feedback. We did this process a couple of times and towards the end of my thesis, we had built an MVP of the Envision app.
It allows a blind or visually impaired person to take images of various things and depending on what information they're looking for, it extracts it and communicates it including capabilities like reading your text, finding objects, describing a scene, looking for particular faces (people) and a bunch of other things. We were able to package all of the technology in a way where a blind person can operate it on a smartphone without having to look at the screen.
So, that's the point where it actually becomes effective because everybody appreciates just something that you have done. So when you build something, everyone appreciates it, and says you have done a good job but the real test of finding out value is when people are ready to pay for what you built. That's when we understood that we have something amazing on our hands here.
If we were to put this in the hands of all the blind and visually impaired folks around the world as it was intended to be, we would have to build a business model around it.
We had to make sure it was sustainable and scalable. And that's how we started to think about building a business around the idea. After we got accepted into a startup incubator here in the Netherlands, we launched our very first app on the App store and the Play Store in 2018. Since its launch, we now have tens of thousands of subscribers around the world who pay a subscription in order to use the app.
I think that's the power of software, where you can put something out and though it's not completely finished, it still adds value to some people. But the app was getting a lot of traction. It was very interesting but then one feedback that kept coming back to us, from our end users, was that the app was really cool, but it would be even better if they didn't have to hold a phone in their hand, especially when they're out and about.
We didn't have a lot of experience in building hardware and we were clear from early on that we didn't want to build our own. We started scouting for smart glasses and wearable cameras that are out in the market. We hit a roadblock with the available glasses in the market either from a technology standpoint or from an end user standpoint. A few of the glasses didn't have the processing power to run our operations on them , the ones that were capable, were too big and bulky for a lot of our end users to actually have on the face.
For a lot of blind and visually impaired people, they were worried about drawing more attention to themselves. "I already attract a lot more attention when I'm out and about and if you put something that's big and bulky on my face, I'm gonna attract even more attention and I don't want that stigma attached to me."
Towards the end of 2019, we won the Google Play award for the best accessibility app and they invited us to their office in California. They introduced us to the team that was working on the second edition of Google Glasses. Google Glass, launched a while back, but it didn't do very well. It was too early for its time and people didn't feel comfortable having it on their faces. So, internally Google started offering Google Glasses only for Enterprise applications.
They were about to launch a second edition of the Google Glass, which has better cameras, and processors. So we struck a deal with them where they offered us early access to this device. When we started prototyping with it, we found that it had a lot of the capabilities in terms of operating power that we needed. So it had a processor that was strong enough and at the same time, the form factor of these glasses were not as stigmatising as some other ones that we had been working with.
When we started to hand this out to our end users, they were okay with having this on their faces. It's not unnoticeable, but it is something that is not a big, robotic device that you have on your face. We stuck a partnership with Google where we make a purchase of these glasses and entirely flash it with our software and this is something that we are now offering to end users as a product of Envision calling "Vision glasses".
We were able to secure a hundred people who placed orders for them, which in turn increased the validation for the fact that there is a demand for something like this. To date, we have shipped 500 of these glasses to end users. And as of now, we're at a phase where we are building up a distribution where stuff like these glasses can be offered to end users.
The stage at which Envision is in right now is - we have an app which already has a strong user base. We are constantly adding more value so that we can expand our user base and the glasses are a new addition for us, operationally. Hardware is not as easy to scale it as software. But the margins are certainly higher. So we can actually invest a lot more of the money that we make from the glasses to expand our businesses.
Right now, the idea is that all the revenue we make from the sale of the glasses, we're going to invest into building a low cost of version of the same so that people in countries where there isn't nationalised healthcare or there aren't insurance available at a national scale, can also afford them
From a company standpoint, as of now, the focus for us is the blind and visually impaired, folks. But then in two years we want to expand this to also make applications for people with dyslexia or people with dementia or other cognitive disabilities.
We believe that in five years time, stuff like smart glasses, in-built cameras, powerful processors are going to become ubiquitous. Once everybody has access to such a camera on them and we are able to build intelligent software on it that can process images, which in turn allows us to offer more meaningful information that could better augment more people. So you want to go from building a vision based app for blind and visually impaired people to eventually enhancing vision for everyone and that's a goal of the company.
Q: Speaking about accessibility, a lot of people speak about the solutioning side of its designers, what are some of the things that we can account for in the stage of user research and working with people who are different?
What we're doing with Envision is a bit different because it is a product as of now only for the blind and visually impaired. But if you are attempting to build any sort of a product instead of attempting to make it 'accessible', I would say attempt to make it 'inclusive'. And there is a subtle difference between accessible design and inclusive design.
