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Tag: Nicholas Kristof
Digest: Friday, February 18, 2022
Nicholas Kristof officially out of the governor's race The Oregon Supreme Court released their ruling on Nicholas Kristof's eligibility to run for governor of Oregon yesterday: Kristof is ineligible because he has not been a resident of the state for the minimum three years required by the state constitution. One of the key factors in… Continue reading Digest: Friday, February 18, 2022
Categorized as Digests Tagged campaign finances, houselessness, housing, Nicholas Kristof, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Supreme Court, Portland Association of Teachers, Portland Public Schools, Sam Adams
February State of the Ballot
There's just over a month left until the March 8th deadline for candidates to declare for or withdraw from the May primary. This feels like a good time to take a preliminary look at what's likely to be on the May ballot. Remember, though, that there will be plenty of changes in the next four… Continue reading February State of the Ballot
Categorized as Articles Tagged AJ McCreary, Akasha Lawerence Spence, Anna Joyce, Ashton Simpson, Betsy Johnson, Brian Decker, Brian Evans, Brian Landon, Casey Kulla, Catherine McMullen, Circuit Courts, City of Portland, Clackamas County, Dan Ryan, Deborah Kafoury, Earl Blumenauer, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, Jo Ann Hardesty, Judge Celia Howes, judges, Kate Brown, Kevin Barton, Kristina Hellman, Kurt Schrader, Libra Forde, May primary, Metro, Miranda Summer, Multnomah County, Nicholas Kristof, Oregon Supreme Court, Paul Savas, policing, Portland Business Alliance, Portland Street Response, Ramón Pagán, redistricting, Roger DeHoog, Ron Wyden, Small Donors Election, Susheela Jayapal, Suzanne Bonamici, Vadim Mozyrsky, Washington County
Digest: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program applications reopen today at 10:00 a.m. The Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program portal will resume accepting applications for rent relief. The program will likely only be available for a limited time, due to availability of funds. Oregon Housing and Community Services, the agency responsible for the program, expects to keep… Continue reading Digest: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Categorized as Digests Tagged cannabis, housing, human trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Oregon Housing and Community Services, Rob Nosse, sex work, State of Oregon
Digest: Friday, January 7, 2022
Kristof deemed ineligible to run for Oregon governor Nicholas Kristof's gubernatorial run hit a major snag yesterday. The Elections Division of the Oregon Secretary of State's Office informed Kristof that he does not meet the constitutional requirements to serve as governor — specifically that he has not been a resident of Oregon for the past… Continue reading Digest: Friday, January 7, 2022
Categorized as Digests Tagged COVID-19, elections, Nicholas Kristof, Oregon Legislature, Oregon Secretary of State, Portland Public Schools, Tina Kotek, unions
Monday Digest: December 27, 2021
We may get a ruling on Kristof's eligibility for governor soon Gubernatorial candidate Nicholas Kristof finally formally registered as a candidate for the 2022 Democratic primary. That means the Elections Division of the Oregon Secretary of State's office gets to review his paperwork to determine whether Kristof actually qualifies as a candidate for governor. Lydia… Continue reading Monday Digest: December 27, 2021
Categorized as Digests Tagged City of Portland, climate change, EPA, houselessness, Multnomah County, Nicholas Kristof, Portland Harbor Superfund Site, State of Oregon, Willamette River
Meli Lewis, a journalist with Reveal, published a look at homelessness in Portland that highlighted some key issues with Dan Ryan's push for Safe Rest Villages. The reporting, which includes a 55-minute audio episode, focuses on the Lents Park area. Please note that there are discussions of suicide, police violence, and drug use. Lewis spent… Continue reading Monday Digest: December 20, 2012
Categorized as Digests Tagged Dan Ryan, homelessness, housing, Jennifer McGuirk, Lents Neighborhood Livability Association, Lents Park, Melissa Lewis, Multnomah County, Nicholas Kristof, PDX Saints Love, policing, Portland Police Bureau, redistricting, Shemia Fagan, voter access
Friday Digest: December 17, 2021
Betsy Johnson announced her resignation from the Oregon Senate, effective December 15, in order to focus on her campaign for governor. Johnson was elected as a Democrat to represent Senate District 16, including parts Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, Washington and Multnomah Counties, through the end of 2022. Johnson is running as an independent candidate for governor,… Continue reading Friday Digest: December 17, 2021
Categorized as Digests Tagged Betsy Johnson, Dacia Grayber, houselessness, Jessica Gomez, Melissa Busch, Multnomah County, Nicholas Kristof, Portland Association of Teachers, Portland Public Schools, Street Roots, Tobias Read
Election Mix Tape: December 3, 2021
Already on track to break fundraising records In 2018, candidates for governor of Oregon spent $37 million. Kate Brown and Knute Buehler destroyed the previous record, set in 2010 when John Kitzhaber and Chris Dudley spent $18 million. But 2022 will likely set a whole new record — so far, Betsy Johnson is leading fundraising… Continue reading Election Mix Tape: December 3, 2021
Categorized as Digests Tagged Betsy Johnson, Bud Pierce, campaign finances, Christine Drazan, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Nicholas Kristof


