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Apple's Beats brand today shared a new video designed to promote Powerbeats Pro, Apple's upcoming wire-free earbuds that are similar to the AirPods, but designed with fitness and sports in mind.
The video features multiple famous athletes and a brand new single, "Saw Lightning," from Beck. Beck's new song was released today alongside the ad and is available on Apple Music. The video was directed by Hiro Murai, a Grammy Award winning filmmaker who directed the hit music video for Childish Gambino's song "This is America."
In the video, each of the athletes is wearing a set of white Powerbeats Pro while playing their respective sports, ranging from gymnastics to basketball. Beats says that the video is part of a new "UNLEASHED" campaign promoting the Powerbeats Pro.
Athletes featured include gymnast Simone Biles, boxer Anthony Joshua, tennis pro Serena Williams, basketball player LeBron James, soccer player Eden Hazard, rugby player Owen Farrell, boxer Ramla Ali, weightlifter Zoe Smith, basketball player Ben Simmons, football player Odell Beckham Jr., skier Kevin Rolland, skateboarder Leticia Bufoni, boulderer Miho Nonaka, snowboarder Shaun White, soccer player Alex Morgan, runner Ruddy Trobrillant, and ballet dancer Jasmine Perry.
Apple plans to release Powerbeats Pro in May, with the new earbuds set to cost $250 in the United States. A specific launch date is not yet known, nor has Apple said whether pre-orders will be available ahead of time.
Powerbeats Pro, officially announced in early April, share many features with AirPods, including the same H1 chip and sensors for features like ear detection, simple and fast pairing, easy swapping between devices, and Hey Siri support.
Powerbeats Pro also offer longer battery life at nine hours per earbud before needing to be recharged with the wireless charging case, and they are designed to better stay in the ears than AirPods with an earhook that holds them in place and ear tips in four sizes.
Apple has also said that sound was a focus with the Powerbeats Pro, and that they'll be able to hold up well to sweat.
For more on the Powerbeats Pro, make sure to check out our dedicated guide.
EdMan, DeepIn2U, kryten3000 and 1 other person like this.
A bit more expensive than AirPods but you get more.
Wish batter life was a bit longer.
This is a classic Apple spot: graphic, iconic, and the visuals do the talking. The technique of keeping the earphones in the same spot on the screen, despite different athletes at different distances, is really engaging.
For sports, these seem like a great alternative (or supplement) to AirPods.
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Would love to know how they filmed this. Im guessing lots of post-edit zooming in and cropping but I havent much of a clue!
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We used to aspire to make rocket ships. Now we aspire to make a basket.
It's not beige. It's white. It just looks beige on the product page. Go look at any hands on and you'll see it's clearly white.
Really want these immediately. Will set a new standard for battery life on a single charge for fully wireless.
Makes sense. Gotta be a famous athlete to afford them.
In the core of a black hole.
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This is the first Beats product I am interested in.
I would consider some over-ear headphones, but I want them to charge using Lightning, so that I don't have to carry another cable. That's one of the reasons why the AirPods are so convenient to me.
ugly buds, but nice video though.
There were many different sports shown in this spot, and that's your takeaway? Interesting.
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No, Apple has deliberately made them a different shade of white. It's why they are calling them "ivory." It's smart as it will be less likely to show dirt/grime from your work out and to discolor in the sun.
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It's not white. It's ivory.
Which is why Apple called it ivory.
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Sony' great noise cancelling WH-XM3's got rid of the awful micro usb, still used by Bose!, and adopted USB-C, which is nice. Bose has definitely fallen behind the Sony's (only 20 hrs versus 30, no USB, sound not quite as good, NC not quite as good), but Sony needs to improve on connecting to multiple devices and phone call quality. Still waiting a bit to see if Apple comes out with the rumored OTE noise cancelling wireless.
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Or save up for a few weeks or months. Maybe pickup some extra hours.
Isn't that what people do when they want something they can't afford to just go buy?
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Huh? Isn't it like 9 hours? How long are you thinking it could even be in that form factor?
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I must say that I'm grateful to Apple for that video. I've been tying myself in knots trying to work out whether to buy them in Black or Ivory. Having seen them in action, Ivory it is.
Now PLEASE just get on and make them available to BUY, Apple.
Then I can FINALLY be rid of the stupid connecting cable on my Powerbeats, which I have to wear under my chin instead of behind my neck, as otherwise it pulls on one ear or the other. Which makes me look dumb, as if I don't know how I'm supposed to wear them.
Look for yourself. They look pretty damn white to me mate.
Take a look here. They are clearly white regardless of what Apple calls them.
They're not my taste, but I was surprised at how few people were complaining about the looks in the thread where they were announced a while back.
So, they already have an ad for a product with no real release date?
Can only - and clearly - assume that you've never seen ivory, then.
Not everything in life is black or white.
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LOL. As they say, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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Q: Insert Dynamic Select Box Value In Mysql Database And Show Data Submitted Message In the below form i am loading question and answers from mysql database based on asset title value and submitting dynamic custom questions value to database. ( this is working fine )
but my problem is i am not getting message when form value is submited to database for assets who have less than 15 custom questions.
I guess i am doing something wrong in my createlead.php file if condition...
Please help.
If you think this problem can be solved with another method then please let me know.

Loading dynamic custom questions from mysql database based on asset title value
<?php
 //load_data.php
 $connect = mysqli_connect("localhost", "root", "", "test");
 $output = '';
 if(isset($_POST["assetid"]))
 {
  if($_POST["assetid"] != '')
  {
       $sql = "SELECT * FROM cq WHERE assetid = '".$_POST["assetid"]."'";

  }
  else
  {
       $sql = "SELECT * FROM cq WHERE assetid = 'akash'";
       // i dont want to load any database so used wrong query

  }
  $result = mysqli_query($connect, $sql);
  $quesno = 1;

  while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
  {
       $output .= '
';
       $output .= '
';
       $output .= ''.$row["cqname"].'';
       $output .= '<select name="cq'.$quesno.'" size="5" class="form-control" required>';
       // $output .= '
'.$row["product_name"].'
';
       // $output .= '
'.$row["cqname"].'
	';
       $output .= '<option value="" required>Select Custom Question Answer</option>
                   <option value="'.$row["cqa1"].'">'.$row["cqa1"].'</option>
                   <option value="'.$row["cqa2"].'">'.$row["cqa2"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa3"].'">'.$row["cqa3"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa4"].'">'.$row["cqa4"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa5"].'">'.$row["cqa5"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa6"].'">'.$row["cqa6"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa7"].'">'.$row["cqa7"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa8"].'">'.$row["cqa8"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa9"].'">'.$row["cqa9"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa10"].'">'.$row["cqa10"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa11"].'">'.$row["cqa11"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa12"].'">'.$row["cqa12"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa13"].'">'.$row["cqa13"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa14"].'">'.$row["cqa14"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa15"].'">'.$row["cqa15"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa16"].'">'.$row["cqa16"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa17"].'">'.$row["cqa17"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa18"].'">'.$row["cqa18"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa19"].'">'.$row["cqa19"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa20"].'">'.$row["cqa20"].'</option>
                    <option value="'.$row["cqa21"].'">'.$row["cqa21"].'</option>

