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Rosette Nebula – Facts and Info
Scientists believe one of the prettiest nebula clusters - the Rosette Nebula - lies around 5,000 light years away from Earth. It sits within the distant Monoceros Constellation of our Milky Way Galaxy. This region of space remains so far away from Earth that human beings would need to travel for thousands of years using a modern space ship simply to reach it in person.
Astrophotographers (photographers who take photos of space using telescopes) captured images of the lovely Rosette Nebula. The bright, colorful pictures reveal an eye-catching region of space! The nebula displays a clear center. In many images, vibrant pink and red dust clouds extend outwards from the center, somewhat resembling the petals of a red rose.
Facts About The Rosette Nebula
Even though the Rosette Nebula lies far away from Earth, scientists have discovered some amazing facts about it. It extends across a vast distance. The Rosette Nebula possesses a diameter of about 130 light years!
To really appreciate the size of the Rosette Nebula, consider this fact: a "light year" refers to the distance light travels during a single Earth year. Scientists consider 1 light year equal to about 6 trillion miles. So if you wanted to travel through the Rosette Nebula, you would need to journey 130 times 6 trillion miles, or a total of 780 trillion miles.
The Constellation of The Rosette Nebula
Even though humans cannot see the Rosette Nebula itself at night by sight alone, early star gazers did observe some of the stars forming the Monoceros Constellation. A constellation refers to a pattern of stars. The name "Monoceros" comes from the ancient Greek language. It means "unicorn".
The unicorn was a mythical animal. It resembles a horse, but has a single horn growing in the center of its forehead. Many legends exist about lovely unicorns. When ancient stargazer studied the night sky, they often noticed star patterns which they believed resembled objects or people. These early astronomers described recognizable groupings of stars in the night sky as constellations.
Finding The Constellation Containing The Rosette Nebula
Even though you cannot see the Rosette Nebula without binoculars, you can look at the sky at night to see the Monoceros Constellation. It is one of the faintest constellations. Spotting it sometimes proves challenging for this reason.
The Monoceros Constellation lies along an imaginary line drawn between two bright star constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor. People who enjoy stargazing sometimes spot this faint constellation in the sky on a dark night during cloudless weather. It remains one of the most difficult constellations to detect, perhaps because it lies so far away from the Earth.
Discovery of The Nebula
Before the invention of accurate ways to measure the Earth, sailors often relied upon stargazing to help them travel across the ocean safely. Mapmakers assisted them by charting the constellations to help guide ships. A Dutch clergyman and astronomer named Petrus Plancius spent time creating maps. He crafted a globe identifying the Monoceros Constellation in 1612 or 1613.
Several decades later, in 1690, an English astronomer named John Flamsteed may have noted the presence of part of the Rosette Nebula within the Monoceros Constellation. His widow published his star catalogue in 1725 and his star atlas in 1729. A famous English astronomer named Sir John Frederick William Herschel possibly reported on another part of the nebula over a century later. He published a study of nebulae in 1864. It updated information first reported by his father, Sir William Herschel, who also worked as an astronomer.
In the early 1880s, two American astronomers working separately to discover comets both identified the Rosette Nebula accurately for the first time within the Monoceros Constellation. Lewis Swift and Edward Emerson Barnard confirmed its existence. Scientists have studied the Rosette Nebula extensively during the past century.
Modern Research Into The Rosette Nebula
Since the 1880s, scientists have learned remarkable facts about the Rosette Nebula. Today, they classify several different regions within this cloud of dust and gas, including: NGC 2237, NGC 2238, NGC 2239, NCG 2244, and NGC 2246. They have begun mapping the nebula.
The abbreviation "NGC" stands for the words "new general catalog". It updates the catalog of nebulae compiled by a Danish astronomer named Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer. In 1888, he updated and revised the nebulae catalog compiled by the English astronomers Sir John Frederick William Herschel and his father. The effort to map nebulae demonstrates how discoveries made by one scholar sometimes assist other scholars many years later.
Exciting Discoveries About The Nebula
Today, scientists believe nebulae form for two reasons: the "death" of a star or the "birth" of stars. The gases and dust within a nebula usually consist of Hydrogen and Helium. This material sometimes spreads through space as the result of the explosion of an old star called a "supernova".
In other cases, NASA reports space dust clumps together in "star nurseries". When tightly packed clumps of dust and gas collapse inwards, they heat up. New stars possibly arise in these sites. Many scientists believe the central clear region of the Rosette Nebula contains several recently formed stars. The red areas of the Rosette Nebula likely produce stars!
Rosette Nebula – Facts and Info
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Should You Wash Raw Chicken? – 3Stoogiez!
Should You Wash Raw Chicken?
Food contamination is caused by different factors which can lead to a serious health problem if not attended immediately. World Health Organization pointed out more than 200 diseases are transmitted through food. 1 in 10 people gets sick from eating contaminated food and a yearly count of 420,000 people die as a result.
Experts says food can be contaminated during its production, distribution and preparation. Bacteria, viruses and parasites can be on food if not handled or cooked properly. That is why sanitary practices are strictly advised like washing food before cooking as the most common process. However, this practice is not as beneficial as we thought it was in the case of raw chicken. Find out why.
Bacteria that is believed to be present in raw chicken can spread all through your working area if you wash it. Water that splashes from your chicken can transport bacteria on to hands, working surfaces, your cooking utensils nearby and to your apron or clothing.
Washing raw chicken does not give you any assurance that bacteria is removed. As it was mentioned, you are likely spreading bacteria around. Freezing only reduces levels of such but not totally eliminate it. A thorough cooking is the only way to kill bacteria in your meat.
One of the bacteria present in raw chicken is campylobacter. Campylobacter is responsible for most cases of food poisoning. Uk reported around 280,000 of their people suffered from food poisoning each year with four out of five cases are caused by contaminated chicken.
People that are positive to this condition suffers from abdominal pain, vomiting, severe diarrhea, and fever. This condition should be taken seriously for it can lead to a more complicated issues like irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, reactive arthritis and a serious condition of nervous system called Guillain Barre Syndrome. Worst of all, it will lead to death.
Children under five years old and elderly people for they have lower immune system are more susceptible. Pregnant woman may have the risk of miscarriage.
Salmonella are said to be present particularly in the intestines of chicken. Introduction of contaminated food into your body will likely result to vomiting, diarrhea, fever and of course abdominal pain. Although people can recover from this illness few days after, there's still a risk for some serious complications like septicemia, an infection in the blood that can be fatal.
So it is therefore recommended not to wash raw chicken before cooking. If you wish to remove slimy substance from your chicken, you can gently wipe it with paper towel but be sure to dispose the towel after using.
Furthermore, we should always remember that such bacteria mentioned earlier can only be eradicated through a thorough cooking.
It is also a must to thoroughly wash all the used utensils including your hands and all the areas that came in contact with the raw chicken.
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2. Added a display of all the synced boxes when I detect and update the Roku viewed history. This helps when you pause on one Roku and resume on another.
3. Now allowing an external HTTP server to be user defined. Makes Linux and other OS types happy. Go into "Options" to set the IP address. The root directory of the server must contain a "Roku" folder and it may contain "Theme" and "Info" folders if you want those features.
4. Better icon arrangement for the Device screen. Instead of rows starting in the upper left, they now group toward the center with larger icons.
5. Disabled UPnP access to a WebDav server. They were hanging a Roku3. Mostly caused by Twonky.
6. Added a "Recent" pseudo folder to the Chaneru server for recently viewed movies. It contains the last ten videos that are not private. The first folder displayed for the device is "Recent" and contains links to the real movies. This really cuts down on the clicks involved to get back to viewing.
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Live at the Star Club, 18 November – 2 December, 2014
All gigs are held in The Admiral Bar, Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 7DA and start at 8.00pm.
Allan Taylor
For 40 years he has been considered as the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsung heroes, otherwise uncharted lives. His songs are faultlessly constructed and flawlessly performed, with his instantly recognisable voice, attractively dark and mellow, and his intricately detailed yet full-sounding guitar playing. His songs are written from a lifetime of travelling; always the observer passing through, each song is a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar.
www.allantaylor.com/
Rebecca Wright & Donald McKay
Rebecca & Donald's music has been likened to that of a good Scotch whisky: delightfully smooth, full of character and highly addictive. With voices that can instantly transport you to another place and time, Donald's traditional and original songs from his native Scotland are beautifully complemented by Rebecca's insightful Australian originals and thoughtful selection of contemporary gems.
www.wrightandmckay.com/
Barluath
Winners of 'The Danny Kyle Open Stage' at Celtic Connections 2012, Barluath are a Scottish folk band based in Glasgow made up of five students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. They embrace a wide range of musical styles including Scots and Gaelic Song, Bagpipes, Whistles, fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, Clarinet and Piano. With these instruments the band members explore both the Traditional and Contemporary music of Scotland.
barluath.com
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Wander the Rainbow
A true story of a living liver donation, an epic journey around the world, and a gay man's search for himself
David Jedeikin
Wander the Rainbow is a true story of a young gay professional on a spellbinding global journey in the face of some unique life circumstances.
When David Jedeikin's partner of three years becomes critically ill, the only way to save him is to volunteer as his living liver donor. But this ultimate act of sharing doesn't rescue their relationship, which ends soon after with the couple on opposite coasts.
Struggling to find perspective on these events, Jedeikin decides on a radical switch: he leaves everything behind -- work, family, friends, even the beginnings of a new relationship -- to embark on a seven-month trip around the world.
What unfolds is a dazzling array of experiences across six continents. Traveling as a flashpacker -- backpacking with creature comforts -- Jedeikin blends visits to gay nightspots with straight-edge sightseeing; unearths family roots in Latvia, China, Italy, Israel, and South Africa; learns the legacy of the Jews of Prague and Rome; and finds romance with a sex club bartender in Berlin, a Brazilian in Tokyo, and an exchange student in Beijing. From Viennese party hostels to Parisian models to hallucinogens in Cambodia, Wander the Rainbow is what happens when a career professional trades convention for a one-of-a-kind walkabout around Planet Earth.
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I've had so much fun knitting cowls that I decided to release a pattern! It's very simple - an easy project for a beginning knitter and something relaxing for the more experienced knitter. The double moss stitch gives great texture to the cowl.
Cowls were my project of choice when I was working early on to improve my knitting skills. My goal was to get really comfortable with knit and purl stitches on straight needles before progressing to the double pointed needles needed to knit mittens in the round.
One of the first items sold in the Marion's Mittens Etsy shop was a gray cowl. Interestingly enough, it was purchased by a NYC-based Shakespeare theater group who wanted to use it as chain mail in part of a costume!
I've adapted the cowl pattern over the years. Over the summer, I discovered Fair Isle Nantucket yarn at Joann. The yarn is super soft and cozy and I knew it would be great for a cowl. I adjusted the pattern so that it takes a little less than one skein of this yarn.
In January of 2019 a group of testers from the Ravelry Free Pattern Testers (FPT) group tested out the pattern and provided feedback. It was fun to see how the projects they made using this pattern turned out, and to collaborate with them to improve the pattern. Click here to see the pattern and projects on Ravelry.
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More Wilton Teens Doing GOOD
Kathy Bonnist
The Shah sibling team uses 3D printers to produce PPE
Earlier this month, GOOD Morning Wilton featured several Wilton teens who were inspired to fundraise or do other good deeds in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We continue to hear of more amazing young people taking initiative during this challenging time. Their interests and efforts are as diverse as they are laudable.
