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Q: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flywayInitializer' In my studies I had a problem with the flyway, I started the project according to the video lesson, but after starting I noticed that the versions of flyway and spring were out of date and put another version in the pom.xml Drope the created category table and the version e scheme flyway shows me this error when I try to upload the project.
>     org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flywayInitializer' defined in class path
> resource
> [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/flyway/FlywayAutoConfiguration$FlywayConfiguration.class]:
> Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is
> org.flywaydb.core.api.FlywayException: Validate failed:
>
> Migration checksum mismatch for migration version 01
> -> Applied to database : 1894708545
> -> Resolved locally    : -2070596035

Pom.xml before:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.3.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.algaworks.algamoney-api</groupId>
    <artifactId>algamoney-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>algamoney-api</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
            <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
            <version>3.2.1</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Pom.xml after:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1.RELEASE</version>
<!--        <packaging>jar</packaging> -->
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.algaworks.algamoney-api</groupId>
    <artifactId>algamoney-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>algamoney-api</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
            <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
            <version>6.4.4</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</proje

ct>
Myscript:
CREATE table categoria(
    id BIGINT(20) PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    nome VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

INSERT INTO categoria (nome) values ('Lazer');
INSERT INTO categoria (nome) values ('Alimentação');
INSERT INTO categoria (nome) values ('Supermercado');
INSERT INTO categoria (nome) values ('Farmácia');
INSERT INTO categoria (nome) values ('Outros');

There is no table in the database yet created and no record in schema_version because I also dropped it. Why the error? Can anyone tell me?

A: If you check the release documentation of Flyway, it says, that from Flyway 4 to 5/6 the schema_version table has changed to flyway_schema_history.
Also the algorithm to calculate checksum has changed:
version 3 -
crc32 over bytes:

bytes = resource.loadAsBytes()
...
crc32.update(bytes);

version 5 (not a verbatim copy) -
crc32 over lines (ignoring CR/LF, and using UTF-8 encoding):

BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(resource.loadAsString(configuration.getEncoding())));
[...]
while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
     crc32.update(line.getBytes("UTF-8"));
 }

The class name which flyway uses for checksum calculation in v6 is org.flywaydb.core.internal.resolver.ChecksumCalculator
The first change (about table) can be tackled by using the following property:
  flyway.table=schema_version

The second change( checksum algorithm) can be tackled by using flyway repair before calling migrate (either through commandline or through code)
Flyway flyway = fluentConfig.schemas(schemaName).load();
flyway.repair();
flyway.migrate();

A: My pom:
This is my pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1.RELEASE</version>
        <!-- <packaging>jar</packaging> -->
        <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.algaworks.algamoney-api</groupId>
    <artifactId>algamoney-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>algamoney-api</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.1.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
            <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
            <version>6.4.4</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                    <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>


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Charles Cohen signs high-end shoe shop Harrys of London to 1,100 sf at 465 Park Ave
Real estate mogul owns a controlling interest in fashion brand
New York /
May.May 30, 2017 01:00 PM
Landlord Charles S. Cohen signed a lease on the corner of Park Avenue and 57th Street with the high-end shoe shop Harrys of London, which he bought a controlling interest in just a few weeks ago.
Cohen signed the British fashion retailer to 1,100 square feet at the retail component of the Ritz Tower prewar apartment building at 465 Park Avenue, the New York Post reported.
"It's a brand I've long supported and admired," Cohen told the newspaper. "Its expansion into Manhattan, as far as I'm concerned, has been long overdue."
The asking rent for the space was $800 per square foot.
Cohen just a few weeks ago bought a controlling interest in Harrys from a Boston private equity firm, and it's the second time in recent history the fashion-loving real estate mogul leased space to a company he controls.
Earlier this year Cohen signed the London-based men's clothier Richard James – a fashion brand he bought a majority interest in this February – to 2,000 square feet at 465 Park Avenue.
The corner retail has been vacant since 2011, when Borders Books shuttered its store. Cohen plans to convert 35,000 square feet of the retail space on the building's 57th Street side to medical use. [NYP] – Rich Bockmann
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These were the top 10 NYC retail leases in July
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more closures
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Q: Good way to Implement Index and Avoid Index to slow down Table Im using Execution plan on my querys one by one and in result panel the Green line suggesting
index most of the time.
should i give the table missing index ?
my table Architecture is like :
field1   field2    field3   field4            field5       field6
ID       UserID    HitDate  UserLocationID    UserBrowser  UserIP

field types :
ID -> Int(PK_AI)
UserID->INT
HitDate->DateTime
UserLocationID->NvarChar
UserBrowser->NvarChar
UserIP->Char

On this table i only have Insert And Select. (no Update o Delete at all)
in Execution plan each query suggest different type of Index Like:
Non Clustered on HitDate include UserLocationID

or
Non Clustered on (UserIP,HitDate)

or
...
should i build all suggested Index ?
is building all of them have impact on speed of program ? Slower Insert ?

A: Adding one index wont slow inserts down much. Adding 10 or 20 will have a impact on inserts. Add one index measure the difference in speed then remove it. Add the other index one measure the difference speed then remove.
Compare notes and then decide. You need to make a educated/informed decision.