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Trustless Systems
The perils of trustless systems
Blockchains don't offer us a trustless system, but rather a reassignment of trust!
E J Spode:
"Such are the perils of supposedly trust-free technology. It might make for good marketing copy, but the fact of the matter is that blockchain technology is larded through with trust. First, you need to trust the protocol of the cryptocurrency and/or DAO. This isn't as simple as saying 'I trust the maths', for some actual human (or humans) wrote the code and hopefully debugged it, and we are at least trusting them to get it right, no? Well, in the case of The DAO, no, maybe they didn't get it right.
Second, you have to trust the 'stakeholders' (including miners) not to pull the rug out from under you with a hard fork. One of the objections to the hard fork was that it would create a precedent that the code would be changeable. But this objection exposes an unmentioned universal truth: the immutability of the blockchain is entirely a matter of trusting other humans not to fork it. Ethereum Classic Classic would be no more immutable than Etherum Classic, which was no more immutable than Ethereum. At best, the stakeholders – humans all – were showing that they were more trustworthy qua humans about not forking around with the blockchain. But at the same time, they obviously could change their minds about forking at any time. In other words, if Ethereum Classic is more trustworthy, it's only because the humans behind it are.
Third, if you are buying into Ethereum or The DAO or any other DAO, you are being asked to trust the people who review the algorithm and tell you what it does and whether it's secure. But those people – computer scientists, say – are hardly incorruptible. Just as you can bribe an accountant to say that the books are clean, so too can you bribe a computer scientist. Moreover, you're putting your trust in whatever filters you applied to select that computer scientist. (University or professional qualifications? A network of friends? The testimonials of satisfied customers – which is to say, the same method by which people selected Bernie Madoff as their financial advisor.)
Finally, even if you had it on divine authority that the code of a DAO was bug-free and immutable, there are necessary gateways of trust at the boundaries of the system. For example, suppose you wrote a smart contract to place bets on sporting events. You still have to trust the news feed that tells you who won the match to determine the winner of the bet. Or suppose you wrote a smart contract under which you were to be delivered a truck full of orange juice concentrate. The smart contract can't control whether or not the product is polluted by lemons or some other substance. You have to trust the humans in the logistics chain, and the humans at the manufacturing end, to ensure your juice arrives unadulterated.
Can't these gateways to the system be trustless as well? Can't smart contracts some day have code to call for robotic orange-pickers and robotic juice concentrate-makers who would summon their robotically driven trucks to deliver the orange juice concentrate straight to our door? Yes – in theory. But imagine the task of reviewing the code to ensure that every step in the process hadn't been corrupted by a bug that uses security failures to highjack trucks, or that gives false approvals to adulterated orange juice. Perhaps we could write second-order programs to automate the testing of the first-order programs – but why do we trust those? Do we ultimately need automated automated-program-tester testers? Where does it end?
By now, the answer should be obvious: it ends with other humans. Blockchains don't offer us a trustless system, but rather a reassignment of trust. Instead of trusting our laws and institutions, we are being asked to trust stakeholders and miners, and programmers, and those who know enough coding to be able to verify the code. We aren't actually trusting the blockchain technology; we are trusting the people that support the blockchain. The blockchain community is certainly new and different, and it talks a good game of algorithms and hashing power, which at least sounds better than tired slogans such as Prudential is rock solid and You are in good hands with Allstate. But miners aren't necessarily any more reliable than the corporations they replace.
The sorry case of The DAO raises another question: Why are people so eager to put their faith in blockchain technology and its human supporters, instead of in other social and economic organisations? The upheavals of 2016, from Brexit to Trump, suggest that there is widespread fatigue with traditional institutions. Governments can be bought. Banks are designed to service the wealthy, and to hell with the little guy. 'The system is rigged' is a common refrain.
But instead of targeting the moral failures of the system and trying to reform it, the very concept of 'trust' has become suspect. Blockchain enthusiasts tend to cast trust as little more than a bug in our network of human interactions. To be sure, one of the weird features of trusting relationships is that, in order to trust someone, there has to be some chance that they will fail you. Trust involves risk – but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Which brings us back to Buterin and the hard fork of The DAO. What made this event significant was not just what it demonstrated about the foibles of technology or the hubris of 20-something computer scientists. What it really exposed was the extent to which trust defines what it is to be human. Trust is about more than making sure I get my orange juice on time. Trust is what makes all relationships meaningful. Yes, we get burned by people we rely on, and this makes us disinclined to trust others. But when our faith is rewarded, it helps us forge closer relationships with others, be they our business partners or BFFs. Risk is a critical component to this bonding process. In a risk-free world, we wouldn't find anything resembling intimacy, friendship, solidarity or alliance, because nothing would be at stake.
Perhaps we ought to reconsider the desire to expunge trust, and instead focus on what should be done to strengthen it. One way to support trust is to hold institutions accountable when they betray it. When the US Department of Justice, for example, elected not to prosecute any of the bankers responsible for the 2008 financial collapse, the net effect was to undermine confidence in the system. They debased the principle of trust by showing that violating the public's faith could be cost-free.
Much of our system of trust is invisible to us – but it would be helpful if we could be more aware and appreciative all the same
Second, trusting relationships should be celebrated, not scorned. When we believe in someone and they betray us, our friends might call us a sucker, an easy mark, a loser. But shouldn't we celebrate these efforts to trust others – just as entrepreneurs talk up the value of failure on the road to innovation? Isn't the correct response along the lines of: 'I see why you trusted them, but isn't it is terrible that they let you down?'
Third, we should appreciate the trusting relations we engage in, and are rewarded by, every day. We're constantly relying on others to help us with something or look after our financial affairs, and much of the time we simply take it for granted. In part, that's because much of our system of trust is invisible to us – but it would be helpful if we could be more aware and appreciative all the same.
Finally, we shouldn't deceive ourselves with the idea that a technological fix can replace the human dimension of trust. Automation of trust is illusory. Rather than disparaging and cloaking human trust, we should face the brutal truth: we can't escape the need to rely on other people, as fallible and imperfect as they might be. We need to nurture and nourish trust – not throw it away, like so much debased and worthless currency." (https://aeon.co/essays/trust-the-inside-story-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-ethereum)
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P2P Infrastructure

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Born in Thailand, moved to the United States 15 years ago and have been practicing traditional Thai Massage ever since.
I was born in Thailand and grew up getting Thai massage each day. I'm bringing my knowledge and skills to the US to help and heal people of their stress.