The Shahs
Aryan Shah, an 8th grader at Middlebrook School, was inspired to use the family's 3D printer to help produce desperately needed PPE for hospitals. After Aryan did some research and tested a few designs, his twin sister Saniya, also an 8th grader at Middlebrook, and older brother Rohan, a Wilton High School sophomore, decided to join in the effort. With one 3D printer running around the clock, the family added a second one to increase their productivity.
They produced 30 face shields, each requiring an hour to print. Those shields were sent to an organization called MatterHackers, an online seller of digital fabrication equipment and a unique online community of professional, academic and amateur 3D printing enthusiasts. MatterHackers had created the "Maker Response Hub" where thousands of volunteers making 3D-printed PPE could respond to requests from medical facilities across the United States, including Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The siblings (pictured above) also produced 290 tension release bands (ear savers), each taking about 20 minutes to print. Those items were given to the Warrior Helpers group to distribute and directly to a local doctor. Another 75 are nearing completion as the Shah siblings plan to continue printing more PPE for frontline workers.
Sophia Ramirez
SynYouth's logo conveys the connections between tutors and students around the world
Sophia Ramirez is a junior at WHS. Last summer, she traveled to Colombia to teach English to a group of disadvantaged children. Upon her return, she founded SynYouth, a non-profit that provides online, English language instruction to young people in Latin America. Using an online meeting platform, SynYouth connects English-speaking, high school student tutors to Spanish-speaking students hoping to improve their "real world" English skills.
Interest in SynYouth has grown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sophia believes the pandemic is fueling the opportunity to connect young people in different parts of the world when they have more available time and are often at home with so many other activities cancelled due to the virus.
Sophia is not the only WHS student involved in the program. Instrumental in the organization are fellow juniors Sophia Flaim, curriculum manager; Casey Shu, outreach manager; Aashi Yadav, social media manager; and Suhani Suneja, class coorindator.
At present, SynYouth is looking for ways to increase awareness of their services to students seeking English language tutoring.
Joy Ren and Tiffany Ling
Tiffany Ling (left) and Joy Ren formed the PERIOD.org Wilton chapter
Currently freshmen at Wilton High School, Joy Ren and Tiffany Ling are active supporters of PERIOD.org, a global, youth-run, non-profit that strives to end "period poverty" and the stigma often associated with menstruation. In addition to advocacy and education programs, much of PERIOD's work is focused on distributing menstrual products to women and girls in marginalized communities, with over six hundred PERIOD chapters in all fifty states and over fifty countries.
These two teens formed a Wilton chapter of the organization, with Ren serving as president and Ling as vice president.
Ren and Ling recognized that the COVID-19 pandemic would only intensify the difficulty for women to obtain the menstrual products they need, both in terms of affordability and accessibility. They created a fundraising page to support PERIOD.org in an effort to send menstrual products to shelters, food pantries and other providers in some of the areas hardest hit by the pandemic.
At press time they had achieved about one-third of their fundraising goal. Anyone interested in the organization may also reach to Ren and Ling by email.
Rachel Slater, a junior at Wilton High School, is a talented singer and musician. In addition to taking singing lessons at Wire Mill Academy in Georgetown, she also studies piano, plays the ukulele, and writes and performs her own songs. Slater is in the WHS Madrigals program and has sung the national anthem at numerous athletic events.
Since COVID-19 has been especially devastating for senior citizens, Slater decided to share her talents with residents at senior living facilities by singing outside their windows.
Slater has made window-side performances at Wilton Commons senior housing as well as the Long Ridge Post Acute Care nursing facility in Stamford, where her mother also works and sees firsthand how difficult the pandemic has been on residents. These residents have not been allowed visitors and many of their recreational and social activities have been curtailed. Slater hopes to return to those locations to sing again, and also add performances at Wilton nursing homes.
As this video from the Long Ridge facility shows, Slater's performances are indeed a delight for seniors or anyone else fortunate to be within earshot.
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Ryan Witty
When he's not doing a Rolling Stones video cover or writing an essay that also goes viral about the pandemic's impact on his perceptions of our town, Ryan Witty, a WHS junior, is helping economically disadvantaged individuals in the struggle against the coronavirus.
Ryan was involved in an initiative to bring homemade masks and a large donation of sterile gloves to the Open Door homeless shelter in Norwalk. Homelessness is a cause the Witty family really cares about. Every year around Christmas, they do a "midnight run" to bring food and personal care packages to the homeless in New York City.
Ryan Witty delivers masks and gloves to a Norwalk homeless shelter
Since COVID-19 made it inadvisable for Witty to make in-person deliveries to the homeless, he channeled his efforts toward the Open Door Shelter.
With some help from his mother and a tutorial from Warrior Helpers, Witty made masks designed with a pocket in which a coffee filter can be inserted. Witty explained that having a disposable filter is a helpful feature when a mask cannot be frequently cleaned, as is often the case for masks given out at Open Door.
Using bandanas and bedsheets from his own home as well as donated materials, Ryan was able to deliver 100 masks to the shelter along with a substantial supply of coffee filters and gloves.
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Business professionals conducting business with China or Chinese doing business in the USA. These are busy professionals in the downtown Boston area. Our proximity to the central Boston business area is an important selling point. The prospects would generally be over 30. They are business owners or mid-level to high-level employees in their companies.
1 Letter sized brochure, front and back.
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You do not have to match the colors of our website. Use any colors you feel are appropriate.
Style should be modern business professional. Incorporate a small amount of Chinese elements in the design in an effort to show that our company bridges the gap between East and West.
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Mineral Spirit -
FLINT -
Sometimes referenced by several different names, Flint is a member of the Quartz family that has been one of the Mineral Spirits that has been the mainstay as it were of Beings, since their first appearance here on Mother Earth. While its Medicine is seemingly as vast as is its utility, Support to Process might be the single most idea of it. A part of Flint Medicine can also be considered as Brotherhood in most every sense and way. Be it in the process of starting a fire, the procuring of food as a point of an arrow or spear, or the use of it in all kinds of tools, like axes, scrapers, and knives, Flint has always been a readily found Enabler, which perhaps is the very best idea of its Medicine. Actually, it is the relatively hard and even at times brittle nature of this Mineral Spirit that has facilitated its use in so many ways. One can easily recognize that like it sheds its outer most parts in flakes so easily, like releasing its Bark on tree of Ego, all can learn much from the Nature of this particular Mineral Spirit, in so many ways.
Flint actually appears in many colors, yet the most common found is that of a grayish hue. I personally wear Flint often as arrowhead adornments which ever are about direction and path, as well as how to be in Life. Flint is always a good South stone in the Medicine Wheel as well as west, however because of its Essential Nature and thereby Medicine, it is always welcome and serves well in any direction. Flint for obvious reasons can be used in one's Medicine Bag, Jewelry, or Prayer Stick, to represent Direction, Path, or goals. In Healing applications and Bodywork, Flint can provide positive support about the head, neck, feet, and lower back. In fact, any issues with the skeletal system at all, will find support to Remedy from Flint.
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I hope you are all having a lovely week and a great SUMMER! Here in Malta, it is boiling hot to the point that I get scared when I know that I will have to drive my car round 10 am until 5 pm! My car isn't Malta Summer Friendly!
As Summer has fully arrived, the UV rays become more harmful to our skin. Therefore, we need to get our sun protection on! I have recently started using the Ideal Soleil Anti Sand sun cream from Vichy which has SPF 50.
Now I do not quite fancy sun creams or sunblocks – they are always so sticky (but it is very IMPORTANT that you apply it during the SUMMER TIME). And if you are like me and first you apply your makeup and then apply suns cream, then forget the time that you worked on your look, because it usually will get messed up by the sunblock.
However, recently I have been given the opportunity to try out the Ideal Soleil Anti Sand sun lotion from VICHY. I found that the product didn't leave me with a sticky feeling thanks to its non-sticky formula and just blended nicely into the skin. Which meant, that even though you may have put on some makeup before and then you would apply this product after – it wouldn't leave you all patchy and white! It blends ever so nicely into the skin, even with makeup on!
Like I said it has SPF50 and protects us from UVA and UVB rays. It has a 'sensorial texture' which helps in the product being gentler and more effective on the skin. Also. this lotion may be applied on any skin type including sensitive skin. It is Paraben free and Hypoallergenic.
It includes Vichy Mineralising Water, which is a water-resistant formula that helps in keeping the skin moisturised and hydrated. It also protects the skin from becoming damaged by the sun's rays.
It has a 'lightweight texture' that helps the skin in absorbing it without leaving a 'greasy residue.' This products also entails to be an Anti-Sand lotion as it has an 'ultra-dry finish' which helps the skin to easily brush sand off.
Simply apply this before being exposed to the sun. And then keep reapplying it frequently to maintain protection from the sun especially after swimming.
When using this product I found that it worked well with my skin. Like I said the product is easy to rub into the skin and it barely shows on the skin except for a little glimmer.
What I loved the most about the product was it's unique Sun Lotion scent. As most sun creams have that common scent. However, this one had a lovely fresh scent to it.
When applying it to the skin it feels refreshing and hydrating. I also tried it at a sandy beach and was impressed by how little bits of sand stuck onto the skin. Therefore, this is a perfect product for those who DISLIKE any sand that gets stuck all over their bodies!
It protected me from the sun's rays and didn't leave me with that sticky-icky feeling! It has become my new BEST FRIEND for the beach!
Have you ever tried out this product? If not, are you intrigued by it? Comment down below!!
Thank you so much for reading and don't forget – Protect your skin from the sun!
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Prefabricated or Prefab buildings are gaining immense popularity in the recent times and for good reasons. Different parts of the building are manufactured off-site and then the dwelling units are shipped to the final location, where these parts are assembled to prepare a prefabricated building. Apart from saving hard earned bucks and billable hours, Prefab buildings offer outstanding flexibility in designs as well. These dwellings are quick to assemble and dismantle which means they can be either temporary or permanent and can be used for multiple projects. The most outstanding feature of these dwellings is that they are extremely lightweight that enables you to relocate the structure wherever you want with ease when required. Prefab building provides additional indoor space that can be used as per the requirements.
Ranging from warehouses, office spaces, parking booths and guard booth to providing temporary shelter to the victims of natural calamities, Prefab buildings are the best possible option that one can avail. You will be glad to know that there are a certain number of companies that are specialized in manufacturing and assembling Prefab buildings in Iraq. The professional companies understand that you want durable and flexible prefab building for your next project and this is why, they endeavor to provide you the customized Prefab building solutions without compromising the quality.
These reputable companies employ dedicated team of civil engineers and highly trained working staff. The professionals put up their best performance to fulfill your specific needs with absolute perfection. Whether you are seeking communication shelters, Modular Prefabricated buildings, portable type structure or even light steel buildings, the engineers strive hard to address your entire Prefab buildings in Iraq requirements proficiently while keeping the costs as low as possible. Another advantage of availing prefab structures from reputable companies is that they use rigid polyurethane insulation so as to make sure the building has High thermal insulation.
In addition to this, the companies also take the responsibility to ship prefabricated structure carefully to your preferred location anywhere within Iraq. The professionals of these companies endeavor to assemble the fabricated structure with utmost care and give you the best. To sum it up, if you are looking for Prefab buildings in Iraq then it is highly recommended to approach one of the professional companies. Just Google up for the companies and from there you can locate the best company to serve you.