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Janette Laverrière (*1909, †2011)
For more on Janette Laverrière's life and work, please see Janette Laverrière by Yves Badetz, available at Norma Editions.
⟶ Publication website
The Swiss-French interior designer, artist, and political activist Janette Laverrière was a prominent member of the Modernist design scene in postwar France. Through her long and varied practice, Laverrière mastered the interplay between the contrasting styles of Modernism and Art Deco in over 1,500 designs. Her idiosyncratic work slides between art and design and combines elegant features, political metaphors, unorthodox materials, and surrealistic forms. After more than a century of life, Laverrière left behind an eclectic oeuvre of whimsical furniture, auratic installations, and her Evocations, a complex series of sculptural mirror objects with an eccentric twist. While decidedly twentieth-century, Laverrière's body of work appears contemporary today, and can increasingly be seen in international art exhibitions, design fairs, and the homes of connoisseurs.
Technical drawing of Bibliotheque Tournante, ca. 1950
⟵ Janette Laverrière, ca. 1950
Born in 1909 to the distinguished Swiss architect Alphonse Laverrière and a South African-Jewish mother, Laverrière was exposed early on to the clash between the opulence of Art Deco and the austerity of early Modernist architecture that surrounded her father's practice. After studying interior architecture and design at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, she briefly apprenticed at her father's firm before moving on to the atelier of Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, a master craftsman known for building glamorous Art Deco furniture for the French elite. There, Laverrière took in the elegance of proportion and learned to draw a curve with a single flick of her wrist. The luxuriousness of form and material Ruhlmann used was a stark contrast from what Laverrière absorbed at the iconic Bauhaus, where she took classes in geometry and embroidery.
In the mid-1930s, Laverrière left Ruhlmann's atelier and started to collaborate with her first husband, Maurice Pré, whom she met at Ruhlmann's. Together with her husband, she garnered her first recognition in the international design arena, earning several commissions for home interiors. Under the alias M. J. Pré, they received major awards at the annual exhibitions of the Salon des artistes décorateurs, culminating in a gold medal in 1937. Their collaboration ended with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Laverrière earned a state commission and was sent to southern France, where she designed camouflage for factories. This experience deeply sharpened her political eye, opening her up to the Resistance and Front National. Toward the end of the war, she joined the Communist Party and formed the Front National des Décorateurs, an organization exclusively for artists who had been members of the Resistance.
Technical drawing of Chapeau Chinois II, ca. 1952
⟵ Historic photograph of Chapeau Chinois I, ca. 1952
As Laverrière grew more politically active through the 1940s, both her lifestyle and designs grew increasingly feminist in nature. After the war, she and Pré divorced, and works like her Kitchen for the 50s expressly sought to unshackle housewives from their traditional places in the home and society. The kitchen included the Vege-Table, a chopping board on wheels that would allow housewives to follow conversation through different rooms of the home while still cooking. ("Today," Laverrière said in 2009, "I'd probably put wheels under the husband instead!")
In the 1950s, Laverrière was at her most prolific. She created the rotating cherry-wood Bibliothèque Tournante, a movable bookshelf that, rather than stand silent against the wall, would be a conversation piece that easily and quickly reorients to suit the needs or whims of its users. Soon after, she designed her egg-shaped table Oeuf with adjustable legs so that it could transform from dining to coffee table in one motion, displaying Laverrière's awareness of the changing tempo of the modern home. Her idiosyncratic response to the zeitgeist and interplay between the contrasting styles of Modernism and Art Deco is mastered in her hand-wrought metal lamps Chapeau Chinois I and II. Here she combined adaptable functionality and Modernist materials with a whimsical bend echoing Art Deco elegance.
Technical drawing of Bibliothèque Tournante, ca. 1950
⟵ Historical photograph of Bibliothèque Tournante, ca. 1950
During this time, a prestigious commission from the Mobilier National — an esteemed state furniture archive where ministers and embassy officials would choose their office decor — opened new doors for Laverrière. She was asked to design an interior for an ambassador along with a few tables for the Palais de l'Élysée. While at work, Laverrière suggested a study for the ambassador's wife, who continued her husband's work in his absence. The result, Cabinet de Travail d'une Femme d'Ambassadeur, featured a winged desk in rosewood with secret compartments for private letters, at once a luxury object and an emancipatory statement for a high-society 1950s woman.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Laverrière passed on her profound knowledge and distinguished craftsmanship to the next design generation, teaching interior and furniture design at the École Camondo in Paris. This was also the time when Laverrière ran a gallery in Paris to exhibit her work and that of her friends and, notably, when she accomplished two of her most significant design projects. For the first, she was invited by the president of a newly independent Niger, Hamani Diori, to create a vast array of furniture for the interior of the presidential palace in Niamey. Her unorthodox materials and modern designs, such as the use of enameled iron and visible plywood edges narrated distance from Niger's colonial past. Further, the design prominently featured yellow, the color of the independence movement. Later, Laverrière was asked to interior the Swiss Hospital at Issy-les-Moulineaux, launching a project that called on her understanding of functional design and of color schemes.
Evocations: La Commune, 2001
at Silberkuppe, Berlin
⟵ Evocations: Freedom, 2010
at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Evocations: Victor Hugo, 2001
at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ⟶
In the late 1980s, after more than five productive decades, Laverrière stopped accepting any more design commissions. Instead, she started to work on highly complex objects based on personal interests, political allegories, surrealistic shapes, and poetical narratives. Her Evocations, a series of sculptural, convex and concave mirror objects begun in 1989 followed a new credo that would guide her for the rest of her life: "It's useful to have useless things." One prominent piece of her Evocations is La Commune, Hommage à Louise Michel, which Laverrière designed in 2001 commemorating the writer, activist, and leader of the 1871 Paris Commune, Louise Michel. Mounted on a bright red background, it is embedded in a rosewood box and covered by a metal lid riddled with bullet holes, a collision of material by which Laverrière mirrored the brutality of the riots. This unorthodox idiom led to an artistic dialogue with the artist Nairy Baghramian, who was drawn to Laverrière for both her political convictions and the unapologetic confidence of her craftsmanship.
Janette Laverrière, ca. 2008
⟵ Nairy Baghramian and Janette Laverrière, ca. 2008
In 2008, Laverrière and Baghramian collaborated for the first time. Baghramian had been invited by the curators of the 5th Berlin Biennale, Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic, to work with another artist on a project for the Schinkel Pavilion in Berlin. Together, Laverrière and Baghramian created a pavilion within the pavilion titled after Laverrière's late Parisian gallery La Lampe dans l'Horloge, itself named from a story by one of Laverrière's favorite poets, André Breton. Their installation featured bold, colored panels, the Bibliothèque Tournante, and ten sculptural mirror objects.
La Lampe dans l'Horloge
at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
⟵ La Lampe dans l'Horloge
Laverrière applied her artistic practice on a larger scale at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 2009, where, together with Baghramian, she reconstructed her Entre Deux Actes — Loge de Comédienne, the imagined dressing room of an actress, which first debuted at the Salon in 1947. This auratic interior, sitting intentionally on the cusp of art and design, made room for Laverrière and Baghramian to contextualize it into the complex spheres of contemporary art.
Historic photograph of Entre Deux Actes, ca. 1947
⟵ Entre Deux Actes
at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Thereafter Laverrière was posthumously received as more than an interior designer. As her oeuvre reenters the canon, Laverrière is increasingly understood as an artist. Her work is featured in the prestigious collections of the Mobilier National, the Musée d'Art Moderne, and the Centre Pompidou. Late in life, Laverrière arranged to spread her work throughout the world, granting exclusive production licenses to the director of JL Editions. These exclusive JL Editions include the Bibliothèque Tournante, the Chapeau Chinois I and II, and her very last furniture design Fauteuil Cognac, an updated version of her 1967 Whiskey Chair. Laverrière redesigned this imposing armchair exclusively for an exhibition in 2014 at the Berlin art gallery Silberkuppe.
Technical drawing of Fauteuil Cognac, ca. 2010
⟵ Historic photograph of Whiskey Chair, ca. 1967
Fauteuil Cognac, 2010
at Silberkuppe, Berlin ⟶
Toward the end of her life, Laverrière referred to her friend and collaborator Nairy Baghramian as "sisters in creation," — as if not generationally separated, but of the same era. Indeed, Laverrière herself, alongside her artistic output, seemed to defy time. She appropriated materials, colors, epochs, and rules of design, building a multifaceted oeuvre that spread wide across the early 20th century. Her immense hunger for knowledge led her to challenge herself continually through a century of life, ultimately making her a unique position in art and design history. Laverrière leaves behind a vast range of intricate cultural wonders that aesthetically and conceptually revise history, making room for a figure as complex as this designer turned artist, Communist, divorcée, and devoted feminist.
Historic photograph of Chapeau Chinois I, ca. 1952
Historical photograph of Bibliothèque Tournante, ca. 1950
Evocations: Freedom, 2010
Nairy Baghramian and Janette Laverrière, ca. 2008
Entre Deux Actes
Historic photograph of Whiskey Chair, ca. 1967
JL Editions
For inquiries please contact
Michel Ziegler
mz@janettelaverriere.com
JL Editions is the official and authorized manufacturer of select designs by the Janette Laverrière estate.
All objects are hand manufactured by expert craftspeople in Germany under supervision and quality control of JL Editions.
© JL Editions, Berlin
Chapeau Chinois — Swing-arm wall lamp
Bibliothèque Tournante — Adjustable rotating bookshelf
Table Oeuf — Height-adjustable occasional table
Fauteuil Cognac — Upholstered armchair
⟶ All Objects
Entre Deux Actes — Performa 19
Work Desk for an Ambassador's Wife — Marian Goodman Gallery
Entre Deux Actes — Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
La Lampe dans l'Horloge — Schinkel Pavillon
⟶ All Projects
Janette Laverrière (*1909, †2011) was a Swiss-French interior designer, artist, and political activist. She was a prominent member of the Modernist design scene in postwar France…
Janette Laverrière


