At BKK camp, waiting to start sparring with all the black belt candidates, who so far have just been sparring with each other.
School holidays are coming up this week! This means that there will be no classes at Newtown from the 27th Sep - 6th Oct. The first class of term will be on the 27th of October. Newtown students are encouraged to come to Petersham classes during that time.
As you probably know, we have a contact tournament coming up VERY SOON. All the necessary details are on the IFK Australia newsletter, which you can read online on the IFK Australia website. There's something there for everyone, and we've been working towards competing at this event, so make sure you sign up for it!
The camp was awesome. In addtition to all the other people attending, kids to adults, from white belt to 6th dan, 29 people were being graded for black belts with grades from Shodan to Sandan, including one 60 yr old for shodan (who passed), and another 6 or so who were grading for first kyu. Next year, I'd like for a team of us to go to the camp together!
The main thing that I took away from the camp - apart from the experience of it all - was that the best basic training we can do is do to everything in 10th kyu combination in all possible variations as many times as can be squeezed into the time available. And then do it all again with the remaining kyu combinations! 99% effort, 1% talent is all that's needed to succeed.
This one is locked in now. You all know what this is about, and we you should all take advantage of it. Sensei Mark comes down from Brisbane just for us, and we can all benefit from his experience. Book soon! Flyer attached if you want a bit more information.
This tournament is a week before our tournament, and we will not be having any full contact at ours this year, so I recommend that you enter this event instead if you're interested in full contact.. Entry deadline is Fri 13th of October. If you're interested, the entry form with details is attached. If you're going - submit the entry form ASAP and let me have a copy so we can get your ready.
There is also a kata division, but it will be judged according to Shinkyokushin rules, and you may or may not do well - but it's always worth a try since it won't hurt.
Keep the date free. We're currentlly looking for an alternate venue, and we'll let you know as soon as possible.
This will be in the same place as last year - with all the fun that went with it. The food was good, the games were good, and of course, the company was good too! Details to come soon!


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Max Ferdinand Neukäufler (10. Oktober 1785 in Straßburg – 18. Februar 1860 in Darmstadt) war ein deutscher Opernsänger (Tenor, Bariton), Theaterschauspieler und Chordirektor.

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Neukäufler, der Sohn des Schauspielers Jakob Neukäufler und seiner zweiten Ehefrau Johanna, geb. Vogt (1759–1842), kam im Alter von fünf Jahren mit seinen Eltern nach Wien. Dort unterrichtete ihn Ludwig van Beethoven im Klavierspiel. Bereits mit acht Jahren sang er einen der drei Knaben in der Wiener Aufführung der Zauberflöte. 1803 sang er den "Prinzen" in der Oper Alexander in Indien von Franz Teyber.

Danach war er von 1806 bis 1809 am Theater Augsburg und von 1809 bis 1811 in Würzburg engagiert, bevor er 1811 nach Darmstadt kam, wo er eine lange Karriere als Sänger, Schauspieler und Chordirektor hatte. Gelegentlich komponierte er auch. In Darmstadt wurde er 1816 Mitglied der Freimaurerloge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht.

Neukäufler war zweimal verheiratet. Zuerst mit Ignatia, geb. Stralino aus Augsburg (gest. 21. Juli 1814 in Darmstadt) und ab 9. Dezember 1818 mit Wilhelmine, geb. Frey, aus Darmstadt.

Sein jüngerer Bruder war der Schauspieler Anton Neukäufler, seine Tochter die Opernsängerin Marie Neukäufler.

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 K. J. Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Unveränderte Auflage. K. G. Saur, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-907820-70-3, Zweiter Band M–Z, Sp. 2096 f.

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Since you can't go above the root of the server, this resolves as /javascript/charts.js.
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The browser is asking for /javascript/charts.js and the server can't find anything for that URL. Hence: 404.
You need to write an endpoint that serves your JS file.
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Hazel-E is the the latest, buzzed about West Coast PR girl turned female MC that's blowin-up clubs everywhere. With lyrics about designer shoes 'you can't have', knifing bitches, and kissing white girls and liking it, Hazel-E is clearly a well-rounded lady. Get into her now!
Q&A: So when did you start doing music?
H-E :17
Q&A: Who did you grow up listening too?
H-E: TLC, Cindy Lauper, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Salt N Pepa
Q&A: But who were your true influences?
H-E: Fergie, Madonna, Gwen Stephani, NERD, Beyonce, Rihanna, Gnarls Barkley
Q&A: How would you describe your style of music?
H-E: I'm creating a new genre called Pop-Fun! Get it, it's poppy and fun-loving music.
Q&A: How did you break into the industry?
H-E: I started out as an actress then went behind the scenes and started doing publicity for musicians to really learn the game.
Q&A: Who have you worked with in the industry?
H-E: Twista, Idris Elba, Tank, Trey Songz, Melody Thornton, Slim Thugga, Terry Kennedy, Teck $, Kevontay Jackson from 3rd Storee, Ne-Yo, Juelz Santana, Bobby Valentino, Meagan Good, Melyssa Ford, Tocarra, Jill Marie Jones. The list goes on and on but should I continue to pop collars?
Q&A: So you did the acting thing, then the PR thing, now you want to be a singer?Are you sure?
H-E: First of all, I don't sing, I rap…LOL dumb-dumb. I love music, I like entertaining, and I love Hip Hop and all that it encompasses…plus I think I go flow…LOL. I'm a complete entertainer. Me and Diddy need to go ahead and take this thing all the way over.
Q&A: Okay, we got all of that, now tell us why should people listen to you?
H-E: My music is fun! Nothing about it is too depressing or too serious…it's about loving the life you live and being fly while doing it…it also sheds light on the Hollywood life that everyones wants to know about or be about! Whether you are in butt- fuck Idaho or high in the Hollywood Hills you will be able to relate to Hazel-E in one way or another…oh yea, and I don't hold my tongue for nobody!
Q&A: Who are you as an artist?
H-E: Diva first, hotty second, retro and trendy from city-to-city. I love pop culture and duh I'm a valley girl…and whatever stereo types that you think of when you hear that, yea I'm all of it! Clueless is my fav Movie, I'm the Deon of 2009!
Q&A: Where do you fit in the music industry?
H-E: Where? It's wide-freaking open but I'm sliding right in the jet, setting seats between Fergie and Gym Class Heroes, mixed with that fabulosity of Rihanna, ya dig?
Q&A: What are 3 things that you want the public to know about you?
H-E: Clearly and positively I'm a "gimmick", industry made…hahahaha, I party like a fucking rockstar and I'm a material girl who got mad flow and talks a lot of shit! So there, I said…rock with me or sink, LOL.
Q&A: What is the most important element about yourself?
H-E: How honest I am and how true I am to what I speak about! Also I think that everyone will be able to relate to me, and if they can't and think I'm a pretentious, stuck up bitch, fuck em!
Q&A: What do you think is the most positive and the most negative element about your music?
H-E: On the positive side, it's upbeat party music, kinda reminiscent of the late 80's, early 90's people, loving anything throw back…On the negative side, I talk a lot of shit and speak about drugs and the party life annnnnnnnd it might not be so cool for kids under the legal age for whatever country they live in.
Q&A: What makes you think that your music will move people?
H-E: Shit I moved people before I did music, so I just needed to come out with a hot product that people would like, and since I studied the game I took a "survey" of what's hot and what's not, and my music is fuckin smoking!
Q&A: Where are you from?
H-E: All Over! I'm a "military brat" from all over America. The World's my playground, I just play. If I had to claim a place, I'd say I was made in Houston but I'm from LA!
Q&A: Where do you see yourself in 5 years in the industry?
H-E: Working on my 3rd album, owning my own label, having my own clothing and shoe line and living somewhere on the coast of France enjoying all of my hard-earned money! Watch what ya girl duey!
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i think she is hella hard, she's one of the few female emcee's to really go an grab what she wants..i like a go getta….plus she's very intelligent and a kind soul…you have 2 love her….she's a valley girl…..love to you sis…peace