Inclusivity means that you build 'one thing' that is for everyone. To give you an example here in Netherlands, everyone often takes public transport. They have an option that when a person with a wheelchair is going on the strains, you can, with an app, make a booking of which station you are going to exit and there will be a person at this station with a ramp that they put on the door of so that the person with a wheelchair, can exit as soon as they arrive at the station, now this is accessible design.
It is accessible for a person with a wheelchair, he/she is able to use the train, able to make it off the train, but it's not that good because now the person still has to do something that everybody else does not have to do. This as opposed to what they're doing now, where they're ordering a bunch of new trains but the height at which the doors open has been modified. So they have a standard height for platforms and they made it a rule that all the trains that are ordered will have a door at a certain height, which means that there is no longer a need for a ramp. They are going to select doors which are going to open at the same level as your platform. This means that now a person with a wheelchair doesn't have to ask for help. It's inclusive now, because it is only one design that is for everyone.
So I think that's the approach that you need to have, where anything that you are designing should be done in such a way that it is able to cover all extremes. It should never be an afterthought. So if you want to start inclusive design, it needs to be at the very beginning of the process itself.
And it's not a lot of effort, you don't have to change your design very much to make things inclusive. We are biased towards thinking that we need to make it officially less appealing (when designing for accessibility) because whenever we like to think about technology for old people, we always tend to think about phones with big buttons and chunky designs. I think it's a major misconception that if you're trying to make something inclusive it needs to start looking ugly or it needs to start looking big.
It is important that we are approaching it very openly, without having any inhibitions it. The right approach is to be more open and to be more upfront about it and to understand that it is possible to make something accessible and look good at the same time.
Q. How do we convince people to actually try a design solution and communicate it's value?
I think the right way to approach it is it to get to the bottom of why do they feel that way? (Not wanting to give your design solution a chance). There's generally a lot of assumptions for the user, when you're designing something. When you say that building an app, they have the highlight and they already have a set of preconceived notions about what an app is. And I think that is something that is good to avoid early on when you're still at the prototyping stage.
You just say that - I'm building a service! That's probably a better term to use. It is a service that is offered to you in the form of a smartphone application. It doesn't always have to be that way. It is important to keep it open rather than to define your solution as an "app". There is a very good chance that the other person has a preconceived notion or a horrible experience with apps in general due to which they have an aversion to apps in general. So if you say I built another app, it might not be received all that well.
Q. How do we look beyond screens and apps completely when designing to solve a problem effectively?
I think a smartphone is a very good solution for a lot of things because it is something that people already have. There is an ecosystem. There is a distribution that's already in place so it has a lot of advantages to it for sure. So if you build something, people across the world can have it overnight. But it doesn't always have to be an app-based solution. In such a situation, you start entering into a realm of building actual hardware. And when you do that, you need to be really, really sure that it is something that you are able to scale and are able to distribute it.
Because if you are trying like to build hardware that is not a smartphone based solution, it's certainly possible. But then the distribution is entirely new. So if you know somebody who wants it tomorrow in Japan, you cannot do it overnight. You need to really scale your business, need to think of supply chain, think of the stakes, etc., so I think that's like a barrier.
The other advice would be to see if there are other devices that you can build on top of, similar to what Envision did with the glasses. See if you can build your solutions into existing platforms like Alexa or Google Home. I think there are options out there, but it's something that you have to sit with the user and understand deeply.
Q. Designers today, instinctively try to come up with digital solutions to most problems, but we also know that probably a digital solution is not the right approach for every problem. How do we navigate this situation?
I think software is eating the world. There is not many ways to build really good solutions going forward that only have a hardware component without some accompanying software component as well. Completely non-digital solutions can be built, but to add true value, leveraging software would be indispensable.
I do understand that software is not always the right solution. For example, in terms of how the blind use canes to navigate their surroundings, the level of comfort, input and efficiency of it is not something that can be very easily replaced by software. So, there is a space for hardware solutions as well, but I strongly believe that the best area to explore is the hardware-software combine/integration.
Q. When designing for accessibility, how do you reach out to users keeping in mind any sensitivities they might have due to their circumstances?
I think they are not that sensitive (in my experience) and they get offended when people step on eggshells around them. Everyone wants to be treated as normally as possible. So, if you actually attempt to specifically not offend them, that tends to come across as more offensive.