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Q: Unexpected ClassCastException... using EJB I am facing a very small problem which is driving me mad..
I am calling a business method 'public List getPsubcategoryList()' from a stateless sessionbean named SlBrowseProducts .. this method used entitymanager instance to retrieve a list of Objects from Database Table mapped to Entity class named Psubcategory. this I did using a namedQuery. The list returned contains elements of type Object, I have to attach a iterator named myIterator to list and cast eachof the myIterator.next()'s to the type Psubcategory to make the result element useful and run any getters on it. However this casting returned the following error..
SEVERE: java.lang.ClassCastException: entitybeans.Psubcategory cannot be cast to entitybeans.Psubcategory
I tried googling extensively to find the cause for it.. to which I came across something called 'ClassLoader Hell' which might be causing it..
Is there any solution to this problem. Is there any other way around this... I have tried not using Iterator and instead using for loop ... but even then I have to cast.. which again lands me to the same problem..
Please Help m tight on schedule.
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List<Psubcategory> subcategoryList1 = slbp.getProductSubcategories();
if(subcategoryList1.size()!=0){
   for(int i=0;i<subcategoryList1.size();i++){
      Psubcategory temp = subcategoryList1.get(i);
      System.out.print(temp.getSubcategory());
   }
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@Stateless
@LocalBean
public class SLBrowseProducts implements TestInterface {

   EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("INNOVATIVE-INDOORSPU");
   EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

   @Override
   public List getProductSubcategories(){
      List subcategoryList=em.createNamedQuery("Psubcategory.findAll").getResultList();
      return subcategoryList;
   }
}

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@LocalBean
public class SLBrowseProducts implements TestInterface {

   EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("INNOVATIVE-INDOORSPU");
   EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

   @Override
   public List<Psubcategory> getProductSubcategories(){
         List<Psubcategory> subcategoryList=
                                em.createNamedQuery("Psubcategory.findAll").getResultList();
      return subcategoryList;
   }
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List<Psubcategory> subcategoryList1 = slbp.getProductSubcategories();
   for(Psubcategory temp : subcategoryList1){
      System.out.print(temp.getSubcategory());
   }

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What would Burns have done?
The same poem contains the couplet: "O let us not, like snarling curs / In wrangling be divided." Depending on how one reads Burns, and when, and where, he can be construed as an "Aye" and a "Nae".


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The Real Reason Guys Are Intimidated By Successful Women
Brittany Christopoulos
Like many women I know, or at least the ones I surround myself with, I work a lot. I've come to realize that my hard work ethic has begun to tarnish my reputation for being a kind girl and has transformed as the "overly independent workaholic."
That label oddly hurt me a lot more than I expected. Normally I pride myself on being a hard working woman who fends for herself, but still needs other people to fulfill certain things in my life. I loved having something to be proud of in my work and my accomplishments are a reflection of the kind of woman I am. But, why wasn't other men seeing that as a good thing?
What I've realized about men is that they really do want a woman who is going to wait around and kiss their ass when they need it. It's as if the ball always has to be in their court and they want a woman who will be available for spontaneous date nights. Being with someone who usually is busy or needs to schedule dates days in advanced isn't their cup of tea. Men want to feel like they are your number one priority and if you have other commitments then they might not feel important to you regardless of how much you spoil him with love and affection.
Men can also get really intimidated by the amount of money she has in her wallet. Personally, I don't care what you have, I like you for you. But, the moment they hear that you work a lot or have a well paying job, it's as if they feel their masculinity is diminishing and they don't feel superior anymore.
The moral of the story is, men want to date women who make them feel good about themselves. Strong and independent women make them feel insecure about their own lives and it essentially drives them away. It's like we're "too powerful" for them.
Strong women find themselves finding these men who are okay at the start and the conversation flows effortlessly. But, the moment career enters the conversation you see a sudden change and it's frustrating and somewhat hurtful. In order to keep him (or other guys) interested we have to dumb ourselves down, dull our achievements and hide a lot about the things we are proud of. That's not right. We shouldn't have to hide that in order to keep men interested in us.
What guys fail to realize is that some of the most ambitious and independent women are also the most loving and simple people on the planet. It doesn't automatically mean that our lifestyle will be more glamorous or our date picks will be extremely lavish. We like a simple kind of love where we are allowed to do our own thing for a bit, but still come together at the end of the day and enjoy each other's company; even if it means over watching an episode or two of a TV show every night before falling asleep on the couch.
With that being said, there are a lot of men who value those strong personality traits and adore an independent woman who doesn't have to rely on him all the time. Those relationships are usually very successful because they understand and appreciate your lifestyle. It's just hard to find when you're young because your still starting your career paths.
Successful women are only intimidating to the men who don't share the same work ethic or values as we do. They allow their insecurity of being less masculine to consume them and damage a shot at what a rewarding relationship they could have had. It's widely known that if you capture the heart of a hard worker, they will make the time for you in the most special way possible.
So if a man is scared off or intimidated by your drive, ambition or hard work ethic, leave him alone. He's clearly not man enough to handle a strong woman like you anyway.
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Ms. Baree explains this spike as a classic political economy tale. In the late-2000s Indian refining capacity got ahead of domestic demand, particularly at two large firms: Reliance Industries and the Essar Group. In addition, massive oil subsidies kept pump prices low. While state-owned refiners were compensated, private refiners had to turn to the international market and India became one of the largest exporters of refined fuels east of the Suez. Iran and North Korea took advantage of the opportunity: not only does trade data show a marked increase in North Korea's total fuel imports, but also huge trade diversion from its existing supplier China. In 2005, China supplied 83 percent of the DPRK's jet fuel imports; in 2007 China had plunged to 3 percent, with the other 97 percent now coming from India. Competitive prices must have played a role in this big shift, which no doubt financed an increase in military inventories of fuel.
But things contracted as swiftly as they had grown, with fuel exports falling dramatically in 2009-10 and virtually disappearing by 2011-12. A variety of organic chemicals now make up a growing share of what looks like a more diversified portfolio of exports. Incidentally, China has now replaced India as the main supplier of petroleum and distillates, making up over 80 percent of North Korea's imports in this category in 2011 and 2012.
But what explains this drop? India's petroleum exports on a whole contracted significantly in 2009, but have since seen robust growth. Perhaps the difficulty of doing business with the DPRK became too much to bear. A slightly dated report (in .pdf) by the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on trade relations with North Korea (updated through August 2012) notes "there are certain draw back (sic) for trade with DPRK such as limited foreign exchange with DPRK, non-availability of direct shipping and non-guarantee of payments through an established banking and insurance system." The page goes on to note that the DPRK has a "keen interest" in importing consumer goods on a "deferred payment basis" and is engaged in some countertrade or barter of raw materials, but that "Indian exporters have not shown much enthusiasm in exploring this market." We wonder if the oil exporters got burned, but we doubt it; exports of that magnitude must have been secured through some form of payment. Which raises the interesting question of exactly how North Korean trade and payments works. Was Pyongyang spending its hard currency Kaesong proceeds -- or even forex reserves -- in India during 2007-8?
While the trade spike is likely the result of a number of anomalous factors, it looks as if the current India-DPRK relationship is returning to historical norms: low level (but non-trivial) trade in a fairly diversified number of goods, and a sizable Korea-side export deficit. If any commentators have further insight into the rise, fall, and future trajectory of the India-DPRK trade relationship, we would love to hear it.
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I read the faqs the best I could so it what I say warrants any punishing I fully understand it but I've looked around and haven't really found anyone in the same situation as me so here it is.
and I do own the games that plan to play but does not having a cd drive mean I am just out of luck as far as using this program.
I don't have one of those either.
(10-15-2018, 04:32 AM)technus Wrote: I don't have one of those either.
And here I thought I got something wrong.
but yeah I need to look a cd drive or a dvd drive?
(10-15-2018, 04:45 AM)technus Wrote: And here I thought I got something wrong.
found this one for a cheap price.


I have just received a Pip review form 1043. Do I fill this in with as much information as my initial claim? It asks if something has changed , things are worse but do I just write this or should I go through everything that I completed on my initial form and add the extra problems.
Our PIP Claim guide covers completing the AR1 (1043) Review form.