                   </select>';
       // $output .= '

';
       $output .= '

';
       $quesno++;
  }
  echo $output;
 }
 ?>

Jquery ( Sending form fields value to php file) :-
$(document).ready(function() {

    // submit form
    $("#newleadform").unbind('submit').bind('submit', function() {

        $(".text-danger").remove();

        var form = $(this);

        // validation
    var assettitle = $("#assettitle").val();
    var customquestion1 = $("#cq1").val();
    var customquestion2 = $("#cq2").val();
    var customquestion3 = $("#cq3").val();
    var customquestion4 = $("#cq4").val();
    var customquestion5 = $("#cq5").val();
    var customquestion6 = $("#cq6").val();
    var customquestion7 = $("#cq7").val();
    var customquestion8 = $("#cq8").val();
    var customquestion9 = $("#cq9").val();
    var customquestion10 = $("#cq10").val();
    var customquestion11 = $("#cq11").val();
    var customquestion12 = $("#cq12").val();
    var customquestion13 = $("#cq13").val();
    var customquestion14 = $("#cq14").val();
    var customquestion15 = $("#cq15").val();

        if(assettitle) {
            //submit the form to server
            $.ajax({
                url : '../pages/php_action/addnewlead/createlead.php',
                type : 'POST',
                data : form.serialize(),
                dataType : 'json',
                success:function(response) {

                    // remove the error
                    $(".form-group").removeClass('has-error').removeClass('has-success');

                    if(response.success == true) {
                        $(".messages").html('
'+
                          '<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">×</button>'+
                          '  '+response.messages+
                        '
');

                        // reset the form
                        $("#newleadform")[0].reset();

                    } else {
                        $(".messages").html('
'+
                          '<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">×</button>'+
                          '  '+response.messages+
                        '
');
                    }  // /else
                } // success
            }); // ajax subit
        } /// if

        return false;
    }); // /submit form for create member
}); // /add modal

createlead.php ( submit form fields value to database) :-
<?php

require_once 'db_config.php';

//if form is submitted
if($_POST) {
$validator = array('success' => false, 'messages' => array());

$assettitle= $_POST['assettitle'];
$customquestion1= $_POST['cq1'];
$customquestion2= $_POST['cq2'];
$customquestion3= $_POST['cq3'];
$customquestion4= $_POST['cq4'];
$customquestion5= $_POST['cq5'];
$customquestion6= $_POST['cq6'];
$customquestion7= $_POST['cq7'];
$customquestion8= $_POST['cq8'];
$customquestion9= $_POST['cq9'];
$customquestion10= $_POST['cq10'];
$customquestion11= $_POST['cq11'];
$customquestion12= $_POST['cq12'];
$customquestion13= $_POST['cq13'];
$customquestion14= $_POST['cq14'];
$customquestion15= $_POST['cq15'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO ltfs (assettitle, customquestion1, customquestion2, customquestion3, customquestion4, customquestion5, customquestion6, customquestion7, customquestion8, customquestion9, customquestion10, customquestion11, customquestion12, customquestion13, customquestion14, customquestion15) VALUES ('$assettitle', '$customquestion1', '$customquestion2', '$customquestion3', '$customquestion4', '$customquestion5', '$customquestion6', '$customquestion7', '$customquestion8', '$customquestion9', '$customquestion10', '$customquestion11', '$customquestion12', '$customquestion13', '$customquestion14', '$customquestion15')";

$query = $connect->query($sql);

if($query === TRUE) {
    $validator['success'] = true;
    $validator['messages'] = "Your lead successfully submited to quality team";
} else {
    $validator['success'] = false;
    $validator['messages'] = "Error while adding the lead information";
}

// close the database connection
$connect->close();

echo json_encode($validator);

}

A: I think doing mistake here
if($query === TRUE)

