The Producers' Village is my favourite part of the BBC Good Food Show Winter and it is great to catch up with familiar faces and say hello to new exhibitors. Each year more independent producers and retailers are taking part and if you want to #shoplocal here is where to find some great regional foodies.
Back for a second time The Baking Housewife from Birmingham is giving a taste of the Caribbean on stand D42 with her rum cake and sorrel cordial, which from the New Year you can also buy online.
Northampton's Angelina Cupcakes is pretty in pink at the Bakes & Cakes village with confections that include pecan and pumpkin.
The drunken panattone or giant tubes of ameretti biscuits from Arden's Fine Foods on E132 will make great stocking fillers.
Making her debut as a BBC Good Food Show Winter is Producers' Bursary Award winner Pip's Hot Sauces from Moseley. Look out for her fiery (and festive) red stand in the Producers Village G102.
Farringtons cold pressed rapeseed oil is on the mellow yellow stand F60 with new gift boxes for Christmas featuring rapeseed oil, chilli oil and a mustard dressing.
Warwickshire's Purity Ales have stocked up on Christmas gift packs at B102.
The Caribbean restaurant chain Turtle Bay opens in Birmingham today. I went to the Leamington Spa launch party last month with bloggers @glamourcounty and @EnglandGourmand to sample cocktails and canapés and listen to a great band.
If you hanker for jerk chicken, salt fish fritters and johnnycake then you're in luck. The landlocked Midlands offer a taste of island delights with a Caribbean supper club, street food traders, restaurants and even a Caribbean influenced afternoon tea.
The Carib Grill in Moseley, Big Nannys in the Jewellery Quarter and the Tan Rosie supper club have all built their reputations on offering authentic Caribbean cuisine served with a warm welcome in Birmingham.
Over in Coventry, nestled in the secluded courtyard of 2Tone Village, is 2 Tone Cafe and Simmer Down restaurant. This BETAYou added 2 Tone Cafe & Simmer Down Restaurant to your Saves listfamily run café is home of the jerk sausage with all day breakfasts and 'home' style cuisine.
Jamrock's street food van was at the Rugby Food and Drink Festival last year, but their home is Wellingborough Northampton, where they also have a new restaurant.
For something completely different how about a Caribbean afternoon tea? Zacks claims to be Birmingham's first Caribbean coffee shop, serving sustainably grown, ethically farmed, organic coffee through a partnership with Marley Coffee.
Alongside cakes, sandwiches, paninis and Caribbean special hot dish of the day the café also hosts an afternoon tea. Twice a month twenty four lucky diners get to enjoy a Saturday afternoon of a quintessential English afternoon tea with Caribbean flavours for £12 per person. Brie and guava jam, chicken and avocado, cucumber sandwiches; jerk chicken skewers, plantain or sweet potato skewers; ginger or lime cooler, banana bread, chocolate brownie, freshly baked scones with rum Chantilly cream and Zacks pineapple jam are all on the menu at 12.30pm and 3.30pm. Well worth a trip out to Sutton Coldfield!
The Royal Pump Room Gardens were crammed with 100 stalls over the weekend for the Leamington Spa Food & Drink Festival.
A refreshing lemonade from the solar-powered The Electric Lemon was worth the queue.
Jabberwocky had a new crab, crème fraiche and wilted spinach toastie on the menu, which I had to try.
Caribbean sauces from the lovely Tan Rosie in Birmingham.
Following a successful launch in May, the Midlands Arts Centre is running their Food Market monthly starting from 29th July.
jACKrABBIT – – Ideas and products for growing, preserving and cooking home grown produce.
Squisito – Homemade Italian food.
Beans and Leaves – Speciality coffee and tea blends.
Yummie Brummie collective including Urban Harvest, Miss Macaroon, Devenish Girl Bakery and Albert's bread.
Beez neez – Quality local honey.
From 10.30am – 3.30pm, the Food Market will then run on 26th August, 30th September, 28th October & 25th November.


After a third place finish in the Lone Star Conference championships, the Lions men and women cross country teams will be in the regional arena Nov. 7 in the South Central Regional meet.
The South Central Regional will bring teams together in Canyon, Texas with goals to qualify for national competition.
The senior duo of Tori Lenz and Mary Hammonds look to keep their chemistry going as they lead the women's team.
Leading the men is senior Luis "Ricky" Romero.


CET APPARTEMENT COMPREND UNE ENTREE, UN SEJOUR AVEC CANAPE, LA TABLE ET SES CHAISES, UN TELEVISEUR ET UNE GRANDE OUVERTURE SUR LA LOGGIA AVEC PETIT TABLE ET CHAISES. UNE KITCHENETTE EQUIPEE (MINI-FOUR, MICRO ONDES, LAVE LINGE, LAVE VAISSELLE, GRILLE PAIN, CAFETIERE, ET BOUILLOIRE) AVEC UNE FENETRE DONNANT SUR LA LOGGIA.
UNE CHAMBRE AVEC UN LIT DEUX PERSONNES ET TOUR DE LIT. COIN CABINE AVEC UN CANAPE LIT TYPE FUTON 130X190 ET UN LIT MEZZANINE UNE PERSONNE. UNE SALLE D'EAU AVEC DOUCHE ET UN WC SEPARE.


2014 was a strong year for UK tourism. Not only did we see record breaking numbers of holidaymakers from abroad visit the country, but tourist spending hit the dizzy heights of £21.7 billion – three per cent up on 2013 and a record in both nominal and real terms.
Building on the success of last year's tourism boom, the industry has enjoyed a solid start to 2015, but holiday park operators remain cautiously optimistic.
Latest figures from the International Passenger Survey show that overall visitor numbers for the first three months of this year were up by one per cent compared to 2014, while UK-based holidays have seen an increase of four per cent.
"The industry in general is reporting steady performance across all business fronts and is optimistic about future prospects in the short to medium term," says Bob Hill, sites director at The Camping and Caravanning Club.
"There is growth across most aspects of the sector and the majority of operators are reporting an increase in consumer confidence." "These are very positive times for the holiday park industry," comments Dan Steadman, sales and marketing director of Hoburne Holiday Parks, that operates seven holiday park sites.
Britain's holiday parks industry, comprising more than 3500 parks in total, plays an important role in the country's economy.
The sector provides one in six of all holiday bed-nights in Britain each year and generates a huge £2.26 billion annual turnover - with the vast majority of the cash being funnelled by park visitors into local businesses.
For many such local enterprises, tourism is crucial for their survival and ability to sustain jobs. Parks are estimated to provide some fifteen percent – a total of 53,000 - of all full-time and seasonal tourism-dependent jobs in Britain.
The majority, some 95 percent of UK parks are family-owned businesses, some with farming histories stretching back over generations and for which tourism is now a much more realistic alternative to the declining agricultural industry. The sector also comprises a number of extremely successful holiday park groups including Haven Holidays, Park Resorts and Park Holidays UK.
"While it has been a strong start to the year, there is no complacency among BH&HPA; members and nobody assumes that the main factors which influence our sector and UK tourism as a whole – principally the economy and the weather – are always going to take our side," says Henry Wild, national chairman of the British Holiday and Home Parks Association (BH&HPA;).
It should be remembered that the term 'the industry' pulls together a diverse range of businesses from small farm-based parks with a handful of touring pitches to major multi-park operators with incomes dependent on holiday homes sales and rentals. Some of these parks may be affected by factors to which others are immune. For example, a touring park in a remote part of the country may see rising car fuel costs as its chief enemy – while parks with holiday homes to buy might find that lending restrictions by banks are putting a ceiling on the number of people able to take out personal loans to fund their second home purchase.
"It's important to use both experience and common sense to try and determine what changes are likely to be in the park's long-term interests, and which are unlikely to have any lasting impact," says Henry.


