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"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just three days before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. The song was released on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first ever posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.

Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song in Memphis with the help of Cropper, who was a Stax producer and the guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The song features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore.

Origins
While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding had grown in popularity, and was inundated with fans at his hotel in downtown San Francisco.  Rock concert impresario Bill Graham offered Redding a respite to stay at his houseboat at Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito, California.   It is there where he started writing the lines,  "Sittin' in the morning sun, I'll be sittin' when the evening comes" and the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title "Dock of the Bay."

He had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just weeks earlier. While touring in support of the albums King & Queen (a collaboration with female vocalist Carla Thomas) and Live in Europe, he continued to scribble lines of the song on napkins and hotel paper. In November of that year, he joined producer and guitarist Steve Cropper at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, to record the song.

In a September 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper explained the origins of the song:

Together, they completed the music and melancholic lyrics of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." From those sessions emerged Redding's final recorded work, including "Dock of the Bay," which was recorded on November 22, with additional overdubs on December 7. Redding's restrained yet emotive delivery is backed by Cropper's succinct guitar playing. The song is somewhat different in style from most of Redding's other recordings. While discussing the song with his wife, Redding stated that he had wanted to "be a little different" with "The Dock of the Bay" and "change his style". There were concerns that "The Dock of the Bay" had too much of a pop feel for an Otis Redding record, and contracting the Stax gospel act the Staple Singers to record backing vocals was discussed but never carried out. Redding had considered the song to be unfinished and planned to record what he considered a final version, but never got the chance. The song features a whistled tune heard before it fades, however it is unclear who performed it. Some sources claim Sam Taylor, a guitarist/bandleader for Redding during the 1960s, overdubbed Redding's original, weaker whistle. Cropper, however, insists that Redding's original whistle was used on the final cut. Redding continued to tour after the recording sessions. On December 10, his charter plane crashed into Lake Monona, outside Madison, Wisconsin. Redding and six others were killed.

After Redding's death, Cropper mixed "Dock of the Bay" at Stax Studios. He added the sound of seagulls and waves crashing to the background, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he heard when he was staying on the houseboat.

Personnel

 Otis Redding – vocals
 Booker T. Jones – keyboards
 Steve Cropper – guitar
 Donald Dunn – bass guitar
 Al Jackson Jr. – drums
 Wayne Jackson – trumpet, trombone
 Andrew Love – saxophone

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

All-time charts

Certifications

Reception

Phil Walden and Jim Stewart were among those who had doubts about the song, the sound, and the production. Redding accepted some of the criticisms and fine-tuned the song. He reversed the opening, which was Redding's whistling part, and put it at the end as suggested. "The Dock of the Bay" was released early in 1968 and topped the charts in the US and UK. Billboard ranked the record as the number 4 song for 1968.

Universal success
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released in January 1968, shortly after Redding's death. R&B stations quickly added the song to their playlists, which had been saturated with Redding's previous hits. The song shot to number one on the R&B charts in early 1968 and, starting in March, topped the pop charts for four weeks. The album, which shared the song's title, became his largest-selling to date, peaking at number four on the pop albums chart. "Dock of the Bay" was popular in countries across the world and became Redding's most successful record, selling more than four million copies worldwide. The song went on to win two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

Legacy
Redding's body of work at the time of his death was immense, including a backlog of archived recordings as well as those created in November and December 1967, just before his death. In mid-1968, Stax Records severed its distribution contract with Atlantic Records, which retained the label's back catalog and the rights to the unreleased Otis Redding masters. Through its Atco subsidiary (Atco had distributed Otis Redding's releases from Stax's Volt label), Atlantic issued three more albums of new Redding material, one live album, and eight singles between 1968 and 1970. Reprise Records issued a live album featuring Redding and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival. Both studio albums and anthologies sold well in America and abroad. Redding was especially successful in the United Kingdom, where The Dock of the Bay went to number one, becoming the first posthumous album to reach the top spot there.

In 1999, BMI named the song as the sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century, with about six million performances. Rolling Stone ranked The Dock of the Bay number 161 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the third of five Redding albums on the list. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was ranked twenty-sixth on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the second-highest of four Redding songs on the list, after "Respect" (in this case the version recorded by Aretha Franklin).

Jim Morrison made reference to "Dock of the Bay" in the Doors' song "Runnin' Blue", written by Robby Krieger, from their 1969 album The Soft Parade. Morrison sings an a capella intro for the song, singing directly about Otis Redding. "Poor Otis dead and gone, left me here to sing his song, pretty little girl with a red dress on, poor Otis dead and gone." And during the verse, the lyrics "Got to find a dock and a bay" appear more than once; as well as several other references to Redding's song.

In 2013, Redding's son, Otis Redding III performed the song at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Brannan Street Wharf on the Embarcadero in the South Beach neighborhood in San Francisco.  The lyrics to the song are embronzed there on a plaque.   That has led to confusion for some to believe Redding actually wrote the song there, especially since the lyrics reference the "Frisco Bay".  In actuality, the song was written 10 miles north up in Sausalito, as Redding was watching the "ships come in" on the Richardson Bay.

Michael Bolton version

Michael Bolton included the song on his 1987 album The Hunger. His version peaked number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the Album Rock Tracks chart. The version also peaked number three in Australia, number five in Norway, and number eight in New Zealand.

Zelma Redding, Otis's widow, said she was so moved by Bolton's performance "that it brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me so much of my husband that I know if he heard it, he would feel the same." In a framed letter that hangs on the wall of Bolton's office, she referred to the record as "my all-time favorite version of my husband's classic."

Charts

Other cover versions

Several other versions of the song have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. King Curtis' version charted for five weeks starting in March 1968 and peaked at number 84 (during the same month, the original was number one). A year later, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's version charted for five weeks starting in June 1969 and peaked at number 66.

Sammy Hagar released a version of the song as a non-album single in 1979. His version features the song's co-writer, Steve Cropper, on guitar and members of the band Boston—Brad Delp, Sib Hashian and Barry Goudreau—on backup vocals. Music critic Thor Christensen in 1994 listed the Sammy Hagar version as one of the "five worst song remakes". It charted for five weeks starting in April 1979, peaking at number 65.

The Reddings, who included two of Otis Redding's sons, released a version which charted for nine weeks starting in June 1982 and peaked at number 55.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Inside Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"

Songs about oceans and seas
Songs about boats
1968 singles
Otis Redding songs
Songs about San Francisco
Songs about Georgia (U.S. state)
Little Richard songs
David Allan Coe songs
Michael Bolton songs
Peggy Lee songs
Sammy Hagar songs
Waylon Jennings songs
Willie Nelson songs
Jimmy Velvit songs
Glen Campbell songs
Songs written by Otis Redding
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Songs released posthumously
Songs written by Steve Cropper
RCA Records singles
Atco Records singles
Stax Records singles
Capitol Records singles
Columbia Records singles
1968 songs

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Q: Monte Carlo simulation exercise The assignment is to run a simulation on excel to figure out the probabilities on obtaining a certain goal:
John and Jane Doe are planning to save money to pay a house for their 6-month-old son, Patrick.  They have decided that they would like to have $500,000 saved by the time Patrick is ready for college 17 years from today:
John and Jane are planning to save $20,000 (at the beginning of) each year (ignore taxes).  Assume that the return each year varies and is sampled from the same normal distribution (mean rate of return is 4%, standard deviation is also 10%, i.e. one standard deviation away is either a -6% return or an 14% return).   (Hence in each trial there are 17 different rates of return, one for each year.)  Run a simulation of this investment strategy with at least 1000 trials.
Here's my attempt on the problem (click on the photo to reveal a larger version):

I am not to sure on how to continue from there. Am I missing other components to solve the problem? Is 'n' the number of trials? Any advice would be appreciated!