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  namespace rpc {

    HasherImpl::HasherImpl() {
      if (sodium_init() < 0)
        throw std::runtime_error("sodium_init() failed");
    }

    kj::Promise<void> HasherImpl::hash(HashContext context) {
      auto drdr = context.getParams().getData();
      auto data = std::vector<unsigned char>(drdr.begin(), drdr.end());
      auto hash = hash::sha256(data);
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"Good value sunglasses. The wraparound style protects against the eye very well"
The Airflo Blazer Polaroid Sunglasses feature a cool, sleek frame and are designed to protect the anglers eyes from wayward hooks and surface glare, as well as looking extremely good. The Blazer sunglasses come in two different colour frames and lenses, these have been designed to meet the needs of the game angler in a multitude of differing light conditions.


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		return this.placeholder;
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Amy Winehouse has returned to the pop culture conversation in recent months, thanks to an Oscar-nominated documentary centered on the life, death and music of the devastatingly talented young jazz singer. At the apex of her career in 2008, Winehouse won five Grammy Awards, including record of the year.
Check out her acceptance speech below and reminisce on the inimitable talent that was Amy Winehouse.


Not All "Docs" In Marine Corps - USA Patriotism!
The Fleet Marine Force (FMF) is comprised of sailors who are assigned to, or work with, Marine Corps units said Command Master Chief Christopher W. Moore, the III Marine Expeditionary Force command master chief. Though the most commonly known billets fall under health services and religious ministries, there are billets under aviation groups and squadrons, as well as infantry and logistics battalions. Most Marines are familiar with corpsmen and religious personnel, or RP's. Some less common FMF jobs include "Seabees," or construction support sailors or Navy divers, who work alongside reconnaissance Marines.
As with any assignment there are perks to the Fleet Marine Force, one of them being the ability to qualify for the FMF warfare insignia, said Moore.
"Similar to the enlisted surface or enlisted aviation warfare insignia, this device identifies sailors who have qualified as an FMF warfare expert. This means that they have demonstrated a level of proficiency through practical demonstration of skill sets critical to serving with Marines and they have demonstrated a level of professional knowledge necessary for them to integrate into their respective FMF unit," said Moore.
To receive the Fleet Marine Force warfare insignia, sailors must pass a test showing competency in weapons proficiency, land navigation, radio communication and Marine Corps knowledge. They also have to pass a Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test and Combat Fitness Test.
Not only is serving in the FMF a valuable opportunity to sailors, but it's also a critical component of the Marine Corps warfighting mission, said Moore. The Marine Corps would not have these billets if there was no value in having a sailor alongside to support.
The sailors who encompass the FMF largely go unnoticed by Marines but without them the Marine Corps would not be able to complete the varied tasks that are part of the Marine Corps mission, said Moore. Not every sailor has the opportunity to serve in the FMF, but those that do say they gain a cherished experience.


You have heard him on the show, you have seen his videos and transcripts on the website and now…..you can have his book!
Is finance a difficult subject to understand? Or is it made unnecessarily complex by the maze of products, laws and advice that surround it? To arrive at Financial Sanity, all that is required is applying the common-sense, tried and true advice of the past while taking into account modern monetary realities. In three easy lessons, the author offers guidance on faith & money, the mechanics of a sound financial plan and the "happy end" to the money story. Applying these ideas can make financial sanity yours.


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MainAll NewsInside Israel'Classify Palestinian JNF as a terror organization'
'Classify Palestinian JNF as a terror organization'
Israeli movement calls on Defense Ministry to add Union of Agricultural Works Committees to list of organizations receiving terror funds.
Tags: Union Of Agricultural Work Committees Court Regavim Terrorism Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine
Arutz Sheva Staff , Jan 29 , 2018 2:13 PM
E1 land, between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim
The Jerusalem District Court on Monday morning ordered the dissolution of the Israeli non-profit organization "La'jnat al Amal," ('The Workers' League').
The decision followed actions taken by the International Legal Forum and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home).
La'jnat al Amal served as the Israeli conduit for funds donated by foreign governments and foundations to the Union of Agricultural Works Committees (UAWC), a Palestinian Authority committee that is the agricultural division of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terror organization founded by George Habash and dedicated to the eradication of Israel.
Several weeks ago, the Regavim movement, which works to preserve state lands, exposed the UAWC-initiated campaign to seize control of tens of thousands of dunams of land in strategic locations throughout Judea and Samaria which fall under full Israeli control according to the Oslo Accords.
The method: A massive tree-planting and land-clearing campaign that would re-classify the land and effectively make it impossible for the State of Israel to reclaim it.
Many considered the UAWC to be the Palestinian Authority's equivalent of the JNF.
In a statement, Regavim said the movement "welcomes the Jerusalem District Court's decision to disband the non-profit that funds this enterprise, and calls upon the Minister of Justice to classify the UAWC as a terror organization."
"According to the UAWC's own statements, the land-seizure campaign focuses on strategic areas, including East Jerusalem, the illegal Bedouin encampments in the Maaleh Adumim area and E1, Gush Etzion, the corridor between Jerusalem and Jericho, as well as the area that connects Jerusalem and Ramallah.
"The UAWC campaign was publicized as a part of the Palestinian response to US President Donald Trump's declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, and is an element of the 'Shorashim (Roots) Plan' – a comprehensive strategy set in motion by the Palestinian Authority aimed at seizing control of tens of thousands of dunams of land in Area C through agricultural use."
Regavim Policy and Parliamentary Affairs Director Meir Deutsch added, "The court's decision is a welcome first step towards halting the flow of funding for terrorism that is channeled through Israel non-profit organizations, but we must dry up this festering swamp completely."
"It is now clear, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the 'Palestinian JNF' is a terror organization. We call upon Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) to classify the Union of Agricultural Works Committees as a terror organization, and to take whatever steps are necessary to halt its dangerous activities."