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< Teacher 4 > But there are those who can see through the veil or feel through the veil, and there are ones on the other side (near realms) right now - deliberate and very specific groups - who are working very hard right now to maintain the old balance and the old separation. I don't want to say this is a conspiracy. It is just a group. It is just entities of similar consciousnesses, entities of similar agenda, and much of the work that they are doing right now is deliberately influencing mass consciousness and therefore deliberately influencing what you do and sometimes even what you think.
< Teacher 4 > These groups on the other side (near realms) who have a very strong agenda about maintaining the separation of masculine and feminine are influencing those who are church leaders, unbeknownst to the church leaders, for so many of them do have good intentions and good hearts, but because of their own imbalance of masculine and feminine, they are vulnerable. They are susceptible to the energies from the other side.
< Teacher 4 > The extent of these energies and these influences from the nonphysical realms (near realms) should not be overlooked by any of you because they are deliberately trying to keep Earth from moving into the New Energy and they are deliberately trying to keep humans from integrating or melding their masculine and feminine back together. The influence is strong right now and it is getting stronger every day, and it is going to be something that every one of you is going to feel in these next few weeks of time and even over the next eight or nine months of time. It is my task, my job, to come here and discuss this with you, not from a standpoint of fear, because there is nothing that these energies can do.
< Teacher 4 > If you are totally whole and you are totally into your own self, knowing who you are, there is nothing that I can do, nothing that I can take. Entities on the other side are no smarter and no more talented than humans here, but they play tricks because you can't see them. They play tricks and they try to instill fear in you. They will play games because they play deliberately with the minds of humans. You see, the very ones who are on the invisible realm have been humans before, for the most part, so they understand what it is like. They understand how to manipulate, how to invoke fear, how to come in so subtly that you don't even know it's their thought in your mind.
< Teacher 4 > They (order in the near realms) do this all the time, all the time Shaumbra. Ultimately, most humans, because they tend to be a little bit thick headed, don't let it affect them overly in their lives. But right now it's heating up. Right now the pressure is stronger and stronger. Between now and the end of the year, in particular, each of you is going to be challenged three or four times by these energies, and I want you to understand that there is nothing that they can do to you.
< Teacher 4 > They (order in the near realms) will try to trick you into thinking that you are inadequate. They will try to trick you into thinking that there is something inherently wrong with you. They will try to trick you into thinking that there is nothing you can do to effect your own life. They love playing in this whole energy of destiny and they love playing in the energy of this false God that you have.
< Teacher 4 > These entities (order in the near realms) on the other realms, in the invisible realms, are doing a wonderful job of marketing this old God. They are doing a wonderful job with the way it controls people, the way it brings people to fear, the way it intimidates them and the way it limits their life. There is a deliberate attempt to do that, and they have their partners who are in physical body on Earth.
< Teacher 4 > Oftentimes the ones (their partners) on Earth who are carrying out the same message simply don't know any better. They became hypnotized. They started preaching all of this rubbish, spewing it out to humans basically to keep them in the old divided energies of masculine and feminine. And they're going to continue to do it. In a sense you could say they have their own order on the other side, highly organized, very broad and they know exactly how to manipulate individual and group consciousness.
< Teacher 4 > Don't go overboard with this Shaumbra, in any type of worrying or trying to figure out who's doing what to whom. This is a very personal thing we're talking to you about today. We're telling you this because particularly as a group of Shaumbra, enlightened human beings and individuals as you are, you're going to feel the effects - not only feel it all around you - but you're going to feel it right in you.
< Teacher 4 > It is almost like a laser beam coming through from the other realms and it's going to cut right through some of the old blockages, some of the old ways that people kept out energy from their consciousness. And it's going to cut right through into many of you as well. You're not immune from it. You're not immune from these tremendous amounts of very powerful and deliberate streams of consciousness being sent to Earth right now from those in the nonphysical realms. But you can let it pass right through you. You don't have to let it affect you. You don't have to let it freeze you in your tracks.
< Teacher 4 > How do you know it's there? How do you know it's around? The first thing it does is confuse. It comes in and confuses you about right decisions, wrong decisions to the point where you make no decision at all. Not only that but then you blame yourself. You say that you're indecisive. You say that you cannot make a decision. You blame yourself for being weak. You say you are filled with fear. Shaumbra it is not about you. Blow it right through. Let it pass right on by. You know who you were when I asked you today for permission to come into your body, and your mind, and your spirit, and your gnost. As we're sitting here together in a safe space, and you know I would not manipulate you. And even if I tried to, you know yourself enough that you'd just let it pass right through.
< Teacher 4 > These energies coming from the other realms, as I said, are very vested into the old division of masculine and feminine. They are sending so much energy to Earth right now that it is causing things like battles and wars and it is causing people to go crazy. When one person goes crazy, when one person loses their mind, ends up in a mental hospital, that's more than just that one person. It affects the balance of human consciousness - mass consciousness - and that is exactly what these beings, what this order on the other side is trying to do right now. They are trying to affect and hold back mass consciousness.
< Teacher 4 > And you could ask yourself why, what is the agenda? Aren't they enlightened beings on the other side? Not particularly. Some of them feel very righteous in what they're doing. They feel that this essential split of the soul into masculine and feminine was the fault of one or the others of the energies, and that if these two energies of masculine/feminine reunite, that one in particular - the feminine - will try to now dominate and annihilate the masculine energy. They don't truly understand about energy balances. They don't understand about the reunion. They are so into their own consciousness, into their own hypnosis, that they're playing out this drama.