A: After you fix the problems in the comments with compound interest rate, you should write a VB script in Excel to do the simulation. In essence, you're going to replace the rand() column in each iteration, then log the final result. Usually with Monte Carlo simulations, you want to bin the result because you are looking at the confidence intervals, i.e. how much to they have at 95% confidence (95% chance they will have at least that much)., 90% ...

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package org.neo4j.cypher.internal.frontend.v2_3

import org.neo4j.cypher.internal.frontend.v2_3.spi.MapToPublicExceptions

abstract class CypherException(message: String, cause: Throwable) extends RuntimeException(message, cause) {
  def this() = this(null, null)

  def this(message: String) = this(message, null)

  def this(cause: Throwable) = this(null, cause)

  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]): T
}

class UniquePathNotUniqueException(message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]): T = mapper.uniquePathNotUniqueException(message, this)
}

class FailedIndexException(indexName: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.failedIndexException(indexName, this)
}

class EntityNotFoundException(message: String, cause: Throwable = null) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.entityNotFoundException(message, this)
}

class CypherTypeException(message: String, cause: Throwable = null) extends CypherException(message, cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.cypherTypeException(message, this)
}

class ParameterNotFoundException(message: String, cause: Throwable) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def this(message: String) = this(message, null)

  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.parameterNotFoundException(message, this)
}

class ParameterWrongTypeException(message: String, cause: Throwable) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def this(message: String) = this(message, null)

  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.parameterWrongTypeException(message, this)
}

class InvalidArgumentException(message: String, cause: Throwable = null) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.invalidArgumentException(message, this)
}

class PatternException(message: String) extends CypherException(message) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.patternException(message, this)
}

class InternalException(message: String, inner: Exception = null) extends CypherException(message, inner) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.internalException(message, this)
}

class NodeStillHasRelationshipsException(val nodeId: Long, cause: Throwable) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.nodeStillHasRelationshipsException(nodeId, this)
}

class ProfilerStatisticsNotReadyException extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.profilerStatisticsNotReadyException(this)
}

class UnknownLabelException(labelName: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.unknownLabelException(labelName, this)
}

class HintException(message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.hintException(message, this)
}

class IndexHintException(identifier: String, label: String, property: String, message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.indexHintException(identifier, label, property, message, this)
}

class JoinHintException(identifier: String, message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.joinHintException(identifier, message, this)
}

class LabelScanHintException(identifier: String, label: String, message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.labelScanHintException(identifier, label, message, this)
}

class InvalidSemanticsException(message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.invalidSemanticException(message, this)
}

class MergeConstraintConflictException(message: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.mergeConstraintConflictException(message, this)
}

class ArithmeticException(message: String, cause: Throwable = null) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.arithmeticException(message, this)
}

class IncomparableValuesException(details: Option[String], lhs: String, rhs: String) extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.incomparableValuesException(details, lhs, rhs, this)
  def this(operator: String, lhs: String, rhs: String) = this(Some(operator), lhs, rhs)
  def this(lhs: String, rhs: String) = this(None, lhs, rhs)
}

class PeriodicCommitInOpenTransactionException extends CypherException {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.periodicCommitInOpenTransactionException(this)
}

class LoadExternalResourceException(message: String, cause: Throwable = null) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.loadExternalResourceException(message, this)
}

class LoadCsvStatusWrapCypherException(extraInfo: String, cause: CypherException) extends CypherException(cause) {
  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) =
    // the mapper will map the cause here, so we cannot pass 'this' in as the cause...
    mapper.loadCsvStatusWrapCypherException(extraInfo, cause)
}

class SyntaxException(message: String, val query: String, val offset: Option[Int]) extends CypherException(message) {
  def this(message: String, query: String, offset: Int) = this(message, query, Some(offset))

  def this(message: String) = this(message, "", None)

  def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]) = mapper.syntaxException(message, query, offset, this)
}

class CypherExecutionException(message: String, cause: Throwable) extends CypherException(message, cause) {
  override def mapToPublic[T <: Throwable](mapper: MapToPublicExceptions[T]): T = mapper.cypherExecutionException(message, this)
}

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Take teen girls off night shift, Indian factories told
No budget for farmers
India calls off lunar mission an hour before launch
Muslims in North Texas protest religious violence in India
Former Bangladesh army ruler Ershad dies aged 89
Kartarpur talks: No anti-India acts to be allowed, Pakistan assures
Monsoon kills dozens in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
India aims to raise $47 billion from stake sales in state firms over 5 years
Why India's $5 trillion economy is a no-brainer; we should aim higher instead
Jai Shri Ram: A slogan that changed political contours of India
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Female workers aged 16 to 19 will also be allowed to take time off during their periods and no one will be made to work more than nine hours under the new guidelines from the Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) which came into effect this month.
"The idea is to help manufacturers understand how an employee should be treated, right from recruitment to retirement," said Selvaraju Kandaswamy, secretary-general of the association, which has more than 700 members.
"We also want to create confidence in the mind of the global buyer that workers' needs are being taken into account and we have zero tolerance to any form of abuse."
An estimated 45 million workers, mostly women, are employed in India's thriving garment industry, with major hubs in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
They have limited or no legal protection and few formal grievance mechanisms.
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A report last year by Better Buying, a US-based group that rates the purchasing practices of brands and retailers, said pressure on suppliers to deliver more quickly and cheaply had contributed to labour abuses.
The new code of conduct, which is voluntary, says factories should not employ anyone under 16 and limits the workday. Employers must also allow workers freedom of association and create effective grievance mechanisms.
It also addresses the issues of sexual harassment, maternity benefits, migrant workers and minimum wage, and stipulates that women cannot be fired when they are pregnant.
Much of this is already required under Indian law. The code is intended to help factories meet international labour standards as well as complying with legal requirements.
"This code is very important because it updates employers about the latest laws and will create a safer workplace for the thousands of women employed in the industry," said Kannagi Packianathan, chairwoman of the Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women.
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AWS Wrapper for PHP
========================

This package aims to wrap around Amazons PHP sdk so that it provides the developer with a more object-orientated interface. Thus the developer will spend less time looking up the parameters they can pass into an array.
This version of the wrapper is based on [version 3 of the SDK](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/api/).

## Installation
```bash
composer require irap/aws-Wrapper
```

## Example Usage

```php
<?php

require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');

define('S3_BUCKET', 'my-bucket-name');
define('AWS_KEY', 'someKeyValueHere');
define('AWS_SECRET', 'someAwsSecretHere');

$awsWrapper = new \iRAP\AwsWrapper\AwsWrapper(
    AWS_KEY,
    AWS_SECRET,
    iRAP\AwsWrapper\Enums\AwsRegion::create_EU_W1()
);

# Get the S3 client for interfacing with S3, rather than EC2
$s3Client = $awsWrapper->getS3Client();

# Create a private file in S3 called "test-file.txt" that contains the text
# "hello world" in our bucket.
$response = $s3Client->createFile(
    S3_BUCKET,
    "hello world",
    'test-file.txt',
    iRAP\AwsWrapper\S3\Acl::createAuthenticatedRead(),
    iRAP\AwsWrapper\S3\StorageClass::createStandard()
);

```

## Debugging
I've occasionally had issues with running commands that would just block and never return. The solution for me was to install the php-xml package with

```bash
sudo apt-get install php-xml
```

I will remove this note once I have figured out how to make composer require that for installation.


