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Anti-vaxxers attend a U.S. science panel, finally see the error of their ways. Just kidding, they attack the panel like a bad case of measles attacking an unvaccinated child (sciencemag.org)
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It's time for the Botulism Challenge for those farking idiots.. Here, eat this entire jar of of tainted smoked salmon, and let's see how long you last without interventional medicines.. Whoever lasts the longest gets a free trip to Disney World.
Ah the old 'this vaccine harms 0.01-0.05% of kids so it's way worse than leaving them unvaccinated, only 1.4% are harmed naturally and 0.3% die' argument - because dying a natural death is great for kids, leaves them big and strong in that little coffin.
Source of stats - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/5/02-0562_article
Petit_Merdeux
Ooooh! A bunch of "scientists" say we should get vaccinated while they fly around on planes and drive cars! Such hypocrites!
They can't even make up their minds if Pluto is a planet or a Disney character!
Kit Fister
Xai: Ah the old 'this vaccine harms 0.01-0.05% of kids so it's way worse than leaving them unvaccinated, only 1.4% are harmed naturally and 0.3% die' argument - because dying a natural death is great for kids, leaves them big and strong in that little coffin.
Source of stats - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/5/02-0562_article
These things only affect a tiny percentage of the population! Quick, we should ban/heavily restrict those things!
sdd2000
Unfortunately this is getting a work out recently.
sboyle1020
Oblig.
eKonk
"My ignorance is just as valid as your logical position that is well-supported by mounds of solid evidence!"
lifeslammer
just make it so not vaccinating children is grounds for their removal due to child abuse, neglect, willfully placing your child in danger, attempted murder, and whatever else they can think of
Galileo's Daughter
Anti vaxxers are a plague on mankind.
Karac
The increasingly vituperative public attacks can be tough on ACIP scientists, however. "How does it feel knowing that your vote killed my son?" one woman asked the panel in October 2018.
"Not that bad, since I don't know the medical details of your son's case, but as an antivaxxer it's possible you're blaming the vaccination for causing him to be run over by a drunk driver. And even if the vaccine did contribute to his death I still wouldn't feel to terrible since I know my vote would saved the lives of thousands of other kids."
eKonk: "My ignorance is just as valid as your logical position that is well-supported by mounds of solid evidence!"
But, but, but, their appeals to emotion! How can you ignore their feelings and their beliefs and their fears? You heartless autism-supporter!
meat0918
fark them.
But use protection
lifeslammer: just make it so not vaccinating children is grounds for their removal due to child abuse, neglect, willfully placing your child in danger, attempted murder, and whatever else they can think of
Just make it so that not vaccinating your children makes them legally unable to enter public areas such as schools, movie theaters, restaurants, or businesses.
Galileo's Daughter: Anti vaxxers are a plague on mankind.
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Would it be self defense to shoot an anti-vaxxer who was exposed to measles and who is now coming right for me?
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muphasta
I'd make a wager that the majority of these adult anti-vaxxers are survivors of their own vaccinations. But all of a sudden, the vaccinations are now not safe? Since they (majority anyway) have been vaccinated, it will not be them suffering from whatever disease their un-vaccinated child may get.
Karac: lifeslammer: just make it so not vaccinating children is grounds for their removal due to child abuse, neglect, willfully placing your child in danger, attempted murder, and whatever else they can think of
...or, just means that your family is now legally obligated to move somewhere extremely arid and remote, like, say, Perfection. Don't mind the nuclear testing, it's totally harmless. Might want to keep an eye out for the graboids, though.
cowgirl toffee
dickrickulous
What about that huge Danish study that indicated a 17% increase in autism in unvaccinated kids. Oh right that huge study would not fit in my cherry picker.
Finally something we can sarcastically say "Thanks Gen X!!!" for.
In that case, I support the initiative.
Kit Fister: Xai: Ah the old 'this vaccine harms 0.01-0.05% of kids so it's way worse than leaving them unvaccinated, only 1.4% are harmed naturally and 0.3% die' argument - because dying a natural death is great for kids, leaves them big and strong in that little coffin.
I should add that this illness generally affects 100% of the population in unvaccinated areas by age 5.
MythDragon
sdd2000: Unfortunately this is getting a work out recently.
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I am pro-matter. Fark everyone who is anti-matter. I hope they explode.
FleshMonkey
Maybe we should invest in a vaccine.
/yes, I know, "that's the joke"
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And that one result that says it does was from a 'doctor' who was trying to prove that existing vaccines were dangerous so that he could make a buck by forcing people to switch to his company's alternative.
Even Wakefield wasn't saying that all vaccines are bad. Although he did kind of prove anti-vaxxers claims that pharma companies want to use vaccines to make money off a captive market.
IlGreven
markie_farkie: It's time for the Botulism Challenge for those farking idiots.. Here, eat this entire jar of of tainted smoked salmon, and let's see how long you last without interventional medicines.. Whoever lasts the longest gets a free trip to Disney World.
Half of them have probably already had that crap injected into their face, so they might actually be immune...
jgilb
It's always some parent who waited until they were in their 40s to start having kids and now their defective genes create a defective child and they have to blame vaccines.
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To be fare, theres a lot of "pro-vaxxers" that will argue with science when it doesnt suit their ideology, specifically issues regarding gender and sex.
NotThatGuyAgain
There are a couple anti-vaxxers at my Legion post.
One of them took great offense when she gave me some of their propaganda that looks like a third grader discovered Microsoft Word, only worse. It was so badly laid out that it took me several seconds to even figure out what it was trying to say. I handed it back to her but she insisted I read it and fairly rudely shoved it in front of me at the table I was sitting at. I balled it up and tossed it into a trash can. I think what really pissed her off was when I looked at her and said "swish."
I'll give one of them a little leeway because she was in a coma for months and realllllllly isn't quite right in the head. She was also one of the first females to serve in the Coast Guard and that's pretty cool. Irrelevant, but cool.
Xai: I should add that this illness generally affects 100% of the population in unvaccinated areas by age 5.
well, I was more making a tongue-in-cheek comment about Anti-vaxxers freaking the fark out over vaccines despite their negative effects impacting a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the population.
Kit Fister: Galileo's Daughter: Anti vaxxers are a plague on mankind.
LOL, not if you're vaccinated!
That's a great commercial.
grumpfuff
Hunchback
Here's a compromise. You can refuse to vaccinate your kids. Then you lose custody of them and get charged with child abuse.
Mr_Vimes
At least when anti-vaxxer's kids die they can't pass on their f*cking stupidity to the next generation.
Kit Fister: Xai: I should add that this illness generally affects 100% of the population in unvaccinated areas by age 5.
I got that but I realised it might be important info that I left out - sorry I didn't mean to imply anything and I apologise that I didn't word it well enough to be clear on that.
aungen
Karac: The increasingly vituperative public attacks can be tough on ACIP scientists, however. "How does it feel knowing that your vote killed my son?" one woman asked the panel in October 2018.
I see it like this:
Step 1: Idiots scream about vaccines in an emotional, unscientific way.
Step 2: People over-react for vaccines, declaring there is no risk in an unscientific way.
Step 3: This increases the number of incidents, and makes #2 look as bad as #1.
Step 4: Sanity prevails, and competent parents and doctors now monitor properly, and intervene early when an issue arises, which they rarely do. Most worried parents now return to vaccination scheduling, because while #1 was clearly wrong, #2 was also wrong and they got worried, but now feel better.
Who am I kidding? we wouldn't have anything to argue about if Step 4 happened.
No you wasn't. If you really believe in not vaccinating kids, stick to your guns.
skipping non-voting comment in contest thread: To be fare, theres a lot of "pro-vaxxers" that will argue with science when it doesnt suit their ideology, specifically issues regarding gender and sex.
There are no 'pro vaxxers' - You seem to think that they are defined by what they say on internet message boards when that is not what defines us, it's what we do.
Anti-vaxxers are defined as such because they will actively try to obstruct medical professionals and overrule them. No-one exhibiting a positive sentiment on vaccines on the internet would ever act to positively over-rule a doctor if the doctor advised against vaccinating a child for any reason.
ArcadianRefugee
It's like donating to the poor.
cwheelie
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Xai: skipping non-voting comment in contest thread: To be fare, theres a lot of "pro-vaxxers" that will argue with science when it doesnt suit their ideology, specifically issues regarding gender and sex.