It seems like we have been on the 6.2.5.x Beta Stream forever, but a couple of weeks ago we quietly released the full auto-installing and auto-upgrading production release version of RiskManager V6.2.8. It seems word got out, because many of you have been contacting us for upgrades to the new production release.
This version is currently released in the V6.2.5.32 build production installer for now. It ships the V6.2.8 database with the V6.2.5.32 application server and client. In a little while we will re-release it officially as V6.2.8, but we need to update all the marketing material when that happens – which is a significant effort and takes us away from adding cool stuff into the application suite. We are absolutely flat out right now with work orders – so we are holding off doing the stuff that doesn't help you directly – like new brochures. There are a couple of additional new features that we are working on which will probably make it into the V6.2.8 official version – but essentially the V6.2.5.32 production build is the 6.2.8 release. Any one that installs now will get an update notice emailed to them when the renamed 6.2.8 installer is released if there is anything different (other than the name) – and it will be just a matter of replacing a couple of files.
Unlike the beta stream, 6.2.5.32 ships as a full auto-upgrading installer and will become the new productions release against which the next auto-installer will auto upgrade your database. The installer will take any version of RiskManager from V6.1.x up to the current 6.2.5.32 build and V6.2.8 database.
So all the cool enhancements we have been working on for the last couple of years that have been in the Beta stream are now in this new production release, with as usual some more stuff added.
Most of you have been enjoying many of these features for some time now because you have been taking the Beta releases, so the changes will seem more incremental than dramatic – which of course is the idea behind the frequent Beta release programme. True to form, we haven't stopped updating, the production release already has a Beta patch which will take you to build 6.2.5.34, but until the 6.2.8 renaming, we are updating the production installer every few days anyway. The next production installer update will be out next Wednesday.
There are so many enhancements being added across the modules it is easy to miss stuff, so after you install the new app turn on incident management (if you haven't already) and take a look at what has happened to the incident system! The version in 6.2.5 was written back in 2006 – and it was begging for some attention – well it just got it. I hope you like what you see, but this is just the tip of the iceberg – the 6.2.8 engine has heaps more it can do with incidents and that is about to be unveiled over the next couple of releases.
Our existing clients will know that our version numbering is a serious understatement of what is being added as we are likely to add an entire new module in just an incremental build number change – so if we are jumping from 6.2.x to 7.0 you can imagine the dramatic enhancements we have planned for next year.
Here's a hint of what is coming: You won't be managing "risks" or "compliance obligations" for much longer – they will be Governance Topics. You wont be asking "what can go wrong?" but "how can we achieve our planned objective?". All the V6 stuff will be there, and the V6.2.8 database has largely accommodated the V7 view of the world – so V7 will be an auto-upgrade from V6 – so keep you maintenance subscriptions current because you'll get it at no extra cost. More on this new approach in later articles.
For now a couple of things about V6.2.8 / V6.2.5.32. You will notice that a new risk type will be automatically added called "incidents" with a BG of incidents and a BU of I-Well and Risk of I-Well. This is the "incident well" for incidents that are otherwise "unattached" to a risk. Don't delete them – you need them for the safety module incidents handling to work properly and appear in all reports. The I-Well is a generic risk for otherwise unlinked incidents.
The incident engine has a whole lot of different reportable event types in it now, as well as a method for tracking the reports action and a work flow of incident handling. You can still design your own additional attributes and properties, but the current single table view is about to change so that their will be different sets of attributes for each incident type.
You will also notice that the certification / SOX / Sched7 system will insist on creating a "root" account of "0000″ called "Root". Don't delete this either – if you do it will be automatically recreated. This is the root of your chart of accounts. It will allow you to have several different "sets of books" in the chart for different organisations, etc. All accounts ultimately descend from this root account. The reason it exists is to ensure that there are no orphan account trees for role ups.
For those of you who have been using master-child risk/compliance relationships (which should be everybody, right?), the roll up engine now rolls up everything – that means that financial values, likelihood, impact, control, assertions, breach flags, etc are rolled up as well as the residual ratings. (Not the sub tables though – like incidents or causes, except for assertions). This means that the strange anomalies in bubble charts for master risks are no longer there, BUT you can not set master risk likelihood, consequence, control, assertion responses and ratings or financial values independent of their children once roll up is engaged. In particular the assertions roll up will float all child assertions up to the master risk/obligation – with the responses according the to assertion roll up rule (so make sure these are set). Breach flags in the master risks can therefore be triggered by breaches in children – or non completion of assertion responses. This makes a lot more sense that the old way of doing it, but you might need to re-jig some of your structures a little if you have been treating master risks as just another risk.
This release also surfaces test plans for the certification/compliance module which have been brewing for a while now and are finally appearing. Again this is a first taste of this stuff, with much more appearing as fast as we can get the screens done. The 6.2.8 DB already has the tables in it for the soon-to-be-released parts. For now you can create, design, schedule and manage test plans, and in a few weeks you will be able to record and review the test outcomes and progress as well.
We pulled the claims module back from earlier BETA release of a few months ago so we can do more work on it, but it is only temporary, it will be back in in the new year. We simply have not had the time to get back to that with all the other client requests we have been working on. Also we decided that there were some other modules that required attention before claims would work as intended – one of those is obviously incidents.
We will eventually rename these but for now this is what they mean: general risks are either project or general "corporate" risks of a future event, compliance obligation risks are the risk of a compliance obligation not being met – IE. the risk of non-compliance, while compliance topics are the compliance events that must are either occurring and must be managed back to compliance or are likely to occur without if ignored. Every governance topic can be seen in any of these views simultaneously – as a general risk, as a compliance obligation, or as a compliance event.
The main difference between the two ways of looking at compliance is that a compliance risk focuses on strategies / controls to minimise the causes of compliance failure and hence the risk of non compliance, while the compliance topic screen focuses on actions required to remediate the causes of the non compliance and then the control "learning" from that experience.
The two views come about because of the slightly different slant arising from financial statements compliance – where we wish to be able to assert a level of confidence in (and be entitled to assume reliance on) a set of values in the FMS to a level of materiality, versus document compliance – legislation or policy - where there is no allowance for materiality but where active remediation is a defence.
The names are not the best in the RM suite – and apologise for this in advance – but it comes from our need to marry the two different views of compliance where both types of client use the same terminology for fundamentally different ideas and approaches, and our desire to allow you to switch between the two views "live" .
So what is currently in the RiskManager V6.2.x suite ?
This list doesn't really do it justice because some of these could inspire entire sublists of features, but these are the "big picture" items.
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Super-smooth, sweet and a little bit addictive, this is an artisanal lemon spread from Sicily. Slather it generously on toast, use it as a quick icing for cup cakes or in home-made ice-creams and custards. We promise we won't tell if you decide to eat it straight from the jar.
Super-smooth, sweet and a little bit addictive, this is an artisanal orange spread from Sicily. Slather it generously on toast, use it as a quick icing for cup cakes or in home-made ice-creams and custards. We promise we won't tell if you decide to eat it straight from the jar.
It makes a great gift, particularly around Christmas time.
300g green lithograph cube tin. Gluten Free.
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Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These chocolate amaretti biscuits are made with almond meal and fruit and have a soft, smooth texture – they make an ideal accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These amaretti are made with almond meal and natural ingredients and have a soft, smooth texture. The perfect accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
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Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These amaretti biscuits are made with finely ground pistachios, creating a vibrant green colour and smooth, rich, sweet flavour. An ideal accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These hazelnut amaretti biscuits are made with almond and hazelnut meal and have a soft, smooth texture – they make an ideal accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These chocolate amaretti biscuits are made with almond meal and cocoa and have a soft, smooth texture – they make an ideal accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These amaretti biscuits are made with almond meal and moist coconut. They have a soft, smooth texture and a rich, sweet flavour. Enjoy with your afternoon coffee.
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Amaretti Virgina are specialist artisan bakers in Liguria, Italy. They have been making traditional biscotti and panettone for over 150 years. These chestnut amaretti biscuits are made with almond meal, fig and walnuts and have a soft, smooth texture – they make an ideal accompaniment to your afternoon coffee.
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The Technical Support Team tracks and handles a variety of requests through our online ticket system.
General Questions We recommend visiting the Coupa Knowledge Base prior to opening a ticket, as your question may already have been addressed.
Platform/Service issues The ticket should explicitly state the issue, reproduction steps, and business impact. Tickets are responded to according to your Technical Support Plan (link to plan graphic) and severity.
Service Requests If you would like a change or modification made to your Coupa deployment, open a ticket. Please state the request clearly and also authorize the activity to take place. Also, specify if there is a certain time you would like the task to be performed.
Product Ideas We spend quite a bit of time working with our customers to understand what features they need in the software. Check out the Coupa Community to log a product idea and see what others are asking for. If you find an existing idea you like, please comment on it. We use the volume of comments on a idea to guide us in making decisions about what to include in future releases.
Integrations If you have questions related to an existing integration or you are interested in adding a new integration to your Coupa deployment, please open a ticket. Once your request is received, we will follow up, then route it to the Coupa Integrations team to scope the project.
Upon creating a ticket, you receive a system-generated email acknowledgment providing your ticket number. The Technical Support team prioritizes tickets according to severity levels and to your service plan, and works in stage to resolve all issues.
Also, make sure the severity level accurately reflects the impact on your business.
Severity 1 Severe production error that results in Coupa being completely unavailable and halting transactions, with no workaround.
Severity 2 Serious error that results in a major function of Coupa suffering a reproducible problem, causing either major inconvenience to users or consistent failure in common functionality.
Severity 3 Error that results in common functionality experiencing an intermittent problem or a consistent failure in less common functionality.
During the Research stage, the Technical Support engineer works to reproduce the reported issue. If the ticket was opened to address a specific question, the details of the question are investigated and reported back via the web-based ticket tracking system.
Provide instruction and reference documentation, if the reported issue is due to user error or a misunderstanding.
If the Technical Support engineer has trouble reproducing the problem, you may be contacted to discuss the case or to provide additional detail.
Once the Technical Support engineer investigates your issue, a solution is provided. You should test the solution to confirm the issue is resolved. When there is a mutual agreement that the issue is resolved, the Engineer closes the ticket. If the issue is not resolved to your satisfaction, you should provide the Technical Support engineer with detail related to the area(s) you feel are not resolved, for further investigation or explanation.
If your ticket needs resolution by the Coupa Development Team, you can track the status through the Planned Availability field on the ticket.
The Coupa Technical Support Team is fanatical about making our customers successful and ensuring you are satisfied with the resolution to your tickets. At the conclusion of each ticket, a short survey is sent so you can provide feedback about your interaction with the Coupa Technical Support Team. Your feedback is appreciated and helps us ensure we are providing the best service possible.