You can do as
if($query){//you message}else{//error message}

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Business has expanded over time to better serve its clientele
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Omaha Lace Cleaners, a company specializing in wedding gown preservation and high-end drycleaning services, has passed the 100-year mark, still at its original location. (Photo: Omaha Lace Cleaners)
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After the successful launch of the CALIPSO mission by NASA/CNES in April 2006, the satellite-borne lidar CALIOP provides vertically resolved information on aerosol and cloud parameters since June 2006. This date can be regarded as the starting point of a unique longterm, global, 4-dimensional data set that will substantially improve our knowledge on the role of aerosols and clouds in the Earth's climate system. We can expect a historical data set on the global aerosol and cloud distribution and respective trends in cloud cover, cloud amount, and aerosol pollution state.
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Early American Jews were unremarkable in many ways. They looked and behaved like other colonists: they wore the same clothes, lived in the same types of homes, worried about their children and worked to earn a living, just like other colonists. Their religion and their history were the only differences. Their beliefs had gotten them expelled from England in 1290 and cast out from Spain in 1492. The forced conversions, torture and expulsions of the Inquisition sometimes caused them to change their names and hide their religion, but never to forget who they were. Some fled from Catholic Europe to North Africa, Turkey, the Kingdom of Poland, and Protestant Europe including Slovakia, the German states and Scandinavia, making their homes in Copenhagen or Hamburg. More frequently, Spanish and Portuguese Jews sought refuge in Holland and created a home for themselves in Amsterdam. The Jewish community thrived there; their success allowed them to migrate to Brazil, Suriname, Jamaica and Curacao, where they built synagogues and purchased ground for cemeteries. And in 1654, these Jews came to Nieu Amsterdam (later New York) in the New World.
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Still, some individuals stand out for their achievements in American and in Jewish history. The thirteen whose lives are commemorated in Patriots Park (one from each colony) and nine others were extraordinary in their own time and in ours. More portraits and biographies of early American Jews can be seen in the Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. Database of Early American Jewish Portraits, hosted by the American Jewish Historical Society.
…it appears that Major Bush has, on many occasions, distinguished himself in the public service, especially in the winter of 1776, when the service was critical and hazardous . . . in the month of September, 1777, acting as Deputy Adjutant General, he was dangerously wounded in a skirmish between the militia and the advance of the British Army, his thigh being broken and he brought off with great difficulty; that being carried to his father's house, on Chestnut Hill, and incapable of being moved, he fell into the hands of the British Army, when it moved up to Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania in December, 1777 and was imprisoned. Colonel Bush was ultimately released in exchange for British prisoners held by the Continental forces.
Bush was an active Mason and went to London in November 1788 on business for the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge. From there he repeatedly petitioned Washington for a diplomatic post, but was unsuccessful, despite being highly recommended by others close to Washington. Although he apparently had no formal medical training, Bush had evidently picked up enough medical knowledge, perhaps during the time he spent in London, to be generally referred to as Dr. Bush. In 1791, he married Nancy Ann Marshall, most likely in Philadelphia. He died in 1795 and is buried in the Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
Cohn, one of the many Jews who fought for the Union (some 2-3,000 Jews fought for the South), won the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor above and beyond the call of duty at the Battle of the Wilderness and the Battle of the Crater in 1864. He was born in Silesia, Germany in 1832. In 1860, he came to the United States and enlisted in the army, first in the Sixty-Eighth Regiment of New York and later the Sixth Regiment of New Hampshire. At the Battle of the Wilderness, he rallied and reformed the disorganized fleeing troops from several regiments and established a new line of defense that held its ground. At the battle of Petersburg, Virginia, (the Battle of the Crater) on July 30, 1864, he bravely and coolly carried orders to the advanced Union line under severe fire from the Confederate troops. While in the Sixty-Eighth Regiment of New York he rose to the rank of Captain. After the close of the war Captain Cohn settled in New York and began a successful business career. He married and was the father of eight children. Cohn died in New York City on June 2, 1897 and is buried in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, New York.
Born in Fürth, Bavaria, Hart immigrated to America, settling in Baltimore in 1775. He established himself as a merchant, and though in America only a year at the outbreak of war, aligned himself with the patriot cause. When General Lafayette visited Baltimore in 1791 and told the population of the army's needs, the merchants of the city subscribed for a loan. Jacob Hart was at the head of the list of contributors, with the largest contribution (2000 out of 5,000 pounds contributed).
On November 4, 1778, Hart married Leah Nathan, the daughter of Caroline Webb and Lyon Nathan of Pennsylvania. The couple was married in Philadelphia where Leah's father served as shammash [caretaker] of Congregation Mikveh Israel. They soon moved to New York where he emerged as an important member of the Jewish community, serving as parnas [president] of Shearith Israel. In 1809, Jacob and Leah's daughter Ella married Haym Moses Salomon, son of Haym Salomon, who is also represented in Patriots Park.
Hart died on May 9th, 1822 and is buried in the Chatham Square Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.
As Boston's most prominent 18th-century Jewish citizen, Moses Michael Hays set a high standard for civic leadership and charity. He was born in New York City in 1739 to Dutch immigrants Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels. Judah Hays took his son into his shipping and retail business and, upon his death in 1764, left him the business and largest share of his assets. Moses continued his father's commitment to Congregation Shearith Israel, serving as second parnas [vice-president] in 1766 and parnas in 1767.
1766 was also the year that Hays was married to Rachel Myers, younger sister of famed New York silversmith Myer Myers [also represented in Patriots Park.] The couple moved to Newport, Rhode Island in 1769, where Hays continued his shipping business. Business reverses landed him in debtor's prison but he was set free when he liquidated his assets and repaid his creditors. He immediately reestablished himself in the trans-Atlantic trade.
In 1775, seventy-six men in Newport were asked to sign a declaration of loyalty to the American colonies that included the phrase, "upon the true faith of a Christian." Hays publicly objected to the phrase and refused to sign, instead offering a letter affirming his belief that the Revolution was a just cause. Hays signed when the Christian portion of the oath was omitted.
The Hays family left Newport for Boston ahead of the British occupation in 1776. He opened a shipping office in Boston and was among the first merchants there to underwrite shipbuilding, trade and insurance to newly opened Far Eastern markets. In 1784, Hays became a founder and the first depositor of the Massachusetts Bank, still doing business today as part of the Bank of America.
In 1783, Reverend Isaac de Abraham Touro, husband to Hay's sister Reyna, died in Jamaica, leaving his widow with three children: Abraham, Judah and Rebecca. Moses Hays brought the family to Massachusetts and raised Reyna's children as his own.
Hays also helped to establish the New England Masonic movement. When Hays was accepted into the Massachusetts Lodge in November 1782, he was the only Jew. In 1792, the lodge members elected Hays their Grand Master with Paul Revere as his Deputy.
Moses Michael Hays provided financial support to beautify Boston Common, establish theaters and endow Harvard College. Hays descendants helped found the Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts General Hospital and remain prominent in Boston public life to this day.
Moses Michael Hays died in 1805 and is buried at The Colonial Jewish Burying Ground in Newport.
Aaron Lopez, known as "The Merchant-Prince of Newport", was the most successful of Newport's merchants and traders and was one of the founding benefactors of Touro Synagogue. Lopez, born to a well-to-do Converso family, was named Duarte [Edward] Lopez at his birth in Portugal in 1731. While in Portugal, Lopez married Anna Lopez and had a baby daughter Catherine before deciding to leave for a new, openly Jewish life in British North America. He joined his older brother Moses in Newport, Rhode Island.
Upon arrival in Newport, Duarte, Anna and their daughter Catherine reverted to Judaism and changed their names to Aaron, Abigail and Sarah, respectively. With the help of his brother Moses, Aaron set himself up in business. He participated with Jacob Rodriguez de Rivera in the manufacture and sale of spermaceti [whale oil] candles. By 1760 his business activities had grown to include whaling and a few ventures in the slave trade, as well his main traffic in the export of Newport manufactures such as furniture, axes, plank and board, flour, barrel staves and salt fish.
As an English crown colony, trade from Rhode Island to the mother country was a privilege restricted to citizens. In 1761 Lopez, along with his friend and business partner Isaac Elizer, sought naturalization in Rhode Island in order to be able to trade freely with Britain. However, the both men were refused by the colony's courts and legislature primarily because they were Jewish. To circumvent the ruling, Lopez set up residence in Swansey, Massachusetts, and was finally naturalized at Taunton, Massachusetts in October 1762, where naturalization of Jews was allowed. Elizer was naturalized in New York a year later. The Rhode Island authorities accepted the naturalizations from the sister colonies.
Following the death of his wife Abigail in 1762, Lopez married Sarah Rodriguez de Rivera, the daughter of his business partner, Jacob Rodriguez de Rivera.
The American fight for Independence brought significant economic upheaval to Newport merchants, Lopez included. One of his ships, the Hope was seized by privateers as it traveled between Newport and Jamaica, and in 1780, Lopez petitioned the Continental Congress for protection and restitution, which was granted; however, it is doubtful that any damages were ever paid1.
Fairly early in the war the British had taken and occupied Newport. In 1778, Lopez evacuated his family to Leicester, Massachusetts, where he set up a retail shop and a modest commodities trade via overland routes through Salem, Boston and Providence. Over the course of the next four years, he became a key supplier to the American forces, providing such necessities as flour and leather breeches.
In 1782, while on the way to Newport with his family, Aaron Lopez accidentally drowned when thrown by his horse into Scott's pond in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Lopez and his first wife Abigail are buried in The Colonial Jewish Burying Ground in Newport, Rhode Island.
Aaron Louzada was a wealthy merchant and shopkeeper, dealing in spices and liquor. He was the first Jew to settle in New Jersey, establishing his family in Bound Brook in 1698. Aaron was born in London sometime between 1693 and 1695 to a family whose history can be traced to the beginnings of the Spanish Inquisition.