< Teacher 4 > They could feel that something is happening on Earth, that things are speeding up, so they've intensified their efforts. When energy gets very intense like that, it has a habit of finding the weakest link in the chain - the ones who are pompous, the ones who are egotistical are easy to influence. Leaders who carry so much weight and responsibility that it makes them personally weak in themselves, they are very susceptible to these energies. Anybody who is imbalanced to a large degree in their own masculine and feminine, for instance let's take a priest - very much into a masculine only energy - they become very vulnerable as well.
< Teacher 4 > As you see this intensify all around you and you even feel it within yourself, take that deep breath, remember who you are. Remember there is not a being, no matter how grand or powerful they are, there is not a being on the other side who can do anything to you. They have no dominion or rule over you, no matter what they say. They have no influence on your soul, no matter what they say.
< Teacher 4 > You're in the process of birthing right now. During this birthing process of yourself, you become very vulnerable in a way. You are birthing the united reunited energies of the masculine and feminine for yourself. You are birthing what you could say would be your own next lifetime, but not a lifetime that you've been used to, not a lifetime where you come into a physical body. You're birthing the next grand aspect of yourself, the next version of your own consciousness. Right now it's in a gestation process, but soon that birthing is going to take place, and as you guessed for most of you, that next level of birthing takes place in September 2007.
< Teacher 4 > During the birthing process you are the mother and the father to yourself. During this birthing process you are bringing up grand creative energies from every part of you and they're all flowing into the new birthing of self. This is something that the forces who choose to remain in duality, choose to keep masculine and feminine separate, do not want to see at all, because what you are truly doing is reuniting your masculine and feminine together and giving birth to the new you which is neither masculine nor feminine.
< Teacher 4 > So there is a very deep concern from those who choose to remain back in the Old Energy whether they are living as human beings on Earth right now or whether they are without physical body in what you would call the invisible realms, they don't want to see this new birth of yourself take place. They have literally sent out their energies and their scouts to try to find where this birthing is taking place, to try to find and destroy this new process that is taking place - your process.
< Teacher 4 > They're going to come into your dreams at night and they are going to terrorize you. They are going to try to wear you down. They're going to try to fool you and manipulate you. They're going to tell you that this whole spiritual journey that you have been on is nothing more than a bunch of psychological hogwash. They are going to tell you all of these things because they are charged with destroying this new birthing of yourself. Once a very small number of humans are able to do this new birthing that is without duality - it is an expanded consciousness that does not contain elements of duality - once this happens Shaumbra, it is going to be very, very, very difficult to stop the rest of the energies, to stop the masculine and the feminine from coming back together.
< Teacher 4 > So you can see why they are very concerned, why they do not want you or anyone else to have this reunion. You can see why I took a sabbatical to go off by myself, to integrate my masculine and feminine. I still have those attributes. I have dealt with them in a very balanced way, but I still contain these elements of duality. It is important for me to take the time to recognize both of them, to honor the grand king and the grand queen within, to allow this new love making between them to take place in order to birth the new I AM of I AM.
< Teacher 4 > Let go of the small things in your life right now. That is where they love to affect you. They get you caught in the small things, in the details. Why? Because it consumes tremendous amounts of energy and it keeps you from having an overview. They get you caught in little things, little tiny points that are meaningless. Take a look at some of the minutia that you get caught in. Is it really important? Is it really essential or is an energy manipulating you to make you think that it's important. Don't get caught in the small stuff. Right now in these times, as I said before, remember who you are. You say, well how do I do that? Well you take a deep breath. You are divine. You are sovereign. That's all you have to remember. Everything else is rather insignificant.
< Teacher 4 > Keep a clear mind, Shaumbra. Keep a clear spirit. As I said they tend to work in the levels of confusion. They are even, as you can tell sitting here now, deliberately trying to confuse the energies of our Shoud together, trying to throw it off, trying to spin your head as they're doing with some of you. It's not my energy doing that. I am deep within you. I am part of you right now. But the energies from the outside will come in and make you nauseous, make you confused, make you irritable and edgy. That is how they work. You simply go back to remembering who you are and why you're here right now. There ultimately is nothing that they can do. Nothing that they can do.
< Teacher 4 > And I say "they" ... and you say, well who is they. It is not just one person. It is actually not even just one group. It is those who are very invested into the old separation of masculine and feminine. There are many, many, many entities on the other side who are vested into that. There's also energies on the other side that are like the great lost group. Many of them, they don't even know they are a group they're so lost. They are just hovering around the other realms. They are - if you feel their energy for a moment ... they are not evil, they are not bad, they are just lost and confused.
< Teacher 4 > Many of them have been on Earth before and were so traumatized by events. Some of them just linger around the near realms, but it is a gray energy. It is a lifeless energy. They are lost, they are wandering and they are confused. They are part of this whole energy right now. They don't want to see anything change. They don't want to see any evolution in energy because they are so much into being lost. And their energy has a direct influence on you as well.
< Teacher 4QA > The outside pressures that are trying to confuse you, trying to keep you in duality, trying to make you feel low and worthless, trying to make you feel that the masculine and feminine are incompatible when you see it in examples in your everyday life. Married men and women who can't get along. Your parents possibly who didn't get along. You have so many examples of how it didn't work that you're afraid to try it within yourself. Your afraid that one will try to dominate the other, one will make the other suffer. Shaumbra, let go of those old ideas and allow this blessed and sacred reunion and re-melding of the masculine/feminine to take place.
< Teacher 4QA > One of the things that is going to be very important in this process for you to do personally is to make decisions. This energy of separation and confusion has it so you find it very difficult and challenging to make any decisions, and by default then the decisions are made for you by mass consciousness, by your old ghosts and demons or by things outside of you. Once you assume or re-assume authority of yourself as a sovereign being and start making decisions, this energy from the outside sources will blow right through you. It will keep you unaffected. You won't be diminished by any of these energies that are trying to hold back this reunion of masculine and feminine.