The three cases initiated over the Rana Plaza collapse, which left over a 1,100 people dead, have made little headway in the past three years.
Has anything changed three years on?
At least 1,135 people were killed and over 2,500 injured when the eight-storey building, housing five garment factories, at Savar on the outskirts of capital Dhaka collapsed on Apr 24, 2013.
Savar police opened a case of culpable homicide and Capital Development Authority (RAJUK) filed another case for the structural fault in the construction of the building the same day.
A total of 41 persons have been named in the police case while the number of accused persons in the RAJUK case is 18.
Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, his parents and 14 others stand accused in both the cases.
Two Dhaka courts are scheduled to hear the first two cases on Apr 28 and fix the date for framing charges.
The Anti Corruption Commission, too, prosecuted Rana, his parents and several others in 2014 alleging irregularities in the construction.
The High Court has also issued a rule on its own volition and several orders following writ petitions on the incident.
The ACC case is being reinvestigated as the court found errors in the chargesheet.
The antigraft agency has been ordered to submit the new investigation report by May 8.


The Jaden II Necklace features ALUMINUM disks (dime size) that are stamped with names up to 7-8 characters. This is a classic and simple necklace design for anyone! Comes with a freshwater pearl dangle. Choose from 1-4 disks.
►In the 'add an optional note' message box, please leave names to be stamped as well as chain length- 16", 17", 18", 19", 20"
PLEASE NOTE: These disks are ALUMINUM. Aluminum is a more economic metal choice than sterling silver. Aluminum is light weight, hypoallergenic, does not tarnish or rust and is eco friendly! However, if you prefer the quality, pureness and durability properties of sterling silver, check out the Jaden Necklace.
►Model is wearing 18" necklace.


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New Mini Cooper set from Lego
News & Advice > News > New Mini Cooper set from Lego
Forget Star Wars spaceships or 'The Simpsons' house; Lego has released what could be its coolest kit ever: the classic Mini Cooper.
That's right, the Danish toy giant has seen fit to create a faithful representation of the iconic British model out of its famous plastic bricks, and has managed to squeeze in a surprising amount of the car's features.
Lift the bonnet and you'll find an in-line four-cylinder motor, complete with carburettors, and at the rear there's a charming picnic box stuffed into the boot.
The Lego Mini Cooper set comes with a recommended retail price of £74.99
The attention to detail doesn't stop there, however. Take that picnic box out, lift up the boot floor and you'll find the car's spare wheel.
The cabin is also faithfully recreated, with a wood trimmed dashboard and beige seats with a chequered pattern. The proportions for the controls are slightly off, though…
Fittingly, the model is finished in British Racing Green, and sports go-faster stripes on the bonnet.
If you're concerned that you're too old for Lego, we'd like to point out that the kit is aimed at an all-encompassing 16+ age range, so there's no need to feel guilty about re-living your childhood pastimes.
The Mini Cooper Lego kit is officially launched on August 1, with an RRP of £74.99.
If you'd rather buy a full sized Mini, you can search our classifieds for one here.


All work was completed in time for launch and delivered following the client's requirements. There was very little back and forth with changes and bug fixes. In addition to doing the coding, I also was dealing with all of the various stakeholders to help gather requirements on functionality and also demo the tool as I progressed in my development.