I was very honest with all of my users since early on about who I was and what I was doing. I found people on places like Facebook, Twitter and other social media. I was very open and honest with them saying that I have no clue how this works, I have zero idea about how it feels to be blind and I don't think I ever will be able to completely understand but I do want your help so that I can try to.
I've realised that it's okay if you don't use the right terms as they know that most of the time it's an honest mistake.
I don't attempt to make them feel special or speak differently with them. I interact with them as I would with any other person and I think that's all you need to do as well. There is a very good chance that you will accidentally say or do something that they are not happy with, but as long as you're honest it should be fine.
Q. Can you tell us about how blind people interact with the Envision app and it's UI? What are their interactions like ?
So when you're doing a design for something like a screen reader. It's the same principles that you would apply for UI design, but you're to now apply that to just audio.
In visual design, there's a certain hierarchy, where there's a certain order in which you want people to notice and interact with the elements. Similarly, for audio, you design in a manner where you guide what they hear first and what follows it and how the flow continues. That's how you build a map around it.
Q. Do you have any advice for people who want to get into assistive technology?
I don't think I know too much about how you get into accessible design as a field. I know that it's something that is being taken a lot more seriously by a lot of tech companies. But in my opinion accessible design should not be a separate field in itself.
I believe that if a company is built the right way, they won't have a separate role for an accessible a designer because every a designer should be an accessible to designer.
I would ask you to attempt to be a designer for a product or in a space you love and then when you are in there, ensure that everything that you're doing is accessible.
Q. What were your learnings as a designer turned co-founder?
I'm still learning different things at different stages. I think one of the first things I learnt was, when you're building something new, especially when you're just building the app, just push out your current version as soon as possible. In our case, we were never sure what's the right time to launch it. We had built Envision in October of 2017 and we just kept on improving it in the never-ending pursuit for perfection. But, it was never going to be perfect and finally we just went ahead and did a launch in February of 2018.
I remember we had just put that thing out and within a month we had two thousand people install it and 50 people subscribed to it within a week of the product being launched. In hindsight we feel a little stupid that we could have actually launched it much earlier but we always wanted to improve the product before we push it out.
We need to put out a product as soon as we can so that people can actually start giving you real validation on what is it that has value? If you don't, you're stuck in an echo chamber where you're probably improving stuff that there is no need for you to improve. So, we now attempt to push stuff to the users and start improving them on the fly.
Apart from that, everything comes with a lot more ownership and stake in it because you have skin in the game, right? So you need to really learn to put stuff out that actually has the most value and you need to allocate time very, very well because you can build a hundred things, but we don't have the time to build everything. So it becomes a big responsibility to pick the right things that will have the most amount of impact for the business.
Another big learning is that as a founder, I won't get to design as much as I'd want to despite the immense passion I have for building the product. Instead, most of my time will go into building the company and the team that is going to build the product that has been envisioned.
Q. Can you talk about the difference between building a tool and designing a solution?
I think envision oscillates between these two things. A solution is basically that there is a problem and you're building something that really fits into that problem like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. The other approach is to build a tool, which is something that users can now utilize to solve other problems.
Envision leans towards a more tool based approach. Mainly because, as it grows, we have more and more use cases that it has been used for, solving multiple problems. Some examples are - some users have been using it to read subtitles from foreign language films, play games like pokemon cards which were earlier inaccessible because they were visual in nature, etc.
So, the approach you take in your design, dictates the manner in which it will be positioned to users and how they would use it.
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1919 -- The provisional government of Korea, established in Shanghai earlier to restore their homeland's sovereignty from Japanese colonial rule, meets for the first time and adopts a modern name for their country, Daehanminguk.
1957 -- Law students from Seoul National University announce a class boycott to protest the admission of Rhee Gang-seok, the adopted son of President Rhee Syng-man, to their school. The president's son was accepted to the highest-ranking university in the country without taking admission tests.
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1992 -- A nuclear safeguards agreement between North Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency goes into effect.
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Q: Unable to start Hybris Tomcat Server due to Solr Server I am not able to start the Hybris server due to the starting issue with SOLR server.
Kindly help me in this regard so that I can start the Hybris tomcat server.
error log:
INFO  [localhost-startStop-1] [DefaultSolrServerService] Starting Solr server for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
Waiting up to 30 seconds to see Solr running on port 8983 [/]
Started Solr server on port 8983 (pid=8405). Happy searching!
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INFO  [localhost-startStop-1] [AbstractSolrServerController] Solr server not yet started for instance: [name: default, port: 8983] [retry: 7, interval: 5000ms]