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Last weekend I received my LSAT score back and it was not what I had expected. It got me thinking about what I really like doing and to a greater extent what I want to do.
Lately I have been obsessed with words of the day on various online dictionaries and one of my favourites Wiktionary had the word "tranquil" on Saturday when I first opened by LSAT score e-mail. It became a matter if irony of that words full definition in relation to the experiences of the weekend.
Wiktionary defines it as "Free from emotional or mental disturbance." which has firmly been at odds with my passions, in fact I have had to turn down many paths to make this transition fit. Paths that would have led more to the path that destiny seems to have written.
In the class Modern Europe History: Renaissance to the French Revolution one of the main figures in Protestant Reformation is John Calvin. John believes that our salvation or destiny is predetermined to the extent that our actions cannot make a difference and that we can cannot fight nature. Which is interesting with tranquil or brought further tranquility the calm inspired by nature, can further derive that by fighting nature will prove fatal.
It brings us all to finding a balance or equilibrium in our path. Economics also agrees greatly with this matter. When Dr. Young C. Jing started the first class of Intermediate Macroeconomics, it was an example of the Marginal Costs and benefits of going to School at a younger age, which is a surreal example if the way things are at with my life at this moment in time.


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Everything about Mark Fawzy, from his taut muscles to his overall demeanour and energy, screams CrossFit. It's difficult to picture him ever doing anything as mundane as finance or branding. Those experiences would, however, prove invaluable when a wet logbook inspired Fawzy to launch BoxChamp – an app designed to bring together fitness centres and their members.
We recently got the chance to sit down with Fawzy and talk about the BoxChamp journey, using technology to allow businesses to focus on what they're good at, and going international.
Looking at Fawzy's early career, there was little to indicate that he would come to be an entrepreneur in the fitness tech space.
After completing a Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com), Fawzy studied marketing at renowned Cape Town advertising school, Red & Yellow. After a year-and-a-half in media, he joined the founding team at BOS Ice Tea, a soft drink company based in Cape Town which has expanded into international markets and counts former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Fergusson among its investors. According to Fawzy, this experience was "awesome", because "it was a new brand and sparked a whole load of passion in building something from the ground up".
From there, he returned to his roots, going back into finance. Around the same time, he got into CrossFit, the branded fitness regimen created in the late 1990s and which has exploded in popularity over the past decade.
A dedicated follower of the discipline, Fawzy always carried a logbook with him to workouts, marking his progress. After his book got wet one day, he tried to find an app that would allow him to properly log his scores.
Coming away frustrated, he decided to go down the path taken by so many entrepreneurs before him and build the solution he always wanted.
Reasoning that if he wanted an app that allowed him to manage and track his progress, others would too, Fawzy launched BoxChamp. Applying his financial nous, however, he realised that it would take more than that to turn the app into a viable business.
From a gym member point of view, the app also includes the ability to book classes, a virtual whiteboard with a live feed of athlete performances as they're logged, and a nutrition log which lets you keep track of what you eat and drink throughout the day.
The gyms themselves meanwhile can manage and track their athletes, get attendance reports, and even accept payments through the platform.
Including those features was not, however, just the result of business savvy. Fawzy and his team put "a whole lot of research and development" into the app. "I spoke to quite a lot of people in the industry and made some connections," Fawzy told us, "and through networking, I met a lot of the most influential people in CrossFit in South Africa and I got their backing and their buy-in for the concept".
"What started out as just a performance tracking platform, has now morphed into a full on one stop shop, all-in-one business management solution for fitness facilities," he said.
The features aimed at the gyms were a particular masterstroke. They were a recognition that most gym owners (like all business people) would rather not have to do all the admin necessary to do the thing they love.
"Gym owners are inherently, in general, not really business people," Fawzy told us. "They're passionate about coaching, passionate about fitness, but when it comes to the business side, they don't really have time for the admin. There's a lot of admin tasks that we take off their hands and simplify so that they can do what they're actually passionate about".
That can actually be to the benefit of the business too. "The whole idea is actually building better fitness businesses, which ends up resulting in better coaching, more fit people, and more active people," Fawzy said.
While Fawzy told us that the BoxChamp team will continue building features onto the app, he said that the focus right now is on increasing its international presence.
That's more complicated than it seems. For one, you have to integrate payment gateways to facilitate payments all over the world for things like gym memberships and merchandise.
BoxChamp is also, however, looking for big brand partnerships. It's already inked a deal with Reebok – sponsor of the CrossFit Games – which it's trying to solidify. Part of that, Fawzy told us, includes "gamifying the platform to engage people more with their brand".
Coming from South Africa, which has a comparatively weak currency, Fawzy believes BoxChamp has a clear advantage over the competition.
"Overseas, we've got a major cost advantage, that's one of the things that puts us ahead of our competition," Fawzy said. "With the South African Rand and with the cost of resources in South Africa, we are able to provide the product at a competitive price point internationally".
"Because we're also a bit smaller than established international platforms, we're more agile," he told us. "So we can see what everyone's doing and we can adapt at the moment to see what gaps they aren't filling, what the deal breakers are, and what's going to make a difference internationally".
BoxChamp isn't just looking to expand internationally though, it's also moving beyond the CrossFit niche it originally filled.
While Fawzy acknowledges that focusing on a niche was initially very important, he does believe that there's room for BoxChamp in other verticals.
"I think it was great to go quite deep into one category and do it well and I think that we'll still remain with a focus on CrossFit," he told us, "because we also form a bond with the CrossFit gym owner to show them that we actually provide something that's specific to their needs".
In saying that, he added, "we also identify that there are other verticals that need our product and would be more than happy to use it".
It's already started happening too, with BoxChamp having inked deals with South African boxing gym Fight Club and electro muscle stimulation (EMS) outfit Body20.
"The runnings of a CrossFit gym, as opposed to the runnings of a Yoga studio as opposed to a boxing gym or a functional fitness studio are very much the same across the board," Fawzy told us.
While Fawzy's business acumen is clear, what shines through most visibly when interviewing him is his passion for his chosen path. He genuinely believes that BoxChamp can help address some of the misconceptions around CrossFit, by enabling gym owners to do their jobs better, in turn creating better athletes.
"The better a business is, as a gym, the more people will join, and the more active people will be." he told us.
His ultimate hope for those athletes? That they'll focus more on improving themselves than on the competition.
That's something wholly in line with his understanding of the CrossFit movement.
"CrossFit made fitness measurable in so many ways," he told us. "So every time you log a score, the following time you do that exercise, you remember exactly what you did and you beat that score and that's how we see progress".
"It's a lot of competitiveness amongst peer groups, but it's also just focusing on yourself, on progress in your own performance".