I'm pro-vaccine. But you're right, most of us don't advocate forcing vaccines on people that will have a serious reaction or die from getting it. However, there are some who haven't thought enough about it (or done any research at all), who just want it to be mandatory because they've been assured nothing ever goes wrong. I think it's important to acknowledge the risks, and provide people with a means to do something about their fears. IE: call doctor immediately if X, Y, Z. Go to the emergency room immediately and tell them you had this vaccine, if you see A, B, C.
The doctors and pediatricians I've interacted with see no need to tell the patient or parents, or hand out the sheets. Sure, it's mostly a waste of paper. But it would dramatically reduce the number of people worried about vaccines, I believe.
NotThatGuyAgain: There are a couple anti-vaxxers at my Legion post.
"Sorry, ma'am. I'm current on my anti-bullshiat vaccines."
Well, great! I never implied otherwise.Surely there are bigger piles of straw to argue with
cowgirl toffee: No you wasn't. If you really believe in not vaccinating kids, stick to your guns.
...since when have I ever said anything about being against vaccines? I am, in fact, quite the opposite.
I was simply mocking a talking point currently being used about vaccines that seems to apply a lot when people have no logical or empirical evidence to support their position.
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You said "There are pro-vaxxers" and I explained how that's an inaccurate term. How is that a strawman?
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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III confirmed to Arab News that the agreement, which both sides have been working on since early this year, had been signed.
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Öhlins is in an exciting time today with an unprecedented amount of racing activities around the world, new technological breakthroughs in many areas and expansion and growth into many different parts of the world. A lot has happened since we started this journey back in the 70's.
02 – Sweden – Is there something in the water?
This charming, unspoilt and sparsely populated nation (it has 21 inhabitants per km2 v 229 per km2 for Germany) is home to huge forests (65% of its surface), lakes and arctic tundra to the north. Its main industries are timber, iron ore and high end technology. Interestingly, as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product, the Swedish government spends the most of any nation on research and development, a philosophy wholeheartedly embraced by a certain suspension manufacturer in Upplands Vasby near Stockholm.
Sweden has never had F1 or MotoGP champions in its heritage but its racers have dug their own furrow, in the most earthy sense of the word….. Maybe because of its vast trails, adventurous inhabitants and easy access to land, Sweden has always been passionate for both Rallying and Motocross disciplines.
Home to legendary off-road bike manufacturer Husqvarna, Swedish riders were prodigious in World Motocross through the 60-70's with riders such as Bill Nilsson, Bengt Åberg, Torsten Hallman and 'our' own Thorleif Hansen.
In the 'hardman' events of Enduro, Anders Eriksson took the World crown an incredible seven times. It was in this backdrop of competitive spirit and pioneering engineering that Kenth Öhlin first rode then plied his trade, to lay the foundations that were later to come. Speedway and ice speedway are incredibly popular in Sweden and rank only behind football and ice hockey for viewing numbers.
On four wheels Stig Blomqvist, Per Eklund, Björn Waldegård and many others showed the world that Swedish Rally drivers were a force to be reckoned with.
The legendary Rally Sweden has now run since 1950 and is seen by many as the ultimate test of winter driving and is part of the prestigious WRC series.
Sweden has of course had success on the tarmac most notably with two time F1 runner-up Ronnie Peterson, who was taken before his time at Monza in 1978 and is still considered one of the all time greats with massive unfulfilled potential. Kenny Bräck took on the Yanks at their own game winning the Indy500 and Indycar championship whilst Rickard Rydell was a BTCC superstar in the 90's..On two wheels double World 125cc Champion Kent Andersson flew the blue and yellow flag in the eight litre GP class.
WORD ASSOCIATION… LIVING THE STEREOTYPE?
We ran a 'Performance' test and asked 100 'foreigners' what words they associated with Sweden and these were the top results; healthy living, modern, clean, design lead, blondes, forests, Midnight Sun, Vikings, Volvo and of course, Abba!
As a visitor to the Öhlins factory this writer can confirm many of these stereotypes to be true and maybe, just maybe, are attributable in part of the DNA of this unique, worldwide brand.
The factory is indeed incredibly clean, efficient, modern and functional as you would expect, even to the extent that the staff canteen was a pleasurable experience!
There does seem to be a very high number of blonde employees at the factory, albeit mostly with moustaches and of the male variety. We also misjudged each interviewee's age by at least a decade, a nod to that healthy living, 'swimming up an icy river' image that we may have of the Swedes.
Every employee we spoke to seemed driven by a warm enthusiasm and pride for their job and for the company itself, a rare quality in any workforce.
Many of the team had spent time in the racetracks of the world assigned to two and four wheel squads or as R+D technicians. There is a sense of constant exploration and a desire to pioneer in new lands, perhaps part of the Viking bloodline but of course without the pillaging.
Obviously these are mere anecdotes and as we have said National stereotypes but you get the feeling that the Öhlins phenomenon has been created by the geography, history and people of Sweden.
• Sweden boasts one of the highest life expectancies and one of the lowest birth rates in the world.
• Right hand driving was adopted in Sweden in 1967. One day at 4.50am everyone had to change from the left over to the right hand side of the road, in a perfectly executed logistical operation!
• All the Tsars of Russia till the last one, Nicholas II, were of Swedish Viking descent.
• On an average, Swedish women have their first child at 30 years.
• Some of the greatest pop bands and singers are Swedish, viz. Abba, Roxette, Ace of Base, A*Teens, The Cardigans, Robyn, etc.
• Sweden has the highest number of McDonald restaurants, per capita, in Europe.
• Sweden has the highest number of nuclear plants, per capita.
• Sweden was the first country to grant suffrage for (married) women in local elections.
• The first ice hotel of the world was built near the village of Jukkasjärvi, in Kiruna district of Sweden.
• The largest hemispherical building in the world, 'The Stockholm Globe Arena', is in Sweden. It is also the 'largest scale model of the Solar System' and hosts Ice hockey, sports and concerts.
• The proportion of personal computers, per capita, in Sweden is the highest in Europe.
• Swedes have been known for a number of inventions, including astronomical lens, zipper, marine propeller, refrigerator, computer mouse and pace-maker.
• The Nobel Prizes were founded by Alfred Nobel, a Swede who invented dynamite in 1866.
• The favourite dish of Swedes usually comprises of meatballs, with potatoes and lingonberry sauce.
• A popular souvenir in Sweden is the road sign for moose-crossing. Surprisingly, a large number of these signs are stolen from Swedish roads every year, mostly by tourists!
"Of course I don't ache," Thorleif Hansen looks almost confused by our question.
As one of the main motocross test-riders for Öhlins for over three decades, you'd be forgiven for thinking the man who was raised a mere tabletop jump from the factory might be due a rest, "I love my job so why stop? Maybe in four or five years time when my wife retires so will I, we'll see. I think hanging around young guys keeps you on your toes, so that's good," reasons Thorleif. Two of those younger guys are his sons Terje and Robin who also work at the impressive Öhlins factory at Upper Vasby near Stockholm, so maybe he also wants to keep them on their toes.
"For sure it's great that my boys work here but I try and let them go their own way.
Eldest son Terje followed his father's footsteps into motocross GPs and then to the US race scene as a suspension technician whilst Robin has chosen a totally different route and now works in the automotive division.
One can't help thinking that Thorleif is an inspirational character to more than just his two offspring in the Öhlins HQ.
His story goes back as far as that of his friend and employer Kenth Öhlin, who he raced against in the fiercely contested Swedish MX series in the late 1960s. Although a talented rider in his own right, Kenth recognised Thorleif's impressive skills and instead of competing against him, using his engineering ability he first modified then made new suspension units for Hansen's factory Kawasaki to great effect.
"It was a never ending season, we'd finish up the World Championship then head out to the States to do twelve American races all over the country. I realised America is a big place but it's even bigger if you have to travel by car! It was such a great experience, I was based out of California and it was a fantastic time to be there.
When Thorleif finished his GP career in 1978 after a brilliant second place series finish in his favoured 250cc class, he went to work at Öhlins until 1987 when he decided he should try his hand at something else, in this case the construction industry. However before long he got a call from Kenth saying 'it has been ten years, it's time to come back'. A part-time test riding job soon turned into full-time and he's still there now, enjoying his days making a difference at the factory.
04 – Alaskan ice race sorts the big dogs from the pups!