INFO: (Enh120375):  AspectJ attempting reweave of 'org/tanukisoftware/wrapper/WrapperSimpleApp'
INFO: (Enh120375):  AspectJ attempting reweave of 'org/apache/catalina/startup/Catalina'
INFO: (Enh120375):  AspectJ attempting reweave of 'org/tanukisoftware/wrapper/WrapperManager'
INFO: (Enh120375):  AspectJ attempting reweave of 'org/apache/catalina/util/LifecycleBase'
INFO: (Enh120375):  AspectJ attempting reweave of 'org/apache/catalina/core/StandardContext'
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INFO  [localhost-startStop-1] [AbstractSolrServerController] Solr server not yet started for instance: [name: default, port: 8983] [retry: 10, interval: 5000ms]

ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [AbstractSolrServerController] Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [DefaultSolrServerService] de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]

WARN  [localhost-startStop-1] [CloseAwareApplicationContext] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: InvINFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 | ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [AbstractSolrServerController] Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]

INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 | ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [DefaultSolrServerService] de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 | WARN  [localhost-startStop-1] [CloseAwareApplicationContext] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 | org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:539)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:755)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.refreshContext(HybrisContextFactory.java:98)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:176)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getController(RegionCacheAdapter.java:76)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getOrAddUnit(RegionCacheAdapter.java:206)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.627 |         atocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
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INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.628 | WARN  [localhost-startStop-1] [CloseAwareApplicationContext] Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:10.628 | org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
INFO   | jvm 1    |orm.core.Registry.startup(Registry.java:422)
        at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.startRegistry(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:237)
        at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.doInitWebApplicationContext(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:135)
        at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.initWebApplicationContext(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:125)
        at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:106)
        at de.hybris.platform.spring.HybrisContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(HybrisContextLoaderListener.java:80)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.null(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.null(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.null(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1575)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1565)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        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: de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.solrserver.impl.AbstractSolrServerController.retryGetStatusUntilConditionIsTrue(AbstractSolrServerController.java:378)
        at de.hybris.platform.solrserver.impl.AbstractSolrServerController.ensureToStartSolr(AbstractSolrServerController.java:122)
        at de.hybris.platform.solrserver.impl.AbstractSolrServerController.start(AbstractSolrServerController.java:99)
        at de.hybris.platform.solrserver.impl.DefaultSolrServerService.startServer(DefaultSolrServerService.java:107)
        at de.hybris.platform.solrserver.impl.DefaultSolrServerService.startServers(DefaultSolrServerService.java:132)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1702)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1641)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570)
        ... 53 more