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Manage>DevOps
Why Site Reliability Engineering Is Key to Modern DevOps
Among the hottest areas of growth in DevOps is the emerging field of site reliability engineering as organizations look to bake reliability into the earliest stages of the software development cycle.
Sean Michael Kerner | Mar 01, 2021
DevOps is all about integrating different skill sets, including development and operations, into a cohesive workflow.
An increasingly important element of the DevOps model is site reliability engineering (SRE). In a session at the Interop Digital 2020 event last October, Jayne Groll, CEO of the DevOps Institute, said site reliability engineers are becoming more in demand for DevOps. Like most areas of technology, there is a lot of nuances to the practice of site reliability engineering, how it relates to the broader topic of DevOps and the best practices for success.
While SRE is now a hot area, it's one that has been building for the last several years.
Tammy Butow has had the title of site reliability engineer since October 2015, first for two years at Dropbox and for the last three years at chaos engineering vendor Gremlin. As an SRE, Butow has a number of responsibilities, including performing postmortems on outages and improving the mean time to respond to issues, she told ITPro Today. As an SRE, Butow said she prefers getting involved as early as possible in the application development process to help bake service reliability into the core architecture of a project.
"I think that over time, there will be more and more site reliability engineers and more job opportunities as it's really a growing area," Butow said.
The Intersection of DevOps and SRE
There is some debate about how DevOps and site reliability engineering principles intersect, or if they should be separate domains.
Leonid Belkind, co-founder and CTO of reliability startup StackPulse, told ITPro Today that he defines site reliability engineering as an implementation of DevOps principles intended to make software services resilient.
Kit Merker, chief operating officer of Nobl9, another reliability startup, told ITPro Today that the terms "DevOps" and "SRE" are often conflated or misused. While SRE and DevOps share similar principles, Merker said his firm is seeing SRE practitioners popping up everywhere who are taking a very focused approach to improving reliability of software services.
"SRE is specifically focused on meeting business-defined service-level objectives [SLOs] consistently and efficiently, while DevOps has become a more general term for developer infrastructure and infrastructure automation," he said.
Where SRE Fits Into the Development Lifecycle
In Belkind's view, site reliability engineering begins at the earliest stages of the software development lifecycle—at the planning and architecture stage—and then "injects" itself into every step on the way. Having reliability deeply integrated into the development process is what allows it to be efficient, he added.
"Think about it, what is easier: taking a system that has been developed without any prior thought on its reliability in production and trying to make it reliable, or thinking of how we can make sure it is reliable all the way through planning, development, delivery, refactoring, etc.?" Belkind asked.
Merker shares the notion that SRE needs to be deeply integrated into product development. In modern development, reliability has become a core product feature, he said.
"If you don't define the reliability of a service clearly, you can't engineer a solution that meets those needs," Merker said.
Using Service-Level Objectives to Measure Reliability
According to Belkind, the industry-accepted framework for measuring the reliability of software services is service-level objectives. These objectives have to be connected to business objectives, such as the availability and service level for users for a given service or application.
"The quality of site reliability is then measured in improvement in the service-level objectives as a function of cost," Belkind said. "Efficient site reliability engineering processes introduce more improvement in SLOs for less cost for the organization."
In Merker's view, the most critical metric for SRE is measuring whether an organization's customers are actually happy with the service that is being delivered.
"You also want to know how many near-miss outages you are preventing before they happen, before they impact users," he said.
Best Practices for SRE
In terms of best practices for SRE, Merker recommends that the first step be clearly defining the reliability goals for each service and then figuring out how much unreliability the organization can tolerate while still delivering an excellent experience to end customers.
"By setting clear, realistic standards of reliability, usually expressed in service-level objectives, an organization can start to run faster while exceeding customer expectations," Merker said.
For Belkind, the best practices for enabling SRE involve both technical and cultural aspects within the organization. While there are many similarities between organizations that have fully adopted site reliability engineering, every organization ends up finding the right balance that fits its business model and technological stack, he said.
"The biggest hurdle in adopting site reliability engineering is an inability to change the culture," Belkind said.
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Support and Defend the Constitution
I call upon all the volunteers who feel to support the Constitution from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean to come with their arms, ammunition, and defend the Constitution.Joseph Smith
Source: William Clayton Diary, as quoted in The Words of Joseph Smith page 384
About this Quote
This is one of the last known public discourses of Joseph Smith. He would die at the hands of a mob a little more than a week after this, on June 27, 1844. Tensions were very high, as evidenced in Joseph's words. In the prior weeks, angry mobs from nearby towns had gathered and begun to threaten the Latter-day Saints, infuriated by the destruction of the printing press of the anti-Mormon newspaper, the Expositor, by Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo city council. Joseph was also still fighting extradition to Missouri where he was wanted in connection with crimes he did not commit, charges he had been battling for many years.
Joseph believed he was innocent of any crime, and he felt he and the Latter-day Saints had endured the loss of many of the most basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. Given the violence the Saints had suffered, the call to arms by Joseph seems understandable. William Clayton does, clarify, however, that "he urged them in strong terms not to shed innocent blood.—not to act in the least on the offensive but invariably in the defensive." For more information, Chapter 44 of Saints, A Lamb to the Slaughter has a great explanation of the events of this time period.
More Context
This quote was written down by William Clayton in his diary, dated 18 June 1844. It describes a meeting on a Tuesday afternoon at the Frame Building near the Mansion House. The diary states, "After Phelps got through General J. Smith addressed the multitude. He briefly explained the object of the mob and showed that they waged a war of extermination upon us because of our religion. He called upon all the volunteers who felt to support the constitution from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean to come with their arms, ammunition & defend the constitution. He called upon them as the Lieutenant General of the N. L (Nauvoo Legion) and Illinois Militia in the name of the Constitution of the U.S., the people of the State of Illinois, and the citizens of Nauvoo."
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I am very new to JBOSS. I have a query with respect to JBOSS.
If I change my Linux box ip/hostname do I need to restart JBOSS or only the regeneration of certificate and updating config file is sufficient.
Jboss version is 4.2 and 6.1.
If you bind against all interfaces with '-b 0.0.0.0' I suppose not but I'm not 100% sure.


Near the Hudson River waterfront, Sony recently hosted an event to show off new games that are coming to the PlayStation VR system. Along the walls of a long, blue-hued room sat various PlayStations, VR headsets and monitors, and each game was demoed by the developers themselves. It was kind of like an amusement park full of games with the creators present to explain how it was all done.
Concrete Genie is a creative, late 2019 adventure game being developed by Pixelopus, a company which includes a staff of young interns because the company is dedicated to bringing more young creators into the world of game design. In Concrete Genie's story, you play as a character named Ash who, with the help of a magic brush, can paint things in his town that magically come to life and help him solve puzzles. I first saw this artful game on the PS4 without virtual reality at PlayStation's New York event last year, and I was utterly consumed with excitement when I learned it was in full VR at this latest event. My enthusiasm was not misplaced – the VR mode for this touching game was absolutely phenomenal. You could paint the game's world in any way you wanted, with vibrant plant life that swayed realistically, shining stars that interacted with the objects around you, even your own Aurora Borealis formation.
I moved on to a very harrowing experience with "Five Nights At Freddy's," a well-known horror game being developed by Scott Cawthon. As a longtime follower of the FNAF franchise, I expected that the VR experience was going to be spine-tingling. FNAF VR: Help Wanted displayed a variety of minigames: one in which you tune the guitar of a creepy animatronic called Bonnie. If you don't follow the deceivingly simple instructions, you die.
I also indulged a minigame that has you repairing a ventilation system while trying to keep Mangle, another animatronic, from entering your security guard lair and killing you. VR definitely improves the Freddy experience. In the original game, the different animatronics would move statically from one camera to another. In VR, which was a timed experience, you sometimes see them walk out of frame and in front of another security camera, which makes the game even more tense and scarier, since you watch them get closer to you.
With the horror factor over, I moved over to something less fear inducing. Trover Saves The Universe is a VR game being developed by Squanch Games with help from Justin Roiland, the co-creator of Rick and Morty. In the story, you are bound to a chair and have to control a hero known as Trover in order to save your two pet dogs, who are being used to power a giant monster. Unsurprisingly, with Justin Roiland involved, Trover is anything but serious as the monster takes your precious dogs and sticks them in his eye holes – before immediately beginning to shoot lasers and rip apart the fabric of reality. How fun. The humor and language are as crude and colorful as can be. Even in the first level, you get cursed out by an old man who just didn't like you and your dogs. Being bound to a chair reminded me a bit of Astrobot, a game I saw at last year's PlayStation event, and I was intrigued by the way the still camera can affect your viewpoint and the way you explore the world. When you can't see certain parts of a level, it makes you want to explore the environment even more.
Going from being stuck in a chair to flying high in the sky is a bit of a shift, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Iron Man VR, developed by a studio called Camouflaj, takes you through a quick training tutorial before launching you into the air and tasking you with fighting off killer robots while you try to save Pepper Potts from a crashing plane. I was surprised that nothing on this game had been leaked since it's been in development for two whole years and, knowing the internet, someone would've at least teased screenshots or models. But the secrets were well kept! The surprise made experience even more awesome, as you got to fly around and blast enemies just like Iron Man would. The controls were fairly simple. But it took me a couple of tries to be accurate with my flying, since I had never played a VR game with flight mechanics before.
Blood And Truth is a first person shooter game for PSVR developed by PlayStation London Studio (well known for their The Getaway series). The action in the game is exciting and realistic. Dust flies and bullets whiz by, but there's an appropriate amount of cover you can hide behind to shield yourself from attackers. Normally, you'd expect that an FPS game would be just another Call of Duty or Battlefield clone. But Blood & Truth is a special case, because the game also has special tools such as lockpicks and other devices to help you reach different parts of the levels. It becomes highly immersive in VR as you have to physically move to do things like climb ladders or holster weapons. Wry British humor keeps the dialog fresh.
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the games I saw there and am now highly enthusiastic about starting to save up my checks in order to buy a PS4 and eventually hook up my own VR set to play around with.
Freshman intern Ronald Gordon is creating the City Tech College chapter of the New York Videogame Critics Circle.