The event was originally devised to prepare the ground for the famous Iditarod dog-sled race, so that that the terrain wouldn't be deadly to the huskies needing to drive sleds through deep snow. But putting "snow-machine" (snowmobile) teams on the course, and having them ride from end to end is, well, a race. So it took only a few hours for the organisers to admit that and start handing out trophies, allowing the event to mature into a respected endurance race of its own, involving not barking huskies but 'iron dogs'.
It's an endurance race where broken parts can be more deadly than high-speed accidents and where a teammate is a life-saving requirement.
This year the Iron Dog started in Big Lake, Alaska, near Wasilla. From there the course headed North-West to Nome, then finally back east to Fairbanks. The race began this year on February 19th, at 11am. That means that there was a glow of twilight in the southern sky when the race began and also the amazing dancing Northern Lights.
About 30-40 teams compete in the Iron Dog each year and they are required to have two sleds and two riders for safety. During the race nothing is allowed to be abandoned out on the trail and the event is carefully regulated to protect the wild environment of Alaska. The fuel stops are about every 100 miles and all are manned with hardy volunteers.
Winning driver VanMeter said at the finish "I've been doing this race for 17 years, it's an addiction. Any stupid thing can take you out. Last year we had a lead like this year and it was 20-below with blowing snow. They'd dug a hole into the river and down I went into it. I was soaked up to the waist and my partner got me out and to a local village. We lost six and a half hours and lost the race by about 90 minutes.
We've got two good riders and the proper equipment, we know what to do to win, but anything can happen in the middle of nowhere. I do all of our suspension work to make them ride properly. I've been running Öhlins since 2009 and no one can keep up with us. We're literally doing 80-90 mph over two foot bumps, and if you don't have good suspension you're going to break the sled or crash.
It was rough over the ice, which can rip your machine up. I set the shocks up and valve them to get the best oil flow. They never fade, they never fail.
Ron Zugg, owner of Zugger shocks in Palmer, AK, (zuggershocks.com), told us, "This is a big deal for us as it's only the second time that Ski-Doo has won this race. This event is so rough and the conditions are so hard, a failure takes a team out. Reliability wins this race which is why most guys are on Öhlins now.
The Iron Dog is a mix of speed, deadly temperatures, high wind, rough terrain, endurance, surprise obstacles, moose, and the dark of a never-ending night. Is there a more grueling test of man and machine? It's doubtful!
So, which national motorcycle race series is the most watched? The massive American AMA Championship backed up by 10 million registered bikes? The Japanese JSB class where most of the world's sports bikes come from? The Italian Superbike Championship – from the land of Rossi, Ducati and the most passionate fans? The answer may surprise you. It's none of the above, the most watched national race series is the British Superbike Championship. A series held on a small and often rainy island, that last won the blue riband 500cc GP class back in 1977, regularly attracts over 400,000 paying spectators throughout the season.
The real question, and one that the organisers of the other series should be asking themselves, is simple – why? The reasons are numerous but include a long history of motorcycle sport, a multitude of excellent venues (including the world-renowned Silverstone, Donington Park and Brands Hatch circuits) and crucially an organising body that continually changes the rules to keep grids full and the racing close. This year the series travels to the Cathedral of Speed – the mighty sweeping circuit of Assen – possibly signaling even wider ambitions.
It is to this bubbling cauldron of competition that Öhlins takes great pride in its record of 14 British Superbike (BSB) crowns in just 16 years, relying heavily on its national distributors and service centres such as Harris Performance. Enormously impressive in a series that can only be described as 'talent heavy'. BSB has always attracted some impressive competitors with home grown stars Niall Mackenzie, Neil Hodgson, John Reynolds and Shane Byrne having mixed it up with living legend, and 1999 BSB Champion, Troy Bayliss as well as last year's runner up, GP hero John 'Hopper' Hopkins. What links all of these riders? Each one sported gold forks and shock absorbers on their bikes.
For 2012 the series organisers decided to try and curb costs with a number of measures including a single spec engine control unit (ECU) effectively outlawing traction control, anti-wheelie and launch control. If anything, these changes have meant that rider skill and the team's ability with chassis set-up have become even more important than ever.
Suspension technician Richard Brendish, from long-time Öhlins distributor Harris Performance, explains: "The relationship between the rider and his suspension engineer has probably never been more intense. Riders are much more savvy in terms of what change has what effect. There's a lot of analysing and the level of sophistication is higher than it has ever been. You can achieve such subtle changes, but in a field as competitive as the 2012 BSB, small changes can be the difference between first and fifth place.
"I've been in the paddock twelve years now, starting with our own Harris SP Honda SP-1 with Shakey Byrne, through Crescent Suzuki, Virgin Yamaha, GSE Ducati and then HM Plant (now Samsung) Honda. In that time the paddock has become more professional; teams realised they needed the best technical support and so we grew our support. We started out with a Transit van and it grew until we built the 'artic' – we expanded with the series and the bike market – which was burgeoning at the time.
Niall Mackenzie was British Superbike Champion from 1996-1998 for Cadbury Boost Yamaha and the triple BSB champion continues to live in the BSB paddock, helping his two sons at the start of their racing careers; "I remember in 1996 when BBC started broadcasting BSB, it was a massive help getting sponsors and increasing the level of competition within the series. That ethos continues to this day, it's so professional with big crowds and a vast depth of talent.
"Our Yamaha YZF750s were ex-factory World Superbike machines and we had a great link with the Öhlins technicians. My crew chief Ade Marsh was very good at translating what I could feel on track and using his skill and knowledge to make the required changes to the suspension and chassis. We rode the two WSB events each year at Donington Park and Brands Hatch, both of which provided a great opportunity to catch up with the Öhlins guys.
The movable handlebar clamp needs something like 0.5 degrees of movement before the damper is activated. A larger amount of movement gives a feeling of too much 'play'. The flex in front fork and front wheel is greater than the movement of the movable handlebar clamp so you do not notice the movement when you ride.
Therefore the S3 is continually 'monitoring' the way the steering is being applied in relation to the front wheel. The result is a damper that feels very natural at low speed and remains 'inert' over jumps, helping the rider with low speed control. However when there is a sudden input from an outside force such as a rock or tree root, the system instantly activates to increase the damping.
What is important to note is that the system doesn't use any electrical or electronic componentry- everything works mechanically and hydraulically. In these days of almost complete electronic control it is nice to know some systems rely on mechanics and 'feel'.
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This year sees the introduction of Global Rallycross – televised on ESPN, the series is run in conjunction with NASCAR Sprint Cup and IndyCar weekends as well as the iconic X Games 18.
No sooner had this bombshell landed had speculation began on the World Champion's replacement – with both series leader Lorenzo and fan/sponsor/media favourite Valentino Rossi rumoured to jump ship to the Repsol Honda HRC squad. As a result Yamaha moved quickly to retain their prize rider Lorenzo, leaving Rossi with a possible get-out opportunity after eighteen months of underachievement at Ducati. This one will run and run….
MotoGP now has a class-within-a-class, or to the detractors, a 'sideshow' – the new for 2012 CRT or Claiming Rules Team machines. With 'production' engines allowed in prototype chassis', this brave new world has angered purists but crucially boosted the ailing grid to respectable numbers and is host to some of the elder statesmen of thesport in the shape of Colin Edwards as well as some young pretenders hoping to impress.
WSB – The Veterans fight on!
As the World Superbike series reaches it's Summer break it has been the 'Old Boy Network' of GP refugees, Biaggi, Checa and Melandri, who continue to show the way to the 'young guns' in terms of race wins with eleven victories shared between them up to the Aragon round.
As the series celebrates its 25th anniversary the 'playing field' has never been more evenly matched with six winners from six different teams in the thirteen races so far.
The top nationalities in the standings are predominantly Italian and British and the organisers will inevitably be looking to widen the 'gene pool' as the series looks further afield (Russia in '12, India and Indonesia in '13).
The British Superbike series was won last year by home-grown hero Tommy Hill, pipping ex-GP hero John Hopkins by a hair's width 0.006 seconds in a Öhlins shod 1-2. Tommy continues to lead the series in '12 at the time of writing on his Swan Yamaha and has been rewarded with a shot at the prestigious Suzuka 8 hour in Japan with the original Sultan of Slide, Noriyuki Haga. You can read more about the BSB series here.
Once the most revered series in the world, the US AMA Superbike championship has fallen on rocky ground in recent years but there are strong signs of recovery with returning crowds, teams and great racing. At time of writing an Öhlins trio 'lock out' the top spots with 2011 Champ Josh Hayes leading Suzuki Yoshimura's Blake Young and his Graves Yamaha teammate Josh Herrin.