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Q: RabbitMQ Java Client: why does JsonRpcServer not allow most method param types? I have some methods I want to expose for the client with JsonRpcServer:
    Map getById(Long o);

Whenever I try and use this method, a runtime exception is thrown:
Caused by: com.rabbitmq.tools.jsonrpc.JsonRpcException: {
"code": 500,
"name": "JSONRPCError",
"message": "Internal Server Error",
"error": {
    "localizedMessage": "argument type mismatch",
    "cause": null,
    "stackTrace": [{
        "fileName": "NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java",
        "nativeMethod": true,
        "methodName": "invoke0",
        "className": "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl",
        "lineNumber": -2
    }, {
        "fileName": "NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "invoke",
        "className": "sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl",
        "lineNumber": 62
    }, {
        "fileName": "DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "invoke",
        "className": "sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl",
        "lineNumber": 43
    }, {
        "fileName": "Method.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "invoke",
        "className": "java.lang.reflect.Method",
        "lineNumber": 483
    }, {
        "fileName": "JsonRpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "doCall",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.tools.jsonrpc.JsonRpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 143
    }, {
        "fileName": "JsonRpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "handleStringCall",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.tools.jsonrpc.JsonRpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 103
    }, {
        "fileName": "StringRpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "handleCall",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.client.StringRpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 48
    }, {
        "fileName": "RpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "handleCall",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.client.RpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 176
    }, {
        "fileName": "RpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "handleCall",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.client.RpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 163
    }, {
        "fileName": "RpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "processRequest",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.client.RpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 149
    }, {
        "fileName": "RpcServer.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "mainloop",
        "className": "com.rabbitmq.client.RpcServer",
        "lineNumber": 115
    }, {
        "fileName": "RabbitConfiguration.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "lambda$jsonRpcServer$0",
        "className": "com.ofaly.comments.RabbitConfiguration",
        "lineNumber": 56
    }, {
        "fileName": null,
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "run",
        "className": "com.ofaly.comments.RabbitConfiguration$$Lambda$7\/82172068",
        "lineNumber": -1
    }, {
        "fileName": "Thread.java",
        "nativeMethod": false,
        "methodName": "run",
        "className": "java.lang.Thread",
        "lineNumber": 745
    }],
    "suppressed": [],
    "message": "argument type mismatch"
}

}
When I change the type of the argument to String, it works... And It doesn't seem to accept any other types beside String and map. Not even Objects would work as argument.
Why doesn't JsonRpcClient accept Objects?

Configuration:
I am using Rabbit Mq JsonRPC client with Spring boot.
My configuration looks like so:
@Value("${spring.rabbitmq.host}")
private String rabbitmqHost;

@Value("${spring.rabbitmq.queue}")
private String rabbitmqQueue;

private final IRPCService rpcService;

public RabbitConfiguration(final IRPCService rpcService) {
    this.rpcService = rpcService;
}

@Bean
public Connection rabbitmqConnection() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
    ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
    factory.setHost(rabbitmqHost);
    return factory.newConnection();
}

@Bean
public Channel rpcChanel() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
    Connection connection = rabbitmqConnection();
    Channel channel = connection.createChannel();
    channel.queueDeclare(rabbitmqQueue, false, false, false, null);
    return channel;
}

@Bean
@Lazy(false)
public JsonRpcServer jsonRpcServer() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
    JsonRpcServer jsonRpcServer = new JsonRpcServer(rpcChanel(), rabbitmqQueue, IRPCService.class, rpcService);
    new Thread(() -> {
        try {
            jsonRpcServer.mainloop();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }).start();
    return jsonRpcServer;
}

I use it like so:
@Autowired
private ProxyRpcBuilder rpcBuilder;
....
rpcBuilder.create(IRPCService.class).getById(commentId);

My proxy looks like so:
@Component
public class ProxyRpcBuilder {

@Value("${spring.rabbitmq.queue}")
private String rabbitmqQueue;

private final Channel channel;
private JsonRpcClient jsonRpcClient;

public ProxyRpcBuilder(Channel channel) {
    this.channel = channel;
}

public <T> T create(Class<T> t) {
    try {
        if (jsonRpcClient == null) {
            jsonRpcClient = new JsonRpcClient(channel, "", rabbitmqQueue, 20000);
        }
        return (T) jsonRpcClient.createProxy(t);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
} ...


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Nikolaus Geyrhalter (* 1972 in Wien) ist Regisseur, Produzent und Kameramann.
Der Autodidakt gründete 1994 im Zuge seiner ersten Filmproduktion Angeschwemmt mit 22 Jahren die Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, die er 2003 mit drei Gesellschaftern in eine GmbH umwandelte.

Werk und Stil
Geyrhalter, der bei seinen Filmen immer selbst die Kamera führt, ist bekannt für seine ganz persönliche filmische Handschrift. Kommentarlos lässt er Menschen und Räume wirken und gibt dem Publikum so Interpretationsfreiraum. "Fast jede Art der zusätzlichen Information ist für Geyrhalter irrelevant oder noch schlimmer – und dies in einer Ära, in der Dokumentarfilme oft so didaktisch anmuten wie PowerPoint-Präsentationen." schreibt Rob Nelson von der Village Voice in New York. Zu Geyrhalters bekanntesten Werken gehören Pripyat, Elsewhere, Unser Täglich Brot und Abendland.

Geyrhalter war außerdem Gastprofessor im Bereich Fotografie und Film an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien im Wintersemester 2012/2013.

Filmografie

 1994 Angeschwemmt, 86 min., Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 1997 Das Jahr nach Dayton, 204 min., Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 1999 Pripyat, 100 min., Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 2001 Elsewhere, 240 min., Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 2005 Unser täglich Brot, 92 min., Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 2008 7915 KM, 106 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/Kamera/Produktion
 2010 Allentsteig, 79 min., TV-Dokumentarfilm, Regie/ Buch/ Kamera/ Produktion
 2011 Abendland, 90 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/ Buch/ Kamera/ Produktion
 2012 Donauspital, 75 min., TV-Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 2013 CERN, 75 min., TV-Dokumentarfilm, Regie/Kamera/Produktion
 2015 Über die Jahre, 188 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/Buch/Kamera/Produktion
 2016 Homo Sapiens, 94 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/Kamera/Produktion
 2018 Die bauliche Maßnahme, 112 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/Kamera/Produktion
 2019 Erde, 120 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Regie/Kamera/Produktion
 2022 Geschichten vom Franz, Produktion
 2022 Breaking the Ice (Wenn wir die Regeln brechen), Produktion
 2022 Alpenland, 88 min., Kinodokumentarfilm, Produktion

Auszeichnungen
 2002: Österreichischer Würdigungspreis für Filmkunst
 Angeschwemmt
 Preis Neues Kino – Wien 1994
 Das Jahr nach Dayton
 Wiener Filmpreis 1997
 Leserpreis Berliner Zeitung – Berlin 1998
 Le Prix Joris Ivens – Paris 1998
 3sat-Dokumentarfilmpreis – Duisburg 1998
 Pripyat
 Großer Preis – Diagonale 1999
 Prix International de la SCAM – Paris 1999
 Prix de la Jury – Audience Prize, Nyon 1999
 Großer Festivalpreis – München 1999
 Grand Prix – Odivelas 1999
 European Documentary Nominee 1999
 International Documentary Award – Istanbul 2001
 Elsewhere
 Special Jury Award – Amsterdam 2001
 Ethnographic Award – Pärnu 2002
 Publikumspreis – Duisburg 2002
 Preis für innovative Produktionsleistung – Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films, Graz 2003
 Unser täglich Brot
 Bester Film – Ecocinema International Film Festival Athen 2006
 Honourable Mention – Special Jury Prize – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto 2006
 Special John Templeton Prize – Visions du Réel, Nyon 2006
 Spezialpreis der Jury – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2005
 Adolf-Grimme-Preis – Kategorie Information & Kultur, Marl 2008
 Nominierung Prix Arte – Europäischer Filmpreis 2006
 Sonderpreis der Jury – Jihlava 2006
 EcoCamera Preis – Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal 2006
 Best feature length documentary – Ashland Independent Film Festival 2007
 Spezialpreis Jurado Pfizer – Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de México 2007
 Grand Prix – Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris 2006
 7915 KM
 Preis für beste Bildgestaltung Dokumentarfilm – Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films, Graz 2009
 Abendland
 Nominierung Bester Dokumentarfilm – Österreichischer Filmpreis 2012
 Preis für Beste künstlerische Montage Dokumentarfilm – Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films, Graz 2011
 Millenium Award – Planete Doc Film Festival, Warschau 2011
 The Canon Cinematography Award – Honorable Mention, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warschau 2011
 Grand Prix Special Mention – Split Film Festival 2011
 Donauspital – SMZ Ost
 Honorable Mention – World Pulse Culturgest Award, IndieLisboa International Film Festival 2013
 Nominierung Prix Europa 2012
 Über die Jahre
 Großer Preis – Diagonale 2015
 Preis für Beste künstlerische Montage Dokumentarfilm, Diagonale 2015
 Bester Film, Human Rights Competition, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2015
 Silver Eye Award für Besten Dokumentarfilm, Jihlava, Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival 2015
 3sat-Dokumentarfilmpreis, Duisburger Filmwoche 2015
 Nominierung Bester Dokumentarfilm, Österreichischer Filmpreis 2016
 Homo Sapiens:
 Wild Dreamer Award for Best Documentary, Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb 2016
 Bestes Sounddesign Dokumentarfilm, Diagonale 2017
 Die bauliche Maßnahme
 Großer Preis der Diagonale 2018 als bester Dokumentarfilm
 Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München 2019 – VIKTOR DOK.deutsch
 Erde
 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2019, Preis der Ökumenischen Jury in der Sektion Forum
 Österreichischer Filmpreis 2020 in der Kategorie Bester Dokumentarfilm