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The dissertation of IEE research fellow and MADM coordinator Tobias Thürer has been published in the UA Ruhr Graduate Center publication series.
The book addresses the issue of speculation with agricultural commodity futures. Since the mid 2000s, an increasing financialization of commodity futures markets has been taking place. This has fueled an ongoing discussion about the effect of financial investments on the development of commodity prices. Against this background, the trading activities of financial speculators also come to the fore. There is the concern that such speculators can cause irrational overshootings of agricultural commodity prices, e.g. in the event of global production shocks. In such an event the decrease of total supply induces a price surge, menacing food security in developing countries. Yet, the question emerges whether speculation aggravates this price increase, eventually inducing a price bubble. The relevance of this concern is reinforced by the fact that, due to climate change, an increased frequency and severity of global agricultural production shortfalls is at stake. If speculation evokes an additional threat to food security in the event of a production shock, the political agenda should not be confined to focus solely on the adaptation to climate change. Instead, it is then also necessary to address speculative activities on agricultural commodity markets.
The book scrutinises whether speculative bubbles can be identified in the event of severe global production shocks. For this, a framework for tracing the transmission of the futures prices' development on the spot market is developed. Using annual data from 1979-2012 for maize, the occurrence of production shock related price bubbles is analysed.
Tobias Thürer (2015): Does speculation with agricultural commodity futures cause price bubbles in the event of negative production shocks? - Berlin: Logos Verl. - 220 S. ISBN 978-3-8325-3876-7 (€ 42,00).
Claudia Breitung, a former research fellow at the Institute of Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, has contributed to the UA Ruhr Studies in Development and Governance Series with her dissertation that addresses the interaction of humanitarian agencies with armed rebel groups.
Humanitarian organisations have developed manifold strategies to deal with armed rebel groups in their everyday operations. While some humanitarian agencies directly engage with armed non-state actors in order to get humanitarian access or to secure aid workers' protection, others opt for avoidance strategies. Although it is often reasoned that the humanitarian engagement of rebels would mainly be driven by the humanitarian organisations' mandates, the author argues that a range of other organisational factors on the side of the humanitarian agencies equally influence interaction processes with insurgent forces. Amongst these are the operational goals, available resources and structures of humanitarian organisations, the humanitarian personnel delivering aid, as well as the perception the humanitarian organisation has of the respective insurgent group it is dealing with. In order to test the theoretical assumptions that are drawn up, a case study was conducted on humanitarian interactions with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The research results confirm that the mentioned organisational aspects - to varying degrees - impact on the ways humanitarian actors engage insurgent forces.
Claudia Breitung (2015): Organisational behaviour of humanitarian agencies in their interaction with armed rebel groups. A case study of humanitarian engagement with the Lord's Resistance Army. - Berlin: Logos Verl. - 243 S. ISBN 978-3-8325-4142-2 (€ 40,00).
The most recent publication in the UA Ruhr Studies on Development and Governance is contributed by PhD IDS candidate Annika Engelbert, IEE Director Markus Kaltenborn and Nina-Annette Reit-Born, post-doctoral research fellow at the Law Faculty of the Ruhr-University Bochum. The research presented in the book entitled "Effective Corruption Control" has been conducted in the context of the interdisciplinary research project on "Procurement Law and Anti-Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa", funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
Corruption in public procurement is widespread and particularly damaging to development objectives, as it undermines any state's duty to maximize the social and economic welfare of its citizens. Yet, research on country-specific regulation meant to address this problem has remained scarce. The book aims to fill this gap by providing a systematic comparative analysis of supplier remedies mechanisms in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. It elaborates on the potential of legal remedies to serve as anticorruption tools. Based on the fact that the anti-corruption effect of remedies mechanisms depends ultimately on the actual use by suppliers, three main factors are discussed: (1) the institutional setting and independence of the remedies systems; (2) their accessibility for aggrieved bidders; and (3) their efficiency, driven by bidder's cost-benefit analysis and including the aspects of procedural fees, duration, available relief, and prospects of success. The assessment of the legislation is complemented by information gained from various stakeholders, such as public procurement authorities, development organizations, NGOs, and scientific experts. Despite many similarities in their systems, due to their common historical background, the analysis identifies remarkably different regulative and institutional approaches, and discusses their more or less supportive effects on the use of supplier remedies mechanisms.
Annika Engelbert/Markus Kaltenborn/Nina-Annette Reit-Born (2016): Effective corruption control. Supplier remedies in public procurement in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – A comparative analysis of mechanisms and their implementation. – Berlin: Logos Verl. – 131 pp. – 35 € - ISBN 978-3-8325-4251-1.
The latest contribution to the IEE Working Paper series is a result of combined research efforts of a MADM graduate from Sierra Leone Mohamed Conteh, IEE research fellow Marc Hansen, IEE post-doctoral fellow Martina Shakya, and IEE Managing Director Wilhelm Löwenstein. The paper provides new insights on the issue of the effects of land investments in developing countries.
The land-grabbing issue has produced a plethora of debates, ranging from ethical conduct of land grabbing agents, specifically concerning displacement, to evidence for and against positive externalities, such as technological spill-overs and construction of infrastructure. An underexplored topic is the valuation of agricultural land and the compensatory payments made to land users, distinct from land owners, for the loss of their source of food security. This paper establishes a theoretical framework for the valuation of agricultural land from the perspective of land users, based on a household production function. For the analysis data were collected in a survey of 203 households in the land-grab affected area in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone during 2013. It shows that, for the case of a specific land grab in Sierra Leone, the compensatory payments received by land users are far below the value of the land lost; and as such, the lease income is unable to allow these households to maintain their previously, already tenuous, levels of food security. A clear distinction is made between landowners, and even more vulnerable non-landowning land users, who depend on the agricultural land for their food security and livelihoods. The household level analysis showed that in addition to the level of compensation received by the average household being insufficient to maintain a priori welfare levels the distribution of compensation significantly favoured the wealthier households. Since the value of the land and the rent distribution were set in local positive law the project could correctly call itself fully compliant but the land grab still resulted in significant welfare losses. The methodology implemented by this ex-post study can identically be applied to an ex-ante scenario, allowing land-grabbing agents to define a minimum compensatory payment to land users not based on asymmetrical bargaining power but on actual land value to this vulnerable section of the local population.
Marc Hansen shares the general idea of the paper also in the present newsletter in our section on Research Actitvities.
Marc Hansen, Mohamed Conteh, Martina Shakya, Wilhelm Löwenstein (2016): Determining Minimum Compensation for Lost Farmland: a theory-based impact evaluation of a land grab in Sierra Leone. - IV, 52 S. ISBN 978-3-927276-97-9. (€ 5,00).
Two Cluster 2 members, Raffael Beier and Mariana Vilmondes Alves, published a peer reviewed paper on national housing strategies in Brazil, South Africa, and Morocco in the context of Habitat III, in the special issue "Global South" of the German-language journal RaumPlanung (182/6-2015). The article is titled "Dominanz des Quantitativen - Das Dilemma des Rechts auf angemessenen Wohnraum in Brasilien, Marokko und Südafrika (The Dominance of the Quantitative – The Dilemma of the Right to Adequate Housing in Brazil, Morocco and South Africa)".
As a result of Habitat II , a majority of states committed themselves to the right to adequate housing. In practice, however, only parts of the right are implemented, as this comparative analysis of national housing programmes in Brazil, Morocco, and South Africa shows. Crucial qualitative components such as the spatial integration of new housing projects are lacking due to time pressure and the predominance of quantitative targets.
Beier, Raffael/Vilmondes, Mariana (2015): Dominanz des Quantitativen - Das Dilemma des Rechts auf angemessenen Wohnraum in Brasilien, Marokko und Südafrika. RaumPlanung 182 / 6-2015 November –December.
Anja Zorob contributed an article to the well-known German language series, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, in a special issue on "Syrien, Irak und Region (Syria, Iraq and the Region)".
In her contribution she addresses the question of what impact the international sanctions against Syria had. This question is pertinent in light of the fact that the Syrian war is still on-going, although the sanctions were intended to punish Syria's government for the violence committed towards its own people. Anja describes the measures taken as sanctions and discusses potential unintended consequences and adequacy of sanctions against a regime, such as the current Syrian government.
Anja Zorob (2016): Internationale Sanktionen gegen Syrien – was haben sie bewirkt? (International Sanctions Against Syria – What Impact Did They Have?)". In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Volume 66, Issue 8/2016, 22. Februar 2016, pp. 14-22.
IEE members co-authored two contributions to a German-language book on sustainable food as an aspect of major transformations.
The first contribution comes from IEE post-doctoral fellow Martina Shakya, IEE research fellow Marc Hansen, and IEE director Wilhelm Löwenstein, together with other researchers from the Urban Food Plus research project, dealing with the implications of the use of biochar on food security and food safety in sub-Sahara Africa. Food (in-)security, soil degradation and climate change are global problems, particularly affecting developing countries. Over the last years, the use of biochar has been promoted by some researchers as a positive contribution to these problems with specific relevance for developing countries. The input of biochar as a soil amendment is considered a promising means to increase soil fertility and crop yields, as well as a safe method for durable carbon storage - a beneficial aspect in terms of climate change mitigation. However, there are also critical voices rejecting the wide-ranging use of biochar; in particular, in the context of developing countries. The contribution describes state-of-the-art research on possible uses of biochar and the resulting potential benefits and risks for developing countries. Taking the on-going interdisciplinary German-African research project Urban Food Plus as an illustrative example, the authors discuss implications of the use of biochar for food security and food safety in sub-Saharan countries.
The second contribution is an article by IEE research fellow Anne Siebert, together with Julian May from the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, discussing urban agriculture and the right to the city. In many cities around the world, individuals, community groups, and non-governmental organisations play an increasing role in creating productive spaces. Agriculture can shape the urban habitat, and can therefore contribute to the transformation of the city. Guided by Lefebvre's approach of the 'Right to the City' and the concept of 'Food Sovereignty', this contribution focuses on the activism of inhabitants – the way they produce and manage urban space – and their motivations. The theoretical approach is illustrated with a case study of a community initiative, which is active in urban farming in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in George, South Africa. Facing the burden of malnutrition, particularly obesity, and the neglect of governmental responsibility, the initiative is concerned with healthy nutrition, organic food production, urban greening, waste management, and empowerment of the community. By highlighting the importance of bottom-up approaches in the urban food system, the authors discuss how these community efforts can be sustained and integrated on institutional level.
Martina Shakya, Christoph Steiner, Volker Häring, Marc Hansen, and Wilhelm Löwenstein (2016): Biokohle, Ernährungssicherung und Nahrungsmittelsicherheit in westafrikanischen Städten. Ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Perspektiven. (Biochar, Food Security and Food Safety in West-African Cities. Ecologic, economic and social perspectives).
Anne Siebert / Julian May (2016): Urbane Landwirtschaft und das Recht auf Stadt: Theoretische Reflektion und ein Praxisbeispiel aus George, Südafrika (Urban Agriculture and the Right to the City: Theoretical Reflections and Perspectives from George, South Africa).
Both in: Engler, S. / Stengel, O. / Bommert, W. (Eds.): Regional, innovativ und gesund. Nachhaltige Ernährung als Teil der Großen Transformation. (Regional, innovative, and healthy. Sustainable Food as Element of the Great Transformation). Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525300596, (€ 60,00) - Pages 201-218.
Drawing on his expertise on urbanization and MENA-region, IEE research fellow Raffael Beier has contributed to a specific working paper series for the Arab World.
Social injustice, corruption, an authoritarian rule of law, and the growing contrasts between rich and poor have become particularly evident in the Arab countries' largest metropolitan areas. Mirroring the contrast between global aspirations and local challenges, these "cities of extremes" have seen the emergence of gated communities and urban flagship projects in the direct neighbourhood of precarious informal settlements. Far too often, the region's urban planning is not demand-led, but rather driven by a centrally controlled real-estate market that feeds a hardly transparent, rentier-based economic model. Consequently, top-down planning has often prioritised ambitious large-scale projects instead of decentralised and differentiated planning solutions.
Raffael Beier (2016): "Shifting Urban Policies in North Africa after the "Arab Spring" - Urgent Reaction or Real Changes?". Diskussionspapiere Volkswirtschaft des Vorderen Orients, 113. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.