He arrived in New York in 1717 and soon purchased 877 acres of land, which was ultimately the basis for much of modern Bound Brook. His trade in spices and liquor succeeded and he became known for his generous contributions to Jewish communal causes in New York and New Jersey. Prior to 1740, he married Blume Michaels, the daughter of Moses Michael and Catherine Hachar. The Louzada's had three children. Aaron died in 1765.
Jacob Mordecai was both a patriot and a pioneer in the education of women. He was born in Philadelphia in 1762, the son of Moses and Esther Mordecai. At age 13, Mordecai served as a rifleman when the Continental Congress was resident in Philadelphia and later helped supply the Continental Army as a clerk to David Franks, the Jewish quartermaster to General George Washington. After the war, Mordecai moved to New York and married Judith Myers. In 1792, the couple moved to Warrenton, North Carolina. Mordecai became a tobacco merchant there, but he was more interested in education and scholarship. In 1796, his wife Judith died in childbirth. He remarried, choosing Rebecca Myers, Judith's younger half-sister.
In 1808 Mordecai's tobacco business was struggling and he closed the company. At the request of some of the town's leaders, who respected his knowledge and erudition, he opened the Warrenton Female Seminary (also known as Mordicai's Female Academy). Initially Mordecai and his wife Rebecca taught all the classes but were later joined by their daughter Rachel and two of his sons.
The school succeeded thanks to its innovative plan of moral instruction and sensitivity to both Christian and Jewish observance. Students of all faiths were represented and each group was able to observe its own holidays and practices. By 1814, the academy's reputation had spread so widely that Mordecai was forced to cap enrollment at 110 students.
In 1819, at age 56, ten years after opening his Female Academy, Mordecai decided to sell the highly successful enterprise and move his family to Richmond, Virginia. He purchased a farm and lived as an active member of Richmond's Jewish community, serving as president of its Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, the sixth oldest Jewish congregation in America, founded in 1789.
Moses Myers was the first Jewish settler in Norfolk, Virginia and had a long career in public service for the City of Norfolk and the United States Government. He was born in New York and after marrying Eliza Judah in 1787 , he moved to Norfolk. Within five years had established a five-vessel fleet for his import-export business. In 1795 he was elected president of the Norfolk city council and in 1804 was commissioned colonel of a regiment of Virginia volunteers. He was appointed vice-consul for both Denmark and the Netherlands at Norfolk and in 1828, President John Quincy Adams appointed him collector of customs for the port of Norfolk. Fortune did not always smile on him, however. In 1816, Congress passed the Embargo Act, which forced Myers into bankruptcy. He was told he could avoid debtors' prison by trafficking in slaves or opium but he refused. Although he was never able to recover his fortune, his debts were repaid by the time of his death in 1833. The classic Georgian townhouse that he and his wife Eliza built in 1792 still stands and is a popular tourist attraction. Approximately 70% of the eighteenth-century furniture in the house was used by the Myers family. This is one of the few historic homes in which Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated.
Myer Myers was born in 1723, the son of Solomon and Judith Myers, and was a dominant figure among a well-established community of silversmiths during the colonial era. Although it is not known with whom the silversmith Myer Myers apprenticed, he became a freeman of the City of New York on April 29, 1746. In about 1753, Myers married Elkaleh Myers-Cohen. In August, 1754, Myers moved his shop from the Meal Market in lower Wall Street to a house on King Street (now Pine Street), where he continued the goldsmith´s business with much success.
By November 1763, silversmith Benjamin Halsted had joined Myers in the firm of Myers and Halsted, goldsmiths, advertising fancy goods, readymade plate, and jewelry for sale at their premises at the lower end of King Street. The firm continued to make all sorts of work, in gold and silver, on a custom, made-to-order basis. Myers´s clients included a broad range of New York society. Myers was a leader of the Congregation Shearith Israel, and crafted religious objects for both Jewish and Protestant congregations.
Myers' first wife, Elkaleh Myers-Cohen, died in 1765, leaving him with four living children. In 1767, Myers married his second wife, Elkaleh (Joyce) Mears. As the British threatened New York, Myers and his family joined other members of Congregation Shearith Israel in evacuating New York and taking refuge in Norwalk, Connecticut in advance of the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War.
In 1776, while the Myers family was living in Norwalk, Connecticut, their daughter, Rebecca Mears Myers, was born. Their fourth son, Benjamin Myers, was born in Norwalk in 1778. The couple had a total of seven children during the period from 1769 to 1778.
Myers and his family fled to Philadelphia by 1782, that city having the largest Jewish community in the Colonies. However, upon the evacuation of New York by British troops late in November 1783, Myers returned north. He was chairman of the Gold and Silversmiths Society in 1786, and maintained a shop at 29 Princess Street (now Beaver Street), at the corner of Broad Street in 1789. By 1792, he had relocated to Pearl Street, where he remained until his death in 1795.
He created the magnificent Torah finials (rimonim) which can now be found in the Touro Synagogue.
Haym Salomon was a Polish-born Jewish immigrant to America who played an important role in financing the Revolution. An astute merchant and auctioneer, Salomon succeeded in accumulating a fortune that he subsequently devoted to the use of the American government. He acted as a spy for America in British-held New York, was arrested, then escaped and fled to Philadelphia. He personally supported various members of the Continental Congress during their stay in Philadelphia, including James Madison. Salomon also negotiated sales of a majority of the war aid from France and Holland, selling bills of exchange to American merchants.
"When [Robert] Morris was appointed Superintendent of Finance, he turned to Salomon for help in raising the money needed to carry on the war and later to save the emerging nation from financial collapse. Salomon advanced direct loans to the government and also gave generously of his own resources to pay the salaries of government officials and army officers. With frequent entries of 'I sent for Haym Salomon,' Morris' diary for the years 1781–84 records some 75 transactions between the two men.
Possibly as a result of his purchases of government debt, Salomon died penniless in 1785 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Mikveh Israel Cemetery. Two plaques commemorating his achievements have now been placed in the cemetery.
Francis Salvador was born in London in 1747 and moved to South Carolina in 1773. In 1774, at the age of 27, Salvador was elected as a delegate to South Carolina's revolutionary Provincial Congress, which assembled in Charleston in January 1775. He became the first Jew to hold that high an elective office in the English colonies.
Gershom Mendes Seixas was the first native-born Jewish clergyman in the United States, appointed to Congregation Shearith Israel in New York as its hazzan [reader] in 1768. He was an ardent patriot, a spokesman against intolerance, and was the spiritual leader of Shearith Israel from 1768 until 1776 and again from 1784 until his death in 1816. During the British occupation of New York, Seixas served as hazzan for Congregation Mikve Israel in Philadelphia.
Seixas was a strong advocate for American independence. In 1775, he convinced the majority of his congregation that it was better that Shearith Israel close rather than operate during the British occupation of New York. Seixas packed the congregation's books and sacred scrolls and removed them, with his family, to his father-in-law's home in Strafford, Connecticut.
He was well-regarded in both the Jewish and Christian communities and served as a trustee of Columbia College (now Columbia University). In 1787, when George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States, Seixas was one of the 14 clergy who participated in the inauguration ceremonies.
Seixas died in 1816 and is buried in the Chatham Street Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.
Mordecai Sheftall was a prominent merchant and leading Jewish citizen of Savannah, Georgia. Born in 1735, Mordecai married Charleston-born Frances Hart in 1761. He became a founding subscriber to Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah and provided the community with land for its first Jewish cemetery. Sheftall was the Jewish representative among the original five incorporators of the Union Society, a non-denominational philanthropic association formed by Savannah's religious organizations to assist widows and poor children.
Sheftall joined the Continental army when war broke out and was appointed Commissary General of Purchases and Issues to the Georgia militia in 1777. In this position, he was responsible for supplying the colony's soldiers with food, clothing and materiel and often spent his own money to purchase supplies for the volunteers.
He was captured with his 15-year-old son, Sheftall Sheftall, by the British in 1778 and imprisoned. Refusing to provide information about the American's sources of supplies and refusing to renounce the patriot cause, father and son were transferred to the prison ship Nancy. After several months, Sheftall and later his son were paroled to the town of Sunbury, Georgia, under close British surveillance. The Sheftalls managed to flee from Sudbury on an American brig bound for Charleston, but were again captured by the British and sent to Antigua, where they remained prisoners until the spring of 1780. Once free, they headed for Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, despite his own financial hardships, Mordecai helped fund a new synagogue for Congregation Mikve Israel.
When the war ended in 1783, Mordecai returned with his wife and children to Savannah, where the family resumed its life. The state of Georgia granted him several hundred acres of land in recognition of his sacrifices on behalf of independence. He died in 1797 at the age of 62 and was buried in Savannah with full honors in the Jewish cemetery he created.
Franks joined the Continental army at age 17, fought and was wounded in the Battle of Long Island. He was captured in Manhattan but escaped to New Jersey. He served as a quartermaster and then as a forage-master at West Point. Congress appointed him ensign in the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment in 1781. He resigned due to illness the following year and married Mary Davidson, a practicing Christian. Franks had been a practicing Christian for several years before his marriage.
The couple moved to Germantown where Franks established his business as a financial broker. The business was successful and Franks was able to purchase a large home in Germantown. In 1793, during the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged Philadelphia, he rented his house to George Washington for use as a substitute White House. Washington met there with his cabinet until the epidemic eased and he returned to Philadelphia. Franks hosted the President and his wife again in 1794 while they were on vacation.
That same year, Franks was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment, posted to Western Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Rebellion. The following year he began his service as justice of the peace for Germantown and Roxborough. In 1819 he came to serve as prothonotary [principal clerk of the court, or high notary] of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a post he held until his death three years later.