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<?php
namespace Tamizh\LaravelEs;

use Exception;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Illuminate\Pagination\LengthAwarePaginator;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Tamizh\LaravelEs\Traits\ElasticQueryTrait;
use Tamizh\LaravelEs\Exceptions\CrudException;

/**
* Convert Elasticsearch model object query array
*/
class QueryBuilder
{
    use ElasticQueryTrait;
    /**
     * Formed query using elasticsearch model
     * @var array
     */
    protected $query;

    /**
     * Model that need to be converted as query array
     * @var Tamizh\LaravelEs\Elasticsearch
     */
    protected $model;

    /**
     * Elasticsearch client object
     * @var Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder
     */
    public $client;

    /**
     * The main query part in the query array
     * @var array
     */
    protected $internal_query;

    /**
     * The must constraints of the bool query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $musts;

    /**
     * The must not constraint of the bool query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $must_nots;

    /**
     * The should constraints of the bool query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $shoulds;

    /**
     * The should not constraints of the bool query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $should_nots;

    /**
     * The match constraint of the query
     * @var array
     */
    public $constraints = array();

    /**
     * The aggregations of the query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $aggs = [];

    /**
     * The sort constraint of the query
     * @var array
     */
    protected $sort;

    /**
     * Bools array for the query builder
     * @var array
     */
    public $bools = [];

    /**
     * Script array for the query builder
     * @var array
     */
    protected $script;

    /**
     * Limit to clear the scroll memory
     * @var string
     */
    protected $scroll_param;

    /**
     * Result of the current buider
     * @var array
     */
    protected $result;

    /**
     * Collection result of the builder
     * @var Illuminate\Support\Collection
     */
    protected $collection;

    /**
     * Hightlight Array
     * @var array
     */
    protected $highlight;

    /**
     * Filter Array
     * @var array
     */
    protected $filter;

    /**
     * query string functionality
     * @var Tamizh\LaravelES\QueryStringClause
     */
    protected $query_string;

    /**
     * search from a specific type functionality
     * @var Tamizh\LaravelES\QueryStringClause
     */
    protected $fromType;

    /**
     * search from specific indices functionality
     * @var Tamizh\LaravelES\QueryStringClause
     */
    protected $fromIndex;

    /**
     * Initialize the query builder
     * @param Tamizh\LaravelEs\Elasticsearch  $model  Elasticsearch Model
     */
    public function __construct($client)
    {
        $this->client = $client;
        $this->query['body'] = [
            'query' => []
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Compile Constrint clause for multi_match
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause $constraint
     * @return constraint array
     */
    public function compileMultiMatch($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition['fields'] = $constraint->field;
        $condition['query'] = $constraint->condition;
        $condition['type'] = $constraint->search_clause_type;
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Compile Constrint clause for match
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause $constraint
     * @return constraint array
     */
    public function compileMatch($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition[$constraint->field] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Compile Constrint clause for match_phrase
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause $constraint
     * @return constraint array
     */
    public function compileMatchPhrase($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition[$constraint->field] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Compile the constraint clause for match_phrase_prefix
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause $constraint  $constraint
     * @return  constraint array
     */
    public function compileMatchPhrasePrefix($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition[$constraint->field] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Compile terms constraint clause
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause  $constraint  Constraint Clause
     * @return  array  condition array
     */
    public function compileTerms($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition[$constraint->field] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    public function compileExists($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition['field'] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    public function compileRange($constraint)
    {
        $condition = array();
        $condition[$constraint->field] = $constraint->condition;
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Form and return the query from elasticsearch model
     * @return array  Elasticsearch query array
     */
    public function get()
    {
        return $this->getCollection($this->getRaw());
    }

    /**
     * Return First model from the current query collection
     * @return mixed  Model or null
     */
    public function first()
    {
        $collection = $this->get();
        return count($collection) ? $collection[0] : null;
    }

    public function paginate($perPage, $page = 1)
    {
        // set the size and from parameters as per the pagination
        $this->size($perPage);
        $this->from($perPage)->from(($page - 1) * $perPage);
        $raw = $this->getRaw();
        return new LengthAwarePaginator($this->getCollection($raw)->forPage(1, $perPage), $raw['hits']['total'], $perPage, $page);
    }

    /**
     * Create collection by the current query result
     * @param  array  $result  Array of result
     * @return  Illuminate\Support\Collection
     */
    protected function getCollection($result)
    {
        $collection = new Collection();
        foreach ($this->generateModels($result) as $model) {
            $collection->push($model);
        }
        return $collection;
    }

    /**
     * Generate Models based on the current result
     * @param  array  $result  Raw result of current query
     * @return  array  Array of models
     */
    protected function generateModels($result)
    {
        $model_array = [];
        foreach ($result['hits']['hits'] as $hit) {
            $model = $this->generateModel($hit);
            array_push($model_array, $model);
        }
        return $model_array;
    }