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Ohhh Paris. Where do I even begin? I have always loved this city, but our visit the other week has cemented it as one of my favourite places in the world. I'm going to split our trip into two posts - today's will be all about the time Sam and I spent in the city, and then tomorrow I'll be talking about what we got up to in Disneyland!
I'll start by being honest - a part of me was really not looking forward to this trip. Our last holiday was the worst week of my entire life and so I felt anxious and nervous about going away again. I was dreading the stress of the airport, the thought of flying, the whole idea that we would be taking a family trip without Blossom. The little anxiety goblin that lives in the less rational part of my brain was telling me that it was all a very terrible idea.
I couldn't relax as we sat and had a pre-flight drink, couldn't focus on reading my book when we boarded the plane. I was stressing about how we would get to the hotel, kept checking and re-checking our reservation and the route we needed to take. I didn't have that usual holiday excitement, that feeling of possibility and joy when you know you're off to explore somewhere you'll love. I worried that travel, which is such an important contributor to my happiness, might not be the same for me anymore.
But as soon as we arrived in Paris, I knew I was wrong. We only had just over 24 hours in the city but those 24 hours were exactly what we needed.
You see, it is impossible not to feel happier when you're in Paris. It probably helped that the weather was just divine - 18 degrees and bright blue skies (which feels like a lifetime ago as I look out of the window at the snow melting in my back garden) - but I know we would have loved it even if it had been cold and grey. Paris is just one of those places for me where I feel more like myself, which was a joy after so many months of feeling a little bit lost.
We spent hours wandering around my favourite parts of the city - climbing the cobbled streets of Montmartre to check out the view from the Sacre Coeur, admiring the pretty autumn scenes in the Tuileries Garden, strolling along the Seine and lapping up the sunshine. Every corner we turned was filled with another gorgeous scene and we spent so much of the day squealing at how lucky we were to be spending a sunny Sunday in Paris.
We ate as much delicious French food as we could manage - fillet steak with pepper sauce, freshly baked croissants with jam, the best croque monsieur I've ever eaten. We spent a little while in one of my favourite ever shops, Shakespeare and Co, browsing the books and adding a couple of new ones to our collection. I have always known that food and books are good for the soul, but they're even better when enjoyed in a city that truly embraces them as the gifts they are. But most of all we just relaxed. Slowed down. Prioritised what we wanted to do instead of what we felt we had to check off the list. Paris is so familiar to us that we didn't feel like we needed to spend loads of time seeing big sights or running around. We could just enjoy what we wanted to enjoy. It was magic.
I honestly believe that Paris was the perfect place for us to begin this trip that felt so huge and important to us. It helped me to remember why I love to travel so much and it reminded me that a change of scene can do you the world of good. I have always loved this city and everything that it stands for. But this time around, Paris helped to mend my broken heart a little bit, and for that reason alone, it will always have a very special place in my heart.