Honor made a last minute swipe at CES and blew us away with what its 200 dollar phone could offer: a metal body, a large 3000mAh battery, quick fingerprint unlock, and a 5.5″ 1080p screen. Honor is also entering the US market with the launch of the Honor 5X, selling it as an unlocked and dual-SIM smartphone.
Honor is a sub-brand of Huawei, but it is not a totally separate company seeing as the charger in the box says "HUAWEI" on it. Also, as seen on some of the built-in apps, "Huawei" and "Honor" are used almost interchangeably.
For this price, the lack of 5 GHz Wi-Fi and NFC are more than forgivable, though the lack of the latter would mean no Android Pay support. We can live with both, but we wish this device came with support for Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0. Some might wish it had a removable battery, that's one compromise you would have to accept.
While the Honor 5X currently does not have Marshmallow, the company has promised an update down the line.
On the positive side, the Honor 5X has a fingerprint scanner and a metal backside, features that other phones of this price range do not offer.
The Honor 5X comes in 3 colors: Silver, gold, and gray (not pictured). The gray unit is the only one that has a black front side which the metal backing is a few shades darker than the silver unit.
Compared to the Honor 4X, its predecessor, the 5X comes with a bump in the display resolution from 720p to 1080p, increased internal storage of 16GB, a modest increase in processing and graphics power, and greatly improved hardware design that no longer looks generic and boring.
There is a peculiar thing about the display like on other Huawei phones. A thin black frame runs around the display and when the screen is off, it gives the illusion that the bezels are super slim. It's really an effective trick that helps a lot in the aesthetics department.
Honor went with a 5.5 inch, LCD IPS display with a resolution of 1080x1920px.
The phone also offers optional software level sunlight compensation. It would temporarily brighten up the detail in the dark parts of the screen content, which would otherwise be tough to see in direct sunlight.
Colors don't shift when turning the device about, but there is some contrast shift when looking at the device at an angle.
The color representation of the Honor 5X's display is quite good for a phone of this price range though its default wallpaper does not do the display any favors.
In reality, colors look vibrant without being too saturated, and the brightness is quite generous even in direct sunlight.
While this display is generously bright in good light (473.1nits), it does not get as dim as some other devices can (6.1nits). This is not a deal-breaker, though, unless you plan on often using this device in pitch black rooms.
With the default display settings, the Honor 5X showed a very good contrast ratio of 1:1072.
The max color deviation (DeltaE) was 11.3 and the average one was 4.3. The whites were the most inaccurate with a slight bluish tinge but nothing major.
The 5X does let you manually change the color temperature of the display. When we played with it we were able to reduce the average and max deviations to DeltaE 2.3 and 5, respectively. There was minimal loss in screen brightness when adjusting the color temperature to a slightly warmer one.
The Honor 5X features two SIM tray slots; one is a microSIM and the other a nanoSIM. It is capable of 42.2/11.5 Mbps on HSPA+ and LTE Cat4 @ 150/50 Mbps. The specs sheet lists the device as compatible with LTE band 12. Unfortunately, Honor has told us that it hasn't any plans to certify the Honor 5X for T-Mobile's 700MhZ band 12 at this time.
There are a couple of places in the connectivity department where Honor has found ways to cut cost. Among the common myriad of connectivity options like Bluetooth 4.1 A2DP and FM Radio, there is no NFC, also there is the omission of 5GHz dual Wi-Fi, which isn't horrible, but is often found on many smartphones.
Don't expect there to be any TV output via the microUSB port, though perhaps TV out options are becoming more and more phased out by mirroring devices like smart TVs, Miracast dongless, and the Chromecast. Of course, the case might differ in other regions around the world.
EM UI offers many battery saving options that can help your phone sip battery to the very last drop. Right off the bat, as you begin using your device, the Honor 5X scopes out potential battery hogs and reports them to you via a notification. From here you can either ignore further alerts for that app, or you can force close the app immediately.
Facebook and Twitter, for instance, are not protected by default, which means they get terminated upon putting the phone to sleep, all you have to do is head to the Protected Apps window and whitelist the apps that you expect push notifications from.
This is a bit of a nuisance, alternatively, the apps could have been pre-protected so they work properly, or the apps could have been excluded from pre-installed apps so they'd be protected upon installation.
There is also even an Ultra Power Save mode baked in which will disable all data, extra connectivity like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and only allow you to make and receive calls, send or receive SMS, or look through your contacts.
The Honor 5X comes with a generous 3000mAh battery which is just at the middle of what the 5.5 inch 1080p market offers with phones like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3, Meizu m2 note, and the Lenovo K4 Note. When looking at the overall scores of the devices in this niche, the Honor 5X did a bit better than most devices with an overall score of 76 hours – probably thanks to EM UI's excellent battery saving features.
The Honor 5X did well for a device of its price. It gave us 9:16h of video playback, 10:00h of web browsing, 29:50h of call time. This battery draw, combined with the standby time, gives us an overall score of 76 hours, which is about how long the phone would last you if you used it for an hour of calling, web browsing and video watching per day.
Our proprietary rating denotes the number of hours the phone will be operational if you are to make an hour of 3G talks, web browsing and video playback per day. Such usage pattern is of course entirely artificial, but we've established it so our battery results are comparable across devices.
EM UI, also known as Emotion UI, is Huawei's own skin layered over Android. The Honor 5X comes with EM UI 3.1 layered over Android Lollipop 5.1.1. There is an abundance of features packed into EM UI, most useful while others being more gimmicky than anything else.
Right off the bat, as soon as you unlock the device, you notice that there is no app drawer, there is no button that shows you a list of all your apps. Instead, they all show up on the homescreens just like on iOS. You can create folders and put away the icons you don't want to get in your way.
Though, organizing them might be easier than you think. You can organize your apps very similarly as you would with iOS, or you can create a folder by dragging one app icon onto another one. Once organized, the folder icons are grids rather than stock Android's stacks.
Naturally, one would worry about finding an app that's tucked away somewhere without a proper app drawer. You can intuitively flick down to bring up a search box. Typing a few letters will search through you apps, contacts, SMS, and even Twitter for any matching keywords.
If you dislike EM UI's launcher, you can always use an aftermarket one that suits your preference.
When setting up a fingerprint for security, the phone turns off all lock screen notifications by default so you would need to re-enable them.
Also, on the lock screen, is a quick toggle menu that can be accessed by swiping from the bottom edge that includes: music controls, shortcuts for voicemail, changing the wallpaper, settings, calculator, camera, and a toggle for the flashlight.
Setting up the fingerprint is easy and quick. Once set, a fingerprint can be assigned many functions other than just unlocking the device. You can assign a contact to a particular fingerprint which will unlock the phone and dial the contact upon scanning that finger. You can also use the fingerprint sensor to call the notification shade, the multitasking app switcher, or to answer a phone call.
There is also an Applock and a Vault baked into the UI, which will protect certain apps and gallery albums from opening until the correct fingerprint is provided.
Themes are also available on the stock launcher; you can customize themes by changing the lock screen style, unlock animation, wallpapers, icons and font. Unfortunately, there is no apparent way to download more themes and the Honor 5X only comes with three themes pre-installed.
Notifications can be customized for every individual app in EM UI. You can choose whether apps appear on the lock screen, banners over the status bar, and in the status bar itself.
There are also some pretty nifty features baked into EM UI like a glove mode, sunlight enhancement, and one-handed UI.
Among the accessibility options are: Talkback, Switch access, high contrast text, power button ends the call, raise to ear to answer, color inversion, color correction, hearing options, and touch & hold delay times.