One of the major stops on IPC's popular "Iceland Circumnavigation" cruises, Akureyri sits above the Arctic Circle on Iceland's rugged north coast. The Island's second largest city — first settled in the 9th century by Norse migrants — has a lot to offer. Starting with the fact that it's an important port and fishing center due largely to its ice-free harbor.
Akureyri boasts a subarctic climate with snow cover from late October to April, while the surrounding mountains are likely to be covered with snow year-round. There's always something happening in this city of about 18,000 people — like 40 annual events and festivals.
In and around town are an Arctic flavored botanic garden, churches, museums, historic areas, monuments and nature areas and as well as bars and restaurants.
This eight-hour adventure visits one of the most beautiful areas of Northern Iceland. The local unique landscape would be fascinating on its own. However, the area around Lake Myvatn is also home to many bird species.
The excursion also stops at the impressive black lava formations of Dimmuborgir, the spectacular Godafoss waterfall and Myvatn Nature Baths (a thermal bath with a unique composition of minerals, silicates and geothermal microorganisms). Be sure to bring a bathing suit and a towel (provided by the ship).
This half-day excursion combines scenic highlights like the Eyjafjord, Vikurskard mountain pass and the spectacular Godafoss waterfall with intriguing Icelandic history and culture. There's another stop at Laufas, a well-preserved 1850s farmhouse museum that reflects 19th-century living conditions in rural Iceland.
Play an unforgettable round on the world's northernmost 18-hole golf course, a natural setting that provides spectacular views of the surrounding countryside. The Akureyri course provides a venue for the annual "Arctic Open" and has also been ranked as one of Europe's best 100 courses. This shore excursion includes green fee, equipment (clubs and trolley) and transfers.
Experience Northern Iceland from a completely different perspective on a 1.5-hour scenic flight that provides bird's-eye-views of Godafoss and Dettifoss waterfalls as well as Lake Myvatn. Combinable with some of the other Akureyri shore excursions.


CTEC boasts a generous benefit package including comprehensive health, prescription, dental, and vision insurance. We also provide to our employees, life insurance, business travel accident insurance, short term disability insurance, and long term disability insurance. Paid holidays and PTO (paid time off) are also provided. CTEC has an employer-paid pension plan and a 401k plan that is employer-matched.


The vehicle being featured in the race that seems to win the competition is none other than the Maserati MC 12. This vehicle is an ideal choice for a racing competition which tends to perform so well in every situation. The grey beauty apart from being so perfection oriented in terms of performance is also ideal in terms of outlook as well. You may see the way it takes the lead all over the competition and covers the long distance with tough competitors by taking the twists and turns flexibly and still manages to win the race. This vehicle is an ideal sporty deal which intensifies the competition in the most appropriate way.


Oh! But the city council determined (per a reply from our 'Program Administrator') that the posted signage is enough to protect the citizens of our fine community!
Karl, this is not ridiculous. This is dangerous!
So, the trash hauler company will be contacted and those trucks won't drive the wrong way...but what about the personal vehicles reported earlier!
The govt will do the absolute minimum required.
Good luck...and be careful on your street!
We would like you to know that we have addressed the issue you reported using "Marlborough Works". The curbside trash contractor has been reminded that his drivers must obey the rules of the road and he has passed this on to all the drivers. We have forwarded the pictures taken and he is currently investigating this particular issue. We want to thank you for bringing this issue to our attention and helping us to continue to make Marlborough a great community! The Public Works Department hopes that we have taken care of your concerns in a satisfactory manner and ask that you continue to report any future issues using our app.


Known for its ability to create a creamy and lush flavor when cooked, Arborio Rice is the typical rice used in risotto. Il Riso Beretta assures absolute quality by developing new technologies to maintain the excellent nutritional properties of the rice. Beretta has researched and tested methods that assure the same freshness at the point of consumption that is available at harvest. There is absolutely no preservatives or additives, yet the shelf-life of this product is long lasting.


Because I'm easily amused, and also because it's just too damn amusing to let it go by: John Barrowman and Neil Patrick Harris are slugging it out over AfterElton.com's "Man of the Decade" competition. Their field of combat? Twitter.
Now, NPH has been tweeting quite often for a while now, as @ActuallyNPH. He has nearly 200,000 followers. But Barrowman, not so much -- until last night, when he apparently discovered the glory and wonder that is Twitter, and started a barrage of hysterically funny tweets on his @Team_Barrowman account.
Suddenly, John Barrowman is all over Twitter, shaking his fist and getting out the vote on his own behalf, including linking to Twitpics of him, well... shaking his fist, all designed to prove that yes, it really is the real JB.
Yes, John, that's how it happens. Resistance is futile.
I love NPH, but I can't take my eyes off Barrowman on Torchwood. And it didn't take him 20 years to come out, either. No contest.
John Barrowman is hysterical! I've read interviews and seen vids of him, as well as watched several Torchwood episodes, including the very controversial final series Children Of Earth. And I'll always have a soft spot for "Doogie Houser". May the best diva win!!
I'm starting to root for Barrowman. I must have a thing for the underdog. Plus, with all respect to NPH, Barrowman has always been out. It took NPH like 20 years.
Seems like everyone's coming out for someone!
My support of Barrowman has become rock-solid because he keeps posting pics of himself with his dog.
Watch Torchwood for JB. And try Dr Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog for NPH. Both should be available at your preferred DVD source; Torchwood is also frequently rerun on BBCA. I never paid attention to NPH until Dr Horrible.


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Ethics Review Board to Hear Complaint Against Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales
by Mark Reagan
The City's ethics review board will consider a complaint Thursday that accuses Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales of using her official Facebook page to promote Hillary Clinton and a candidate in a local judicial race.
On June 3, Will McCleod filed the sworn complaint against Gonzales with the City Clerk's office. "Shirley Gonzalez [sic] engaged in partisan political activity, including endorsements of candidates running for elective office using both her personal facebook account, and the Government D5 city council facebook page," McLeod's complaint states. "The personal facebook account is not in question, but what is in question is her usage of a D5 city council facebook page complete with the City of San Antonio insignia to endorse a candidate in a partisan race."
On May 28, Gonzales invited constituents who follow her on Facebook to join her for a Clinton nomination watch party. On April 16, she posted several photos from the Fiesta de los Niños event that showed Angelica I. Jimenez at her side. Jimenez was campaigning for judge of the 408th District Court during the event. The city's ethics handbook prohibits the use of "city facilities, personnel, equipment, supplies or time while on city duty for private purposes, including political activity."
According to McLeod's complaint, Gonzales' chief of staff told him the social media account is not a government website. "Her chief of staff refuses to remove partisan political activity from the D5 City Council Member City of San Antonio's facebook page, a misuse of equipment, time, and supplies," the complaint states. "A facebook page for D5 is exactly like walking into a District 5 field office. I consider it a city facility."
(Gonzales did not respond to our request for comment. We'll update if and when she does.)