For us, it's not about the awards — it's about our clients. But it still feels good when our hard work gets recognized. Recently, we took home a number of top prizes at The Cindy Awards, a celebration of informational filmmaking. See our winning Spring entries below.


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package com.smartlogic.cloud;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class TokenFetcher {
  protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

  private final String tokenUrl;
  private final String key;

  public TokenFetcher(String tokenUrl, String key) {
    this.tokenUrl = tokenUrl;
    this.key = key;
  }

  private String proxyHost;

  public String getProxyHost() {
    return proxyHost;
  }

  public void setProxyHost(String proxyHost) {
    this.proxyHost = proxyHost;
  }

  private int proxyPort;

  public int getProxyPort() {
    return proxyPort;
  }

  public void setProxyPort(int proxyPort) {
    this.proxyPort = proxyPort;
  }

  private String proxyProtocol = "http";

  public String getProxyProtocol() {
    return proxyProtocol;
  }

  public void setProxyProtocol(String proxyProtocol) {
    this.proxyProtocol = proxyProtocol;
  }

  private int socketTimeoutMS = 10000;

  public int getSocketTimeoutMS() {
    return socketTimeoutMS;
  }

  public void setSocketTimeoutMS(int socketTimeoutMS) {
    this.socketTimeoutMS = socketTimeoutMS;
  }

  private int connectionTimeoutMS = 10000;

  public int getConnectionTimeoutMS() {
    return connectionTimeoutMS;
  }

  public void setConnectionTimeoutMS(int connectionTimeoutMS) {
    this.connectionTimeoutMS = connectionTimeoutMS;
  }

  private int connectionRequestTimeoutMS = 10000;

  public int getConnectionRequestTimeoutMS() {
    return connectionRequestTimeoutMS;
  }

  public void setConnectionRequestTimeoutMS(int connectionRequestTimeoutMS) {
    this.connectionRequestTimeoutMS = connectionRequestTimeoutMS;
  }

  /**
   * Get the access token
   *
   * @return
   * @throws CloudException
   */
  public Token getAccessToken() throws CloudException {
    logger.info("getAccessToken: '" + tokenUrl + "'");
    HttpClientBuilder clientBuilder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
    setProxyHttpHost(clientBuilder);

    try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = clientBuilder.build()) {
      {

        List<NameValuePair> postParams = new ArrayList<>();
        postParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("grant_type", "apikey"));
        postParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("key", key));

        HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(tokenUrl);
        postRequest.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        postRequest.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParams));

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
        if (response == null) {
          throw new CloudException("Null response from http client: " + tokenUrl);
        }
        if (response.getStatusLine() == null) {
          throw new CloudException("Null status line from http client: " + tokenUrl);
        }

        int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
        logger.info("Status: " + statusCode);

        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        if (entity == null) {
          throw new CloudException("Null response from Cloud Server");
        }

        if (statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) {
          throw new CloudException("Internal cloud server error: " + entity.toString());
        } else if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
          throw new CloudException("HttpStatus: " +
              statusCode +
              " received from cloud server (" +
              entity.toString() +
              ")");
        }

        try (InputStream inputStream = entity.getContent()) {
          byte[] returnedData = IOUtils.toByteArray(inputStream);
          if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
            logger.debug("Reponse: " + new String(returnedData, "UTF-8"));
          }

          ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
          Token token = mapper.readValue(returnedData, Token.class);
          return token;
        }
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      String message = String.format("%s thrown fetching token: %s", e.getClass().getSimpleName(),
          e.getMessage());
      logger.error(message, e);
      throw new CloudException(message);
    }
  }

  private void setProxyHttpHost(HttpClientBuilder clientBuilder) {
    if (proxyHost != null && proxyPort != 0) {
      HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost(proxyHost, proxyPort);
      clientBuilder.setProxy(proxy);
    }
  }

}

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According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery "The most common soft tissues injured are muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
Acute injuries are caused by a sudden trauma, such as a fall, twist, or blow to the body. Examples of an acute injury include sprains, strains, and contusions." (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00111) We must also not forget that there are other soft tissues that can get injured and the true definition of soft tissue, which is anything not bone is soft tissue.
This includes the brain, lungs, heart and any other organ in the body. However, in medicine soft tissue injuries are commonly known to be limited to the muscles, ligaments and tendons.
When we look at the type of structures that muscles, tendons and ligament are composed of, we will realize that they are connective tissue. According to the National Institute of Health "Connective tissue is the material inside your body that supports many of its parts. It is the "cellular glue" that gives your tissues their shape and helps keep them strong. It also helps some of your tissues do their work (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/connectivetissuedisorders.html). Unlike fracture repair where the bone is replaced and usually heals properly if aligned and rested, connective tissue disorders undergo a different type of wound repair that has aberrant tissue replacement as sequella to bodily injury and has subsequent abnormal permanent function.
Regardless of the severity of the sprain, there is tissue damage or bodily injury and the next step is to determine if there is healing or wound repair. According to Woo, Hildebrand, Watanabe, Fenwick, Papageorgiou and Wang (1999) "…as a result the combination of cell therapy with growth factor therapy may offer new avenues to improve the healing of ligament and tendon. Of course, specific recommendations regarding growth factor selection, and timing and method of application cannot be made at this time.
"No treatment currently exists to restore an injured tendon or ligament to its normal condition.", stated Dozer and Dupree (2005). (pg. 231).
According to Hauser, Dolan, Phillips, Newlin, Moore and Woldin (2013) "injured ligament structure is replaced with tissue that is grossly, histologically, biochemically and biomechanically similar to scar tissue. Fully remodeled scar tissue remains grossly, microscopically and functionally different from normal tissues" (p. 6) "the persisting abnormalities present in the remodeled ligament matrix can have profound implications on joint biomechanics, depending on the functional demands placed on the tissue.
Since remodel ligament tissue is morphologically and mechanically inferior to normal ligament tissue, ligament laxity results, causing functional disability of the affected joints and predisposing other soft tissues in and around the joints further damage." (p.7) "studies of healing ligaments have consistently shown that certain ligaments do not heal independently following rupture, and those that didn't feel, do so characteristically inferior compositional properties compared with normal tissue. It is not uncommon for more than one ligament undergo injury during a single traumatic event." (p.8) "osteoarthritis for joint degeneration is one of the most common consequences of ligament laxity.
Looking globally at the research over the last 16 years, in 1999 it was concluded that the most current treatments to repair or heal the injured ligament do not reach the level of the uninjured tissue. In in 2005 it was concluded that no treatment currently exists to restore an injured tendons or ligaments to its normal condition. In addition the current standard of ligament research in 2013 concluded that that ligaments do not feel independently, but damage ligaments are a direct cause of osteoarthritis and biomechanical dysfunction (abnormality of joint mechanics). The latest research has also concluded that ligament damage or sprains is the key element in osteoarthritis and not simply aging or wear and tear on the joint.
As a result it is now clear based upon the scientific evidence that a soft tissue injury is a connective tissue disorder that has permanent negative sequela and is the cause of future arthritis. This is no longer a debatable issue and those in the medical legal forum who are still arguing "transient soft tissue injuries" are simply rendering rhetoric out of ignorance and a possible ulterior motive because the facts clearly delineate the negative sequella based upon decades of multiple scientific conclusions.
The caveat to this argument is that although there is irrefutable bodily injury with clear permanent sequella, does it also cause permanent functional loss in every scenario? Those are two separate issues and as a result of the function of ligaments, which is to connect bones to bones the arbiter for normal vs. abnormal function is ranges of motion of the joint. That can be accomplished by either a two-piece inclinometer for the spine, which according to the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5th Edition (p. 400) is the standard (and is still the medical standard as the 6th Edition refers to the 5th for Ranges of motion).
The other diagnostic demonstrable evidence to conclude aberrant function is to conclude laxity of ligaments through x-ray digitizing. Both diagnostic tools confirm demonstrably loss of function of the spinal joints.