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short stories interactive word games
Louisa Campbell
They buried you alive, the Japanese. I saw this photograph in a library book. It was black and white and only about three centimetres square. In the foreground there's a deep rectangular pit dug in the earth. It's the size of a small swimming pool. Behind it and coming down the right-hand side towards the front, a line of British soldiers. They're queuing up politely to get into the pit. In the left-hand front corner there's a Japanese guard, just standing there with a rifle. It made me feel sick, to be honest. It wasn't gory, like that other stuff with the ropes and broken tin cans, but it was that image which preyed upon me. Black and white soldiers would queue across the mirror when I brushed my teeth in the mornings; they would descend into their grave in the dark corners of the bedroom when I closed my eyes at night. It took me months to shake them off.
I wanted to know what had happened: what it was that gave Bill his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He never talked about his prisoner of war days. He was such a gentleman; he always used my full name: "Nathaniel". Everyone else calls me "Nate". If he was yawning at work, he'd say, "Sorry, Nathaniel, they were biffing me on the head again last night," not "thrashing", or "torturing", but a cosy little word like "biffing". That was typical of Bill. I asked him once how he coped with it and he just shrugged and said, 'You have to play the cards you're dealt.'
He should have retired years ago, but he didn't want to, and the council didn't make him. He went part-time, and Angus and I did all the heavy work, anyway, although Bill was tall and still wiry. We couldn't have managed without him, to be honest. Bill knew everything about the park. Sometimes he'd stop and hold his finger to his lips, then whisper something to me like, 'Nathaniel, look - weasel!' There it would be in the distance, flying along the ground like some miniature furry skateboard. Other times he'd just stop and say, 'Nathaniel, look…' and then I'd really see the park: That autumn the shrubs around the lake were all citrus colours with the familiar green of the grass as a background. Bill used to say the St. John's Wort looked as if it was giggling.
Bill had his outbursts, of course. Well, I suppose he couldn't take any stress, so we had to be careful not to let him know if anything had gone wrong. It was ok, though, because you could forgive him before he even started, with what he'd been through.
In the mornings, before work, Angus used to do his tai chi in front of the lake. He was strong - more than strong - he was full of Chi: the life force. Angus had red hair and a beard all sculpted short, creating tantalising shapes around the nape of his neck and his cheekbones. His muscles were like rock. The contours of his body moving slowly in front of that shimmering water; well, I couldn't take my eyes off him. He came from the Isle of Skye, but he had trained with monks in Beijing. Angus told me that you build up even more chi if you don't ejaculate. We were alone in the gardeners' hut when he told me that.
Angus tried to teach Bill tai chi once, because it would be good for Bill's nerves. Bill was hopeless. Angus stepped to the right and Bill lurched to the left. Then Angus held up his left arm and Bill waved his right arm. Poor Bill, he looked like a scarecrow on speed. Sweat was starting to break out in front of his receding hairline. In the end, he basically crashed into Angus and Angus started to lose his temper. The mallards were cackling; the Canadian geese were honking. I was terrified Bill was going to go off on one and start rolling his eyes up inside his eyelids again, but it was so funny I couldn't help sniggering. Then - thank God - Bill started laughing, then Angus, too. It was brilliant. When the yummy mummies jogged past staring at us, I nearly wet myself.
I was given the job of choosing the colours for the ornamental garden area. I was proud of that. I designed a scheme inspired by Angus doing tai chi in the sunrise. I didn't tell anyone that, though. It was scarlet gerberas, orange peonies and marigolds for his hair and the russet flush of his cheeks. Then I had emerald green ornamental grasses for the colour of his eyes. Everyone loved it.
So those days - with Bill and Angus and me - were the happiest days of my life. Then along came Eve and the storm and that was the end of it.
I guess her husband didn't make much as a postman, so Eve wanted to work. She'd done a course in gardening. My girlfriend always asks me how she looks every morning before she goes to work, because I always give an honest answer (we love going clothes shopping together at the weekends). So, I was a bit anxious that Eve would ask me if she looked fat in her green overalls because I'd just have to tell her she looked like a big green upholstered settee. She had long fake blonde hair, udders you could feed a herd of calves with and an arse the size of Australia. She had a stupid squeaky voice as if she was talking to infant school children and she was always touching people when she spoke to them. She thought she was deeply spiritual; she was into 'therapies' and health foods. I used to cringe when she opened her mouth.
We had to warn Eve about Bill: not to upset him and that it wasn't his fault.
'Has he tried aromatherapy?' She asked, 'It's ever so good for stress, don't you know? I get lavender for my husband. He gets stressed sometimes. You wouldn't think it, would you, being a postman? You'd think all that walking would be good for him, but he gets so busy, especially with Christmas coming up. Actually, I must get him some more because he must have run out, so I can go down to the health food shop and get some for my husband and for Bill at the same time. It would only take half an hour. That would be good, wouldn't it? Do you think Bill would like that?' She rubbed her hand on Angus's shoulder and looked at him, all wide-eyed and excited. So, I just said, 'to be honest, Eve, you'd be pissing in the wind.'
That night the storm came. The sheer sound of it was overwhelming. It made you wince and shudder. Roaring around the town, it was as if it could prise off your roof with its bare hands, or flip your car over with one whack of its arm. My girlfriend just slept through it all. I've no idea how she managed that, especially when my neighbour's garage door went, and it sounded like fingernails down a blackboard. Then the power cut and you had to be frightened all in the dark, too.
The next morning, Angus and I had both arrived early with the same thought: Bill. As we walked through the entrance gates, there was an ash tree snapped in two, with milky-pink flesh wounds in its grey-green bark. In the distance, at the far side of the dog-walkers' field, we saw the oaks, but not as we were used to seeing them: five had been blown over, heaving out giant balls of earthy roots, taller than a man. Bill was crouching beside an oak, trying to push it back up again, then running to the next one and trying again, then to the next, then back to the first one.
As we walked towards Bill, past the children's play area with the climbing frame tossed on its side, I remembered when I was four and I found a dead starling in the back garden; I smeared cough medicine into its beak and made a little bed for it from a Cooks Matches box with pink Andrex toilet paper inside.
When Bill saw us, he cried out, 'We've got to put them back; we've got to put them back!' He was crouched down, not even trying to push now, just sort of hugging the trunk, trembling. Then his eyeballs began to flicker upwards and back into his head.
That was the first time Eve had seen him like that. She arrived, squealing, 'My husband's shirts are still up on the roof!' then she saw Bill and fell silent. Angus went over and put his arms around Bill's shoulders and got him to the gardeners' shed. We gave him tea and Eve found custard creams ('sugar is good for shock') and Bill calmed down.
The next day Eve came in with her Big Idea. 'We can get him his ex-gratia payment.' She waved The Telegraph at us.
'What's that, then?' Angus asked.
Like a child at show-and-tell, she shook back her peroxide locks, opened the newspaper and read, 'Up to sixteen thousand, seven hundred people would be eligible for ex gratia payments for the unique circumstances of their captivity...' Then she widened her eyes as big as she could and set them on us, 'It would be ten thousand pounds. It would help him. It would give him ac-know-ledge-ment. Let's face it, he's not getting any younger and he shouldn't die this sad. It would show him he's a hero. He might even be in The Courier.'
We thought about all the things Bill could do with the money. He could go and visit his son in New Zealand. I pictured him bringing his holiday photos into work, with all the joy in his eyes, showing us his grandkids.
I went up to the National Archives to get proof for the claim form. Japanese Index Cards of Second World War Allied Prisoners of War and Internees. You order them in advance. Fifty-eight small boxes made of thick tan-coloured board and inside each one, about a hundred little yellowed cards, each with a man's name, rank and army unit, with the name of the camp, all in that old manual typewriter print. I shed a tear, to be honest, looking at them. Bill's name wasn't there, but that was alright because the clerk explained to me the records were 'understandably incomplete' and I could get more information from Bill's regimental museum.
Back at work, I told the others we'd need fifty quid for the research fee. We had a whip round. It would be worth every penny. Eve said she'd give the letter to her husband for posting, although I'd rather have just shoved it in a post box, to be honest.
Anyway, the reply took two weeks to come back. Bill had gone off to the depot that morning and we were so grateful because I don't think we could have waited much longer to open it. When he saw the envelope, Angus grinned and rubbed his hands together. Eve did a little jig.
The letter said, 'Kent Regiment Museum' in large khaki type at the top and had a picture of some sort of fortress. I got Angus to read it out in his gorgeous Highlands accent. He could be a newsreader or something if he wanted to.
It referred to Bill as 'Private W.F. Johns' and then it went on about his regiment having left Burma before Bill joined up. Then it talked about Poona and a load of stuff that was boring, to be honest. We were waiting to get to the bit which said where he was imprisoned: the name of the camp. Angus kept reading, but that sentence never came.
At the end, it said, 'Therefore, I can shed no light on Mr Johns' incarceration at the hands of the Japanese.' Angus read that sentence again, slower. Then he read it louder.
We sat in silence. Then Eve asked, 'What does it mean?'
'It means,' Angus boomed, 'it means that it looks like Bill has made it all up.' Eve said, 'No, he can't have. There must be some mistake; some admin thing. Did you put the right army number?'
'It's the right number and the right name, Eve. It's here in black and white: he never got anywhere near the Japs.' Angus's veins were standing up on his neck. I was so relieved Bill wasn't there because I honestly think Angus might have throttled him. Eve burst into tears. I walked out of the hut and left them to it. I kept thinking that I'd had that black and white photo tearing around, causing havoc in my head all that time, all for nothing. Nobody said a word to Bill. I couldn't wait to get out of that park after that. It just seemed like endless hours scraping up sticky, decaying leaves and dog shit. Then of course there were all those fallen trees to dispose of and no one felt like deciding what to do with them.
About a week later, I walk into the Royal Oak and there are Angus and Eve, with their backs to me at the bar, drinking cider. Angus has his arm around her and he's copping a big handful of her marshmallow backside.
I am now past caring. They can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned. I was lucky, really, because two months ago I got a job in a gorgeous florist's. I'm marrying my girlfriend next spring. I'm going to do the flowers. We're going to have orange and fuchsia roses with peach spray roses and scarlet gerberas. I'm looking forward to it, to be honest. We've been together for three years and it seems the right thing to do. We have a quiet life, but that's good, really, isn't it? Like Bill says, you have to play the cards you're dealt.
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Vincent Zhao
Zhao maintained high academic standards, and in 1990, he was accepted by Beijing Sport University to study martial arts.
Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo was born in Harbin, China in 1972. He began learning martial arts at a very young age, inheriting the passion from his father. At age 13, Zhao entered the Harbin Martial Arts Team and became the youngest team member. He was especially passionate with Tai-Chi fist (Taijiquan) during his course of study, and he and his team gained numerous awards at the provincial championships.
At age 18, Viencent Zhao enrolled in Beijing Sports University and majored in Martial Arts. He won the champions in spear and swordplay in various joint-university competitions and was also the champion of the 1991 National Aerobic Gymnastics Tournament.
In 1992, during the second year of university, Zhao was cast as a villain against Jet Li in Fong Sai Yuk. Zhao's performance earned a lot of credits and he was immediately offered many starring film roles. After graduation, Zhao was offered the post of a lecturer to teach in Beijing Sports University, but he chose to focus on his filming career and quitted the university after 3 months. Zhao went on to make films and TV dramas in Hong Kong and China. He appeared in Tsui Hark's Green Snake (1993), 'Broke Arm Blade (1994). Zhao has made more than 14 movies and 18 TV series.
Zhao married his girlfriend Zhang Danlu whom he met in 2002 on June 2006, and their daughter, was born in September 2007. In November 2007, Zhao brought his family back to Beijing. At the airport, when interviewed, Zhao said his daughter is named "Rosita", Chinese name "Zhao Ziyang". His daughter shares the same name as the late politician Zhao Ziyang, whose name has been a taboo subject in China since 1989.
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Q: rclone mount volume automatically via bashrc on startup I am using rclone to mount a folder from my cloudstorage on my local computers. however, on one machine I only connect via terminal and I want to mount the volume on startup.
So I setup a small shell-script with following contents:
rclone mount remoterep:/examplefolder ~/Documents/examplefolder

and I call it in bashrc with exec ~/mount_examplefolder
when I ssh into said computer, it is working as I do not get any errors but the shell refuses to take any further commands as the mount command is executed.
If I add another ssh login, I get an error-prompt, because it can't overwrite the mount folder from the other session.
So how do I fix this, that the rclone is being executed in the background giving me access to shell back?
Or am I restricted to mounting it manually and then using another ssh session to perform the desired actions?