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INFO   | jvm 1    | main    t.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1702)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1641)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1570)
        ... 53 more

ERROR [localhost-startStop-1] [DeploymentMigrationUtil] Error while migrating deployments of extension core
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getController(RegionCacheAdapter.java:76)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.removeUnit(RegionCacheAdapter.java:259)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.AbstractCacheUnit.get(AbstractCacheUnit.java:199)
        at de.hybris.platform.persistence.type.ComposedType_HJMPWrapper$FindByCodeExact1FinderResult.getFinderResult(ComposedType_HJMPWrapper.java:1811)
        at de.hybris.platform.persistence.type.ComposedType_HJMPWrapper.ejbFindByCodeExact(ComposedType_HJMPWrapper.java:1870)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.Utilities.callMethod(Utilities.java:1069)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.Utilities.callMethod(Utilities.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.persistence.framework.HomeInvocationHandler.invoke(HomeInvocationHandler.java:93)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy17.findByCodeExact(Unknown Source)
        at de.hybris.platform.persistence.type.TypeManagerEJB.findByCodeExact(TypeManagerEJB.java:271)
        at de.hybris.platform.persistence.type.TypeManagerEJB.getComposedType(TypeManagerEJB.java:459)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.migration.DeploymentMigrationUtil.migrateSelectedDeployments(DeploymentMigrationUtil.java:458)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.migrateCoreTypes(AbstractTenant.java:910)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Abst| 2016/08/16 14:14:11.231 |      at de.hybris.platform.persistence.type.ComposedType_HJMPWrapper$FindByCodeExact1FinderResult.getFinderResult(ComposedType_HJMPWrapper.java:1811)
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Caused by: org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start cINFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.732 | INFO  [localhost-startStop-1] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (34.50 μs)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.732 | de.hybris.platform.core.UninstantiableCoreApplicationContextException: Error creating Spring application context.

INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | Caused by: org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | Error creating Spring application context. Shutting down hybris platform since the system cannot be used without working Spring context...
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | shutting down hybris registry..
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | INFO  [Thread-2] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (44.32 μs)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | ERROR [Thread-2] [JMXBeanLoader] Can't unregister jmxbeans on shutdown of the tenant <<master>>
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 | org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
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INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 |         at de.hybommand for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getAppCtxFactory(HybrisContextHolder.java:164)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getApplicationInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:90)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.createCoreApplicationContext(AbstractTenant.java:686)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doStartupSafe(AbstractTenant.java:724)
        ... 20 more
Error creating Spring application context. Shutting down hybris platform since the system cannot be used without working Spring context...
shutting down hybris registry..
INFO  [Thread-2] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (44.32 μs)
ERROR [Thread-2] [JMXBeanLoader] Can't unregister jmxbeans on shutdown of the tenant <<master>>
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.JMXBeanLoader.getMBeanRegistry(JMXBeanLoader.java:155)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.JMXBeanLoader.beforeTenantShutDown(JMXBeanLoader.java:116)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.notifyTenantListenersBeforeShutdown(AbstractTenant.java:1236)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutdown(AbstractTenant.java:987)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutDown(AbstractTenant.java:948)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.destroy(Registry.java:309)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities.shutdown(RedeployUtilities.java:74)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities$1.run(RedeployUtilities.java:38)
INFO  [Thread-2] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (61.35 μs)
ERROR [Thread-2] [RegionCacheAdapter] Unable to clear cache. Failed on region null. Last key null null
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(ris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities.shutdown(RedeployUtilities.java:74)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:11.733 |         at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities$1.run(RedeployUtilities.java:38)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:12.035 | INFO  [Thread-2] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (61.35 μs)
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:12.035 | ERROR [Thread-2] [RegionCacheAdapter] Unable to clear cache. Failed on region null. Last key null null
INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:12.035 | org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
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INFO   | jvm 1    | main    |HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getController(RegionCacheAdapter.java:76)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.clear(RegionCacheAdapter.java:288)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.shutdownCache(AbstractTenant.java:1061)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutdown(AbstractTenant.java:1003)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutDown(AbstractTenant.java:948)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.destroy(Registry.java:309)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities.shutdown(RedeployUtilities.java:74)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities$1.run(RedeployUtilities.java:38)
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getController(RegionCacheAdapter.java:76)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.clear(RegionCacheAdapter.java:288)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.shutdownCache(AbstractTenant.java:1061)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutdown(AbstractTenant.java:1003)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.AbstractTenant.doShutDown(AbstractTenant.java:948)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.destroy(Registry.java:309)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities.shutdown(RedeployUtilities.java:74)
        at de.hybris.platform.util.RedeployUtilities$1.run(RedeployUtilities.java:38)
INFO  [Thread-2] [HybrisContextFactory] Initializing <<global>> Spring ApplicationContext took: (21.21 μs)
ERROR [Thread-2] [RegionCacheAdapter] Unable to clear cache. Failed on region null. Last key null null
org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException: Context hybris Global Context Factory  couldn't  be created correctly due to, Error creating bean with name 'defaultSolrServerService' defined in class path resource [global-solrserver-spring.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is de.hybris.platform.solrserver.SolrServerException: Solr server is still not running after calling start command for instance: [name: default, port: 8983]
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:317)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.buildSelf(HybrisContextFactory.java:189)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextFactory$GlobalContextFactory.build(HybrisContextFactory.java:175)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstance(HybrisContextHolder.java:113)
        at de.hybris.platform.core.Registry.getSingletonGlobalApplicationContext(Registry.java:1059)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.getController(RegionCacheAdapter.java:76)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.clear(RegionCacheAdapter.java:288)
        at de.hybris.platform.cache.impl.RegionCacheAdapter.destroy(Region 2016/08/16 14:14:12.036 |    at de.hybris.platform.core.HybrisContextHolder.getGlobalInstanceCached(HybrisContextHolder.java:134)
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INFO   | jvm 1    | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:12.537 |
STATUS | wrapper  | main    | 2016/08/16 14:14:14.169 | <-- Wrapper Stopped

A: try adding this to your local.properties file. This should prevent it from starting with your TomCat server.
solrserver.instances.default.autostart=false

Or another solution it to comment solrfacetsearch in the  localextensions.xml.

A: Post hybris v5.5, the solr comes as a standalone server. When we hard stop hybris server by ctrl+c from the command prompt, the hybris server sends a signal to the solr server to stop. Now sometimes, due to this hard stop, the signal is not sent by the hybris server to the solr server, which in turn results in a a hung state. Now, when we restart the hybris server the (already) started solr server is not able to instantiate/register the (bean) services which are required by the hybris server to communicate with the solr and hence the hybris server does not gets back the signal that the (solr) services have been initialized in the solr context.
You can check in the processlist of the server on the port (default 8983) and you will find the solr server running (in actually a non-responsive mode)
To avoid this, please do ant clean all and try again. You would be able to successfully restart the server
Hope this helps!

A: While I also attempted to add solrserver.instances.default.autostart=false to the hybris\config\local.properties file, it worked to start the hybris server, but it resulted in the search functionality not working and products not displaying in the BackOffice and StoreFront.
A solution that worked was to run the ant stopSolrServer command in the terminal at hybris\bin\platform directory prior to starting the hybris server. Search functionality continues to work and products display correctly.