One thing you can never find enough of on the internet are opinions.
From long-form leaked missives, quippy ranting reddit collections, super smart gifs about big data to an unrelenting mass of short-form 140 character tweets (or is it 140+ nowadays?), there are a plethora of opinionated (sometimes brilliant) people creating plenty of cringe- or crave-worthy content.
So how can marketers put those opinions to work for your brand/team/community?
We suggest guiding their engagements through a well-tailored data collection fan activator, like a voting campaign. A voting campaign is one of many engaging ways to collect specific customer data to fill in your gaps in exchange for entertainment, incentives or just a visible outlet to voice an opinion.
For example, when a brand asks their social media audiences to offer a vote in exchange for using a social login they give entry into a sweepstakes or send a digital coupon. Before you get into the mechanisms of the vote, make sure you set up a good framework for this most hallowed and Democratic of processes, keeping it focused and on target is paramount for reaching the right outcome.
Below are the 5 steps we use to define and launch a voting program while gathering some good-looking data points about your target market pre, during and post your voting event.
Step 1: State your goals… simply.
This first step is the most important of the five. Spending the right amount of time and using the correct data resources you have collected in your past efforts helps to create a solid foundation for your fan engagement program.
What are you wanting to accomplish with your voting (or any fan engagement) program? Try limiting these write-ups to one sentence with a max of two goals for each engagement. It will help eliminate the noise that inundates your busy work lives and will help you say "No" to the things that derail these clearly stated efforts. If it doesn't work towards your goal say "No", and have the signed goal statement in your back pocket as your safety blanket.
Step 2: Gather community insight and engage viewers on my broadcast/awards show.
Opening up your voting program to the community, and not having it take place behind closed doors or velvet ropes, creates excitement and elicits fervored involvement (not to say it shouldn't be targeted to the correct audience). Real-time voting or voting within designated time bands, is a powerful way to share voice with your audience. Create passion pre- and post-event by putting a slice of your brand's presence on your fans plates.
and gather customer data points unobtrusively and transparently.
Step 3: Create a memorable and shareable sponsorship experience at your venue.
Not many stadiums or conference room seats are as comfortable as the LazyBoy your fan has in their living room – unless the seats you offer come with the added bonus of your team crushing the opponent, a stellar hot dog, good WiFi, neat swag or in-venue ONLY upgrades and experiences. Creating an engaging in-house experience gives your attendees reasons to personally broadcast the time spent with your brand to their families, co-fans, coworkers and friends.
Every vote in these instances should have share capabilities with trackable tags and links (perfect for post-mortem retargeting efforts) that can reach these in-house voters LazyBoy-Entwined cohorts. Vicariously giving those homebodies access to the experience they couldn't attend, with room for a little friendly gloating to boot.
Step 4: Increase app downloads and app usage.
Running a voting program within your current app can get the downloads, opens and touches/swipes you were hoping for when you bought the app from the friendly development house. Creating engaging moments, your fans can access at a specific time either in-venue or out on the main drag, can limit the infrastructure needs in gathering votes in a multi-channel marketspace. A flexible and responsive framework creates one spot for deployment to any number of places for interaction, on any screen.
Have a specific level you'd like to assign for segmented access to this voting content? Creating exclusivity for participation, like a "Gold-Level" members-only section, can have your most vocal fans eyes and fingers on your most precious content.
Step 5: Capture user generated content, curate entries and showcase for final voting.
Getting buy-in from your audience to spend the time and energy making content for your brand is a tall order. Taller even, is having the internal resources to concept a compelling contest, draft the rules and regs, set up an informational site, prop-up a repository for entries, choose how the content will be grabbed, curate those entries, have yet another site for voting (all the creative, planning, development and support associated with this other site), what the voting paradigm will be, choose and communicate to the winner, notify and thank the other participants, deliver the winners "winnings", update the voting and informational site notifying the contest is over, setting up the next contest or using the UGC for other marketing purposes, and a multitude of other marketing, fulfillment and other support practices.
It looks like a lot. And it is. Getting the help you need from industry experts that have run 100s of these, as opposed to spinning it up in-house or contracting an agency to build it ad-hoc, will save you highly coveted currency – whether it be time or money or sanity.
William Blacklock is a Client Partner at Umbel, focused specifically on Activation. He has worked for a number of large agencies since graduating UT Creative sequence, and brought that knowledge to help startups and clients such as Toshiba, Sony, Warner Brothers, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball. He went into partnership with his twin brother (who happened to be a talented coder) to create TwinB Creative (an app and design wonders shoppe) and through that, became the co-founder of a successful startup. The last start-up, being Lodestone Social (which was recently acquired by Umbel – his new happy home). For his work he has won a number of ADDY's and was recognized in PRINT magazine. He also sang in an all male acapella group (aka: Boy Band) and is famous in Japan and small cities on the east coast.


text:
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Channels;
using System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher;

using PPWCode.Vernacular.Exceptions.II;

namespace PPWCode.Vernacular.Wcf.I.ErrorHandlers
{
    public class ExceptionMarshallingErrorHandler : IErrorHandler
    {
        bool IErrorHandler.HandleError(Exception error)
        {
            return !(error is FaultException);
        }

        void IErrorHandler.ProvideFault(Exception e, MessageVersion version, ref Message fault)
        {
            if (!(e is FaultException))
            {
                Type exceptionType = e.GetType();
                if (!exceptionType.IsDefined(typeof(SerializableAttribute), false))
                {
                    // Exception isn´t serializable, blame the programmer
                    e = HandleNonSerializableException(e);
                }
                // Generate fault message manually
                MessageFault messageFault = MessageFault.CreateFault(
                    new FaultCode("Sender"),
                    new FaultReason(e.Message),
                    e,
                    new NetDataContractSerializer());
                fault = Message.CreateMessage(version, messageFault, null);
            }
        }

        private static Exception HandleNonSerializableException(Exception e)
        {
            string msg = e.Message;
            msg = string.Format(
                "Exception of type {1} wasn't serializable, rethrown as plain exception.{0}{0}Original message:{0}{2}{0}{0}Original Stacktrace:{0}{3}",
                Environment.NewLine,
                e.GetType().Name,
                msg,
                e.StackTrace);