Franks' sister Rachel was the wife of Haym Salomon (see above).
Franks returned to Philadelphia in July 1776, joined the Continental Army and served actively until October 1777. He attained the rank of major and was assigned as aide-de-camp to Benedict Arnold, the military governor of Philadelphia. When Arnold was convicted of treason, Franks was implicated by his association with Arnold. After two court martial investigations, all charges against David Salisbury Franks were dropped, although the damage to Franks' reputation would prove to be long-lasting.
In 1781 he was designated an official courier by Robert Morris to carry dispatches to John Jay in Spain and served as vice-consul at Marseilles from 1784 to 1787. During this period Franks experienced considerable financial difficulties, incurring debt at home and abroad. On his return to the United States in 1787, he sought a Federal appointment to support himself and his family. He asked Washington to appoint him as Counsel General in France, but instead received the minor appointment of secretary to the commissioners Washington had appointed to negotiate with the Creek Indians. After his return from the mission to the Creek, he served as assistant cashier of the Bank of the United States. Franks, by now penniless, died of yellow fever in October of 1793 at the age of 53. A Christian neighbor rescued his corpse from the coroner's wagon before it went to potter's field. Franks today lies buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church Burial Yard.
Harmon Hendricks was a metallurgist, businessman and inventor who helped to transform the United States from an importer to a manufacturer of copper.
His father, Uriah Hendricks, had established a metals business in the American colonies, importing copper and brass from England, which discouraged manufacture of these commodities in the colonies. When Uriah Hendricks died in 1797, Harmon took over the metals importing company, as well as the family role in leading Shearith Israel, where he served as parnas from 1824 to 1827.
He married Frances Isaacs in 1800 and together they had five children.
In 1812, during the American war with England, Hendricks and his brother-in-law Solomon Isaacs built one of the nation's first successful copper rolling mills in Soho, New Jersey. The Hendricks firm produced the copper used to sheath three Navy vessels in New York harbor at the same time that Paul Revere, a good friend of the Hendricks family, was cladding a fourth, the Constitution, with copper probably supplied by Hendricks. In addition, Hendricks made another contribution to the war effort by subscribing the then-considerable sum of $40,000 to government issued war bonds.
When Harmon Hendricks died in 1838, his three sons and four grandsons succeeded him in the business. The last member of the family to operate the business was Harmon Washington Hendricks, who died in 1928.
Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy had a long and significant career in the American Navy, beginning in the War of 1812. Moreover, he is singularly responsible for the preservation of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home.
Levy was born in Philadelphia in 1792, the son of Michael Levy and Rachel Machado Phillips. He ran away to sea at age ten to serve as a cabin boy on a trading ship, but returned home in time to become bar mitzvah at age 13. By the next year, he had returned to sea and was an experienced sailor when the War of 1812 began. He began his naval service on the U.S.S. Argus in June 1813. In August, the Argus was captured and the crew was sent to Dartmoor Prison in England. Levy remained a prisoner at Dartmoor for sixteen months.
After his release, Levy served on a succession of naval vessels, working his way up the ranks. He commanded USS Vandalia in 1838-39 and in 1857, he received the honorary rank of Commodore. He commanded the USS Macedonian in 1858 and was Flag Officer of the Mediterranean Squadron in 1860. During the 1850s, he was an important figure in abolishing flogging as a Navy punishment.
Levy purchased Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate, in 1836 and restored the property to its original condition and opened it for visitation. The house and grounds remained in the Levy family until the estate was sold to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation in 1923.
He married his niece Virginia Lopez, daughter of his sister Frances Levy and Abraham Lopez in 1853. The couple had no children.
Major Alfred Mordecai was a career Army officer who resigned his commission in 1861 rather than lead Union troops against the South, his family home. During an illustrious military career, he was responsible for the introduction of scientific methods into the development of pre-Civil War American military munitions.
Major Mordecai, the son of Jacob Mordecai and Rebecca Mears Myers, was born in Warrenton, North Carolina in 1804. Jacob, profiled elsewhere in these biographies, ran a school for the education of women and Alfred was the only male student. A brilliant mathematician, he left Warrenton at age 15 to enter West Point. He graduated in 1823 at the age of 19, top of his class.
He continued at West Point as an instructor, then as supervisor for the construction of fortifications along the Atlantic Coast. He was then posted to Washington, D.C. as assistant to the Army Chief of Engineers. In 1836, he was appointed commander of the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia. That year, he married Sarah Ann Hays, a niece of Rebecca Gratz (also profiled in these biographies). The couple had eight children, including Brigadier General Alfred Mordecai, Jr., who disappointed his father by graduating from West Point in 1861 and fighting for the Union side against his Southern family. Alfred, Jr. was also an instructor at West Point, commanded the National Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died with the rank of General in 1920.
Mordecai, Sr., promoted to the rank of major, then assumed command of the army's most significant arsenal, in Washington, DC. He became an assistant to the Secretary of War and to the Chief of Ordnance, wrote an excellent Digest of Military Laws and served on the Board of Visitors to West Point. As a member of the Ordinance Board, Mordecai instituted scientific testing of munitions and new weapons systems. In 1841, he wrote the Ordinance Manual for the Use of Officers of the United States Army (still in use when revised in 1950) the first manual for the US military that standardized the manufacture of weapons with interchangeable parts.
As his reputation as an expert in military technology and armaments grew, Mordecai was sent by Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War under President Pierce, to Russia. He was part of a commission to study the Crimean War and Mordecai's report Military Commission to Europe 1855–1856 was and is considered to be a model of military and technology analysis. He also wrote the Second Report of Experiments in Gun Powder in 1849.
Mordecai's military endeavors flourished until the start of the Civil War. He had spent his career in support of the United States Army but all of Mordecai's siblings lived in the South and sided with the Confederacy. To avoid fighting them, he sought a U.S. Army post in California, away from battle. His request was denied and rather than violate his principles, Mordecai resigned his position. During the war, he sustained his family by teaching mathematics at a private school.
After the war, he did not return to military life, but instead worked briefly as an engineer for the Imperial Mexican Railroad. In 1866, he moved his family to Philadelphia, strengthening their ties to the Jewish community of Congregation Mikve Israel, where both the Gratz and Hays families were prominent. He died in 1887, and he and his wife Sarah are buried in the Federal Street Cemetery of that congregation.
Oldest son of Isaac Touro, Abraham was born in Newport, Rhode Island. After the death of his father in Jamaica, he lived with his mother and siblings in the home of his uncle Moses Michael Hays in Boston, Massachusetts.
As an adult, Abraham lived in Medford, Massachusetts. He entered into the merchant trade and insurance business with his cousin, Judah Hays, taking over the family business when his uncle died. Like his brother Judah, Abraham was known for his philanthropy, contributing to, among others, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Female Asylum, and the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys. It was his caring and concern for the synagogue and cemetery in Newport, however, that he truly is remembered. In addition to the maintenance of the synagogue, he also contributed funds and oversaw the erection of a fence around the cemetery, the sidewalk from the cemetery to the synagogue, and maintenance and repair of the street that would one day bear his family name.
Isaac de Abraham Touro was the first permanent spiritual leader of Newport's Congregation Yeshuat Israel and was served as hazzan in the congregation from 1759 to 1776. He was congregational leader during the construction of the Touro Synagogue from 1759 to 1763 and was responsible for hiring Peter Harrison to design the synagogue.
Born in Amsterdam in 1738, Touro and his family had escaped the Inquisition in Spain, moving first to Lisbon, Portugal and from there to Amsterdam. Touro trained for the Jewish ministry in Amsterdam, then traveled to Jamaica before moving to Newport. He married Reyna Hays in 1773, in the synagogue he helped to build. Reyna was the daughter of Judah and Rebecca Michaels Hays of New York, and sister to Moses Michael Hays of Newport.
Touro was a Loyalist and at the time of the occupation of Newport by the British, remained in Newport to care for the synagogue, when other members of the congregation were fleeing elsewhere. To help protect the synagogue building, he allowed the British to use the sanctuary as a hospital. His loyalty to the British crown came at a cost; in 1782, when it appeared that British would lose the war, he prudently moved his wife and children to the British colony of Jamaica, remaining there until his death in 1783. At that time, Reyna took the children and moved back to Boston to live with her brother, Moses Michael Hays.
Judah Touro was the youngest surviving son of Isaac Touro. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he and his siblings (Abraham and Rebecca) were raised in the home of his uncle Moses Michael Hays in Boston, Massachusetts after the death of their father in 1783.
According to some sources, Judah fell in love with his cousin Catherine Hays, but was forbidden to marry by her father, Moses Michael Hays. As a consequence, Judah moved to New Orleans where he made his fortune as a merchant/trader. During the war of 1812, he served as a civilian under General Jackson and was severely wounded.
Touro helped found congregation Nefuzoth Yehuda in New Orleans, a Sephardic congregation. He subsequently built its synagogue and attended services regularly. He provided the land and funds for its religious school, bought land for its cemetery and annually made up for any deficits incurred.
At the time of his death in 1854, his estate totaled nearly one million dollars. His will serves as the prototype for modern philanthropy and was so enormous and unusual for the time that it created world interest. The document included bequests to charitable organizations, orphanages and religious institutions in various cities, including his birthplace, Newport. His most enduring and visible legacy is the Touro Infirmary, "a charitable organization for the relief of the Indigent Poor" which today is the only community based, not-for-profit faith-based hospital in New Orleans.
His most significant gifts to Newport included funds to complete the restoration of Redwood Library and to complete the purchase of land along Bellevue Avenue for a public park that now bears his name.
2 Malcolm Stern, First American Jewish Families, p 218.
4 Feldberg, Michael, ed. Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History. p. 24.