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Einzelnachweise

Filmregisseur
Kameramann
Dokumentarfilmer
Filmproduzent
Träger des Österreichischen Filmpreises
Person (Film, Wien)
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Geboren 1972
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Rosewood Announces the Opening of Rosewood Riyadh
Michelle Oliver
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has announced the opening of Rosewood Riyadh, which will open in 2025 in Saudi Arabia's capital.
The hotel will be located within Diriyah Gate, a mixed-use luxury development project that intends to become the country's top lifestyle destination, on the historic, Unesco-listed site of At-Turaif.
240 rooms and suites will be available, including 48 Wadi Suites with one to three bedrooms. Four restaurants and bars, a fitness center, a kids' club, and a ballroom, as well as Asaya, Rosewood's unique wellness concept, will be available.
Following the inauguration of Rosewood Jeddah in 2007, Rosewood Riyadh will be the brand's second hotel in Saudi Arabia. It will be the fourth Rosewood property in the Middle East, following Rosewood Abu Dhabi and Rosewood Doha, all of which are scheduled to open in 2022.
Rosewood Hotel Group's chief executive officer, Sonia Cheng, said: "We are thrilled to further our presence in the Middle East with an opening in Riyadh, a historic trade hub and exemplar of 21st-century vision.
"The Diriyah Gate development is bringing the destination to an expanded international audience of discerning travelers and we're excited to be a part of the city's continued evolution."
Jerry Inzerillo, the DGDA's Group Chief Executive, added: "Rosewood will bring a level of refinement to Diriyah, mirroring the past whilst providing guests with the excitement of the future.
"Guests will be immersed in a cultural journey spanning the centuries through the joint efforts of Diriyah and the Rosewood team; we are excited to unveil more in the coming months."
The opening is one of the brand's 25 new projects now in the works. Rome, Miyakojima, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Mexico City, and San Francisco are among the most recent properties to be disclosed.
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FLASHBACK: Dick Durbin's Office Sought To Block Bush's 'Latino' Court Nominee
Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter
When Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin played the race card Wednesday against Republicans blocking Loretta Lynch's attorney general nomination, he must have forgotten all of the times he opposed Republican minority nominees.
In one of those instances of obstinance, Durbin's Senate staff submitted a memo in 2001 asserting that George W. Bush U.S. Appeals Court's nominee Miguel Estrada was an "especially dangerous" prospect because "he is Latino."
On Wednesday, Durbin took to the Senate floor to accuse Republicans of forcing Lynch, who is black, "to sit in the back of the bus" until a vote on a controversial sex trafficking bill is resolved.
Durbin's dramatic statement was a reference to civil rights icon Rosa Park's refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955.
Durbin said Republicans were treating Lynch unfairly by blocking her from becoming "the first African-American woman" attorney general. If approved by the Senate, Lynch will replace Eric Holder, the first African-American to hold that office. (RELATED: Dem Senator Accuses GOP Of Forcing Loretta Lynch 'To Sit In The Back Of The Bus')
It was Nov. 7, 2001, when a staffer in Durbin's office sent a memo summarizing a meeting with "representatives of various civil rights groups" to discuss Estrada's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The memo showed that one of the reasons Democrats wanted to block confirmation of the Honduras-born Estrada was because he is Latino.
The meeting "focused on identifying the most controversial and/or vulnerable judicial nominees, and a strategy for targeting them," Durbin's staffer wrote in the memo which was published only in Nov. 2003, months after Estrada withdrew his name from consideration after a protracted battle with Democrats.
"They also identified Miguel Estrada [D.C. Circuit] as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment," Durbin's staffer wrote.
A Durbin spokesman issued a statement at the time claiming that the memo was not meant to be a racial attack on Estrada but, rather, political in nature.
The same claim could easily be made about Republicans' hesitation to confirm Lynch.
Besides his opposition to Estrada, Durbin opposed two other minority Bush nominees. In 2005, he voted against Bush's nominee for secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. Also in 2005, he was outspoken in his opposition of Bush's U.S. Court of Appeals nominee, Janice Rogers Brown. Both Rice and Brown were eventually confirmed. Like Lynch, both are black.
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On a night one high-performance starter struggled and one struggling young starter excelled, the bigger spectacle at Wrigley Field was all about two starters who won't throw a pitch this week in Chicago.
Jake and the mistake? OK, that's probably unfair.
But make no mistake about this: The Phillies' 6-1 victory Tuesday against the Cubs in the opener of a three-game series was mere background noise for the celebrated return of Jake Arrieta, who received a standing ovation early in the game after a rousing video-board tribute to his historic Cubs run.
Arrieta with Cubs manager Joe Maddon before Tuesday's game.
That came a few hours after Yu Darvish — the big-money free agent the Cubs essentially chose over Arrieta — played catch from 90 feet as he continued a deliberate, cautious throwing program to return from his second disabled-list stretch in three weeks.
The Cubs have set no timetable for a possible return from the triceps inflammation. Darvish hasn't pitched in more than two weeks, suggesting a minor-league rehab assignment of at least a start or two will be required before he returns to the rotation.
Meanwhile, fan-favorite Arrieta — the 2015 Cy Young winner and 2016 World Series hero — is off to a 5-3 start with a 2.66 ERA for the upstart Phillies, drawing obvious favorable comparisons to the four-time All-Star the Cubs signed to a six-year, $126 million deal instead.
But for all of Darvish's early adversity with his new team, including fifth-inning woes and a DL stay for the flu, Maddon stressed, again, the fairness of having patience before burying Darvish in Arrieta's scoreboard highlights.
"I could not be happier for Jake," Maddon said. "He's in a good place right now. He's doing extremely well.
Meanwhile, on this night, Kyle Hendricks struggled for the Cubs, giving up five early runs and making it through just five innings. Phillies starter Zach Eflin (2-2) pitched into the eighth inning — the first time in a month he has pitched more than 4 2/3 innings — before allowing a run.
Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, who left Sunday's game after suffering a sprained thumb on a fifth-inning swing, had an MRI late Tuesday afternoon after the soreness persisted longer than hoped.
Results were expected Wednesday. Russell said after Sunday's game he thought he might miss only one or two games.
Right-hander Carl Edwards Jr., the setup ace who has been on the DL the last week because of shoulder inflammation, is pain-free, the team said, as he continues a strengthening program for the shoulder.
The team is taking a cautious approach with the hard-throwing Edwards and is not ready to announce a timetable for him to start playing catch again.