AThe Aventador is Lamborghini's latest proof of the above statement. The name for this latest €255,000 Italian thoroughbred is taken from a bull, famous for its bravery in a Spanish bullfight having earned the Trofeo de la Peña La Madroñera at the Zaragoza Arena in 1993 for outstanding courage. Described by the Bolognese manufacturer as: "a new reference among super sports cars," the bold, aggressive lines of the Aventador epitomise Italian supercar style while the depth of technology is way more than skin deep with a lithe, lightweight chassis and carbon fibre monocoque powered to a terminal speed 217mph (349kph) by an immensely powerful, 700bhp V12 engine.
Lamborghini's dedication to building the best supercar that they could has resulted in some amazing new technological developments. The immense power is managed by several drivetrain ECUs, managing and metering the power output to each wheel through the Aventador's sophisticated four-wheel-drive system incrementally to achieve the best balance of drive and grip.
Naturally, refinements inside the car are as you'd expect from a car of this pedigree with the driver cosseted by a full leather interior, the driving experience enhanced by a state of the art stability control system, intelligent ABS and brake distribution along with three engine performance modes available at the push of a button to suit the driver's mood. A navigation system with traffic data and iPod connectivity ensure that the interior of the Aventador is always a happy place to be.
Öhlins' history with helping Italian engineers to achieve superb handling goes back a long way. In the two-wheeled world, some of the most exotic motorcycles ever built have been fitted with Öhlins suspension with manufacturers such as Ducati, Aprilia, MV Agusta and Benelli all insisting on those trademark gold forks and yellow springs to ensure road holding that is unsurpassed by their rivals.
So how did Öhlins put shock absorbers on the Lamborghini Aventador? The company started with a proven damper type, a conventional mechanical damper of the same type that has been used in NASCAR racing. This damper type was deemed especially suited to cope with the high forces a heavy supercar generates. After that the engineers put a lot of effort into making this race damper silent and comfortable, functional down to minus 40 degrees Celsius and be reliable for at least 200 000 km of usage so it could meet the high demands set by Lamborghini Another demanding factor was the placement of the rear dampers in the rear engine compartment. The heat generating from the supercar's engine meant Öhlins had to find special bushings to withstand this heat and the Öhlins stickers on the dampers also had to be modified to cope with the heat. The dampers also had to be fitted with electrically adjustable actuators to lift the car up to cope with curbs and speed bumps. The end result was a supercar with superb handling that can be used everyday.
Öhlins Project Manager Rade Catovic explains, "We had to do a lot of work with testing and certifications to meet these demands and we especially spent a lot of time working on making the damper as silent as possible. Considering the demands Audi and Lamborghini had, the Aventador really is one of the rare supersport cars that can handle both everyday use and driving on race tracks".
Öhlins' racing heritage also draws many parallels with the Italians. A shared outlook that while performance is paramount, the aesthetics should never be overlooked with the question of form over function never being raised, the two working together in perfect synchronicity. And that's exactly what Lamborghini and Öhlins have achieved with the Aventador.
Few success stories are as compelling as Prodrive's own. The British engineering and technology firm has been at the very heart of rallying for more than 27 years notching up more than 100 international rallies and six World Rally Championships. Their motorsport involvement also stretches beyond rallying with successful touring car, GT and endurance racing programmes but it is perhaps their rally success for which they are best known and specifically their success with Subaru.
1988 saw the firm's first foray into rallying, developing Sierra Cosworth dampers for the original Stig, Mr Blomqvist. At the time, Ford, like many other teams used to have to bring literally hundreds of set-rate damper options on event with them, having to change the entire set-up for each and every stage, to suit weather and surface conditions. Öhlins engineer Thomas Pettersson saw a much easier way and developed adjustable dampers instead; meaning teams only had to carry a handful of spare dampers instead of an entire service-barge full.
The sport changed overnight. Around this time, another Swedish driver, Harri Joki turned to Öhlins to develop an adjustable solution for his 2WD Peugeot 205 and 306 rally cars. Öhlins in-house guru Lars Osth created a set-up using existing Öhlins components – and the start of what we know as their 'kit system' was born.
The early '90s saw Öhlins partner with Toyota Team Europe, creating dampers for the legendary Celica Group A car and subsequently the later Toyota Corolla WRC machine.
The Mitsubishi Lancer with Tommi Mäkinen at the wheel, dominated World rallying in the late '90s, culminating in no less than four Championship wins on Öhlins dampers. This partnership continued into other off-road genres, with the Paris-Dakar Pajeros also relying on the damper's unique characteristics and legendary build quality.
Since then, the list of manufacturers that has relied on Öhlins has been as long as it is impressive. Hyundai's WRC effort, Peugeot's WRC customer builds, and even Prodrive's ill-fated 2009 car have all flashed the gold under their flared arches . Latterly, the firm has moved its attention towards Group N, where they have proved to be an obvious choice to teams and constructors running Subaru and Mitsubishi. 2WD pedallists were always catered for too, however, with Renault's Clio and Megane packages also rolling out of their respective factories on Öhlins.
We've all seen custom cruisers with chromed wheels, high bars, studded seats and the like but rarely do you see one that has been customised with a set of Öhlins FGR900 forks!
The machine started life as a 2010 Harley-Davidson Fatboy and this very open-minded customer wanted his bike to be the ultimate in individuality.
"The base machine was stripped down leaving just the engine and chassis. The oil tank was removed from beneath the seat and the chassis re-shaped to drop the solid, one-of-a-kind, carbon fibre solo saddle- giving an extreme slammed ride height and position.
A new oil tank was fabricated to fit inside the original teardrop shaped Fatboy fuel tank. We crafted the high-low dual exhaust system which houses the rear lights in the carbon mufflers. To enhance the bikes fierce stance only a pair of the highest spec Öhlins FGR900 front forks paired with Öhlins Softail rear suspension would do. Gareth from Reactive Suspension and our own in-house race mechanics fitted heavier springs and tuned it to the increased mass and its strange geometry.
We custom made CNC triple trees to mount the forks to the frame. Brembo monobloc calipers were fitted to deal with the brute force of the new tuned 113ci Screamin' Eagle H-D Engine which we covered with glossy black powder coating and the cooling fins were diamond cut for a show sparkle. Carbon fibre, race style clip-on handlebars were fitted with Performance Machine controls to match the huge wheels wrapped in Metzeler rubber, 3″ open primary drive and foot controls.
With four other projects now boasting Öhlins, we ask what is the fascination with the brand for a builder of American custom cruisers?
"I guess I love the in-your-face attitude of the forks, the level of quality of the componentry and quite simply you know that they are the best in the World, if all the teams buy them you know they are the 'nuts' !
As Europe's oldest Harley dealership Warr's have a successful racing history of their own; supporting the legendary Cal Rayborn in his 'Transatlantic' campaign days and more recently taking Jeremy McWilliams to Daytona 200 success on a Buell- using Öhlins, which is now OE on Erik Buell Racing Motorcycles. The company also won the Harley-Davidson XR1200 series (again with McWilliams) run alongside the BSB series using Öhlins equipment.
You can learn more about Warr's at www.warrs.com , on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.
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Dennis Jones is an Agile coach who specializes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Program Increment (PI) Planning. To help organizations become more Agile, he has introduced Lucidchart to companies such as Northwestern Mutual, Johnson Controls, Trinity, Travelport, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
COLLABORATE WITH REMOTE WORKERS
Dennis often works with organizations who have dispersed workers. Lucidchart is cloud-based so his program board can be viewed by hundreds of individuals to fill in the gaps and provide context during PI planning and sync meetings with distributed teams.
AGILE DELIVERY
Lucidchart helps organize timebox processes, where Dennis uses the program board template he built in Lucidchart. He helps multiple teams coordinate three months worth of work, broken down by two-week sprints, and how to account for fluctuating time, resources, and unplanned work.
DEMONSTRATE VALUE
The program board is used to demonstrate that teams are delivering tangible results and moving the bar in delivering value. Teams and stakeholders can review the program board in layers and to track changes over time and see just how far they've come.
INDUSTRY: B2B Services
SIZE: Small (1-100 employees)
ROLE: Operations
Dennis has been doing Scaled Agile Framework coaching/consulting for over six years. During this time, he has helped coach many organizations through the transformation process, and his clients span a variety of industries, including healthcare, utilities, finance, insurance, manufacturing, and travel. Prior to being an agile coach, Dennis had a long career in project and program management as well as managing dev teams, primarily using the Unified Process.