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Here are a few of the things that have been blowing my mind lately (in the area of music, that is; there are other things, too, that need not be gotten into here; The Prestige was one of them).
I plucked this song off David Bowie's Diamond Dogs for a Halloween mix I was making, and I'm all, like, wow…. It's funny, on an album full of great songs, no one song stands out so much. But take any one of them out of context, and you realize just how phenomenal it is. This particular tune starts off sweet and lyrical, then turns metallically ominous, then changes back, then changes back again, all so seamlessly that it really seems like one song. Check it out and tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.
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Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines
Hiroshi Tajima
流動熱工学
A low-speed diesel engine holds a unique position in large ship propulsion usage thanks to its high economic efficiency and superb reliability. However, the grounds of its reputation are not necessarily clear especially for the engineers in the other engine relating fields, since detailed and objective discussion has been rare among engines from high-speed to low-speed. At first, various indexes such as representative speed, mean piston speed and stroke-to-bore ratio are investigated among engines of various sizes. The result shows that the marine low-speed diesels run much more slowly than expected from a similarity law based on the engine size, and the ship propulsion efficiency should be a key of the ultra-low revolution. Detailed comparison between low-speed diesels and high-speed ones are also done to capture the essential differences in the engine type and structure. Finally, the application of EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) to marine diesels is taken up to exemplify the difficulty in dealing the marine fuels of high sulfur content.
Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists
Ship propulsion
exhaust gases
Exhaust gas recirculation
Tajima, H. (2018). Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines. Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists, 63(6), 373-382.
Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines. / Tajima, Hiroshi.
:: Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists, 巻 63, 番号 6, 01.01.2018, p. 373-382.
Tajima, H 2018, 'Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines', Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists, 巻. 63, 番号 6, pp. 373-382.
Tajima H. Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines. Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists. 2018 1 1;63(6):373-382.
Tajima, Hiroshi. / Study on technical features of marine low-speed diesel engines. :: Toraibarojisuto/Journal of Japanese Society of Tribologists. 2018 ; 巻 63, 番号 6. pp. 373-382.
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And it was never updated again!
Patience… (okay, if you're reading this, you've probably shown a lot of that already).
Truth is, I'm working on it with new partners. This year is the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. as a whole, and since this comic is meant to be a celebration of that, I am really hoping to get things kicked back into high gear this year.
I can't say much more, though, except that what I've seen has me quite enthused. The entire thing is unpaid, though (me and everyone else), so part of it is getting schedules to line up, but I think we'll have something soon.
Unfortunately so. Trust me, I'm more disappointed than anyone, as I had high hopes for what was happening, then things just kind of fell apart.
I'll keep the offer in mind… I'm talking to someone about it at the moment, and I'd like to see where that goes first. Might have need for another, I don't know yet.
That's some cool stuff. =) I'll keep it in mind.
Thanks! And so do I! Still trying to work on it; progress has been… rough. Very, very rough.
David Oxford, or "LBD 'Nytetrayn'," as he is sometimes also known, is a freelance writer who resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In addition to running and writing for the Nyteworks Network of sites, he has written various gaming media outlets (1UP.com, Nintendo Force, IGN.com) and co-authored the Mega Man – Robot Master Field Guide.
After toppling the Koopa King's schemes in Dinosaur Land and finishing their well-deserved vacation, Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach attempt to return home-- only to find that "home" is now a much different place than they remember!


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require 'helper'

class TestSourceFileLine < Test::Unit::TestCase
  on_ruby '1.9' do
    context "A source line" do
      setup do
        @line = SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new('# the ruby source', 5, 3)
      end

      should 'return "# the ruby source" as src' do
        assert_equal '# the ruby source', @line.src
      end

      should 'return the same for source as for src' do
        assert_equal @line.src, @line.source
      end

      should 'have line number 5' do
        assert_equal 5, @line.line_number
      end

      should 'have equal line_number, line and number' do
        assert_equal @line.line_number, @line.line
        assert_equal @line.line_number, @line.number
      end
    end

    context "A source line with coverage" do
      setup do
        @line = SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new('# the ruby source', 5, 3)
      end

      should "have coverage of 3" do
        assert_equal 3, @line.coverage
      end

      should "be covered?" do
        assert @line.covered?
      end

      should "not be never?" do
        assert !@line.never?
      end

      should "not be missed?" do
        assert !@line.missed?
      end
    end

    context "A source line without coverage" do
      setup do
        @line = SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new('# the ruby source', 5, 0)
      end

      should "have coverage of 0" do
        assert_equal 0, @line.coverage
      end

      should "not be covered?" do
        assert !@line.covered?
      end

      should "not be never?" do
        assert !@line.never?
      end

      should "be missed?" do
        assert @line.missed?
      end
    end

    context "A source line with no code" do
      setup do
        @line = SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new('# the ruby source', 5, nil)
      end

      should "have nil coverage" do
        assert_nil @line.coverage
      end

      should "not be covered?" do
        assert !@line.covered?
      end

      should "be never?" do
        assert @line.never?
      end

      should "not be missed?" do
        assert !@line.missed?
      end
    end

    should "raise ArgumentError when initialized with invalid src" do
      assert_raise ArgumentError do
        SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new(:symbol, 5, 3)
      end
    end

    should "raise ArgumentError when initialized with invalid line_number" do
      assert_raise ArgumentError do
        SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new("some source", "five", 3)
      end
    end

    should "raise ArgumentError when initialized with invalid coverage" do
      assert_raise ArgumentError do
        SimpleCov::SourceFile::Line.new("some source", 5, "three")
      end
    end
  end
end


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Q: STRUTS2 - Value stack values are passed in URL! I need a solution to hide or encode the "Value Stack" Values in URL.
The 'Value stack' values shows in URL if in struts.xml file the result was a jsp:
example
 <action name="actionName" class="ActionClass">
      <result name="resultReturned">page.jsp</result>
    </action>

I found 1 solution.
1) when we redirect to another ACTION, the values doesn't show in url.
Example:
 <action...>
    <result name="resultReturned" type="redirectAction">ActionNameX</result>
    ..
    </action>

<action name="ActionNameX" >
...
</action>

Is there any other solution?
Thank you !

A: You mean your form values are passed in the URL? Which in turn are set on the action and then become part of the value stack... Just use a plain html form with method="POST" although remember that hiding the URL values can make book marking difficult and really just makes you feel better, there is nothing more secure about it perhaps less as it may lull you into a false sense of security.


Description: Who was the main character of Minecraft? What is probably the largest myth in Minecraft? What makes a pistol sticky and many other queries? Do you know all the answers? Are they correct? If you're self-assured, please land on The Ultimate Minecraft Quiz and finish all of the queries here. Get willing to try? There we come! With dozens of queries, players just avail their current knowledge about the Minecraft world to overcome them well. The important thing is their excellent memory. Read each query carefully and then pick up the accurate answer so that they can go forward the next ones. However, in case that the players make any mistake, they will turn back to the starting point because this game doesn't have any checkpoint. It sounds challenging, right? Try your best to attain a noble victory! Wish you succeed!
Instructions: The mouse is to pick up the correct answers.