A golf course is not a massage parlor, hot-tub facility or tanning salon.
This kind of mischaracterization, which also has appeared in federal disaster relief bills over the years, illustrates in a simple and direct way golf's problem with those who govern the country and the decisions they make that impact the golf business: Golf quite simply cannot rest in getting its message right in the halls of government.
Last month's National Golf Day, the annual industry surge on Washington, D.C., to spread the economic, environmental and charitable good news of golf, has done its best over the last decade to curb this lingering sentiment. And it's done well. Inspired in fact by similar language that denied Katrina disaster relief specifically to golf courses by equating them with its ill-matched sin tax brethren, National Golf Day and its We Are Golf lobbying coalition have kept such language out of subsequent legislation, codes and policies on Capitol Hill.
The blind belief that golf is the exclusionary domain of the rich and white and environmentally uncaring is a familiar refrain, perhaps, but golf's answer to government is facts and numbers and persistence. Indeed, the We Are Golf coalition was founded in 2010 as "an initiative to change the face of golf," and that change is still a work in progress.
"We're going to keep rowing this boat even if it feels like it's upstream at times," said J. Rhett Evans, CEO of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America. "And that water continues to flow. Golf in my view is always going to be met at those headwaters.
It starts with presenting golf as a big business, or even better as a vast collection of small businesses. And small businesses translate directly into a legislator's constituents. Those small golf enterprises unite at National Golf Day to make the case that golf isn't just the idealized entertainment, over-fertilized playing fields and celebrity athletes you see on TV. It's more than just clubs and balls and shoes and shirts. It's everything from cooks and busboys to cart repairmen and clubfitters.
We Are Golf estimates that the total size of the golf economy is $68.8 billion, or 10 times that of the tennis industry and more than five times that of skiing and video games. The total impact on the economy from golf, both directly and indirectly, amounts to $176.6 billion. Based on International Monetary Fund figures, that's higher than the gross domestic product of 136 countries. As a kicker, golf will also point to its fitness benefits and the nearly $4 billion in charitable impact in 2016.
• Getting in the door matters.
Even though our view of the meetings showed them to be pleasant enough exchanges where talking points were shared, some golf common ground was occasionally found but no deals were made, golf's advocates came away from the proceedings in the Senate and House office buildings with satisfaction and confidence. Though National Golf Day was scheduled in the midst of one of the more chaotic weeks in perhaps the most chaotic first 100 days of any presidency—with Congress days away from a possible government shutdown and President Trump summoning the entire Senate to the White House to discuss his strategy with North Korea—the work was efficient and productive, said Steve Mona, executive director of the World Golf Foundation.
• Solving the H-2B visa problem to make golf's need for seasonal employees less dramatic. As golf courses are seasonal businesses, the need for seasonal immigrant workers is large, and like some segments of the agriculture business, golf facilities, especially those in remote areas, find themselves not having access to enough of the visas to meet their staffing needs.
• Clearing the confusing and duplicative environmental restrictions of the Waters of the U.S. and Clean Water Act. Golf's leaders see a new administration inviting golf to contribute more in the discussions of future environmental regulatory policy. The education and advocacy process is particularly well-timed now for golf's position with respect to the Environmental Protection Agency. Policies and guidelines proposed under the Obama administration that would add layers to water regulations and pesticide use may be significantly revised under President Trump.
• Joining the chorus of voices in the sporting goods and fitness industry supporting the Personal Health Investment Today (PHIT) Act, which would allow fitness expenses to be used with pre-tax health spending accounts. That legislation would include expenses for golf lessons or golf equipment.
More often than not the meetings on the Hill are with legislative staff, and the search is often for a personal golf connection. Sometimes an aid is an avid player. Sometimes the Congressman hits balls into a net in the House gym, or talks about his round at Cypress Point. Sometimes a family member works in golf, like one aid's mother who checked the golf-ball production line at Titleist. Topgolf, which has two facilities and is building a third in the D.C. Beltway, often gets mentioned by younger staffers.
But what can one day of 175 meetings really do?
Maybe that's a small victory, but when it comes to golf, the battle for changing perceptions is more siege than firefight. It has to be because government at any level—but most especially the federal level—can be, well, just exactly the murky swamp you fear. Bills that might sound promising can be bogged down with unrelated amendments, committee meetings can be impossible to summarize, consensus occurs only by default and often without complete knowledge of all that's been agreed to. The challenge for golf is not to wind up collateral damage like it had before National Golf Day's 10-year campaign.
In the end, as much as the intention of golf's message might be about specific legislation, the mission is more holistic, says Becky Blaeser, director of communication for the Massachusetts Golf Association. Blaeser has been to several National Golf Days, meeting with her state's senators and representatives, and she's also been part of a team that organized a similar initiative at the Massachusetts at the State Capitol.
And what's easy to believe when it comes to golf often is the stereotype. Blaeser talks a lot about showing that golf isn't just private clubs, about emphasizing that 80 percent of golf is public access and that golf creates 25,000 jobs in Massachusetts alone. It is a battle between facts and that lingering perception, said Brad D. Steele, vice president and general counsel to the National Club Association. While legislators might not be overtly anti-golf, getting them to vocally support a golf measure, or at the very least remove an anti-golf element from existing law, well, that requires a special dance.
"There's a consistent perspective from those in office that this could turn into a moment of me having to explain why I did this," Steele said. "I'm going to have enough things I have to explain, I don't need someone also to say, 'By the way, look what he did for golf.' So what we try to do is give them those quick and easy talking points to say it's not 'golf,' it's a business, it's a job.
That's where golf's message has to go beyond the friendly confines of National Golf Day. No faction in the golf family works the ground game more intensely than the GCSAA. According to Evans, the organization is pairing a local golf course super with each of the 535 legislators in the House and Senate. Close to 300 superintendents have been matched with a member of Congress already, contacting them on a monthly basis and getting them to understand golf's place in their districts.
But are government leaders and politicians really buying what golf is selling? Golf may have its advocates in Congress, but they're not making speeches on the Senate floor about funding golf with taxpayer dollars or creating incentives for golf course operators or even risking the perception of relaxed environmental standards. That's still a tough island to plant your flag. It simply isn't clear whether golf has gotten past the point of being politically dangerous.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner, who hosted a number of First Tee Breakfasts at National Golf Days from 2011-15, said golf's messaging efforts matter.
Take the PHIT Act: Some suggest that attaching golf to the PHIT act makes it less likely to draw favor with those on the fence because it could be characterized as more tax breaks for the rich, while others point out that the provisions of the act could benefit senior citizens whose only physical activity might be golf. And the senior citizen coalition is not one most legislators want to mess with.
Still, political poison pill or not, no matter how many meetings you have, perception is everything, and golf still can look more like Augusta National to a lot of minds on Capitol Hill—and their constituents—than it does a Boys and Girls Club in Detroit. Mona thinks that change in perception is already well on its way because of 10 years of National Golf Day.
Rangel found then and others now on Capitol Hill are beginning to see the constituency under golf's umbrella is bigger and broader than its stereotype.
Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia's Fourth District is one who thinks that perception has changed. Johnson recently sponsored a bluebird box at his district's Stone Mountain Golf Club after a tour led by then superintendent Anthony Williams, the GCSAA grass roots ambassador assigned to keep Johnson, a black congressman whose constituency is 57 percent black, up to date on golf's message and how it isn't about exclusivity, that what it offers instead is opportunity. Williams said golf has to reach out more to defend itself, which he says isn't as difficult as it might seem. He talks about everything from the environmental efforts at his facility to even bringing school children regularly out to the golf course as part of a continuing education program.
Golf can be that kind of change agent, but golf has to keep telling the story.
It was an easy conversation for Williams with the congressman, who was smitten with the game after a perfect opening tee shot at Stone Mountain's Lakemont Course years ago.
But as the Tiger era fades, golf still balances precariously on the facts of its inclusiveness, environmental stewardship and its broad-ranging economic impact. Given the criticism both recent presidents have received for playing golf, a perception lingers that it is distinctly the opposite, allowing it to slip back to a place where oblivious legislators might lump it in the same boat as massage parlors or tanning salons or the private enclaves that do nothing for the greater good. But Boehner isn't buying it.
Of course, if there is a national consciousness about golf, there may be no more vital curator of that mindset than the forces at work during National Golf Day and beyond. It's as much a one-day macro effort as it is an every day micro-effort. As the GCSAA's Evans sees it, changing minds is a matter of perspective.
"I would say we're at the stage where that change in perception is happening, it's progressing," he said. "Are they really always laser focused on the specific golf issue? I would say no, but overall the brand of golf is better represented and better understood.


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package com.amazonaws.services.elasticfilesystem;

import com.amazonaws.services.elasticfilesystem.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.annotation.ThreadSafe;

/**
 * Interface for accessing EFS asynchronously. Each asynchronous method will
 * return a Java Future object representing the asynchronous operation;
 * overloads which accept an {@code AsyncHandler} can be used to receive
 * notification when an asynchronous operation completes.
 *

 * <fullname>Amazon Elastic File System</fullname>
 */
@ThreadSafe
public class AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient extends
        AmazonElasticFileSystemClient implements AmazonElasticFileSystemAsync {

    private static final int DEFAULT_THREAD_POOL_SIZE = 50;

    private final java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService executorService;

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS. A
     * credentials provider chain will be used that searches for credentials in
     * this order:
     *

     *
Environment Variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY

     *
Java System Properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey

     *
Credential profiles file at the default location (~/.aws/credentials)
     * shared by all AWS SDKs and the AWS CLI

     *
Instance profile credentials delivered through the Amazon EC2
     * metadata service

     *

     *

     * Asynchronous methods are delegated to a fixed-size thread pool containing
     * 50 threads (to match the default maximum number of concurrent connections
     * to the service).
     *
     * @see com.amazonaws.auth.DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
     * @see java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(int)
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient() {
        this(new com.amazonaws.auth.DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain());
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS. A
     * credentials provider chain will be used that searches for credentials in
     * this order:
     *