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Q: Matching operator somewhere in Proto expression Why doesn't the following Boost.Proto grammar match dereference operator, and what's the
correct way to do this?
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/proto/proto.hpp>

namespace proto = boost::proto;
using proto::_;

struct has_deref : proto::or_<
    proto::dereference<_>,
    proto::nary_expr<_, proto::vararg<has_deref>>
    >
{};

template<class Expr>
void test_expr(const Expr &e)
{
    proto::display_expr(e);
    std::cout << "matches? " << std::boolalpha << proto::matches<Expr,
has_deref>::value << std::endl;
}

int main()
{
    test_expr(proto::lit(1) + *proto::lit(2));
}

A: According to your definition your has_deref grammar matches expressions that are either:

*

*A dereference operator applied to ANY expression

*ANY n-ary (which can be unary like: complement, negate or unary_plus; binary like: subscript or plus; ternary like if_else_, or directly n-ary like function) expression whose arguments recursively match the has_deref grammar.

In your example you have a plus<terminal<int>,dereference<terminal<int> > > which is something like binary_expr<tag::plus,terminal<int>,unary_expr<tag::dereference,terminal<int> > >. When trying to match your expression (I think) Proto tries first the first element of your grammar (dereference<_>) and obviously fails. Then tries the second one and binary_expr<tag::plus,...> matches nary_expr<_,...> and so it recursively tries to match the grammar to both argument expressions of the plus. The second one matches directly, but the first one (terminal<int>) does not match either of the possibilities and so the whole expression fails to match.
One possible (and sadly clunky) approach to do what you want could be something like:
struct has_deref : proto::or_< //ignoring if_then_else and function
    proto::dereference<_>,
    proto::unary_expr<_, has_deref>,
    proto::binary_expr<_, has_deref, _>,
    proto::binary_expr<_, _, has_deref>
    >
{};

that matches expressions that are either:

*

*A dereference operator applied to ANY expression.

*A unary operator applied to expressions that recursively match has_deref.

*A binary operator whose first operand is an expression that matches has_deref and its second is ANY expression (including expressions that match has_deref) .

*A binary operator whose first operand is an expression that does not match has_deref and its second is one that does.

Here is an example that checks that several expressions match this new grammar (extended to also check for functions with at most 2 arguments):
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/proto/proto.hpp>

namespace proto = boost::proto;
using proto::_;

template <typename Grammar>
struct function_contains_at_least_one : proto::or_<//this is awful, there should be a better way
    proto::function<Grammar>,
    proto::function<Grammar,_>,
    proto::function<_,Grammar>,
    proto::function<Grammar,_,_>,
    proto::function<_,Grammar,_>,
    proto::function<_,_,Grammar>
    >
{};

struct has_deref : proto::or_< //ignoring if_else_
    proto::dereference<_>,
    proto::unary_expr<_,has_deref>,
    proto::binary_expr<_, _,has_deref>,
    proto::binary_expr<_,has_deref,_>,
    function_contains_at_least_one<has_deref>
    >
{};

template<class Expr>
void test_expr(const std::string& repr, const Expr &e)
{
    std::cout << repr << " matches 'has_deref'? " << std::boolalpha << proto::matches<Expr,
has_deref>::value << std::endl;
    //display_expr(e);
}

#define TEST_EXPR( EXPR ) test_expr(#EXPR,EXPR)

int main()
{
    using proto::lit;
    TEST_EXPR(lit(1) + lit(2));
    TEST_EXPR(lit(1) + *lit(2));
    TEST_EXPR(*lit(1) + *lit(2));
    TEST_EXPR(*(lit(1) * (lit("foo")+lit(2))));
    TEST_EXPR(+-*lit(1)[~*lit(2)++]);

    //testing functions
    TEST_EXPR( lit(1)() );
    TEST_EXPR( (*lit(1))() );
    TEST_EXPR( lit(1)(lit(2)) );
    TEST_EXPR( (*lit(1))(lit(2)) );
    TEST_EXPR( lit(1)(*lit(2)) );
    TEST_EXPR( lit(1)(lit(2),lit(3)) );
    TEST_EXPR( (*lit(1))(*lit(2),*lit(3)) );
}


Synopsis: When the title character becomes lost in a cardboard maze he built, his friends discover all manner of supernatural threats on the inside.
Sometimes, the central conceit behind a movie is so deliciously weird that you can't help but be intrigued by what it has to offer. That's certainly the case with Dave Made a Maze, which does pretty much exactly what its title suggests. There's a character called Dave – played by stand-up comedian Nick Thune – and he has made a maze in his living room from cardboard. The intrigue begins when the audience is told that this is far from just an ordinary construction. Much like the TARDIS, it's bigger on the inside.
This is a movie that's all about the ingenuity of the titular labyrinth, and it's certainly an impressive feat of production design. There are piano key-inspired corridors, walls daubed with hundreds of playing cards and areas that are packed to the brim with inventive perspective tricks, like an episode of Changing Rooms hosted by Escher. Dave Made a Maze is a joy when it's simply flexing the muscles of that design and showcasing its raucous imagination.
But that's seldom the focus of the movie. In fact, writer-director Bill Watterson turns his eye on absurd, shouty comedy. Dave's girlfriend Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani) and a group of friends journey into the maze to find Dave, but soon find themselves being stalked by a part-cardboard, part-monstrosity Minotaur (former WWE wrestler John Hennigan). What starts off as an intriguing idea very quickly devolves into characters running around screaming.
It doesn't help that the movie seems to have only a fleeting notion of its own storytelling rules. Characters are killed in the story, with blood replaced by bright red silly string, but the stakes have evaporated entirely by the time it becomes clear that this is actual death rather than some sort of whimsical plot device. Those stakes are also diminished by the odd, flippant characters, who never seem to react in any remotely believable way to what's happening. The exception is Kumbhani, who is far better than the movie she's in.
On the one hand, it feels wrong to criticise a movie this silly for lacking logic and believability – it's a fantasy about a living maze full of supernatural creatures, for goodness sake. However, a film as strange as Dave Made a Maze only works if the internal logic makes sense, not to mention the characters. This is a film that gets none of those elements right and even seems to be padding its way to an 80-minute running time. Perhaps that's the proof needed to show that this should have been a short rather than a feature. It certainly would've been less exhausting.
The features here are actually more interesting than the film. There's a commentary track and some deleted scenes, but the standout is a really fun behind the scenes documentary that goes into some detail on the sheer quantity of cardboard they had to find, as well as the very impressive artistry on show. It's the highlight of the disc, by some distance.
There were a lot of exciting elements at play in Dave Made a Maze, but the finished product is as fragile and flimsy as cardboard. Any potential for fun comedy and existential darkness is abandoned by a movie that's more in love with pushing weirdness boundaries than in making the most of its excellent design.
Dave Made a Maze is available on Blu-ray in the UK from Monday, courtesy of Arrow Films.