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The project "Interventions for Improving Language Skills in Three to Six-Year-Old Children in Day-Care Facilities in German-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review " aims to give an overview over which interventions exist for improving language skills in the children's first language and national language of instruction in German-speaking countries. Moreover, it will review the current knowledge regarding which language intervention approaches will (or can) deliver which effects in the context of specific institutional and individual conditions.
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Policy makers in Germany have recognised that society needs to foster educationally relevant language competencies even in very young children, a need that has recently gained in urgency by the arrival and likely stay of large groups of refugees from war zones in Asia and Africa. As yet, it remains an open question, however, how to best proceed: Which language intervention approaches will (or can) deliver which effects in the context of specific institutional and individual conditions?
The proposed project aims to remedy the situation and to systematically document and integrate the available information about successfully tried and tested language interventions.


Now that Prometheus' true identity of Adrian Chase has been revealed to viewers – and very shortly to Oliver Queen and the rest of the major players – we've arrived at the stretch of the season when things are about to get real on Arrow in very short order.
Evidencing that notion is the recently released synopsis for "Disbanded," the eighteenth episode of the current season, the name of which understandably causes us to worry for the future of Team Arrow. Sure, titles can often misdirect or have dual meaning, but knowing that Prometheus' deadly game will cause Oliver to be desperate enough to seek out the Bratva's help will no doubt cause those closest to him to question his ethical decisions. It certainly didn't help when Artemis bounced earlier this year due to similar reasons.
Hopefully it's John Diggle – Oliver's conscience made flesh – that's able to talk some sense into him. If not, we certainly don't want to relive the days when the fearless leader made all the wrong moves when infiltrating the League of Assassins and nearly alienated his best friend permanently.