     *
Environment Variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY

     *
Java System Properties - aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey

     *
Credential profiles file at the default location (~/.aws/credentials)
     * shared by all AWS SDKs and the AWS CLI

     *
Instance profile credentials delivered through the Amazon EC2
     * metadata service

     *

     *

     * Asynchronous methods are delegated to a fixed-size thread pool containing
     * a number of threads equal to the maximum number of concurrent connections
     * configured via {@code ClientConfiguration.getMaxConnections()}.
     *
     * @param clientConfiguration
     *        The client configuration options controlling how this client
     *        connects to EFS (ex: proxy settings, retry counts, etc).
     *
     * @see com.amazonaws.auth.DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
     * @see java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(int)
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration) {
        this(new com.amazonaws.auth.DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain(),
                clientConfiguration, java.util.concurrent.Executors
                        .newFixedThreadPool(clientConfiguration
                                .getMaxConnections()));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials.
     *

     * Asynchronous methods are delegated to a fixed-size thread pool containing
     * 50 threads (to match the default maximum number of concurrent connections
     * to the service).
     *
     * @param awsCredentials
     *        The AWS credentials (access key ID and secret key) to use when
     *        authenticating with AWS services.
     * @see java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(int)
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials awsCredentials) {
        this(awsCredentials, java.util.concurrent.Executors
                .newFixedThreadPool(DEFAULT_THREAD_POOL_SIZE));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials and executor service. Default
     * client settings will be used.
     *
     * @param awsCredentials
     *        The AWS credentials (access key ID and secret key) to use when
     *        authenticating with AWS services.
     * @param executorService
     *        The executor service by which all asynchronous requests will be
     *        executed.
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials awsCredentials,
            java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService executorService) {

        this(awsCredentials, configFactory.getConfig(), executorService);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials, executor service, and client
     * configuration options.
     *
     * @param awsCredentials
     *        The AWS credentials (access key ID and secret key) to use when
     *        authenticating with AWS services.
     * @param clientConfiguration
     *        Client configuration options (ex: max retry limit, proxy settings,
     *        etc).
     * @param executorService
     *        The executor service by which all asynchronous requests will be
     *        executed.
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentials awsCredentials,
            com.amazonaws.ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration,
            java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService executorService) {

        super(awsCredentials, clientConfiguration);
        this.executorService = executorService;
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials provider. Default client
     * settings will be used.
     *

     * Asynchronous methods are delegated to a fixed-size thread pool containing
     * 50 threads (to match the default maximum number of concurrent connections
     * to the service).
     *
     * @param awsCredentialsProvider
     *        The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials to
     *        authenticate requests with AWS services.
     * @see java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(int)
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider) {
        this(awsCredentialsProvider, java.util.concurrent.Executors
                .newFixedThreadPool(DEFAULT_THREAD_POOL_SIZE));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the provided AWS account credentials provider and client
     * configuration options.
     *

     * Asynchronous methods are delegated to a fixed-size thread pool containing
     * a number of threads equal to the maximum number of concurrent connections
     * configured via {@code ClientConfiguration.getMaxConnections()}.
     *
     * @param awsCredentialsProvider
     *        The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials to
     *        authenticate requests with AWS services.
     * @param clientConfiguration
     *        Client configuration options (ex: max retry limit, proxy settings,
     *        etc).
     *
     * @see com.amazonaws.auth.DefaultAWSCredentialsProviderChain
     * @see java.util.concurrent.Executors#newFixedThreadPool(int)
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider,
            com.amazonaws.ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration) {

        this(awsCredentialsProvider, clientConfiguration,
                java.util.concurrent.Executors
                        .newFixedThreadPool(clientConfiguration
                                .getMaxConnections()));
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials provider and executor
     * service. Default client settings will be used.
     *
     * @param awsCredentialsProvider
     *        The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials to
     *        authenticate requests with AWS services.
     * @param executorService
     *        The executor service by which all asynchronous requests will be
     *        executed.
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider,
            java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService executorService) {

        this(awsCredentialsProvider, configFactory.getConfig(), executorService);
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new asynchronous client to invoke service methods on EFS
     * using the specified AWS account credentials provider, executor service,
     * and client configuration options.
     *
     * @param awsCredentialsProvider
     *        The AWS credentials provider which will provide credentials to
     *        authenticate requests with AWS services.
     * @param clientConfiguration
     *        Client configuration options (ex: max retry limit, proxy settings,
     *        etc).
     * @param executorService
     *        The executor service by which all asynchronous requests will be
     *        executed.
     */
    public AmazonElasticFileSystemAsyncClient(
            com.amazonaws.auth.AWSCredentialsProvider awsCredentialsProvider,
            com.amazonaws.ClientConfiguration clientConfiguration,
            java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService executorService) {

        super(awsCredentialsProvider, clientConfiguration);
        this.executorService = executorService;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the executor service used by this client to execute async
     * requests.
     *
     * @return The executor service used by this client to execute async
     *         requests.
     */
    public java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService getExecutorService() {
        return executorService;
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateFileSystemResult> createFileSystemAsync(
            CreateFileSystemRequest request) {

        return createFileSystemAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateFileSystemResult> createFileSystemAsync(
            final CreateFileSystemRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<CreateFileSystemRequest, CreateFileSystemResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<CreateFileSystemResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public CreateFileSystemResult call() throws Exception {
                        CreateFileSystemResult result;

                        try {
                            result = createFileSystem(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateMountTargetResult> createMountTargetAsync(
            CreateMountTargetRequest request) {

        return createMountTargetAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateMountTargetResult> createMountTargetAsync(
            final CreateMountTargetRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<CreateMountTargetRequest, CreateMountTargetResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<CreateMountTargetResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public CreateMountTargetResult call() throws Exception {
                        CreateMountTargetResult result;

                        try {
                            result = createMountTarget(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateTagsResult> createTagsAsync(
            CreateTagsRequest request) {

        return createTagsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<CreateTagsResult> createTagsAsync(
            final CreateTagsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<CreateTagsRequest, CreateTagsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<CreateTagsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public CreateTagsResult call() throws Exception {
                        CreateTagsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = createTags(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteFileSystemResult> deleteFileSystemAsync(
            DeleteFileSystemRequest request) {

        return deleteFileSystemAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteFileSystemResult> deleteFileSystemAsync(
            final DeleteFileSystemRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DeleteFileSystemRequest, DeleteFileSystemResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DeleteFileSystemResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DeleteFileSystemResult call() throws Exception {
                        DeleteFileSystemResult result;

                        try {
                            result = deleteFileSystem(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteMountTargetResult> deleteMountTargetAsync(
            DeleteMountTargetRequest request) {

        return deleteMountTargetAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteMountTargetResult> deleteMountTargetAsync(
            final DeleteMountTargetRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DeleteMountTargetRequest, DeleteMountTargetResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DeleteMountTargetResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DeleteMountTargetResult call() throws Exception {
                        DeleteMountTargetResult result;