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Chinese troops crossed over LAC thrice in Aug: Sources
September 12, 2018 by neha
New Delhi: China's People Liberation Army (PLA) transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) at least three times last month in the Uttarakhand state, as per sources.
Sources further said that the Chinese troops crossed over as far as four kilometres into the Indian Territory in Barahoti village in the Chamoli district of the state.
Similar incidents occurred in July last year when Chinese troops ventured up to a kilometre into Indian Territory in Barahoti. This area also witnessed aerial transgressions and infiltration by foot patrols in 2013 and 2014.
Speaking on transgressions along the LAC by the PLA, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC) Northern Command, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh earlier this year said, it "took place in areas where we have different perception of the Line of Actual Control," adding that India and China have well-established mechanisms, especially at the highest level, where special representatives from both the countries discuss issues related to the resolution of the boundary dispute.
LAC is a 4,057-km porous border between India and China and runs through glaciers, snow deserts, mountains and rivers.
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The Adirondack Forest Preserve would be enhanced by the creation of a 250-acre land bank.
New York state residents will have a chance to make government more efficient, protect the environment and improve infrastructure and communications in the Adirondacks and Catskills — all by filling in a little circle with a pen on November's election ballot.
As one of their last acts of the 2017 session, lawmakers authorized a public vote on a constitutional amendment to create a 250-acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill parks.
By voting yes, voters will make it easier for communities to make infrastructure improvements in the most sensitive areas of the parks while ensuring the preservation of state land.
Under the current law, each time a community wants to smooth out a dangerous curve on a road or a bridge, build a safe bike path near a highway, put up equipment to expand the coverage of broadband communication, drill a well on public land or install sewer lines in the environmentally protected Forest Preserve, someone has to propose an amendment to the state constitution in order for the action to move forward.
In exchange for doing work on one piece of land in the Forest Preserve, the law requires the state to swap that piece of property with another piece of land, which is then set aside for preservation, thereby ensuring the perpetuation of forever-wild land.
Many of these projects are designed to improve public safety and quality of life. Bike paths shouldn't be on highways; they should be safely off to the side. Evening out curves on roads and on approaches to bridges will lessen the chance of accidents. Culverts help prevent flooding and damage to nearby property. Expanded broadband access helps in both emergency communication and economic development.
But for each such project, the law requires that the state constitution be amended.
The amendment process requires approval by two successive state Legislatures and a public vote, which can stretch the approval process out over a minimum of two or three years, often longer.
Under this legislation, that process would be streamlined with the creation of a land bank.
Under strict guidelines to protect the environment — such as limiting the size of new projects and weighing their impact on surrounding wildlife — these small but necessary projects could go forward without a separate constitutional amendment for each.
To fulfill the requirement that developed land be swapped for some undeveloped land, the project developers will just tap into the 250 acres set aside in the land bank. As the 250 acres are used, the project sponsors will be required to pay into a Forest Preserve expansion account, with the money being used to purchase additional land in the Forest Preserve.
To ensure that the projects themselves meet environmental standards, the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) would have approval authority over each project.
This whole new process will significantly reduce the time and expense needed for simple but necessary improvements.
What's even more remarkable than the legislation itself is how various groups in the two parks, often which have competing agendas, came together to formulate the legislation over the last few months.
Among those that participated in the development of the bill were local-government organizations like the Adirondack Local Government Review Board and the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages; environmental groups like the Adirondack Council, The Adirondack Mountain Club, Protect the Adirondacks! Adirondack Wild, the Nature Conservancy, Adirondack Common Ground Alliance, the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Design, Environmental Advocates, Scenic Hudson, the Catskill Mountainkeeper and the New York League of Conservation Voters; the state DEC; and state lawmakers like Sen. Betty Little and Assemblyman Dan Stec.
These aren't groups and individuals that always see eye-to-eye, particularly on issues that pit any kind of infringement in the Forest Preserve against the environment.
This will make the park safer and more enjoyable, it will protect the Adirondack and Catskill experience, and it will save taxpayers time and money through greater efficiency of the approval process.
We'll remind you again about this referendum come election time. But if you're making your voting preferences early, consider voting yes when you see this amendment on the November ballot.


Communicate in a clear, rational and concise manner to people in various departments and social levels.
Read and apply appropriate instructions in medical charts, notes, and records.
Lift and carry twenty-five (25) pounds of weight to waist level, such as instrument sets, operating bed attachments, and sandbags.
Perform a full-range of motion, including moving immobile patients, handling, lifting and pushing heavy equipment. Also be able to ascend and descend stairs in emergency situations.
Utilize a keyboard for inputting patient and/or technical data into information computers.
Wear radiation protective apparel weighing 7-20 pounds for extended periods of time.
Demonstrate visual acuity (with correction, if needed) within normal range including peripheral vision and reading of fine print to be able to visually monitor equipment controls and distinguish between color-coded surgical supplies.
Possess physical stamina, as long periods of standing are required.
Wear full surgical attire including personal protective devices.
Withstand unusual sights and smells, such as cauterized tissue.
Adapt effectively and use appropriate coping mechanisms in environments with high stress to ensure patient safety.
Utilize problem-solving skills when emergency situations arise.
Demonstrate auditory acuity (with correction, if needed) which includes hearing muffled voices (through a mask) with extraneous background noises.
Use fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination, both right and left hands, which allow the student to safely manipulate needles, blades, sutures, and instrumentation.
Anticipate the needs and provide emotional support to team members and the patient.
Keep a written account of the surgical procedure by documenting in an objective, concise, and legible manner.
Demonstrate attentive behavior by focusing intently on the task at hand. Not easily distracted.
Adapt to irregular working hours as well as the ability to stay over a shift, as needed.
Possess a stable temperament as is demonstrated by responsible, patient, organized and sensitive behavior.


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Leonor de Austria (Lovaina, cerca de Bruselas, 15 de noviembre de 1498 - Talavera la Real, entonces dentro del término municipal de Badajoz, 18 de febrero de 1558), reina de Portugal y Francia, hija primogénita de Felipe I de Habsburgo, archiduque de Austria y duque de Borgoña, y de Juana I de Castilla, reina de Aragón y Castilla, conocida como "La hermana fiel".

Fue célebre en su tiempo por su extraordinaria belleza y cultura, siendo pretendida por los reyes de Francia Luis XII y Francisco I y por el conde palatino Federico II del Rin, con el que íntimamente ella hubiera deseado casarse.

Primeros años
Leonor de Austria nació en Lovaina, como la hija mayor del archiduque Felipe de Austria, hijo del emperador Maximiliano I de Habsburgo y de la duquesa María de Borgoña, y la infanta Juana de Trastámara, hija de los Reyes Católicos, quienes llegarían a suceder en trono de Castilla a la muerte de la reina Isabel en 1504.

En su juventud, su abuelo Maximiliano había tratado de desposar a Leonor con Enrique, príncipe de Gales, futuro rey Enrique VIII, quien se desposaría con la hermana de su madre, la reina Juana, la infanta Catalina. Más tarde, trataron de llevar a cabo otras propuestas matrimoniales con los reyes franceses Luis XII y Francisco I, el polaco Segismundo I o el duque Antonio de Lorena.

Ella pudo haber tenido un romance con Federico II, conde Palatino del Rin, ya que en 1517 cayó en manos de su hermano Carlos una carta de amor del conde dirigida a Leonor. Tras el descubrimiento, les obligó a jurar que no estaban casados en secreto y expulsó a Federico de la corte de los Habsburgo. Ese mismo año, partió con su hermano a Castilla, dado que este debía ocupar el poder vacante tras el fallecimiento de su abuelo Fernando.

Reina consorte de Portugal
La política de los Habsburgo era procurar matrimonios políticamente ventajosos para el futuro de la dinastía, por ello la comprometen con su tío, el rey Manuel I de Portugal, apodado "el Afortunado", que era viudo de sus dos tías, Isabel y María, hermanas de su madre, al no llegar a un acuerdo para que se desposase con su heredero el príncipe Juan, quién finalmente se casaría con su hermana Catalina.

El matrimonio se celebró en la ciudad de Lisboa, el 7 de marzo de 1519, y fruto de la unión nacen dos hijos: Carlos y María.

El rey Manuel I fallece víctima de la plaga en Lisboa, el 13 de diciembre de 1521, a los 52 años. Leonor tenía apenas 23, y decide retornar al lado de su hermano Carlos I, viéndose obligada a dejar en Portugal a su hija María, de sólo seis meses de edad. No volvería a verla en muchos años, siendo la relación entre madre e hija distante y difícil, sobre todo para la infanta portuguesa, que nunca perdonó a su madre el abandono.