Dennis Jones gets the call when a business needs a little guidance, or maybe some serious help to build and deploy quicker. He is an Agile coach who specializes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Program Increment (PI) Planning, which typically revolves around face-to-face conversations. Dennis helps companies with their timebox processes, where a team decides what they can accomplish in a three-month period. Proper communication is necessary if teams want to fulfill their deliverables on time.
To help organizations become more Agile, he has introduced Lucidchart to companies such as Northwestern Mutual, Johnson Controls, Trinity, Travelport, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
"I think Lucidchart is crucial for any company doing anything that requires collaborative modeling and especially if the team members are not co-located. The real-time updates are critical in these cases."
When initially engaging with an organization, Dennis recognizes that IT delivery has been performed by project teams using traditional project delivery and project management strategies. There may be some level of Agility adoption and perhaps the formation of Agile teams (five to nine members). However, to scale agility across the enterprise, individual team delivery must now include delivery through a team-of-teams that conduct big-room planning (similar to a JAD session), which is common in most Agile Frameworks. This is what Dennis helps the organization realize.
Dennis works with leadership to determine what information to include regarding team performance and issues that can impede value delivery. Timeliness of this information is a prerequisite for prudent decision-making. To begin, teams create a physical board on a wall. Each team is represented, along with their deliverables and dependencies from other teams, delineated with Post-Its and string. This process is great for all co-located members in the big-room planning process. However, it's not convenient for distributed teams. So, Dennis shows them his program board template that he built in Lucidchart, which mimics the physical board and looks similar to a dynamic scrum board.
"It's a big, visual, living information radiator," says Dennis. "It keeps track of when a feature is going be completed and when the dependencies from each team should be delivered." He proposes the program board as an alternative. "Give that a try, see if it works," he encourages the teams. "And it's like a no-brainer. They immediately take to it," says Dennis. The teams across multiple time-zones can quickly realize the benefits of a platform where everyone can easily access and add information.
The entire big-room planning process (SAFe calls this PI Planning) is typically a two-day event. If the organization is international, the teams Dennis works with include remote teams and stakeholders from drastically different time zones in the United States, Europe, and India. The timing coordination is very valuable, with only a few overlapping hours. During planning, the teams agree and commit to what will be worked on and fill out the program board accordingly, reflecting the next three months of work, broken down by two-week sprints.
Coordinate and collaborate with data and hotspots
Dennis uses data at program levels to identify metrics for planning and plan execution purposes, to spot unplanned work, and to determine when the teams are over capacity. "In Lucidchart, you can integrate data links from an Agile tool like JIRA," says Dennis. This capability helps teams stay coordinated and provide continuity across different tools in their tech stack.
"Within the board, you can click on a feature with an external link, and it literally goes into their agile tool, thereby leveraging existing tools," says Dennis. "I also use Lucidchart and hotspots for any kind of modeling. There are so many different modeling software out there—Visio does an okay job, but you just can't collaborate."
He introduces Lucidchart with the program kanban workflow because it allows multiple people to access the information and work on the boards at the same time. "It's a very dynamic conversation," says Dennis.
The program board helps teams visualize fluctuating capacity, whether it's down due to vacations or holidays or up for reasons such as an increase in membership. "Each program increment can really have some variability in how much capacity the team of teams have," says Dennis. "Then that's reflected in the math and the data management capabilities in the Lucidchart version, which is just fantastic. It allows teams to plan, adjust, and deliver accordingly."
At the end of each iteration, the teams deliver their progress. An overall coordinator (SAFe refers to this role as the Release Train Engineer or RTE) reviews the progress from each team and either manually logs the information or conducts a data load to the program board. Then everyone can see what was completed, blocked, or moved, identify when/if new stories were added, and tackle the next iteration.
Dennis provides teams with the template he built, so all they need to do is edit each iteration layer with the appropriate information, always preserving the baseline. Typically, about 100 people revolve around a single program board. "But not all 100 people contribute to it, right? There's only maybe five or six that really need to get into it, a dozen tops," says Dennis. "So those editors then send a view-only URL of the program board to the hundred people that are on the team so they can look at it at any time they want."
Adapt to change with layers
It's not uncommon that teams discover unplanned—yet necessary—work after they begin. Dennis leverages Lucidchart to help the teams adapt quickly to ensure the plan isn't compromised. "You maintain the baseline plan, and through the use of layers, you can show how the plan changes and you can go back in time and see how it all comes together," says Dennis. "It's not just a single snapshot in time—it tells a compelling story. That's what has been great about Lucidchart."
Dennis has about 20 layers on his Lucidchart program board, to manage the feature evolution from plan-to-done. The number of layers may vary depending on the number of iterations in an organization's overall program increment.
"I think organizations realize that Lucidchart is the tool of choice because of its visual modeling, layering, math functions and collaboration capabilities. Nothing comes close."
To further show demonstrate of how his program board works, Dennis wrote articles on LinkedIn about the program board and program execution.
See the big picture
Introducing Lucidchart has truly helped Dennis and organizations deliver tangible results. "Having that whole systems thinking helps you see the bigger picture—it just helps you put things into context better," says Dennis. "If we didn't have Lucidchart and this program board, then these distributed teams would only have their team activity information without any correlation to evolving PI objective delivery."
Dennis explains:
"Without question, using this online board with distributed teams makes the coordination and sync meetings increasingly productive because everybody's talking the same language, from the same model, with the same viewpoint."
Lucidchart helps fill in the gaps for distributed teams but also brings teams together in one place to review and approach their work from a new, holistic perspective as they move from iteration to iteration.
At the end of each sprint or 2-week iteration, the teams conduct a "system demo," where working software is demonstrated (rather than talked about). Aside from feedback, the teams reassess what was completed and what may move to a future sprint that was not completed. As tasks are moved, it is critical and to be transparent with every stakeholder, which is why the program board is such a logical place for these updates.
Historically, the program board is a planning artifact only, but Lucidchart changes this construct by adding execution capabilities. "The point is to leverage the program board to where you can show you're moving the bar in delivering the value, the true metric you want to have at the end of three months," says Dennis. And through this program board, Lucidchart provides insight into why specific items were not completed so teams can improve, do better, and continue to deliver true progress on real working software—even from across the world.
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Q: I want to refresh the list without restarting the activity I have a method extractRequests() which extracts data from the MySQL database stored on webserver.
The activity contains one operation accept which is performed then that data will be removed from that list. Everything works well but the problem I am facing is I need to re-start the activity to see the data is updated. I want to make it real time so I don't need to re-start the activity every time to see the change instead it should be refreshed as operation is performed....
Below is my code
ViewRequests.java
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.android.volley.AuthFailureError;
import com.android.volley.Request;
import com.android.volley.RequestQueue;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.VolleyError;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.JsonArrayRequest;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.StringRequest;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.Volley;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class ViewRequests extends AppCompatActivity implements AcceptedCallback {
    RecyclerView recyclerView;
    List<UserRequests> Requests;
    RequestAdapter adapter;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_view_requests);
        recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.requestlist);
        Requests = new ArrayList<>();
        extractRequest();