                        try {
                            result = deleteMountTarget(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteTagsResult> deleteTagsAsync(
            DeleteTagsRequest request) {

        return deleteTagsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DeleteTagsResult> deleteTagsAsync(
            final DeleteTagsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DeleteTagsRequest, DeleteTagsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DeleteTagsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DeleteTagsResult call() throws Exception {
                        DeleteTagsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = deleteTags(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeFileSystemsResult> describeFileSystemsAsync(
            DescribeFileSystemsRequest request) {

        return describeFileSystemsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeFileSystemsResult> describeFileSystemsAsync(
            final DescribeFileSystemsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DescribeFileSystemsRequest, DescribeFileSystemsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DescribeFileSystemsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DescribeFileSystemsResult call() throws Exception {
                        DescribeFileSystemsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = describeFileSystems(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    /**
     * Simplified method form for invoking the DescribeFileSystems operation.
     *
     * @see #describeFileSystemsAsync(DescribeFileSystemsRequest)
     */
    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeFileSystemsResult> describeFileSystemsAsync() {

        return describeFileSystemsAsync(new DescribeFileSystemsRequest());
    }

    /**
     * Simplified method form for invoking the DescribeFileSystems operation
     * with an AsyncHandler.
     *
     * @see #describeFileSystemsAsync(DescribeFileSystemsRequest,
     *      com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler)
     */
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeFileSystemsResult> describeFileSystemsAsync(
            com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DescribeFileSystemsRequest, DescribeFileSystemsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return describeFileSystemsAsync(new DescribeFileSystemsRequest(),
                asyncHandler);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> describeMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(
            DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest request) {

        return describeMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> describeMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(
            final DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest, DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult call()
                            throws Exception {
                        DescribeMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = describeMountTargetSecurityGroups(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeMountTargetsResult> describeMountTargetsAsync(
            DescribeMountTargetsRequest request) {

        return describeMountTargetsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeMountTargetsResult> describeMountTargetsAsync(
            final DescribeMountTargetsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DescribeMountTargetsRequest, DescribeMountTargetsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DescribeMountTargetsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DescribeMountTargetsResult call() throws Exception {
                        DescribeMountTargetsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = describeMountTargets(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeTagsResult> describeTagsAsync(
            DescribeTagsRequest request) {

        return describeTagsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<DescribeTagsResult> describeTagsAsync(
            final DescribeTagsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<DescribeTagsRequest, DescribeTagsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<DescribeTagsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public DescribeTagsResult call() throws Exception {
                        DescribeTagsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = describeTags(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> modifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(
            ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest request) {

        return modifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(request, null);
    }

    @Override
    public java.util.concurrent.Future<ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> modifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsAsync(
            final ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest request,
            final com.amazonaws.handlers.AsyncHandler<ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsRequest, ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult> asyncHandler) {

        return executorService
                .submit(new java.util.concurrent.Callable<ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult>() {
                    @Override
                    public ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult call()
                            throws Exception {
                        ModifyMountTargetSecurityGroupsResult result;

                        try {
                            result = modifyMountTargetSecurityGroups(request);
                        } catch (Exception ex) {
                            if (asyncHandler != null) {
                                asyncHandler.onError(ex);
                            }
                            throw ex;
                        }

                        if (asyncHandler != null) {
                            asyncHandler.onSuccess(request, result);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                });
    }

    /**
     * Shuts down the client, releasing all managed resources. This includes
     * forcibly terminating all pending asynchronous service calls. Clients who
     * wish to give pending asynchronous service calls time to complete should
     * call {@code getExecutorService().shutdown()} followed by
     * {@code getExecutorService().awaitTermination()} prior to calling this
     * method.
     */
    @Override
    public void shutdown() {
        super.shutdown();
        executorService.shutdownNow();
    }
}

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package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka;

import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.partitioner.FlinkFixedPartitioner;

import org.junit.Test;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

/** Tests for the {@link FlinkFixedPartitioner}. */
public class FlinkFixedPartitionerTest {

    /**
     * Test for when there are more sinks than partitions.
     *
     *

     *   		Flink Sinks:		Kafka Partitions
     * 			1	---------------->	1
     * 			2   --------------/
     * 			3   -------------/
     * 			4	------------/
     *

     */
    @Test
    public void testMoreFlinkThanBrokers() {
        FlinkFixedPartitioner<String> part = new FlinkFixedPartitioner<>();

        int[] partitions = new int[] {0};

        part.open(0, 4);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);

        part.open(1, 4);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc2", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);

        part.open(2, 4);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc3", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc3", null, null, null, partitions))
                .isEqualTo(0); // check if it is changing ;)

        part.open(3, 4);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc4", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);
    }

    /**
     * Tests for when there are more partitions than sinks.
     *
     *

     * 		Flink Sinks:		Kafka Partitions
     * 			1	---------------->	1
     * 			2	---------------->	2
     * 									3
     * 									4
     * 									5
     *
     *

     */
    @Test
    public void testFewerPartitions() {
        FlinkFixedPartitioner<String> part = new FlinkFixedPartitioner<>();

        int[] partitions = new int[] {0, 1, 2, 3, 4};
        part.open(0, 2);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);

        part.open(1, 2);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(1);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(1);
    }

    /*
     * 		Flink Sinks:		Kafka Partitions
     * 			1	------------>--->	1
     * 			2	-----------/----> 	2
     * 			3	----------/
     */
    @Test
    public void testMixedCase() {
        FlinkFixedPartitioner<String> part = new FlinkFixedPartitioner<>();
        int[] partitions = new int[] {0, 1};

        part.open(0, 3);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);

        part.open(1, 3);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(1);

        part.open(2, 3);
        assertThat(part.partition("abc1", null, null, null, partitions)).isEqualTo(0);
    }
}


It's Oliver here! Today the humans got us a SlimCat Ball from PetSafe (Are they trying to say I am getting fat???).
Oliver: I had to push it around quite a bit to get stuff out of the ball… Much much energy used on getting my treat. I guess that's why it's called slimming!
I had to go through A LOT of "torture" though to get to it… Check out the video!
Now some details from our humans about the cat food and their verdict of it!
The PetSafe SlimCat ball sure was a quick and easy way to get Oliver to exercise for his treats rather than just scoff them up. The Ball comes with adjustable sizes for the holes which can easily be set to fit a variety of different snack sizes and not make it to easy for the cats (sorry Oli!) at a current price of £4.45 this sure is a quick, easy and cheap way to get extra environment enrichment and exercise for your fur-friend!
As for the snack we used Herbal snacks from Verm-X which contain a mixture of different herbs and real meat. The herbs promise to help digesting among other things due to their probiotic formula. The manufacturer advises to feed up to two snacks per day which is probably because they are quite large which also means Oli spends quite some time crunching them as you probably heard on the video. 😉 The treats are a bit more expensive at £7.90, however you get what you pay for! They contain natural ingredients and are free of cereals and other grains.
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I have something similar, but I prefer to take one of those cardboard rolls inside loo paper or kitchentowel-rolls – those plastic balls are very loud on hard floor (anything non-carpet) – and I live in an appartment, not in a house of my own.
Carpet is just not possbile here: not only do my two barf up all those furballs – I am allergic against house dust mites. Or rather: their excrements.
Yeah that doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
The idea is cool though, I might try it at some point, for the slightly fatter white cat.
Okay, all good wishes of the season to HRM Nubia, and Oliver too!
We have a treat ball and we've learned how to break it open and get all the treats out. Haha.
I like that is has 3 sizes, the ones we have are too easy to work.