            Exception inner = e.InnerException;
            while (inner != null)
            {
                msg = string.Format(
                    "{1}{0}{0}InnerException:{0}{2}{0}{0}StackTrace:{0}{3}",
                    Environment.NewLine,
                    msg,
                    inner.Message,
                    inner.StackTrace);
                inner = inner.InnerException;
            }
            return new ProgrammingError(msg);
        }
    }
}


text:
Video shows girl licking tongue depressor, putting it back at Florida doctor's office
Posted 9:00 pm, July 10, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A video posted to Facebook Tuesday appears to show a girl licking a tongue depressor before placing it back in a jar with the others at a Jacksonville, Florida-area doctor's office.
The video was originally recorded on Snapchat by the girl's mother, according to WFOX. The mother said it was supposed to stay among friends, but someone shared it publicly on Facebook. She said she's now receiving death threats and regrets the incident, saying she "wasn't thinking."
The clip begins with a hand touching the inside of the canister holding the tongue depressors, twirling its fingers against multiple depressors.
Another hand is then seen removing one depressor from the container. Then a girl is shown licking the entirety of the depressor before reinserting it into the container.
Related: Another person was caught on camera licking ice cream in a store, police say
A banner on the video reportedly read "Don't tell me how to live my life."
Meanwhile, a piece of paper above the canister reads "Please do not touch medical supplies! Thank you."
Another portion of the video shows three other children in the office with the caption, "When you are running late af this is how I'm gonna let my kids act," WFOX reports.
The local news station decided not to identify the doctor's office, but officials said they have thrown away the tongue depressors and re-sanitized the facility. The office are performing an internal investigation and have requested that law enforcement get involved as well.
Topics: doctor's office, florida, tongue depressor, Video, Viral video
Florida mom arrested after reportedly taking video of her daughter licking tongue depressor, putting it back
Florida woman accused of urinating into ice cream maker, spitting into ice cream
Another person was caught on camera licking ice cream in a store, police say
Texas police identify store where woman licked ice cream, put it back in freezer
Infant dies after being left inside Florida day care van, facility owner arrested
Burger King customers tell manager to 'go back to Mexico' for speaking Spanish in Florida restaurant
Blue Bell responds to viral video of woman licking ice cream, returning it to freezer
'ICE will come' Illinois gas station clerk suspended after video shared on Facebook
Florida couple accused of leaving toddler in infested car while they did drugs
Uncle of missing 5-year-old Utah girl charged; body found near her home
Police find juvenile they say licked a tub of ice cream and put it back on the shelf
Florida woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria after stumble during walk on beach
Man facing attempted murder charge after dragging a Florida deputy during traffic stop