    }

    public void extractRequest() {
        RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);
        StringRequest jsonArrayRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, "xxxxx", new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String response) {
                try {
                    JSONObject requestobject = new JSONObject(response);
                    String success = requestobject.getString("success");
                    Log.d("Json success", success.toString());
                    JSONArray jsonArray = requestobject.getJSONArray("data");
                    Log.d("Json data", jsonArray.toString());
                    if (success.equals("1")) {
                        for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
                            JSONObject object = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
                            Log.d("Json data" + i + ": ", jsonArray.getJSONObject(i).toString());
                            UserRequests userRequests = new UserRequests();
                            userRequests.setUsername(object.getString("username").toString());
                            userRequests.setPickupaddress("Pickup address:" + object.getString("pickupaddress").toString());
                            userRequests.setDropaddress("Drop address:" + object.getString("dropaddress").toString());
                            userRequests.setImage(object.getString("photo").toString());
                            userRequests.setId(Integer.parseInt(object.getString("r_id").toString()));
                            Requests.add(userRequests);
                        }
      /*                  for(int i = 0; i < Requests.size(); i++) {
                            Log.d("request :", String.valueOf(Requests.));
                        }
        */                recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getApplicationContext()));
                        adapter = new RequestAdapter(getApplicationContext(), Requests,ViewRequests.this);
                        recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
                    }

//                        Requests.add(userRequests);
                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                Log.d("Volley Error:", error.getMessage());
            }
        }) {
            @Override
            protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
                Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
                params.put("user_id", "1");
                return params;
            }
        };
        RequestQueue requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(ViewRequests.this);
        requestQueue.add(jsonArrayRequest);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAccepted() {
        extractRequest();
    }
}

Below is the adapter file which performs the operation on data stored on the MySQL stored on webserver which works well.
RequestAdapter.java
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import com.android.volley.AuthFailureError;
import com.android.volley.Request;
import com.android.volley.RequestQueue;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.VolleyError;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.StringRequest;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.Volley;
import com.squareup.picasso.Picasso;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class RequestAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RequestAdapter.ViewHolder> {
    LayoutInflater inflater;
    List<UserRequests> userRequest;
    Context ctx;
    ViewRequests activity;
    AcceptedCallback callback;

    public RequestAdapter(Context ctx, List<UserRequests> userRequest,AcceptedCallback callback) {
        this.ctx=ctx;
        this.inflater = LayoutInflater.from(ctx);
        this.userRequest = userRequest;
        this.callback=callback;
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.request_list_item, parent, false);
        return new ViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        final UserRequests ureq=userRequest.get(position);
            holder.usrname.setText(userRequest.get(position).getUsername());
            holder.pickup.setText(userRequest.get(position).getPickupaddress());
            holder.drop.setText(userRequest.get(position).getDropaddress());
        Picasso.get().load(userRequest.get(position).getImage()).into(holder.usrpic);//next here
        holder.accept.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
               //Toast.makeText(ctx,"This is accept button"+String.valueOf(ureq.getId()),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                Log.d("id of transaction", String.valueOf(ureq.getId()));
                Log.d("position value", String.valueOf(userRequest.get(position)));

                accept(ureq.getId(), position);

            }
        });

    }

    private void accept(int id,int p) {
        RequestQueue queue= Volley.newRequestQueue(ctx);
        StringRequest stringRequest=new StringRequest(Request.Method.POST, "xxxxx", new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String response) {
                if(response.equals("accepted")){
                    Log.d("accepted","1 true");
                    Toast.makeText(ctx,"Accepted",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    callback.onAccepted();

                }else{
                    Toast.makeText(ctx,response,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            }
        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                Toast.makeText(ctx,error.getMessage(),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }){
            @Override
            protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
                Map<String,String> params=new HashMap<String, String>();
                params.put("rid", String.valueOf(id));

                return params;
            }
        };   RequestQueue requestQueue= Volley.newRequestQueue(ctx);
        requestQueue.add(stringRequest);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return userRequest.size();
    }

    public class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
TextView usrname,pickup,drop;
ImageView usrpic;//here
        Button accept,reject;

        public ViewHolder(@NonNull View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            usrname=itemView.findViewById(R.id.R_L_tvusername);
            pickup=itemView.findViewById(R.id.R_L_tvpckpadd);
            drop=itemView.findViewById(R.id.R_L_tvdropadd);
            usrpic=itemView.findViewById(R.id.R_L_iv_display_image);
            accept=itemView.findViewById(R.id.imageView4);
            reject=itemView.findViewById(R.id.imageView5);
        }
    }

}
interface AcceptedCallback{
    void onAccepted();
}

EDIT: I want to refresh data after clicking on the accept button but the problem is the onclick event is defined inside adapter so I don't know how to call the method defined inside the ViewRequests.java
Is there any way to define the method in new class and return the list in the form of List fetched from the internet.
or
Is there any way to call async the method?