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Q: Pros and cons of JPA bidirectional relationships I am in situation whereby I need to change my JPA unidirectional relationships to become bidirectional (an Account entity has a list of Advertisements) so that given a Advertisement I can determine whether or not it belongs to an Account (for security reasons).
It seems that a cross-cutting concern has imposed a design decision on my application and I am not sure this is good.
Also, I don't know what the downsides of using bidirectional relationships are.
Can anyone please comment and advise?

A: Let me try to answer the question with an example:

@Entity
public clas Account {

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "account") // is mappedBy really necessary ?
    private List<Advertisements> advertisements;
}

Unidirectional downsides:
Lack of mappedBy atribute leads to unidirectional one-to-many relationship and produces additional join table consisting of foreign keys. This is often treated as JPA pitfall and have negative impact on a performance at a database level (you have three tables instead of two).

@Entity
public clas Advertisements {

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name="ACCOUNT_ID")
    private Account account; // is Account really necessary ?
}

Bidirectional downsides:
You can navigate from Advertisements to Account so in terms of JPA you have an access to a single-valued association path "SELECT adv.account FROM Advertisements adv". The assumption is you don't want to therefore one could say this may have a negative impact on a security at JPA level.

A: Another downside of bidirectional relationships is that it makes it easy to get yourself into infinite recursion with Jackson, Hibernate JPA, and/or Elasticsearch implementations. In each of your models, you will be maintaining instances of the other model.
So for instance when you maintain an account, you must also maintain its advertisements.
Let's say that the application is serving a higher than moderate volume of requests on a busy day. What happens next is that the control will start looping back and forth between the methods of the instances that maintain their relationships, creating a new stack frame entry into your call stack for each loop. Each stack frame is holding references to the parameters of the methods, the local variables, and return addresses. The JVM quickly runs out of buffer in which to add new stack frames and you start experiencing Stackoverflow errors.
It's not always the case, but if you are dealing with an application that handles a high volume of persistence requests (as opposed to a high volume of data retrieval or data analytics requests), the benefits of bi-directional relationships fade quickly in the face of how much effort and thoroughness is needed to avoid Stackoverflow errors on your persistence layers.


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The new millennium brought several opportunities for expansion. We opened log yards in Highland County and Covington, Virginia, allowing us to tap into the natural timber resources within the Alleghany Highlands. A log yard in Tappahannock, Virginia gives us access to the Eastern portion of the state. Our Bells Valley concentration yard in Goshen, Virginia is a dry kiln facility that is capable of drying 1.5 million board feet of lumber. This yard, coupled with the dry kilns in Fishersville, gives the company a total of 1.8 million board feet of lumber drying at any given time. Currently, our annual production is over 35 million board feet of lumber.
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Q: How do I create objects with a different number of arguments? my question is what if I want to create an object that represents a person in a contact list.
The user has to enter a last name, if not, the program won't work.
Besides that the user can enter the first name, the address, phone number and so on, but these aren't necessary.
So how do I tackle these?
I could create a huge amount of constructors with the different parameter combinations, but I don't think that is the right solution.
Can you guys help me out?

A: Simple way : using a constructor with mandatory fields and provides setters to value the other fields.
More complex way if immutability is required: using a builder to build the Person instance.
Builder should be a static nested class of Person that provides a way to build a Builder object and the Builder class provides method to set values of the Builder object.
Each one of this method returns the current Builder instance but build() that creates and returns the created Person object.
Here is a sample class :
public class Person {

    private String name;
    private String address;
    private String phone;

    // private constructor
    private Person() {
    }

    public static class Builder {

      private String name;
      private String address;
      private String phone;

      // mandatory fields
      public Builder(String name) {
        this.name = name;
      }

      public Builder address(String address) {
        this.address = address;
        return this;
      }

      public Builder phone(String phone) {
        this.phone = phone;
        return this;
      }

      public Person build() {
        Person p = new Person();
        p.name = name;
        p.address = address;
        p.phone = phone;
        return p;
      }
   }

}

You could use then it in this way :
Person person = new Person.Builder("myName").address("myAddress").build();

or
 Person person = new Person.Builder("myName").address("myAddress").phone("my phone").build();

A: Have you heard of setters?
I once had this problem in a project and I thought of it this way:

*

*The must fill values: pass them through a constructor

*The optional values: pass them using setters

Code sample of the class person:
    public class person {

    private String lastName;
    private String firstName;
    private String address;
    private String phoneNumber;

    //lastName is mandatory you should pass when you create your object
    public person(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    //This is optional you can pass it using this setter
    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    //This is optional you can pass it using this setter
    public void setAddress(String address) {
        this.address = address;
    }

    public String getPhoneNumber() {
        return phoneNumber;
    }

    //This is optional you can pass it using this setter
    public void setPhoneNumber(String phoneNumber) {
        this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
    }

    }

Code sample of the main class
public class yourclass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String lastname="fooer"; //choose how you want to intercept the input if you are building a GUI app, tell me I would help you with JavaFx or Swing code.
        String firstname="foo" //let's say this is the only optional to pass
        person newperson = new person(lastname);
        if (firstname.isEmpty()==false)
            newperson.setFirstName(firstname);

    }
}

A: What you don't want to try is telescoping constructor pattern? This is easy to implement if you have lesser no of fields(thus lesser constructor required)
In terms of good design, you can consider following:
Builder Design pattern
public class Computer {

    //required parameters
    private String HDD;
    private String RAM;

    //optional parameters
    private boolean isGraphicsCardEnabled;
    private boolean isBluetoothEnabled;

    public String getHDD() {
        return HDD;
    }

    public String getRAM() {
        return RAM;
    }

    public boolean isGraphicsCardEnabled() {
        return isGraphicsCardEnabled;
    }

    public boolean isBluetoothEnabled() {
        return isBluetoothEnabled;
    }

    private Computer(ComputerBuilder builder) {
        this.HDD=builder.HDD;
        this.RAM=builder.RAM;
        this.isGraphicsCardEnabled=builder.isGraphicsCardEnabled;
        this.isBluetoothEnabled=builder.isBluetoothEnabled;
    }

    //Builder Class
    public static class ComputerBuilder{

        // required parameters
        private String HDD;
        private String RAM;