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Home Fit & Fun Entertainment Dhanush, Bejo show off dance moves in '…The Fakir'
Dhanush, Bejo show off dance moves in '…The Fakir'
Mumbai: Actor-filmmaker Dhanush will be seen showing off his dance moves with Oscar-nominated actress Berenice Bejo in his maiden international film "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir".
The story of the film begins in India and travels to different places, like Paris, London and Libya, as the central character Ajatashatru Lavash Patel sets out on his journey. It touches upon the problems many immigrants face worldwide.
The makers have not only roped in National Award-winning composer Amit Trivedi but also got on board Vishal Dadlani for the Hindi number and Benny Dayal for the Tamil version of the feet-tapping number "Madaari". The song is shot in Spirito Brussels.
"The song required Bejo to do tap dance. The only time she had earlier shaken a leg was during her film 'The Artist'," producer Aditi Anand said in a statement.
"She called in the trainer who had taught her the moves in 'The Artist'. The camaraderie between Dhanush and Bejo is what makes this Amit Trivedi number exciting," she said.
Directed by Ken Scott, "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir" is based on a novel written by Romain Puertolas. The film features international actors, like Erin Moriarty, Barkhad Abdi and Gérard Jugnot. It is slated for release on June 21.
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The skills gap grew by 12% last year, survey says
The skills gap grew by 12% last year, according to a survey of 600 HR leaders by Wiley Education Services and Future Workplace. Nearly two-thirds of HR leaders reported a skills gap in their organizations, up from 52% in 2018.
Forty percent of respondents said the cause of the skills gap is changes in technology and needed skills. Nearly a third of respondents attributed the gap to a lack of qualified candidates.
Ninety percent of respondents said they'd hire a job seeker who lacks a four-year college degree, though 68% said a degree is useful in validating certain skills.
Some employment experts question the origin and validity of the skills gap. Businesses do appear to feel the impact of a shortage of talent, especially as they try to hire for tech- and manufacturing-related positions. And executives are pressuring talent professionals to maintain and even increase headcount as businesses compete in a continuously tight talent market.
As businesses search for talent, they have generated other methods to fill rolls — chiefly, upskilling employees. This effort may be thwarted, however, by workers' concern over asking for training. Employees in an edX survey said they worry they'll be perceived as unqualified if they ask for help.
For many organizations, the skills gap has them turning to a contingent workforce. Whether to fill immediate need, help finish projects or simply to maintain staffing levels, employers' use of gig workers appears to be on the rise.
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Category Archives: Detective
Directed by Gordon Parks
Produced by Joel Freeman
Written by Ernest Tidyman (novel & screenplay)
John D.F. Black
Starring Richard Roundtree
Music by Isaac Hayes & J. J. Johnson
Cinematography Urs Furrer
Editing by Hugh A. Robertson
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Warner Bros. (DVD)
Release date July 2, 1971 (USA)
Shaft is often hailed as one of the first Blaxploitation films that were made in the 1970s but I am not so sure if it really fits into that category. To me it seems more like a typical cop film set in New York, only with a black man as the hero of the piece. There is also the iconic Theme From Shaft by the late Isaac Hayes, which I guess sets it apart from the rest.
I enjoyed Shaft very much and thought it was very exciting. Compared to the blaxploitation films that followed this one seems very tame, as the sex scenes and violence are toned down, while the swearing is not as over the top as the later films. The plot involves the daughter of a black crime boss being kidnapped by the mafia and Shaft having to rescue her in order to stop the potential bloodshed that a gang war in Harlem would cause. Richard Roundtree is very likable as John Shaft and gives a very laid back performance. Most of the acting is pretty good, especially when compared to later blaxploitation films.
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Directed by Robert Moore
Produced by Ray Stark
Starring Eileen Brennan
James Coco
Elsa Lanchester
Nancy Walker
Estelle Winwood
Richard Narita
Music by Dave Grusin
Cinematography David M. Walsh
Editing by Margaret Booth & John F. Burnett
Distributed by Columbia
Release date 23 June 1976
Running time 94 minutes
Neil Simon's Murder By Death is a spoof of all those mystery films (and novels) of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. At the time of its release Agatha Christie's stories were undergoing a revival on the big screen as Murder On The Orient Express (1974) was released at around this time.
Murder By Death has a star-studded cast, with Truman Capote (the writer of Breakfast At Tiffany's) hosts a murder in which he has invited the world's greatest detectives, among them Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) who is based on Charlie Chan. Whilst many may consider it to be politicall incorrect for Sellers to be playing a Chinese detective I find it to be OK, as he is parodying the Charlie Chan films from the 30s & 40s in which Warner Oland and Sidney Toler went yellow face to play the Oriental detective.
Also in the cast is David Niven and Maggie Smith whose characters are based on the society detectives from the Thin Man series of movies. James Coco's Perrier is a spoof of Poirot, Elsa Lanchester's Miss Marbles is of course based on Miss Marple, while Peter Falk's Sam Diamond is based on Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon, as portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.
There are a lot of quick fire jokes and if you are a fan of detective films you will love this. Not all the jokes hit the mark but most of them are quite funny.
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DZone > Agile Zone > What Refactoring is, and what it isn't - According to Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
What Refactoring is, and what it isn't - According to Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Jim Bird
Dec. 16, 12 · Agile Zone · Interview
Sometimes a programmer will come to me and explain that they don't like the design of something and that "we're gonna need to do a whole bunch of refactoring" to make it right. Oh Oh. This doesn't sound good. And it doesn't sound like refactoring either….
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Refactoring, as originally defined by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck, is
A change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior… It is a disciplined way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs.
Refactoring is done to fill in short-cuts, eliminate duplication and dead code, and to make the design and logic clear. To make better and clearer use of the programming language. To take advantage of information that you have now but that the programmer didn't have then – or that they didn't take advantage of then. Always to simplify the code and to make it easier to understand. Always to make it easier and safer to change in the future.
Fixing any bugs that you find along the way is not refactoring. Optimization is not refactoring. Tightening up error handling and adding defensive code is not refactoring. Making the code more testable is not refactoring – although this may happen as the result of refactoring. All of these are good things to do. But they aren't refactoring.
Programmers, especially programmers maintaining code, have always cleaned up code as part of their job. It's natural and often necessary to get the job done. What Martin Fowler and others did was to formalize the practices of restructuring code, and to document a catalog of common and proven refactoring patterns – the goals and steps.
Refactoring is simple. Protect yourself from making mistakes by first writing tests where you can. Make structural changes to the code in small, independent and safe steps, and test the code after each of these steps to ensure that you haven't changed the behavior – it still works the same, just looks different. Refactoring patterns and refactoring tools in modern IDEs make refactoring easy, safe and cheap.
Refactoring isn't an end in itself
Refactoring is supposed to be a practice that supports making changes to code. You refactor code before making changes, so that you can confirm your understanding of the code and make it easier and safer to put your change in. Regression test your refactoring work. Then make your fix or changes. Test again. And afterwards maybe refactor some more of the code to make the intent of the changes clearer. And test everything again. Refactor, then change. Or change, then refactor.
You don't decide to refactor, you refactor because you want to do something else, and refactoring helps you do that other thing.
The scope of your refactoring work should be driven by the change or fix that you need to make – what do you need to do to make the change safer and cleaner? In other words: Don't refactor for the sake of refactoring. Don't refactor code that you aren't changing or preparing to change.
Scratch Refactoring to Understand
There's also Scratch Refactoring from Michael Feather's Working Effectively with Legacy Code book; what Martin Fowler calls "Refactoring to Understand". This is where you take code that you don't understand (or can't stand) and clean it up so that you can get a better idea of what is going on before you start to actually work on changing it for real, or to help in debugging it. Rename variables and methods once you figure out what they really mean, delete code that you don't want to look at (or don't think works), break complex conditional statements down, break long routines into smaller ones that you can get your head around.
Don't bother reviewing and testing all of these changes. The point is to move fast – this is a quick and dirty prototype to give you a view into the code and how it works. Learn from it and throw it away. Scratch refactoring also lets you test out different refactoring approaches and learn more about refactoring techniques. Michael Feathers recommends that you keep notes during this on anything that wasn't obvious or that was especially useful, so that you can come back and do a proper job later - in small, disciplined steps, with tests.
What about "Large Scale" Refactoring?
You can get a big return in understandability and maintainability from making simple and obvious refactoring changes: eliminating duplication, changing variable and method names to be more meaningful, extracting methods to make code easier to understand and more reusable, simplifying conditional logic, replacing a magic number with a named constant, moving common code together.
There is a big difference between minor, inline refactoring like this, and more fundamental design restructuring – what Martin Fowler refers to as "Big Refactoring". Big, expensive changes that carry a lot of technical risk. This isn't cleaning up code and improving the design while you are working: this is fundamental redesign.
Some people like to call redesign or rewriting or replatforming or reengineering a system "Large Scale Refactoring" because technically you aren't changing behavior – the business logic and inputs and outputs stay the same, it's "only" the design and implementation that's changing. The difference seems to be that you can rewrite code or even an entire system, and as long as you do it in steps, you can still call it "refactoring", whether you are slowly Strangling a legacy system with new code, or making large-scale changes to the architecture of a system.
"Large Scale Refactoring" changes can be ugly. They can take weeks or months (or years) to complete, requiring changes to many different parts of the code. They need to be broken down and released in multiple steps, requiring temporary scaffolding and detours, especially if you are working in short Agile sprints. This is where practices like Branch by Abstraction come in to play, to help you manage changes inside the code over a long period of time.
In the meantime you have to keep working with the old code and new code together, making the code harder to follow and harder to change, more brittle and buggy - the opposite of what refactoring is supposed to achieve. Sometimes this can go on forever – the transition work never gets completed because most of the benefits are realized early, or because the consultant who came up with the idea left to go on to something else, or the budget got cut, and you're stuck maintaining a Frankensystem.
This is Refactoring - That Isn't
Mixing this kind of heavy project work up with the discipline of refactoring-as-you-go is wrong. They are fundamentally different kinds of work, with very different costs and risks. It muddies up what people think refactoring is, and how refactoring should be done.
Refactoring can and should be folded in to how you write and maintain code – a part of the everyday discipline of development, like writing tests and reviewing code. It should be done quietly, continuously and implicitly. It becomes part of the cost of doing work, folded in to estimates and risk assessments. Done properly, it doesn't need to be explained or justified.
Refactoring that takes a few minutes or an hour or two as part of a change is just part of the job. Refactoring that can take several days or longer is not refactoring; it is rewriting or redesigning. If you have to set aside explicit blocks of time (or an entire sprint!) to refactor code, if you have to get permission or make a business case for code cleanup, then you aren't refactoring – even if you are using refactoring techniques and tools, you're doing something else.
Some programmers believe it is their right and responsibility to make fundamental and significant changes to code, to reimagine and rewrite it, in the name of refactoring and for the sake of the future and for their craft. Sometimes redesigning and rewriting code is the right thing to do. But be honest and clear. Don't hide this under the name of refactoring.
Published at DZone with permission of Jim Bird, DZone MVB. See the original article here.