En 1523, fue prometida con Carlos III de Borbón, noble francés que se oponía a Francisco I por la disputa entre él y la madre del rey, no obstante dicho matrimonio nunca tuvo lugar.

Reina consorte de Francia
La rivalidad entre Carlos I y Francisco I de Francia sacudía a Europa en una sangrienta lucha de poderes. Así que, cuando el rey francés fue capturado por el monarca español y encarcelado tras su derrota en la Batalla de Pavía (1525), se vio forzado a firmar el tratado de Madrid (1526), el cual pronto desconoce, reanudándose las hostilidades. Una de las cláusulas firmadas por ambas partes en el mismo, fue el matrimonio de Francisco I y de Leonor de Habsburgo, el cual fue celebrado ese mismo año en la Imperial Villa de Illescas (Toledo), pese a que el monarca francés no lo reconocería como tal hasta después de la firma del Tratado de las Damas (3 de agosto de 1529).

Finalmente se consiguió la firma del Tratado de Cambrai o de las Damas, llamado así porque fue firmado por Luisa de Saboya —madre de Francisco I— y  Margarita de Austria —tía de Carlos V—. Tras celebrarse una nueva ceremonia de matrimonio por poderes en Torrelaguna el 20 de marzo de 1530, a la que acudió la emperatriz Isabel, Leonor inició el viaje a Francia junto a los dos niños hijos de Francisco I, el delfín Francisco y su hermano Enrique, duque de Orleans, que su padre había dejado como rehenes en 1526 a Carlos V como garantía de que cumpliría el Tratado de Madrid y devolvería Borgoña. Al no hacerlo, el cautiverio de los príncipes duró más de cuatro años. Estuvieron retenidos en varias fortalezas del Condestable de Castilla, Íñigo Fernández de Velasco, y a la muerte de este, de su hijo don Pedro. Él acompañó a Leonor y a los príncipes franceses hasta Fuenterrabía donde se intercambiaron por cuatro toneladas de oro. Francisco I no devolvió Borgoña al emperador. Por entonces, Leonor había perdido el brío en su persona: se había vuelto enfermiza, delicada, y estaba, además, afectada por elefantiasis, una enfermedad que hincha y deforma las piernas, dejándolas amoratadas.

La vida de Leonor en la refinada y lujuriosa corte francesa fue difícil y angustiosa: veía cómo su marido la rechazaba y despreciaba, desviando sus atenciones hacia otras mujeres. El intento del emperador de conseguir mejores relaciones con el rey francés al casar con él a su hermana resultó inútil. Fue un sacrificio más para Leonor. Francisco I murió en Rambouillet, el 31 de marzo de 1547, a los 52 años de edad. Tras enviudar, fue nombrada duquesa de Turena como dote; Leonor, viuda y sin hijos de este matrimonio, regresó poco después a la corte de Bruselas.

Últimos años

Durante muchos años, Leonor trató, ayudada por su hermano, el consentimiento del rey de Portugal para que su hija María viviera con ella.

Tras la abdicación de Carlos I en 1555, de la cual fue testigo, y su retiro a San Jerónimo de Yuste, Leonor y su hermana María deciden seguir a su hermano, dando muestra del inmenso cariño que los unía.

Entonces, sucede lo inesperado: el rey Juan III de Portugal al fin permite que la infanta María viviera al lado de su madre. Pero los años de separación fueron demasiado: una vez llegada a España, la infanta se negó a permanecer al lado de su madre y regresa a Portugal. Para Leonor fue el golpe de gracia; su salud se había resentido considerablemente en el último año, y el rechazo de su única hija fue más de lo que pudo soportar.

Falleció en la localidad de Talavera la Real, perteneciente entonces al término municipal de Badajoz, el 18 de febrero de 1558. Su hermana María murió el 18 de octubre del mismo año.

Fue enterrada en la Concatedral de Mérida, hasta que su hermano Carlos I mandó que sus restos fueran trasladados al Monasterio de Yuste. Actualmente, sus restos mortales reposan en el Panteón de Infantes del Monasterio de El Escorial.

Descendencia
Ambos hijos son de su matrimonio con Manuel I de Portugal:
 Carlos (18 de agosto de 1520-15 de abril de 1521).
 María (8 de junio de 1521-10 de octubre de 1577), duquesa de Viseu y conocida como la princesa más acaudalada de Europa.

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Infantes de España (Casa de Austria)
Archiduquesas de Austria
Reinas consortes de Francia con los Valois
Sepultados en el Panteón de los Infantes
Reinas consortes de Francia del siglo XVI
Reinas consortes de Portugal (con la casa de Avís)
Nacidos en Lovaina
Fallecidos en Talavera de la Reina
Reinas consortes del siglo XVI
Duques de Turena


Auckland, New Zealand – Fusion®, a worldwide leader in marine audio entertainment, announced today that the Apollo RA770 has won a Pittman Innovation Award in the Electronics Category. This latest award follows on a successful launch resulting in an NMEA Product of Excellence Award in the category of Multimedia Entertainment, an NMMA Innovation Award in the Entertainment category at the 2018 International BoatBuilders' Exhibition & Conference (IBEX) and an honorable mention in the DAME Design Award in the category of Marine Electronics.
The annual Pittman Innovation Awards recognize the most innovative new products for the sailboat market. Award winners are selected by a team of Sail Magazine editors in four categories: Safety and Racing, Cruising, Electronics and Systems.
The Fusion RA770 is the flagship product of the new Apollo Series, epitomizing creative design and technological brilliance. The world's first purpose-built marine entertainment system with a one-piece glass touchscreen display, built-in Wi-Fi streaming, Digital Signal Processing Technology (DSP) and PartyBus capabilities, the RA770 takes marine audio entertainment to the next level. Featuring a brilliant, optically bonded, full-color LCD display, theRA770's one-piece glass touchscreen makes locating the correct button a thing of the past. Now users can simply tap the screen to pause and play, or swipe through a playlist to find their favorite song. The stylish display blends perfectly with modern glass helms and is an attractive addition to any steering station.
For more information on the Apollo RA770 or Fusion's entire line of audio products, please contact 623-580-9000 or visit www.fusionentertainment.com.
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Trump Vows To End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
By Joseph Curl
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President Trump plans to end the "ridiculous" policy that grants automatic citizenship rights of children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants or non-citizens.
In an interview with Axios, Trump said he hopes to enact an executive order to revoke the practice of giving citizenship to what are known as "anchor babies."
"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States... with all of those benefits. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And it has to end," the president said.
The move would likely set off a court battle, as his "travel ban" barring immigrants from seven known terrorist hotbeds did when Trump issued an executive order. The 14th Amendment addresses the subject, saying: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
But some argue that the Amendment, written in 1868, does not apply.
John Eastman, a constitutional scholar and director of Chapman University's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, told "Axios on HBO" that the Constitution has been misapplied over the past 40 or so years. He says the line "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" originally referred to people with full, political allegiance to the U.S. — green card holders and citizens.
And Trump, along with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, also asserted during the 2016 primaries that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction" refers only to people with a legal right to be in the U.S.
But with the midterm elections exactly one week away, the news of ending anchor babies is intended to play to Trump's conservative base.
"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," Trump told Axios, stating that he can end the policy by executive order. "You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order."
Asked when he might make such a move, Trump said: "It's in the process. It'll happen ... with an executive order."
Anchor babies amount to hundreds of thousands of new citizens each year. "About 275,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2014, or about 7% of the 4 million births in the U.S. that year," according to Pew Research Center estimates based on government data.
Trump's move comes as thousands of Central Americans are marching toward the U.S.-Mexico border intent on crossing into the United States.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday the U.S. military has already begun moving equipment to the southern border to thwart the caravan.
"The additional troops will provide logistical and other support to the Border Patrol, and will bolster the efforts of the approximately 2,000 National Guard forces already there," he said in Prague. "The new forces are expected to provide logistical assistance such as air support and equipment, including vehicles and tents."
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The talks between JSW and GM fell through a few weeks ago on consideration value for the acquisition.
Mumbai: Within two years of announcing its intentions to enter the disruptive electric vehicles manufacturing space, Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Energy has abandoned its plan owing to high uncertainties associated with the business as well as unfavourable policy for personal buyers, instead it intends to maintain capital for growth opportunities in the power sector.
The company had earmarked Rs 6,500 crore for this venture and was in advanced talks with General Motors to acquire the latter's manufacturing facility in Talegaon, near Pune, ET had reported on March 2. According to people in the know, the talks between JSW and GM fell through a few weeks ago on consideration value for the acquisition.
Calling the move as 'prudent risk management', the company in statement to Bombay Stock Exchange said, "...given higher than anticipated uncertainties associated with the EV business, the Board has, after careful evaluation, decided not to pursue this business and maintain capital cushion for growth opportunities in power and other related businesses."
Earlier in the month, the government of India came out with Rs 10,000-crore incentives for the electric vehicles under FAME (Faster Adoption of Manufacturing of Electric (and Hybrid) vehicles) scheme which was largely focused on improving public transport and localisation of electric vehicles as against making it attractive for the personal buyer space.
This people in the know said acted as a catalyst for the company's decision to pull the plug on its plan.
The sops extended by the government was expected to support one million electric two-wheelers, 500,000 three-wheelers, 55,000 two-heelers and 7,000 buses will be included in the new phase of the scheme.