        // optional parameters
        private boolean isGraphicsCardEnabled;
        private boolean isBluetoothEnabled;

        public ComputerBuilder(String hdd, String ram){
            this.HDD=hdd;
            this.RAM=ram;
        }

        public ComputerBuilder setGraphicsCardEnabled(boolean isGraphicsCardEnabled) {
            this.isGraphicsCardEnabled = isGraphicsCardEnabled;
            return this;
        }

        public ComputerBuilder setBluetoothEnabled(boolean isBluetoothEnabled) {
            this.isBluetoothEnabled = isBluetoothEnabled;
            return this;
        }

        public Computer build(){
            return new Computer(this);
        }

    }

}

A: You can use different patterns:

*

*JavaBeans (Getters and Setters)

*Telescoping constructor (with different number of parameters)

*Builder pattern

But non of them will guarantee the user's input you're expecting.
It mostly depends on your UI, and what data may came to you from UI.
If there is possibility that UI can send you nulls, or empty String, you should handle them fro mandatory fields, because it's your business logic, no matter which pattern you're using.
Let's sare you're required to build new Person from the DTOPerson which is came from UI:
public Person register(Person personDTO) {
    validatePerson(personDTO);
    Person person = new Person(personDTO.getName(), personDTO.getSurname());
    // for not mandatory fields
    person.setAddress(personDTO.getAddress());

    // ...
}

public void validatePerson(Person person) {
    Optional.ofNullable(person.getName()).orElseThrow(() ->
        new IllegalArgumentException("Name is required!")
    );

    Optional.ofNullable(person.getSurname()).orElseThrow(() ->
            new IllegalArgumentException("Surname is required!")
    );
}


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Q: WPF improving autoscroll to newly added item in DataGrid VirtualingStackPanel I have this code to implement an "autoscroll to the newly added Item" behavior in DataGrid with VirtualingStackPanel (Mode = recycling ) :
    protected override void OnItemsSourceChanged(System.Collections.IEnumerable oldValue, System.Collections.IEnumerable newValue)
    {
        base.OnItemsSourceChanged(oldValue, newValue);

        if (oldValue is INotifyCollectionChanged)
            (oldValue as INotifyCollectionChanged).CollectionChanged -= ItemsCollectionChanged;

        if (!(newValue is INotifyCollectionChanged)) return;

        (newValue as INotifyCollectionChanged).CollectionChanged += ItemsCollectionChanged;
    }

    public override void OnApplyTemplate()
    {
        base.OnApplyTemplate();

        // Dig out and store a reference to our internal ScrollViewer
        _scrollViewer = RecursiveVisualChildFinder<ScrollViewer>(this) as ScrollViewer;
        _vsp = GetInnerStackPanel(this);
        if (_scrollViewer != null )
        {
            //UpdateLayout();
            _scrollViewer.ScrollToBottom();
        }
    }

    private void ItemsCollectionChanged(object sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (_scrollViewer != null && e.Action == NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Add)
        {
            //UpdateLayout();
            //_needRefresh = true;
            _stopWatch.Start();
            _scrollViewer.ScrollToBottom();
            _stopWatch.Stop();
            _measures.Add(_stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds);
        }
    }

The problem with this solution is performances : the call "_scrollViewer.ScrollToBottom()" is linear in time to the Item count :  for example: in my test ,i have a factor like 1 ms for 1000 Items, so if i have mor than 1 000 000 items, the autoscroll take more than 1 sec !
How do I get the datagrid (Or any ItemControl with VirtualingStackPanel) to scroll quickly to the last Item ?
Thanks for your Ideas :)


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Daily Morning Note – 28 Aug 2019
Stocks in Asia edged up on Tuesday as investors watched closely for developments on the U.S.-China trade war following a recent escalation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average more than erased a 155-point rally on Tuesday as a recession indicator from the bond market worsened and fears around the U.S.-China trade war weighed on equity trading.
Gold rose more than 1% on Tuesday as fears of a possible recession gripped investors following disappointing U.S. economic data and an ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute, while silver breached $18 for the first time in nearly two years.
Washington approved the US$3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan on Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally. Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said.
New British finance minister Sajid Javid said on Tuesday he will announce an increase in public spending on health, education and the police next week, but he will stick with the budget rules drawn up by his predecessor.
The Brazilian central bank waded into the foreign exchange market on Tuesday in a rare sale of dollars on the spot market after the real slumped to its weakest level against the greenback in almost a year and within sight of its all-time low. The intervention marked the first time in 10 years that the bank had sold dollars on the spot market without using additional instruments or a commitment to repurchase.
British oil giant BP said Tuesday it will sell all of its Alaska operations for US$5.6 billion, exiting the state after 60 years to help meet divestment goals.
Global industrial gases and engineering group Linde broke ground on Tuesday for its upcoming US$1.4 billion integrated manufacturing complex in Singapore – the single largest investment in the company's history. Slated for completion in early 2023, the complex will be located and integrated with Linde's existing gasification facility on Jurong Island, and will quadruple Linde's production capacity of hydrogen and synthetic gas in Singapore.
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Derrick Jones Jr. Suffers Bone Bruise In Knee, Out 2-4 Weeks
January 13th 2022 at 6:13pm CST by Arthur Hill
6:13pm: The Bulls announced that Jones will miss two-to-four weeks with the bone bruise instead of the originally reported four-to-six, per K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago (Twitter link).
1:02pm: Bulls forward Derrick Jones Jr. will miss four-to-six weeks with a bone bruise in his right knee, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Jones suffered the injury on an awkward landing 36 seconds into Wednesday's game against the Nets, writes Jamal Collier of ESPN. He had to be helped to the locker room, and the team announced that he wouldn't return.
Jones has started Chicago's last six games while Javonte Green has been sidelined with a groin strain. After coming to the Bulls in an offseason trade, Jones is averaging 6.3 points and 3.4 rebounds through 31 games.
Chicago is also missing guard Alex Caruso, another member of its rotation, who remains in the league's health and safety protocols and isn't expected back for Friday's game.
"It's going to be tough because you can't replace those guys," Zach LaVine said. "It's always been a next-man-up mentality that we've had. It's something we're going to have to do because it's not like anybody is going to feel sorry for us having some guys out. Everybody's had guys out."
Derrick Jones
4 thoughts on "Derrick Jones Jr. Suffers Bone Bruise In Knee, Out 2-4 Weeks"
Been a really nice addition on what at the time seemed to be just a throw in for salary purposes part of that trade, brings energy
cbrookhouzen • 6 days ago
Malcom Hill just signed, Ex-Illini forward.
bravesfan88 • 5 days ago
Bulls desperately meed some more depth at the 4 position going forward, and that was even before DJJ got hurt!!
They don't really need a big difference maker there, they just need a solid, high energy role player thats a good rebounder and plays solid defense. Someone that can play within their system and has versatility guarding spots 3-5.
That shouldn't be too difficult to find, and the price shouldn't bee too expensive, but AKME needs to jump on getting said player asap.
unclemike1525 • 5 days ago
That's way better news than I expected after seeing the way he left the court. Excellent.