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Editor's Choice: Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
By: Dylan Schleicher @ 1:40 PM – Filed under: Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Narrative & Biography
Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking by Alice Echols, The New Press, 320 pages, Hardcover, October 2016, ISBN 9781620973035
George Bailey, the reluctant manager of a building and loan association in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, New York, is one of great heroes of American cinema. It is perhaps Jimmy Stewart's best-known roles. But Frank Capra's 1946 film, It's a Wonderful Life, was a flop when it was first released, and lost over a half million dollars at the box office. Perhaps that was because it didn't resonate with the reality so many moviegoers would have experienced in the previous decade, when the building and loan industry collapsed during the great depression, wiping out many Americans' hard-earned savings and expelling them from their homes. It is a story that in too many ways mirrors the recent subprime mortgage crisis, and a story that has largely remained untold. Historian Alice Echols remedies that in her new book, Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking.
Building and loan associations (B&Ls) were originally an English transplant, where they began as "self-help societies organized by the working classes—people not served by the country's national banks." They were usually organized locally and run as cooperatives, with no official offices or paid officers. The were founded for the benefit of their members, not to profit from them, and most operated with modest means—sixty percent of them had fewer than 200 members. Yet, they were so popular that:
By 1893 there were 5,838 B&Ls operating in every state and territory, with 1.4 million members. There assets came to $473 million, and they held mortgages of half a billion dollars. After private lenders and savings banks, building and loans were the third-biggest home mortgage lenders.
Of course, where there is that much money, there are those that are going to come in to try and get a piece of it, and in that same year of 1893, there were already 240 for-profit companies that called themselves building and loans, with 400,000 members. Over time, they would become the predominant type of B&L, and these private interests would form the B&L league, which "would become one of the country's strongest and most influential trade groups." It had laws written in the for-profits favor, while largely avoiding regulation by playing up the original collective, philanthropic image and nature of B&Ls, even as they abandoned it.
Alice Echols's grandfather, Walter Davis, was the proprietor of one such building and loan scheme. Before buying the City Savings Building and Loan Association from three Colorado Springs businessman in 1914, he was what would best be described as a small time loan shark. To tell the story of Walter Davis, it is necessary to tell the story of Colorado Springs, which provides a great microcosm of the American dream at the time:
During the years that Cripple Creek produced more gold than anywhere else in the country Colorado Springs was the American dream on steroids. America might boast of streets paved with gold, but the downtown streets of Colorado Springs were actually paved with gold. In 1920 fifteen hundred carloads of crushed low-grade gold ore from the Vindicator Mine in Cripple Creek were added to the city's paving mixture, making the town's streets gleam.
There were four men operating building and loan associations in Colorado Springs at this time, all of them operating, basically, as pyramid schemes. Like the nearby gold mines, they were largely an extraction industry, except that in their case, they were simply embezzling their working class clients' hard-earned cash. In It's a Wonderful Life, a crisis begins when George Bailey's absentminded Uncle Billy loses an $8,000 deposit on the way to the bank on Christmas Eve. In real life, the operator of the Hollywood Building and Loan Association, Gilbert H. Beesemeyer, admitted the week of Christmas, 1930, that there was "a lot more wrong with the books that you can imagine," and told a crowded courtroom that he was "a dirty crook." His books contained an $8 million shortfall. In real life Colorado Springs, building and loan operator Willis Sims took his own life three days after Christmas, 1931.
As for the depositors in the [building and loan he operated], a little more than a year after Sims's suicide they learned that the shortfall there totaled nearly $180,000 and that they would receive only 20 percent of the money they had on deposit there. As late as September 1936 depositors had yet to receive a penny.
The suicide set in motion a series of events that eventually exposed the other building and loans in town, and Walter Davis himself. The shortfall at Walter Davis's City Building and Loan, the largest B&L in Colorado Springs, was $1.25 million. By the time it was discovered, however, not only was the money missing, Walter Davis himself was nowhere to be found. He went on the lam, and became one of the most wanted men in America, a case that played out in the national media. Some of the 3,600 working class depositors he had swindled even hatched a plan to kidnap the Davis's daughter, the author's mother Dorothy, in an attempt to force his return.
Shortfall is "a narrative in which both an individual family and the American economy are moving inexorably toward ruin." Both Echols's family and the economy would eventually recover, but many of those affected would not, and the story would be forgotten. Echols herself didn't know the story of her grandfather until her family house was being sold shortly before her mother passed, and boxes of papers and personal correspondence were found in the attic. What she discovered on the journey to discover more and write this story is a hidden history of the building and loan scandal that has affected "the relationship between capitalism, class, and conservatism in America" to this day. She also uncovered how it has personally affected her life, how the wealth her grandfather embezzled from depositors eventually helped give her a leg up in life. It is a history, she writes, "of America's uneven playing field, or one significant corner of it."
Shortfall is a family history, a history of Colorado Springs and the American West's complicated relationship with the Federal Government, and a history of "thrift industries"—the building and loan associations, and the savings and loan associations that followed, and collapsed in scandal, behind them—in the United States. It is a story of how we forget, and prefer Hollywood fantasy of redemption over a reality that remains with us, even after a similar collapse in the subprime mortgage industry. As Echols writes:
Several years ago the chairman of one of the country's largest check-cashing companies argued that critics who attack such businesses for turning a profit in low-income communities had it all wrong. "We're the George Baileys here," he insisted.
Which may be true, but the real life George Baileys of the world were mostly dirty crooks, and their crimes have reverberated through the generations, shaping American capitalism and class to this day.
About Dylan Schleicher
Dylan Schleicher has been a part of the 800-CEO-READ claque since 2003. Even though he's stayed on at the company, he has not stayed put. After beginning in shipping & receiving, he joined customer service and accounting before moving into his current, highly elliptical orbit of duties overseeing the ChangeThis and In the Books websites, the company's annual review of books, and in-house design. He lives with his wife and two children in the Washington Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee's West Side.
NEW RELEASES: Business Books to Watch in October
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West Tisbury : Mike's adventures
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"My pruning is more long-term than yours."
For sheer understatement, the above comment by my husband shocked me. It did make me laugh, though. Long-time readers of my column may remember many examples over the years of Mike's adventures with a chainsaw or weed-whacker. He lives to decimate anything "in his way," as he describes it. My description is closer to total destruction.
We were walking together around our yard after I saw the results of his most recent attack on our landscape. The remains of perfectly good shrubs and trees littered the yard. Mike was so pleased with himself, and couldn't understand why I was so upset.
We have a history. Over the years, he has cut down several Delaware Valley White azaleas that were supposed to edge the border between lawn and woods in our front yard. They should have been sizeable by now, but failed to rejuvenate after three or four years of being cut to the ground. A lovely halesia from Polly Hill, a mock orange, and a hawthorn tree have disappeared. A Viburnum carlesii that Betsey Mayhew gave me as a tiny seedling was cut down after it was finally large enough to bloom and perfume the garden with its fragrant flowers. My dream of a waterfall of wisteria like Cynthia Riggs' is a distant memory. Other ornamental, or formerly ornamental, plants have bare ends of branches sticking out where they have been hacked off instead of artistically cut back. I swear that Mike would be happier living in a clear-cut wasteland with flat, square corners instead of gently rounded and meandering paths, a yard designed to mow in uninterrupted, straight back-and-forth rows.
This has been an ongoing disagreement in our long marriage. I am artistic, visual, cerebral. He is practical and wants to get the job done. Where I see a pretty swath of color in the daffodils or ajuga that have naturalized in our lawn, Mike sees an impediment to his mowing. We have both learned to give in sometimes, to accept one another. I can't say we like it particularly, but we pick our battles. I acknowledge that Mike does keep things moving forward while I continue to dream.
I am grateful for this column, so I can write about it and make people laugh as they read it, and maybe recognize their own foibles or long-suffering spouses.
The opening still hasn't been cut into the Great Pond. It's still a pretty walk, but no beach. So interesting to observe the seasons, the tidal pools, the growth of vegetation, the shells and birds. I always feel grateful for living in a place and in a way that this is a big part of my life.
Ken Vincent, Cindy Kane, and Bob Avakian are the featured artists at this Sunday's opening from 5 to 7 pm at the Granary Gallery. Kate Feiffer is currently showing her new work at the Vineyard Playhouse. The gallery is open during box office hours. A Gallery has opened for the season with an exhibition of work by four artists: Chris White, Whitney Cleary, Richard Erickson, and Jennifer Joanou. At the West Tisbury library, there will be a reception for Elizabeth Langer, who will be exhibiting her collages, paintings, and prints in the program room through the month of July.
For a healthy and delicious free lunch with good company in a pleasant location, join your fellow West Tisbury friends for Lunch on the Porch every Tuesday and Friday from noon to 1 pm. Lunches are provided by Island Grown Initiative at different island libraries on different days.
Other library programs this week:
Friday, July 5, 10:30 am, Elliott Bennett, youth educator at the Polly Hill Arboretum, will discuss the unique plants and animals on our island and how to be stewards of their habitats. At 3:30 pm, Nancy Sinsabaugh will give a workshop for high school seniors and their families about how to apply for financial aid and maximize opportunities for receiving aid.
Saturday, July 6, 11 am, the annual Summer Reading Program kickoff at the Ag Hall will be a free concert by the Pinkletinks. The artist's reception for Elizabeth Langer's exhibition will be held from 3:30 to 5 pm.