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Support for local entrepreneurs: world-celebrated SME financier opens Uganda office
Business Partners International (BPI), a specialist risk finance company that provides customised financial solutions, sectoral knowledge, mentorship, and other added-value services for formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today launched and opened its office in Kampala, Uganda.
This forms part of the establishment of the larger Business Partners International East Africa (BPI EA) company which aims to provide SME focused investments ranging from $50,000 to $1 million.
According to Mark Paper, the chief operating officer at BPI, "BPI East Africa will initially focus on investments in East Africa, namely Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, but we foresee that in the short-to-medium term we will include other countries."
Founding shareholders in BPI East Africa include South African SME risk financier – Business Partners Limited, which is leading a consortium, the IFC (International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group private lending arm), Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM), Dutch impact investor Stichting DOEN and the Dutch Development Agency (FMO), the Canada-based Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) and Norfund, the Norwegian development agency.
Paper explains that BPI seeks to reach out to small family-owned companies and those enterprise owners whose businesses are doing well but cannot attract the full commercial lending support that they need for traditional bank attention. "Private equity firms often refrain from lending to these SMEs as they are either too small, or prefer not to deal with the complexities of doing business with a family management team rather than a board of members. This is however the area that BPI specialises in and the exact service offering that we are working to expand to entrepreneurs across Africa."
Speaking at opening, Daniel Kaggwa, country manager at BPI Uganda, says that the company has recognised Uganda as a growth centre for Africa due to the country's growing economy over the past five year period, and the fact that the East African region continues to prosper, with a forecasted GDP growth of 5.5% expected in 2016. He says that entrepreneurship is thriving in Uganda and currently contributes approximately 90% to the country's GDP.
He points to the 2014 Global Entrepreneur Monitor (GEM) – a report measuring 73 economies across the world – which revealed that Uganda was rated as the world's most entrepreneurial nation. The country reported the highest new business ownership rate (28.13%) and established business ownership rate (35.94%) – far exceeding other global economies. It also reported the highest perceived opportunities (76.91%) and lowest fear of failure (12.55%).
Kaggwa adds: "While entrepreneurship may be thriving in the country, access to finance continues to be a challenge across the continent and restricts entrepreneurs in their ability to truly unleash the positive spin offs that entrepreneurship can offer a country.
"With BPI Uganda, we seek to provide access to funding, post-investment technical assistance support and mentorship for entrepreneurs and SMEs, thereby fostering entrepreneurship, facilitating wealth creation, broadening tax bases and ultimately creating jobs."
BPI Uganda has a specific mandate to operate exclusively in the SME space, and the business model will replicate the South African Business Partners Limited model, which specialised in investing capital, skills and knowledge in entrepreneurs. Since establishment in 1981, Business Partners Limited has facilitated over 70 000 transactions with SMEs and created 600 000 in the process.
Both business and commercial property finance will be available to local entrepreneurs, and the BPI Uganda investment transactions will be structured using equity, royalties and term loans, or a combination of these. Entrepreneurs can apply for loans between UGX200 million and UGX3.5 billion.
Kaggwa explains that all applications will be assessed on the viability of the business, the entrepreneur's integrity, drive and experience, as well as their ability to manage a successful independent enterprise. "Capital and security are not necessarily required for an application to be accepted, as each investment is individually structured according to the entrepreneur's needs and profile.
"We seek to structure investment opportunities for entrepreneurs that suit their cash flows, aligned with their business growth trajectory which, at the same time, provides us with a return proportionate to our investment risk."
For more information on BPI Uganda, or to apply for finance, please visit our BPI Uganda page.
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RYLEN'S STORY
SMILIN' RYLEN RUN
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This year, we wanted to do something special for all of the wonderful organizations that supported our family during this difficult time. Each of these amazing organizations touched our lives in very special ways.
In 2019, the Smilin' Rylen Foundation was able to donate over $45,000 to these very special organizations!
Ronald McDonald House Houston
With a mission of "Keeping families with sick children together and near the care and resources they need, our family was able to remain close to Rylen day and night. Naturally Kristen did not want to leave Rylen's side, thankfully The Ronald McDonald Family Rooms, provided a peaceful place to for her to rest, relax and spend time together as a family without having to leave the hospital.
Research shows that staying close by allows parents to better communicate with their child's medical team and improves adherence to complicated treatment plans.
Life Gift
Rylen is a HERO and he lives on everyday because of organ donation. When the doctors talked to Kristen and Travis about the opportunity of Rylen being an organ donor, there was no question. Both having family members who have been recipients of organs, the answer seemed simple.
Every day, an average of 92 people across the country receive lifesaving organ transplants, and countless others receive lifesaving tissue transplants. Many more receive the gift of sight through cornea donation.
Even so, there is a critical shortage of organs across the country. More than 118,000 individuals are waiting for a lifesaving transplant. Of those, more than 10,000 are Texans.*
Every 10 minutes, a new person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list, and every day 20 people die waiting for a lifesaving transplant.
The generosity of an individual donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and countless others through tissue donation. Skin is used to treat burn patients and individuals with cancer; bone can be used to treat orthopedic injuries and cancer patients.
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Emma's Hugs
Emma's Hugs was an organization that Kristen and Travis has never heard of, but through the help of a social worker, they quickly learned how a simple act of kindness can mean so much in a time of need. Parking is one thing that you don't really think about when your child is sick, but the cost quickly adds up when your hospital stay is days on end. "It was one less thing we had to worry about, we could come and go as we needed too". So moved by this tremendous act of kindness, the Cowan family passed it forward and gave the remaining money on their ORANGE chip to another family in need. Just another way that Rylen could touch the life of someone else. It is the goal of Emma's Hugs to assist families who are in the Texas Medical Center with "random acts of kindness," by paying for hospital parking. Everyone needs a hug from time to time. A small donation of $12 will gift a family in need 1 day of parking.
Emma's Hugs, P.O. Box 8388, Baytown, TX 77522
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
This organization is full of very special individuals. Kristen and Travis were blessed to have a friend and representative for the organization, take photos of the family and Rylen. "These treasured moments are so very precious to our family". Providing the gift of remembrance photography for parents suffering the loss of a baby. A volunteer based organization, NILMDTS has over 1,700 active photographers around the world. NILMDTS reaches every state in the United States and has been or is present in 40 countries worldwide.
Smilin' Rylen Foundation
EIN #: 82-2429902