Vedolizumab (VDZ) is a gut-selective monoclonal anti-integrin antibody indicated for the treatment (Tx) of moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Real-world outcomes in patients who received VDZ as 1st/2nd line biologic is limited. This study evaluated VDZ Tx patterns/effectiveness in Germany in comparison to anti-TNFα.
This was a descriptive retrospective chart review study of CD and UC patients who were biologic naïve or had only one anti-TNFα and initiated Tx with VDZ or an anti-TNFα (adalimumab, infliximab, golimumab) from 15 Jul 2014 to 20 Oct 2015. Data collection ended at death or at chart abstraction initiation. Patient characteristics and VDZ/anti-TNFα Tx effectiveness were analysed. Tx response at 12 months was defined as partial, complete response or stable disease, or in absence of documentation, as positive change from baseline for global physician assessment or endoscopic findings.
313 patients (47.0% VDZ, 53.0% anti-TNFα) from 13 sites were included in the study; 49.0% VDZ and 62.0% anti-TNFα patients had CD. 22.4% VDZ and 65.7% anti-TNFα patients were biologic naïve; mean (SD) follow-up was 1.4 (0.4) years. Mean (SD) age was 41.0 (13.7) for VDZ and 38.5 (12.6) for anti-TNFα patients. In biologic naïve patients, median (range) Tx duration (years) was 1.5 (0.1–1.9) for VDZ and 1.2 (0.3–2.1) for anti-TNFα. 18.2% VDZ and 18.3% anti-TNFα patients discontinued Tx mostly due to lack of response/inadequate symptom control; 9.1% VDZ and 10.1% anti-TNFα patients switched to a new biologic. 85.8% VDZ and 81.3% anti-TNFα patients with assessable data had documentation of 12 month Tx response. Among patients who had one prior biologic, median (range) Tx duration (years) was 1.2 (0–2.1) for VDZ and 1.2 (0–2.2) for anti-TNFα. 28.1% VDZ and 21.1% anti-TNFα patients discontinued Tx mostly due to lack of response/inadequate symptom control; 17.5% VDZ and 12.3% anti-TNFα patients switched to a new biologic. 80.4% VDZ and 66.7% anti-TNFα patients with assessable data had documentation of 12 month Tx response.
In biologic naïve patients, VDZ patients appeared to continue Tx longer but had similar rates of discontinuation, Tx switching and Tx response compared to anti-TNFα patients within 1 year. More VDZ patients with one prior biologic experienced discontinuations and Tx switching compared to VDZ treatment in biologic naïve patients. In prior biologic exposed patients, VDZ resulted in a much higher proportion of Tx response compared to anti-TNFα.


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El Campeonato Sub-17 de CONCACAF lo disputan doce selecciones, tres de Norteamérica (Canadá, México y los Estados Unidos), cuatro de Centroamérica y cinco del Caribe.

Historia
Desde 1983 hasta 1996 CONCACAF realizó sus campeonatos Sub-17 como eventos Sub-16, en un solo país sede, para coronar al campeón de la categoría, pero alteró el formato a partir de 1999, convirtiéndolo en una competencia de dos grupos con el estricto propósito de clasificar a los equipos representantes de CONCACAF en la Copa Mundial de Fútbol Sub-17 de la FIFA. El torneo, que clasifica a cuatro equipos para la Copa Mundial Sub-17, regresó a ser un campeonato en una sola sede en el año 2009, en Tijuana, México.

El número de participantes del torneo es aumentado de ocho a 12 equipos para el evento de 2011, debido a que México fue sido seleccionado como sede de la Copa Mundial Sub-17 de 2011, su cupo fue reubicado en Centroamérica.

Como campeonato Sub-16

 Solo fase de Grupo con el primer lugar siendo el campeón

Como campeonato Sub-17
 Solo fase de Grupo con el primer lugar siendo el campeón

Como Torneo Sub-17
El formato del torneo cambió entre 1999 y 2007. En los cinco torneos, los mejores ocho equipos de la región fueron divididos en dos grupos de cuatro, siendo cada grupo organizado por un país. Los dos mejores de cada zona clasificaron a la Copa Mundial de Fútbol Sub-17, sin que se llegara a una ronda por el título, por lo que no había un campeón oficial, solo clasificados al Mundial Sub-17.

Regreso a campeonato Sub-17
 En 2009 el campeonato se suspendió en su fase final por la epidemia de influenza en México. Los dos primeros de cada grupo clasificaron al mundial.

Anfitrión por país
Actualizado hasta la edición de 2023.

Palmarés

Estadísticas
La siguiente tabla presenta un resumen estadístico de la participación de los diferentes seleccionados nacionales masculinos sub-17 entre 1983 y 2017.

 "SS" - torneo suspendido por la epidemia de influenza en México.
 Entre las ediciones de 1999 - 2007 el torneo se desarrolló en diferentes sedes por dos grupos, no hubo ganador como tal. Pero por los números obtenidos por cada selección se obtuvo su lugar en dicho torneo.

Clasificación a la Copa Mundial sub 17 por país

Véase también
 Copa Mundial de Fútbol Sub-17
 Copa de Oro de la Concacaf
 Campeonato Sub-20 de la Concacaf
 Concacaf
 Campeonato americano

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio oficial de la Concacaf

Campeonato Sub-17 de la Concacaf

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"Business travel on your own terms" is the mission of the Clarion chain of hotels. Catering to the traveling business crowd, Clarion has simplified business travel by providing for the many and varied needs of the business class through its many convenient amenities. With business centers in the hotels and complete high speed internet connections you are never far from the office no matter where you may be.
With full service restaurants and room service, you can hold a meeting or grab a quick bite. At the end of the day, or perhaps before the day begins, you will find a workout gym in your hotel to get you invigorated and ready for success.
Clarion also prides itself on offering the look, feel, and service of higher priced hotels at a very affordable price. This international chain of hotels has fine places to stay all over the globe and when you book with Clarion you will be assured of a great stay at a competitive price.