Monday, July 8, 11:30 am, Kanta Lipsky will lead her Balance Workshop. Family and teen movies will be shown at 6:30 pm.
Tuesday, July 9, 10:30 am, Healthy Aging MV will present an Advance Care Planning workshop discussing end-of-life and serious illness care. Sign up by email at hbellebuono@mvcommunityservices.com. Also at 10:30 am, Jennifer Burkin will lead a book making craft for kids. Signup required. IGI lunch will be served from noon to 1 pm. Nurse Lori Perry will be at the library from noon to 1:30 pm to take blood pressures and answer questions for the free Wellness Clinic. At 3 pm, Laura Jordan will lead a Little Bird Music Class, with songs and movement for kids. At 4:30 pm, law professor Richard Chused will present "From Picasso to Warhol to Koons: Art Appropriation or Just Plain Theft?" about the history of art appropriation and the ethics and legal implications of artistic plagiarism.
Wednesday, July 10, 10:30 am, Elizabeth Langer will lead a collage workshop for adults. Basic materials will be provided, but feel free to bring things you would like to use. Signup is required. At 7 pm, there will be a screening of "A Painter Who Farms," followed by a Q and A with the star/subject Allen Whiting.
Thursday, July 11, 10:30 am, there will be a story hour for preschoolers with special guest Maggy Bruzelis, who will read from her new children's book, "Look at This Tree! What Do You See?" GST instructor Lisa Gross will lead a workshop. Bring your own yoga mat. Signup is required. At 4 pm, there will be a Timo Elliott podcast workshop.
The library is starting a book club that will be facilitated by Tracey Braun, and will meet Monday evenings beginning at the end of July. This month's book, "Flight Behavior," by Barbara Kinsolver, is available at the library.
By the time you are reading this it will be Independence Day, the Fourth of July. I am planning to read the Declaration of Independence at work. We will bake and decorate flag cookies, too, and sing patriotic songs. It feels particularly important to think about the beginnings of our country and our history as this Independence Day approaches.
Ms. Wise July 3, 2019 at 5:38 pm
In Mike's defense, maybe it isn't his fault. Just maybe this is a trait inherent in all males. You know, something in their DNA. In my experience, unless a man has chosen to become a landscaper as a career, the natural instinct seems to be "cut it down!" Case in point, my father was know to "accidentally" mow down my stepmother's peonies, rose bushes, and that lovely little almond bush I gave her for Mother's Day. My x-husband would cut things down when I was away, so maybe I wouldn't notice and he always threaten to take out my favorite, fragrant locust tree. Even the fellow I currently have a relationship with, has literally butchered the trees around his property leaving them looking more like flagpoles than trees. Additionally, he would love for me to let him "trim" the lovely mesquite tree that shades my pond, not fully understanding that it protects the fish from the harsh summer sun and migrating herons. For that reason, I keep a close eye on him which is something we should all do when a man has a sharp tool in his hand. I really think they just can't help themselves.
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A Perfect Getaway
By Adam Nayman	| August 21, 2012
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The cinematography in David Twohy's 2009 A Perfect Getaway is utterly lush until suddenly it isn't. The match cut that marks this shift—when Mark Plummer's complex color palette is suddenly desaturated—denotes a significant moment of formal and narrative rupture. It's the moment that this fleet and remarkably agile thriller stops on a dime. Since the statute of limitations on spoiler alerts for films that nobody saw is two-and-a-half years, it's okay to reveal the nature of the switcheroo: that Hawaiian-honeymooners Cliff (Steve Zahn) and Cydney (Milla Jovovich) are not meek city mice dodging a serial killer but wandering mad dog murderers in mid-predation. We see them in blanched-out, slyly edited flashbacks as they shed their previous identities (which seems to be their M.O.) and adopt the new ones that we've come to know. It's like a self-contained origin story after the fact.
There is a lot to say how absolutely expertly this revelation is managed on a number of levels: about the perspectival sleight-of-hand, about Zahn and Jovovich's flat-out great performances, and about the extent to which A Perfect Getaway is a film about the slipperiness of spectator identification. ("You gotta dance with the one that brung ya," goes a throwaway line in the prologue, the sound of a gauntlet being dropped.) But the importance of the visual gamesmanship shouldn't be understated, especially since it's the first time in Twohy's checkered career that the talented but erratic writer-director has fully realized his attempts to significantly color-code his experiments in genre filmmaking.
That ambition is evident in the title of Twohy's 2000 breakthrough Pitch Black, a movie made under sign of Alien. It's a grimy, lived-in vision of the semi-distant future, with outer space overrun by cargo ships; its characters look down in the mouth and seldom smile. Its distinguishing gimmick is that it eventually touches down on a planet subject to month-long eclipses where voracious, light-averse beasties congregate to dine: in space, nobody can hear you scream, or see a damned thing. What makes Pitch Black entertaining—and what possibly accounts for it becoming a minor hit despite its B-minus B-movie pedigree—is how skillfully Twohy and cinematographer David Eggby (who shot the original Mad Max) mine the contrast between their setting's sun-scorched daytimes and the impenetrable nightscapes. The color scheme in Pitch Black ranges from outrageously flared and hyperbolic—lots of harsh yellows and oranges—to barely gradated grey monochrome, with lots of shots of total darkness punctuated only by the glowing of antihero Riddick's (Vin Diesel) enhanced eyes.
Twohy took a lot of flack for Pitch Black's sequel, 2003's The Chronicles of Riddick, and much of it was deserved: the film is overbearing and ungainly where its predecessor was lithe and spry, ditching Alien as a reference point and progressing as a kind of interstellar Robert E. Howard pastiche. But once again, Twohy and his cinematographer—former Ridley and Tony Scott collaborator Hugh Johnson—expressed a desire to play with light and shade. Riddick's one undeniably awesome set piece is a fight on the surface of a planet (the poetically named Crematoria) experiencing a hellacious sunrise where the temperature goes from zero to seven hundred degrees. The characters' imperative to avoid sunlight at all costs is a clever flip of Pitch Black's carnivorous-darkness setup and gives Twohy an opportunity to stage a sequence where something as simple as rapidly receding shadows can become a locus for suspense and excitement.
In Pitch Black and Riddick, Twohy was trying to work in a neo-epic register. By contrast, A Perfect Getaway is more intimate. There are only four major characters (six, if you count the buff props played by Chris Hemsworth and Marley Shelton). And it's entirely earthbound: the idea for the script came to Twohy while he was vacationing in Hawaii himself. At first, he seems to be on his best studio-hand behavior, too. The early sections, which introduce Cliff and Cydney as deliriously happy young just-marrieds in search of scenic adventure, are no more than workmanlike, but that's because Twohy really is doing work: dropping the visual, verbal, and aural clues ("red snappers" in the words of one character) that put his story's big secret in plain sight for anybody who's paying attention. I'm not going to write about narrative in A Perfect Getaway here, but I will say that anybody who thinks the film is retrospectively a "cheat" should watch it again; there isn't a single shot or line of dialogue that violates the continuity of the story, and there are more great little gags foreshadowing the true nature of events than one could reasonably be expected to catch on a first screening.
A true genre filmmaker, Twohy doesn't look to ladle sociological meaning over the top of his material, but it oozes through anyway. The revelation that Cliff and Cydney, who flaunt their PDAs as conspicuously as their material wealth ("our wedding haul!" crows Jovovich while paying for supplies with a wad of cash) are not feckless yuppies but heartless monsters has a certain zinger quality to it. It reframes the aspirational nature of their lifestyle as a sociopathic pursuit, with the joke being that living for a couple of days as J.Crew-catalogue stooges is enough to drive even the staunchest thrill-killers crazy. The insidious brilliance of Twohy's structure is that it forces us to identify with two characters who are only nominally sympathetic and subtly obnoxious, then keeps prodding us with hints that that the other couple they meet on the island—Niko (Timothy Olyphant) and Gina (Kiele Sanchez)—are the ones we should really be rooting for even as their status as secondary characters makes them suspicious. A Perfect Getaway is at its weakest when Twohy pays lip service to these gambits by having the characters talk about screenwriting itself, but it all pays off beautifully. Upon the confirmation of Cliffy and Cydney's unsuitability as heroes, Niko and Gina's eccentricities—his fetching alpha-male arrogance and PTSD tendencies; her aw-shucks country-girl skill with serrated knives—become heroic qualities. When the film ends with these auxiliary figures front and center and triumphant, we don't feel had so much as happily vindicated.
This is where the color-switch comes in: it's the key to unlocking A Perfect Getaway. Essentially a short film in and of itself, this nine-minute segment (longer in the director's cut) recontextualizes the first hour of the film while setting things up for the extended chase-sequence climax (another great thing about A Perfect Getaway is that it uses its twist to move the story along rather than provide a "gotcha" ending). Cutting from Cliff in an underground ocean cave firing at pistol at Niko to Cliff a few days earlier offing some unlucky soul in a waterfront lot, Twohy unveils the character's true identity. The shift is heightened immeasurably by the presentation. The glossy grey-scale cinematography gives Zahn (and Jovovich) a ghoulish bearing—their eyes become burning black holes—and, more importantly, gives the section its own firm, unbroken aesthetic continuity. Everything we see through this drained, washed-out filter is the material that exceeds the previous jurisdiction of the filmmaking, a kind of "shadow story" that's rendered hyper-real as a result of its stylized presentation. What's crucial is that the array of grays in this sequence had previously been absent in the film's color spectrum. The effect, however subliminal, is of intrusion—pale, unnatural shades clash with the verdant natural textures of the Hawaiian backdrop.
It's telling that everything after the color-flip in A Perfect Getaway begins to resemble Twohy's previous filmmaking: the shot lengths shorten, the editing pattern accelerates, and he starts playing with slow motion and split-screens. This would seem like ostentatious overcompensation if the story wasn't so entertainingly cranked up at that point—Niko's "rebirth" as a sort of bionic superhero is both a tribute to Peter Jackson's Brain Dead and another nifty payoff of previously established character information—and if we hadn't already been primed for this sort of visual escalation by those flashy flashbacks. It's really all so elegant: Twohy reverses his characters' positions—and the audiences' way of relating to each pair—and in the same instant embraces his own true, painstakingly sublimated nature as a recklessly unashamed visual stylist. Form and content, molten and melted into one. If that's not the only definition of great moviemaking, it's one that I think holds up fine.