    /**
     * Generate Model based on the given hit
     * @param  array  $hit  Single Raw result of current query
     * @return  Object  model
     */
    protected function generateModel($hit)
    {
        $model = new $this->model;
        $model->_index = $hit['_index'];
        $model->_type = $hit['_type'];
        $model->_id = $hit['_id'];
        $this->assignModelVariable($hit['_source'], $model);
        if (isset($hit['highlight'])) {
            $model->_highlight = $hit['highlight'];
        }
        return $model;
    }

    public static function isAssoc(array $arr)
    {
        if (array() === $arr) {
            return false;
        }
        return array_keys($arr) !== range(0, count($arr) - 1);
    }

    public function assignModelVariable($array, $obj = null)
    {
        if ($obj == null) {
            $obj = new \stdClass();
        }
        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
            if (is_array($value)) {
                $obj->$key = $this->isAssoc($value) ? $this->assignModelVariable($value) : $value;
            } else {
                $obj->$key = $value;
            }
        }
        return $obj;
    }

    /**
     * Get raw ouptut of the current query
     * @return  Tamizh\LaravelEs\QueryBuilder
     */
    public function getRaw()
    {
        return $this->client->search($this->compile());
    }

    public function searchRaw($array)
    {
        return $this->client->search($array);
    }

    public function search($array)
    {
        return $this->getCollection($this->client->search($array));
    }

    public function updateByQuery()
    {
        $params = $this->compile();
        // Normal script functionality moved to outside of query to update the documents by script
        // TODO - script need to be seperated from normal flow and update by query flow
        if (array_key_exists("script", $params['body']['query'])) {
            $params['body']['script'] = $params['body']['query']['script']['script'];
            unset($params['body']['query']['script']);
        }
        return $this->client->updateByQuery($params);
    }

    /**
     * Get the count of documents for the current query
     * @return int  Document count
     */
    public function count()
    {
        return $this->client->count($this->compile())['count'];
    }

    /**
     * Compile the query object parameter and construct the query array
     * @return  array  query array
     */
    public function compile()
    {
        // set every condition in the query array
        $this->query['body']['query'] = [];
        foreach ($this->constraints as $constraint) {
            $this->query['body']['query'] = array_merge($this->query['body']['query'], $this->compileConstraint($constraint));
        }

        foreach ($this->bools as $bool) {
            if (array_key_exists('constraint', $bool)) {
                $this->query['body']['query']['bool'][$bool['type']][] = $this->compileConstraint($bool['constraint']);
            }
            if (array_key_exists('query_string', $bool)) {
                $this->query['body']['query']['bool'][$bool['type']][] = $bool['query_string'];
            }
            if (array_key_exists('script', $bool)) {
                $this->query['body']['query']['bool'][$bool['type']][] = $bool['script'];
            }
            if (array_key_exists('bool', $bool)) {
                $this->query['body']['query']['bool'][$bool['type']][] = array('bool' => $bool['bool']);
            }
        }
        if (!empty($this->aggs)) {
            $this->query['body']['aggs'] = $this->aggs;
        }
        if ($this->sort) {
            $this->query['body']['sort'] = $this->sort;
        }
        if ($this->scroll_param) {
            $this->query['scroll'] = $this->scroll_param;
        }
        if ($this->highlight) {
            $this->query['body']['highlight'] = $this->highlight;
        }
        if ($this->filter) {
            $this->query['body']['query']['bool']['filter'] = $this->filter;
        }
        if ($this->query_string) {
            $this->query['body']['query']['query_string'] = $this->query_string;
        }
        if ($this->script) {
            $this->query['body']['query']['script']['script'] = $this->script;
        }
        if ($this->fromType) {
            $this->query['type'] = $this->fromType;
        }
        if ($this->fromIndex) {
            $this->query['index'] = $this->fromIndex;
        } elseif (isset($this->model) && $this->model) {
            $this->query["index"] = $this->model->getIndex();
        }
        return $this->query;
    }

    /**
     * Compile the constraint clause
     * @param  Tamizh\LaravelEs\ConstraintClause  $constraint  Constraint Clause
     * @return array  Constraint array
     */
    protected function compileConstraint($constraint)
    {
        $method = 'compile';
        foreach (explode("_", $constraint->type) as $type) {
            $method .= ucfirst($type);
        }
        $condition = [$constraint->type => $this->$method($constraint)];
        return $condition;
    }

    /**
     * Set the size of the result from elasticsearch server
     * @param  integer $size Size of the result
     * @return $this
     */
    public function size($size)
    {
        $this->query['body']['size'] = $size;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Set the from point of the result set [Mysql Offset]
     * [only applicable for 10000 result window, scroll is encouraged for bigger pagination]
     * @param  integer  $from  From point
     * @return  $this
     */
    public function from($from)
    {
        $this->query['body']['from'] = $from;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Get elasticsearch client
     * @return Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder  Elasticsearch client
     */
    public function getClient()
    {
        return $this->client;
    }

    /**
     * Set model for the query builder object
     * @param Tamizh\LaravelEs\Elasticsearch $model Elasticseach model
     */
    public function setModel($model)
    {
        $this->model = $model;
        $this->query['index'] = $this->model->getIndex();
    }

    /**
     * Get Elasticsearch model
     * @return Tamizh\LaravelEs\Elasticsearch
     */
    public function getModel()
    {
        return $this->model;
    }

    /**
     * Post the current scroll query
     * @param  string  $scroll_id  Scroll id of the current query
     * @return array
     */
    protected function postScroll($scroll_id)
    {
        return $this->getCollection($this->client->scroll([
            'scroll_id' => $scroll_id,
            'scroll' => $this->scroll_param
        ]));
    }

    /**
     * Set the Index of the current Model
     * @param string  $index  Index of the Model
     */
    public function setIndex($index)
    {
        $this->model->_index = $index;
        $this->query['index'] = $this->model->getIndex();
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Set the Type of the current Model
     * @param string  $type  Type of model
     */
    public function setType($type)
    {
        $this->model->_type = $type;
        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Update the ES document
     * @param  array  $doc  key value pair
     * @param  string  $id   Id of the document
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function update($doc = [], $id = null)
    {
        $params = [];
        $params = $this->setMetaData($id, $params);
        if ($this->model->_id != null || $id != null) {
            $params['id'] = $id ? $id : $this->model->_id;
        } else {
            throw new Exception("Error Processing Request", 1);
        }
        if (count($doc)) {
            $params['body']['doc'] = $doc;
        }
        return $this->client->update($params) ? true : false;
    }

    /**
     * Remove a key value from ES document
     * @param  string  $key  key name
     * @param  string  $id   Document Id
     * @return  boolean
     */
    public function removeKey($key, $id = null)
    {
        $params['index'] = $this->model->getIndex();
        $params['type'] = $this->model->getType();
        if ($this->model->_id == null) {
            $params['id'] = $id;
        }
        $params['body']['script'] = "ctx._source.remove(\"".$key."\")";
        return $this->client->update($params) ? true : false;
    }