A: If you don't want to go in my detail answer then just add the below in your local.properties file and you go...
solrserver.failOnError=false
solrserver.instances.default.autostart=false

Troubleshoot steps to solve your issue
OOTB (post hybris v5.5) default solr configuration ensures that a standalone Solr server is configured, started and stopped together with the platform.
Sometimes, with ctr + c the solr instance not stopped properly might lead to such errors.

1. Stop and start Hybris server again - This
solve the issue most of the time as hybris stopped solr
instance properly this time.
2. Stop the Solr server manually - You can run the below ant command or find it's process and kill it.
ant stopSolrServer
3. Skip the Solr server error - If you really don't care about Solr for the current task you can simply add below the property. Which let you Hybris server start
even there will be any error with solr server startup.
solrserver.failOnError=false
4. Setup standalone Solr server - which can be started/stopped independently from Hybris server. Refer this to setup standalone Solr server
solrserver.instances.default.autostart=false

5. try to change the port and restart
6. Check the Solr log - Still, you are not able to get the root cause, check ${HYBRIS_BIN}/ext-commerce/solrserver/resources/solr/server/logs and
look for any more details.

Find the detail post here

A: I have also experienced this problem earlier and solved by killing the unresponsive solr process running on 8983. As Vikrant also stated, you can check for the specific process and just terminate it. Hope this helps.

A: In my case, there were two opened command lines for different hybris copies. After closed one of them, the server started succesfully. It killed the solr process...
Hope this helps somebody

A: Sometimes while building i experience also the same problem, and the solution for me is the following:

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*Kill all java processes.

*go to {HYBRIS-DIR}\hybris\config\solr\instances\default.

*Check if the default config has no other configuration files inside. If that is the case, delete also the folder, the ant-task responsible of the solr instance only check that the folder exists, not the content. If the there is no folder with default configuration, it will copy it again.

*restart hybris.

A: In my case with Hybris 6.7 embedded solr , I checked the solr logs (@"hybris\log\solr\instances\default\solr.log") and fixed the issue on solr. Then started Hybris Server successfully.
So the right way to troubleshoot is to see first why SOLR startup is failing by checking it logs.

A: Well as it clearly says error while creating bean with name default so or server service..so it a straight says bean error ..need to fix if there.without anything.like adding properties.

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I've often wondered why James thought to include the part about keeping "oneself unstained by the world." As I've begun serving in Local Outreach ministries, however, I'm beginning to understand why it's there. Mercy ministries, like visiting orphans and widows, are good things—things even the world looks on with approval. But if mercy ministry is to be Christian ministry, we must serve while laboring to keep ourselves unstained by the world. We do this by keeping the gospel at the center of our service.
This is what I appreciate about the Pregnancy Resource Center of the San Fernando Valley (PRC). The PRC exists to help women (and men) faced with unexpected pregnancies by offering free services, education, ultrasound, and baby clothes and furniture. At the same time, they offer biblically‐based pregnancy and parenting classes, along with Bible studies for those grieving past abortions. These resources provide practical helps so that these young parents are better equipped to choose life for their babies.
But what makes this ministry distinctly Christian is that the gospel of Christ is central to all they do. Each time a PRC counselor meets with a young woman, she asks about her spiritual beliefs and attempts to speak with her about spiritual things. These women often feel used, abandoned, helpless, and scared. Many times, they have engaged in sinful behavior because they believe it will satisfy their desires to be happy and fulfilled. But the satisfaction they long for is found only in Jesus Christ, in whose presence are found fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore (Psalm 16:11). PRC counselors seek to turn these women away from their sin, which can never satisfy, and point them to Christ for the forgiveness of sins and a restored relationship with their Creator.
Something we don't often hear about is how men are affected by this issue as well. A father has few rights when it comes to an unborn child. If a woman wants an abortion, there is little he can do. In other cases, the man may be the one pressing for an abortion. The PRC has male counselors who are available to meet with these men and help them learn about fetal development, the risks of abortion, biblical leadership, and how to make God‐honoring choices.
The PRC is going through some very exciting changes.
First and foremost, they are in the process of becoming a licensed medical clinic. This won't change what they do, but it will allow them to offer ultrasound exams to many more clients. Pregnancy Centers that are medical clinics see a substantial increase in the number of women they serve. This, in turn, increases their credibility with the medical community and brings more referrals.
In addition to becoming a licensed clinic, the PRC is working on relocating to be near California State University, Northridge, sometime this spring. They are negotiating on a high‐visibility building positioned near restaurants and businesses frequented by university students. Once these changes are implemented, their goal is to deliver the message of life to 50% more abortion‐vulnerable women.
Grace Church has been supportive of the Pregnancy Resource Center since before its doors opened 20 years ago, and we will continue to encourage our church family to be involved. As a Christian ministry, the PRC depends on the Christian community for support and volunteers. If you're interested in mercy ministry, the PRC is a great place to serve, unstained by the world.