A: There's a couple of things here that are causing some problems.
First, when you use exec to spawn a process in the shell, that means that you want to replace the existing shell process with the program you've mentioned.  When you do that in an SSH session, you replace the shell process that the SSH daemon started (and you were intending to use to log in).  SSH will then wait for that process to exit (which it won't until the volume is umounted), which is why you see the hang.  You'll want to skip the exec in your shell configuration, which will spawn the process without replacing your shell.
Second, the reason you see the error is that the mount process is designed to be run once, as you've noticed.  If you want to skip mounting the folder if it's already mounted, you can use something like the following as your shell script:
#!/bin/sh

if ! grep " $HOME/Documents/examplefolder " /proc/mounts
then
    rclone mount remoterep:/examplefolder ~/Documents/examplefolder
fi

Note the spaces inside the quotes that ensure that you haven't matched something else by accident.  This will ensure that your script doesn't try to mount multiple times.
Third, you'll probably want to run this command in the background and detached from the shell so that the exit of the shell doesn't cause it to receive SIGHUP and exit (or restart, depending on how it's configured).  You can do this by writing the invocation in your shell configuration as nohup ~/mount_examplefolder >/dev/null 2>&1 &.  nohup prevents the program from receiving SIGHUP and redirecting output prevents it from printing messages or creating nohup.out files all over the place.
Finally, you may (or may not) want to configure this to run only when you're using an interactive shell; that is, when you're logging in to start a shell for interactive use rather than scripting use.  If so, you can make the invocation of nohup condition on PS1 being set like so:
if [ -n "$PS1" ]
then
    nohup ~/mount_examplefolder >/dev/null 2>&1 &
fi


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Our access problem
By Ty Joplin on April 15, 2013 |
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Admission into a top school is widely regarded as a crapshoot — top private colleges like Haverford are receiving record numbers of applications each coming year, with all signs pointing to more people applying to more highly-ranked schools. Class sizes, however, remain relatively stable, meaning admission rates are rapidly decreasing.
Haverford is no exception — the admit rate has dropped from 30% for the Class of 2007 to 25% for 2013 and 22.9% for 2016.
We hear it all the time: the unfortunate reality is that while many are qualified to attend institutions like Haverford, we simply don't have enough room for everybody. Yet, instead of viewing this as a problem, Haverford and other colleges have made it a source of pride, manifested through exclamations of how small and intimate our community is. The size of our community is essential to the Haverford experience, but we must not forget that it comes at the expense of too many qualified students.
College experiences and college degrees are mechanisms to change lives. Haverford's brand of education goes a step beyond most, showcasing its emphasis on social justice and actually using the education received to effect positive change in the U.S. and other countries.
But being smart, driven, and qualified is no longer enough. Schools see decreasing admission rates as a sign of prestige rather than a growing problem and barrier to upward mobility. Even if schools don't see the bottomless pit of decreasing admit rates as good thing, the most that happens is a shrug and a little comment about how tough everything is getting nowadays.
The financial reality and capacity of the College to accept students is an important and inevitable part of the conversation, but we shouldn't accept these as immovable barriers or allow them to limit the scope of our idealism. We should not be content with the fact that Haverford turns down so many bright people who would undoubtedly thrive here, but there is a profound absence of passion towards the issue.
We shouldn't accept lower admission rates as a sign of prestige or the crapshoot process of admissions. Rather, we should view this reality as a problem that can be fixed or mitigated, not just one that is unfortunate and inevitable. Otherwise, we are doing a disservice not only to applicants but to the goals of the institution as well.
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Professor Bruce Chapman has been leading the development and discourse around income-contingent loans (ICL) for tertiary students since 1989, when he first proposed it as an alternative university payment system.
These are loans that students only pay back once they are earning income over a certain threshold (currently around $52,000 pa). The Australian government at the time implemented his model in what we call HECS – the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. Professor Chapman has since developed a global network of colleagues who are helping to shape the way other countries around the world implement tertiary education student loans.
The benefit of ICLs over traditional time-based repayment loans is that they protect graduate debtors from hardship and default because no repayments are required when people find themselves in low income situations. This in turn helps to break cycles of poverty and raises national economic growth to its full potential. Millions of Australians have already experienced this positive impact through repayments only being required when they are affordable, such as if they are still studying, if they become unemployed, take leave for child rearing or if other life circumstances result in an incapacity to repay.
Following the introduction of HECS, Professor Chapman continued his research in the area and worked with numerous academic economists and governments, and ICLs have been adopted in New Zealand, England, Thailand, Hungary and South Korea. Currently, as a result of joint work with many others, this has resulted in active debates and legislative reform towards ICL in Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Japan and Malaysia.
This is both to help replace malfunctioning student loan systems and to put ICLs in places where they did not exist.
Throughout Professor Chapman's work with ICLs, he has received a tremendous amount of support from both the College of Business and Economics (CBE) and the Research School of Economics, who have helped to fund the development of new econometric techniques, as well as many of the summits, conferences and trips that made it possible for his research to be widely disseminated, and ultimately applied internationally. This has led to the formation of the network, the Centre for International Student Loan Research (CISLR), based both at CBE and the University College London, involving over 25 active international higher education researchers, including Tim Higgins and Dung Doan from CBE.
As a result of their efforts, it is estimated that over 15 million students in eight different countries have benefited directly from ICLs already, and that this number will more than double soon as other countries adopt ICLs.


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Bloomberg launching $100 million digital ad campaign as he contemplates Democratic presidential bid
By Michael Scherer
John Wagner
November 15, 2019 at 1:24 p.m. EST
Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg talks to the media after filing paperwork to appear on the ballot in Arkansas. (AP)
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman who is taking steps to run for president, has launched a $100 million digital ad campaign attacking President Trump in the battleground states expected to determine next year's election.
The effort will provide a significant boost to Democratic efforts — now totaling at least $325 million in public commitments — to keep the heat on Trump while Democratic candidates battle each other to win the party's presidential nomination.
"Our thinking is that the general election has already begun," said Jason Schechter, a Bloomberg spokesman.
The outlay, which far exceeds what any Democratic candidate has raised or spent so far in the race, adds to those of several other outside groups who have devoted money to early swing state campaigns.
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is making plans to file paperwork for candidacy in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary field. (Video: Blair Guild/The Washington Post)
Priorities USA, an independent Democratic nonprofit and super PAC effort, has already spent about $7 million of a $100 million campaign for swing state anti-Trump advertising during the primaries. American Bridge, a group that typically focuses on opposition research, launched a $3 million campaign this week focused on rural white voters as part of an effort expected to reach $50 million.
A third group, ACRONYM, which is being advised by former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, has announced plans for $75 million in digital ads against Trump.
The money is intended to challenge the significant advantages of incumbency in presidential campaigns. Trump's campaign announced $156 million in cash on hand at the end of September, after raising $125 million in the previous three months.
By contrast, the top fundraising Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has raised less than $75 million through the first three quarters of the year. former vice president Joe Biden, who has led national nomination polls this year, has raised less than $38 million in the same nine months.
Trump has also dominated Democratic candidates so far on digital spending. On Facebook, the Trump campaign and its affiliates have purchased $14.7 million in ads this year, according to the social network, compared with $5.45 million by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and $4.3 million by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Much of the early digital spending by candidates is focused on prospecting for more campaign donors, not on persuading swing state voters. An analysis by Priorities USA of recent Trump Facebook ads found that 89 percent of the messages were focused on acquiring new donors and voter information, including spots that ask people to wish Trump a happy birthday or buy campaign merchandise.
"Sometimes you spell 'desperation' d-e-m-o-c-r-a-t-s," Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said in response to the news of the new Bloomberg digital effort, which was first reported by the New York Times.
A pro-Trump independent effort, the America First Action super PAC and an affiliated group, has announced a fundraising goal of $300 million for the 2020 cycle to defend Trump in battleground states. That spending is expected to focus on Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
In one Bloomberg ad provided to The Washington Post, Trump's Twitter feed is highlighted along with the message: "A tweet shouldn't threaten our country's security."
The digital campaign was scheduled to begin Friday, with plans for spending in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona, according to Bloomberg aides. They said Bloomberg will not appear in the ads, which will nonetheless make clear he paid for them.
"If Mike runs, it is because he believes that Donald Trump is an existential threat, and this demonstrates his commitment to defeating him," said Howard Wolfson, a senior adviser to Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, one of the world's richest men, has taken several steps to prepare for a bid for the Democratic nomination, including filing paperwork in states with early deadlines to get on the ballot. He has also been calling top party officials to let them know of his plans.
The move marks a major reversal for Bloomberg, who announced in March that he would not run for president. At the time, he said he was "clear-eyed about the difficulty of winning the Democratic nomination" and would instead focus on spending his money in an effort to hurt Trump's chances in swing states.
But he and his advisers have since concluded that there is a possible route to the nomination because of lingering divisions in the field and the vulnerabilities of the top-polling candidates.
The decision to reconsider signals, among other things, a public rebuke of 's performance so far. The former vice president has attempted to build a coalition of the same moderate Democrats that Bloomberg would court.