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An Audacious Goal For Leelanau County
By Beth Milligan | Dec. 3, 2018
Northport Energy was founded a decade ago with a singular mission: to make the tip of Leelanau County completely green.
As Patrick Sullivan writes in this week's Northern Express - sister publication of The Ticker - the group hasn't gotten there yet, but it's had some significant achievements. Members have helped establish one of the first "net zero" golf courses in the country. They've seen a wind turbine installed to help power the town's wastewater treatment facility. And they've set up renewable projects across the Village of Northport and Leelanau Township.
Upon their 10th anniversary, they embarked on an even more ambitious goal: They're devising a plan to power all of Leelanau County with 100 percent renewable energy. And they're determined to do it within a decade.
It is an extraordinary project, says Brandon Smith, one of three graduate students at the University of Michigan's School of Environment and Sustainability who have been recruited to map out a strategy to rid Leelanau County of coal-fired power.
"This hasn't been done before in Michigan," he says. "There have been initiatives to increase renewable energy, either on the utility scale or the local level, but it's never been done for an entire county. And part of our problem, in doing our research to find another county that's trying to do this, we have to go to Arizona or California, or across the Atlantic Ocean. This is something that's never really been done in the Great Lakes region before."
Northport Energy board member Peter Wolcott wrote the application for the grant that is funding the students' work, and he's optimistic about the project. He says the idea to go county-wide was bolstered when Northport Energy started to hear from people elsewhere in the county who were interested in what they were doing and wanted in.
"I'd say for the last year we've been talking about it, especially since we've got some people from Suttons Bay getting active," he says. "In the last couple weeks, in the work that the students have done so far, suddenly it seems quite a doable thing, because we don't consume that much energy in the county…I'm very optimistic."
The project launched in November, and the students are expected to complete their study by April. Walcott says the project has the potential to be transformational. If the group succeeds, it could potentially domino across the nation, show people around the country how to power a rural, out-of-the-way place entirely with green energy.
Read more about the ambitious energy project in this week's Northern Express story, "An Audacious Goal for Leelanau County." The Northern Express is available to read online, or pick up a free copy at one of nearly 700 spots in 14 counties across northern Michigan.
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