A: its just a simple request, which is executed only once, in onCreate, so you have to repeat it every time you want to refresh data (e.g. in some interval)
private Handler h = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());

private void extractDelayed(){
    h.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null); // clears out all previous Runnables
    h.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            extractRequest();
        }
    }, 5000); // run() will be called after 5 secs
}

call extractDelayed in onPause method and also in onResponse and in onErrorResponse
don't forget to clear out Handler when it isn't needed anymore, e.g. by putting below in onPause method
h.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);

if you don't wan't to lose position then don't make new RequestAdapter every time, instead check if it's already set, if yes then make some method in adapter for setting your parsed data and call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
edit: due to answer edit
at first make some callback interface defined in adapter, e.g.
public static interface AcceptedCallback{
    void onAccepted();
}

next make your Activity implements AcceptedCallback
public class ViewRequests extends AppCompatActivity implements AcceptedCallback {

and implement onAccepted method
public void onAccepted(){
    extractRequest();
}

now pass this interface reference to your adapter
public class RequestAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RequestAdapter.ViewHolder> {

    LayoutInflater inflater;
    List<UserRequests> userRequest;
    Context ctx;
    ViewRequests activity;
    AcceptedCallback callback;

    public RequestAdapter(Context ctx, List<UserRequests> userRequest,
        AcceptedCallback callback) {
        this.ctx=ctx;
        this.inflater = LayoutInflater.from(ctx);
        this.userRequest = userRequest;
        this.callback = callback;
    }

init in Activity
adapter = new RequestAdapter(getApplicationContext(), Requests, ViewRequests.this);

now you may call callback.onAccepted() inside adapter, e.g. in onResponse. it is defined in Activity and in there will fire starting data refresh

A: There can be many approaches:

*

*If there is a change in database on server side, you can use of push notification. Whenever there is a change on server (or any other configuration you set) you can send push to registered devices. Upon receiving that push on device you can call your specific method to fetch the data.

*You can set a timer, on behalf of that timer expiry you can call your method to fetch the data.
For reference, of second point I am sharing a sample code:
new CountDownTimer(30000, 1000) { //30000 max time of expiry
  public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
       extractRequest();
  }

  public void onFinish() {
  }

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Juozas Gediminas Baranauskas (* 30. März 1935 in Kaunas; † 2. Juli 2021 in Vilnius) war ein litauischer Politiker.

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Ab 1954 studierte er Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Vilnius. Im zweiten Studienjahr gewann er den Diktor-Wettbewerb von LRT Radijas und 1957 von Lietuvos televizija. Von 1957 bis 1991 arbeitete er bei LTV und von 1991 bis 1992 als Gehilfe bei Baltijos birža. Von 1992 bis 1996 war er Mitglied im Seimas. Ab 1996 arbeitete er als Berater bei Aukščiausiasis Teismas.

Er war verheiratet. Mit Frau Stanislava hätten er den Sohn Evaldas und die Tochter Erika.

Literatur
  Domas Šniukas. Juozas Gediminas Baranauskas. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, T. II (Arktis-Beketas). – Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2002. 632 psl.