Over the next few weeks here on Master Teaching, you'll read answers to the question: What does the Sermon on the Mount teach you about being a teacher who follows the Master Teacher?
I bow my knees before Your throne; I fix my eyes on You.
Thank you for blessing me beyond measure in my profession, by my students, with colleagues.
Bless my students who are poor.
Bring justice to the ones who are ignored and forgotten, oppressed, abused, or persecuted.
Calm their anxious hearts. May they find rest for their weary souls.
Bind up their broken spirits.
Give favor to those who are humble and gentle.
Fill up their hungry bodies, minds, and hearts.
When they taste salt in me, may they be thirsty for You.
Will you light their way out of darkness?
May my students and I know that we are poor in spirit so that the Kingdom may be ours.
May we humbly mourn over sin before Your throne, Comforter.
May our hearts be pure as we see You.
May we live in mercy and flourish under Your sovereignty.
Like You feed the birds of the air, feed my students and feed me, Bread of Life.
As you clothe the lilies of the field, clothe us with Your righteousness.
Make me salty from the inside out; may Your light shine from my heart to theirs.
Help me to be a haven of rest for them, a broker of peace between them and others, between them and You.
Fill me up so that I can pour myself out for my students, on Your behalf.
May they see You in me and glorify Your name.
Help me to be merciful toward my students, colleagues, and others as You are merciful toward me.
Help me to see the beam in my own eye rather than nitpicking at the splinter in theirs.
May we be gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.
When we fail, turn our failures into growth and good and glory.
Forgive me when I shine a light on me and my good deeds.
Help me to be light for Your glory, always and in everything.
Forgive me when I play into our broken earthly systems.
Heal me so that I can help put the pieces back together.
Forgive me when I try to add hours to my life by worrying.
Calm my anxious heart; help me to rest in you.
Forgive me when I babble on, trying to pray You onto my page.
Help me to pray my way onto Your page, to pray until surrender happens.
Inspiring as always. Are you the author this time?
This entry was posted on October 5, 2016 by LEAPAsia in sermon on the mount, teacher lectionary.


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Although international definitions of early childhood repeatedly refer to a birth-8 age span, there are complex, institutional divides within this age range. This paper explores the divide between pre-compulsory and compulsory early childhood institutions. In countries such as Finland this divide is not such an issue because children do not begin formal schooling until age seven or eight. However, in Australia these 8 years include both pre-compulsory programs (often birth-5) and compulsory schooling. We argue that in situations where the early years of compulsory school are included in a country's definitions of early childhood, they often occupy a tenuous place in research, policy and practice. Drawing from the history of early childhood education in South Australia, we explore the place that the early years of school have occupied in early childhood discourse, policy and practice and then consider some contemporary state-based and national reforms. Our hope is that by considering the South Australian past, the paper may provide a space from which to advocate for policies and structures that uphold specialist expertise and leadership in the early years of schooling.