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Mazda MX-5 named 2016 World Car of the Year, Audi R8 snags Performance title
Viknesh Vijayenthiran March 24, 2016
Mazda's MX-5 Miata is the hot ticket right now. Following yesterday's debut of the awesome RF version, the regular model, on sale since last year, has just been awarded the title of 2016 World Car of the Year. With its sporty handling and no-nonsense design the latest Miata is an impressive car, so we're not surprised that the judges gave it the top gong. Other top contenders included the somewhat mundane Audi A4 and Mercedes-Benz GLC. CHECK OUT: 2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF is a droptop fastback dandy: Live photos and video The judges praised the Miata for staying true to the...
2016 World Car of the Year finalists named
In the world of automotive awards, there are numerous titles vying for relevancy. The majors include the North American Car and Truck of the Year, the European Car of the Year, and the World Car of the Year. The last on that list to be concluded for 2016 is the World Car of the Year. The winners...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran March 8, 2016
2016 World Car Of The Year Nominees Announced
The journey to the 2016 World Car of the Year awards has begun, and once again there will be separate categories for the best car overall as well as for the best cars when it comes to performance, luxury, the environment and design. DON'T MISS: Watch The Tesla Model X SUV's...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran September 28, 2015
Mercedes Takes Out 2015 World, Luxury And Performance Car Of The Year Awards
It's a Mercedes-Benz trifecta in the latest round of the World Car Awards, the winners of which were just announced at the 2015 New York Auto Show. Over the years, the awards have grown to include five separate categories, seeking to determine the best of the best of the ever-increasing new...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 2, 2015
2015 World Performance, Luxury, Green Cars Of The Year: The Top 3
Earlier this year, the World Car Awards panel announced its top 10 finalists in its five award categories, including the top luxury, performance, green, design, and overall car of the year. The WCA jury is composed of 75 automotive journalists from around the world, and they've now narrowed...
Nelson Ireson March 3, 2015
2015 World, Luxury And Performance Car Of The Year Top 10 Finalists Announced
While not as prestigious as the annual North American and European car of the year awards, the World Car of the Year awards is the one we look forward to the most as it includes separate categories for performance and luxury cars. There are five categories in fact, with the remaining three being...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 16, 2015
2014 World, Luxury And Performance Car Of The Year Winners Announced
Jeffrey N. Ross April 18, 2014
Each year, a jury of automotive journalists goes over every new vehicle introduced over the last 12 months or so and comes up with a prestigious list for the World Car of the Year awards. The top 10 finalists were announced in February, which was then whittled down to three earlier this month, but now the winners of the five individual awards that make up WCOTY have been announced at the New York Auto Show. To be eligible for the awards, a vehicle must be new and go on sale on at least two continents during the time period between January 1, 2013 and May 30, 2014. This year, the 69-member...
2014 World, Luxury And Performance Car Of The Year Finalists Announced
From an original field of several dozen cars, jurors in the 2014 World Car of the Year awards have whittled the list of contenders down to just a handful of finalists. This year, a new category for the World Luxury Car of the Year has been added, joining existing categories for the best World...
2014 World, Luxury And Performance Car Of The Year Candidates Announced
Not to be outdone by the more established North American Car Of The Year and European Car Of The Year awards, the World Car Of The Year award is starting to gain more prominence in the auto show arena despite being the relative newcomer. The award event is now entering its 10th year and will...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 25, 2013
2013 World Car Of The Year Winners Announced In New York
Every year, an international panel of automotive journalists selects the best cars in the world under various categories, handing out its awards at the New York Auto Show. Atop the hierarchy is the World Car of the Year, followed by the World Performance Car, the World Car Design of the Year and...
Kurt Ernst March 29, 2013
Volkswagen up! Named 2012 World Car Of The Year In New York
The jurors presiding over the annual World Car of the Year awards at the 2012 New York Auto Show have awarded the top honor to a car that is not offered in the U.S. In fact, it's not even offered in all of North America. Nevertheless, Volkswagen's tiny up! hatchback has beaten worthy...
Porsche's New 911 Claims 2012 World Performance Car Honors
The 2012 Porsche 911 has been chosen by a panel of 64 automotive journalists as the 2012 World Performance Car.
Kurt Ernst April 5, 2012
Nissan Leaf Named 2011 World Car Of The Year, Ferrari 458 Italia Gets Performance Title
Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 21, 2011
It's official. The zero-emission 2011 Nissan Leaf electric car has picked up the title of 2011 World Car of the Year at this week's 2011 New York Auto Show, beating a field of contenders that listed 39 entries all up including the likes of the Aston Martin Rapide, Audi A8, Lexus LFA and of course, the Ferrari 458 Italia. The Ferrari, meanwhile, took out the 2011 World Performance Car of the Year title, which is not surprising given its performance in most reviews conducted around the globe. Jurors observed that: "The Leaf is the gateway to a brave new electric world from...
2011 World Car Of The Year Top Three Finalists Announced
As the 2011 New York Auto Show approaches, organizers of the annual World Car of the Year awards have released details about the top three finalists for each of the World Car, World Performance Car, World Green Car and World Car Design categories, and as usual they remain as controversial as ever...
2011 World And Performance Car Of The Year Finalists Announced
Just a few weeks ago we saw the entire list of nominees for the World Car of the Year awards, as well as the separate Performance, Green and Design categories, which are held annually at the New York Auto Show. In total, there were more than 40 contenders originally but this list has since been...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 2, 2011
Nominees For 2011 New York Auto Show WCOTY Announced
Not to be outdone by the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards held at this month's 2011 Detroit Auto Show, the organizers of April's 2011 New York Auto Show have started to pool together their nominees for the event's annual World Car of the Year awards. Running since...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 21, 2011
2010 World And Performance Car Of The Year Winners Announced
Not to be outdone by the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards from the Detroit Auto Show, the organizers of the 2010 New York Auto Show are heavily promoting their own 'World' and 'Performance' titles and today revealed the winners for this year's awards. A...
Volkswagen Golf Mark VI Declared 2009 World Car Of The Year
Not to be outdone by the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards from the Detroit Auto Show, the organizers of the New York Auto Show are heavily promoting their own 'World' and 'Performance' titles and today revealed the winners for this year's awards. We...
Alex Kaufmann April 9, 2009
Nissan GT-R Picked As 2009 World Performance Car Of The Year
James Martinez April 9, 2009
Not to be outdone by the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards from the Detroit Auto Show, the organizers of the New York Auto Show are heavily promoting their own 'World' and 'Performance' titles and today revealed the winners for this year's awards. The Nissan GT-R was chosen from an initial entry list of 23 contenders nominated by 59 World Car jurors from twenty-five 25 countries throughout the world. Candidates for the World Performance Car award had to demonstrate a specific and overt Sports/Performance orientation. Furthermore, they had to also...
Mazda 2 Wins 2008 WCOTY Award
Mazda's diminutive Mazda2 (Demio) hatch has taken out the annual World Car of the Year (WCOTY) awards in New York, beating 38 other cars for the top spot including the Ford Mondeo and Mercedes-Benz C-Class in the top three. The Mazda2 was nominated by 47 World Car jurors from 24 countries and...
2008 WCOTY Top Three Finalists Announced
As this year's New York Auto Show approaches, organizers of the annual World Car of the Year awards have released details about the top three finalists for each of the World Car, World Performance Car, World Green Car and World Car Design categories. The final winner of each respective...
2008 World Car Of The Year Finalists Announced
Not to be outdone by the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards held at this month's Detroit Auto Show, the organizers of April's New York Auto Show have started to pool together the finalists for its annual World Car of the Year awards. This is only the third time the event is...
Alex Kaufmann January 30, 2008
Lexus LS 460 named World Car of the Year
Lexus' flagship luxury saloon has been named the best car in the world by an international panel of journalists. Facing tough competition from the new Audi TT and the revised Mini Cooper, the LS 460 won because of its excellent build quality, reliability, and the luxurious ride. The LS 460 also...
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Many DNA testing laboratories are advertising ethnicity or ancestral population percentages for participants – but how are those figures calculated? Why are there such differences in the results from one company to another? This presentation provides insights on how these percentages are derived.
Ancestral Percentages here meaning Biogeographical Ancestry (BGA) defined as an estimation of one's biological, ethnic and/or geopgrahical origins based on DNA analysis.
Also know as Ethnicity Estimates, Admixture Analysis, etc.
Currently the most common basis that Ancestral Percentages are being calculated is with Microarray DNA sequencers that test about 600,000 to 1 million known SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) markers very quickly and inexpensively.
Gregory D. Smithers, Slate Magazine, Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?
Steven R Anderson, Linguistic Society of America, How many languages are there in the world?
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