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Mitglied des Ausschusses für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (Litauen)
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RUSSIA: Pre-trial detentions of Muslim and Jehovah's Witnesses
By Felix Corley, Forum 18, and Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18
Ilham Islamli, a reader of the works of Muslim theologian Said Nursi, has been held since 18 June on charges of inciting religious hatred for posting Nursi's works on a website, Forum 18 News Service has learned. It is unknown when the case might reach court. "It will happen this year," is all Investigator Vladimir Chernobrovin would tell Forum 18. Asked who might have suffered from Islamli's posting of some works by Nursi, Investigator Chernobrovin responded: "Asking who suffered or not is not relevant. The investigation is based on the court decisions banning Nursi's works." Meanwhile, two Jehovah's Witness women, Anna Melkonyan and Mariya Zubko, were freed on 1 July after 56 days' pre-trial detention but are still facing prosecution on accusations of theft. The two women, their lawyers and Russia's Jehovah's Witness community insist that the two were not involved in burglaries which took place in the town of Lobnya in Moscow Region. Melkonyan's lawyer, Natalya Medved, told Forum 18 that it is not clear whether the two women's faith led the police to accuse them of the burglaries. "It could be that it's not just because they are Jehovah's Witnesses. The police can't find the real criminals, so they believe that as foreign citizens the two women won't have anyone to defend them."
The investigator preparing the criminal case against Ilham Islamli, an imprisoned reader of the works of Muslim theologian Said Nursi, has declined to specify when it is likely to be completed and handed over to court. "It will happen this year," is all Investigator Vladimir Chernobrovin of the Investigation Committee of the Prosecutor's Office for Nizhny Novgorod Region would tell Forum 18 on 7 July of the timetable for the case. Islamli is being accused of inciting religious hatred for posting Nursi's works – some of which are banned for distribution in Russia - on a website he ran until early 2009. A Nursi reader told Forum 18 on 25 June of concern for Islamli's health, as he suffers from diabetes and needs a constant supply of insulin.
Chernobrovin said a Nizhny Novgorod court ordered Islamli, an Azerbaijani citizen also known as Islamov who was arrested in Moscow Region on 18 June, to be held in pre-trial detention for two months. He also confirmed that Islamli was charged on 22 June under Article 282, Part 1 of the Criminal Code (hatred or enmity, as well as the humiliation of human dignity). This carries a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment.
Meanwhile, two Jehovah's Witness women were freed on 1 July after 56 days in pre-trial detention. A criminal case continues against the two which the Jehovah's Witness community insists has been fabricated.
Readers of Said Nursi's works and Jehovah's Witnesses have been victims of an intense national campaign in recent years to limit their activity under charges of "extremism". Officials in various government agencies have refused to explain who initiated the campaigns (see F18News 25 March 2010 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1426).
Russian translations of Nursi's "Risale-i Nur" ("Messages of Light") multi-part Koranic commentary were outlawed by Moscow's Koptevo District Court in May 2007 and subsequently added to the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Nurdzhular - which Nursi readers insist does not exist – was then banned as an extremist organisation by Russia's Supreme Court in April 2008. Defenders of state action against Nursi followers routinely claim that his works are banned in Turkey, but official Turkish government documents viewed by Forum 18 state categorically that the theologian's works are not harmful in any way whatsoever and are freely available in Turkey (see F18News 28 January 2010 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1400).
By June 2010, the Jehovah's Witnesses were reporting over 265 incidents of state harassment of their members, typically involving raids on worship services, brief detentions and/or literature confiscations. They all follow the Supreme Court's 8 December 2009 endorsement of Rostov-on-Don Regional Court's earlier ruling outlawing 34 Jehovah's Witness titles as extremist and dissolving the local Jehovah's Witness religious organisation in Taganrog (see F18News 8 December 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1385).
Prosecution for web posting of Nursi's books
After leaving his native Azerbaijan, Islamli, who is now 34, lived and worked for some years in Nizhny Novgorod. Internet registry records from 2009 note that in 2004 he set up the website www.saidnur.ru, where he published some of Nursi's writings. However, he lost control of the website on 24 February 2009. "Allocation of the domain saidnur.ru has been removed in connection with the failure by the administrator of the domain to provide information requested during the verification of data," Andrei Vorobev of Ru-Center, the company that registers internet domains nationally, told Forum 18 on 30 April 2009.
Islamli denied this to Forum 18 at the time, insisting he had sent copies of his passport to Ru-Center as requested several times. He suspected that the removal of the website was part of the state campaign to make unavailable in Russia the works of Said Nursi.
Later in 2009, other materials unrelated to Nursi began to appear on the site, including advertisements, although the framework indicating that the site was dedicated to the works of Said Nursi remained. The site is currently registered by a private individual whose identity and contact address are not publicly available.
Criminal case opened
On 4 June the General Public Prosecutor's Office announced that a criminal case had been opened in Nizhny Novgorod Region against a citizen of Azerbaijan belonging to "the international religious association Nurdzhular". According to the Office, the Azerbaijani citizen (whom it did not name) posted books by Said Nursi on his website "with the aim of inciting hatred and enmity against non-believers and those who do not share religious ideas."
Asked who he believes might have suffered from Islamli's posting of some works by Nursi on his website, Investigator Chernobrovin responded to Forum 18: "Asking who suffered or not is not relevant. The investigation is based on the court decisions banning Nursi's works."
Asked to confirm that, under Russian law, Islamli can only be prosecuted for distributing specific titles by Nursi on the Federal List of Extremist Materials - and then only specific editions - Chernobrovin declined to comment. "I'm not a legal expert," he told Forum 18. "I can't interpret the law for you." He declined to answer any other questions, citing the "secrecy of the investigation".
Forum 18 was unable to ask Chernobrovin what enmity prosecutors believe Islamli was promoting and against whom.
"How can peace-loving books incite hatred and enmity?" one Nursi reader from elsewhere in Russia exclaimed to Forum 18 on 23 June.
A 22 June statement on the website of the Investigation Committee attached to the General Public Prosecutor's Office adds that the detained man publicly distributed extremist material by Said Nursi – "spiritual leader of the international religious association Nurdzhular" – via the internet from a flat on Rodionov Street in Nizhny Novgorod between September 2007 and July 2009, and was apprehended by Nizhny Novgorod FSB.
A 25 June article in the Russian daily Kommersant states that Islamli was detained in a joint operation by FSB and counterextremism police in Balashikha (Moscow Region), where he was allegedly hiding after other members of the "cell" he led in Nizhny Novgorod had all been "neutralised" and handed down sentences.
Criminal investigation continues after 56 days in prison
Two Jehovah's Witness women, Anna Melkonyan and Mariya Zubko, are facing prosecution on accusations of theft which they, their lawyers and Russia's Jehovah's Witness community insist are fabricated and may be a pretext to punish them for speaking to others about their faith. They are accused of stealing from the homes of three old women in the town of Lobnya in Moscow Region on 23 October 2008, 15 April 2010 and 6 May 2010, Melkonyan's lawyer Natalya Medved told Forum 18 on 7 July.
Medved says it is not clear whether the two women's faith led the police to accuse them of the burglaries, which no one disputes some women committed. "I believe this is part of it, as Anna Melkonyan was detained at the same police station around New Year and warned that if she is caught preaching again she will face unpleasantness," she told Forum 18. "But it could be that it's not just because they are Jehovah's Witnesses. The police can't find the real criminals, so they believe that as foreign citizens the two women won't have anyone to defend them."
The two women were talking about their faith to an old woman on the streets of Lobnya on 7 May when a police car stopped. After the police officer found they are foreign citizens (Melkonyan is Ukrainian while Zubko is Moldovan) they were accused of the earlier burglaries.
Despite having an alibi, positive character references and no previous convictions, they were sentenced to two months' pre-trial detention by Lobnya Municipal Court on 10 May, the Jehovah's Witnesses reported. They were freed from a temporary detention facility in Moscow Region on 1 July after 56 days. They remain in the town under restrictions as the investigation continues. They are not allowed to leave the town without the investigator's permission, the lawyer Medved told Forum 18.
The investigator in the case, Galina Kozhevnikova, said the two women are being investigated for several incidents under Criminal Code Article 158 (theft). Those found guilty of this charge face a fine and/or imprisonment of up to ten years, depending whether they form part of an "organised group" or not. She refused to say how long the investigation is likely to take.
Were the women targeted for their faith?
Kozhevnikova absolutely rejected any suggestion that the women are being investigated for the crimes because of their religious affiliation. "We don't lodge cases because individuals are Jehovah's Witnesses," she told Forum 18 on 7 July. "We leave people's faith completely on one side." She rejected Jehovah's Witness claims that the accusations have been fabricated, insisting that "of course" they have proof that the women were involved in the burglaries.
Similarly rejecting accusations that Melkonyan and Zubko are being targeted because of their faith was Colonel Vasily Subbotin, head of Lobnya police. "Their detention was nothing to do with their religious activity," he insisted to Forum 18 on 8 June. "We have no plan or order to arrest Jehovah's Witnesses. There can't be such plans." He maintained that the investigation is independent of the police.
TV appearance "as criminals"
Shortly after their detention, with police permission, Melkonyan and Zubko were filmed by the private national television station RenTV detained in a cage and their pictures shown in a crime programme, which was repeated several times. "They were depicted as criminals, as swindlers," the lawyer Medved complained to Forum 18. "I know people even in Ukraine who saw the broadcast."
Police chief Colonel Subbotin defended showing the two women on television even though they have not been convicted of any offence. "We have the right to show suspects on TV and this is how they were portrayed," he told Forum 18. "They were not shown as criminals."
The lawyer Medved said that it was only after seeing the television pictures that the victims of the burglaries identified Melkonyan and Zubko as the perpetrators. However, she insists that her client Melkonyan could not have conducted the burglary on 23 October 2008, as she flew back from Armenia to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport that same day. Similarly, Melkonyan spent from the beginning to the end of April 2010 in Ukraine, and a certificate from the village head certifying this has been handed to the investigator. "So how did the victims recognise her?" Medved asks.
Local hostility to religious minorities
A report of a 30 October 2009 seminar for municipal officials in Moscow Region posted on Lobnya local administration's website notes that, while the "problem" does not exist in Lobnya, the Jehovah's Witnesses "sect" was a heated topic of discussion. "Problems with the appearance of sects," a seminar participant suggested, could be eliminated in municipalities where the heads of administration are in close contact with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church. The website also – mistakenly – maintains that the Jehovah's Witnesses may not be termed an organisation because their activity is banned and recognised as extremist in many Russian regions.
Natalya Rybina, deputy head of the Department for the Affairs of Religious Associations for Moscow Region, was quoted in the website article as saying that wherever "sects" such as the Jehovah's Witnesses exist, people should turn to the law-enforcement agencies. However, she categorically denied to Forum 18 on 8 June that she had spoken against Jehovah's Witnesses at the 2009 seminar. She insisted that local officials have good relations with religious communities. "If they are registered, they have no problems."
Scapegoats?
This is not the first time that Jehovah's Witnesses have been accused of other crimes while out preaching. Yuri Panov was reportedly detained by police for several hours in April 2009 after preaching from house to house in the town of Ramon (Voronezh Region). Accused of committing burglaries in the neighbourhood, Panov denied the charges and was reportedly handcuffed, beaten, forced to wear a gasmask with no oxygen supply and threatened with electric shocks and sexual assault. Intimidated into confessing to the crimes, the police then "abruptly ended the torture and stated that they had made a mistake," the Jehovah's Witnesses state (see F18News 23 July 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1331).
In December 2009, two female Jehovah's Witnesses were briefly detained while preaching in Novokuibyshevsk (Samara Region) on the grounds that they resembled suspected fraudsters (see F18News 26 February 2010 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1415).
Two male Jehovah's Witnesses were sentenced to ten days' administrative arrest for "petty hooliganism" by a magistrate in Pochep (Bryansk Region) in January 2010, but this verdict was later overturned (see F18News 15 January 2010 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1395). (END)
Analysis of the background to Russian policy on "religious extremism" is available in two articles: - 'How the battle with "religious extremism" began' (F18News 27 April 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1287 - and - 'The battle with "religious extremism" - a return to past methods?' (F18News 28 April 2009 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1288).


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