    /**
     * Index a new document to ES
     * @param  array  $doc document
     * @param  string  $id  Document Id (optional)
     * @return  Tamizh\LaravelES\Elasticsearch
     */
    public function index($doc = [], $id = null)
    {
        $params = [];
        $params = $this->setMetaData($id, $params);
        $params['body'] = $doc;
        $result = $this->client->index($params);
        if ($result['created'] == true) {
            $model = new $this->model;
            $model->_index = $result['_index'];
            $model->_type = $result['_type'];
            $model->_id = $result['_id'];
            foreach ($doc as $key => $value) {
                $model->$key = $value;
            }
            return $model;
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Set meta data for document
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     */
    public function setMetaData($metaData, $params)
    {
        if (is_array($metaData)) {
            if (array_key_exists('id', $metaData)) {
                $params['id'] = $metaData['id'];
            }
            if (array_key_exists('index', $metaData)) {
                $params['index'] = $metaData['index'];
            }
            if (array_key_exists('type', $metaData)) {
                $params['type'] = $metaData['type'];
            }
        } else {
            $params['index'] = $this->model->getIndex();
            $params['type'] = $this->model->getType();
            if ($metaData) {
                $params['id'] = $metaData;
            }
        }
        if (strpos($params['index'], '*')) {
            throw CrudException::indexWithSpecialCharaceters($params['index']);
        }
        return $params;
    }

    /**
     * Delete Document from ES
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     */
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        if ($id != null || $this->model->_id != null) {
            $params['id'] = $id ? $id : $this->model->_id;
        } else {
            throw new Exception("Error Processing Request", 1);
        }
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    }

    /**
     * Bulk Document indexing to ES
     * @param  array  $array  array of documents
     * @return  boolean
     */
    public function bulk($docs = [])
    {
        return $this->client->bulk($docs);
    }

    /**
     * Find the document by its ID
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     * @return  Object
     */
    public function find($id)
    {
        $params = [
            'index' => $this->model->_index,
            'type' => $this->model->_type
        ];
        if ($id) {
            $params['id'] = $id;
            return $this->generateModel($this->client->get($params));
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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This bug fix release in the stable 3.30 series fixes a regression in the file chooser.
Open the file chooser again.
It should show the same subdirectory where the already open file is.
Only translation fixes, a minimal one-line bug fix and updating a non-translatable donate URL to https.
I'm not working on this update. I'm just filing this for tracking purposes.
Accepted gedit into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/3.30.2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
The verification of the Stable Release Update for gedit has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.


This quilt block was chosen because I liked it's cheerfulness in design. The colors were chosen to match the colors of my garage. My nephew Mike Glenn helped me get the block and he also hung the block for me.


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Abbott's sister stares down heckler over same-sex marriage
10:46pm Jun 8, 2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's sister has faced down a heckler who said same-sex marriage would hurt "innocent children".
Christine Forster wants to marry her female partner and has been vocal in her fight for a change to the Marriage Act.
She was a guest on ABC TV's panel show Q&A on Monday and said she "respectfully disagreed" with her brother on the subject of same-sex marriage.
But she was challenged by a studio audience member who disagreed rather less respectfully, interrupting Ms Forster with shouts of: "What about the children, the innocent children?"
"If we bring this bill in, what's going to happen to the young children who are not even going to have a mother or a father? Nature is a mother and a father," the woman said.
Tony Abbott's sister Christine Forster on ABC TV's Q and A. (ABC) (ABC TV)
Christine Forster (right) and her partner Virginia Edwards. (Getty) (Getty)
Ms Forster, who has four children, said it was more important that children grow up in "loving, supporting families".
"And with all due respect, I don't think that is the exclusive preserve of the traditional family unit," Ms Forster said, to cheers and whistles from audience members.
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"I think children can be loved, supported and brought to their fullest potential with the most wonderful self-esteem and self-confidence and ability to make the most of themselves in same-sex families and in single-parent families."
Earlier in the program she dismissed Labor's same-sex marriage bill, saying a bipartisan bill was needed.
"I think (Labor leader Bill) Shorten's bill was a piece of unfortunate politicking with an issue that is too important to be a political football," she said.
READ MORE: PM Abbott 'facing internal rift' from MPs on gay marriage


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Has Ivy Grace Paredes been forced to QUIT The X Factor?
Damn.
By Ian Sandwell
Warning: This article contains potential spoilers about upcoming episode of The X Factor.
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Ivy Grace Paredes blew us all away with her incredible audition on The X Factor, but she might have been forced to quit the show already.
The Sun reports that the Filipino singer's application for an American visa failed, meaning she wouldn't have been able to travel to Los Angeles to film Judges' Houses. Viewers saw Ivy Grace sail through to the Six Chair Challenge on Sunday (September 18).
Digital Spy has reached out to representatives of the show for comment.
It is said that her visa application was turned down over an issue in her past, and despite The X Factor trying their best, time simply ran out for Ivy Grace to appear at Judges' Houses. She apparently would have been part of Sharon Osbourne's final six.
Following her powerful version of Whitney Houston's 'All The Man That I Need' in her audition, Simon Cowell hailed the singer as "one of the best [contestants] we've had" and then we fell in love with her a bit more as she took off her high heels to run over for a Dermot hug.
Related: X Factor 2016 Boot Camp review
The Wall of Songs saw Ivy Grace team up with Mike Hough and Lascel Wood to impress the judges with their cover of Mariah Carey's 'One Sweet Day'.
On her first appearance, she explained that she had made the trek from the Philippines to audition for the show and was inspired by last year's act 4th Impact. She wanted to succeed in the music industry for the sake of her 2-year-old daughter.
The X Factor continues on Saturday (September 24) at 8pm on ITV and WON'T clash with Strictly Come Dancing. Lovely stuff.
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X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson marries fiancé
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X Factor's Simon Cowell teases new reality show
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Couple Pleads Guilty to $20 Million Visa Fraud Involving Indian Workers
August 31, 2016 Ajay Ghosh Uncategorized 0
Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, a married couple from Ashburn, Virginia, pleaded guilty Aug. 25, to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and visa fraud, among other charges.
Kosuri and Jharia were indicted on April 27. According to the plea agreement, Kosuri, Jharia, and their co-conspirators fraudulently applied for more than 900 illegal immigration benefits under the H-1B visa program.
Since 2008, and at much greater scale since 2011, Kosuri built a staffing business that amounts to a visa-for-sale system, in violation of federal law, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia noted in a press release.
Kosuri and Jharia also admitted to defrauding the Small Business Administration in connection with a scheme to obtain HUBZone certification for a business named EcomNets Federal Solutions. Kosuri agreed to forfeit proceeds of his fraud schemes in the amount of $20.9 million.
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