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It is truly wonderful. It is a coastal mountain range, whose highest peak, the peak Pienzu reaches 1161mts. You can make excursions of varying difficulty, but all of incredible scenic beauty, as you can see both the Cantabrian coast, a few kilometers from the top, and the peaks of Europe on the opposite side. The Mirador del Fito, is one of the most famous hills and is accessible by vehicle (it is also the starting point for various trekking routes).
The village of Espinaredo is a nice and cozy Asturian village, people say it is the village with more and best preserved Asturian granaries, as they date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There are more than 30. You can make excursions around or go by car on the track that runs along the river Infierno until the area called La Pesanca, a forest ideal for walking on a rainy afternoon, and keep walking until Foces del Rio.
It is a natural pool formed by the Dobra River, which is famous for waters of emerald green colour, with a depth that reaches five meters. The Dobra River is one of the most vertical of the Asturian geography. It originates and the Leon side of the Picos de Europa and ends its route giving its waters to the Sella river. It's only at 6 km from Cangas de Onis, the way to get to the pool is nice and easy to do. Just two hundred meters after the start, you can see the stone bridge known as the Puente Viejo (Old Bridge) whose origin is uncertain, although it seems medieval due to its characteristics. Following up the river, after 30 or 40 minutes, you will reach the Olla, of great beauty. An ideal route to do with children.
There are a multitude of excursions to do in the Natural Park of the Picos de Europa. It has an incredible scenery and beautiful corners, which is why it's the second most visited in Spain after the Natural Park of Teide.
It is one of the main sites of Christian pilgrimage, built in the late nineteenth century with a Romanesque style, and the crypt is located inside. In the eighth century, this place was the scene of confrontation in which a group of mountaineers led by Don Pelayo defeated the Muslim troops, thus initiating the Reconquista. In the holy cave the Patroness of Asturias, the Santina, is worshiped. In the cave you can also find the tombs of King Pelayo, his wife, his sister and Alfonso I.
Located in the tunnel that leads to the holy cave, this impressive bell of 4,000 kilos measures three meters and was built in 1900, taking the first prize and the gold medal of the Universal Exhibition in Paris, held a year later.
More than 1000 meters high, the lakes of Covadonga are formed by two small lakes, Enol and Ercina of glacial origin. A third lake, Bricial, only has water during the thaw. In Asturias they are known simply as the lakes.
The route of this gorge, called by many authors La Garganta Divina, allows us to unite Asturias with Leon through the depths of the Picos de Europa whose peaks stare at us from more than 2,000 meters above and enjoying the beautiful views that offer us the crystal waters of the river Cares and the channels that plunge precipitously from the heights to its waters.
It is the most famous and emblematic village of the Picos de Europa. Without accessing roads, it is enclosed in the midst of breathtaking mountains. By walking 15 minutes we will have stunning views of Pico Urriellu (Naranjo de Bulnes). To go up to the village of Bulnes we can use the cogwheel train or walk up the Canal del Tejo. It is a nice tour of an acceptable slope (400-500 m), by nice routes and able to make with children.
It is in the heart of the Picos de Europa, just a few kilometers away from Santo Toribio de Liebana and from Potes. There's an unevenness of 754 meters high so when we are at the bottom, we are at a height of about 1100 meters and when reaching the top, we'll be at almost 1900. There is no attachment between these two points, only two cables by the cable car glides . At the upper end of the cable car there's the lookout, not suitable for those with vertigo, because it stands out and is suspended at a great height. From there a few hiking trails start.


The past decade's health care wars have pushed Republicans to the right, squeezing out moderates who see some acceptable role for the federal government.
Why it matters: More health care wars are coming, and the parties are only moving further away from each other. By demonizing so many policy ideas as "Obamacare-lite," the GOP has left itself with fewer policy alternatives and less room to compromise.
"The far right has kind of sucked all the oxygen out of the room. Right now, it does seem like it's hard for more moderate policy ideas to really get a lot of traction."
The big picture: The Affordable Care Act "changed radically the nature of the way Republicans view health care," said Rodney Whitlock, a lobbyist and former aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Before the ACA, there were plenty of conservative arguments for a stronger federal role in the health care system. Many of those more moderate GOP ideas made it into the ACA, mixed in with other traditionally Democratic policies.
"The infrastructure of the Affordable Care Act was a hell of a lot closer to Romneycare than a single payer system," Whitlock said.
Now that the party has bitterly opposed the ACA for nearly a decade, it's difficult to propose ideas that bear any resemblance to it.
"After watching 2017 unfold and the occasions of which 'Obamacare-lite' got thrown out at some folks, for Republicans, it's going to be hard for them to look at anything other than basically ... confederal solutions, where they say its important that we send solutions out to the states, and we step back," Whitlock said.
"If you're not even willing to concede that some version of regulated competition is a plausible strategy for this market, then realistically, what are you going to argue down the road?" Ippolito asked. "We're going to take the stand of [Sen.] Rand Paul? His idea of health care is the only one we're allowed to have now?"
Last year's repeal-and-replace effort also reinforced the popularity of several ACA regulations, like requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. Yet those rules are a target for the right flank of the party, because they increase premiums.
What's next: The health care system's problems are not solving themselves. And while Democrats solidify their response — some form of expanded government coverage — many elected Republicans are trying to avoid the topic.
Off the Hill, there are plenty of center-right policy wonks cranking out ideas, like increasing price transparency to foster market competition and automatically enrolling people in private health insurance.
But if moderates in both parties are losing power, "the chances of serious bipartisan discussions on health care are basically nil," Kaiser's Larry Levitt told me.
"Obamacare left such a sour taste in our mouth," Sen. Mike Rounds told me. "So anything that looks like that, immediately people are suspect," he continued. "On the other side, there's a lot of us that really do believe that if you allow for competition on the marketplace and you allow for innovation, and you make it a fair playing field, you could come up with some really good health care policy."


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When a therapist becomes pregnant, the client-therapist relationship is impacted in ways that can be both challenging and enriching. A therapist's pregnancy is an unavoidable self-disclosure, which impacts the therapeutic relationship before, during and after the therapist's maternity leave. The complex feelings and interpersonal dynamics which arise are stirring for the client, and also for the therapist as she enters into her own time of psychological change and growth. This three hour workshop provides a forum for therapists to share experiences, discuss themes and together explore this transformative time.


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Ultimately, storytelling is an innate human ability. One can, though, hone specific storytelling skills. Improvisers work on both creating a solid narrative structure and on adding rich, engaging details. And just to add a degree of difficulty, improvisers often tell their stories collaboratively. These collaborative storytelling activities can be mined by trainers to introduce or review virtually any topic, or to teach communication and collaboration skills." Kat Kopett, "Improv and The Art Of Training"


West Des Moines Police Conduct Alcohol Compliance Checks Not selling alcohol to a minor would seem like a no-brainer, but getting your employees to simply card young buyers isn't as easy as setting a store policy.
Drunk Driving NHTSA Initiative Materials Released The NHTSA issued it's latest promotional literature and video clips for combatting driving while impaired, or drunk driving. The materials are being issued in both English and Spanish.


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Fourteen young people took part in four days of activity at Embrace Arts over two weeks which enabled them to work with world class artists from Leicester, and get a taste of circus skills, musical instrument making, immersive theatre, creative movement and dance, film making, soundscapes and installations, all tailored to meet the needs of the children taking part.
"I just have to say WOW!! The past two days have been incredible and the whole experience has opened up new career ideas which I had never even considered before."
"The workshops were amazing and just to see the incredible work that the carers do to enhance the life experiences of the young individuals was incredible and even moving at times. The fact that each individual was respected and each of their individual needs adhered too was so inspiring and really showed how important these young people as individuals are. I am so inspired! they were incredible and the past two days have been such an eye opener.
The sessions were kindly supported by Leicester City Council Disabled Children's Services who also provided 1:1 personal assistants to support each child, and to enable them to attend without their parents or regular carers.
Video installation made by young people with complex needs, with artists from Salamnda Tandem.